A pretty setting and a jokey take on history do not a wonderful story make. Little more than a poor man's UNQUIET DEAD, THE SHAKESPEARE CODE just didn't do it for me. From the cliched panto witches (with costume department atrocities for masks) to the wafer-thin characterisation of Will (surely he would have been a more complex, mysterious, thoughtful and intriguing figure than we see here...?)...this just isn't my prefered flavour of Doctor Who. I long for a terrifying and seemingly unsurmountable villain and a clever SURPRISING set of events...a story with few genuine surprises is a story that is hard to get interested in. The underlying message of "the power of words" is intriniscally flawed...Shakspeare's genius wasn't words, it was recreating reality (and imagining new realities) through words AND images...he was after all a practitioner of the theatre...not a writer of books....
Did Ron Howard have a hand in this...?
Not as engaging as last week...however I suspect the real cream in this season is still to come.
The Co-Pilot
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