Hello fellow Whovians!!
I guess we are are now also; to greater & lesser degrees... Tennantians, Barrowmanians, Simmians & Freemian Agyemians...
Anyway, I digress, I am not yet ready to commit my thoughts about 'Last of The Time Lords' to the cold, yawning vastness of cyber space. However, now seems an apt time to (very) briefly summarise my thoughts about the season, story by story, to bring things up to date.
Runaway Bride - Flashy chase set-piece aside, utterly wretched. Red card...5/10
Smith & Jones - Suprisingly good romp that transcends it's silliness...8/10
Shakespeare Code - A shallow confection & a wasted opportunity...6.5/10
Gridlock - An unexpected heart string tweaker, against the odds...8/10
Daleks In Manhattan - Sub par & disconcerting...6.5/10
Evolution of The Daleks - Imagine drinking your own urine with some toe-nail clippings & belly button lint thrown in for good measure &..Voila! You're half way to imagining this travesty!...5.5/10 (So bad it deserved a three line review!)
Lazarus Experiment - Slight but fun, with a cracking climax...7/10
42 - Gripping & genuinely scary. Add two hunks & you've got a happy Lucozer...8.5/10
Human Nature - Stylish, adult & only just short of perfect...9/10
Family Of Blood - Something of a let down, but still highly watchable...8/10
Blink - By turns charming & terrifying. A splendid oddity...9/10
Utopia - This is the stuff! Silly savages aside, I was on tenderhooks...9/10
Sound of Drums - Lots of dressing, not quite enough green leafy vegetables...8/10
Last of the Time Lords - TBA....
The Co-Pilot & I have decided to team up for our final blog onslaught for season 3. We will each contribute our LOTTL thoughts & the Co-Pilot will also deftly deliver a sweeping examination of the last 4 stories of the season, in one final gargantuan tome. Keep your eyes peeled wuunda-nougats!? wuundanoo-gettes?....
Sincerely, Lucozer....
Showing posts with label Gridlock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gridlock. Show all posts
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Sunday, April 15, 2007
GRIDLOCK - Lucozer dons a smock!
**SPOILER WARNING**
I wasn't holding out a lot of hope for 'Gridlock'; the Cat People, New Earth, a traffic jam? Not ingredients for glory I would have thought. On the contrary, I'm glad to say this was more than the sum of its parts. After an awkward first few minutes during which I settled in for the expected disappointment, I found myself increasingly engrossed & impressed. The special effects were a vast improvement on Gridlock's sister story from season 2 & the concept was a whole lot stronger; a city in trouble locks down into survival mode to protect it's people. I'm even prepared to overlook the ludicrous idea of people being stuck in cramped cars for years & not 'going postal' because RTD's brush strokes are so offhandedly confident. We're not really allowed too much time for nit picky plot poking. Never let common sense get in the way of a fab romp!
Apart from the frivolous & "fabulous" use of the Macra, there was little to fault. Where were the glaring & embarrassing flaws?. The scenes with the Face of Boe were well executed. Tennant has a lovely rapport with the Face. Hats & all other extraneous garments off to you RTD! You had the Co-Pilot & I in raptures & stitches with the lovely quip 'Don't you go dying on me you big old face'. Fabulous in the most fabulous way! Freema recovered quite well from a flat spot last week & Tennant is slowly but surely becoming the Doctor I've longed to take to my Bosom & then hold aloft.
Despite having to make a few leaps of logic (quite easy after several drinks - I'm even struggling to remember what I had to leap!) 'Gridlock' is far more credible & involving than 'Shakespeare Code'. Next week can't come soon enough.
I wasn't holding out a lot of hope for 'Gridlock'; the Cat People, New Earth, a traffic jam? Not ingredients for glory I would have thought. On the contrary, I'm glad to say this was more than the sum of its parts. After an awkward first few minutes during which I settled in for the expected disappointment, I found myself increasingly engrossed & impressed. The special effects were a vast improvement on Gridlock's sister story from season 2 & the concept was a whole lot stronger; a city in trouble locks down into survival mode to protect it's people. I'm even prepared to overlook the ludicrous idea of people being stuck in cramped cars for years & not 'going postal' because RTD's brush strokes are so offhandedly confident. We're not really allowed too much time for nit picky plot poking. Never let common sense get in the way of a fab romp!
Apart from the frivolous & "fabulous" use of the Macra, there was little to fault. Where were the glaring & embarrassing flaws?. The scenes with the Face of Boe were well executed. Tennant has a lovely rapport with the Face. Hats & all other extraneous garments off to you RTD! You had the Co-Pilot & I in raptures & stitches with the lovely quip 'Don't you go dying on me you big old face'. Fabulous in the most fabulous way! Freema recovered quite well from a flat spot last week & Tennant is slowly but surely becoming the Doctor I've longed to take to my Bosom & then hold aloft.
Despite having to make a few leaps of logic (quite easy after several drinks - I'm even struggling to remember what I had to leap!) 'Gridlock' is far more credible & involving than 'Shakespeare Code'. Next week can't come soon enough.
The Co-Pilot's Gridlock Review
**SPOILER WARNING**
Fabulous! The best realized Russell T script (bar the finales) thus far. I really thought this was going to be god-awful and I am very happy to say I was wrong. The Macra - although completely superflous to the story - brought a huge fanboy whoop of delight to me and the Lucozer...lovely stuff Darling T Davies, lovely. I was flumoxed, ((though in a delighted way) with delight) by just how much better the special effects and production values are a year on from NEW EARTH...is this really the same show? The cats, the face, the cars, the ending, Tennant...I enjoyed it all really....this is the template for throwaway stories. Thanks team.
The Co-Pilot
Fabulous! The best realized Russell T script (bar the finales) thus far. I really thought this was going to be god-awful and I am very happy to say I was wrong. The Macra - although completely superflous to the story - brought a huge fanboy whoop of delight to me and the Lucozer...lovely stuff Darling T Davies, lovely. I was flumoxed, ((though in a delighted way) with delight) by just how much better the special effects and production values are a year on from NEW EARTH...is this really the same show? The cats, the face, the cars, the ending, Tennant...I enjoyed it all really....this is the template for throwaway stories. Thanks team.
The Co-Pilot
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