You are far more kind to this episode than I would be. I found it disappointingly gormless, wastefully squandering the interesting concept and world-building, badly-paced, and almost aggressively boring. It is the first Who episode in a long, long time where I found my attention wandering 10 minutes in. (No, wait, not that long: "Kill the Moon" was another one, but it wasn't a Gatiss work.)
Well, I didn't hate it or anything. And the fact that it wasn't Doctor Who (as in, the whole thing was a misdirect, as per the ending) made it OK. I'm still far more cross with Midnight.
No, wait, not that long: "Kill the Moon" was another one, but it wasn't a Gatiss work. You did not like Kill the Moon? 'Twas amazing!!! (See - everyone has a different opinion on everything.)
I'm intrigued by the thought that it wasn't a Doctor Who episode - but ultimately, it was, albeit one that was rather shabbily dressed in someone else's clothes because the writer thought it would be cool to dip into someone else's wardrobe and throw the contents, higgledy-piggledy, at the naked episode (and I'm going to stop right there, because the poor simile is getting torn and tattered itself.)
And, no, I did not like Kill the Moon. I found that its written structure was unbalanced, its theme was both unpleasantly, leadenly anvilicious and annoyingly absent, if two such things could exist in the same writing
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Gatiss taking some fascinating concepts and, instead of weaving them into the tapestry of the episode, haphazardly tying or gluing a thread here and there on the canvas of a painting, thereby wasting them. LOL. Um, yeah, that's not a bad description. Yet some of them - like, say, The Crimson Horror, are just delightful. <3
And, no, I did not like Kill the Moon. I found that its written structure was unbalanced, its theme was both unpleasantly, leadenly anvilicious and annoyingly absent, if two such things could exist in the same writing. Huh. I went back to my own review, and yes, you didn't like it... Well, if you feel like reading something else about it (only IF - don't feel obliged, although I always want to try to get people to like things... *g*), I don't know if you read Phil Sandifer's review. And a week and a half ago Jane posted Genre Competition (Kill the Moon), which I loved. (Also talks about the zygon episodes.)
And this is why, when it comes to episodes I don't care for, I come afterward to your pieces on those
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No, wait, not that long: "Kill the Moon" was another one, but it wasn't a Gatiss work.
You did not like Kill the Moon? 'Twas amazing!!! (See - everyone has a different opinion on everything.)
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And, no, I did not like Kill the Moon. I found that its written structure was unbalanced, its theme was both unpleasantly, leadenly anvilicious and annoyingly absent, if two such things could exist in the same writing ( ... )
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LOL. Um, yeah, that's not a bad description. Yet some of them - like, say, The Crimson Horror, are just delightful. <3
And, no, I did not like Kill the Moon. I found that its written structure was unbalanced, its theme was both unpleasantly, leadenly anvilicious and annoyingly absent, if two such things could exist in the same writing.
Huh. I went back to my own review, and yes, you didn't like it... Well, if you feel like reading something else about it (only IF - don't feel obliged, although I always want to try to get people to like things... *g*), I don't know if you read Phil Sandifer's review. And a week and a half ago Jane posted Genre Competition (Kill the Moon), which I loved. (Also talks about the zygon episodes.)
And this is why, when it comes to episodes I don't care for, I come afterward to your pieces on those ( ... )
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