Comments | infinitemonkeys: The Waters of Mars; Edward Woodward

infinitemonkeys

The Waters of Mars; Edward Woodward

Nov 16, 2009 17:41

I thought The Waters of Mars was really good. Fantastic, in fact, if you're happy to do some Olympic-level handwaving about science and suchlike. And what's more, good and dark, in the more interesting sense of the word. It wasn't dark for the sake of it and it almost entirely escaped from the "woe is me, I am so emo" vortex. I can't believe they ( Read more... )

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parthenia14 November 16 2009, 23:42:37 UTC

I can't make up my mind what I thought of the ep. although in fairness that's because we had to spend a wee bit of time soothing near-hysterical 8 year old, and then P kept muttering in my ear about the difficulties of setting things on fire on Mars...will have to rewatch.

I really liked Lindsay Duncan and the basic set-up; I found the middle bit pretty depressing and I think that I'm not so much enjoying these strung-out episodes because I'm thinking, OMG now we have to wait till Christmas and I've already totally forgotten what happened in the last special.

infinitemonkeys November 17 2009, 19:54:01 UTC

Oh dear. Was the near-hysteria related to water-zombies or other reasons? I don't know how well it will stand up to rewatching. I think it might be all right because the performances are good, though there's too much running up and down corridors.

Did I send you a reply on Twitter last night? I definitely wrote one but God only knows if I managed to send it.

New stuff is hard!

parthenia14 November 17 2009, 22:11:59 UTC

Water zombies = not good.

In fairness she doesn't scare easily. My son thought it was good, nice and scary (but it would have been the death rather than the water zombies scaring him).

I'll check my account *mysterious* LOL.

parthenia14 November 17 2009, 22:17:10 UTC

Nope! Nothing! Bah humbug.

onemildrat November 17 2009, 00:58:17 UTC

Thank you for the link to Wright's eulogy. I have a good deal of respect for actors like Edward Woodward -- people who are able to strike that right balance between restraint and intensity in their acting. To me, it feels like he represented a certain group of actors that learned from both the 'old tradition' and the Method vanguard.

Be seeing you, Mr. Woodward.

infinitemonkeys November 17 2009, 19:56:21 UTC

He sounds like a good fellow, and I never saw a role he was bad in. He always gave off that appearance of absolute integrity and I've never heard anything to contradict that.

cofax7 November 17 2009, 04:24:15 UTC

Wow, they showed that during children's hour? WTF. That was SCARY.

I mostly enjoyed it, although the pacing dragged a bit in the middle. I did like the prickly relationship between Brooke & her 2IC, as you say.

But fires? On Mars? Srsly? Heh.

Did you see the teaser? In which case, !!!!

infinitemonkeys November 17 2009, 20:05:01 UTC

I *know*. I was a bit "what are they thinking?", though I do take Davies' point about children being perfectly capable of dealing with darkness. God knows what's going to happen at Christmas. Set-up leads me to be hopeful, but experience tells me that total bollocks is the more likely outcome