Well, that was kind of a load of arse...

[infinitemonkeys]

Is it just me or was that episode of Doctor Who sort of shit? And really obviously rewritten from a script for Ten and Donna. But badly. Oh, Gatiss, I like you in general, I like your enthusiasm. I loved many bits of The League of Gentlemen, the way you talk about things, and the one novel of yours that I've read. But please stop

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[omphalos]

It's not just you.

[infinitemonkeys]

Thank God. The review in the paper said it was "the first classic episode of the Moffat era". I have no idea how he got that idea from that episode, so I thought maybe I was just unreasonably grumpy on account of daleks or something.

[dine]

obviously I haven't seen it yet, but I shall be looking with great interest/suspicion at any and all ponds and waterfowl when I do.

like New York is somewhere west of Dorking.

well, to be honest, it *is* west (by quite a far bit) of Dorking - and all of the UK if one wants to get pedantic

[infinitemonkeys]

True, it is. Also Spooks is miles worse when it comes to terrible accents, but still, lots of British actors can do American accents -- half of them are on US telly -- so why is it so impossible to find someone who sounds semi-correct for my favourite genre shows?

[infinitemonkeys]

You know what, it's dull, disappointing and generic. That's why it's so terrible. It's as though he took the Lego blocks of an RTD script and made something pointless and misshapen with it.

So, if Randall and Hopkirk was one of the worst piece of British telly you've seen, you've not got around to Crime Traveller yet, then.

R&H managed to waste Vic and Bob, which is a crime. You can tell how crap it was by the fact that the video cover features a puff quote from the Daily Star. (I just googled it, out of interest to see if they'd thought it worth putting out on DVD)

[infinitemonkeys]

Vic and Bob are to comedy in the early 90s what The Mighty Boosh were to comedy in the early part of the recent decade. They were bizarre, quotable and very, very funny.

Nathan Barley was a show about appalling Hoxton wankers which was loved by appalling Hoxton wankers -- who unfortunately often work in the media. I love Charlie Brooker, I really do, but he and Chris Morris were a poor combination. They hate humanity too much. Plus Chris Morris appears to have a pass which exempts him from criticism because he was so fantastic with On The Hour, The Day Today and Brass Eye.

We'll see how well Four Lions plays when it comes out. I thought the trailer was funny.

[pandarus]

YES! Yes, the moment when the dalek went "it's a fair cop, guv'nor - we're just having a larf. EXTERMINATE!" or whatever was very anticlimactic, because, yes, I'd been boggling at the potential implications of genuinely reprogrammed daleks pootling around with their sink plungers deadly weapons, and reckoning that that Churchill was a shifty bugger who'd be off expanding the Empire for God, Harry and St George like nobody's business, and it was all going to be Evil!Galadriel "LOVE ME AN DESPAIR!!!" kind of thing. And then...oh.

[infinitemonkeys]

You're absolutely right. That would have been an incredible story. Churchill believed in the British Empire and the imperial adventure, he advocated eugenics and tried to help break the General Strike. He'd have used them.

I didn't see as much of the arrogant Churchill as you did in Gatiss' version, I thought they just made him wily.

I think the daleks will be back at the end of the season. Alas. Why bother redesigning so many of them at such cost unless they were going to make another appearance.

But you're right about next week too: every glimpse I've had of it makes me optimistic. I am looking forward to the popcorn-chewing fun of watching fandom lose its mind over River Song once again. I like her.

[pandarus]

Word

[infinitemonkeys]

Everything you said is absolutely true. That whole 'think happy thoughts' crap made no sense to me. Defuse the bomb or take him with you. Don't leave the poor bombperson wandering about, ready to be reactivated with only sexy thoughts of Dorabella to keep him from going boom.

Go back and watch The Eleventh Hour and The Beast Below. They're clever and offbeat and genuinely funny. Amy is snappy, eccentric and clever and her backstory is intriguing. The first 15 minutes of Eleventh Hour are very sweet. I loved EH and liked Beast Below very much.

I like the idea of the Spice Daleks, though you'd need to give them names: you could have Exterminatey Dalek, Exterminatey Dalek, Exterminatey Dalek, Exterminatey Dalek and Posh Dalek. Posh Dalek would be very thin inside her carapace and marry the Supreme Dalek.

[spectralbovine]

Defuse the bomb or take him with you. Don't leave the poor bombperson wandering about, ready to be reactivated with only sexy thoughts of Dorabella to keep him from going boom.
I assumed he was going to take him and drop in the future or something, where he would fit in more.

[infinitemonkeys]

Oh, I can't leave this be: in which future would a BOMBPERSON fit in more? *g*

Did you get to see Kick-Ass yet?