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rj_andersonI hate to write two negative reviews in a row, especially for two of my favorite shows, but... wow, that was dumb.
No, really, that was really, really dumb. In fact, I am beginning to think that Russell T. Davies should be forcibly prevented from writing any more episodes.
The moronic, done-to-death body-switching scenario, for one. The rubbishy science that doesn't even try to be remotely plausible even in its vagueness -- gotta love these terrible nameless diseases which infect you instantaneously, yet don't prevent you from all kinds of physical exertion (hello, Russell T., did it never occur to you that humans grown as flesh who have spent their lives in an incubator will have no muscle tone, let alone enough muscle to climb ladders and shove doors open? Have you not even seen The Matrix, for pity's sake?) and are just as instantaneously cured. I know Doctor Who has never purported to be hard SF, but this wasn't even soft SF, it was just plain sloppy.
It wasn't that witty, either -- not even up to RTD's usual standard. And I agree with those who've said that the Doctor/Rose moments seemed kind of forced.
Ech.
Holding out good hopes for next week, though. The previews look really cool.
No, really, that was really, really dumb. In fact, I am beginning to think that Russell T. Davies should be forcibly prevented from writing any more episodes.
The moronic, done-to-death body-switching scenario, for one. The rubbishy science that doesn't even try to be remotely plausible even in its vagueness -- gotta love these terrible nameless diseases which infect you instantaneously, yet don't prevent you from all kinds of physical exertion (hello, Russell T., did it never occur to you that humans grown as flesh who have spent their lives in an incubator will have no muscle tone, let alone enough muscle to climb ladders and shove doors open? Have you not even seen The Matrix, for pity's sake?) and are just as instantaneously cured. I know Doctor Who has never purported to be hard SF, but this wasn't even soft SF, it was just plain sloppy.
It wasn't that witty, either -- not even up to RTD's usual standard. And I agree with those who've said that the Doctor/Rose moments seemed kind of forced.
Ech.
Holding out good hopes for next week, though. The previews look really cool.
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Date: 2006-04-23 09:12 pm (UTC)Sure Russell saw The Matrix... he just blocked out everything except the impressive walls of humans under glass. It would have been slightly more realistic if the 'serums' were made of nanogenes or something that actively works on diseased organisms instead of something that ought to act slowly through the bloodstream. Grr. And is it just me, or did Rose take the whole being-possessed-by-Cassandra thing a bit too well?
That tattooed guy was good, though, when he got something to do besides slavering and wringing his hands.
..There were Doctor-Rose moments?
*hopes for Better Things from the werewolves and ninjas*