Pookie (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} pwca) wrote,@ 2006-05-28 17:35:00 |
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Dr Who: The Idiot's Lantern
If anything indicates the tenth Doctor's Mod-ish influences, it is his first appearance in this episode, which has him travelling back to the late 1950s to see Elvis in New York. Of course, nothing goes to plan and the Tardis lands the travellers in London on the eve of the Coronation.
Something strange is going on -- isn't it always? -- just too many television aerials. And then there are the disappearances.
This episode is penned by Mark Gatiss, who wrote last year's The Unquiet Dead, and there are at least superficial similarities in the stealing of souls. Here though, the threat is decidedly modern, and wonderfully performed by Maurenn Lipman in her best "plummy" voice.
This was a fun, enjoyable episode, with some decent moments of humour. It was not though, a particularly creepy episode (something that this series has yet to have unlike last season's The Empty Child), though I think that it had the potential. Again, I still think that the 45 minute length is limiting some of the stories, and they do need to get away from the back story a little more.
If anything indicates the tenth Doctor's Mod-ish influences, it is his first appearance in this episode, which has him travelling back to the late 1950s to see Elvis in New York. Of course, nothing goes to plan and the Tardis lands the travellers in London on the eve of the Coronation.
Something strange is going on -- isn't it always? -- just too many television aerials. And then there are the disappearances.
This episode is penned by Mark Gatiss, who wrote last year's The Unquiet Dead, and there are at least superficial similarities in the stealing of souls. Here though, the threat is decidedly modern, and wonderfully performed by Maurenn Lipman in her best "plummy" voice.
This was a fun, enjoyable episode, with some decent moments of humour. It was not though, a particularly creepy episode (something that this series has yet to have unlike last season's The Empty Child), though I think that it had the potential. Again, I still think that the 45 minute length is limiting some of the stories, and they do need to get away from the back story a little more.
