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Well, that was a decent end to a blah beginning. I like it that this episode was mostly visual: all action and framing and memorable scenes, in place of the lamentable dialog and plotting of last week. Everything seems to play to the strengths of the writer and director at hand. It could almost be a silent movie — which is appropriate, I figure, to a Cyberman episode.
By a similar stretch: I just realized why Tennant reminds me so of Troughton in this episode. Well, the writing and performance do a lot of it. Just a important, though, is the outfit: black suit, light shirt, bow tie. Versus Cybermen, of all things. So again, yeah — appropriate. Troughton performance. Almost a silent horror movie. Some imagery to rival Tomb. This half of the story is one of the few effective Cyberman appearances in the history of the series. Too bad the build-up was so boring.
Still not as captivating as the best of the new series. It’s solid, though. Classic, in mostly a good way — whereas last week was classic in mostly a bad one.
I think what bogged down last week was the Rose and Doctor stuff. It was clearly not as interesting as the Mickey stuff or how the world was set up. I do wonder if they were technically just trying to juxtapose both of those things purposely by making the D&R’s stuff boringish on purpose.
And you’re right, they shouldn’t've given away the Rose gag so early.
Haven’t seen part 2 yet.
Is the voiceover supposed to be there during the whole climatix? Cause it’s….annoying.
No!
I understand that was a problem with some rips of the previous episode, as well. Go grab a different version. The MadMartha one on Demonoid is okay, save a few frames of breakup in the middle.
Climax, I mean. I have a problem with going back and re-writing sentences after re-thinking them, I just don’t always fully re-write them.
Anyhow, I don’t know what it was, whether it was that the narration seemed to speed up the action, or just made it painfully obvious that the escape from the Cybermen hq was actually kind of simple, but I really thought the climax/resolution was much too easy for such a big, two-parter.
Doesn’t beat The Girl in the Fireplace by a long shot, and it seems like this season is really turning into a series of hit-miss episodes for me. I look forward to the zombie-tv one though, so we’ll see!
Ah. So you are talking about the previous episode. Yeah. The second part was certainly better than the first one. Still one of the weaker stories of the series, overall. The above post is about The Idiot’s Lantern, episode 207.
Wait, no it wasn’t. You’re replying to an older entry! I thought this was to the most recent one.
Never mind!