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Doctor Who - Gridlock
Hmm. Well… worst so far I think. But thankfully it was still quite good.
My main problems were that Ardal O’Hanlon was so Dougal the whole time that I kept expecting him to go “oh, c’mon Ted” the whole way through. And again, RTD managed to stretch my credibility a bit too far with the whole “they’ve been stuck down there for twelve to twenty years” thing - if it had been months I may have been more forgiving, but years?
But even so, there were some very nice ideas. The whole underclass being saved because they were an underclass, the fact that in this dystopian world people were able to bond and create a feeling of hope and optimism and avoid being victims, and the other fact that precisely because of this bond they had effectively paralysed themselves, preventing them from changing the situation.
I get the feeling all told, that there could have been a rather good two-parter in this, rather than a fairly rushed blam-blam-blam single-part we got.
That said, David Tennant continues to astound. I fair welled up I did, during his reminiscing about Gallifrey.
I don’t understand why people keep going on about these “Macra” creatures, though. The Macra don’t exist.
I am, of course, now gagging for Daleks in Manhattan. In fact I won’t be turning up at my own birthday party until it’s finished.
(Well, you’ve got to have priorities.)
Posted on April 20, 2007 | Filed Under Film and Television
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