cmiller99
Super Freak
I watched the two parter... good acting in it.
Buuuut...
I'm really sick of the way this series can't find a tone and stick with it. Is this show doing serious sci-fi or is it doing absurd self parody? Because that's what all the scenes with Missy felt like to me, and the Doctor playing the guitar.
As an old series preferist, I may be a little biased when I say this, but the older stories had a more consistent tone. Everything was playful - scary at times, but it worked as light hearted entertainment. There was the rubber monsters occasionally looking fake but the whole thing was tied together with a sense of fun, a bit of horror and the occasional moralistic message thrown in. Obviously the tone changed over the course of many series with the different producers making their own mark on the show (the Phillip Hinchcliffe years being a key example of this), but each story in itself was had its own style.
I don't know what to think about the new series. There are really good episodes, and there are episodes which for me... just don't work. At all. The biggest problem with this show is that it takes itself far too seriously. The mind play between the Doctor and Davros, Clara trying to communicate from inside a Dalek, the various other uber serious moments just clash horribly with the other various comical elements. Missy seems drunk half the time. The ridiculous 'twist' with the sunglasses. The nonsensical rebuilding of the TARDIS (another example of the glorious Deus Ex Machinas this series keeps coming up with).
I just couldn't really get into this two parter because of how all the different elements of the story were smashing into each other. Nothing gelled! It's so frustrating.
IMO, series should take one of two paths:
Serious sci fi - which creates scary, tense situations and is written seriously and has some grit;
Or absurd self parody - which IMO would be more fun.
Buuuut...
I'm really sick of the way this series can't find a tone and stick with it. Is this show doing serious sci-fi or is it doing absurd self parody? Because that's what all the scenes with Missy felt like to me, and the Doctor playing the guitar.
As an old series preferist, I may be a little biased when I say this, but the older stories had a more consistent tone. Everything was playful - scary at times, but it worked as light hearted entertainment. There was the rubber monsters occasionally looking fake but the whole thing was tied together with a sense of fun, a bit of horror and the occasional moralistic message thrown in. Obviously the tone changed over the course of many series with the different producers making their own mark on the show (the Phillip Hinchcliffe years being a key example of this), but each story in itself was had its own style.
I don't know what to think about the new series. There are really good episodes, and there are episodes which for me... just don't work. At all. The biggest problem with this show is that it takes itself far too seriously. The mind play between the Doctor and Davros, Clara trying to communicate from inside a Dalek, the various other uber serious moments just clash horribly with the other various comical elements. Missy seems drunk half the time. The ridiculous 'twist' with the sunglasses. The nonsensical rebuilding of the TARDIS (another example of the glorious Deus Ex Machinas this series keeps coming up with).
I just couldn't really get into this two parter because of how all the different elements of the story were smashing into each other. Nothing gelled! It's so frustrating.
IMO, series should take one of two paths:
Serious sci fi - which creates scary, tense situations and is written seriously and has some grit;
Or absurd self parody - which IMO would be more fun.
The current design took it's place next to the vintage Dalek lineup making me think they might do exactly what you're suggesting next time around.
Fond memories...
