Friday, December 26, 2008
Another Xmas down! The next Doctor??
And there goes another Xmas, which was over as quick as usual (especially if a flash is a very quick 24 hours, which it was!). And it was quite a nice pleasant affair, although not too quite as we had a few visitors and then me and the folks went down to visit my sister, her hubby and their two noisy wee ones, not to mention we came in armed to the teeth with xmas presents for them. So apart from accidentally and nastily slicing my finger with a rather sharp butterknife it was not too bad a Xmas day. So I look forward to chilling out some more tomorrow and gorging on some pleasant junk food (until I'm utterly sick of it as usual!).
Which brings me onto my annual review of the Doctor Who Xmas special, which was thankfully far more enjoyable this year. The Next Doctor being an unusually intruiging title, the Doctor meets his potential future self (in the past if that isn't ironic enough) in London 1851, a man (David Morrissey great here) who claims to be the Doctor and even shares the same memories and knowledge as the Doctor (to an extent). As things progress though we find out what is really going on with this fella who claims to be the Doctor, oh and on the way the Cybermen drop in for some invading who are headed by the evil Mercy Hartigan (wonderful Dervla Kirwan who kept reminding me of Queenie in Blackadder II for some reason!). This isn't probably the best Xmas adventure but it certainly is a massive improvement on RTD's disaster last year (and again making a disaster Xmas episode proved to be well... nuff said). But this time Russell gets a few things right, the plot this time is a bit more intruiging, the cast are fine, especially between the two Davids who banter very nicely together. The only thing that lets it down slightly however are the Cybermen themselves, they are a bit more turgid as the main villains this time round, despite the cheesiness of the second season finale, I was hoping to see a bit more of the Cybermen confront their enemies with some lethally serious sarcasm, but again I guess they needed the Daleks to do that! The inclusion of the massive CyberKing thing at the end was also a bit ridiculous as it reminded me of the The Iron Man novel idea. But overall it was entertaining stuff and much better than last year.
So that's all for now, going to get some kip soon, and get up for some more Xmas gorging (and food).
Which brings me onto my annual review of the Doctor Who Xmas special, which was thankfully far more enjoyable this year. The Next Doctor being an unusually intruiging title, the Doctor meets his potential future self (in the past if that isn't ironic enough) in London 1851, a man (David Morrissey great here) who claims to be the Doctor and even shares the same memories and knowledge as the Doctor (to an extent). As things progress though we find out what is really going on with this fella who claims to be the Doctor, oh and on the way the Cybermen drop in for some invading who are headed by the evil Mercy Hartigan (wonderful Dervla Kirwan who kept reminding me of Queenie in Blackadder II for some reason!). This isn't probably the best Xmas adventure but it certainly is a massive improvement on RTD's disaster last year (and again making a disaster Xmas episode proved to be well... nuff said). But this time Russell gets a few things right, the plot this time is a bit more intruiging, the cast are fine, especially between the two Davids who banter very nicely together. The only thing that lets it down slightly however are the Cybermen themselves, they are a bit more turgid as the main villains this time round, despite the cheesiness of the second season finale, I was hoping to see a bit more of the Cybermen confront their enemies with some lethally serious sarcasm, but again I guess they needed the Daleks to do that! The inclusion of the massive CyberKing thing at the end was also a bit ridiculous as it reminded me of the The Iron Man novel idea. But overall it was entertaining stuff and much better than last year.
So that's all for now, going to get some kip soon, and get up for some more Xmas gorging (and food).
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