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Finally got round to watching this and just want to add to the big chorus of Yay!
The Rachnos, yeah I can appreciatethe whole 'too much make-up', but it was great to see a really alien-looking alien.
The car chase was a mountain of beautful excess and kind of succeed in the all the ways that the car chase in Matrix 2 failed. It gripped the imagination in the way that only something that we haven't seen in over 40 years of Dr Who can.
I would've liked to have seen an exterior shot of the Tardis with its doors open to really sell the spectacle of the whole thing to a greater level. It wasn't necessary, and would have cost more, but it would have looked so good and such things are now achievable.
And the trio of trailers at the end further added to my enjoyment - I want to see it all NOW. Hell, the trailers even sold me on the Torchwood season finale.
Yeah, I'd agree that Dr Who tends to get more leeway than Torchwood, but in many ways, it has kind of earned it. It has built up a reservoir of good will over its considerable history and its 16 years of absence followed by such a rapturous return have kind of robbed its detractors of much ammunition. And there is also the fact that Dr Who has always been family entertainment. Torchwood doesn't really have the benefit of any of these things, and its arguable mis-selling as adult, as opposed to adolescent, drama, over and above its various narrative, problems has only served to work against it... |
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