Gonna wait for the…
Jun. 16th, 2008 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perlmongerIt's RTD, isn't it? My expectations weren't high, and the first five minutes easily lived down to them in their sloppy, anachronistic cheesiness.
Trouble is, what we got from there on in was, by some considerable margin, the best NS4 episode; writing, pacing, acting and direction were pretty much flawless. I felt genuine tension as Sky turned round (even if it was mostly worry that we'd be getting another Photoshop smear job) and the portrayal of human reaction to fear, in all its ugliness, was chillingly convincing. Val Cane's bit of reality editing at the end was a lovely (if that's the right word) gracenote too. Nobody came out unambiguously in there, which was if nothing else honest, and especially so in a programme aimed at children, a space too often filled with oversimplification and easy answers. No Donna, but that's right: having any companion in there other than as a frame would have added a vector that couldn't help but dilute the impact of the programme as a whole.
Oh, and I agree with Alex Wilcock: It was a superb choice for the BBC to show to a group of politicians in a preview. Not that it would do them any good.
Now, if we could only have lostMary SueRose flashing up the monitor again, and the trailer for next week's OMG! it's the Conjunction of the Million Spheres and Rose Tyler saves the Multiverse!!!11!…
Trouble is, what we got from there on in was, by some considerable margin, the best NS4 episode; writing, pacing, acting and direction were pretty much flawless. I felt genuine tension as Sky turned round (even if it was mostly worry that we'd be getting another Photoshop smear job) and the portrayal of human reaction to fear, in all its ugliness, was chillingly convincing. Val Cane's bit of reality editing at the end was a lovely (if that's the right word) gracenote too. Nobody came out unambiguously in there, which was if nothing else honest, and especially so in a programme aimed at children, a space too often filled with oversimplification and easy answers. No Donna, but that's right: having any companion in there other than as a frame would have added a vector that couldn't help but dilute the impact of the programme as a whole.
Oh, and I agree with Alex Wilcock: It was a superb choice for the BBC to show to a group of politicians in a preview. Not that it would do them any good.
Now, if we could only have lost