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altarielExtremely good episode, I thought, which handled domestic terror much better than 'The Idiot's Lantern'. I loved the TARDIS landing smack up against a wall, and the performances of the little girl and her mother were excellent. As scary as Marianne Dreams only without the unremitting empty bleakness which I think vaguely traumatized me as a child.
The only thing which didn't work for me (and really didn't) was Huw Edwards gasping, "The Olympic dream is dead! Hope and love are dead!" or whatever it was, but perhaps this is something to do with the 'family viewing' thing and thousands upon thousands of Blue Peter brainwashed nine-year-olds across the nation were also gasping in fear and horror and distress and I shouldn't be such a crusty old cynic.
The only thing which didn't work for me (and really didn't) was Huw Edwards gasping, "The Olympic dream is dead! Hope and love are dead!" or whatever it was, but perhaps this is something to do with the 'family viewing' thing and thousands upon thousands of Blue Peter brainwashed nine-year-olds across the nation were also gasping in fear and horror and distress and I shouldn't be such a crusty old cynic.
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Stars and magic
Date: 2006-06-26 08:40 pm (UTC)Re: Stars and magic
Date: 2006-06-26 09:13 pm (UTC)And it actually works best for me when they drop the technobabble and focus on humour or characterization or symbolism disguised as pseudo-sci-fi instead.
The time-windows on the spaceship in The Girl of the Fireplace, for example, might seem more like real SF, but I still thought they were only a vehicle for a fairy-tale about the doomed romance of a couple with two different ways of perceiving/living time. (I'm such a sap.)
Re: Stars and magic
Date: 2006-06-26 10:33 pm (UTC)Re: Stars and magic
Date: 2006-06-27 06:18 am (UTC)Re: Stars and magic
Date: 2006-06-27 07:39 am (UTC)