That's the thing, see. It got 80% of the way there - it had great ideas in spades and a good cast - but good intentions aren't enough if you want to put an unconventional message across and have it really make people think. You've got to make a piece of art that's breathtakingly complete and cool if you want to get something from the far left-field firmly into people's heads. Take Chocolate Clockwork Orange, for example. (And you need to leave the cheap innuendos about blowjobs out, too).
And sadly, this episode just was not that good a piece of television, for my money; I really am not someone who gets the squee just because some TV program makes an episode apparently aimed squarely at getting my demographic on their side. It feels like cheating: flattering people into liking you as opposed to actually winning fans over with good television, IYSWIM. And I'd far rather not see Who descend into self-caricature and gratuitous fan service. Stargate Atlantis does the whole geek-love thing way better simply by regularly featuring realistically geeky interactions between moderately realistic (apart from the Hollywood-standard devastatingly good looks and buffed-up pectorals) geek characters; I must demonstrate at some point :)
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Date: 2006-08-28 09:13 pm (UTC)ChocolateClockwork Orange, for example. (And you need to leave the cheap innuendos about blowjobs out, too).And sadly, this episode just was not that good a piece of television, for my money; I really am not someone who gets the squee just because some TV program makes an episode apparently aimed squarely at getting my demographic on their side. It feels like cheating: flattering people into liking you as opposed to actually winning fans over with good television, IYSWIM. And I'd far rather not see Who descend into self-caricature and gratuitous fan service. Stargate Atlantis does the whole geek-love thing way better simply by regularly featuring realistically geeky interactions between moderately realistic (apart from the Hollywood-standard devastatingly good looks and buffed-up pectorals) geek characters; I must demonstrate at some point :)