Hmmmm. IMHO, Bob Holmes is an expert at witty one liners, punning and creative word-play. I just don't see the "far-off vistas". Is there really more future earth history painted in "Revenge" than, say "Death to the Daleks" in the last season (a story we found vastly more entertaining)? What makes Genesis more a historical than, say, "The Ark" or even "The Daleks"?
I see a few good gags and bits of witty wordplay trying desparately to leaven some messy and badly conceived stories. Maybe Bob hasn't got the hang of the script editing yet, and is in the "sprinkling of fairy dust" stage, rather than dramatically reconstructing badly flawed stories. Maybe it is the complexity of the half hand-over from Letts/Dicks. But these aren't (to us) very enjoyable stories in their own right. They're just not very good.
Fan lore (a fandom that was getting started round about the time these episodes transmitted, which may explain some of their centrality) has built great castles in the sky on Genesis. But the source material is patchy at best.
That said, isn't patchy source material always the best foundation for fan-edifice-construction? Particularly if it is massively contradictory of previous narrative within the show.
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Date: 2010-03-20 12:31 pm (UTC)I see a few good gags and bits of witty wordplay trying desparately to leaven some messy and badly conceived stories. Maybe Bob hasn't got the hang of the script editing yet, and is in the "sprinkling of fairy dust" stage, rather than dramatically reconstructing badly flawed stories. Maybe it is the complexity of the half hand-over from Letts/Dicks. But these aren't (to us) very enjoyable stories in their own right. They're just not very good.
Fan lore (a fandom that was getting started round about the time these episodes transmitted, which may explain some of their centrality) has built great castles in the sky on Genesis. But the source material is patchy at best.
That said, isn't patchy source material always the best foundation for fan-edifice-construction? Particularly if it is massively contradictory of previous narrative within the show.