Doctor Who?

[tibilicus]

Just watched tonight's episode on iplayer. Massively disappointing. After the two parter by Moffat things were actually looking up for the series, a suggestion that perhaps a slightly more adult (although still family friendly) Who was in store. Come tonight's episode and all hopes of that seem to be knocked out of the park. It was another guest writer who wrote the episode and it showed. Within minutes the depressing format of children's tv show meets slightly appealing story line emerged only for the later of the two to disappear rapidly into its own time and space continuum. What then played out for the remaining 40 minutes was fairly awful television. As predicted the character of "Rory" intruded on the dynamic which had been established between the Doctor and Amy. One liners soon made their way into the episode, doing away with the more witty and less obvious humour one might expect from a British television show. Only one of the one liners actually made me smile, no laughs however.

The story line itself was pretty bog standard and didn't really have any sc-fi elements to it. Hell, there wasn't really any elements to it, it was just, bleh. So anyway, as the episode trotted along it didn't get much better and I remained unimpressed. It was a scene towards then end which finally did it for me. Some novelty, sword fight scene which of course tried to inject humour and to me at least, failed fairly miserably. I can not see any one over the age of 14 finding the said scene funny.

The cherry on top of this fairly craptastic cake was the special effects. Yes they're not normally great but tonight they were just outright awful. For a show which receives a budget of £700,000 per episode to produce such awful special effects is pretty inexcusable. Shows back in the late 90s had better CGI.

Overall then hugely disappointing. Apparently Moffat isn't writing again till the final two-parter series finale so unless next weeks picks things back up I will be steering well clear till then.