Never saw Casanova. Probably won't from that description.
Casanova really worked for RTD though, I think. He has a very limited range--which consists, basically, of Buffy Lite--but he used it for good here. I think, honestly, that RTD finds it hard to meld interesting SF stories and the more emotional stories he really wants to tell, and he doesn't have to fight that here. He's funny one moment and then incredibly sad the next, and it works in ways that it doesn't (IMO) on DW.
And David Tennant is awesome in it. I think he probably suffers from poor directing on DW, and here he doesn't, and he really shines. (And he has an amazing rapport with Laura Fraser, which doesn't hurt.) And hell, if nothing else--it's gorgeously costumed and designed. :D
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Date: 2006-09-20 02:56 am (UTC)Casanova really worked for RTD though, I think. He has a very limited range--which consists, basically, of Buffy Lite--but he used it for good here. I think, honestly, that RTD finds it hard to meld interesting SF stories and the more emotional stories he really wants to tell, and he doesn't have to fight that here. He's funny one moment and then incredibly sad the next, and it works in ways that it doesn't (IMO) on DW.
And David Tennant is awesome in it. I think he probably suffers from poor directing on DW, and here he doesn't, and he really shines. (And he has an amazing rapport with Laura Fraser, which doesn't hurt.) And hell, if nothing else--it's gorgeously costumed and designed. :D
ITA with your whole second paragraph.