Date: 2006-09-20 05:16 am (UTC)
icepixie: ([Personal] Soprano pride)
From: [personal profile] icepixie
Yeah, we've been over this, and I don't think either of us will change our opinions. *g* I was irritated at that gorgeous AoG shot, because how hard would it be to have that as an establishing shot, and then shoot everything else indoors for an episode?

he says the ratings are always lower for unearthly eps

I just boggle at this. Are there really people out there who will watch a CGI werewolf or CGI Teacher!Bats, but can't deal with a spooky story set on a far-out space station? Are they really that shallow?

I think, too, whether because we're scifi geeks or Americans we think of Doctor Who as science fiction, whereas to a lot of Brits I think it might be more fantasy-horror, closer to Buffy than Trek.

I see what you're saying, I think. And yet something like TIP/TSP was superficially rather similar to some Buffy eps I've seen, so I still don't get the alien planets = bad meme. Star Trek forehead aliens, sure; I can see why people who automatically hate that kind of stuff would be turned off. (Much as I disagree with them. But that's another debate.) But it's not like DW has ever tried to make its aliens look very alien...

Shakespeare does sound excellent, though.
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