Oh, please.

[icepixie]

RTD: Alien planets are "too expensive."

And a Slitheen ship crashing into Big Ben isn't? Or a massive CGI wereworlf? Or the sun blowing up and incinerating the Earth? I'm sorry, that doesn't fly. Try again.


P.S. Avast, me hearties! *walks around with peg leg and parrot*

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[alto2.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Casanova, for the most part. It's just here and there that you kind of sit there going "Huh?" Mostly toward the end--though I was still almost in tears by the time it was over. I don't think that's got much to do with Rusty, though--I'd credit David Tennant, Laura Fraser, and Peter O'Toole with that one. It does border on being over the top in a few other places, too, but it's not too bad.

I've been hooked on DW for 20 years now, so the idea of it going downhill is literally painful. The morality of the show's always been quite consistent, until we got flaky mood-swings-on-a-dime!Ten, which is where my problem centrally lies. It got to where I'd watch each episode hoping that it would be the one without the "You won't thwart me!" egomania, and then it would inevitably appear and I'd be thinking "And....there it is. Sigh." I'd so hoped that the final scene with Harriet in TCI was a fluke (and I could deal with that if I'd thought he was right. But I don't). :(

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Right right right. The over-the-top acting got to me a bit as well. I think DT *could* have done an exuberant incarnation without the camp - it was possible to have one without the other. But that's partly the fault of the directors and the show runners as well - it should have been reigned in and it wasn't.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

I think DT *could* have done an exuberant incarnation without the camp

I had such high hopes after TCI--writing off that last bit with Harriet as a fluke, which I clearly shouldn't have done. He was so much fun, though, otherwise--a little goofy, able to be serious when necessary, but that sense of wonder was fantastic. I watched it...I don't know how many times before the series started in April! And then they went and turned him into Mr Takes-Nothing-Seriously-Until-You-Cross-Me, and I'm still hoping they'll fix that next year. It made him almost impossible to watch, and that's a shame.

[icepixie]

Yep yep yep. Loved him in TCI, quickly not so much in S2.

Man, I wish DoonaRose's Chem!Ten had been the real one...