The Sucky Earth

[craigoxbrow]

Oh well, can't win 'em all.

(I dunno, maybe I'm judging too harshly due to CHIBNAAAAALL! but the pacing seemed off as well, as Confidential revealed the first cut was an hour long and the pre-credits sequence explained a minor character's life very slowly while they showed a deleted scene on the Doctor and Amy discussing Rory that seemed more important. And I did like Rory just getting on with it when confronted with a mystery. But... erg. Unevenly-paced return of a classic monster that means nothing to me.)

Comments

[joedizzy.livejournal.com]

It felt like a left-over Tennant script. I think there was one line or two, which were actually good. But the rest was the kind of melodramatic hodge-podge Ten only managed to save through pure infectious enthusiasm.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

I see Matt Smith but hear David Tennant quite frequently.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

The Silurians are scary. They're technologically advanced dinosaurs (not an oxymoron), who went into hibernation to escape mass extinction, but forgot to set their alarm clock properly. Now the Earth in inhabited with all these annoying mammals, and it's just not fair!

First time we encountered them (Jon Pertwee's second adventure), they introduced a virus that rapidly started spreading through the country and killing people. The Doctor arranged a peace treaty, but The Brig blew them all up instead, which soured their relationship. Now they're just as pissed off as before, but no longer covered by enormously clumsy rubber suits.

The Sea Devils was another Silurians one (sort of, it featured the Silurians aquatic cousins), where Doctor #3 again tries to negotiate for peace, only for Roger Delgadro as The Master to stick a major spanner in the works. I haven't seen Peter Davison's encounter with them, but that's all the love that the Silurians have had so far.

[craigoxbrow.livejournal.com]

I know about 'em generally, I've even seen The Sea Devils from the time when BBC2 showed some of the early colour run. But like the Sontarans before them they lack classic-monster emotional resonance from childhood, so they're just some guys.