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Doctor Who 12.07
Feb. 18th, 2020 04:52 pmI'm RL swamped, and quite exhausted, hence not mucih in the way of fannish existence. (Also, even while the impeachment came to its predictable ending, there in fact politicians in Germany competing with US Republicans in spinelessness and lack of ethics as well as common sense. I might make a separate entry on what happened in Thuringia and is still ongoing, if ever I find the time.) But the latest DW episode was great fun, and thus I briefly resurface to say so.
Not least because I actually was dissatisfied with Big Finish's take on Mary Shelley; this was one of the rare cases where I really prefer the tv version. And while the other times when a genre tv show tackles the Haunted Summer, I had the impression they were confusing watching Ken Russell's movie Gothic with research (looking at you, Highlander), this time the scriptwriter clearly had actually read up on what was happening on those rainy days in 1816. The original quotes worked in weren't just the poetry but from letters. (Mind you, I could quibble with some artistic liberties, beyond, err, the general premise of this being a Doctor Who episode with monsters, but I could see the point of them and they were minor. Including the one where Byron in rl had a deformed foot and thus would have been unable to dance. (There was a reason why he was majorly into swimming.) (As opposed to poor Shelley.)
(( Very minor other quibbling. )
"Famous work of literature inspired by RL event" can get obnoxious if it's, say, Jane Austen meeting a RL Mr. Darcy. So what DW did re: Mary and Frankenstein was a delightful surprise for me. ( Spoilers will write a story to curdle the blood. )
Overall, easily my favourite episode of the season so far.
Not least because I actually was dissatisfied with Big Finish's take on Mary Shelley; this was one of the rare cases where I really prefer the tv version. And while the other times when a genre tv show tackles the Haunted Summer, I had the impression they were confusing watching Ken Russell's movie Gothic with research (looking at you, Highlander), this time the scriptwriter clearly had actually read up on what was happening on those rainy days in 1816. The original quotes worked in weren't just the poetry but from letters. (Mind you, I could quibble with some artistic liberties, beyond, err, the general premise of this being a Doctor Who episode with monsters, but I could see the point of them and they were minor. Including the one where Byron in rl had a deformed foot and thus would have been unable to dance. (There was a reason why he was majorly into swimming.) (As opposed to poor Shelley.)
(( Very minor other quibbling. )
"Famous work of literature inspired by RL event" can get obnoxious if it's, say, Jane Austen meeting a RL Mr. Darcy. So what DW did re: Mary and Frankenstein was a delightful surprise for me. ( Spoilers will write a story to curdle the blood. )
Overall, easily my favourite episode of the season so far.
