OK, It didn't blow me away, but much to my relief, I thought it was actually rather good. From a purely visual point of view, it was perhaps the very best episode since the show came back. The sets were fantastic and the shots of the base and TARDIS landing on Mars were absolutely superb.
The plot was a bit weak though. And I didn't think it was actually very "scary" or tense - there seemed to be more emphasis on Adelaide and her team's demise than the Flood itself. But to its merit, it was very well made, and suitably "Who-ish".
David Tennant's Doctor was excellent throughout, quite intense - apart from in the end where he went all OTT and emotional again. The emo side of the tenth Doctor ha always been his undoing for me... unlike the ninth Doctor, who kept a lot of emotion inside, gradually letting it out, little by little.
The get-out was a bit feeble... sense of deja-vu there, but that seems to be a prerequisite of modern Who. Not allowed to be too daring. Although nice twist with Adelaide's suicide, and the grilling moment where the Doctor realises that despite his big-headedness and over-confidence, he hadn't foreseen that one.
My main criticism was that the people infected by the flood just looked hilarious. They all looked like dehydrated goths.
I'm also sick of hearing the same bloody music in every episode. But overall, a good episode, extremely well produced, and a thousand times better than the insult of an episode that polluted our screens back in Easter.
I do like this idea of the Doctor traveling alone - makes a nice change.
No comments:
Post a Comment