Doctor Who: Night Terrors - 3/9 (9/3)
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Posted on: 2011-09-04 09:26 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Seemed like a decent ep to me - not involved with the on-going story arc(s?), just a decent ep where they wanted to set up some scary and run with it. Better than the pirates one at least (which falls into the same category imho).
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I thought it was a decent episode, all pretty obvious but aimed for the younger viewer I think. Next weeks episode has me thinking of Sapphire and Steel.
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You do have to wonder, with a being with reality-shaping power "off the scale", how long until the Silence try to manipulate him to fight the Doctor?
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But yeah; the finalé is coming soon so I expected a 'filler' with limited locations and effects involved. I'd say it was better than Fear Her..... but only Love and Monsters was worse than that one *shudders*.
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Can anyone explain why there is so much "Fear Her" hate? I mean, yes, the episode had problems, but I certainly wouldn't use it as the standardized unit of badness in Doctor Who. It's been a bit since I've seen the episode, but I can't recall disliking so much that it stands out.
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Can anyone explain why there is so much "Fear Her" hate? I mean, yes, the episode had problems, but I certainly wouldn't use it as the standardized unit of badness in Doctor Who. It's been a bit since I've seen the episode, but I can't recall disliking so much that it stands out.
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I think Fear Her was just a perfect storm of a terrible story, terrible monster, rubbish characters and unbelievable cheesy-ness (the whole Olympic thing).
There was no excitement, no fear and just... no entertainment.
Creepy dolls and clowns get me every time - Gatiss, you swine.
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Originally Posted by Rodoan
Just finished watching it. It was okay. I think it really did a good job of fitting the original concept of the show, which was a show for young people.
I didn't really feel the danger in this one. Not like, say, the Weeping Angels or the Vashta Narada. The weird, yes, the danger, no. SPOILERS Every once in a while, my poor American ears don't pick up on some of the wording because of British accents. I'm unclear what they were calling the alien du jour and some of the details. I gather its a reality-bending creature, and somehow bonds with societies alien to it, but I really didn't catch the details. I'm also unclear why the child's song was used at the end. Are they implying something about the alien knows something about the Doctor's fate? It seemed a little silly to again bring up the obituaries. Those who've followed the season know it very well. So I'm guessing I missed something that would justify showing it again. |
Just saw the episode, yes, yes, sue me for being late
But what Rodoan said applied to me...hard to hear what The Doctor is saying sometimes.
But yes, overall a forgettable episode. Don't like creepy dolls though!
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Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
But what Rodoan said applied to me...hard to hear what The Doctor is saying sometimes.
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And it's not just the accent or the mumbling... it's the darned background music being too loud. And way too many shows are doing that.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
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And it's not just the accent or the mumbling... it's the darned background music being too loud. And way too many shows are doing that. |
Joshing aside, you're dead-on ZM (um, no pun intended when I wrote that) regarding the background music being too loud. I've wondered for a couple of years now how the editors forgot that the speech is more important.
It's odd, I've never had any problem with the music levels.
Yeah, for me it's that Matt Smith says his lines so blasted fast. And sometimes goes from lines kinda said under his breath (that we're supposed to catch) to loudly proclaiming the solution to the problem. All very quickly.
At this point, I pretty much know a good portion of the UK slang, but sometimes these actors act like there's not enough time to say everything they need to say.
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Well with all the running they do, there usually isn't.
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Originally Posted by Samothrake
Yeah, for me it's that Matt Smith says his like so blasted fast. And sometimes goes from lines kinda said under his breath (that we're supposed to catch) to loudly proclaiming the solution to the problem. All very quickly.
At this point, I pretty much know a good portion of the UK slang, but sometimes these actors act like there's not enough time to say everything they need to say. |
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
Well with all the running they do, there usually isn't.
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I can imagine a Doctor Who parody where every line is a cut to an actor running down a hallway and rounding a corner while breathless shouting their line.
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And of course they're not crummy, it's a show that's lasted for generations, you don't do that if you were crap.
One thing you have to remember about old Who (Doctor's 1 and 2 and to a lesser extend early 3), is that it was preformed live, like a play. Each episode might have had like, two or three cuts in it at most. All the rest was multiple cameras and actors rushing between sets while the focus is elsewhere.
That naturally has an effect on pacing. They also had to produce something along the lines of 44 episodes a year too. Each episode was made in a week, recorded live then broadcast a couple of days later.
So, dragging and padding isn't so much to do with the serial format and more to do with the limitations and conventions of the time.