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The New Who Review for "The Unquiet Dead"
Mar. 29th, 2006 09:33 am*checks to see if anyone else has passed away that she needs to comment on.....Nope*
OK. Back to Doctor Who.
"The Unquiet Dead" for me harks back to a Tom Baker episode called "the Talons of Weng-Chiang." Doctor takes companion back in time to a point in Earth's past to impress them and ends up solving a mystery that involves something other worldly in just about every definition of the words. Overall it is a pretty good episode. Simon Callow is splendid as Dickens but then he is an actor who I have enjoyed in a number of roles on the big screen so I would expect no less of him. Yeah there were some slow and jerky parts to the episode. The writing was uneven. When it was good it was golden when it was bad it harked back to bad Doctor Who dialogue that everyone can quote and cringe at the same time.
I'm grateful that I got to sit down with my family and watch Doctor Who.
Of Course Spoilers behind the cut
( The_Unquiet_Dead )
OK. Back to Doctor Who.
"The Unquiet Dead" for me harks back to a Tom Baker episode called "the Talons of Weng-Chiang." Doctor takes companion back in time to a point in Earth's past to impress them and ends up solving a mystery that involves something other worldly in just about every definition of the words. Overall it is a pretty good episode. Simon Callow is splendid as Dickens but then he is an actor who I have enjoyed in a number of roles on the big screen so I would expect no less of him. Yeah there were some slow and jerky parts to the episode. The writing was uneven. When it was good it was golden when it was bad it harked back to bad Doctor Who dialogue that everyone can quote and cringe at the same time.
I'm grateful that I got to sit down with my family and watch Doctor Who.
Of Course Spoilers behind the cut
( The_Unquiet_Dead )
