Comments on: Journey’s End http://atypicalreview.com/tv/doctor-who/journeys-end reviews and witterings on tv, film, games and the like Tue, 11 May 2010 12:01:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom Charman http://atypicalreview.com/tv/doctor-who/journeys-end/comment-page-1#comment-3096 Tom Charman Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:33:34 +0000 http://atypicalreview.com/?p=1076#comment-3096 <p>I love 'Tooth and Claw', though! I thought that bit was awesome! So I'm having trouble engaging with your opinion on this matter. I'd rank that story as one of his quiet little gems, alongside 'Smith and Jones' and 'Gridlock'.</p> <p>I don't really see a flaw in execution there. Unless you're expecting film-like special effects. I can imagine points that are examples of your last paragraph, like large sections of 'Last of the Time Lords', but I don't think 'Tooth and Claw' fits. I think his scope and story is neatly contained in that story.</p> I love ‘Tooth and Claw’, though! I thought that bit was awesome! So I’m having trouble engaging with your opinion on this matter. I’d rank that story as one of his quiet little gems, alongside ‘Smith and Jones’ and ‘Gridlock’.

I don’t really see a flaw in execution there. Unless you’re expecting film-like special effects. I can imagine points that are examples of your last paragraph, like large sections of ‘Last of the Time Lords’, but I don’t think ‘Tooth and Claw’ fits. I think his scope and story is neatly contained in that story.

]]> By: Andy http://atypicalreview.com/tv/doctor-who/journeys-end/comment-page-1#comment-3089 Andy Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:35:10 +0000 http://atypicalreview.com/?p=1076#comment-3089 <p>While Russell T Davies primary problem is that he generates an interesting premise and then follows it up with a weak conclusion, I don't think that's his only problem.</p> <p>I was watching Doctor Who: Confidential Cutdown for the werewolf episode last night and Russell T Davies was talking about how epic and exciting the end of the episode was. When he described the scene when Rose and the maids are trapped in the cellar and the monk turns into a werewolf in front of them, it did sound exciting and scary, but somehow that vision ended up as a mediocre werewolf transformation and the usual run away from the bad guy down a corridor scene. </p> <p>I think part of the trouble is that he is unable to fully develop his ideas on screen the way he imagines them.</p> While Russell T Davies primary problem is that he generates an interesting premise and then follows it up with a weak conclusion, I don’t think that’s his only problem.

I was watching Doctor Who: Confidential Cutdown for the werewolf episode last night and Russell T Davies was talking about how epic and exciting the end of the episode was. When he described the scene when Rose and the maids are trapped in the cellar and the monk turns into a werewolf in front of them, it did sound exciting and scary, but somehow that vision ended up as a mediocre werewolf transformation and the usual run away from the bad guy down a corridor scene.

I think part of the trouble is that he is unable to fully develop his ideas on screen the way he imagines them.

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