Doctor Who - Rise of the Cybermen (no spoilers)

[andrewducker]

I have very mixed feelings about this one.

On the one hand, I thought that the scenes with The Doctor, Rose and Mickey were very good.  The "24 hours" scene was just fantastic, and the relationships between the three of them continue to impress.

On the other hand, the bits with Cybermen in them were pure panto.  The guy playing Lumic was particularly bad, giving a performance that would have been great had he been playing against John Pertwee or Tom Baker, but felt completely at odds with the style of the new Doctor Who.  And the cybermen themselves are coming across as more Dalek-like in their behaviour than Cyberman-like.

Not terrible, but definitely my least-favourite of the new season so far.

In the meantime, here's pure sacrilege on a plate - the KLF's "Doctorin' the Tardis" (itself a mash-up) mashed up with Green Day's "Holiday".

Comments

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Well, to be honest I'm being totally over the top but I like to know nothing, as in, not even that the cybermen aren't really acting cyberman-y. Being told repeatedly if a program or film is good (or bad) totally warps my perception of it (which is why, in part, I hate ROTK so much).

So, like, don't worry or get annoyed at me, because most people wouldn't take a review to be a spoiler, but for me it is because it, to some extent, spoils the film/tv/whatever. Er. Yeah. I'm just crap, clearly.


(...and I was working on Saturday so missed it (as I will be next Saturday, oh the joy of two jobs) so I'm just being "grrr" because I can't find it to download it...)

[andrewducker]

To be fair, I _did_ cut too close to the edge with the cybermen/daleks thing (even if I didn't say how they were doing so), and I should probably have just cut for spoilers so I can could go into more detail.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

I'm watching it now - I see where you're coming from with the dalek thing.

Generally a cut with more detail works better because you don't have to restrict what you say and yet noone will have to see it. :) I tend to go back and read things after I've seen whatever it is being talked about, anyway.

This episode seems okay (so far). The dialogue is, however, awful..

[andrewducker]

But strangely, only some of the dialogue. The bits in the Mickey/Doctor/Rose argument were good, and the Mickey/Ricky stuff has been fine too. It's only when The Villain is wheeled on that it all goes horribly wrong!

[cybik.livejournal.com]

I agree. Mickey/Rose/Doctor/Ricky etc are good, but the bad guy is just a cardboard man. He's crap. Totally unoriginal. I'm disappointed because I remember being -terrified- of the cybermen in the 80s and I'd quite like them to have a storyline that isn't exactly like the daleks.