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

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

I thought Trigger made a surprisingly rakish villain... he also broke his ankle a week into filming so it's just as well he was in a wheelchair.

[andrewducker]

I thought he gave a totally over the top performance. As Doctor Who has (generally) been going for more believable ones recently I found it rather jarring - like he was coming in from a parallel series of Dr Who...

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I don't think his performance was at fault - it was that his dialogue was written like a cartoon villain, straight out of Dr Who of the 70s, when as we said when watching it , everyone else is now speaking naturalisticly. very odd, especially given the Dr/Rose/Mickey bits were still fine (I suspect re written by RTD).

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

I liked his performance. Each to his own, I guess.

It's Tennant I'm finding I'm having problems with lately.

Looking forward to part 2 enormously.

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

This is the worst so far.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

I agree. Considering that the Cybermen returning is this series' Big Thing, I was surprised that they made such a campy, lightweight episode. Least favorite episode for me since the Slitheen one's last season, and rather similar in tone.

Shame, cause I thought that the last 3 episodes have all been superb.