A rocket flies up a chimney flames pouring from its thrusters and in such an enclosed space no one even gets a hair singed.
How come the Dr's plans nowadays seem to comprise of running after the monster/bad guys then going "oops!!", when he catches them and he realises they have a bigger gun, claws, army, WMD (please circle relevant item(s))? For once I'd like to see the Dr using his huge brain to be, well, smart...and thinking just a little further ahead.
So many good things were trying to happen in this episode like the comedy that comes in the form of Jenni, Vastra and Strax as well as the homage to the Avengers. Loved the line "attack of the super models".
Diana Rigg as Mrs Gillyflower, with her lack of redeeming features and no room for the weak was excellent and very reminiscent of Maragaret Thatcher in her hey day.
Anyway, I guess whipping a dead horse instead of killing a live one, like Strax nearly did, is not so popular now since the media rewrote her legacy recently.
The fact that Diana Rigg's real life daughter played her screen daughter was a very nice touch.
Even with all that good stuff there was no build up of tension or suspense. As everything is bottled into a single episode, everyone now knows that in 45 minutes everything will be resolved and the Dr will triumph (half the audience changes channel or puts the coffee on). Unfortunately, the format of 1 story to a show is really destroying any sense of story telling.
The dumbing down of the show and the Dr, is evident as at the end we are to believe that 12 year old kids can take the time to find pictures of their nanny over more than 100 years and come to a conclusion that she is a time traveller. Wow google search has improved leaps and bounds as well as the attention span of 12 year olds.
Dr Who over 50 years has taken its original audience with it so that the children have now become the adult audience. When it returned from its years in the wilderness it came back revitalised and with innovative storytelling reached out to a a new, wider audience.
However, Dr Who is not a child's program rather it is a scifi program that children can appreciate. It would appear that the show is devolving into a variation of the Sarah Jane Chronicles, which was a great spin off for young adults, but that is not what Dr Who is or was ever meant to be.
With less and less for the adult viewer to appreciate the current programming is undermining the integrity the show has built up in recent years and is becoming a candidate for the Disney channel. As a matter of fact with the current plot line I'll be monitoring the Disney channel just in case the tardis materialises there with Clara's kids on board.
Hope we can stop the rot soon and save what has become an excellent institution.
On an up note (pun intended), doesn't Jenna-Louise look great with her hair up.
How come the Dr's plans nowadays seem to comprise of running after the monster/bad guys then going "oops!!", when he catches them and he realises they have a bigger gun, claws, army, WMD (please circle relevant item(s))? For once I'd like to see the Dr using his huge brain to be, well, smart...and thinking just a little further ahead.
So many good things were trying to happen in this episode like the comedy that comes in the form of Jenni, Vastra and Strax as well as the homage to the Avengers. Loved the line "attack of the super models".
Diana Rigg as Mrs Gillyflower, with her lack of redeeming features and no room for the weak was excellent and very reminiscent of Maragaret Thatcher in her hey day.
Anyway, I guess whipping a dead horse instead of killing a live one, like Strax nearly did, is not so popular now since the media rewrote her legacy recently.
The fact that Diana Rigg's real life daughter played her screen daughter was a very nice touch.
Even with all that good stuff there was no build up of tension or suspense. As everything is bottled into a single episode, everyone now knows that in 45 minutes everything will be resolved and the Dr will triumph (half the audience changes channel or puts the coffee on). Unfortunately, the format of 1 story to a show is really destroying any sense of story telling.
The dumbing down of the show and the Dr, is evident as at the end we are to believe that 12 year old kids can take the time to find pictures of their nanny over more than 100 years and come to a conclusion that she is a time traveller. Wow google search has improved leaps and bounds as well as the attention span of 12 year olds.
Dr Who over 50 years has taken its original audience with it so that the children have now become the adult audience. When it returned from its years in the wilderness it came back revitalised and with innovative storytelling reached out to a a new, wider audience.
However, Dr Who is not a child's program rather it is a scifi program that children can appreciate. It would appear that the show is devolving into a variation of the Sarah Jane Chronicles, which was a great spin off for young adults, but that is not what Dr Who is or was ever meant to be.
With less and less for the adult viewer to appreciate the current programming is undermining the integrity the show has built up in recent years and is becoming a candidate for the Disney channel. As a matter of fact with the current plot line I'll be monitoring the Disney channel just in case the tardis materialises there with Clara's kids on board.
Hope we can stop the rot soon and save what has become an excellent institution.
On an up note (pun intended), doesn't Jenna-Louise look great with her hair up.