Scfi: Flash Gordon & Dr. Who

[mneme]

The SciFi Flash Gordon remake was a hoot -- modern sensiblity mixed with total camp, self conciousness, and bits of plots out of the golden age. I'll try to catch up to it once there are enough shows out there (got lucky enough to catch the pilot) to play with. Oddly, hitting the time differential meant it showed twice.

Next up was Dr. Who with Dave Tennant: the Lazarus Experiment. Beautiful episode, though the Doctor being a bit precognitive wasn't that helpful. But there were at least three great bits: 1. Reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. 2. The Spinal Tap reference. 3. "Nobodly's 'just human'!" 4. The brilliance of the denoument/solution.

Mind, this was the first Tennant ep I saw. Won't mind seeing more, though.

Comments

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

This season's Dr. Who tends to get fairly referency to previous season. I'm curiuos how the show feels to someone coming in now.

[avram]

Yow. I saw the first 30 or 45 minutes of the Flash Gordon pilot and finally switched away in boredom. Did it get better later?

I thought "The Lazarus Experiment" was kinda mediocre as Tennant's episodes went. There are worse, but there are also better. I haven't seen most of the better, just heard about them, but I think they'll be coming up on Sci-Fi in a few weeks. The "Mister Saxon" who's referred to a couple of times turns out to be important. And an anagram.

And: A guy named Lazarus invents a life-extension technology. What're the odds?

[avylou.livejournal.com]

Um... it didn't get better. I thought the acting was awful. There wasn't much drama, and if they were trying for campy, I don't think it made it. I won't be watching more... the only reason I finished it is because Doc and I were trashing it by IM. :-) Avis

[mneme]

The Flash Gordon pilot does get better -- mostly, it picks up the pace a lot after they get to Mongo. Takes them a long time to get there, though.

*g* on Lazarus. Yeah, that's just a little it silly.

[zrealm.livejournal.com]

Sci Fi actually shows all of their prime time stuff twice - they don't have differentiated area feeds (expensive!) and this is cheaper.

[hms42]

Remind me before the next housefilk we cross paths at and I will pass along some episodes.

Harold

[mneme]

Will do, thanks!

[auntiemisha.livejournal.com]

Um, actually this ep I put firmly in "not one of the better eps", despite the amusing Spinal Tap nod. So you will probably really like the others!

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Yep -- I was going to say, "keep watching" -- the next three or four episodes in this season are perhaps the best ones of the modern Who, specifically, "Human Nature", "Family of Blood", and "Blink". The one that's immediately next is better than average, but not necessarily great. "Blink" is very, very, very good indeed.

Unfortunately, then it dives back below the surface of the water again as the big-finish of the season's last three episodes are fairly muddled.