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

[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.