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

[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.