30 Days of Telly Meme - Days 06 & 07

[thisbluespirit]

Since I'm all behind now, two days together - they seem a natural pairing.

And... I have no time left to talk about this but,

Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show: Robots of Death and Ghostlight.

I have talked more than enough about Robots and one day I will about Ghostlight, which may be confusing (really?) but still has its own logic and is gorgeous in every way. There are a lot of honorable mentions, but I've probably mentioned them fairly often, too.

Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show: 42 The only moment ever, I nearly turned the TV off on DW, ever. As a result, I'm not sure I want to watch the ep I missed on Saturday. I'll see how annoying next week's is - or not - before I risk it.) I kept the TV on because David Tennant suddenly decided the show needed saving and threw himself into the effort. I was grateful, because I don't like turning the TV off in disgust at my favourite show. (Chris Chibnall should get some kind of award for writing my least favourite episodes of DW, Torchwood and Life On Mars. It's quite an achievement for someone who isn't even technically a bad writer.)

And now I must run.


Days of Telly Meme:
Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled: Blake's 7
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching: Spooks
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season): The West Wing
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever: Doctor Who
Day 05 - A show you hate: Big Brother/ Who Wants to be a millionaire?
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show: Robots of Death / Ghostlight
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show: 42.
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series: BBC North & South
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

Comments

[boro-girl.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, the recent ep wasn't as bad as 42. (Mind you, I don't think anything could be!) There were some really good moments in there so could be worth having a look. Although chances are the recap on Saturday will tell you everything you need to know for the second part!

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks. That's my plan - watch Pt 2 and if I enjoy it, which I probably will, then I catch up with Pt 1. :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

42? Huh, you have strange tastes. 42 is not nearly as bad as 'Love and Monsters' or 'Fear Her'. The last 5 - 10 minutes of 'Love and Monsters' ruin what would otherwise have been a very clever story and make it utterly obscene. I shudder just thinking about it.

At least 42 is only full of utterly hokey skience!

[thisbluespirit]

It's a little unfair to choose a New Who ep, because there are very few I've seen twice & that can change my mind. I haven't seen Fear Her, and while I hated the ending of Love & Monsters, to the point that it did turn me against the story, I still give it credit for being very good until then and also pretty original. 42 - it's not hokey science (it would have to be mind-blowingly hugely bad for me to even notice), it was a load of derivative sf cliches stitched together with soap-style emotions. Thankfully David Tennant put in an amazing turn, particularly towards the end, and Freema was not far behind, but up until 42 my least favourite episode would have been an Eric Saward penned effort (Resurrection, Attack, or maybe Warriors of the Deep, which he, erm, altered significantly), but that one overtook them. But, as I said, I haven't rewatched it, and rewatches can make a difference. Mind you, whatshername was a worse choice for ship's captain than Beryl Reid. Actually, I shouldn't say that, because I love Beryl Reid as a space captain. (♥ DW. You can have Beryl Reid, Space Captain! Heh.)

But, as I said, David and Freema made me keep my TV switched on. All was not lost. :-) And it wasn't anything like as bad as some of his Torchwood episodes I hated with a passion. (I decided at that point to stop watching TW before I was tempted to throw things at the TV) It was still DW, which, you know, can't be all bad. ;-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

42 IS hokey skience - the entire crew would've already been dead if they were 42 minutes away from crashing into the sun and lacking any kind of shields. I may not be brilliant at science, but even I know that's utter rubbish.

And name me 3 episodes of RTD's Who that *aren't* full of soap opera emotions and badly stitched together cliches!

[thisbluespirit]

No, I meant, the hokey science isn't my problem with it. I was just bored with the writing. RTD has his faults (mainly Silly Endings and Duh! Now, don't do that, but no, he doesn't do the thing that I mentally categorise as 'make your characters react as if they're in a soap' rather than stop and think about being true to the characters. That's more a TW thing with CC, though. Obviously, he couldn't mess with DW too much. So my TW dislike is creeping into my thoughts about this episode. I'm sorry. As I said, I've never seen it again, so I might find it wasn't anything like as bad as I thought. But I'm not very inclined to watch it a second time... I just didn't like it. It bored me until, as I said, David Tennant decided to step up the acting by a million notches.

Doesn't anyone want to talk about Robots and Ghostlight? Now, there are two good episodes! :-D

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Well you've talked endlessly about Robots already. Besides, where's the controversy in arguing about a good ep? Far more discussion mileage in bad/least favourite episodes.


(OT and completely random, but Nicola Walker was in last night's Luther, and my brain is boggling at 'Ruth' secksing up a strange man who's not Harry. Which is entirely silly - but I've not seen her in anything but Spooks.)

[thisbluespirit]

I know I *must* have seen Nicola Walker in something prior to Spooks but I've never been able to pin down what it was, though I've looked at her net entries. Some of them mention Byker Grove, so that might be it - but I haven't discovered who she was in that, and some entries don't list it, either.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Well Luther's brand new - it's 4/6 of the way through its first season...

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Well, while I quite liked 42 (definitely more than series' 3 Dalek nonsense), I agree he;s a very hit and miss writer. I don't quite remember his LoM episode (although I'm re-watching now yay!) but in TW he was very hit-and-miss, wrote some of my favourite episodes, and some of my least favourite (on the bright side, he didn't write From Out of the Rain :D)

[thisbluespirit]

I confess that I find him a miss and miss by a mile writer. I'm almost pleased with myself because I rarely dislike things this much, but my heart sinks when I see 'by Chris Chibnall' on anything. However, he's a very comptentent writer technically, so maybe one day he'll really impress me with something. I think I liked one of his TW episodes a bit, and his 2 LoM eps weren't bad or anything (it was LoM), but they weren't as good as the other 12 episodes. :-)

IMHO as people say when they've been ranting off the top of their head. To be fair, if I watched it again, I might be pleasantly surprised. You never know.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Haha. He's your proof you're not an uncritical fan! See, he's good for something! :D
Although I don't know. I quite liked to really liked about half of his TW - with the exception of the big CGI monster End of Days is a fantastic episode, and he also wrote Fragments and Adrift which were wonderful. And I think Day One really grew on me.
Then again, he also wrote Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Cyberwoman. Sigh.

AND OMG, your icon is the epitome of adorable!

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, I'm way too critical of lots of things, but I like DW. Even the dodgy bits. :-)

I have a feeling that Adrift is the one that I hate, loathe and detest with a passion reserved for no other episode of TV and the epitome of my problem with CC, and made me give up on TW, so I don't think we'd better go into details there :lol:.

I know, he isn't a bad writer. I think it's a personal thing. His flaws (and what writer doesn't have those?) are things that niggle at me, plus we seem to have wildly divergent world-views. I must stop being mean to the bloke. I have come to the opinion that I just need to avoid things written by him. It makes it awkward when he gets invited to write a two-parter for DW. You see my dilemma. :lol:

And the icon is made by sallymn who makes lots of great DW, B7 and apparently the odd Wallace and Gromit icon! :-)