I'm a simple woman, I see Matthew Goode, I watch.
I honestly struggle to see how this made it to air without someone stopping it. Awful writing (that contradicts existing Who), awful acting from some (BENNI!), a message so heavy-handed it's annoyed even the people who agree with it and don't even get me started on the 'cat' person.
you don't usually get to see three female characters so three dimensional and well acted in tv or movies. you can feel the pain in camille, the sorrow in adora and the angst in amma. you can understand what they do, even when you don't agree, you just say to yourself "okay she's doing what she's gotta do"
i really like character driven content (the leftovers is my favorite tv show ever), so i think this show is a must! also, the plot makes you want for more. it has a great soundtrack and directing (same from big little lies, which is as magnificent as sharp objects). amy adams is superb and i hope she get some awards. the rest of the cast is great as well, but amy adams is amy adams right :))
update: i was really surprised by the end. loved every second of the show!!
I do believe in climate change and its imminent dangers to the future of humanity and the world, but this episode found the clumsiest and most blatant way ever to adress that topic.
I have to say i enjoyed the movie, it's of course not the best one in the X-men range, but still it was enjoyable, with a couple of well known stars in it. For me the big bonus was BUFFY!!! I will see it again maybe not in theaters but defo watchable again. Loved the end battle with Illyana she was my fav one
At this point, I really feel sorry for Jodie and the companions, the writing is really making her look bad when she clearly has the potential to be amazing.
The writing has been very uneven since the beginning of this doctor, but this steaming pile of garbage really takes the cake. It contradict quite a bit of new who history, the plot is just beyond stupid, and then trying to use the sledgehammer to drive the message home, and failing at it anyway.
It's not that the topic of climate change is bad, but in this particular series with its time travel and general acceptance of weird and spontaneous rules, there are so many better ways of doing a story about that than "earth is fucked now, because nobody did anything. Also, random monster for scary factor."
No show runner really had consistently good episodes, but the current one makes me even look back on the Rüssel T Davis era much more fondly.
I take back what I've said about this season, if this is the kind of crap to expect from this season, I'm not watching Doctor Who anymore.
Doctor Who is supposed to be about saving planets, not lectures on today's politics. While I do agree with the premise that we need to do something NOW, that doesn't mean that I want to be preached at while trying to be ENTERTAINED! Politics have their place, please leave the preaching of politics to the news and god forbid, "alternative media" (it's all just someone's opinion on what they saw on their favorite news network)...
Moral standards? Sure, that's classic Who. But show the moral standards from a more nuanced and far less preaching-to-the-choir blatant political rant.
The beginning started out fine, up until the "this is earth in the future" when that directly contradicts the conditions of earth throughout time in the rest of the Doctor Who series. THOSE inconsistencies piss me off.
What about Rose Tyler watching the world blow up? There was no mention of the Dregs, no mention that it was climate change that caused them to leave, nothing. And that's what makes Doctor Who DOCTOR WHO! The unanswered questions! I mean come on now, who is the Doctor? What's his/her name? Definitive answers to earth shattering questions has never been Doctor Who, they're left to the viewer's imagination or drawn out over the season but this episode ruined that opportunity. 1 star from me.
I started watching this show just for kicks, because the ridiculous premise promised a few good laughs, but I surprisingly stayed for the very enjoyable uplifting episodes about people doing good and being nice to each other. Yes, it sounds terribly lame, but it actually works!
This makes me sad, but this was probably the last episode of Doctor Who i will watch.. It's sad to see that after 854 episodes, since 1963, that a single director can screw up the show this much and get this amount of crap back without making any changes to the way the show is made.
When i sit down to watch tv i want to escape reality for a short amount of time and watch something entertaining and fun, not be forced to listen to political preaching.. I agree we need to take care of the environment and that racism is bad, but this is not the setting in where i want to be force-fed those messages. I sat down to watch an entertaining show..
For the people that say that previous doctors also have done this i just say.. There is a difference in placing a story in a setting that is a bit similar to here and then let people think and talk about it.... This is the first where every episode force-feeds it's viewers with the producers/writers point of view.
To sum it up for the Jodie era...
- Bad scripts with huge plot-holes and inconsistencies with previous seasons.
- Too much preaching..
- Complete personality-change of the doctor, like leaving people to die when they could have been saved with the tardis after they where teleport'ed back.
- Too many useless companions.
- Companions seem to steer the doctor instead of the other way around.
- It's a show about space and time, not about being on earth at different times.
- Too much bad acting (bad scripts and/or bad actors)
I think Jodie could have been a great doctor, with better scripts, and i did see a few scenes where i really liked her way of portraying the doctor. But with all this forced preaching and bad scripts there is probably not much hope for her.
Man, I'm so glad I went into this show with an open mind; I initially figured it'd be a preachy type with a religious undertone or some such but it has managed to subvert my expectations beyond what I had predicted and completely amazed me in the process.
It certainly has its somewhat cheesy moments but I'll be damned if it ain't such an entertaining, wholesome show; if you're pondering whether this show is for you, take my advice, give it a try... it may take a couple of episodes for it to "settle" but it'll grow on you fairly quickly.
An episode so profoundly derivative, trope-ridden, and obvious that it makes me long for the days of Steven Moffatt.
So, here’s the thing. I have words about this movie. I’ll start with the good because there’s a couple of things I was extremely happy to see. I could tell right off the bat that this was the same director and editor. I didn’t even have to look, it was that obvious to me. McG is a really funny guy, and I know comedy is subjective, but he’s kind of a tongue-in-cheek writer. He knows what the audience is thinking, and he isn’t afraid to embrace the ridiculous parts of the film. Now, it didn’t have the same writer, since the first one was written by a different guy, but the writing is still somewhat similar. I think the only difference in writing is the balance. Where the first film was able to convey both horror and comedy in a very balanced manner, I think this film leaned much more heavily on the comedic side, and it is funny. There was more than one moment in this flick where it reminded me of the older Charlie’s Angels films that McG also directed. Also, when it comes to the editing, I dug it. The editing alone really helps convey the tone of comedy the movie is going for, since the editor had a wonderful sense of comedic timing. So, even though I didn’t love this movie, these two things alone helped it feel like it still fit.
Unfortunately, I probably have more negative things to talk about in this movie than positive. First, the cinematographer has changed. Just how I could tell it was the same director and editor, I could tell they changed the cinematographer. One of the best and most alluring parts of that first film were the color palette choices. I talked about this a lot with my review of the original film, and I even did something I almost never do, and I used visual examples to show what I was talking about. I loved what they were able to do with just themes of color. Blues and whites, yellows and reds, as well as with greens, and how the characters blended into those things. There was just so much thought put into the color, and this sequel was so bland. It was just a basic white balance, nothing unique anymore. It was boring, honestly, and that’s only where my complaints begin.
The next thing you’ll have a hard time avoiding is the fact that none of this movie makes any logical sense. First, the movie claims to take place just two years after the events of the first film, but did everyone have an insane growth spurt? Nobody looks the same. Cole looks like an entirely different actor. You can sort of tell Melanie is the same actress, but she also looks particularly grown up, and that’s because, from what I understand, the actual dates of filming the first and second movie was a five-year gap, not two. The actor who played Cole was 19 years old when he made this movie, and it was supposed to take place two years after he was playing a 12-year-old in the first movie. Come on!
Secondly, we’ll just say these enemies have returned from the dead to finish the job they set out to do, as the plot suggests. Why on God’s green earth would they go after the same kid that bested them the first time around? Why not go after a different innocent? That’s all the curse requires. Thirdly…gahh! It’s the worst decision the movie makes overall, and I can’t even talk about it, since it would spoil some major plot points, but just know that I HATED it.
What this film ultimately feels like is a cash grab because there’s not a lot in the movie that feels very original or needed. They rehash a lot of the events of the first, and the plot is basically a remake of The Babysitter, which is upsetting. If you don’t have enough material, then why even bother making a sequel? For cheap laughs? I’m not easily disappointed in films; not even remakes, which people always crap on these days. However, every once in a while, it happens, and it happened here.
My score is 7 out of 10 (6.8/10) because I'll give credit where it's due, and 7 out of 10 for me, means average. I rated the first one 8.6/10 because I adored a lot of the work that went into making it special.
Potentially one of the strangest episodes of Doctor Who ever. I genuinely laughed a lot during the first 10 minutes. Then my enjoyment turned more and more towards... perplexity.
Great little drama. Finishing off the unfinished novel in a typically c21st fashion. No Austen derived production can be wholly faithful, and this one revels in that, and makes a modern piece that is about the dramatic potential of what there was there for us today. If you didn't like it read the partial book and come up with your own, as many have done. Of course many say it wasn't Austen at the conclusion. NSS.
Wow! This show was MIND BLOWING!
The finale left me in goosebumps. I'm not going to spoil it but there are many articles that do spoil it but also explains the ending.
I haven't read the book but will soon. The show has done justice to the book and why not, the author Gillian Flynn was 100% in on it.
This show is perfect. For mystery lovers.
Amy Adams was the right choice for the role. I don't think anyone else would have done justice to the character which was Camille. All the characters were perfect.
Ugh this damn show is perfect!
I will be re-watching it again.
THIS SHOW IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Watch the show for it's great acting, directing and screenplay. Watch this show for a mind blowing plot.
