well, that was interesting . . .
Jan. 30th, 2010 03:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dbskylerFinished watching both "Carnival of Monsters" and "Delta and the Bannermen," and, um, yeah. I think "Carnival of Monsters" was better (sorry, Seven fans -- but hey, Ian Marter!) but both were a little on the bizarre side, shall we say?
"Carnival" had an interesting start but fell down at the end, I thought. All of the action on the "real world" planet was pretty dire, but it got really bad when the plot started trying to build suspense with those grey bald guys and their political machinations, which just really didn't work at all. Although I did enjoy watching Davros get eaten by a Drashig. Well, Michael Wisher, but you know what I mean. And of course "Carnival" gets the extra bonus points for having Ian Marter, because Ian Marter was in it.
"Delta," on the other hand, never really went anywhere at all. Mel was terribly under-used, which disappointed me as I was hoping to get to know her character better, and the plot was basically one big giant chase scene that killed time while alien girl grew up. I also have to say that I never cared about alien girl, or alien mom, or soon-to-be-alien stepdad -- there was not nearly enough characterization given on any of them for me to understand their relationships or care, or even understand why the Bannermen were after Delta in the first place or, come to think of it, exactly who the Bannermen were either. Although the cute green baby was pretty damn cute, I'll give you that. Oh, and what was the deal with the two American characters? They seemed to serve no purpose at all. Why were they wandering around Wales calling the White House on fifties-era police boxes? If they were supposed to be covert agents, they weren't exactly subtly dressed -- plus their outfits didn't go with each other at all, and seemed chosen solely on the basis of the type of American regional accent the actors were able to put on (the New York guy was actually fairly good, but oh, that "southern" accent was painful). Finally, what a lot of aliens who were all really good at time travel! Three separate groups, all time-traveling around without a care in the universe . . . instead of trying to wrest the secret of time travel from the Time Lords, someone should tell the Sontarans to go look up that bus company next time.
"Carnival" had an interesting start but fell down at the end, I thought. All of the action on the "real world" planet was pretty dire, but it got really bad when the plot started trying to build suspense with those grey bald guys and their political machinations, which just really didn't work at all. Although I did enjoy watching Davros get eaten by a Drashig. Well, Michael Wisher, but you know what I mean. And of course "Carnival" gets the extra bonus points for having Ian Marter, because Ian Marter was in it.
"Delta," on the other hand, never really went anywhere at all. Mel was terribly under-used, which disappointed me as I was hoping to get to know her character better, and the plot was basically one big giant chase scene that killed time while alien girl grew up. I also have to say that I never cared about alien girl, or alien mom, or soon-to-be-alien stepdad -- there was not nearly enough characterization given on any of them for me to understand their relationships or care, or even understand why the Bannermen were after Delta in the first place or, come to think of it, exactly who the Bannermen were either. Although the cute green baby was pretty damn cute, I'll give you that. Oh, and what was the deal with the two American characters? They seemed to serve no purpose at all. Why were they wandering around Wales calling the White House on fifties-era police boxes? If they were supposed to be covert agents, they weren't exactly subtly dressed -- plus their outfits didn't go with each other at all, and seemed chosen solely on the basis of the type of American regional accent the actors were able to put on (the New York guy was actually fairly good, but oh, that "southern" accent was painful). Finally, what a lot of aliens who were all really good at time travel! Three separate groups, all time-traveling around without a care in the universe . . . instead of trying to wrest the secret of time travel from the Time Lords, someone should tell the Sontarans to go look up that bus company next time.