Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

[dangermousie]

So, I saw Voyage of the Damned, the Doctor Who X-Mas Special.

And I am sad to say, my main feeling is:

Meh.

Such a pity because I loved the previous two ones.

But this, while with some cool bits, was rather boring.



For one thing, I find disaster stuff boring. For another, we got introduced to a bunch of characters and then are supposed to chare if they die? I don't know anything about them, and except for poor awesome midshipman way over his head, and the salesman, I couldn't care less if they fell off the ship.

Astrid. Blah. BLAH. I was kinda 'finally' when she fell. She was drippy and very very dull. She was like a shorthand version of everything about Martha I didn't like (i.e. drippiness) without anything of Martha's cool traits. I got more excited by ten seconds of Catherine Tate in the promo than I did by all of Astrid.

Astrid was toast as soon as she declared her desire to come with Ten though. Just as well because three Companions in a row in love with the Doctor would be a bit much.

Cheesy action shots? And the Alonzo joke? Lost me.

But the Doctor looked scrumptuous, I was amused by evil rich guy surviving, and there was a lot of prettiness.



But the trailer for S4? Rocked hard-core.

Comments

[artic-fox.livejournal.com]

Ten rocked hardcore in VotD, and the tux helped a lot. I'm not a fan of the disaster movie as a genre, and I'd rather poke out my own eyes than watch Titanic, so that was a strike against it. It was just like a disaster movie with aliens, when it came down to it. Astrid to me felt very Rose-lite. I liked her more than I thought I would, but as you said, as soon as she expressed the idea to go with the Doctor you know she was a goner.

I liked the other two specials better. I liked VotD, because it was new Who and I like all new Who by default, but it wasn't one of the best. I think I disliked the lack of continuity the most. TCI was all about the regeneration and TRB was all about the loss of Rose, but VotD totally ignored the fact that Ten had just survived the year that never was, Martha's leaving, AND the Master's death. Hardly a mention at all, and that annoyed me most.

I'm going to finish watching Life on Mars, season 2. YAY.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yay for LoM.

I too don't care for disaster movies and this was basically it. And while I understand why VoD didn't say stuff about Ten's year that never was (talk about dark), it did make it sort of pale in comparison.

[janlake83.livejournal.com]

i wanted to see this but yeah the trailer for season 4 looks awesome

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I can't wait!

[fire-snake.livejournal.com]

I have to respectfully disagree. For starters, I don't mind disaster movies, so I didn't hold it agaist the special. I did like the fact that it followed this movie genre with a few twists and aliens. I was gratified that Astrid didn't make it, but only because it made Ten very angsty in the end. Overall, I think the show needed something like this (straight forward save-the-Titanic) after the S3 finale.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I was also amused at the cheery tone considering the death toll. Ahhh...I love Doctor Who :)

[mycenae.livejournal.com]

VotD bugged me because it had not one, not two, but three occurrences of my most hated plot device: one episode character nobly sacrifices themselves so the main character(s) can live. Weak. Maybe I'm just overly cynical, but I don't buy that there are all these noble, die for the sake of the group people running around the universe. I was far more sypathetic towards rich dude who was all "To hell with this, I'm gonna live!" I mean, he helped when it didn't specifically endanger him, and he was smart enough to know he was safer with a group (especially a group of noble self-sacrificers!). Enlightened self interest FTW.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Where did they get all those noble suckers? Come on. I admit I loved the Rich Guy and was shamefully glad he survived.