Comments on: Doctor Who – Inferno – Review http://lonelocust.com/2006/09/15/451/ Every swarm starts with one... Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lone Locust Productions » Blog Archive » Doctor Who - The Web Planet - Review http://lonelocust.com/2006/09/15/451/comment-page-1/#comment-677 Lone Locust Productions » Blog Archive » Doctor Who - The Web Planet - Review Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:15:32 +0000 http://lonelocust.com/2006/09/15/451/#comment-677 [...] Another thing became obvious to me. Like Inferno, which I recently reviewed, these older episodes must not be watched in one sitting! [...] [...] Another thing became obvious to me. Like Inferno, which I recently reviewed, these older episodes must not be watched in one sitting! [...]

]]> By: One-Ten http://lonelocust.com/2006/09/15/451/comment-page-1/#comment-656 One-Ten Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:09:23 +0000 http://lonelocust.com/2006/09/15/451/#comment-656 I agree the weak link in the plot is the primords. If they'd made it a 6 ep serial, they could easily have cut out a lot of the primord stuff. My understanding of the logic/motivation is that, when infected by the the ooze, people become increasingly possessed by a self destructive rage. Perhaps disease is controlling the host; some organism that lives beneath the crust which will live on when the host is destroyed but requires it whilst it is too cold for survival on the surface? Which is well and good; what I <em>really</em> didn't like was all the facial hair. Stahlman had a moderate amount of facial hair in the original universe and none in the fascist one. But once infected, he very suddenly had lots of greenish facial hair. If you're doing a parallel universe, and your going to use hair/hairstyles to distinguish realities, I'm not convinced of the wisdom of having further variations in facial hair within a given universe. Something more subtle (red eyes, say, rather than green skin) would have done it for me. And been more sinister. But I'm nit-picking. The primord concept gave us that great fight sequence with the Doctor on those canisters in episdode two or three. I agree the weak link in the plot is the primords. If they’d made it a 6 ep serial, they could easily have cut out a lot of the primord stuff.

My understanding of the logic/motivation is that, when infected by the the ooze, people become increasingly possessed by a self destructive rage. Perhaps disease is controlling the host; some organism that lives beneath the crust which will live on when the host is destroyed but requires it whilst it is too cold for survival on the surface?

Which is well and good; what I really didn’t like was all the facial hair. Stahlman had a moderate amount of facial hair in the original universe and none in the fascist one. But once infected, he very suddenly had lots of greenish facial hair. If you’re doing a parallel universe, and your going to use hair/hairstyles to distinguish realities, I’m not convinced of the wisdom of having further variations in facial hair within a given universe. Something more subtle (red eyes, say, rather than green skin) would have done it for me. And been more sinister.

But I’m nit-picking. The primord concept gave us that great fight sequence with the Doctor on those canisters in episdode two or three.

]]> By: One-Ten http://lonelocust.com/2006/09/15/451/comment-page-1/#comment-13040 One-Ten Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:09:00 +0000 http://lonelocust.com/2006/09/15/451/#comment-13040 I agree the weak link in the plot is the primords. If they'd made it a 6 ep serial, they could easily have cut out a lot of the primord stuff. My understanding of the logic/motivation is that, when infected by the the ooze, people become increasingly possessed by a self destructive rage. Perhaps disease is controlling the host; some organism that lives beneath the crust which will live on when the host is destroyed but requires it whilst it is too cold for survival on the surface? Which is well and good; what I <em>really</em> didn't like was all the facial hair. Stahlman had a moderate amount of facial hair in the original universe and none in the fascist one. But once infected, he very suddenly had lots of greenish facial hair. If you're doing a parallel universe, and your going to use hair/hairstyles to distinguish realities, I'm not convinced of the wisdom of having further variations in facial hair within a given universe. Something more subtle (red eyes, say, rather than green skin) would have done it for me. And been more sinister. But I'm nit-picking. The primord concept gave us that great fight sequence with the Doctor on those canisters in episdode two or three. I agree the weak link in the plot is the primords. If they’d made it a 6 ep serial, they could easily have cut out a lot of the primord stuff.

My understanding of the logic/motivation is that, when infected by the the ooze, people become increasingly possessed by a self destructive rage. Perhaps disease is controlling the host; some organism that lives beneath the crust which will live on when the host is destroyed but requires it whilst it is too cold for survival on the surface?

Which is well and good; what I really didn’t like was all the facial hair. Stahlman had a moderate amount of facial hair in the original universe and none in the fascist one. But once infected, he very suddenly had lots of greenish facial hair. If you’re doing a parallel universe, and your going to use hair/hairstyles to distinguish realities, I’m not convinced of the wisdom of having further variations in facial hair within a given universe. Something more subtle (red eyes, say, rather than green skin) would have done it for me. And been more sinister.

But I’m nit-picking. The primord concept gave us that great fight sequence with the Doctor on those canisters in episdode two or three.

]]> By: Little Storping-in-the-Swuff » “Inferno” DVD Review http://lonelocust.com/2006/09/15/451/comment-page-1/#comment-655 Little Storping-in-the-Swuff » “Inferno” DVD Review Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:38:20 +0000 http://lonelocust.com/2006/09/15/451/#comment-655 [...] I’ve been waiting for gridman to do one of his detailed reviews on this over on Lone Locust Productions so I can keep my comments brief, but I still wanted to say a couple of things about this impressive serial. [...] [...] I’ve been waiting for gridman to do one of his detailed reviews on this over on Lone Locust Productions so I can keep my comments brief, but I still wanted to say a couple of things about this impressive serial. [...]

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