BattleStar-eyed wonder

[Chancellor Valium]

Originally Posted by Zeke

I've seen "Love and Monsters." It wasn't without its charm, but yeah, the twist at the end was beyond stupid. Your point is well taken, and I can think of many other cases... "Threshold," for example. It doesn't get much more original than "drive too fast and you're a LIZARD!"

Charm? If by charm you mean up-itself, my-aren't-we-clever 'humour', then yes, I suppose 'charm' is as good a word as any.

It makes 'Spock's Brain' look like quality sci-fi. Partly because even Spock's Brain just isn't that stupid. And doesn't contain the following:

1) the abysmal Scooby-Doo crap at the beginning of L&M.
2) An attempt to dismiss the programme's fanbase and any critics of the writer
3) Peter Kay
4) An alien drawn by a nine-year-old
5) A young man trying to seduce an older woman who looks like the rear end of a cow and acts like it.
6) References to fellatio*
7) Rose Tyler in 'Dumb Chavette' mode
8) Jackie Tyler
9) A rating of 6.66m - a clear sign of the damnable craptitude of the episode.

Also, the early drafts turn half of Elton's backstory into a gratuitous continuity reference.

*This further puts toward my own theory that Russell T. Davies can't decide whether to make the programme totally a Children's TV thing, complete with Andy-Pandy, or to use it as a vehicle to exorcise his own personal demons.

Rant? What rant?