I have to say I enjoyed it. And yes, it was cheesy in parts (the queen in her slippers and curlers waving at the Titanic and wishing the Dr a merry christmas was somewhat cringe-making even for me.. but in a tolerant, eye-rolling kind of way!) :lol:
I posted in a discussion of the ep elsewhere that I was going to say that I love this show so much that I just love it no matter what but that I realised that's not entirely true because I sure wasn't impressed with the Dalek 2-parter in Season 3 that pretty much was just boring and bad. So I am capable of at least some critical appreciation. Nevertheless, I do simply love this show and could watch David's Doctor forever (I'd say I probably love this show even more than SGA right now! *gasp!*) and somehow I can let the cheesiness pass with a tolerant grin, and even that kind of laughing groan that you find yourself doing when a joke is so bad it's kinda funny anyway, you know? *lol* There was much I loved about this episode. It was an odd mix in some ways of humour that bordered on, or outright was, silly and quite dark events and angst and loss etc. But I liked the general plot idea, I liked Astrid, I liked the supporting characters, I liked the little in-jokes and the cool character moments and most of all I loved the Doctor.
I think to make me not really enjoy an episode of this show they have to do what they did with the Dalek 2-parter - make it a) boring and long-winded with not much action and b) have really badly-acted supporting cast (bad OTT accents optional) and a really cheesy bad, badly-acted, stupid-looking villain.
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I posted in a discussion of the ep elsewhere that I was going to say that I love this show so much that I just love it no matter what but that I realised that's not entirely true because I sure wasn't impressed with the Dalek 2-parter in Season 3 that pretty much was just boring and bad. So I am capable of at least some critical appreciation. Nevertheless, I do simply love this show and could watch David's Doctor forever (I'd say I probably love this show even more than SGA right now! *gasp!*) and somehow I can let the cheesiness pass with a tolerant grin, and even that kind of laughing groan that you find yourself doing when a joke is so bad it's kinda funny anyway, you know? *lol* There was much I loved about this episode. It was an odd mix in some ways of humour that bordered on, or outright was, silly and quite dark events and angst and loss etc. But I liked the general plot idea, I liked Astrid, I liked the supporting characters, I liked the little in-jokes and the cool character moments and most of all I loved the Doctor.
I think to make me not really enjoy an episode of this show they have to do what they did with the Dalek 2-parter - make it a) boring and long-winded with not much action and b) have really badly-acted supporting cast (bad OTT accents optional) and a really cheesy bad, badly-acted, stupid-looking villain.
"Information: You are all going to die." :D