Rumour has it that John Simm is to join Doctor Who as the Doctor's archenemy the Master. Well, he has spent enough time on Mars to have earned the chance.
There was a time when I'd have been thrilled to see the renegade Time Lord make a reappearance, but that was before it became clear that the new incarnation of Doctor Who is a completely different show than what I grew up with. It's well made and undeniably successful, so I can't say that it doesn't deserve the praise that it elicits, but where the old series was adventure laced with horror and leavened with humour, the new one is romantic comedy bulked out with character drama. Where once it was made for 12-year old boys and their fathers, this one is for 14-year old girls and their mothers.
There just doesn't seem to be any room for a tissue compression eliminator in that milieu.
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Being the lethargic, arrogant, poorly-educated cowboy American that I am, I confess to have never having watched Doctor Who. Hopefully that chance will come someday soon.
Whatever the case, I pray that no horrendous American-made doppleganger is in the works anytime ever. History has shown that these have managed, time and again, to defy physics by sucking and blowing at the same time.
*Glances at television as "Montana Snake's Aviating Carnival" theme starts up, and cocking pistol*
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