What I liked: Captain Jack is more like the Jack we knew and loved from Doctor Who. The team seem to have a bit more purpose to them. I thought Ianto especially had been well developed - the Jack/Ianto 'relationship' being better handled (did I get a sense of there being some fan-fic awareness on some of these elements?) The introduction of
From the only review I have read so far over at TV Scoop (I await the others...):
They missed a trick though, with those cargo containers. Having started the "homage" theme with the Obi-Wan message, they could easily have revisited this while they were looking for Gwen. Opening up one of the empty containers to find a Peter Petrelli look-alike in there, chained up without his shirt. "Oh, sorry," they'd have said coyly, and shut him back up again.Hee hee hee...
Still needing work: the music got a bit overwrought at moments. The blowfish didn't really work - though it was a tad amusing (the shoot-out was a bit overstretched at the start).
You know what, I hardly even noticed the Chibnall-ness of the episode. I have higher hopes all round...
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It was better, wasn't it? My review over at the usual place of course.
did I get a sense of there being some fan-fic awareness on some of these elements?
Possibly they could have been a bit more blatant, but only if they'd put a caption on screen saying 'YES, WE'VE BEEN READING ALL THE SLASH. RUSTY PARTICULARLY LIKED THE IANTO STUFF.'
Stu - oops, I should really have made sure my quote marks for irony were mentioned in that line...
It's still not doing it for me. Too much snogging. For me, will-they-won't-they works much better than yes-they-do-it-all-the-time. I don't think this particular Scooby gang is sufficiently develeoped, and all the running around isn't great television.
Sarah Jane Adventures was actually a better Who spin-off.
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