Have you seen City of Death? I guess anything Douglas Adams wrote probably can be classed as "intellectually cracktastic". That and Pirate Planet make fun bookends, though. Whereas Pirate Planet is often simply bonkers, City of Death is more characterized by its all-encompassing drollness.
Regarding Inferno, I think it's actually that dissonance between its Very Serious tone and the downright weirdness of the whole premise (Eyepatch World plus Green Werewolves -- sounds like a Russel T Davies laundry list in the making). It all helps to create a sort of dreamy creepyness at times. It's almost like Eyepatch World is a four-episode-long nightmare, that, when the Doctor returns to Earth 1, then turns out to be real! I guess I'm just really sensitive to the sinisterly surreal.
The sideways scuttling, terrified expressions, and weird radiophonic noises of the half-transformed Primords -- especially in the film segments, way up on top of the industrial forest -- is profoundly disturbing to me. It's the kind of thing that would have traumatized me if I'd seen it when I was young.
As you sort of note, it's curious the writers and script editors most responsible for the intellectual zaniness are usually so derided amongst fandom. It's great that the famous Douglas Adams was involved with the show, but why couldn't he have taken it seriously? Seriously, Bidmead, what the hell was that all about? And Cartmel, you pretentious piece of wank, you think you're better than us?
The best I can tell, the things that fans really respond to are bases under siege, where people spend whole episodes trying to figure out how to unlock doors.
You know that Cartmel is supposed to be involved with Torchwood 3? I wonder if this is sort of a back door to getting involved with the parent series again. That seems be why most people work on Torchwood.
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Date: 2008-02-26 02:42 am (UTC)Regarding Inferno, I think it's actually that dissonance between its Very Serious tone and the downright weirdness of the whole premise (Eyepatch World plus Green Werewolves -- sounds like a Russel T Davies laundry list in the making). It all helps to create a sort of dreamy creepyness at times. It's almost like Eyepatch World is a four-episode-long nightmare, that, when the Doctor returns to Earth 1, then turns out to be real! I guess I'm just really sensitive to the sinisterly surreal.
The sideways scuttling, terrified expressions, and weird radiophonic noises of the half-transformed Primords -- especially in the film segments, way up on top of the industrial forest -- is profoundly disturbing to me. It's the kind of thing that would have traumatized me if I'd seen it when I was young.
As you sort of note, it's curious the writers and script editors most responsible for the intellectual zaniness are usually so derided amongst fandom. It's great that the famous Douglas Adams was involved with the show, but why couldn't he have taken it seriously? Seriously, Bidmead, what the hell was that all about? And Cartmel, you pretentious piece of wank, you think you're better than us?
The best I can tell, the things that fans really respond to are bases under siege, where people spend whole episodes trying to figure out how to unlock doors.
You know that Cartmel is supposed to be involved with Torchwood 3? I wonder if this is sort of a back door to getting involved with the parent series again. That seems be why most people work on Torchwood.