“Gridlock” sees the Doctor return to New Earth this Saturday, grid reference “slap bang in the middle of New New York”, at the later time of 7:40pm, unless he stops off to watch the beautiful game, in which case the TARDIS is going to arrive a week late. Let’s hope the Face of Boe doesn’t mind being kept waiting. One thing’s for sure, any postponement will play havoc with the “Radio Times” impending Dalek cover. It might even mean a second issue of the “Doctor Who Magazine” being delayed a week, in order to avoid any premature revelations!
The episode itself looks promising. Or rather, the imagery does. David Tennant has referenced Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” but, from what I’ve seen, it looks more like Luc Besson’s “The Fifth Element”. Both films, though, owe much to Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”. The Doctor’s coat does look a bit Harrison Ford, which is preferable to Bruce Willis, while the vehicles seem to belong more to the French director’s effort. No sign of this blog’s resident eye Milla Jovovich dropping in, however! I have to admit disappointment that no one has ever enquired about the evil one!!
Ardal O’Hanlon is the main attraction, this week, appearing as cat man Thomas Kincade Brannigan. It’s preferable that he’s best known for playing Father Dougal McGuire in “Father Ted” rather than George Sunday, aka Thermoman, in “My Hero”! My personal preference, though, is for his portrayal of Eamon Donaghy in the excellent first series of ITV1’s “Big Bad World”. The second series wasn’t bad, exactly, just didn’t live up to expectation. And, scoring his hat trick, football permitting, Struan Rodger reprises his role as the Face…
6 comments:
Call me a miserable old git but I am sick of this county's obsessive devotion to football. The entire country only ever stops for two things: snow and football. How pathetic!
BBC - do not mess with Doctor Who!
I second that - football sucks!! And thank goodness they didn't go into extra time this evening - we got to see Gridlock after all.
Can't say I'm a football fan either. Irritates me when everything gives for sporting events. Thankfully for once it turned out all right.
I was very much thinking of Fifth Element when watching it too. Not so much Blade Runner.
Yes, put me in mind of Fifth Element too though I thought the motorway effects weren't as well done as they could have been. I enjoyed the story though - more so than last week's; it had a bit more weight to it.
Only one gripe: according to the story you needed three people to access the fast lane... so how come in the opening shot there were only two?
I wondered that myself
That makes four of us who have better things to do than sit around waiting for Wayne Rooney to score! I'm thinking of starting an Anti-Football League!!
Agreed that "Gridlock" had more weight. The problem, last week, was the story came second to the idea.
Maybe the couple in the opening sequence were chancing their arm and breaking the law? The passenger seemed to be reprimanding her husband and they were certainly punished for their wrongdoing even if it was by the Macra!
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