All of LJ is made of talking about New Earth. So I am going to talk about Four to Doomsday instead.



It's the rubbishest, I think, but I still sort of like it.

* It really is Tristan in Space: you keep expecting him to get drunk and stick his hand up a cow's arse. First to be filmed, and by golly it shows: even I can't cope with quite that much grinning and squeakiness.

* Tegan and Adric are so pant-wettingly annoying that I want to throw a shoe at both of them (although the bit where Tegan accidentally knocks Adric unconscious can go on repeat quite happily, along with the seven thousand bits where Fivey shouts at them for being so rubbish). When Nyssa is the only one who does anything good at all, it's never going to be a classic - and her best moment is being locked in a fridge.

* The Greek man with the boggly eyes cannot act even slightly.

* OH MY GOD how annoying are the crazy ethnic dancing people?

* The Doctor calls the Urbankans frogs. And makes a joke about how the 'Chinaman' has a funny name. And kills Monarch ded with a big gleeful grin on his face. Um.

* He doesn't have enough things in his pockets, either. Boo.

But then there are brilliant things, like how Tegan suddenly produces her Amazing Drawing Skills. And 'all this, in only three silicon chips!' And shrinking people again, and breaking things with magnifying glasses, and funny hats, and Burt Kwouk, and SPACE CRICKET. There really isn't enough space cricket in your average sci-fi.


So, yes. It's the rubbishest, but I still sort of like it. Which also happens to be what I think about New Earth. See how I did spoiler-free stealth reviewing there? I AM THE WEAVER!