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S34E1: The Bells of St John (spoilers)
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 5:53 pm
by Captain Seafort
Starts 1815
Re: S34E1: The Bells of St John
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 2:23 am
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Re: S34E1: The Bells of St John (spoilers)
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 12:06 pm
by Captain Seafort
Both it and, if the amount of interest in that book is anything to go by, Amy.
Re: S34E1: The Bells of St John (spoilers)
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 8:19 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Glad to see UNIT called in, too.
Re: S34E1: The Bells of St John (spoilers)
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 5:50 pm
by Graham Kennedy
Less than impressed. Reasonable enough idea, but the rush-rush-rush pace of modern Who is getting on my nerves a bit at this point. Plus, I could hardly tell what people were saying in the action scenes because the background music was at least as loud as the dialogue.
Re: S34E1: The Bells of St John (spoilers)
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:43 pm
by kostmayer
GrahamKennedy wrote:Less than impressed. Reasonable enough idea, but the rush-rush-rush pace of modern Who is getting on my nerves a bit at this point.
Agreed. Theres been some cracking single episodes, but a lot would really have benefited from being a double episode.
Re: S34E1: The Bells of St John (spoilers)
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:09 pm
by Captain Seafort
kostmayer wrote:Agreed. Theres been some cracking single episodes, but a lot would really have benefited from being a double episode.
That's been a problem ever since they started over with the 45-minute standalone format, rather than the old style which were really TV movies split into bite sized chunks.
Re: S34E1: The Bells of St John (spoilers)
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 12:00 am
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Yeah. Some of the old serials had a might too much padding, but a lot of New Who's more compressed than a paper bag stood on by an elephant.
Re: S34E1: The Bells of St John (spoilers)
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 12:38 am
by Nutso
It doesn't help that the characters are always running, and the music is always pumping making it feel like everything is just blazing by. At least to me. I think Seafort nailed it with:
Captain Seafort wrote:
That's been a problem ever since they started over with the 45-minute standalone format, rather than the old style which were really TV movies split into bite sized chunks.