DOCTOR WHO: BEFORE THE FLOOD - DROWNING IN ITS OWN P*SS!

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So, last night's DOCTOR WHO, how was it?  Tedious,

uninspired sh*te is the honest answer.  The Doc breaking the

fourth wall and addressing the viewers, playing his guitar again,

lots of racing around corridors, much incomprehensible babbling -

the programme is suffering from trying far too hard to be wild, zany,

witty and thought-provoking. Unfortunately, STEVEN MOFFAT's

idea of thought-provoking is deliberate vagueness rather than clear

and proper storytelling, in the hope that viewers will ascribe any-

thing they don't quite comprehend to profundity, not poor

narrative and lack of story structure.

Remember the 1960 film The TIME MACHINE?  Do

you recall the STAR TREK episode, CITY On The EDGE Of

FOREVER?  That's how sci-fi stories involving time travel should

be done, not the banal, pretentious, repetitive, wearisome claptrap

that Doctor Who has regularly offered up since Moffat took over

from RUSSELL T. DAVIES.  It all seems to be a jolly wheeze,

with The Doctor ever-ready with a comic one-liner - even in

what are supposed to be moments of drama and deadly

danger.  I must've nodded off at least three times.

Well, I'm fed up up with it.  I want something that can

deliver on its promise of cosmos-threatening peril and space-

spanning adventure. I'm off to dig out my CLANGERS DVD.

At least those little woolly puppets know how to take things

seriously.  Wait till I put the disc into the player - oh s*d it,

the bloody thing's stuck again!  (Let's try BAGPUSS!)

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