8/12/09
What a mess this is! I am not liking the direction this season is going in at all. Well, we start off with the Doctor and Mel materializing the TARDIS at a place called Paradise Towers, apparently for a good swim in their awesome pool. Well, Paradise Towers is a huge building that is run down and dilapidated, and I guess the inhabitants are trapped inside it. There's two rival gangs called the Kangs (rhymes with gangs, clever), and some dude called Zex who pops up every now and then and tries to be a hero. You know what, I can't even struggle to capitulate the plot of this. It was dreadful, and I want my time back. The production was even worse than the last one, and the story took such incredibly painful lapses in logic and asks the viewer to shut their brain off to the extent that the story is totally mush. I really, really didn't care for this one. It set out to tell a story that promoted unity and examined the state of society in 1987, during the height of 80s excess and decadence, but I think it pretty largely failed, due to incompetent storytelling and very childish devices. If you want to be a children's show that doesn't challenge, do that. If you want to be a cutting edge socially aware drama, do that. But the two can't really mix and please both audiences.
2/10
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