tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post1927049726912278861..comments2024-03-14T05:07:57.110-07:00Comments on Doc Oho Reviews...: The Forsaken written by Justin Richards and directed by Lisa BowermanDoc Ohohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01819922630249965949noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-44610916067575309742016-03-18T12:19:21.936-07:002016-03-18T12:19:21.936-07:00In response to Blue Custard, (awesome name by the ...In response to Blue Custard, (awesome name by the way)I'm also curious where you heard about tension between Michael Craze and Frazer Hines, Joe. I saw the two of them at a convention once (yes, I'm old enough to remember that) and they seemed to get on like a house on fireLeslienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-57826709824675581962016-03-16T23:58:06.989-07:002016-03-16T23:58:06.989-07:00I must admit I loved to hear Ben again. Sinse stor...I must admit I loved to hear Ben again. Sinse stories like Resistance focused on Polly (and why not), I've sort of come to think of Ben as really an adjunct to her, especially with the romance between them, which isn't really fare at all to Michael Craze or the writers who came up with Ben earlier, although in fairness he's a companion I've probably seen and heard least in the various media, even in the bbc's soundtracks. <br /><br />So, great to get a story focused on him, with a very definitely faithful performance, albeit one which really should've had more impact than it did with his father as you said. <br /><br />My one really! major issue here however is that the villain seemed to have stepped streight out of the shlockiest of schlock horror films. <br /><br />"I am eeeevil! I kill people by fear of death because death is eeeevil! deeeeeeath!" <br /><br />Even the voice sounded amazingly overdone, quite aside from the thing being a walking skeleton. The Doctor managing to defeat the thing by basically saying "Yah boo I'm not scared of you" made me laugh for precisely the wrong reasons, though I rather wonder why nobody had done that up to now. <br />Really a more ethereal, unearthly voice and definitely a less cliched description would've done far more to sell the threat and actually give those opening discomforting scenes of boddies in the jungle and a claustrophobic hotel in a nearly deserted town on the eve of invasion some sort of payoff. <br /><br />ACtually, in a way I thought the creature being so amazingly bad a representation of death was almost offensive on a historical level.<br /><br />For me, the good points about the story just never made it past this one, the fact that what things had been building up to was such an amazing let down.<br /><br /><br />Quite a shame, and I hope we get aa better Ben and polly story soon.darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15526681809763999806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-85684071700450586462016-03-09T17:42:19.990-08:002016-03-09T17:42:19.990-08:00Just wondering, where have you heard that was tens...Just wondering, where have you heard that was tension between Michael Craze and Frazer Hines? Cause I heard an interview once (I honestly can't remember where, it might have been in DWM) where Frazer seemed to be talking fondly about Michael Craze and how much he missed him.Blue Custardnoreply@blogger.com