Another TV Round-Up
Feb. 9th, 2025 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Doctor Who We finally caught up with the Ncuti Gatwa stories from 2024, the ones that came after the Tennant/Gatwa mini-season. It was definitely a mixed bag (normal for Doctor Who) but there were a couple of stories in this season that reached heights not seen for several years. Capaldi and Whittaker were great Doctors as performers, but the writing for them was godawful. Gatwa and Millie Gibson actually get their teeth into some good stuff here and nail it. There was also some utter tripe - Space Babies OMG. And why would you make what was easily the worst story of the season the season opener?? But at least it was all uphill from there!
The Christmas special was enjoyable stuff too. Seeing the Doctor get to live a normal life, have to stay in one place and earn money and live like a human? Gold. But Anita deserves to be a companion, dammit, why doesn't she get to go and see the universe? She's been the most amazing friend to the Doctor. She deserves it!
Secret Level Made by the same people who did Love, Death and Robots, it's another animated anthology series, this time all based on video games. The usual anthology mash up of a few actually good, a bunch of just fine and one or two that seem to be pointless? Miss whatever they were aiming for? They're all short, so worth a look, especially if you're into video games and curious to see where people took the concepts. (Netflix)
Arcane season two Good. Really good. Not as good as the first season which was amazing, but still really good. The animation continued to be mind-blowingly good, especially the contrast in the different styles that were chosen as we moved between worlds/planes of existence.
I think the main problem was that this being the last season, there was a lot more time dedicated to the Plot and tying all the lore together, which came at the expense of time for delving into the characters. The character development did feel rushed for some of them - not wrong, but it all seemed to happen in a hurry. I think a longer season, or three seasons in total, to wrap up where we left off at the season one would have made this show dam near perfect. (Netflix)
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Meh. So very meh. Star Wars does The Goonies, and not well. Some eps were better than others - it started out not too badly, but the one in the spa resort was dire. Plot holes you could fly an Imperial Star Destroyer through. Do Not Recommend.
Black Doves Fun! Not critically good, but fun! The cast are all amazing - Ben Whishaw as a gay assassin, Keira Knightley as a spy/politician's wife, Sarah Lancashire as the head of a secret non-governmental spy ring. Lancashire didn't really get to show off - anyone who's seen Happy Valley knows exactly how good she is - because her role didn't give her that scope, but she worked with what she had. Whishaw was fantastic. The plot was... far-fetched. Had some holes in it. But screw that, just go along for the ride.
It has been renewed for another season and I'll be there 😁 (Netflix)
The Christmas special was enjoyable stuff too. Seeing the Doctor get to live a normal life, have to stay in one place and earn money and live like a human? Gold. But Anita deserves to be a companion, dammit, why doesn't she get to go and see the universe? She's been the most amazing friend to the Doctor. She deserves it!
Secret Level Made by the same people who did Love, Death and Robots, it's another animated anthology series, this time all based on video games. The usual anthology mash up of a few actually good, a bunch of just fine and one or two that seem to be pointless? Miss whatever they were aiming for? They're all short, so worth a look, especially if you're into video games and curious to see where people took the concepts. (Netflix)
Arcane season two Good. Really good. Not as good as the first season which was amazing, but still really good. The animation continued to be mind-blowingly good, especially the contrast in the different styles that were chosen as we moved between worlds/planes of existence.
I think the main problem was that this being the last season, there was a lot more time dedicated to the Plot and tying all the lore together, which came at the expense of time for delving into the characters. The character development did feel rushed for some of them - not wrong, but it all seemed to happen in a hurry. I think a longer season, or three seasons in total, to wrap up where we left off at the season one would have made this show dam near perfect. (Netflix)
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Meh. So very meh. Star Wars does The Goonies, and not well. Some eps were better than others - it started out not too badly, but the one in the spa resort was dire. Plot holes you could fly an Imperial Star Destroyer through. Do Not Recommend.
Black Doves Fun! Not critically good, but fun! The cast are all amazing - Ben Whishaw as a gay assassin, Keira Knightley as a spy/politician's wife, Sarah Lancashire as the head of a secret non-governmental spy ring. Lancashire didn't really get to show off - anyone who's seen Happy Valley knows exactly how good she is - because her role didn't give her that scope, but she worked with what she had. Whishaw was fantastic. The plot was... far-fetched. Had some holes in it. But screw that, just go along for the ride.
It has been renewed for another season and I'll be there 😁 (Netflix)
