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Posted by:
Jack Graham
9 years, 9 months ago
Here's my Timelash II stuff for 'The Trial of a Time Lord'. Some extra bits and some rejigging here and there.'The Mysterious Planet'Bob Holmes redoes 'The Krotons'... which looks more acceptable now that we have a showrunner and head writer who, essentially, just does the same story again and again and again.
The production design comes to a high standard but belongs in a different story. It's clear that Marb Station is supposed to be dark but it gleams with light. Holmes has the underground dwellers talk about "the train", which is clearly supposed to be something that runs on the old underground rails, etc. Everything looks good but nothing looks
right. The Tribe of the Free look like peasants in an authentic peasant village... but they should look like something out of
Mad Max, with loads of decaying, retro-fitted, malfunctioning technology that they don't understand and use for things like propping open doors. We need
salvagepunk but we get
re-enactment kitsch. As
Richard Pilbeam put it: "It's like doing 'Talons' in the style of a Quality St. ad". Glitz and Dibber look... um, interesting... but they look as much ...
