(*grin* Welcome to the Dark Side. We have donuts.)
I think this definitely could have supported a two-parter - it was very old-fashioned television, with a slow, atmospheric build that never quite paid off. One review I read talked about Chekov's gun - they built up the Night Travellers so much, and then didn't really do anything with them at the end. It was like watching something directed by two different people.
I definitely agree with you about the Christine scene - usually in these things, it's Ianto who has the subtle part, and JB who gets a bit carried away. This was absolute proof to the JB critics that the man can really act - when Christine talked about his eyes, yes it was a cliche, but they got away with it because of his expression. But GDL did himself no credit there at all. It just felt so off.
Jack gets away with crying more than the other characters, because, well, he's Jack, and he laughs (and cries) in the face of social norms, but it just didn't work for Ianto, not at all. *sigh* It promised so much and delivered so little, that I'm definitely going to have to write that episode fix...
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Date: 2008-03-14 08:12 am (UTC)I think this definitely could have supported a two-parter - it was very old-fashioned television, with a slow, atmospheric build that never quite paid off. One review I read talked about Chekov's gun - they built up the Night Travellers so much, and then didn't really do anything with them at the end. It was like watching something directed by two different people.
I definitely agree with you about the Christine scene - usually in these things, it's Ianto who has the subtle part, and JB who gets a bit carried away. This was absolute proof to the JB critics that the man can really act - when Christine talked about his eyes, yes it was a cliche, but they got away with it because of his expression. But GDL did himself no credit there at all. It just felt so off.
Jack gets away with crying more than the other characters, because, well, he's Jack, and he laughs (and cries) in the face of social norms, but it just didn't work for Ianto, not at all. *sigh* It promised so much and delivered so little, that I'm definitely going to have to write that episode fix...