The second Clara Dr. Who episode was not exactly great. It was kinda claustrophobic and cheap looking, with a real 60's Star Trek ambiance. Jenna-Louise Coleman continues to please as Clara, but I don't have a shitload of faith that the story will have a super-duper payoff. That's not her problem, though. Matt Smith is starting to look a little odd in the part of the Doctor, but he does look like he's enjoying himself this series. For me, the episode didn't work well at all until the end; Clara and the Doctor finally jelled, and their performances were nice. The producers should have worked harder to make the episode better for the first 80%, though. For fun they certainly should have the little kid singer made up like a tiny version of the opera singer from The Fifth Element; that woulda been cool! And the cheesy cartoon jack-o-lantern moon monster was laughably bad and threatened to completely undo what the two principals were doing. What was that thing anyway? A star? Was it a good thing when it collapsed and went dark? Was all life in that system going to freeze and die in a short order? That would fucking suck for them!
Orphan Black is looking like it blew its wad right away; I am having trouble believing that they have any fucking idea where they are going. The initial idea probably seemed really fucking cool. Clones! Yeah, let's do a show about clones. Good looking girl clones. Let's cast an beautiful actress with a unique look and a great ass. And let's show her great ass bare on the show! Yeah. Cool. Ok, now what? Beats the fuck outa me. Well, I'm afraid they're going to wind up doing a sloppy mash-up of cop shows, mysteries, and X Files and Lost half-baked weirdness. I guess we'll see. I'm also curious as to whether the pretty actress with the great ass has the chops to pull it off and carry a series.
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