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viktor_haagBetween pandering to Rowling and Zemeckis, and the tired "lets do something with the old bard" saw, I do think that "The Shakespeare Code" is just not as good as "Smith & Jones" right down to all the silly notion that it was all the Doctor and his Companion that thought up all the bard's best bits (which neatly and sadly defuses the chief premise of the plot's resolution).
Also, I can't help but notice the alarming, parallel similarity between this ep and "The Unquiet Dead". So similar, in fact, that it's almost as if the first is a re-write of the second (as I think "The Unquiet Dead" was a far more interesting episode).
I do hope that this season gets better: it's a bit nasty to be hitting a low-point in your second episode of the season.
And as for Agyeman's doe eyed longing flung Tennants way in the bedroom scene, well, I was really hoping we could have given the whole "Dr and Companion's Sexual Tension" bit something of a rest, but it appears that maybe we haven't.
The teaser for next week has re-seated the hook, but "Code" is a bit of fluff that ranks near the bottom of the list of Davies' efforts, I think.
Also, I can't help but notice the alarming, parallel similarity between this ep and "The Unquiet Dead". So similar, in fact, that it's almost as if the first is a re-write of the second (as I think "The Unquiet Dead" was a far more interesting episode).
I do hope that this season gets better: it's a bit nasty to be hitting a low-point in your second episode of the season.
And as for Agyeman's doe eyed longing flung Tennants way in the bedroom scene, well, I was really hoping we could have given the whole "Dr and Companion's Sexual Tension" bit something of a rest, but it appears that maybe we haven't.
The teaser for next week has re-seated the hook, but "Code" is a bit of fluff that ranks near the bottom of the list of Davies' efforts, I think.
