Well my trouble with it was not the idea, but that it was badly done. Peter Kay just played Peter Kay, the rubber suit was just crap, and I have never found fart jokes funny. The idea of the absorbothon held no logic -- where were all his previous victims?
What could have been interesting, Elton's past encounter with the Doctor continuing to haunt him, was skipped over with a glib comment. 'A shadow came out of the howling walls' So much for character development there. I get the feeling that RTD started down a fertile line then got cold feet, which is worse than not going there at all.
Only the Jackie/Elton flirtation was really taken to a proper conclusion. Jackie's dabbling with the idea of seducing Elton as an expression of her loneliness and feeling of being left behind was in character for her and in keeping with one of this series themes.
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Date: 2006-06-20 10:14 am (UTC)What could have been interesting, Elton's past encounter with the Doctor continuing to haunt him, was skipped over with a glib comment. 'A shadow came out of the howling walls' So much for character development there. I get the feeling that RTD started down a fertile line then got cold feet, which is worse than not going there at all.
Only the Jackie/Elton flirtation was really taken to a proper conclusion. Jackie's dabbling with the idea of seducing Elton as an expression of her loneliness and feeling of being left behind was in character for her and in keeping with one of this series themes.