I'm watching it right now. Seems ok so far, nothing brilliant though.
The Deep Beeb 1 tonight
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I think the crew, aside from the principals, are all ensign redshirts. It was as well they got rid of the most irritating one first because she could have seriously impaired one's enjoyment of the gradual depletion of the rest.
I really enjoyed it, despite the silly plot devices, like the captain completely destroying the engineer's composure just when a major catastrophe is looming. You can predict big chunks of it but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable. I mean we're ST fans after all; no matter what scrapes the crew got into, you knew they would all be sitting in their seats in a pristine space vessel the next week.
I really enjoyed it, despite the silly plot devices, like the captain completely destroying the engineer's composure just when a major catastrophe is looming. You can predict big chunks of it but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable. I mean we're ST fans after all; no matter what scrapes the crew got into, you knew they would all be sitting in their seats in a pristine space vessel the next week.
I'm interested enough to check it out again next week. But there's something not quite right about it. Maybe it's just the stupid decisions being made or the fact I kept thinking "That's her from Misfits and that's her from Peep show" I don't know.
It isn't really clear who is paying for them to go and fart about under the ice cap. I suppose this is so that the baddie can be imposed on them at the last minute without any troublesome back story to interfere. I have great hopes for the baddie. It's good to see Minnie Driver again. I've always liked her and was disappointed when she said she was going to concentrate on singing à la Joaquim Phoenix.
^Surely it's the UEO, I mean with it being DSV and all... Or maybe I'm confusing it with Seaquest...
My first thought was when she died was thank you god.
I Just hope she stays dead.
They're repeating Jekyll here, he really was quite good in that. And it was written by the Moff.
It was, but The Deep wasn't...
it was a decent enough start, I think ill stick with it, one thing that worries me is that the pacing is going to be slow.
I will say one thing, it looked good, didnt look cheap or anything like that.
Always figured that the younger cast would be killed off, so I wasnt surprised when one of them was.
Having a crew memeber already aware of what is down there, struck me as kinda like "Alien"
I also wnt be surprised when we see Nesbitts wife on the other ship, its just too obvious.
I will say one thing, it looked good, didnt look cheap or anything like that.
Always figured that the younger cast would be killed off, so I wasnt surprised when one of them was.
Having a crew memeber already aware of what is down there, struck me as kinda like "Alien"
I also wnt be surprised when we see Nesbitts wife on the other ship, its just too obvious.
See, now I prefer UK dramas because they are more subtle. I thought the performances were quite nuanced. Although the whining was overdone, that could have been deliberate so that everybody would say thank the Lord she's dead!
Still I suppose if many other people prefer faster paced dramas with overblown characters this is why Hollywood blockbusters with lots of explosions are popular even when I think the plot and characterisation are terrible. You can't please all of the people all of the time!
Two recent examples: a UK drama about corruption in a drugs unit that finished with the possibility of a prosecution when one of them turned against the others; a Hollywood movie about corruption in a drugs unit that finished with a bloodbath when one of them turned against the others. Different strokes and all that.
^There's no reason you can't appreciate both. For example I just really enjoyed The A-Team, but that doesn't mean I don't also love slower shows, and appreciate our more realistic and subtle British shows and movies and think Mad Men is a fantastic show.
Posh and Jim Steele don't belong in the same sentence.
No, just disturbing. Then again he does occasionally talk about poshwank so who knows.
Yeah I do enjoy both too. The TV guide reviewer gives the Tomb Raider movies one star but I really enjoy them. On the other hand, I don't think any of the Mission Impossible movies did justice to the spirit of the series (apart from the opening scene in the first movie which was great up until the agents started walking into ridiculous deaths (Emilio Estevez gets a pass but the other agents ignored direct orders, obvious dangers, and all their training - dammit!).
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