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Dec. 13th, 2018 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
giddyantI finally watched Arachnids In The UK!
I feel like I can't be a fair judge of this due to the fact I actually couldn't look at the screen for any part where there were spiders. How can I give it its fair consideration if I had my hands over my eyes for a good 50% of the episode? Well, I'll give it a go. It seemed to me that it needed a more subtle touch when it came to the Story Of The Week, but the character work for Team TARDIS was great. Yaz, Ryan and Graham all had nice little moments which showed what was going on with them. I appreciated that we followed Yaz out to the TARDIS at the end. Out of all of them, I feel like she seemed to be most tied to her 'mundane' life and it was her choice to go that was the most impactful.
I loved how the Doctor managed to find a massive conspiracy within 10 minutes of being in Yaz's flat.
I remember that there were mixed feelings about how the Doctor dealt with the spiders and that ties up with my feelings that there could have been more subtlety in how the conflict was set up. She's not going to just go along with Angry Capitalist With Gun just shooting the spider in a display of machismo. However, if Nice Academic Jade had suggested a quicker death as more merciful, then that couldn't have been dismissed as patly and with such disgust. It's not a nice discussion to have or a nice choice to make, but, as a previous incarnation once said, sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones and you still have to choose. As it is, yeah, I am left wondering how much more merciful it is to lock creatures in to a confined area and leave them to starve.
I followed it up with two episodes of James May: The Reassembler. After having my nerves shredded by giant spiders, I needed something extremely calming and comfortable. Watching a middle-aged Englishman methodically reassemble a kitchen mixer was exactly the tonic I required.
I feel like I can't be a fair judge of this due to the fact I actually couldn't look at the screen for any part where there were spiders. How can I give it its fair consideration if I had my hands over my eyes for a good 50% of the episode? Well, I'll give it a go. It seemed to me that it needed a more subtle touch when it came to the Story Of The Week, but the character work for Team TARDIS was great. Yaz, Ryan and Graham all had nice little moments which showed what was going on with them. I appreciated that we followed Yaz out to the TARDIS at the end. Out of all of them, I feel like she seemed to be most tied to her 'mundane' life and it was her choice to go that was the most impactful.
I loved how the Doctor managed to find a massive conspiracy within 10 minutes of being in Yaz's flat.
I remember that there were mixed feelings about how the Doctor dealt with the spiders and that ties up with my feelings that there could have been more subtlety in how the conflict was set up. She's not going to just go along with Angry Capitalist With Gun just shooting the spider in a display of machismo. However, if Nice Academic Jade had suggested a quicker death as more merciful, then that couldn't have been dismissed as patly and with such disgust. It's not a nice discussion to have or a nice choice to make, but, as a previous incarnation once said, sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones and you still have to choose. As it is, yeah, I am left wondering how much more merciful it is to lock creatures in to a confined area and leave them to starve.
I followed it up with two episodes of James May: The Reassembler. After having my nerves shredded by giant spiders, I needed something extremely calming and comfortable. Watching a middle-aged Englishman methodically reassemble a kitchen mixer was exactly the tonic I required.