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[gervase_fen]

3/5 I think - brilliant in patches, average in others. Plus points - oddly enough, the Tenth Doctor spacewalking, which brought back memories of "Frontier in Space". Mr Tennant getting to play "possessed" and in pain, and excelling at it. The completely still moment (previewed on Parkinson) as the escape pod jettisons. Freema, again, convincingly desperate and determined by turns.

Minus points - the occasional feeling that I was watching a segment of "The Crystal Maze" - the running between locations looked very "TV", if you know what I mean. Michelle Collins, who didn't convince me for a second that she had any natural authority - compare with Claire Rushbrook last year (who would have been terrific). A pell mell narrative that just needed to pause to breathe for a scene or two to remain comprehensible ; the odd long tracking exterior shot outside the spaceship, perhaps could have helped.

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[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Disagree with you on Michelle Collins, whom I could believe in as a captain, and I like all the running about - it gave a feeling of space that all those wide shots in atriums lack. Probably the episode I've enjoyed most so far, but I was watching it in the corner of a monitor. Let's see how it looks on the TV screen in eighteen hours or so.