Data
Title: Doctor Who: "Frontios"
Year: 1984
Network: BBC
Episodes: 4, at 25 minutes each; the third story (of seven) from season twenty-one
Creators: Sydney Newman, C.E. Webber, Donald Wilson
Director: Ron Jones
Writer: Christopher H. Bidmead
Starring: Peter Davison
With: Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Peter Gilmore, Lesley Dunlop, William Lucas, Jeff Rawle, Maurice O'Connell, John Gillett
Music: Ron Grainer (theme); Paddy Kingsland
I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), a couple days ago
Synopsis: a space colony is harassed by underground creatures
My reaction
Concept: 1/4 (Bad)
Story: 1/4 (Bad)
Characters: 1/4 (Bad)
Dialog: 1/4 (Bad)
Pacing: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Cinematography: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Special effects/design: 1/4 (Bad)
Acting: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Music: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Subjective Rating: 4/10 (Eh, 2/4). For most of the story, it's just run-of-the-mill, unoriginal mediocrity. Then somewhere in the last episode, it turns to nonsense.
Objective Rating (Average): 1.5/4 (Eh)
No comments:
Post a Comment