I definitely don't want what they had in Primeval last night. In an episode reminiscent of The Silurians, one of the very best Jon Pertwee Doctor Who stories, a prehistoric fungus spreads through London creating panic. Even the famous railway station scene, that disaster-movie classic setting, is recreated at beautiful St Pancras.
I particularly liked the stupid personification of the fungi as a Marvel Comics-type Thing. If I have one criticism of the revived Doctor Who it has been the relative lack of traditional monster fare. I want more exploding fungal bogey-men on telly. Preferably during Loose Women.
With those scary stories of swine flu all over the media, this episode was oddly more topical than a cheeseball teatime sci-fi show about dinosaurs probably should be. But then I'm easily carried away. I remember after I saw Shaun of the Dead I caught sight of my eyes, red with conjunctivitis, and went to bed thinking there were zombies banging at the window all night.
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