Quote - > Quote - The question isn't whether it'd being overdone, but whether a habit is forming where CGI takes the place of good scripting, acting, editing and scoring.

I also dislike certain design trends in contemporary special effects.  I'm thinking largely about the "monster" designs used by the Mill in Doctor Who

If you mean that giant eyeball thing in "The Eleventh Hour" then I agree it looked bad, (athough "giant eyeball appears in the sky" might have looked good in the script) but many of the other effects were alright and alot of the monsters are prosthetics anyway. In Doctor Who's defence, the majority of the series was spectacular. They had to make it with a smaller budget than before (which is way smaller than American tv programs get anyway). Plus the BBC is funded by the tv licence that British tv viewers have to pay (whether they watch the BBC or not) and I don't fancy having to eat nothing but cornflakes all day! ;-)

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