josterD opened this issue on Jul 23, 2010 · 47 posts
Cage posted Sun, 25 July 2010 at 12:34 PM
Quote - 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.
I'm thinking about the giant eyeballs and their spaceships, as well as Prisoner Zero, from TEH. The Krillatane design is usually the one I think about in that context. I love the New Who series and The Mill does a great job with the animation. But so many of the designs seem a bit generic, a bit same-y, like they've been pulled from the same basic design pool as everything else in contemporary science fiction. They're not as striking as so many older designs, not as iconic, and they end up looking to me as though near-realistic levels of detail have been piled on top of a haphazardly composed foundation.
But I'm really not down on Doctor Who, the BBC, or The Mill. That's just the context in which I've become most aware of a tendency which seems much more widespread. And Stephen Moffatt is one of my current heroes. :laugh:
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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking. He apologizes for this. He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.
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