178 The Runaway Bride

Watched 21-Jul on Bluray

Straight out of the blocks Catherine Tate as Donna Noble is outrageously good here. The woman was great as an outrage comedienne in Wild West and The Catherine Tate Show.

The lesson of Billie's casting should have been do not underestimate Casting Director Andy Pryor's casting ability.

Euros Lyn's direction is very good too.

But up to a point.

In the first half of this is the "What" scene and the "I'm in my wedding dress" fun and then there's the freeway chase scene with the TARDIS and the Robot Santa taxi. Exhilarating stuff.

Then it crashes like a dropped pie when the Racnoss turns up. The story seems to metamorphose from a shouty, confrontational action packed chase to a mundane and frankly ridiculous Earth origin due to aliens tale involving bullsh*t about Huons (I keep thinking of Tasmanian pine trees whenever it's mentioned) and segways.

This is an example of RTD "writes great dialogue" but plots seem like afterthoughts.

Tennant and Tate are amazing together and it's not hard to see why they put them together for the next series.

ABM Rating 3.10/4.00
LJM Rating 3.84/5.00
SPJ Rating 9.20/10   

No. 59 (out of 187)


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