‘Parade’s End’: Episode 4 review
Who’d have thought watching Benedict Cumberbatch shouting about horses and fire extinguishers would be so compelling?
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Who’d have thought watching Benedict Cumberbatch shouting about horses and fire extinguishers would be so compelling?
This isn’t going to be anyone’s favourite episode of Doctor Who by a long-shot, but it is a fine stand-alone instalment that’s raised above mediocrity by its filmic feel.
Given their track record, you would think Sinbad and the rest of the Providence would be more cautious about offering strangers a ride.
‘It’s quite ridiculous,’ the Doctor says at one point during this supercharged, Jurassic Park-meets-Alien-meets-Carry On Cleo romp. ‘Also: brilliant.’ He’s right on both counts. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship is possibly the most preposterous episode of Doctor Who since the days when Tom Baker proposed a talking cabbage as his new companion; yet it’s easily the … >
Although it can’t quite decide whether it’s a sanitised version of The Fades or simply Twilight-meets-Byker Grove, Wolfblood is a lot of fun.
Watching Parade’s End is like getting stuck into a lovely big slice of Victoria Sponge. If only life were all tea and cake for Christopher Tietjens…
Such a resolutely downbeat conclusion is admirable, but the poor dialogue renders it wholly unsatisfying.
The first episode drifts by in an engaging mixture of mystery and moodiness, but it falters to an end rather than building to a climax.
With a title so gleefully ambitious that it really should end in an exclamation mark, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship delivers exactly what it promises.
The concluding conversation between Sinbad and Cook back on the Providence which is undoubtedly the best two minutes of this series so far.