Tate crimes
Let’s get one thing straight. Catherine Tate was, at least once upon a time, a very talented comic actress, with an impressive grasp of subtle character comedy and a flair for nuanced delivery. That was before she realised that she could become a lot more popular by turning into a shrieking, one-note catchphrase-spewing robot. Ever since then, she’s resembled nothing so much as a washing machine that’s got a bit of metal from someone’s pocket stuck in its workings, with the result that on every rotation it grinds out the same shudder-inducing, piercing metallic yowl at a frequency so horrifying that it leaves you with palsied fingers and a spine permanently bent into the shape of a normal distribution curve.
As such, it’s delightful news that we’re going to have to suffer her truly appalling, monotonous, charmless clot of a character, Donna, for an entire fucking series of Doctor Who. The dire Christmas special that she starred in wasn’t enough stunt casting, clearly. There’s no hope for respite, no faint glimmer of light on the character development front – it’s one of the two most striking flaws in Russell T Davies’s (otherwise wonderful) writing, that alongside his very poor world-building skills, he consistently seems to think that audiences will automatically find two-dimensional loudmouthed harridans utterly endearing. No, Russell. We don’t. Please stop.
Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuuuuuuck. I don’t want to look like I’m over-reacting to what is, after all, just a television show – but shouldn’t someone be asking questions in Parliament about this horrific shit? Like, whether we can re-introduce the death penalty for crimes of completely dicking up much-loved TV shows? Shouldn’t there be protests? Mass civil unrest? Riots on the streets? Effigies burning in central Cardiff? Rivers of fire and piss and blood? Wanton destruction? Phonecalls?
Or something. I don’t know.
FUUUUCK.
[...] 10th, 2007 · No Comments Jeez…you have thought that by now the Dr Who production team would be able to hang on to anactor long enough to play ‘the companion’ for more than five minutes but it appears not, unless of course Russell TD has some master plan up his sleeve which we’re not privy to. So Kylie is the companion for the Christmas special then Catherine Tate for the next series, some people aren’t impressed, and what of poor old Freema Agyeman? Well she only gets to play in the 2nd half of Series 4 apparently . I rather liked the character of Martha Jones and to think that the Dr Who folks have got bored of her already is a shame, as for Catherine Tate…I just don’t see it working. Russell TD may have is work cut out selling this one to the faithful. [...]
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