abzorbalof was pants and the bit with the paving stone at the end was the final nail in the coffin of this episode for me, other than that it wasn't a bad effort for the first doc-lite story, blink was by far superior.
Jon Blum will (and does) make the same point I made, and the same point that The Slug has just explained in detail, that 77 is the average score for drama *because* drama scores highly. I won't add to The Slug's excellent post above.
Also - no-one on the Doctor Who forum has ever made the point that a score of 77 makes L&M one of the best stories. Frankly I've never seen anyone claim that an AI figure means a story is good or excellent. Plenty of people have *claimed* that others do that, but oddly no-one can ever point to an actual post where that has happened. Funny that.
Try reading some of Rick Flair's posts on the subject then
Up until L&M I was pleasantly surprised to find on visiting my 60+ dad (who had never really expressed an interest in sci-fi and who I can't remember watching the old series when I was a boy) to find that he had been watching Doctor Who and enjoying it.
But we parted company after Love and Monsters.
I thought it was excellent but my father expressed the opinion that it was crap.
I'll admit that I didn't like the look of the monster or Kay's delivery but I thought the concept and the script very amusing, witty and clever and I'd be happy to see it's like again.
I would liken it, in style, to the X-Files "The Post Modern Prometheus". A fun episode that plays with the format and isn't to be taken too seriously.
Sorry but that's an insult to both of those excelnet X-Files stories
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Probably would've loved it, had it's tone and humour not been so inconsistent, but it's still not "Doctor Who"!
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Source: http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/quotes/favourite/ric_flair
Any chance you can elaborate on your statement?
As a big fan of the Darin Morgan eps (in fact, he penned my fave X-Files ep in the form of 'Clyde Bruckmann's Final Repose'), I have to disagree.
Regards,
Cypher
Someone else added the second.
Blink or Parting of the Ways are currently my choices for best episode yet.