Did other people notice that many characters ended up killing themselves to save others? Foon ( or whatever she's called) jumped from the ledge and took a Host with her, Bannakaffalatta used his life force to kill some Hosts and Astrid killed herself while ramming Max off the ledge. Made me see those characters in a very respectable light.

Got a touch monotonous though, didn't it? RTD got himself stuck in a script loop.

Personally, I was more annoyed at the amount of falling deaths we had.

One would've been enough - it was pretty much overkill, and with each 'other' character that did it a lot of the impact was lost.

In the 'Confidential' after, RTD gleefully said that he liked the idea of The Doctor never managing to hold on to companions/happiness and therefore being "The lonely God".
So I suspect while he's in charge there's going to be a high turnover of companions.
Gets a bit tedious when the trick is over used though.....

Pity RTD has never heard of less is more. If everyone had lived then Kylie's death might have felt more significant. And what was so special about those half-dozen he tried to save? Weren't they thousands of people on the ship?

That is what disaster movies are about, though. It's also why I hate disaster movies. They are emotionally manipulative in making you like and empathise with "ordinary" people, and then they all die.

The comparisons with The Poseidon Adventure are obvious in VOTD. In TPA, Shelley Winters (loveable fat character) saves everyone heroically, then conks out with a heart attack. The hero (Gene Hackman, maybe?) plunges into a pool of fire to save everyone. VOTD's loveable fat character had the fall, and the little red conker man had the heart attack.

Despite it being a disaster movie, I enjoyed VOTD a lot. Far better than The Runaway Bride (I stilldon't know how that ends, as I never got that far into it).

The Kylie/forklift sequence was too bizarre for words, though.

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