A brick, a possible last word in the phrase Chibnall writes with all the subtlety and ingenuity of a...Last week I suggested Chibnall had no talent for writing drama. In fact he makes you realise just how good Pip and Jane Baker actually were.
This week not only would I underline everything I said previously but also point out the script was misogynistic.
Yes, we are most definitely in the Moffat era now. Tonight we were taken back to the old everything bad that could ever happen is down to women theme which underpinned Jekyll. Yes, we had two Silurian females whose dialogue was taken from every bit of clichéd rhetoric imaginable and it was the human woman who murdered just to provide some shallow hokum. No story, no characterisation, no drama just mindless, badly written prejudice.
There really is no point in making a comparison between tonight’s episode and the original Hulke story. It would be like trying to compare profanities daubed on a wall of Bedlam using blood and shit with The Second Coming by Yeats. Well, maybe. I suspect the Bedlam daubing would stink less than anything written by Chibnall.
I’m playing Requiem from Pink Elephants by Mick Harvey just for you Chibnall. Twice as loud as I was last week.
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