Love & Monsters

After the dark fable delights of 'Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit' which is currently a pole position contender for the best of this hit and miss season, I was hoping we were on a roll with the series but……

In respect of the current offering 'Love and Monsters', I honestly have to comment that I have never had to sit through approximately 50 minutes of pure diarrhoea as I had to with this travesty.

What the bloody hell were the team thinking of? Are Russell T. Davies et al, trying to lose viewers? If not they really are going the best way about it in churning out the maximum in dire. This has to be the contender for the worst example of 'Who' drama in the entirety of the 'New Who' stable, not just Tennants' tenure.

The acting was so wooden I anticipated a shower of splinters in some of the sequences. The lead character Elton was portrayed as weak and uninteresting, did we care what happened to him and the bunch of raggedy- rawny misfits – NO!

I wish Peter Kays creation absorbed the bloody lot in the first few minutes and had the Doctor and Rose trying to get them back, which would've been better but in no way could polish this turd.

I loved the monster and seeing Peter Kay in his element, it is a crying shame that they were both wasted. If I had been the kid that designed the monster and seen it used in such a terrible way I would've cried and held my head in my hands.

The acting 'ability' (and I use this term loosely) of Marc Warren and Shirley Henderson may have shone in a third rate amateur dramatics burlesque but definitely has no place in such a show that has the potential of being such of a high calibre. Were they picked off of the streets?

At times this travesty of a tale bordered on Brian Rix farce and should have been titled 'Whoops there goes my Bloomers!' This mortifying attempt at 'slapstick' or should that be 'sh*tstick' humour was agonisingly apparent when the Doctor and Rose are pursuing an alien with a bucket of 'Martian eradicator' this whole sorry state of affairs came across as simply pitiable.

Words fail me how this ever got passed script stages (may have something to with the producer writing this abortion), the same could be said of New Earth and the dire Cyberman escapade (the writer commented his fond nostalgia/inspiration went back to 'Silver Nemesis' - I anticipated this two parter was going to be potentially bol*ocks due to the inspiration so wasn't let down that much) but they were 'classics' in comparison to this. It made Sylvester McCoy's era look like a Belle Époque in the science fiction dramas' history – and believe me for those not in the know- that's' really saying something !!!!!

The humour (?) was not funny, just pathetic; the characters were as weak as water and tried half heartedly to boost up such an incongruous piece of slapdash; commonly known to us all as a 'script'. With toe curlingly embarrassing situations littered throughout, I shook my head in sheer disbelief at how a show such as this had sunk so low.

The whole sorry saga demonstrated how not to do 'Who' and quite frankly showed a complete lack of respect for a show now termed as an 'institution'.

Experiment with new ways – yes sure, but for Pete's' sakes do it well! In a show like this it has to be of a high calibre, what was demonstrated was completely the antithesis.

I am wondering now if when Tenant and Piper were approached with this script they were relieved to find out they weren't in it long. I would be ashamed to be associated with it in all honesty.

I still feel Tennant thinks he is Casanova in a brown suit, he still , in my opinion, hasn't 'cemented' or stamped his mark on the pivotal role and I feel won't do until the script writers do him justice and as long as T. Davies churns out this crap it'll be a long time coming.

Why is this series so different from Ecclestons'? Where is the dark, foreboding atmosphere that added so much mystery in 2005's season. They had the balance almost perfect last year – what's' going wrong?

This has really made me, my friends, my colleagues at work and their children (plenty of age groups and cross sections!!!!) start to turn their backs on a show that was such an exciting Saturday night pizza & beer 'ritual'.

I am getting to the stage where I don't care if I miss it or not - last year Saturdays at 7 p.m were sacrosanct not just for me but it seemed for just about almost everyone. This show seems to be dieing or lacking in an essential ingredient that just simply isn't there.

I really do feel if ideas aren't 'bucked up' then Love and Monsters could be the first death nail for the show.

Mr. T Davies please stick to producing and writing overrated history revisionist outings, leave it to the experts dear - those who know how to write an exciting yarn and respect Doctor Who a damn sight more than you have displayed this year so far. Can't Mark Gatiss produce from Season 3 onwards and give you a much needed (by the seem of things) break?