Love & Monsters

What a load of codswallop!! It was like watching a story from the Sylvester McCoy era! I always had an idea that this episode was going to be "odd" from things I had read and knowing that the story was created as a result of the Blue Peter design-a-monster competition.

I started to watch this episode with an open mind, and in a way I quite enjoyed seeing the story from Elton's point of view. However, in a very short while though it seemed as though no-one was taking the script seriously, which was a shame as there were good actors in this show.

What really made the story so awful was when Peter Kay entered the room.........

He was hamming it up completely like they did in the late 80's oddball stories that I hated so much. At this stage I couldn't take the story seriously at all and was almost tempted to even stop my DVD recorder! The Abzorbaloff was not a convincing monster, not that I'm sure it was meant to be judging by the tone of the whole story. It was just Peter Kay in a rubber suit talking in his northern accent. Not sure how anyone could have taken this seriously really.

I laughed at the end when we saw Elton hold up the slab with his beloved's face on it talking to him, but only because I found it so ridiculous. This story would have been better suited as a sketch within Little Britain.

Definitely the worst episode I've seen in a long time.