Planet of the Spiders
**Contains Doctor Who Christmas Special 2006 spoilers**
A confession! I wasn't particularly impressed with the use of the Empress of Racnoss in The Runaway Bride, the 2006 Doctor Who Christmas special starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate! The performance was too static and the Empress' excessive ranting expunged any sense of palpable threat - quiet and measured is always more effective (see Davros in Revelation of the Daleks or Number Six in Battlestar Galactica 200x).
The narrative situations in The Runaway Bride were too derivative of last year's Christmas Special and owed much to the Lost in Space (1998) movie. In fact I speculated as to whether or not the Empress would be consumed by her own children during the predictable "fire" finale (the Doctor Who writers aren't the only culprits to commit this popular sin so-to-speak). The insidious spiders of Metebelis III need not lose any sleep!
Right, now that's out of the way lets get down to business.
Character Options, the award-winning UK based toy company, continues to raise the bar on mass-produced collectibles with the advent of their Doctor Who 2007 - 12" Empress of Racnoss. The Empress is a giant arachnid from deep within space. She has over 24 points of articulation, creating a spectacular action figure from the Doctor Who 2006 Christmas Special. To say she looks cool would be an understatement.
Stay tuned for further Character Options announcements over the coming weeks!
Labels: battlestar galactica, character options, collectibles, daleks, david tennant, davros, doctor who, movie, number six
posted by John at 10:44 AM
1 Comments:
I thought for their obviously limited budget the Empress was very well handled,I think a lot of people assume there's a bottomless pot of money for shows like Doctor Who to do the FX when in reality they are limited and often do FX they're not getting paid for just to improve the quality of the show.
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