For me it wasn't the Absorbaloff design at all. It was aggressively _fine._ not awful, not great, just incredibly and intensely okay. (It _was_ yet another "fat evil guy" villain, but you can't blame RTD for this one ar least.) The love stories (both of the budding relationships inside LINDA) were both really cute, all the members were written well. The way Mr. Blue Sky was used was great in just the way you described. Really, everything before the reveal was a great episode. It's just two big things that make me hate it. For one, it was the waste of the LINDA concept as a one-off episode where nearly the entire group got killed. I felt like there was a lot of potential there and they burnt the idea off too fast, and I would've loved to see more. Plus, if you take the interpretation that LINDA was a troll attacking the Doctor Who fanbase, then the episode is basically saying that the troll _wins._ There's only Elton and Ursula's face left, and they've both left the "fandom" because of the troll that went after them. Which is a _weird_ message for that allegory. And for another, it was that absolutely horrid ending. Not Elton's realization, but the literal final scene. Doctor Who existential horror is great, but treating it like a positive thing and then also making a blowjob joke out of it was a total miss for me. It was essentially fridging her for Elton's pain and then going "no it's okay, she can still be a living fleshlight for you" on top of that. If the Doctor had actually saved Ursula as one of the last-second pulls he always manages and she and Elton continued with LINDA in the name and memory of the dead members, it would've been an easy 8-9/10 for me, but I think RTD fumbled the landing just about as much as it's possible to fumble one.
I think love and monsters is hated because the internet says you should hate it I rewatched it and sure there are others that i like but this episode i find fine. The same as Fear her they are good episodes (sure not my favourite but they arent my worst episodes)
More vids with the camera? Or back to the voice overs? Let me know 👌
Camera, your face looks loads better on camera. Seriously, I prefer to see the face of the person telling me stuff.
I loved the episode. This video is insightful.
Fun fact, the kid who created the Absorbaloff is actually Channel Pup.
Very cool fact 👍
I just wish that the doctor actually brought all of LINDA back to life and not just one and as a face on a concrete slab
For me it wasn't the Absorbaloff design at all. It was aggressively _fine._ not awful, not great, just incredibly and intensely okay. (It _was_ yet another "fat evil guy" villain, but you can't blame RTD for this one ar least.) The love stories (both of the budding relationships inside LINDA) were both really cute, all the members were written well. The way Mr. Blue Sky was used was great in just the way you described. Really, everything before the reveal was a great episode. It's just two big things that make me hate it.
For one, it was the waste of the LINDA concept as a one-off episode where nearly the entire group got killed. I felt like there was a lot of potential there and they burnt the idea off too fast, and I would've loved to see more. Plus, if you take the interpretation that LINDA was a troll attacking the Doctor Who fanbase, then the episode is basically saying that the troll _wins._ There's only Elton and Ursula's face left, and they've both left the "fandom" because of the troll that went after them. Which is a _weird_ message for that allegory.
And for another, it was that absolutely horrid ending. Not Elton's realization, but the literal final scene. Doctor Who existential horror is great, but treating it like a positive thing and then also making a blowjob joke out of it was a total miss for me. It was essentially fridging her for Elton's pain and then going "no it's okay, she can still be a living fleshlight for you" on top of that.
If the Doctor had actually saved Ursula as one of the last-second pulls he always manages and she and Elton continued with LINDA in the name and memory of the dead members, it would've been an easy 8-9/10 for me, but I think RTD fumbled the landing just about as much as it's possible to fumble one.
I think love and monsters is hated because the internet says you should hate it
I rewatched it and sure there are others that i like but this episode i find fine. The same as Fear her they are good episodes (sure not my favourite but they arent my worst episodes)
100% agree with you