What could be more Christmassy
than a disaster movie starring pint-sized pop princess Kylie Minogue?*
Well, quite a few things really,
but big budget disaster movies (and Bond films) used to be a centrepiece of
Christmas family viewing before we had a Doctor
Who Christmas special. I enjoyed
this, but couldn’t help thinking it was a rip-off of my favourite computer game
(and the only one I ever managed to win), the brilliant Starship Titanic by former Doctor
Who script editor Douglas Adams.
According to The Writer’s Tale, this
was an accident, and plans for the episode were well advanced before the
similarity was discovered. The finished
episode would have been better if they had included the insane parrot from the
game, though.
*I understand that one is legally
required always to refer to Ms Minogue as a ‘pint-sized pop princess’
Christmas Factor: 2/10
Victorian/Dickensian Factor: 0/10
Christmas Factor: 2/10
Victorian/Dickensian Factor: 0/10
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