Date: 2008-04-13 02:04 pm (UTC)
"There's lovely" is a very South Wales phrase.

Is it? I missed that one entirely.

hough Donna's Latin accent was so vile that anyone could have been excused for not understanding.

True!

One lovely touch is that the family - Caecilius etc - were named after the family in the Cambridge Latin course, which is the most widely-used textbook in schools which still teach Latin.

Oh, that's perfect! I haven't seen the Cambridge Latin course, though I'm told it's good. I learned Latin with "Latin for Canadian Schools" - would have to scour my brain for the names of the recurring characters. I do have my text book around somewhere.

Apparently RTD was very enthusiastic about having Astérix-style jokes and references in it too. Not sure I wholly approve, because of the risk of trivialising the storyline

Good point: I'm not sure whether the comedy and the action fit well together. Except for some lovely moments of intensity, it had a light tone that didn't lead one to take it seriously - all the worse because of the lava men and circuitry/TARIS 'art'; again I had the feel that this was being plotted for the kids, not the adults of the audience.

But the anachronisms made for a certain amusement.

Overall, the story was fun.

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