A Twilight Zone style science fiction film is also a fascinating meditation on death, loss and redemption. If you could meet yourself, what would you do?
But by the time of the seventh episode, "A Good Man Goes to War," the quality storytelling had won me over and I was totally hooked into Moffat’s vision. I saw how terrifying it is when the light-hearted man turns deadly serious.
That's a lot of extremely inventive television and I didn't even mention the episode written by Neil Gaiman, "The Doctor's Wife," which is one of the high points of the show's Forty-Nine year history.
How can you say you love Howard's stories, but they "weren't the story of this film"??? Somebody deserved a slap in the mouth for saying that out loud.
The film is all about abuse, sex, violence, corruption, and every naughty thing you ever thought might be happening behind the closed doors of small town America.
Well as much as do tire of the amount of teen angst that radiates from the show, we do have realize that this is basically a high school setting with a cast in their early teens.
The animators have done a fantastic job capturing the colors and textures of Ribic's original artwork, expanding backgrounds believably and creating detailed three-dimensional sets for the characters to move through.
This takes me back, just watching the opening credits shot me back to the age of sideways ponytails, Squeezeit juice drinks and the best animation TV had to offer.
