Catching up with Doctor Who: Plastic, Mental Health & Frankenstein

Still reeling from the impact of Fugitive of the Judoon, I have missed out on commenting on the last three episodes of the current series of Doctor Who.  On the whole, this part of the season has been running reasonably strongly, although it’s sort of a sad state of affairs when the “message” of the episode ends up being more memorable to me than the plot (as evidenced by some of my choices of shorthand descriptors in the title).

47 Movie Blogs #22 – Interesting Adaptations

It’s oft been quoted, “The books is better,” but is that really true?  Or is the issue simply that the book came first, establishing expectations that the subsequent movie simply couldn’t live up to?