Absolutely, yeah. It's weird and magical, and also it is clearly thematically About Stuff: grief and how not to let it completely take you over. And the character stuff is solid, and as Jonn says Jodie opposite the frog is really good - she kinda plays it as a break-up scene, and the choice just SINGS. More weird little stories like this from the era would've been great.
Ed Hime obviously has a weird brain that draws from odd influences and DW needs that sort of energy. Both this and Orphan 55 have in common a clear surfeit of ideas/scenes (this one had an entire Antizone monster they had to cut for time, so it was obviously over-running massively) but here it works better because it's a fairly minimal thing with a small cast, not trying to be an environmentalist disaster epic about luxury and wilderness done with the flavour of black comedy, which was clearly a bit too ambitious with a very botched production.
Absolutely, yeah. It's weird and magical, and also it is clearly thematically About Stuff: grief and how not to let it completely take you over. And the character stuff is solid, and as Jonn says Jodie opposite the frog is really good - she kinda plays it as a break-up scene, and the choice just SINGS. More weird little stories like this from the era would've been great.
Ed Hime obviously has a weird brain that draws from odd influences and DW needs that sort of energy. Both this and Orphan 55 have in common a clear surfeit of ideas/scenes (this one had an entire Antizone monster they had to cut for time, so it was obviously over-running massively) but here it works better because it's a fairly minimal thing with a small cast, not trying to be an environmentalist disaster epic about luxury and wilderness done with the flavour of black comedy, which was clearly a bit too ambitious with a very botched production.