The Seeker: The Bordeom is Rising

I finally got around to watching The Seeker: The Dark is Rising today. And wow - what a complete and utter waste of time. Well, not a complete waste of time I suppose - after all, Chris Eccleston was in it, and I am shallow :) I spent the first half of the movie stifling the urge to say 'Trust him Will, he's a Doctor', an urge not helped by the fact he *was* pretending to be the village doctor at one point. This may possibly have been the only intelligent decision the writers made in the entire movie.

Apart from that:

- the writers apparently suffered from a chronic misunderstanding of the word 'Physics' (Dear writers: You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means. P.S. Fractals are not actually funky spinning things, and btw, still not physics.)

- the Old Ones were completely useless (I certainly hope the line at the end about how much they'd done for Will was meant to be sarcastic, but I doubt it was)

- the bubble-boy plot was just insane (OK, most of the plot was rather dumb, but that was plumbing new depths of stupidity. He's been raised by the Doctor Mr Evil himself, in a transparent mini-TARDIS snowglobe, of course he can just fit back into normal society. And no one else will think this kid turning up again after 14 years is a bit odd either.)

And that's not even touching the whole 'we need to make the main characters American' thing, or the let's just completely lose all the meaning in the book thing, 'cause if I start on that I'll be ranting for a while... well, longer than I already have.


Now I have to go read the book to get this trash out of my head. I think I'll be seeing the Rider as Eccleston from now on...