In all the films and TV shows I've rated here, I've only given a 1-star rating once before, for Robot Holocaust. In that steaming pile's defense, it was made on a nonexistent budget, with actors of -- shall we say -- obviously limited experience, and based on a story apparently inspired by drinking triple-distilled bong water.
I don't see how the BBC can claim any of these mitigating factors for this atrocity. Since others have gone into hilarious detail about the many, many shortcomings of this series and the all-encompassing hackery in its evisceration of a classic story, there's nothing to add on that score. If the ghost of H. G. nightly brought shrieking, sweat-soaked nightmares to each and every person responsible for this dreck for the next thirty years, it would be only a fraction of what they richly deserve.
I don't see how the BBC can claim any of these mitigating factors for this atrocity. Since others have gone into hilarious detail about the many, many shortcomings of this series and the all-encompassing hackery in its evisceration of a classic story, there's nothing to add on that score. If the ghost of H. G. nightly brought shrieking, sweat-soaked nightmares to each and every person responsible for this dreck for the next thirty years, it would be only a fraction of what they richly deserve.