{"id":439,"date":"2008-05-31T09:41:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T20:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2008-05-31T09:41:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T20:41:30","slug":"the-sting-in-the-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"The Sting in the Tail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/uniwasplogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-440\" title=\"uniwasplogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/uniwasplogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/uniwasplogo.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/uniwasplogo-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-NZ\">This is a very silly story.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Unapologetically and unashamedly so.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>After a season of drama and miss-paced adventures, to have something that is perfectly set and pitched, (even if is a slightly daft parody riddled with inaccuracies) is wonderful.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>This has to be one of my favourite stories of the season to date, which makes the fact I have very little to say about it rather hard.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The cast shine, and the dialogue sparkles.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s the best giant bug ever in the series (although the competition is a bit manky).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-NZ\">Body count seems relatively low (and I don\u2019t remember the reason for the second murder being explained outside of Confidential, or worked out why Agatha was linked to the Vespiform when Felicity Kendal was wearing the stone).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The denunciation is remarkably early in the piece, however the show isn\u2019t meant to have the pace of a murder mystery, but a mickey-take of a murder mystery (I kept expecting the <em>Two Ronnies<\/em> to turn up with the Phantom Raspberry Blower, although the poisoning scene was pinched from the equally silly <em>Prisoner<\/em> adventure <em>The Girl Who was Death<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-NZ\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-NZ\">Wouldn\u2019t want to have more than one story like this in a season, but all in all, great fun.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-NZ\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-NZ\">Next Time:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Someone is murdered in the Library\u2026 hang on?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-NZ\"><strong>DR<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very silly story.\u00a0 Unapologetically and unashamedly so.\u00a0 After a season of drama and miss-paced adventures, to have something that is perfectly set and pitched, (even if is a slightly daft parody riddled with inaccuracies) is wonderful.\u00a0 This &hellip; 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