The original ones were pretty scarybut as you say they have swopped the moody lighting of the original for moody scripting and it doesn't work. So the Sontarans just look pathetic thesedays.
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience,
Tue 7 Apr 2009, 13:11,
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