My first thought exactly. You have to wonder though what it would have looked like if the designers had gotten their way and gave it a gimballed drive section. (Apparently the spinning section meant that it would have steered the ship completely of course if it tried to go forward)

To me it's mainly the way the design seems so literal. Nothing seems to be left to the imagination and everything looks like monomaniacally busy. Basically the whole thing is commercially approved Windsor McCay. William Joyce is a fine illustrator, and I think the character design in the movie is mostly quite good,…

It's not Melisande, Carice van Houten has a different voice and a far more notable accent.

It's not exactly the best introduction to the score, but I think it's mainly so jarring because the track is made up of different bits of score. I imagine that within the film it flows much better. I do like all these different pieces quite a bit though, from the somewhat Benjamin Brittenish choir to that wonderfully…

Actually there quite a few science fiction operas, Philip Glass composed one called The Making of the Representative of Planet 8, based on a libretto by Doris Lessing, about a civilisation that, guided by an extraterrestrial intelligence, learns to accept mortality and evolve into a 'collective universal soul'.

I imagine the production crew does the best job they can under the circumstances, but it's the writing that really ruins Grimm. The whole concept of it is lazy, the human-animal hybrid look is hard to pull of convincingly and a better team of writers could have developed a show that wouldn't have had to reduce the…