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Re: The New Doctor Who
« Reply #210 on: April 30, 2011, 12:48:23 PM »
And the 2nd one was very good too. :D
A very interesting bit right at the very end. :o
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Re: The New Doctor Who
« Reply #211 on: May 28, 2011, 01:30:58 PM »
Ok that was a hell of an ending! :o :o :o
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Re: The New Doctor Who
« Reply #212 on: June 05, 2011, 04:06:57 AM »
So...that stuff happened.  Any thoughts?  Are we paced for the BBCAmerica broadcasts or the UK ones?
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Re: The New Doctor Who
« Reply #213 on: June 05, 2011, 10:51:17 AM »
I don't get BBC America.  :-\  :'(

Re: The New Doctor Who
« Reply #214 on: June 05, 2011, 05:54:13 PM »
I don't get BBC America.  :-\  :'(

Neither do I... ;)
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Re: The New Doctor Who
« Reply #215 on: June 06, 2011, 01:34:10 AM »
So...that stuff happened.  Any thoughts?  Are we paced for the BBCAmerica broadcasts or the UK ones?

I have to say it was the best twist since the Face of Bo ...

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« Reply #216 on: June 06, 2011, 11:06:52 AM »
It's interesting and I certainly didn't see it coming. 8)
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Re: The New Doctor Who
« Reply #217 on: June 06, 2011, 07:12:11 PM »
I'm watching them occasionally online.

After the first three episodes, I have to say it's nice to see Rory (Arthur Darvill) as a full-fledged Companion. Not just because I find the idea of serious romance between The Doctor and any human female "icky" (He's an ALIEN! NOT HUMAN! It would be on the order of **15**!), or because he's the first true male Companion since Turlough, but because I like the character.

So far, the stuff that screams "STORY ARC!!" at you isn't as offensive as the "Crack in the Wall" nonsense from the last season. There it was "THIS IS IMPORTANT! PAY ATTENTION! VITAL INFORMATION COMING AT YOU HERE!"; now it's more like "Oh, hi! This is important, you'll find out what it's all about soon enough. Carry on..."

And it's kind of cool to know that just as The Doctor was behind Agatha Christie's missing time, he was also behind Neil Armstrong's line flub: "That's one small step for (KILL US ON SIGHT) man...." :D
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Re: The New Doctor Who
« Reply #218 on: June 12, 2011, 05:59:31 PM »
The ending to last night's Doctor Who on BBC America was not something I was expecting. :o
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Re: The New Doctor Who
« Reply #219 on: June 26, 2011, 11:33:42 PM »
I still prefer David Tennant as the Doctor. This new chap looks like he really is an alien :)

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Re: The New Doctor Who
« Reply #220 on: July 09, 2011, 08:00:01 PM »
While Tennant remains my second favorite Doctor behind, of course, Tom Baker, I think Matt Smith is great and has really done some fine work during the new season.  It didn't take me long to become a fan of Smith's interpretation of the Doctor, as I was wary like many fans when Tennant left the show, but I feel Smith will end up being a top five fan favorite if he keeps it up.

As for the big reveal to end the first half of the new season, well, I didn't see it coming and I was pleasantly surprised.  It definitely left a big smile on my face.  I can't wait for the second half to begin already.
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« Reply #221 on: July 09, 2011, 11:04:22 PM »
Yes, that was rather stunning!

I hope that Moffat will be able to wrap up all those loose threads he left hanging. It doesn't look like it's going to be easy to do in a satisfying manner.

As far as Matt Smith goes, he's OK. I think of him as a "Junior Professor"*. The bow tie and tweedy jacket help. Though I am getting quite tired with the "Dark Doctor" stuff (the Doctor has done things in the past that we don't know about, which cause people to send armies after him out of pure hatred).

Of the episodes to date, my favorite was "The Curse of the Black Spot". A nice little mystery, no extraneous background needed. Though it could have used about 10 extra minutes of story development to show the Doctor figuring out the real situation and coming up with the solution instead of having him pull it out of his ass (as usual). But, when you have only 40-50 minutes for a story....

*Each Doctor has his own distinct persona:

Hartnell: The Wizard of Oz
Troughton: The Cosmic Hobo
Pertwee: Action Man!
T. Baker: Galactic Bohemian / Interstellar Van Helsing
Davison: The Cricketer
C. Baker: The Mad Genius
McCoy: The Chessmaster
McGann: The Extraordinary Gentleman
Eccleston: Your Best "Mate" (as in **94** buddy; get your mind out of the gutter!)
Tennant: The Boy Scout

I believe it was Colin Baker who said that any actor can play the Doctor, but whether you last for two minutes or seven years is up to you.
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Re: The New Doctor Who
« Reply #222 on: July 14, 2011, 03:48:10 PM »
Hm, I didn't care much for Black Spot, but I think that's because I enjoyed the intro 2-parter and the Doctor's Wife (the previous/following episodes) far more; and now that I think about it, I guess Spot wasn't worse than the Flesh 2-parter, about which I also didn't find much to like.

While Moffat's been pretty good with pushing plenty of action and/or suspenseful scenes, quippy dialogue, and "shocking" twists, I've been disappointed with the characterization and storytelling aspects of the show.  For instance, I don't have any conception of who Amy is, even after a season and a half; only in the last episodes of season 5 do we get a hint that the Doctor had an ulterior motive for bringing her along, but it's never actually mentioned why she wants to go with him...I have to presume she wanted to live out adventures she missed out on because of the Doctor's absence, but there isn't a shred of dialogue anywhere to support that.  And now that reality's rebooted, Amy should have a totally different life where she wasn't lonely because people around her were always vanishing...but we don't even get a hint of who that person is or what she does in the un-Cracked universe, she just brings the Doctor back because he planned for her to help him out that way, and off they go again.  Her most significant character developments are that she's got a "special" memory thanks to growing up with the Crack in her room (which only became relevant in Big Bang, though it *might* somehow still be relevant if there are more run-ins with Silents), and then she got knocked up in the TARDIS.  And neither of those things are actual personality traits; all Amy's got in that department is "fiesty Scottish girl".  At this point after a season and a half of RTD, I knew way more about Rose as a character and could actually relate (either positively or negatively) to who she was and what she'd experienced.  I feel bad for Karen Gillian, because I think she's really doing the best she can with Amy, but unfortunately there's only the barest outline of a person written for her to work with.  And also unfortunately, I think it's almost the same with Moffat's Doctor, Rory, and River, though they have gotten a smidge more character work than poor Amy.

BTW, I have a different impression of the last two Doctors on your list RTPoe, though I'm too long-winded to boil the description down without some explanation--
Eccleston: Survivor's Guilt.  Pretty much his whole performance has this haunted-by-his-decisions feel to it, where he's acutely aware that he's the one that destroyed all his own race just to be finally rid of all the Daleks.  Although we do learn later on that the Timelords needed to go too, it was he that decided to end them all and in doing so rewrote reality, essentially making him responsible for the status (good or bad) of everything and everyone left in the universe.  Not seeing a whole lot of jovial best-mate stuff there, though a joke or bit of goofiness does sometimes get past his angry exterior.
Tennant: The Lonely God.  I don't think I need to explain this one too much, actually; it got hit pretty hard as a theme throughout his adventures, what with deposing Prime Ministers, fighting (and beating) Satan, hordes of Daleks and Cybermen (and both combined), very nearly breaking the Laws of Time, and desperately reaching out for companionship to his oldest, angriest enemy.  I don't see much Boy-Scout-ness here either, what with throwing people into black holes (Satan, Family of Blood), freezing them for all eternity (Weeping Angels, Family of Blood) or trapping them in dimensional limbo-worlds (Daleks+Cybermen, Family of Blood).  Granted, they all had it coming, but my point is he didn't hold back and play nice when deciding to punish them.
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Re: The New Doctor Who
« Reply #223 on: July 19, 2011, 11:22:00 PM »
I read that the show has been extended through 2013, its 50th anniversary.

I suppose they will have some sort of big event for it, as with "The Three Doctors" for the 10th anniversary or "The Five Doctors" for the 20th.

Any guesses as to what they might do? Or what you'd like to see?

I'd like to see Paul McGann in the role again.
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Re: The New Doctor Who
« Reply #224 on: July 20, 2011, 10:58:38 PM »
I would love to see a multi-Doctor episode, they've always been fun and with the Eleventh Doctor mucking about with his own timeline this season (and a bit in season 5, come to think of it) it would certainly be appropriate for him to team-up with an earlier incarnation.  The Tenth Doctor's too recent (and had a lot of angst about his "death"), and I think I read recently that Eccleston doesn't have any interest in reprising his role.  I read the same about McGann too, but that was several years back and he may have changed his stance.  Plus, it would be nice to see the Eighth Doctor in a televised adventure outside that dismal movie.

One other thing that each of the previous specials had was a notable presence of other Time Lords, and that would also be appropriate if they bring Eight back, as it could certainly show some of the lead-up to the Time War.  Alternatively, the latest finale had some interesting developments: the Eyepatch Lady now has extensive info on Time Lord DNA plus a live specimen.  Moffat's work in Who has often hit upon the notion of storing/transferring/implanting consciousnesses between bodies, and the End of Time revealed Rassilon's plan to turn the Time Lords into pure-consciousness entities to escape the Time War, so it could be possible that we'd see a revival of the entire species.  Something else I discovered that was pointed out on another forum is that the insignia used by the cleric-army in the finale included a stylized form of the "Omega" symbol.  So it might just be that one particular villainous Time Lord behind the whole thing, and maybe he'll get reconstituted somehow.  Frankly, I'd be okay with either outcome but really anything's possible because as entertaining as Moffat's incarnation of the show has been, it's kind of all over the map with loads of loose threads that may-or-may-not be related in some way.
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