Dr Who Saturday 15th April

[strung out]

True, 2 was a bit of a clown, it's a bit hard to judge from so few episodes mind. 6 was certainly a clown though... he even had the bloody costume ffs! Probably agree about Davison as well tbh

 

[Ozric]

Tenants proved he's got potential, Billy did a great job of portraying Zoe and Russell's keeping the whole thing totally on form!
IMHO The rest of the series can't come quick enough

 

[psycherelic]

Tenants proved he's got potential, Billy did a great job of portraying Zoe and Russell's keeping the whole thing totally on form!
IMHO The rest of the series can't come quick enough

^sums up my feelings perfectly, one of the few programs I can mange to sit the whole way through without popping up stairs to see if there's anything intersting happening here.

Can't wait for the werewolf next week

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Yea I thought she might have popped back into herself at the end when no-one was looking?!

Oh no, that would screw up the space time continumbeumdedum.

 

[Louloubelle]

I missed this
does anyone know if it's due to be repeated soon?

 

[strung out]

I missed this
does anyone know if it's due to be repeated soon?

If it's like the last series, BBC 3 on sundays at 7

 

[strung out]

Yep, BBC3 tonight at 19:05

 

[Louloubelle]

Yep, BBC3 tonight at 19:05

ooh ta

 

[Tom A]

Yea I thought she might have popped back into herself at the end when no-one was looking?!

Now there is a possible storyline, maybe she didn't go into her past self, but into another person at the scene, who waits in slience for hundreds of years, going from body to body, waiting for the time to come and seek revenge on the Doctor...

 

[belboid]

pretty fucking weak that one, entertaining enough mind,but not onoe that will be remembered as a classsic.

all that mawkish shit really must stop, its awful. badly written, breaks up the flow of the stories, and just plain naff. hopefully the doc will get a more kickass assistant soon.

 

[soulrebel]

I didn't say they weren't "clowns", or that the Doctor should be serious all the time: in fact, my problem with Eccleston/Tennant Doctor is that he's trying to be serious in the wrong way...

Eccentric yes, witty yes, silly yes, not knowing what's going on or getting caught out occasionally (tho he should act as if he knows what he's doing rather than being shocked/afraid - that was the brilliance of much of old Doctor Who, Baker genially smiling and offering the soldiers about to kill him a jellybaby, etc) - but not all fluffy and weepy, that's just not Dr Who style...

he's a British alien, not an American alien

also, the old series always had the Doctor as the central character and his assistants as secondary characters... the new Dr Who feels more like Rose is the central character and the Doctor secondary/responsive to her... it almost seems to want to play her as Arthur Dent and Tennant/Eccleston as Ford Prefect (except with weepy pseudo-seriousness instead of humour)...

 

[Flavour]

yeah that was bollox.

 

[Fenian]

Eccleston was in Cracker, but he played DCI Bilborough who got killed by Carlyle's character.

Whoops thanks and sir belchalot for correction.

I remain well-impressed with the uber-sultry Rose when in possessed-by cassandra mode. Like that scamp Charlie Brookner in Screen Burn I recognise the first episode in last series was not quite up to standard of the rest as well (possible exception being Boom Town), so I'm happy to give this one the benefit of the doubt, but thought rather a lot of ideas/characters were covered without being well developed.

For instance, I felt the whole nurses-as-cats bit, or rather, people with cat's masks on, could have been more developed. If cats evolve with caring tendencies, why do they lose all feline quality apart from claws?

Thought there was a wee bit of a plot hole with Cassandra eventually agreeing to morph out of the Doctor's or Rose's bodies to reside in that clone guy or whoever he was. I mean, why do it when she'd gone to all the trouble of setting up the brain-drain machine, because the Doctor shouted at her and she went gooey?

Anyway, was the idea of human beings being reproduced to fuel a high-tech superstructure in homage to the Matrix?

Is ambiguity over the face of Boe's last message to the Doctor going to be the "Bad Wolf" threadline running throughout this series, only to be revealed in the last episode?

And yes, Rose did take the foreground literally as well as figuratively more in this episode apropos the Doctor, and clearly enjoyed herself immensely dong so. Don't think there is the same frisson of electricity between her and Tennant as there was with Ecclestone on this viewing, which is why maybe the sexual element had to be made more overt.

I wonder if we'll see a return from the girl from the last series that escaped with the Doctor from the Big Brother house? If you look carefully she doesn't go all freeze frame skeleto-frazzled in the traditional Dalek way when they fire at her, just kinda puts her arms out and screams.

Still, excellent TV, I can't wait till next week.

 

[butterfly child]

Thought there was a wee bit of a plot hole with Cassandra eventually agreeing to morph out of the Doctor's or Rose's bodies to reside in that clone guy or whoever he was. I mean, why do it when she'd gone to all the trouble of setting up the brain-drain machine, because the Doctor shouted at her and she went gooey?

Methinks you think too much and don't just enjoy hokum for what it is.

 

[Fenian]

Methinks you think too much and don't just enjoy hokum for what it is.

(Makes mental note - stop thinking, especially of Billie Piper in Cassandra mode, and the cute girl from Big Brother on Satellite 5)

 

[FiFi]

Mmmnn, David Tennent!


Sorry, I came over a bit hormonal then.
I'll get over it!

 

[CNT36]

I wonder if we'll see a return from the girl from the last series that escaped with the Doctor from the Big Brother house? If you look carefully she doesn't go all freeze frame skeleto-frazzled in the traditional Dalek way when they fire at her, just kinda puts her arms out and screams.

I was wondering about that the other day. There is one scenen in the last episode of last series where you see a screen showing all the continents being destroyed. If this happened I really dont see much of humanity surviving intil 5000000023 or even to get the 4th great and whetever empire jobby on track. So I was thinking maybe Rose not only brought Jack back to life but all those who were killed by the daleks. Its not like they hung around long to see what happened. The face of Boe isn't millions of years old. He is billions of years old either that or hes had kids. On the weakest link he was the oldest inhabitant of some galaxy or another but that was billions of years before last nights episode.

 

[Fenian]

I was wondering about that the other day. There is one scenen in the last episode of last series where you see a screen showing all the continents being destroyed. If this happened I really dont see much of humanity surviving intil 5000000023 or even to get the 4th great and whetever empire jobby on track. So I was thinking maybe Rose not only brought Jack back to life but all those who were killed by the daleks. Its not like they hung around long to see what happened. The face of Boe isn't millions of years old. He is billions of years old either that or hes had kids. On the weakest link he was the oldest inhabitant of some galaxy or another but that was billions of years before last nights episode.

God you're right I'd forgotten that, it was a question Rose answered in the Weakest Link thing wasn't it?

If he's had kids or just been 'around' think it is a strong possibility the face of Boe's last secret will be this series's "Bad Wolf".

Looking forward to next week even more now

 

[CNT36]

My betting is its something to do with time lords being alive somewhere or something.

 

[ruffneck23]

sorry , but i thought tennant was rubbish

billie was up-to ( if not excelling ) her usual standard

story was a bit weak but il still tune in next week

 

[andy2002]

sorry , but i thought tennant was rubbish

I don't think he was rubbish, just not as good as he was in the Christmas Invasion. To be honest, I'm really missing Eccleston in the role. Sniff... :-(

 

[ruffneck23]

that might be it , i just dont think he is anywhere near as good as mr eccleson......

still time will tell

 

[andy2002]

that might be it , i just dont think he is anywhere near as good as mr eccleson......

still time will tell

It's weird, but even though I grew up with Pertwee and Baker in the role, I consider Eccleston to be far more "my Doctor" than those two, however good they were. As well as being a fucking good actor and having on-screen charisma to burn, it was just really refreshing to have a gruff, shaven-headed northerner as the Doctor. Tennant's OK but he's a bit of a throwback to the posh, dandyish years despite the mockney accent.

 

[ruffneck23]

It's weird, but even though I grew up with Pertwee and Baker in the role, I consider Eccleston to be far more "my Doctor" than those two, however good they were. As well as being a fucking good actor and having on-screen charisma to burn, it was just really refreshing to have a gruff, shaven-headed northerner as the Doctor. Tennant's OK but he's a bit of a throwback to the posh, dandyish years despite the mockney accent.

exactly , i agree with you completely and as we come from the same era i think we are right

 

[onenameshelley]

sorry , but i thought tennant was rubbish

*sticks fingers in ears and sings lalalalalalalaaaa*

Its not true he was still good, and dont forget the first episode that Mr. Ecclestone was in was not the best in the world so i think give it some time.

 

[T & P]

Chavtastic

Indeed.

I was actually expecting a separate thread in general ranting about middle class BBC liberals making another outrageous attack on the working classes, but I guess none of the chav campaigners were watching...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Indeed.

I was actually expecting a separate thread in general ranting about middle class BBC liberals making another outrageous attack on the working classes, but I guess none of the chav campaigners were watching...

As if the word chav will still exist in the mega future.

 

[strung out]

as if

 

[Termite Man]

*sticks fingers in ears and sings lalalalalalalaaaa*

Its not true he was still good, and dont forget the first episode that Mr. Ecclestone was in was not the best in the world so i think give it some time.

that was mr tennants second episode though !