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Post by RitaLittlewood on May 14, 2013 14:18:55 GMT
I quite liked the Ice Warrior one but they're still too short and rush through a story.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on May 14, 2013 17:34:37 GMT
The house one was quite good.
I enjoyed the Crimson Horror. Diana Rigg was brilliant, as was Rachel Stirling. Loved the Tegan referance as well as "Brave heart, Clara."
Loved the Cyberman one. Nice seeing the past Doctors there. The Cybermen waking up was like Earthshock. At least they're not doing that pathetic "Delete" as under RTD. That was a good one.
Patsy
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Post by RitaLittlewood on May 14, 2013 17:49:24 GMT
So the secret? I think he's Rassilon!
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2013 6:43:10 GMT
TBH we've lost interest in the show (again). We've started watching episodes, then wandered off to do something else. This week's promises to be a good'un. Will probably watch it, but not holding my breath that it will actually be any better than what's gone before.. I think the problems are that:- 1) The one episode format doesn't really work. 2) The storylines are often feeble, and it's the production and look of the thing which seems to be taking priority. 3) Liked Matt Smith when he took over the role, but now getting bored with him, rather as I did with David Tennant towards the end of his stint. On the plus side, Jenna Louise Coleman has been brilliant - she looks gorgeous and having seen her in quite a few very different roles now, I think she is going to do really well in TV/films.  |
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Post by RitaLittlewood on May 15, 2013 18:00:51 GMT
I still like Matt but think it's more to do with budgets and the structure of the programme to fit Americans. People mocked it originally but you had stories and characters fleshed out rather than relying of gloss.
Patsy
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Post by sootycat on May 16, 2013 11:15:36 GMT
Whilst I still watch it, I have to say I don't get the same enjoyment I used to do.
I still prefer the Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker etc days with the clunky monsters, great storylines and plastic scenery etc.
I never actually saw any of it with Sylvester McCoy, don't know why.
Today's versions are very clever, but a lot of the farty arsy storylines leave me cold.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on May 16, 2013 17:49:40 GMT
I've always hated these story arcs. Just have good old stand alone ones.
Patsy
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Post by RitaLittlewood on May 18, 2013 19:31:19 GMT
Oooooooooooooooooooooookkkkkkkkkkkaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy! It just gets weirder. But if you plan to watch the anniversay special but skipped this, get onto iPlayer. November's picks up where this ended.
Patsy
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Post by RitaLittlewood on May 18, 2013 19:54:53 GMT
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Nov 17, 2013 0:21:50 GMT
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Nov 17, 2013 0:23:57 GMT
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Nov 17, 2013 0:26:20 GMT
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Nov 22, 2013 13:46:34 GMT
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Nov 24, 2013 14:19:10 GMT
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Nov 24, 2013 15:00:14 GMT
As for the actual ep - wow! Tom Baker at the end, Peter Capaldi as 13. Since it came back I've never been totally gripped like I was watching this. Stories too short and boring story arcs. I didn't even like Tennant. If I missed eps while I was away, I couldn't be arsed catching up. But Steven Moffatt wrote a fantastic episode for the 50th. I even liked Tennant! He had proper writing, not that mushy, wimp bollocks he had under RTD. Queen Elizabeth I was pointless. Zygons pointless too though great to see them back. They never had teeth before! Never saw the resolution. And RTD getting rid of Gallifrey has been reversed - yay!!!! The best decision SM ever made. RTD wrote the show for himself, getting rid and changing things he didn't like. The whole 'last of the Time Lords' thing was bollocks because there were many not even on Gallifrey and the Tardis needed the planet to function. SM is a proper fan and knows what fans want. RTD refused multi-Doctor stories. SM wrote the CiN one with Davison and Tennant. The dialogue between these three in the 50th was excellent and reminscent of The Three Doctors. It's the first one I'm willing to buy on DVD since it came back because I want to watch again, not for completism (only bought Eccleston & Tennant's 1st series and haven't watched those again). I can't wait to see where SM will go with Peter Capaldi but will be sad to see Matt go. He's been a proper Doctor.
Patsy
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Post by pearly queen on Aug 23, 2014 21:15:14 GMT
Opinion from a non Dr Who fan:
I really liked it! I watched it because I like Peter Capaldi and I was curious to see what would happen.
For me Jon Pertwee IS Dr Who, subsequent efforts never cut it; then Christopher Ecclestone came along, and he was good (although Billie Piper kinda spoiled it) but he bailed too early.
Can't stand David Tennant - vastly over-rated.
This is the first time I've been tempted to look at Dr Who for ages - and it was really entertaining: big on comedy and overall weirdness.
Shame they kept droning on about him being old all the time - Pertwee, Hartnell and Troughton were well older.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Aug 23, 2014 21:27:12 GMT
Crikey!  Madame Vastra's "Here we go again" before the opening titles was from Planet of the Spiders, just as Pertwee was about to regenerate into Tom Baker. The Brigadier said it then. I enjoyed it but felt it flagged. Think Capaldi is great though and am wanting to watch Pertwee again. He reminds me of him. Maybe it's the hair. Let's hope he doesn't go bouffant to cover baldness. LOL! Pertwee was my first. Tom used to be my favourite but after a resurgence of interest thanks to finding Enemy of the World & Web of Fear last year (this revival put me off big time!), Pertwee now is. I'm attending my first convention since Easter 2011 next month in Bristol and I think the buzz will be electric like 2005 when it came back. |
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Post by sillybint on Aug 24, 2014 19:26:35 GMT
I'm still sad about the poor dinosaur! Actually I almost didn't recover from the Christmas special because it still bothers me how people in a place where it's winter constantly and sunrise so brief feed themselves for hundreds or years and aren't all paler than an adipos (not sure I am spelling that right). The clockwork steam punk characters required a suspension of disbelief I struggled with. I have the Eccleston season on DVD but that's it for the new Who, have about half or more of the Pertwee era and agree it would be good to have some of it's qualities back.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 5:52:46 GMT
We really enjoyed it - agree that it seemed a bit 'padded' in places, but overall great entertainment. Good to have a nice amount of humour back in the show as well as a few scary moments - very well balanced. Love Madame Vastra and her little team - hope they become regular guests. Peter Capaldi good, but early days yet (Christopher Eccleston still my all-time favourite). Jenna Coleman great, tho' have heard she may be leaving (  ) - can anyone confirm? |
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Post by Nick on Aug 25, 2014 9:06:53 GMT
I have read that Jenna will leave at Christmas
I liked Christopher Eccleston too
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Aug 25, 2014 11:50:15 GMT
Christopher Eccleston was good. Pity it was The Rose Show.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 5:22:59 GMT
Well after a great season opener, we get the 'difficult second album'.  Apart from the introduction of the potentially interesting character of Danny Pink, I found the episode tedious, long-winded and just plain dull. ...and I'm sorry but isn't it time we moved on from the Daleks? Is it REALLY necessary to have a storyline about them in every series? They just look so dated now. |
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Post by sootycat on Aug 31, 2014 10:52:07 GMT
I am not much into this new series so far.
Danny Pink could work and I do like Peter Capaldi, He reminds me a bit of the older Doctors.
Although I love the Daleks I am not sure I liked this SL.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Aug 31, 2014 14:39:01 GMT
I haven't seen it yet but completely agree. Nice breaks between 1967-72 then 75-79 before once per Doctor until the end. There's a rumour the Nation estate demanded they're used in every series. Doesn't explain the crappy robotic Cybermen clomping in every series either though.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Sept 1, 2014 18:56:55 GMT
Caught up now. Reminded me of Invisible Enemy, shrinking to be put inside something (in that instance it was clones of the Doctor and Leela injected into the Doctor) and also Evil of the Daleks. I was expecting Rusty to go, "Trains, trains".
DOCTOR: We've done it! Maxtible, they've got the human factor. We've done it! What are they doing now? Look, they're all joining in. They're playing train!
(The Doctor blows on his recorder.)
DALEKS: Trains, trains, trains, trains.
DOCTOR: Oh! Oh, now what is it? Oh, we're on a roundabout. They're playing roundabout. Oh, I'm getting dizzy. Oh, dear. Oh, I'm dizzy! Oh, I'm dizzy.
DALEKS: Diz-zy, diz-zy, dizzy, Doctor.
DOCTOR: Maxtible, do you hear that? They've got a sense of humour.
Steven Moffatt apparently knew The Web of Fear had been found, hence brining back the Great Intelligence. I wonder if he knows whether Evil is found, hence this nice Dalek.
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Madame Vastra's "Here we go again" before the opening titles was from Planet of the Spiders, just as Pertwee was about to regenerate into Tom Baker. The Brigadier said it then. I enjoyed it but felt it flagged. Think Capaldi is great though and am wanting to watch Pertwee again. He reminds me of him. Maybe it's the hair. Let's hope he doesn't go bouffant to cover baldness. LOL! Pertwee was my first. Tom used to be my favourite but after a resurgence of interest thanks to finding Enemy of the World & Web of Fear last year (this revival put me off big time!), Pertwee now is. I'm attending my first convention since Easter 2011 next month in Bristol and I think the buzz will be electric like 2005 when it came back.
) - can anyone confirm?
