Doctor Who and the Lack of Fatal Spoilers

[Seb Patrick]

Right, so this thread (also known as “The Ian Symes Memorial Thread”) is for talking about Doctor Who – “classic” series or new – but without spoilers. Our rule here is that if it’s been broadcast, OR it’s been in official publicity (e.g. BBC website, Radio Times), then you can discuss it here. Anything else, and you need to take it to the other thread.

Just before we shut down the old thread, Phil1034 was asking :

Just curious anyone going to ‘Novelcon’ at The Lass O’Gowrie in Manchester on Sunday?

http://www.kasterborous.com/news.asp?ac=8&id=2898

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[JamesTC]

I watch it anyway. It was funnier than usual. Not a very good Who quiz though, you’d think they would have a question on spectrox toxemia, you know, make it a little harder.

[hummingbird]

Bernard Cribbins was a joy. Loved Catherine Tate too – is she really that ditsy or was it all an act?

[Seb Patrick]

FUCKIN’ FINALLY

Also :

I LOVE TOYS.

[ChrisM]

>Loved Catherine Tate too – is she really that ditsy or was it all an act?

In most of the interviews I’ve seen she is like that. I quite like her too. I can understand people’s dislike of her show due to the repetitive nature* with the catch-phrases, but….[whisper mode]I quite liked that too.[/whisper mode]

Ok, put down the bazookoids, I’m backing out of the room…

*One person’s running gag is anothers lazy writing, etc. I don’t mind running gags, as long as they don’t run tooo looooong. And I think she did overdo it, despite my liking the show overall. Gran’s a great character.

[Andrew]

Tate was great in Who, and in Big Train. Absolution is easily granted.

[Ben Paddon]

Doctor Who stuff is so hard to find in the US. Even harder when you’re broke.

[hummingbird]

> Gran?s a great character.

Yeah, I love her characters, and her performances in general, but I’m not a huge fan of her show.

[Tarka Dal]

> Tate was great in Who, and in Big Train. Absolution is easily granted.

Some Who. Some of it’s she’s awful. Admittedly a lot of that could be down to the writing.

Re-watched the last four episodes of series four over the last two days whilst laid up with flu. The Stolen Earth / Journey’s End is marvellous isn’t it? Utterly bonkers, but so in it’s approach to just throwing everything including the kitchen sink into that finale.

[Tarka Dal]

http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=the_score_to_beat_doctor

Is anybody else surprised by this list? I’d expect the Xmas Specials to be near the top, but at the other end I’m genuinely suprised to see several of my favourite episodes in the bottom 10. Silence of the Library the least watched of all time? Does anyone know what it was up against that weekend?

[Michael Warren]

^It was up against the final of Britain’s Got Talent.

http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2008/06/silence-in-library-final-ratings.html

[Tarka Dal]

Thank you Michael.

[Dave]

I’ve just re-watched Planet Of The Dead, out of its initial Easter-Saturday-BTE-expectation-context and it isn’t nearly as bad as I remembered.

[Jonathan Capps]

> I?ve just re-watched Planet Of The Dead, out of its initial Easter-Saturday-BTE-expectation-context and it isn?t nearly as bad as I remembered.

Funny, that, because I watched the last ten minutes on Friday night and if anything it was worse than I remembered. By any TV standards, it’s complete horseshit.

[Dave]

>Funny, that, because I watched the last ten minutes on Friday night and if anything it was worse than I remembered. By any TV standards, it?s complete horseshit.

I remembered it as much much worse.

[ChrisM]

> it?s complete horseshit.

A delicacy to the fly people apparently. ;)

[Phil1034]

> By any TV standards, it?s complete horseshit.

I disagree, yet I can’t seem to articulate why. I just liked it.

[pfm]

> horseshit.

This.

> The Stolen Earth / Journey?s End is marvellous isn?t it?

Marvellous shit, maybe. On broadcast I though ‘great, this is much better than Last of the Time Lords’ and YES it is, but it’s still godawful, with a few exceptions. I hate the adventures-of-Martha parts, hate anything involving Jackie and Mickey, hate hate hate the alt-Doctor/Rose ending, hate the wank that’s spurting from the screen. Though you’ve got to love Catherine Tate’s performance and Donna’s fate. Davros is pretty good but we need him back for another more sinister round IMO(…). Daleks OK. The rest just…bah. Turn Left was bloody brilliant though.

Btw there’s one bit that I hate more than anything and I don’t know why, it’s when they’re being marched through the ship and Sarah Jane’s line ‘one step closer to the Doctor’.

[Seb Patrick]

Everything bad in Stolen Earth/Journey’s End is justified/excused by the moment Davros spots Sarah Jane and recognises her.

(or indeed by every moment Davros is onscreen. But especially that one. For my money, still the absolute best the new series has done at bringing back an old villain. Bleach is terrifyingly brilliant at combining both Wisher and Molloy’s performances)

[Dave]

Tennant’s Text the Nation:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamandjoe/2010/01/doctor-who-text-the-nation.shtml

[Pete Part Three]

*claps*

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