Doctor Who

[Smeg4Brains]

I’m surprised that this hasn’t already been mentioned but what did everybody think of Dr Who yesterday. Liked the introduction to Martha, wasn’t sure about the old woman using a straw to suck out the blood. I’ve got a feeling the Rhino things will come back at some point.

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[John Hoare]

With regards to Father’s Day – oddly enough, I think it’s the episode that probably made me care about Rose as a character. It’s easy to scoff at the dead father stuff if it doesn’t work for you, but it really did for me. Just that shot of her in tears near the beginning when she misses her chance… well, it resonated with me, put it like that. That whole situation is something I often wondered about myself.

Rose does work as an identification character for the show for me. Someone I’m completely like as a character? No. Someone who I would want to hang around with? Absolutely not. But someone who got stuck in a dead end job and needs to realise just how wonderful the world can be, if you grab hold of it and live life? Oh yes.

[muldoon]

Johnster! If you post a link to it here, that’s a sure way that I’ll find this place! Thanks guy.

Love you! x

[John Hoare]

I must admit, I predicted you’d show up, but that kind of timescale is pretty impressive.

[pfm]

Father’s Day is definitely one of the top episodes for me. Not just for the Rose/Pete emotional stuff (which is handled extremely well, just imagine how shit it could have been) also for the way it brought something new to Who with the idea that if a time traveller fucks with his/her history in this way then there’s a price to be paid in the form of…well, a monster-of-the-week (but a very good one).

And now, the Human Nature 2-parter makes Father’s Day an even better episode – we see the Doctor in Father’s Day wanting to help the married couple and saying ‘I’ve never had a life like that’. Paul Cornell was obviously thinking of his own book, Human Nature, when he wrote that part in Father’s Day. He certainly knows what he’s doing that Cornell.

By the way, don’t you just love how John Smith WAS a better person than the Doctor and how they allowed us as an audience to feel a bit pissed off that the Doctor was back even though he’s the main character of the show? Tennant did this brilliantly by going into full-on Doctor mode when he returned. And then they have him being the most cold and evil he’s ever been in his ‘dealing’ with the Family of Blood (would even the 9th Doctor have gone that far?)

Maybe Tennant’s best line delivery ever was the frightened ‘What sort of a man is that??’ He can fucking act when he wants to.

[Smeg4Brains]

> Maybe Tennant?s best line delivery ever was the frightened ?What sort of a man is that??? He can fucking act when he wants to.

I was thinking the exact same but the other day my cousin said “Tennant is losing his touch” he then went on to say “David Schwimmer from Friends would be a good Doctor”….I have disowned him.

[Tanya Jones]

>Rose does work as an identification character for the show for me. Someone I?m completely like as a character? No. Someone who I would want to hang around with? Absolutely not. But someone who got stuck in a dead end job and needs to realise just how wonderful the world can be, if you grab hold of it and live life? Oh yes.

Also, she doesn’t seem particularly shallow in the show, IMO. As Moffat said, that line about the department store giving her ‘airs and graces’ tells you everything you need to know about Rose. She’s a brave, open-minded person who simply didn’t have the chance to develop her best side before she met the Doctor.

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