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I had a whole theory about how “the Doctor” was a mythical title in the same way as “Bad Wolf”…and just how Rose was destined to defeat the Dalek army as “Bad Wolf”, “The Doctor” was destined to save her life afterwards.

I have since abandoned this idea and now proclaim the line to be a big bucket of cheesy balls.

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*wets self*

Ooooohhhh! I remember hearing whisperings of big news a while ago. Could this be it?

Failing news of the movie going into production, it’d be great to have a book…or better even – a DVD detaling the story of the movie that never was…with all available pre-production materials and interviews, etc…and a feature-length documentary. Like “Lost In Lamancha”.

Released as “Red Dwarf: Not The Movie”.

That’d be reet good.

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“You might have eyes on the back of your hands but you’ll have eyes in the back of your head when I’m done with you.”

That was really pitiful. Just doesn’t work. What was she inferring…that they would have to watch their backs? Or was it a corruption of “laughing on the other side of your face?” Or was it, as I expect, a nonsensical muddle of the two?

Urgh.

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Casualty…Holby City…

Does Eastenders do it now too?

I for one would like it applied to the news.

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Hehe, yep – that’s the one!

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Was looking through the series 6 making-of book the other day…and there’s pics of Rob and Doug on the set of Gunmen.

Bloody hell, they’ve aged.

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I always really liked the Long Game too. Wouldn’t go so far as to call it the best of series 1, but it’s certainly far from the worst.

Nice little parable of media control, it sets up the series finale and a frosty Pegg being creepy. What’s not to like?

Boom Town on the other hand…now that is plops.

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> But who do you think will have brought Cornell and Moffat in in the first place? Cornell was a sometime-Casualty writer who?d done a few Who books. Moffat hadn?t really done anything since a lacklustre fourth series of Coupling, and certainly wasn?t at all known for drama.

Absolutely, RTD brought them on board and, as is the case with his input elsewhere, created opportunities for the show to really flourish. No doubting his input in that respect has been fantastic. But now I’d like to see the reigns taken by someone who can also write a top class mature script and is creatively stronger overall…and really build on the foundations RTD has laid down.

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I was surprised to see that Chucklevision sports a film effect these days.

Really quite surreal.

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> but I honestly do not think there is ANYONE who would or could have done everything he has to make the show the biggest non-soap thing on British telly.

Very true and he should be applauded for that…but it doesn’t mean that his input makes it a BETTER show. It just ensures that it has mass appeal.

In the same way…the soaps always get the highest viewing figures…but they’re not the best dramas on TV.

RTD brought Doctor Who back in a way that made it successful. But when I look at episodes like Blink and Human Nature…shows where what I perceive to be RTD’s voice is more distant / less apparent, the quality just kicks up a gear.

And these shows don’t lose what makes new Who great / appealing. They just do it in a classier and more intelligent way. I sometimes think that RTD underestimates the audience.

I’m personally looking forward to RTD taking a back seat and letting someone else (Moffat / Cornell) come to the fore. I think they will maintain the current audience as well as really better capturing the spirit that makes old Who and new Who (at its best) so very very good.

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> As with episode one, Donna had moments that were awful, and moments that were really rather good (I don?t know why, but I thought in terms of the tone, the ?I bloody love you!? line worked perfectly).

Agreed. I just can’t make my mind up. I guess I don’t see her as a rounded character…I still see her as Tate with flashes of sketch show characters peeking through.

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“The fact that they?d made such a big deal out of the TARDIS translating from Latin, and then had a moment where the Doctor made a linguistic pun that didn?t actually work in translation (?sun? and ?son? may sound alike, but ?sol? and ?filius? most certainly do not).”

Bloody hell.

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*slaps head* Rose, yes. What a tool I be.

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BBC Press Release about episode 4…

“Martha Jones summons the Doctor back to modern-day Earth, but an old enemy lies in wait, as Russell T Davies’s Bafta Award-winning time-travelling drama continues. With the mysterious ATMOS devices spreading across the world, Donna discovers that even her own family is not safe from the alien threat ? but is it too late to save them?”

Pete was correct about ATMOS being significant. He wins the biscuits!

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> Er, who did we see last week?

Quite a few people but none of them were the Rani.

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That’s true. It’s being massively over-used.

Also wasn’t keen on the clunky comedy “Hey, the families of Pompeii were just like us!” business.

But overall, yes…a good episode.

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> (Honestly, for all the scorn I heap on Rose, and on his writing, all I really wish, after I?ve wiped the fan-froth from my lips, is that he?d go work on something else.)

Agreed! Russell T Davies gets right on my tits these days. Though I did like Rose.

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Well, this week’s was better. MUCH better. Tate was actually pretty good.

Loved the pyroviles….and oooh! Another reference to the shadow proclamation!

And then there was the “SHE is returning” prophecy (The Rani?)

and Tate has something “on her back”? Hmmm….

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Hmm…interesting. So…judging from these, the plot would have been quite different to anything we’d seen before. Sounds a clever way of having a stand-alone story which dovetails into (and presumably completes) the rest of the saga.

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Dick Wanker. Huhuhuh.

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Animations what have been done by fellows on Youtube. Ten shades of awesome.

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I dunno….they nicked the rumble pack and did good things with it. Same goes for analogue control.

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Ahahaha…the Delaware one. Yeah, that always gives me chills.

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Just struck me how horrid the McGann theme was

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTdGg9BIX4k

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Gah…this is driving me made. Are these the same or not?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEoQubpFVC0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peuCx_3PYZw

Either way, the new music is growing on me. You can really hear hints of every theme up to this one – even the McGann one.

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Dark Forces deathmatch, anyone?

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I’ll give you a game of Minesweeper or Day of the Tentacle.

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Holy heckfire. Just listened to that mix. It’s chuffing fantastic. Needs to replace the current theme.

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> Also, the Doctor mentions it to the Nestene Consciousness in series 2.

*cough*seriesone*cough*

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Ah, but Mario 64….dear, sweet Mario 64. It will always have a special place in my heart as the game which dropped my draw the mostest on initial viewing.

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The shadow proclamation seems to be some intergalactic peace agreement or code of conduct….or something.

It’s mentioned in Rose when the Nestene consciousness is being a naughty.

I’m wondering if the Adipose are going to return as big grown-up fierce creatures…perhaps pissed off that the taxi squished some of them. Or perhaps not.

Hmmm…..ATMOS…..let’s think.

The taxi was “ATMOS”…. and the Adipose created FEAR. Put them together and you have “ATMOSFEAR”. Atmosfear was a board game released in 1991….they very same year that Bobby Davro moved from ITV to the BBC. During 1991, he enjoyed ratings success with multiple shows such as “The Heat is On” and “Rock With Laughter”.

So the multiple of Davro? Of course….it’s DAVROS!

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>I?ll have to experiment with this as I?ve never before HAD a console with online functionality. I?m not even sure what you can/can?t do with it.

You can look at porn. Which is vaguely surreal and exciting on a Nintendo machine. I could hardly wank straight.

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>Also – no more fucking spaceships over London. No matter how pretty

Ha ha, yes – absolutely.

I would also appreciate the adipose pill. I would also sellotape the catflap shut so that in the morning not only would I have lost several pounds, but I would also have a cute little pilsbury dough boy pet thing.

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The Close Encounters ship made me smile at the time…but looking back…what was the point?

I think the first episodes often seem a bit messy. There’s a lot to set up and the A-story almost seems like an after-thought happening in the background.

Oooh, I did like Donna commenting on how the Doctor had changed thanks to the input of Martha – sparing the life of the Adipose due to them being innocents – quite in contrast to the previous streak of unforgiving nihilism that had led him to kill the baby Racnoss. That was good that was.

I guess everyone spotted the missing bees thing. Presume it’s a lead-up to the forthcoming episode featuring…er…. giant bees.

Wonder if the shadow proclamation is going to be this season’s Bad Wolf or of it was just a throwaway reference…

Wonder if the sonic pen has any deeper relevance…is there a Master or a Rani about?

I wonder if they will acknowledge or explain why the sontarans dress so much like the Judoon.

Ah, so many unanswered questions.

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> I thought that when I heard it on VOTD, but I have the MP3 on my iPod and it pops up in the shuffle every now and then. Each time it does, it grows on me a little. I still prefer the Series 1-3 theme, though. Overall it?s my favourite Who theme EVAR, very closely followed by Peter Davison?s theme. I actually have a very spiffy MP3 of the Series 1-3 theme re-created using elements from Davison?s theme if anyone wants me to share.

But…but I LOVED the theme on voyage of the damned. This one sounded different. Is the same arrangement? Am I going mental?

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I’ve got a really big television. Massive it is.

Well, actually the screen itself is only 14 inches but I sit REALLY close to it.

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Oh and I HATE the new theme-tune. It’s suddenly become utterly unmajestic and bland.

Didn’t notice the bin bit, Pete.

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Oooh ooh oooh!

You need to buy: Wario Ware, Excitetruck (MASSIVELY underrated racing insanity), Eledees, Zelda and Super Mario Galaxy. Obviously.

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I dunno…I swung between loving and hating it.

I liked the Adipose…Tennant was great…

The story itself felt like a left-over from the Sarah Jane Adventures…

Tate was about what I expected. I didn’t find her believable for a second. Her acting style seems completely out of synch with everyon else. All I could see was flashes of her sketch show characters… particularly the “You’ll never guess what” woman who thinks banal stuff is hilarious.

I did like that they’re just going to be mates, although it was overplayed. Overall I could take it or leave it.

I was one of the few who adored the Voyage of the Damned and after that this was quite a dip. I think “meh”, “buh” and “sneh” are all words that accuratelyt sum up my feelingds. Probably enjoyed it the least of any episode of the new series since Boom Town.

But hey…it’s still Doctor Who. And I still love it! So yes…I suppose I look like a dog with a caramel toffee.

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Yes… “rip his nipples” has a pleasant alliteration about it.

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Haha!

They should have kept it as the real ending.

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The ending of every Black Books episode is annoying…with a forced “punchline” or sudden cut.

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> It looks pretty awful when he screams though.

That was the bit I meant.

I do rather like the punchline of the Inquisitor. I always find the endings of Polymorph 2 and Quarantine buttock-clenchingly naff, though.

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Rrrrrd drrrr hrrrrrr rrrrrp thrrrrr rrrrrrssss.

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Shame the effect of muscular Lister is so bad.

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I think…everybody’s right except for me….so…so just forget I spoke..

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Can it include greased fisting?

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Reminded me of this video which uses a similar in a far more obvious way effect…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuGjBNSRi1c

Can’t see it terribly well because of Pootube.

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Not as creepy as everyone seems to think. There’s a fluidity to her motion which is unusual… looks like they’ve taken photos of her from every conceivable angle and then used a subtle morph between each one.

Very nice effect.

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*weeps quietly*

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