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stuneville Administrator
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 Posted: 28-05-2006 14:17 Post subject: |
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| Mob1138 wrote: | | Ravenstone wrote: |
Least favourite -
Well, much as it pains me to say it - the Cybermen. I looked forward to them so much, and they looked great, but I just thought the episodes were rather weak. |
Season 2 has generally been very, very weak so far. ..... and the Cybermen episodes were dismal. |
I agree that the Cybermen episode did over-egg the pudding a bit: it felt like they'd fleshed it out to two episodes just so they could jam a cliff-hanger in the middle. However, I totally disagree that it was dismal. And I'm enjoying this series over all: good stories (by and large) nippily told, rather than spreading one wonky premise very thinly over six weeks. |
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| ghostdog19 |
| Posted: 28-05-2006 18:28 Post subject: |
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girl in the fireplace has been my favourite episode thus far.
The cthuloid squidish ood look cool as did the trailer for the imposible planet. Looking forward to it. |
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| Doctor_Occupant Great Old One Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Total posts: 369 Location: Somewhere dusty and mostly red Age: 44 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 28-05-2006 18:47 Post subject: |
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I've enjoyed it all so far, apart from Tennant being Shouty Threat Doctor Who Never Delivers on the Grandiose Comments.
And even that's fun.
Especially this week, when he gets handed his gallifreyan behind by a right hook. So much for 'The Lonely God'. |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 28-05-2006 22:15 Post subject: |
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| Yeah...re: tennant doc.....v.angry and shouty.........should be good, but why the rose pandering goofyness mcChav traits? While I like the idea of an angry doc, and can stomach the lonely god stuff..........Jarvis Cocker is not scarey....repeat........... |
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| Ravenstone I suffer bad press in Genesis. I may sue...
The Original Sin Joined: 01 Aug 2001 Total posts: 6073 Location: Outside the Garden of Eden, with my flamin' sword Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 28-05-2006 22:52 Post subject: |
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I think perhaps the second part of the Cybermen story was better than the first. At least, I liked some of the Doctor's lines more! "I'd say you were a genius, but I'm in the room" for starters. I dunno. Perhaps I looked forward to it too much or something. And, speaking as one who's never found the Rose angle that annoying before, I was getting really fed up of it in those two episodes.
I missed last night's on account of dashing out on a mercy mission whilst staying at my Mom and Dad's for the weekend. Friend got stranded by a taxi driver who refused to pick him up - because he's disabled and it would take too long to get him into the car.  |
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| Moooksta Muppet
Joined: 26 May 2006 Total posts: 1776 Location: Muppet Labs Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 28-05-2006 23:49 Post subject: |
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| Ravenstone wrote: | | I think perhaps the second part of the Cybermen story was better than the first. |
I'd agree with you there, it felt like the old Doc episodes in that everyone splits up with different objectives and then all come together at the end. And any London location (Battersea) just reminds of the Pertwee era stories. I thought the second Cyberman episode was one of the best.
I'm sure Mickey / Thickey will be back along with the bad guys too!
I gotta say though I'm a bit fed up with the Doctor getting kissed every other episode. No offense to Mr. Davis but his episodes aren't the great ones IMHO.
mooks out |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 28-05-2006 23:52 Post subject: |
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| Agree with the above. The 'shocking' angles etc are sooooooo passe |
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| Mob1138 Great Old One Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 268 Location: Bristol Age: 46 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 29-05-2006 10:54 Post subject: |
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| stuneville wrote: | | Mob1138 wrote: | | Ravenstone wrote: |
Least favourite -
Well, much as it pains me to say it - the Cybermen. I looked forward to them so much, and they looked great, but I just thought the episodes were rather weak. |
Season 2 has generally been very, very weak so far. ..... and the Cybermen episodes were dismal. |
I agree that the Cybermen episode did over-egg the pudding a bit: it felt like they'd fleshed it out to two episodes just so they could jam a cliff-hanger in the middle. However, I totally disagree that it was dismal. And I'm enjoying this series over all: good stories (by and large) nippily told, rather than spreading one wonky premise very thinly over six weeks. |
Fair enough if you liked it, i found the story horribly clunky, poorly acted and as for the resolution to the cliffhanger (ooo, thats handy innit) was just terrible. The redesign of the Cybermen was great, as was the idea of alternate worlds but it was wasted to drag the increasingly tedious Rose subplot to the fore.
This series has had high pointsbut it needs to tighten up on the script as some episodes have been too sloppy (New Earth, the Cybermen ones). |
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| Peripart is only passing through
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| Posted: 29-05-2006 14:21 Post subject: |
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So far this season, I've really enjoyed most of the stories. The Cybermen episodes were great, if only for nostalgic reasons, although I did get my knickers in a twist trying to resolve the knotty problem of whether this story has any connection with the birth of the Cybermen in the "normal" Who universe.
The best story, against my expectations, was "The Girl in the Fireplace", which really handled the emotional problems of time-travel in a believable way - just a great tale. This week, however, was rubbish. Watchable rubbish, but will anyone ever want to re-watch "The Wire"? I doubt it very much.
I think this one showed up the limitations with the new episode lengths - everything seemed too rushed, the story had to be told in just over 40 minutes. I'm all for telling the story in one go (how frustrating was it in the old series to have to watch the programme at 25 minutes per week?), but perhaps 60 minutes might serve the show better. Mind you, it didn't help that we wasted time on more father-based soap-opera crap - they could've lost 5 minutes of that, and found time for 5 minutes more of the Doctor's part of the story.
I agree with previous posters re Tennant's Doctor, though - he's great, but he regularly gets really angry, then has to calm down rapidly for the story to progress. It's all getting a bit tiring, especially when sontrasted with the general arsing around which occurs when the Doctor and Rose are together. |
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| stuneville Administrator
Joined: 09 Mar 2002 Total posts: 10230 Location: FTMB HQ Age: 46 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 29-05-2006 15:08 Post subject: |
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| Peripart wrote: | | I think this one showed up the limitations with the new episode lengths - everything seemed too rushed, the story had to be told in just over 40 minutes. I'm all for telling the story in one go (how frustrating was it in the old series to have to watch the programme at 25 minutes per week?), but perhaps 60 minutes might serve the show better. |
Nope - 45-50 minutes is the optimum if they want to sell it abroad, particularly to the USA. As you no doubt know already, that's why Star Trek etc are all that length when shown on the Beeb as there's no commercials. US television schedules everything based on multiples of 30 minutes, ads included, so a 1 hour BBC production would air (uncut) for 1 hour 20 minutes odd over there. Very difficult to shoehorn that into a schedule that by and large starts programmes on the hour or half-past.
Look what happens when UK Gold shows BBC half-hour programmes. | Quote: | | Mind you, it didn't help that we wasted time on more father-based soap-opera crap - they could've lost 5 minutes of that, and found time for 5 minutes more of the Doctor's part of the story. |
Yeah - Jamie Foreman's a good actor, but they largely wasted him in this. What sort of point was Gatiss trying to make there? Made sense to have a patriotic ex-serviceman in the Coronation year, but why make him a bully (apart from giving Rose an excuse to pass on some more of her utterly irrelevant to the story girl-power schtick)? |
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| Ravenstone I suffer bad press in Genesis. I may sue...
The Original Sin Joined: 01 Aug 2001 Total posts: 6073 Location: Outside the Garden of Eden, with my flamin' sword Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 29-05-2006 17:00 Post subject: |
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| stuneville wrote: | | giving Rose an excuse to pass on some more of her utterly irrelevant to the story girl-power schtick)? |
Ah yes. What little I did catch included what is obviously Rose's favourite Trivial Pursuit question. Makes you want to slap her, dunnit? |
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| painy2 Thar she blows
Great Old One Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Total posts: 694 Location: At my PC Age: 83 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-05-2006 02:08 Post subject: |
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Ive never been interested in Doctor who in the slightest, I found the old episodes boring and extremeley difficult watch, the acting was shoddy and the plots and stories bad.
I watched the first (new series) season with Chris Eccleston and was pleasantly surprised by some of the episodes, a couple of them were really bad but overall it was an ok series, I thought he played the Doctor well even if he was a little aggresive at times, the trouble is my children are now hooked on Doctor who and have to watch it at least 4 times a day (why did I get Sky+!) to get their fix.
But that also means I have to watch it, I thought it would be more a case of enduring the second new series, mainly because ive never really liked David Tennant as an actor and the Christmas special really didnt do a lot for him. I have however enjoyed this series very much, I agree that The Girl in the fireplace episode was excellent and the "poorly" people (thats what my children call it) episode was also good.
The cyberman episode promised so much and delivered very little, the first episode was bordering on the tedious, but it did build up to an exciting climax, and I was waiting with anticipation for the conclusion, when the conclusion came I was gutted, the Doctor pulled this weapon out of his pocket that he must have summoned from somewhere and wiped them out in one shot (boring), then it did really get worse from there on.
David Tennant has surprised me a great deal and is in fact a very good Doctor, Billie piper is a terrible sidekick and should be replaced, her acting is pathetic at times.
I wont be going back to pursue the older episodes, and have no real desire to understand anything about the Doctors universe, to me they are just entertaining sci-fi shows that I can enjoy with my children in the evening. |
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| Doctor_Occupant Great Old One Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Total posts: 369 Location: Somewhere dusty and mostly red Age: 44 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-05-2006 14:44 Post subject: |
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| painy2 wrote: |
I wont be going back to pursue the older episodes, and have no real desire to understand anything about the Doctors universe, to me they are just entertaining sci-fi shows that I can enjoy with my children in the evening. |
Yay!
Well, that's the purpose of the show. So if it's done that, and the kids like it, then huzzah!
A word of warning. The whisper from a Beeb insider is that the next episode (which should be 'The Impossible Planet') is scary. Not 'hide behind the sofa' scary but 'coming soon to a nightmare near you' scary.
I'm looking forward to it. |
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| Kellydandodi Great Old One Joined: 22 May 2006 Total posts: 137 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 30-05-2006 15:19 Post subject: |
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| There's been David Icke style stuff in the Slitheen and Werewolf episodes - government and royalty secretly aliens. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-05-2006 18:49 Post subject: |
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| How about David Icke as the Master? |
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