Doctor Who - Spoilers!

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If we are goign to get a really crappy Love & Monsters off-world planet type episode, they can use Earth.

Wow, you just really didn't like Love & Monsters, did you?

It's actually one of my favorites. It reminded me of the 3rd Season Buffy where we follow Xander around and never really get involved with Buffy (even though she saves the world in that episode [again]).

I like that the new Who has a wide variety of narratives. On one end there are the Love & Monsters and Father's Day type stories that are more personal and go against the typical story paradyne and on the other end we have the Satan Pit and Daleks In Manhattan type stories that embrace the escapist, boys fiction aspect of the show. In the middle are probably the best ones such as The Christmas Bride and Girl in the Fireplace.

Though what really makes Girl in the Fireplace and Empty Child/Doctor Dances so good is the writing that the Coupling creater did. Makes me wish the thought police in Utah hadn't blocked the airing of Coupling when it was launched on NBC. We need more Steven Moffat on TV.

 

[Darth Caedus]

Wow, you just really didn't like Love & Monsters, did you?

It's actually one of my favorites. It reminded me of the 3rd Season Buffy where we follow Xander around and never really get involved with Buffy (even though she saves the world in that episode [again]).

I like that the new Who has a wide variety of narratives. On one end there are the Love & Monsters and Father's Day type stories that are more personal and go against the typical story paradyne and on the other end we have the Satan Pit and Daleks In Manhattan type stories that embrace the escapist, boys fiction aspect of the show. In the middle are probably the best ones such as The Christmas Bride and Girl in the Fireplace.

Though what really makes Girl in the Fireplace and Empty Child/Doctor Dances so good is the writing that the Coupling creater did. Makes me wish the thought police in Utah hadn't blocked the airing of Coupling when it was launched on NBC. We need more Steven Moffat on TV.

I liked Love & Monsters as much as I like an episode of Will and Grace. And it doesn't take a lot of understand how much I hate that show.

 

[Karma]

Good episode tonight

2 week break now but showed a trailer for the rest of the season.......Captain Jack & the master!!!

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/doctorwho/bb/special_preview_16x9_bb.rm

 

[Memnoch]

Am I the only one not happy about the 2 week break? I was all happy and then when I saw Doctor Who will return in 2 weeks I let out a huge gasp follow by a loud NO.

Anyway, now we know that Mr. Saxon caused the rift in Martha's family most likely though the knowlege of her cousins death. All I know is that I cannot wait to see Jack back (even though there is a HUGE continuity problem between the shows now, THANKS RTD KEEP YOUR DAMN STORIES STRAIGHT!) and from here out it looks super exciting.

 

[JABBATHERIDGE]

I thought the idea of Harold Saxon going through Martha's family to split her and the Doctor up was a pretty cool subplot. Can't wait to see what happens with it and it was nice there's a bit of a mini "arc" going on through this season.

The episode was pretty decent and the last couple of weeks have been a HUGE improvement over the abysimal Gridlock.

I agree Menmoch21, I'm really ticked at the way the BBC has treated Dr Who as a show this year overall, are they trying to kill it?

The time slot has been different almost every week, which means the casual viewer will have missed episodes because they'll have forgotten they were on earlier or later and now they're skipping a week in the middle of the series.

Not a great way to treat a show whose Christmas Special this year got far bigger ratings than Corrie.

 

[JABBATHERIDGE]

My next post will contain minor plot spoilers for the next few episodes of Dr Who, nothing more detailed than reading a line in the TV guide, but if you don't want to know what's coming up skip over it.



SPOILERS AHEAD

 

[JABBATHERIDGE]

Episode 7 - 42 - The Tardis lands on a spaceship which is hurtling towards the sun. In 42 minutes it's barbecue time for feisty Captain McDonnell, her blue collar SS Pentallian crew and their mysterious new guests the Doctor and Martha Jones. As if impending immolation isn't enough, a strange force has infiltrated the ship and is taking people over, one by one...........

Episodes 8 & 9 - Human Nature/The Family Of Blood - John Smith is very much a product of his time : 1913. A simple, decent history teacher with an eye for colleague Joan Redfern, he enlightens young minds at the Farringham School For Boys. Yet hidden somewhere beyond those honest eyes is another very different man. A man who travels through time and space. A man who Martha Jones was getting to know well. Trouble is, John Smith doesn't know this man. John Smith just wants to live his life. But when The Family Of Blood arrives this becomes increasingly difficult..........

 

[Rogue Trooper]

last night episode was alright but is the guy that whispered in martha mums ear The Master. I dont really know anything about this guy except that in the Paul McMann TV Movie he liked to wear oriental cloths and wasted his lives.
The monster really did scare my little sister, it is fantastic to see hear sitting on the floor watching Who then see that thing running after the doctor and my sis jump onto the sofa and put a pillow in front of her for protection.
The best bit was the trailer, looking forward to seeing captain Jack but that bloody euro-vision. I HATE euro-vision, damn Terry Wogan. A 2 week wait and i dont know what the beeb are up to moving the time of Who around 6.30, 6.45, 6.50. It should always starts at 7.00 i keep missing the start and have to wait for it ON-demand.

 

[Memnoch]

Not the Master... at least not yet. I believe it was either Mr. Saxon himself or one of his political underlings.

 

[JABBATHERIDGE]

Yeah I don't think the guy last night was Mr Saxon himself, from what I've heard John Simm is going to play Mr Saxon.

He was glimpsed at the end of the new trailers, the guy with the breathing mask over his face, he was also the lead in a British fantasy series called Life On Mars.

 

[Karma]

OK the master spoilers ahead, so you've been warned


































I've heard that when the Doc meets the professor in a future episode, he is an old guy and is unaware that & only finds out he is the master when he sees him regenerate into a younger person (simm)

 

[JABBATHERIDGE]

Cool, really looking forward to seeing how they handle The Master, they've done such a great job with the other classic Who villains.

 

[Darth Caedus]

Going to watch the new episode later tonight, can't wait for that. I really hope the master is well done. I just watched the 1996 TV Movie, and nothing against Eric Roberts, but I sure as hell hope he isn't like that.

Episode 7 - 42 - The Tardis lands on a spaceship which is hurtling towards the sun. In 42 minutes it's barbecue time for feisty Captain McDonnell, her blue collar SS Pentallian crew and their mysterious new guests the Doctor and Martha Jones. As if impending immolation isn't enough, a strange force has infiltrated the ship and is taking people over, one by one...........

Well that sounds similar to The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit. If so, I don't mind, that was an awesome episode set. Question, are there going to be any more two part episodes?

 

[Memnoch]

After 42 I beleive is a 2 parter, then Utopia leading into Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords.

 

[JABBATHERIDGE]

Yeah episodes 8 and 9 Human Nature and Family Of Blood are a two parter and the season finale Sound Of Drums and Last Of The Timelords is also a two parter.

The new Dr Who seems to have settled into a tradition of three two parters a year, which I like cos the two parters are always more epic

 

[Rogue Trooper]

I think 2 parters are the way Doctor Who should be so you have as amny cliffhanger as possible. I always thought it was cool that the older Whos are only like 20 minute episode which last for weeks with loads of cliifhanger, either a girl screaming or the first sight of the monster.
At work we where talking about who this Saxon bloke is. it seems to be like Torchwood as it was mentioned last episode and in New New York there were posters on the walls in the alley saying Vote Saxon. Did i miss something about this guy in other episodes.

 

[Darth Caedus]

Just watched The Lazarus Experiment and I enjoyed it, as well as any other episode of the season so far. The end was by far the best, with all the previews for the upcoming episodes. Captain Jack, Saxon, etc. Can't wait until then. I for one am kind of happy a new episode is 2 weeks away. That gives me more time to study and less time on here talking about the new episode. :chew :chew

 

[Darth Caedus]

I was all excited to see the new episode tonight, but then remembered there was none.

 

[Memnoch]

CURSE YOU ERUOVISION, CURSE YOU!!!

 

[JABBATHERIDGE]

Yeah it did feel like there was something missing this saturday, I'm sure that someone at the BBC is trying to kill the show.

Maybe there's a Mr Saxon works in the scheduling department there, which is why it's not been on at the same time every week