[Vesper]

Jusentantaka, on 08 April 2010 - 06:54 PM, said:

Cocoreturns, on 08 April 2010 - 05:59 PM, said:

Jusentantaka, on 08 April 2010 - 03:54 AM, said:

His horrificating uglyness definitely detracts for me... its just not right.

We had to put up with Catherine Tate for a season.

Deal with it.

Yeah, but he is 'fat woman running around in hot pants with five pounds of leg hair showing' ugly. Tate wasn't even close to that bad.

/burn
Agreed. The new guy is fugly.

jitsukerr, on 10 April 2010 - 03:47 PM, said:

Tennant is totally classically good looking! He also, of course, has the whole Scottish accent thing going for him.

Tennant was positively handsome. Seriously. He had a tendency to over-react in his facial expressions, but that was the quirky part that made him so amusing to watch.

[Sir Thursday]

Got to say though, I'm really impressed by Matt Smith's acting, regardless of what you girls think of his looks. He manages to pull off every different shade of oddball the Doctor needs to, plus he got the anger pretty much spot on in this ep too.


Sir Thursday

[Centzon Totochtin]

I agree I am enjoying the new season so far

[QuickTidal]

Yeah, loved seeing the trademark "dark" Doctor's anger show up again. Plus I really liked the whole Star Whale thing in The Beast Below. It was really nice to see the Doctor's anger tempered by Amy proving herself and finding the RIGHT way out of the situation. LOVED that. Great season so far.

I agree with Matt Smith's acting. He blows me away! So impressed.

[caladanbrood]

Is he gonna keep making the wrong choices in every episode? I hope not...

[QuickTidal]

caladanbrood, on 12 April 2010 - 01:04 PM, said:

Is he gonna keep making the wrong choices in every episode? I hope not...

I am fully convinced he only did that this time to show that he needed Amy. Tennant had bad choices with Donna in Runaway Bride.

We shall see.

[stone monkey]

Tennant's "Aren't I so cute and quirky?" schtick did get a little old, from time to time, for those of us (male and female) who weren't gazing at him in misty, doe-eyed adoration, though.

Smith seems to inhabit the role of the Doctor a bit differently. Although I do expect there are some fangirls (and -boys) who are doing the whole doe-eyed thing at him as well, as there's no accounting for taste, and I hazard there are for Karen Gillen too (who, in a way, does seem to epitomise the whole "Something for the Dads" ethos that brought us Leela in her way-too-short skirts and Peri's unfeasable cleavage, way back when). Smith appears to have assumed the mannerisms, and occasionally speech patterns, of an old man (and a fairly mercurial one at that) in what would appear to be a barely pubescent body; which is a welcome and different approach to Tennant's portrayal of the Doctor as alpha-geek.

I'm liking where Moffat is taking the characters and the series and he does seem to have brought the focus back to it being more of a children's series, but with enough flashes of adult wit and intelligence to keep older viewers happy. His "dark fairy tale" style is welcome too; I saw an interview with him where he said that fairy tales were the old way of breaking the news to children that there actually are people and things out there that want to eat you. I think children appreciate the honesty of that approach.

I do want to see where he's going with the whole "Crack in Space and Time" story arc that he's building too... Is it the Doctor? Is it Amy? Is it even the TARDIS? Or is it something else entirely different? We'll just have to keep watching.

[Illuyankas]

They seem to be trying to hook the Twilight audience, judging from the casting.

[QuickTidal]

Illuyankas, on 12 April 2010 - 10:36 PM, said:

They seem to be trying to hook the Twilight audience, judging from the casting.

No sir, not even a little bit.

Steven Moffat set out to cast an older Doctor, someone even older than Tennant. He was thinking someone closer to their 50's, but was so entirely blown away by Smith's audition for the character that he decided they needed to cast him in the role.

Twilight....ugh...give the best UK television creator/writer a little more credit man.

[Stalker]

Apologies if this has been posted before but I don't want to read the thread until this season begins airing this saturday in the US. Or longer even, no spoilers are good hehe. I haven't been able to find them online so just waiting it out.

Anyway, I read an article here about how there will be 4 interactive "episodes" of Doctor Who that tie into the current season. The quote is that "There aren't 13 episodes of Doctor Who this year, there are 17 - four of which are interactive. Everything you see and experience within the game is part of the Doctor Who universe: we'll be taking you to places you've only ever dreamed about seeing - including locations impossible to create on television." - Piers Wenger (executive producer).

This could be great if it isn't really childish. Either way, I'm interested.

[caladanbrood]

 

stone monkey, on 12 April 2010 - 10:33 PM, said:

I do want to see where he's going with the whole "Crack in Space and Time" story arc that he's building too... Is it the Doctor? Is it Amy? Is it even the TARDIS? Or is it something else entirely different? We'll just have to keep watching.

I had a bit of a geek-rage about this story arc at the end of episode two.


So these "cracks" are in space-time, not in physical things. Quote "If you moved the wall, the crack would stay put" so why, at the end of episode two, is

Spoiler

the massive crack on the side of Starship UK moving with the ship after they'd made such a specific point about that in episode one??

This post has been edited by caladanbrood: 13 April 2010 - 10:51 AM

[QuickTidal]

caladanbrood, on 13 April 2010 - 10:51 AM, said:

 

stone monkey, on 12 April 2010 - 10:33 PM, said:

I do want to see where he's going with the whole "Crack in Space and Time" story arc that he's building too... Is it the Doctor? Is it Amy? Is it even the TARDIS? Or is it something else entirely different? We'll just have to keep watching.

I had a bit of a geek-rage about this story arc at the end of episode two.


So these "cracks" are in space-time, not in physical things. Quote "If you moved the wall, the crack would stay put" so why, at the end of episode two, is

Spoiler

the massive crack on the side of Starship UK moving with the ship after they'd made such a specific point about that in episode one??

I'm guessing that we don't know all there is to know about the cracks.....either that or the effects guys weren't paying enough attention when they did the sequence and it is a full on mistake. Either way, good catch CB, I never caught on to that.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 13 April 2010 - 11:12 AM

[polishgenius]

I think we just have to give some licence on that one. After all, if it was really a fixed point in space-time then it wouldn't have stayed in Amy's wall for very long, what with the movement of the Earth.

[Sir Thursday]

WARNING: Fanwank explanation alert!

Any object with mass distorts space-time somewhat, and the result is that these cracks are 'fixed' relative to the largest mass in the vicinity. Hence why the cracks were stationary relative to the Earth and the Star Whale.

*Additional Bullshit explanation for why the crack matches the earth's rotation required*



Sir Thursday

[Jusentantaka]

Sir Thursday, on 14 April 2010 - 11:11 AM, said:

*Additional Bullshit explanation for why the crack matches the earth's rotation required*

Lagrange point.

[QuickTidal]

Here's a link to something very interesting with points I didn't notice, but it DOES beg the question...something odd is going on this season, and methinks more is going on from the get go than we all think.

http://www.bleedingc...e-fifth-season/

[Illuyankas]

I decided to check out an episode of the new Doctor, and saw someone looking like Robert Pattinson in a bowtie hitting a Dalek with a massive wrench trying to remind it that it's a Dalek, and not a soldier for the Allies during WWII. That was so retarded I had to stop watching. I mean, if it's only pretending, then taking Churchhill to the TARDIS and showing him what it's undoubtably recorded of Daleks will convince him they're in trouble, and if the Dalek truly doesn't remember, then forcing it to recall its genocidal nature will KILL EVERYONE THERE YOU STUPID FUCKING IDIOT

[polishgenius]

By "retarded" I hope you mean FUCKING AWESOME because that's what it was.


There were plenty of stupid things about that episode though. I liked it, but it was daft.

Also, that link QT linked to is interesting, but I'd take it more seriously if the screenshot used as evidence for there being no cars post-90s didn't have a post-90s Nissan Micra right at the front of the shot. Also, Moffatt's denied the badge thing.

This post has been edited by polishgenius: 17 April 2010 - 09:28 PM

[Illuyankas]

The Daleks fighting for Britain, that was good. Serving tea was better. Trying to make them stop doing that and go back to Daleks trying to conquer the universe before settling for not quite being wiped out by the Doctor hurt my brain. Is this Doctor's gimmick that he's as bright as Hugh Laurie's Blackadder characters?

[polishgenius]

He's a bit of a child as a matter of fact, but the Doctor's often irrational when confronted by the Daleks, and them likewise when confronted by him.