[stone monkey]

Not by me you won't. Freema Agyeman is way more attractive than Billie Piper imo; although I wouldn't go mentioning that around the rabid Rose/Doctor shippers there are infesting Who fandom (for whom Rose is the Doctor's One True Love And No One Else Can Ever Compare). I personally think that Martha had, when she was introduced, way more going for her as a character but that this got somewhat ruined by where they chose to go with her.

I'm going to get a bit spoilery below.... But you don't have to read them if you don't want to

But anyway

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Rory's death

I didn't see that one coming; nor did I see

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TARDIS fragments in the crack in time; although it's obvious in retrospect.

It looks like things are going to get interesting...

And then there's this from the Radio Times episode guide teaser for the last 2 episodes of the season:

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"There was a goblin. Or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. Nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it - one day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world" That sounds suspiciously like a description of the Doctor to me... Albeit one that was made by people who have been on the wrong side of him...

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stone monkey, on 31 May 2010 - 04:58 PM, said:

Not by me you won't. Freema Agyeman is way more attractive than Billie Piper imo; although I wouldn't go mentioning that around the rabid Rose/Doctor shippers there are infesting Who fandom (for whom Rose is the Doctor's One True Love And No One Else Can Ever Compare). I personally think that Martha had, when she was introduced, way more going for her as a character but that this got somewhat ruined by where they chose to go with her.

I'm going to get a bit spoilery below.... But you don't have to read them if you don't want to

But anyway

Spoiler

Rory's death

I didn't see that one coming; nor did I see

Spoiler

TARDIS fragments in the crack in time; although it's obvious in retrospect.

It looks like things are going to get interesting...

And then there's this from the Radio Times episode guide teaser for the last 2 episodes of the season:

Spoiler

"There was a goblin. Or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. Nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it - one day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world" That sounds suspiciously like a description of the Doctor to me... Albeit one that was made by people who have been on the wrong side of him...

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Yeah, didn't see Rory's death coming either, though for me it lacked a BIT cause his death and Amy's subsequent reaction in AMY'S CHOICE was so good. Still Amy's anger at the Doctor and him trying to get her to remember him anyway was quite deftly handled.

Yeah, the TARDIS piece in the crack was a nice bit of "what's going on?". I liked the Silurians and the fact that the humans were inevitably the bad guys even when they tried not to be.

Nazreen's reaction to the Doctor's speech at the fore was nice, but it never really came to be "a moment that could be changed forever, a turning point" ect...it just sort of happens and goes on and didn't feel like it had that weight to it that I expected. Still, quite good and like I said before...any Series 5 episode that we don't think is great is still miles better than RTD era good ones. IMHO. That said, the moment I wish we'd have at some point this season is something akin to Ten's angry speech about time obeying him in THE WATERS Of MARS. That was scenery chewing awesomeness.

At this point I can't decide if I like Ten or Eleven better. Eleven is really impressive in his Doctor Shoe filling role, and he spends less time being emotional, which I feels allows for us to really, REALLY feel it when he does, which I think is kind of a nice change.

time will tell, and I look forward to where the season goes.

[Grief]

Latest episode spoilers:

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Rory's death was a bit lacking for me too. Mainly because, even though there as the whole flashback about if someone goes into a crack, their existence, and their past actions, are erased, it didn't occur to anyone to throw the military commander into the crack. Had they considered and rejected that idea, for some reason to do with not knowing the consequenes or whatever, that would've been better, but, when it reminds us that the cracks stop things ever having existed, and then having no-one realise the possibility of using the crack when it's right there, just jarred for me.

The tardis fragment was cool though

[cerveza_fiesta]

OMG

Hu-Man-Da-Lek

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

laughed myself to sleep over the ridiculousness of that thing when it stepped out of the dalek armor shell.

Oh MAN Dr. Who. Could you get ANY nerdier???

Loving every second of this series.

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cerveza_fiesta, on 02 June 2010 - 11:53 AM, said:

OMG

Hu-Man-Da-Lek

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

laughed myself to sleep over the ridiculousness of that thing when it stepped out of the dalek armor shell.

Oh MAN Dr. Who. Could you get ANY nerdier???

Loving every second of this series.

Oh wow, I totally wiped the memory of that bad two-parter from my memory and had long forgotten (thankfully) the human-Dalek hybrid. It looked ridiculous. Note: The same woman who wrote that two-parter writes a two-parter (The Poison Sky/The Sontaran Strategem) in series 4 that is also pretty bad....so watch out for that one. That said Series 4 has some GREAT stuff too.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Hu-man-da-lek

A picture of that is going to be my computer desktop for eternity.

I'm still internally giggling every time I think about it.

[Coco with marshmallows]

So, anyone else suspecting that the person River Song is supposed to have killed is the Doctor? possibly by means of blowing up the Tardis?

it'd tie up quite nicely.

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Also, half expect that when the Doctor 'fixes' the cracks, Rory, or at least memories of him, will re-appear, which will cause Amy to leave?

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Cocoreturns, on 03 June 2010 - 10:28 PM, said:

So, anyone else suspecting that the person River Song is supposed to have killed is the Doctor? possibly by means of blowing up the Tardis?

it'd tie up quite nicely.

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Also, half expect that when the Doctor 'fixes' the cracks, Rory, or at least memories of him, will re-appear, which will cause Amy to leave?

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Yeah, this occurred to me as well, though the reasoning behind Song killing the Doctor is still up for grabs, as I assume we'll see something akin to the Doctor telling River to do it for some reason. I don't think Amy will leave is some or all of Rory returns once the cracks are fixed though, as her whole life is invested in the Doctor and time and space....I think she'd just tell Rory to stay home so he doesn't get killed again. Dunno. Only 4 more epiosdes till we find out. Vincent & The Doctor, The Lodger, The Pandorica Opens, and The Big Bang.

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[cerveza_fiesta]

Weeping angels episode


"its my timey-wimey detector, it goes DING when there's stuff"

holy fuck...hahahhahahahahahahah

I love this show

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cerveza_fiesta, on 05 June 2010 - 02:25 PM, said:

Weeping angels episode


"its my timey-wimey detector, it goes DING when there's stuff"

holy fuck...hahahhahahahahahahah

I love this show

Yeah, Tennant totally delivers the best lines!

[polishgenius]

Today's episode was fricking awesome. When was the last time Richard Curtis wrote something this good?

[cerveza_fiesta]

return of the master

3 part episode to cap Season 3.

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The show managed to surprise the heck out of me when they find the utopian humans inside the little spheres. Never expected it.

And the little gimmie at the end where the Cap'n is the Face of Bo in his younger years.

Good Fucking Sci-fi.

nuff said.




Season 4 started strong too. Planet of the Ood and pompeii episodes were pretty great...though I can't say I like the looks of Donna quite as much as Rose or Martha. I guess the good doctor can't always be traipsing around with the young-uns lest he look like a time-perv.

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cerveza_fiesta, on 07 June 2010 - 10:30 AM, said:

return of the master

3 part episode to cap Season 3.

Spoiler

The show managed to surprise the heck out of me when they find the utopian humans inside the little spheres. Never expected it.

And the little gimmie at the end where the Cap'n is the Face of Bo in his younger years.

Good Fucking Sci-fi.

nuff said.




Season 4 started strong too. Planet of the Ood and pompeii episodes were pretty great...though I can't say I like the looks of Donna quite as much as Rose or Martha. I guess the good doctor can't always be traipsing around with the young-uns lest he look like a time-perv.

The Doctor's final scenes with the Master are still very touching in a Last of the Time Lords way.

Donna will grow on you. She really comes into her own by the second half of the season....and Season 4 has a GREAT two parter, current showrunner and head writer, Steven Moffat's THE SILENCE IN THe LIBRARY/THE FOREST OF THE DEAD, which is a GREAT story...and MIDNIGHT is possibly one of Davies best written episodes too, for its self-containment and it's creep-factor. Keep enjoying! Pretty soon you'll be onto the specials (THE WATERS OF MARS is one of David Tennant's VERY best episodes, ever.), and after that, the amazing series 5!!

[cerveza_fiesta]

Jenny

JENNY

holy shit Doctor Who. HOT FUCKING DAUGHTER.

Please tell me there's plans to bring her back at some point.

That episode could have been six hours of her just bouncing around with no plot or dialogue and I would have been just as happy.

[Coco with marshmallows]

there was talk of it at the time,

but so far, sadly, nothing.

Interestingly, the actress actually IS the doctor's daughter.

Peter Davison, the fifth doctor.

[polishgenius]

She's also the Doctor's girlfriend. Or was, at least.

[cerveza_fiesta]

yup. Did a quick google search...cause...you know...

And was assaulted by a raging torrent of british tabloid websites about the Tennant / Moffett thing, cause he's like 39 and she's nowhere near that.

Meh, I would.

and then some.

EDIT - And giant wasp episode with Agatha Christie was fucking fucktarded. Who the hell lets episodes like that through anyway? And the writer was responsible for some other really good episodes too.

At least it didn't approach the moronic levels of the "fear her" episode where the girl draws stuff and turns out to be an alien that is set free by the collective love being channeled at the olympic torch.

But still.

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[cerveza_fiesta]

why oh why can't michelle ryan be the new doctor's companion. Just watched the Planed of the Dead easter special last night. Tight burglar catsuit....yowza!

I mean, I've seen pics of what's to come and the redhead's hot, but M. Ryan is un-freakin stoppable.

Good ending to Season 4 too. Best dalek-based episode yet.

I can see why people are getting tired of them now though...starting to be a bit overused now. Same with cybermen. New badguys please.

Still, daleks are my all-time favourite sci-fi badguy.

[Sir Thursday]

cerveza_fiesta, on 15 June 2010 - 05:55 PM, said:

why oh why can't michelle ryan be the new doctor's companion. Just watched the Planed of the Dead easter special last night. Tight burglar catsuit....yowza!

I mean, I've seen pics of what's to come and the redhead's hot, but M. Ryan is un-freakin stoppable.

Good ending to Season 4 too. Best dalek-based episode yet.

I can see why people are getting tired of them now though...starting to be a bit overused now. Same with cybermen. New badguys please.

Still, daleks are my all-time favourite sci-fi badguy.

Oh dear god no. Michelle Ryan may be hawt, but she can't deliver a line to save her life. The Planet of the Dead episode was so bad it almost made me not watch the other Doctor Who specials from that year (which would have been a mistake, because The Waters of Mars was awesome).

ST

[cerveza_fiesta]

True. The bounciness mutes her lines in my brain though.

She was almost as bad and just as hot in the Jeckyll miniseries. Same automatic internal muting of all her lines when her boobs were onscreen though. Weird.

Waters of Mars was an absolutely 100% incredible show. Writing was excellent, the characters (yes even the cannon-fodder characters) were generally good, badguys were absolutely original and scary, the ending of the episode and followed by about 5 minutes of extended "David Tennant Serious Face" was extremely well played.

As always...good fucking Sci Fi.

Looking forward to Tennant's death now. He's a good doctor but I'm ready for a new character with a different attitude. I feel Tennant's conflicted-hero doctor character is getting a bit played-out.