I'll start: DOCTOR WHO 4.1-the awesomeness
POSTED BY: reginaroadie
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 21:07
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Originally posted by BrownCoat2007:
Guess I should rent whole series and watch 'em all, then start viewing the new season :)
By the time you finish viewing the classic series, the show will probably have been cancelled, resurrected, cancelled again, "re-imagined" as a Star Trek spin-off, made into a movie starring Paris Hilton as the Doctor and will be available in suppository form (good news, everybody!) and finally re-re-imagined by Joss Wheedon as a show so awesomely good that infuriated Fox executives will invent time-travel and send a robot back in time to 1963 to prevent the show's creation.
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LOL.... no no no... not ALL of 'em all of 'em... just the more recent... this is what, 4th season of the "new" Doctor Who on SciFi?? I'm pretty sure I can get through 4 seasons in short order... 
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I almost started a thread about this on Saturday night....but just didn't get around to it.
Anyway:
Don't like the new theme tune. It's not the worst of the bunch, but it's not good either. They kept the same themes for years in the classic series so why they can't this time is beyond me.
Didn't really like the fat babies. I thought the idea behind them was great, but they were just too cute when they waved and made silly noises (and I like cute). I would have preferred it if they'd made them more slimy or gross, but that might have put some people off.
Donna was great and if they keep her like this she will make a good and refreshing companion. And it kind of shows just how much The Doctor affects the people he meets. A nice scene was:
Doctor: I just want a mate.
Donna: You just want to mate!
Doctor: I just want a mate!
Donna: You're not mating with me, sunshine!
Doctor: I want a mate! I want a mate!
Donna: Well, just as well, cos I'm not having any of that nonsense!
And when 'you-know-who' appeared it was a genuine surprise so early in the series. Nice little touch and something they kept very quiet.
Really looking forward to the rest.
"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."
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Originally posted by Grizwald:
DeepGirl, your link isn't working for me.
Here, try this one instead, Grizwald. It's the second song.
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I did enjoy the season premiere and really enjoyed 'Donna' being back. I think her interaction with the Doctor is going to be much better & honest than the love-sick companions of the past couple seasons.
The Adipose were cute, but I would have liked more of the real villian, 'Miss Foster'. Sarah Lancashire was great, but her screen time was far too limited.
Does anyone else believe that RTD has "mother" issues? Jackie Tyler, Francine Jones and Sylvia Noble (the mothers of Rose, Martha and Donna) have all been incredibly over-bearing women that treat their daughters like trash. No wonder each of them has wanted to take off with the Doctor, if I had a mother that behaved like any of these women I'd want off the planet as well.
"Jayne is a girl's name" - River
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It is so funny that you mention that, since I think that Joss has "daddy issues" that are so prevalent in his work. And people tend to compare DOCTOR WHO to Joss.
I noticed that as well in DOCTOR WHO, but I think in DOCTOR WHO's case, each of the mothers have so far redeems themselves. Like Jackie. In the two years show was on the show, she slowly came around to Rose wanting to go off with The Doctor and ended up going with her to the other universe to be with her and the parallel version of her husband. And Martha's family may have been a little dysfunctional at the beginning, but they learned the hard way through The Master, and ultimately Martha decided to stay behind with her family instead of continuing to travel with The Doctor. And with Donna, her mother may be a pill at this point, but I think she might come around. Her gramps certainly did at the end of the ep.
The inevitable strong bond between the companions and their families is one of the things that I LOVE about DOCTOR WHO. That no matter where they go through space and time, there's always a family to go back to, unlike Joss who gives the middle finger to biological families and have their characters make their own made up families.
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Loudon Wainwright III - "Strange Weirdos" off the "Knocked Up" soundtrack
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Did anyone else get a laugh out of the Doctor in the gas-mask in last night's (3rd may) episode?
"Are you my mummy?" *snort*
Plus scary mother with axe? I was reminded of Joyce's first run-in with Spike...
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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
Did anyone else get a laugh out of the Doctor in the gas-mask in last night's (3rd may) episode?
"Are you my mummy?" *snort*
Yes, that was so funny! It was also nice to hear about 'Sir' Alistair. They really need to get Nick Courtney back for a guest appearance!!!
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And Rose appearing on the TARDIS monitor was interesting
"Jayne is a girl's name" - River
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Yeah the gas mask joke was great, almost a throwaway comment that I'm sure not everyone picked up on. A nice reference to the previous Doctor, who is of course this Doctor, if you get my meaning.
The 'flash' on the monitor was great. Again another blink and you'll miss it moment. I wonder if Donna will recognize or recollect these moments later on, or whether they will just be for the viewer.
I liked the Doctor correcting Donna on the miss-pronunciation of Sontaran as well. A nice touch as I'm sure lots of other people pronounce it wrong.
Next episode looks strange and will take a lot of explaining. I'm thinking created from DNA extracts or whatever rather than an actual 'made in the normal way' person.
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