Doctor Who series 3
POSTED BY: hobbleit
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:32
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never before has an old woman and a straw been so ominous.
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LOVED IT! Looks like another great season. David was in top form, definitely settling into the role.
I really like the character of Martha...Rose who?
"Jayne is a girl's name" - River
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Definitly set the standard for the rest of the series.
Did anyone else notice the reference to this series arc word?
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Mr Saxon.
The idea of space rhinos made me laugh so hard.
I may wear brown but theres a little purple mixed in there as well.
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You guys are making me soooo jealous! I don't think Season 2 is even out on DVD yet in the USA.
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Despite loving it overall, I will say there are some logicistal problems...which are also reasons I have disliked the previous Doctor Who stories written by Russell T. Davies.
I also question everyone who thinks the Doctor should still be mourning for Rose and not taking on a new female companion so quickly. WHY? She isn't dead! Companions have come and gone in the Doctor's life since the series began in 1963. They dealt with that reality very well in "School Reunion" with Sarah Jane Smith.
Be warned there are major spoilers...do NOT complain about me posting spoilers if you read this because I am telling you now they big ones if you haven't seen the episode:
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When the old woman sucks the Doctor's blood and he registers dead on the scanners, why doesn't he regenerate?
When Martha tries to revive him why does she use CPR? She knows his death is caused by the lack of blood in his body, so what good will CPR do?
Finally...an MRI machine that can be supped up to create a blast that would kill people on Earth all the way from the moon???
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Lesather, all I have to say is the very logistical problems you have with the show is the very reason I love it so much! It allows me to completely suspend disbelief and enjoy a perfectly nutty story with a whole lot of SciFi crammed into it.
I really enjoyed this episode. I think that Martha is a wonderful addition to the show. Not to mention a bit more striking than her predecessor IMHO. Don't get me wrong, I think that Billie Piper is incredibly gorgeous (meh, I'm an American. What do I know), it's just that Freema Agyeman is just a bit moreso. 
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My only concern with it was that they really made Rose look kinda dumb. When Rose first met The Doctor, she reacted like I think most people would (applying human logic to everything) but when we meet The Doctor's new companion, she's more a "woman of the universe" for lack of a better phrase.
Her comment about being arrested for having tresspassed on the moon had me rolling! lol
I dunno. Maybe by comparison Rose was a bit daft, but I didn't feel I needed it rubbed in my face. Unless, of course, it's Billie being rubbed in my face!
Anywho, loved it! Can't wait until it airs here in the US. (as is evident since I d/l'ed it...lol)
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Just saw "The Shakespeare Code"...another great episode. A couple nice references to the seventh Harry Potter book (the Doctor says he cried). Incredible special effects and an interesting story. I really liked the ending with
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Queen Elizabeth I
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Originally posted by lesather: I really liked the ending
Yeah I wonder what the doctor does to
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hack her off so much she wants him beheaded
I put that in spoilers in case anyone hasn't seen it. I hope it works.
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The second that I saw Christina Cole who played the lead 'witch', I was kinda distracted. She played a witch in the short lived UK supernatural drama Hex. I hate it when actors get typecast.
Athough, I was really impressed with this ep! The show is much more epic than the last two series. There was A LOT of witty, laugh out lines throughout. I can't list them all.
The sfx were fantastic, and the witches were wickedly camp! David Tennant is on top form and I'm starting to like Freema Agyeman too.
I also liked the twist at the end of this episode. WHAT did the Doctor do to piss off Queen Elizabeth I?
It's great to have Who back on the Beeb every Saturday night!
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[/IMG]Abby Sciouto: "Are either of you guys Libras?"
Tony Dinozzo & Kate Todd: "No."
Abby Sciouto: "Good thing 'cause they are so screwed this week!"
- 'The Good Samaritan', NCIS.
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I liked this episode a lot too. I particularly enjoyed the characterization of Shakespeare and how he was hitting on Martha Jones, his erratic behavior influenced by the witches and how the Doctor kept feeding him references to his future work.
I thought the opening scene was an homage to the opening of the first episode of BUFFY. Some guy serenading a girl, hoping to get laid and then she turns into a witch and he gets eaten.
And I liked how the Shakespearian monologue ends with Rexel 4 and coordinates and they don't think it's odd, since it's coming from Shakespeare.
And in the insane asylum when Martha yells "Let us out!!!", The Doctor just replies "That's not gonna work, the whole building's shouting that."
I noticed that overall, this season is repeating the same way that the first season played. Second ep this season was in the past, and the third will be in the future. First seasons second episode was in the future, and then they went into the past where The Doctor and his companion battle supposedly supernatural beings alongside a famous writer. Oddly enough, it doesn't seem derivative. It seems natural that The Doctor would repeat the same adventure with a new companion in order to get something new out of it. It continues that theme in time travel lit that history is constantly repeating itself.
And on a side note, who's in love with the theme song and title credits? I always loved this new version of the Doctor Who theme in that it has a strong base line to it, and that it blends an orchestral and electronic theme perfectly. It really gets your pulse going more than the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA theme which only really picks up at the end and is just a repeating phrase. And while some of you guys love "The Ballad of Serenity", personally I never really liked it. The instrumental version is fine, but the lyrics always just struck me as off in a way.
But let's not turn this into an arguement. I just love the Doctor Who theme.
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