Blow-ins telling real Who fans how to be Who fans... You're too young to be a real Who fan... you're like a Who Hipster
Doctor Who Series 8
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Blow-ins telling real Who fans how to be Who fans... You're too young to be a real Who fan... you're like a Who Hipster
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
nonsense, \i'm old enough to have caught the bug watching sylvester mcoy on UK gold as a young teen. I kept the faith through the dark years- where were you? wanking over babylon 5 obviously
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
anyways I just watched the latest episode and it was great. I particularly enjoyed more mr pink solving immediate perils (i'm on team mr pink) and the little girl speaking with the voice of the forrest
I didn't like claras line 'they're not really special and gifted I just tell them that' horrible cunts.
I didn't like claras line 'they're not really special and gifted I just tell them that' horrible cunts.
I remember being excited watching Jon Pertwee on our first colour TV, and amazed at how less scary everything looked in colour... back when Daleks and Quatermass and the pit were scary things.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
oh and if none of you noticed, in the trail for next weeks episode we saw a young woman having a puff from her inhaler. She's the same woman from the 50th anniversary episode, the one who wore a big tom baker scarf.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
reminded me why i don't teach kids
also why does this season of who revel in bad science
it eschews classic technobabble for bad science
have some new fancy type of space radiation that the trees absorb rather than fightig fire with oxygen
also why does this season of who revel in bad science
it eschews classic technobabble for bad science
have some new fancy type of space radiation that the trees absorb rather than fightig fire with oxygen
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Works for Unit with Kate Stewart?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
thats her, was involved in negotiations with the vervoids and if you remember quite possibly was one. There was a wink.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
do I mean vervoids? the xenomorph ones that look like sex toys
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I thought inhaler woman was great. Can't wait to see her back again.
ginger_syn
Her Insanity laughs under pressure...👾
I've enjoyed the series so far and have found the reworking of the storylines intriguing and while I've liked some episodes better than others there has not been one dud so far, I'm a happy Who bunny.
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
I'm enjoying it too on the whole. I think Capaldi's a great improvement on the last two, and there've been many good walk-on parts this time round.
But it feels frustratingly like it could have beenmuch better than it is. Lots of episodes have started with a premise with great potential - mythical creature loose on a train, planet suffocated by woodland overnight, whatever - but then fritter away so much time on the repetitive but now obligatory companion's-relationship-troubles subplot* that the episode doesn't have time to do more than whimper out a quick 'oh, look, everything's magically fine again' before we're whisked off for more tedious gurning from Michelle Gomez.
*It's not that I want the sexist old 'running around screaming' model back - I'm happy for the companion to do some of the real work of an episode - but do I have to pretend to care about their 'real lives'? And having said that, there is a purpose in having someone running around screaming, to signal to our brains that Something Scary is Happening. If all the companion ever does is gaze calmly out of the open door of the Tardis while it floats in space above a planet Earth about to be engulfed in a massive fireball, it takes away some of the sense of jeopardy, doesn't it? I felt quite relieved when little Maebh screamed and ran away from the wolves - at least someone's behaving like a normal person probably would here.
But it feels frustratingly like it could have beenmuch better than it is. Lots of episodes have started with a premise with great potential - mythical creature loose on a train, planet suffocated by woodland overnight, whatever - but then fritter away so much time on the repetitive but now obligatory companion's-relationship-troubles subplot* that the episode doesn't have time to do more than whimper out a quick 'oh, look, everything's magically fine again' before we're whisked off for more tedious gurning from Michelle Gomez.
*It's not that I want the sexist old 'running around screaming' model back - I'm happy for the companion to do some of the real work of an episode - but do I have to pretend to care about their 'real lives'? And having said that, there is a purpose in having someone running around screaming, to signal to our brains that Something Scary is Happening. If all the companion ever does is gaze calmly out of the open door of the Tardis while it floats in space above a planet Earth about to be engulfed in a massive fireball, it takes away some of the sense of jeopardy, doesn't it? I felt quite relieved when little Maebh screamed and ran away from the wolves - at least someone's behaving like a normal person probably would here.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
The boyfriend is a terrible character, hopefully he'll disappear soon.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
A decent enough episode, despite the couple of glaring plot holes. Obviously the oxygen thing made no sense whatsoever, and why one magic tree would hang around just to hide a runaway teenager, I don't know. Ohh, and the bit with the wolves and the tiger was rubbish too. But it was a good setup, and the Doc got some great lines.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
how can you hate Mr Pink? he's named after someone from resevoir dogs, he does amazing backflips and he cunts the doctor off occaisonally.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Capaldi's okay as the Doc, though his character seems to be a reaction to the last one who was more touchy feely. Not sure what his grumpy distant persona would be like if he kept it up for several series. Must admit whatsisface, the last one, grew on me. Thought he was going to be too young and too posh, but he managed the old fogey in a young body very well.
Anyroad, this series is fine, but the kids at the school piss me off. Straight from central casting and pretty much sub-Grange Hill in terms of realism.
Anyroad, this series is fine, but the kids at the school piss me off. Straight from central casting and pretty much sub-Grange Hill in terms of realism.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
they should have done kidulthood with the tardis?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
its a science fantasy. Fantasy dressed up in science clothes. Star Wars is essentially the same. Moaaning about the technobabble not being the right flavour is a)futile and b) [insult removed]
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Well, kinda. Science fantasy usually requires no more than the broad alignment of an amulet and a bit of belief, sacrifice or whatever (to achieve something world changing or stop the evil). Once you do that in the clothes of 'science' you at least invite some questions of cause and effect/consistency. Doesn't mean you can't do science fantasy in a science fiction context, but it does make the whole edifice open to 'yeah, but' questions.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
One doesn't wank over Babylon 5, one wanks over Ivanova.
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
I agree - there's only so many times you can go 'ah... but these trees [substitute noun as required] are MAGIC trees' before viewers start to want something with at least a bit of internal consistency.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
If it annoys you, just reverse the polarity.
Currently enjoying Baker's swan song, aka Season 18. I think it's my favouritest season. Certainly has high nostalgic value. As a bonus the soundtrack is almost exclusively electronic, not orchestral. The composer favours some lovely major-minor melodies (similar to the Hitchhikers Guide tv show). The title s equence also changes to that which we saw during the Davison years.
Bring back Meglos.
Bring back Meglos.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
He's a terrible actor, the whole army bum-licking thing is incredibly annoying and the "romance" between him and Clara is badly done and incredibly tedious.
On the science-fiction/science-fantasy I think there's a clear difference between having nonsense explanations of things like the TARDIS (which the audience can except as a plot conceit) and totally changing the basic science of the universe which people interact with on a day-to-day basis. I mean kids will learn about the fire triangle at school, for a show that was originally made in part to educate kids about science and history it's clunkingly stupid to piss over basic science. (I admit that that intention was left by the way-side longs ago but even so).
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