New OOTS products from CafePress
New OOTS t-shirts, ornaments, mugs, bags, and more
Page 18 of 20 FirstFirst ... 891011121314151617181920 LastLast
Results 511 to 540 of 591
  1. - Top - End - #511
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    SwashbucklerGuy

    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Rio de Janeiro, RJ
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Ok, got caught up in the thread's discussion regarding "Kerblam" and I agree, the episode's anti-extremism message is considerably weakened by what seems like tacit acceptance of an oppressive corporate structure. The episode was ripe for one of the Doctor's classic put-downs (I'm reminded of Nine's speeches to Van Statten, or the Satellite Five crew), and yet all we got was a very, very mild remark of how good managers treat their workers nicely.

  2. - Top - End - #512
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    BlackDragon

    Join Date
    Nov 2006

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Quote Originally Posted by The Glyphstone View Post
    Talk about the Doctor, sonic screwdrivers, Daleks, and wibbly wobbly timey-wimey stuff instead.
    "Time-wimey"? Can we please talk like grownups? Do you have to make everything childlike? And why are you brandishing those screwdrivers at me? They're screwdrivers, not weapons. And why do you have such a look of dread in your eyes when you look at me?
    Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
    GENERATION ω+1: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment. Remember, ω + 1 comes after ω.

  3. - Top - End - #513
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    jwhouk's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jul 2018
    Location
    Arizona USA
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    You'd hope Yaz called Norwegian child services on the phone in the TARDIS after they left, but they probably didn't.

    Any bets on who "that voice" is that the Doctor recognizes in the season finale?
    "Character is what you are in the dark." - D.L. Moody
    Life's too short to be ashamed of how you were born.

  4. - Top - End - #514
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    HalfOrcPirate

    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Carlisle, Englund
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Quote Originally Posted by jwhouk View Post
    Any bets on who "that voice" is that the Doctor recognizes in the season finale?
    Spoiler
    Show
    I’ll bet tuppence that it is Tim Shaw
    "Three blokes walk into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability." - Bill Bailey
    Androgeus' 3 step guide to Doctor Who speculation:
    Spoiler
    Show
    1. Pick a random character
    2. State that person is The Rani
    3. goto 1

  5. - Top - End - #515
    Spamalot in the Playground
     
    Psyren's Avatar

    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Quote Originally Posted by The Troubadour View Post
    Ok, got caught up in the thread's discussion regarding "Kerblam" and I agree, the episode's anti-extremism message is considerably weakened by what seems like tacit acceptance of an oppressive corporate structure. The episode was ripe for one of the Doctor's classic put-downs (I'm reminded of Nine's speeches to Van Statten, or the Satellite Five crew), and yet all we got was a very, very mild remark of how good managers treat their workers nicely.
    My point exactly - the Doctor is not known for giving faceless and dehumanizing corporations the benefit of the doubt

    Quote Originally Posted by keybounce View Post
    "Time-wimey"? Can we please talk like grownups? Do you have to make everything childlike? And why are you brandishing those screwdrivers at me? They're screwdrivers, not weapons. And why do you have such a look of dread in your eyes when you look at me?
    I don't get it
    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    But really, the important lesson here is this: Rather than making assumptions that don't fit with the text and then complaining about the text being wrong, why not just choose different assumptions that DO fit with the text?
    Plague Doctor by Crimmy
    Ext. Sig (Handbooks/Creations)

  6. - Top - End - #516
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    jwhouk's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jul 2018
    Location
    Arizona USA
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Considering "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey" is pretty much in the same league as "reverse the polarity" and "bigger on the inside" as a running joke in the Whoniverse, complaining about it would be akin to a Trekkie complaining about beaming up Scotty.
    "Character is what you are in the dark." - D.L. Moody
    Life's too short to be ashamed of how you were born.

  7. - Top - End - #517
    Titan in the Playground
     
    PairO'Dice Lost's Avatar

    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Malsheem, Nessus
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Quote Originally Posted by Psyren View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by keybounce
    "Time-wimey"? Can we please talk like grownups? Do you have to make everything childlike? And why are you brandishing those screwdrivers at me? They're screwdrivers, not weapons. And why do you have such a look of dread in your eyes when you look at me?
    I don't get it
    Quote Originally Posted by jwhouk View Post
    Considering "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey" is pretty much in the same league as "reverse the polarity" and "bigger on the inside" as a running joke in the Whoniverse, complaining about it would be akin to a Trekkie complaining about beaming up Scotty.
    keybounce was referencing some quotes by the War Doctor in Day of the Doctor. Though the actual quote is "Why are you pointing your screwdrivers like that? They're scientific instruments, not water pistols!"
    Better to DM in Baator than play in Celestia
    You can just call me Dice; that's how I roll.


    Spoiler: Sig of Holding
    Show

    Quote Originally Posted by abadguy View Post
    Darn you PoDL for making me care about a bunch of NPC Commoners!
    Quote Originally Posted by Chambers View Post
    I'm pretty sure turning Waterdeep into a sheet of glass wasn't the best win condition for that fight. We lived though!
    Quote Originally Posted by MaxiDuRaritry View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by PairO'DiceLost View Post
    <Snip>
    Where are my Like, Love, and Want to Have Your Manchildren (Totally Homo) buttons for this post?
    Won a cookie for this, won everything for this

  8. - Top - End - #518
    Pixie in the Playground
     
    Beholder

    Join Date
    Jul 2014

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    The Witchfinders
    Spoiler
    Show
    Quote Originally Posted by Thufir View Post
    If you wish to continue shipping Yaz/Ryan, a lack of concern about King James is easy enough to explain away...
    It's unwelcome attention from a man accustomed to abusing his position of power. That's not cool, especially when the target is your friend, and I wouldn't expect someone like Jas to just let it slide. James incidentally seems to have got over Alfonso very quickly, but he did mention he is used to his loved ones dying violently.


    Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
    Are you forgetting Tzim-Sha?
    No, I assume when he teleported back (to an expectant audience, most likely), he received prompt medical attention. Followed by some very embarrassing questions.

    It Takes You Away
    Spoiler
    Show
    I'll call this one The Doctor, The Widower and the Wardrobe.

    I believe this is the Doctor's first visit to Norway since Dårlig Ulv-Stranden/Bad Wolf Bay in Journey's End? Grim Scandi drama is so fashionable on British TV these days, so it was only a matter of time before Doctor Who jumped on the bandwagon. Chibnall has wisely chosen the stark horror genre rather than the even starker crime noir.

    The suspense builds very well, and the discovery of Hanne brings a weird twist. The weirdest part being Ryan's blockheaded suggestion that her father might have just wandered off. Yeah, I know you have Daddy issues, Ryan, but seriously? Four days alone in a cabin in the wilderness, hiding in a wardrobe? Pull the other one, it's got a bear trap on it.

    And finally Jas is fleshed out a bit more. It turns out she's good with frightened children. It may be part of her training, but still, I'll take whatever I can get at this point.

    Then we have the old faulty mirror gag, followed by the delightful Ribbons. Strictly small fry, but an excellent villain in his minor way. I particularly like his petty taunts. Coming from a monstrous humanoid dwelling in a Norwegian cave, they can be dismissed as mere trolling.

    With Ryan and Hanne left together it is of course narratively essential that they reconcile and bond - and therefore all the more satisfying when they don't. Meanwhile Graham Granddad is stuck in an extended metaphor for grief, which is rather redundant as it was already done in Arachnids.

    And finally, a talking frog. In these days of animatronics and CGI it's a surprise to see such a poorly-realised creature. It looks about as real as the amphibian in this week's OOTS. The Doctor rather hypocritically claims to be the frog's friend and then abandons it. Still, at least she didn't kiss it.

    One can only hope Erik finds a good therapist before the authorities rehouse Hanne with someone more responsible.

    Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
    Is no-one going to comment on how messed-up what Erik did to Hanne is?
    We're all speechless.

    Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari
    Hanne threatens Ryan with calling the police. Why hasn't she done that before?
    I think because there's no signal or landline out here. But she doesn't think Ryan knows that.

  9. - Top - End - #519
    Bugbear in the Playground
    Join Date
    Mar 2008
    Location
    Shangxi, China
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Episode 10 felt at once like a finale episode for 9 and 10 as much as it felt like a very solid wrap up for Whitaker's first season. There were elements that evoked memories of Satalite 5 as well as references to Boom Town and Journey's End. I really liked a lot of the elements of this episode. It also did feel like a follow up to It Takes You Away so none of the character work or growth was lost there.

    Very little of the episode outright surprised me but it was very satisfying. I quite enjoyed it.

  10. - Top - End - #520
    Titan in the Playground
     
    Fyraltari's Avatar

    Join Date
    Aug 2017
    Location
    France
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    The episode was decent enough. Nothing really surprising but nothing bad either.
    Spoiler
    Show
    Tim Shaw is such a cheat, he even steals other vilains' plans!
    Forum Wisdom

    Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.

  11. - Top - End - #521
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Thufir's Avatar

    Join Date
    Mar 2008
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Spoiler: Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
    Show
    Tim Shaw made a somewhat more impressive villain the second time around with his ranting about being a god and so on. I wonder if we'll ever meet the rest of the Stenza warrior race or if he will remain our only exposure to them. A connection was clearly confirmed between the Stenza and the planet in The Ghost Monument via the Sniperbots, though we don't know if it was Stenza in general or Tim Shaw and the Ux practicing. I rather thought that might have been touched on, as might the question of how he's stayed alive for 3407 years.

    The Ux were an interesting idea which it might have been nice to hear a little more about, especially since the Doctor described their abilities specifically as dimensional engineering, which I believe has only otherwise been mentioned before in the context of TARDISes. Speaking of which, I did like the little Classic reference of Delph describing the TARDIS as dimensionally transcendental.

    Once again the Doctor's anti-killing stance was put into very simple terms which one might certainly take issue with, but it's in keeping with the character of Jodie's Doctor specifically as she definitely seems to have a laser focus on trying to save absolutely everyone if at all possible. Also in mitigation she did mention to Ryan that her rules change all the time, which is a simple but effective means of reconciling the variation in the Doctor's attitudes over the years.

    Ultimately it was just a good episode, with assorted interesting ideas in it, and rounded out with another instance of basically the same message of hope we've been getting for most of this series.
    "Travel hopefully. The universe will surprise you. Constantly."
    "'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
    YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."

  12. - Top - End - #522
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    jwhouk's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jul 2018
    Location
    Arizona USA
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Spoiler: We All Knew...
    Show
    ...that the villain was Tim Shaw, right?

    I will say this honestly: I thought that Graham was going to end up dead when he faced Tim Shaw. Glad I was wrong, but how they finally "captured" him was rather off.

    Replace the stolen planets definitely sounds like a Whovian storyline. It could have been written better, but it was a decent story.


    Now for the New Year's special (and Who Withdrawl until 2020???). The obvious answer to the question of "who's invading Earth?" is, of course, "The Daleks."
    "Character is what you are in the dark." - D.L. Moody
    Life's too short to be ashamed of how you were born.

  13. - Top - End - #523
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    BlackDragon

    Join Date
    Nov 2006

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
    GENERATION ω+1: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment. Remember, ω + 1 comes after ω.

  14. - Top - End - #524
    Pixie in the Playground
     
    Beholder

    Join Date
    Jul 2014

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Iris Wildthyme? Wasn't she the first Time Lady to drive a bus?

    Spoiler
    Show
    Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
    Tim Shaw is such a cheat, he even steals other vilains' plans!
    That is exactly what I thought too. But it made more sense the way DNA wrote it.

  15. - Top - End - #525
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    HalfOrcPirate

    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Carlisle, Englund
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Quote Originally Posted by Sagitta View Post
    Iris Wildthyme? Wasn't she the first Time Lady to drive a bus?
    To be fair, The Magic School Bus existed before Iris. Also a London double decker is a bit different to an American yellow school bus.
    "Three blokes walk into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability." - Bill Bailey
    Androgeus' 3 step guide to Doctor Who speculation:
    Spoiler
    Show
    1. Pick a random character
    2. State that person is The Rani
    3. goto 1

  16. - Top - End - #526
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    SwashbucklerGuy

    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Rio de Janeiro, RJ
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    And finally caught up with the last two episodes, too. Overall, I liked them both quite a bit, especially, "It Takes You Away". My main criticism about the season finale is that it didn't feel grand like a season finale should, even with all the planets being threatened. On the other hand, we also had no eleventh-hour, completely-insane Deus Ex Machinae like we often did in the RTD era,* so that's a step up.

    * I mean, it was my favourite era of the show, but "Last of the Time Lords", in particular, was egregious with that.

  17. - Top - End - #527
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    HalfOrcPirate

    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Carlisle, Englund
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Not series 11 related, but I just finished Big Finish's War Master Volume 2 and it was very good. Jacobi is brilliant as The Master and get more of him is awesome.
    "Three blokes walk into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability." - Bill Bailey
    Androgeus' 3 step guide to Doctor Who speculation:
    Spoiler
    Show
    1. Pick a random character
    2. State that person is The Rani
    3. goto 1

  18. - Top - End - #528
    Spamalot in the Playground
     
    Psyren's Avatar

    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    It Takes You Away was fantastic. Easily my favorite episode of the season, and cemented Jodie as The Doctor more thoroughly than anything that came before.
    Spoiler
    Show
    The way she lied to the blind girl without missing a beat in order to protect her (Rule 1), the way she sacrificed herself for our universe (and a grieving but duped father) without hesitation, the heartfelt scenes between her, Graham and Ryan...


    But even now, it still feels like there's just not a lot for Yaz to do. Ranskoor was slightly better in that regard but still.
    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    But really, the important lesson here is this: Rather than making assumptions that don't fit with the text and then complaining about the text being wrong, why not just choose different assumptions that DO fit with the text?
    Plague Doctor by Crimmy
    Ext. Sig (Handbooks/Creations)

  19. - Top - End - #529
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    SwashbucklerGuy

    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Rio de Janeiro, RJ
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Indeed! I think Demons of Punjab was overall the better episode, but It Takes You Away had the Doctor's best showing this season.

    Quote Originally Posted by Psyren View Post
    But even now, it still feels like there's just not a lot for Yaz to do.
    I'm going to be in the minority, I think, but as long as the character interactions are enjoyable, is that necessarily a bad thing? Jack wasn't really that plot-relevant, but he was still a whole lot of fun to watch.
    Last edited by The Troubadour; 2018-12-17 at 07:52 AM.

  20. - Top - End - #530
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    GreataxeFighterGuy

    Join Date
    Mar 2008

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Finally got caught up on the last few episodes. Liked It Takes You Away and the series finale quite a bit; The Witchfinders was OK but not quite as good IMO. Like Rosa and Demons of the Punjab, The Witchfinders deals with actual historical event (yeah, the village in The Witchfinders is fictional, but witchhunts during the time aren't), but The Witchfinders was the only one where humans weren't the real villains, which is kind of a cop-out.

  21. - Top - End - #531
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    jwhouk's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jul 2018
    Location
    Arizona USA
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    OK, here's my ranking of series 11:

    10. Arachnids in the UK. The Trump-wannabe was a bit over-the-top, and the whole "how the spiders ended up back at the hotel" was a bit too much to swallow.

    9. The Tsuranga Conundrum. It was actually a really good episode... until the Pting (aka "Stitch") showed up.

    8. It Takes You Away. A great episode that had three bad moments: the parent just up and leaving his blind daughter; the whole sudden change-of-heart with Ryan towards Graham, and... the frog. The FROG.

    7. The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos. I think practically everyone guessed who the villain was going to be about a third of the way through the episode. This didn't feel like it should have been a season finale, to be honest.

    6. The Woman Who Fell to Earth. The big plus was that it was Jodie's debut as The Doctor. The minuses were that the characters seemed rather mopey on first glance, and the death of Grace just seemed so unnecessary.

    5. The Witchfinders. This was one of those episodes that seemed to be targeted more toward the US crowd than the UK, as witch hunts are more "our" specialty. The pull-out that "it was aliens" was a bit... creepy, but it was something of a general tone for this whole series. It wasn't brash and brassy like 11, or old and brooding like 12, or silly and somewhat fun like 10. Oh, and a plus for finally dealing with the 800 lb. elephant in the room: "This was so much easier when I was a bloke."

    4. The Ghost Monument. Okay, it was "part two" of the series opener, but it wasn't that bad. The Doctor was doing her usual "the ship's falling apart/Don't worry Yaz it'll be okay" thing, while promptly dealing with the issue of two competitors for a "survivor" prize on a planet designed to kill people. The planet's menace was a bit underwhelming (though Ryan going all "Leeeeeroooyyy Jenkinnnss!" on the sniperbots was hilarious). The best part of this one, of course, was seeing the interior of the new TARDIS.

    3. Rosa. Oh, hello BBC America watchers! Here's your episode! Hey, whaddya know, racism still exists in the 25th century! Enough where someone takes a vortex manipulator and sets out to keep Rosa Parks from being arrested on the bus in Montgomery! Who'd have thought? My only complaint was that they avoided the obvious things - using the N word, for one. And what a gut punch for Graham there at the end. But this was probably the best episode of the early ones.

    2. Demons of the Punjab. This is what we call "Yaz's Episode." It had layers, along with the whole MacGuffin of the wristwatch, the alien menace who weren't menaces, and "who's the real monster?" who The Doctor couldn't save. It also caused a bunch of Americans to look up the Indian-Pakistani Partition on Wikipedia. Who knew that drawing a line in the sand would be so problematic?

    1. Kerblam! This just felt like a Doctor Who episode. The Fez, the secret cry for help, the companions all looking for answers, the bait-and-switches, the morality question, and the just... well silliness of an episode named "Kerblam!" Any one of the recent doctors could have done this episode, and nothing would have been questioned. (Okay, maybe Eccleston couldn't have done this one, but you get the point.)
    "Character is what you are in the dark." - D.L. Moody
    Life's too short to be ashamed of how you were born.

  22. - Top - End - #532
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    SwashbucklerGuy

    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Rio de Janeiro, RJ
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Quote Originally Posted by dps View Post
    [I][...] but The Witchfinders was the only one where humans weren't the real villains, which is kind of a cop-out.
    Sort of. It wasn't the aliens who killed all those innocent women, after all.

    Quote Originally Posted by jwhouk View Post
    Any one of the recent doctors could have done this episode, and nothing would have been questioned. (Okay, maybe Eccleston couldn't have done this one, but you get the point.)
    Ninth sassed a bitchy trampoline and saved the Earth from farting aliens. Eccleston could have done Kerblam, no doubt about it.

    Speaking of Eccleston, here's him and Whittaker showing how good actors they are:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzPMov8Lor8
    Last edited by The Troubadour; 2018-12-19 at 07:34 PM.

  23. - Top - End - #533
    Spamalot in the Playground
     
    Psyren's Avatar

    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    My ranking. Keep in mind the only one I thought was actually bad was Arachnids in the UK.

    1. It Takes You Away - Cemented Jodie's Doctor in my eyes.
    2. Rosa - A one episode primer for what sets Doctor Who apart from all other sci-fi.
    3. Demons of the Punjab - Mature themes, great history, and Yaz actually doing things!
    4. The Witchfinders - Can... can we get more Alan Comming [sic] in literally everything?
    5. The Woman Who Fell to Earth - Automatic top 5 for the inaugural outing.
    6. The Tsuranga Conundrum - The Pting is awesome, fight me.
    7. Kerblam! - Fantastic setup, but did not stick the landing at all.
    8. The Battle of Wherever - Stop trying to make the Stenza happen.
    9. The Ghost Monument - Decent setup but ended up just being boring overall, especially compared to later episodes.
    10. Arachnids in the UK - Just poorly thought out.

    Quote Originally Posted by The Troubadour View Post
    Ninth sassed a bitchy trampoline and saved the Earth from farting aliens. Eccleston could have done Kerblam, no doubt about it.
    Yes, this. Easily.

    Quote Originally Posted by The Troubadour View Post
    Speaking of Eccleston, here's him and Whittaker showing how good actors they are:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzPMov8Lor8
    I wonder if the Doctor's internal monologues get like this? Past incarnations getting all Shakespearean with each other

    Great find!
    Last edited by Psyren; 2018-12-20 at 11:16 AM.
    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    But really, the important lesson here is this: Rather than making assumptions that don't fit with the text and then complaining about the text being wrong, why not just choose different assumptions that DO fit with the text?
    Plague Doctor by Crimmy
    Ext. Sig (Handbooks/Creations)

  24. - Top - End - #534
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    SwashbucklerGuy

    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Rio de Janeiro, RJ
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Quote Originally Posted by Psyren View Post
    6. The Tsuranga Conundrum - The Pting is awesome, fight me.
    I loved the little beastie too!

    I wonder if the Doctor's internal monologues get like this? Past incarnations getting all Shakespearean with each other
    Oh, Tennant played "Hamlet", didn't he? If I were a video editor, I'd have taken your idea and run along with it! :-D

  25. - Top - End - #535
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    Delicious Taffy's Avatar

    Join Date
    Nov 2015

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    I've yet to watch past the Rosa Parks episode in Series 11, but I was gifted with a set of DVDs of everything from Nine onward, this Christmas. I'm on Series 3 now, and I have to admit that Ten is damn good. Not as good as Nine, mind you, but he gets some excellent moments.
    I do not think the way you think. If you try to apply your own mindset to the things I say, there will be miscommunications. If something I say seems odd to you or feels like it's missing steps, ask for clarification. I'm not some unreasonable, unknowable entity beyond your mortal comprehension, I'm just autistic and have memory problems.

  26. - Top - End - #536
    Spamalot in the Playground
     
    Psyren's Avatar

    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Quote Originally Posted by Delicious Taffy View Post
    I've yet to watch past the Rosa Parks episode in Series 11, but I was gifted with a set of DVDs of everything from Nine onward, this Christmas. I'm on Series 3 now, and I have to admit that Ten is damn good. Not as good as Nine, mind you, but he gets some excellent moments.
    Nine is my favorite too, but I can see why Ten is the most popular overall, David Tennant is a treasure.
    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    But really, the important lesson here is this: Rather than making assumptions that don't fit with the text and then complaining about the text being wrong, why not just choose different assumptions that DO fit with the text?
    Plague Doctor by Crimmy
    Ext. Sig (Handbooks/Creations)

  27. - Top - End - #537
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    SwashbucklerGuy

    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Rio de Janeiro, RJ
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Tennant also had more time in the role, plus a wider variety of companions (Donna, for instance, is my favourite companion, even if Nine is my favourite Doctor, too).

  28. - Top - End - #538
    Banned
     
    zimmerwald1915's Avatar

    Join Date
    Mar 2010
    Location
    Lake Wobegon
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Quote Originally Posted by The Troubadour View Post
    Tennant also had more time in the role, plus a wider variety of companions (Donna, for instance, is my favourite companion, even if Nine is my favourite Doctor, too).
    Three series and some specials. It's longer than Eccleston got, but it's not all that long in the grand scheme of things.

  29. - Top - End - #539
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    SwashbucklerGuy

    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Rio de Janeiro, RJ
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    Hm, I suppose it isn't. But he had the advantage of getting those three years back when New!Who was starting, so he was basically the template for the new series' Doctor.
    Hmmm... Would he still be the template, though, or has Matt Smith - or even Capaldi - managed to replace him?

  30. - Top - End - #540
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    WolfInSheepsClothing

    Join Date
    Jan 2012
    Location
    Britain
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Would You Be My New Best Friends? (Doctor Who redux)

    I think he's still the template Capaldi did try to go a different way but due to poor overall writing didn't quite manage to pull it off. (Although he does have some really good moments possibly the best in the series.)

    14 so far is basically Tennent minus his no second chance stance. (Which was applied pretty haphazardly for him anyway.) Her accomplices are great though and I'd like to see the writing staff take that forward.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •