Doctor Who. - Page 6

dposse · 04-21-2006, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Bravefencer Shinryuu

Easy. Punishment, for being a total idiot who fails to think of the consequences of his actions.

yeah, but it was really mean.

mauve · 04-22-2006, 01:44 AM

Did he ever give Rose her cell phone back? Or is she going to whine about that for the next six episodes?

Mike McC · 04-22-2006, 08:01 PM

Chances are The Doctor took it from him. No good letting him have any advance technology. Except his... little problem.

Mashirosen · 04-22-2006, 09:34 PM

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yeah, but it was really mean.

Ninth Doctor is a good person but not a nice one, most of the time.

Althane · 04-22-2006, 10:31 PM

"You stupid, stupid humans" (said in a Northern accent)

Yeah, good, but not nice. Which would put him at what in the scale of D&D Alignment?

Eh, probably True Neutral, or Neutral Good.

Anyways, the most recent episode was odd, and, to be honest, the graphics for the brain things were a bit weird. But well done. I did like the ending, perfect timing, huh?

greed · 04-23-2006, 10:41 AM

BAD WOLF look for that Phrase.

Wow you guys are only getting it now? Strange for Oz to get something this long before the US.

Living Bobbeh · 04-23-2006, 12:18 PM

News on the new season not yet airing in America, blacked out for spoilers Doctor, David Tennent. The first episode of the new series was a bit cack, the public wern't sure if it was because of the Doctor or the story. The second episode proves it was the story. Kung-fu and Were-Wolfs, what else do you want?

Kurosen · 04-23-2006, 12:45 PM

No way, the first new season episode was fine. Kinda weird continuity due to the rushed pace, but David's Doctor is great.

Mashirosen · 04-23-2006, 12:58 PM

Just a reminder to our friends in the UK and elsewhere who've already seen the series on Sci-Fi all the way through: please be courteous to new fans of the Doctor and put spoilers for the old season and the new behind a spoiler tag. SPOILER: especially anything to do with the regeneration and David Tennant/Tenth Doctor, because they don't seem to know anything about all that and it would be kind of fun for it to be a surprise for them. Once an episode has aired on Sci-Fi, it's fair game for full discussion. I kind of screwed this up myself by mentioning the Slitheen beforehand, but we'll try to keep a better lid on things from here on. Sound fair?

I thought the first new season episode felt kind of rushed, but that's nearly always true for any show, and certainly didn't have anything to do with David Tennant, who was just, well, fantastic. Tenth Doctor seems in a lot of ways like Nine after therapy and anti-depressants. Ten is a good person and a nice one, mostly, with the brash cheeriness of a person who is utterly lacking in the self-doubt that seemed to cripple Nine's decision-making capabilities at times. I think maybe this confidence comes from having been able at last, after the Time War and whatever trauma he suffered in it, to save someone he loves -- he couldn't do it for Gallifrey or his people, but he got it right for Rose, the one person who was anything like family to him after he lost everything else. In saving her he was finally able to accept that, for whatever reason, Gallifrey couldn't be saved -- and that it wasn't his fault. When the regeneration comes he seems at peace with himself at last, ready to go and be a new person.

So Ten is really coasting on this high, it seems, which explains why he completely flips his shit whenever something or somebody riles him, as we saw in "the Christmas Invasion" and in this last episode. He gets so incredulous and angry about it, like he cannot believe this shit -- aren't people aware that this is his universe and they're only living in it?! Ten thinks he's god. It's exactly the way people who've been heavily depressed for a long time act when the anti-depressants kick in -- they feel so many orders of magnitude better they think they can do anything, often including going off the medicine because who needs that crap anymore, they have become Ozymandias, King of Kings. But in life as in Greek tragedy, hubris doesn't go unpunished -- so I wonder what's in store for cocky little Ten.

Christopher Eccleston was such the perfect actor to play Nine, with his IMDB listing full of traumatized veteran roles. And I firmly believe that David Tennant is perfect for Ten, as adept as he is at blending the charming and the diabolical, often in the same performance. I really can't wait to see where Ten goes and how Mr. Tennant gets him there along the way.

And next episode, goddamn werewolves in the time of Queen Victoria! Probably Billie Piper in a corset yet again! RAD.

Living Bobbeh · 04-24-2006, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Mash

It's the last line of spoilers

Afraid not ol' chap. The queen says she is wearing very little but it is fully clothed by todays standards, mostly. The second episode's is a hell of a load better than the first. More action, more fighting, and the special effects were cack in episode 1. When the cat doctor infected just looked so fake.

Sorry about leaving the spoilers open. I forget that Americans have to an age for new Doctor Who. Sorry chaps...

04-22-2006, 01:44 AM	#52
mauve So Dreamy Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Someplace magical Posts: 6,863	Did he ever give Rose her cell phone back? Or is she going to whine about that for the next six episodes? __________________ Yoo Hoo!

04-22-2006, 08:01 PM	#53
Mike McC That went well. Didn't it? Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Wherever I am needed, I will be there. Posts: 5,064	Chances are The Doctor took it from him. No good letting him have any advance technology. Except his... little problem. __________________ "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." - T. E. Lawrence "The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane." - Nikola Tesla "Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one." - Adlai Stevenson

04-23-2006, 12:18 PM	#57
Living Bobbeh That's NumberWang! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Twenty X'DY six! Posts: 1,127	News on the new season not yet airing in America, blacked out for spoilers Doctor, David Tennent. The first episode of the new series was a bit cack, the public wern't sure if it was because of the Doctor or the story. The second episode proves it was the story. Kung-fu and Were-Wolfs, what else do you want? __________________ Be confident, Wear a Cape!

04-23-2006, 12:58 PM	#59
Mashirosen Watch closely! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Imaginary tomorrowland Posts: 1,855	Just a reminder to our friends in the UK and elsewhere who've already seen the series on Sci-Fi all the way through: please be courteous to new fans of the Doctor and put spoilers for the old season and the new behind a spoiler tag. SPOILER: especially anything to do with the regeneration and David Tennant/Tenth Doctor, because they don't seem to know anything about all that and it would be kind of fun for it to be a surprise for them. Once an episode has aired on Sci-Fi, it's fair game for full discussion. I kind of screwed this up myself by mentioning the Slitheen beforehand, but we'll try to keep a better lid on things from here on. Sound fair? I thought the first new season episode felt kind of rushed, but that's nearly always true for any show, and certainly didn't have anything to do with David Tennant, who was just, well, fantastic. Tenth Doctor seems in a lot of ways like Nine after therapy and anti-depressants. Ten is a good person and a nice one, mostly, with the brash cheeriness of a person who is utterly lacking in the self-doubt that seemed to cripple Nine's decision-making capabilities at times. I think maybe this confidence comes from having been able at last, after the Time War and whatever trauma he suffered in it, to save someone he loves -- he couldn't do it for Gallifrey or his people, but he got it right for Rose, the one person who was anything like family to him after he lost everything else. In saving her he was finally able to accept that, for whatever reason, Gallifrey couldn't be saved -- and that it wasn't his fault. When the regeneration comes he seems at peace with himself at last, ready to go and be a new person. So Ten is really coasting on this high, it seems, which explains why he completely flips his shit whenever something or somebody riles him, as we saw in "the Christmas Invasion" and in this last episode. He gets so incredulous and angry about it, like he cannot believe this shit -- aren't people aware that this is his universe and they're only living in it?! Ten thinks he's god. It's exactly the way people who've been heavily depressed for a long time act when the anti-depressants kick in -- they feel so many orders of magnitude better they think they can do anything, often including going off the medicine because who needs that crap anymore, they have become Ozymandias, King of Kings. But in life as in Greek tragedy, hubris doesn't go unpunished -- so I wonder what's in store for cocky little Ten. Christopher Eccleston was such the perfect actor to play Nine, with his IMDB listing full of traumatized veteran roles. And I firmly believe that David Tennant is perfect for Ten, as adept as he is at blending the charming and the diabolical, often in the same performance. I really can't wait to see where Ten goes and how Mr. Tennant gets him there along the way. And next episode, goddamn werewolves in the time of Queen Victoria! Probably Billie Piper in a corset yet again! RAD. __________________ "Remember how we all thought the Jedi were, well, Space Knights of the Round Table? Well, as it turns out, they're a bunch of self-righteous virgins who kidnap kids to replenish their numbers."