Any Doctor Who Fans? **UK AIR-DATE SPOILERS ABOUND** — Page 4

Ha! How could I forget Gollum Doctor? That would be almost as bad as forgetting the Disco Tinkerbell Jesus Doctor that came right after! A UK tabloid actually ran an image of the caged wrinkly Doctor a few days before the episode aired, and I was sure it was a hoax because there was no way they could actually get that weird, right? ...Yeah. Now I never dismiss a spoiler on the basis of it being too strange.

I adored John Simm* as the Master, and Tennant did some of his absolute best work opposite him, but my goodness that was cracky. And that was before the awesome Scissor Sisters musical number.


*Everyone in the whole world should watch the original Life On Mars, which stars Simm and is way better than the US remake. Simm is freaking fantastic in it, and not a thing like the Master.

Torchwood: We push the buttons on suspicious alien devices so you don't have to.

...and they make us have sex or die...
which I say as someone who enjoys Torchwood in its own way.

As to Dr Who: I would love it if the show had some non-human companions (male or female) and if they would spend some more time away from Earth. I don't think either is all that likely though. Maybe they would at least entertain a companion from the past though.

I totally agree about Simm and Tennant, I really loved the whole Master plotline ... except for the entire "shiny Jesus doctor" and "gollum doctor" part. (I did enjoy the storyline where the people used the matrix to bring the doctor back, just not the way they took it as a "savior moment.")

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Updated On: 2/23/09 at 10:11 PM

Spidey, I liked Tennant and Ten quite a bit in S4 with Donna. Before that there was way too much skeevy subtextual stuff going on between the Rose/Doctor relationship and the Jesus metaphors being thrown all over the place, and Tennant was repeatedly forced to go into a "screamy anger" mode that simply doesn't suit him as an actor. If Ten had been S4 Ten from the start I'd have loved him all around. And me saying Eccleston's the better actor isn't really that much of a diss to Tennant, because I think Eccleston's one of the best actors around, period. But yeah, the day we totally agree on something will be a strange day indeed. :)

I agree that the throughline/thematic work in S3 was excellent - that's another thing I sort of felt was missing in S2. I think it was there in S4 - the whole DoctorDonna thing was being hinted at heavily from the start between the Ood and the little family shrine at the end of "Fires of Pompeii". Donna's memory loss was preceded by Agatha Christie's. The disappearing planets and the bees were sort of an ongoing mystery, and several of the aliens during the season were obsessed with reproducing, which you can say is a precursor to all the companions being seen at the end as the Doctor's "children of time".

What kind of always drove me bonkers about the themes in S3 and S4 (and to a lesser extent S1 as well) is the way they seemed to be leading in a certain direction but then everything exploded into a hot mess at the end. Davies does many things well. Plotting is just not one of them. He builds these awesome setups and then lets them collapse into total WTFery. (Clone-Doctor, anyone? What the hell was that?) But when Davies is good, he's excellent, as in "Midnight" and some of his non-Who projects.

Wow! We just saw Season 3 Episode 9 : BLINK and Its definitely my favorite episode ever! Am I the only one hoping for another Doctor Who Spin-off called, "SPARROW AND NIGHTINGALE"?

J*

Updated On: 2/28/09 at 08:57 PM

We've been watching the series on DVD, and one of our favorite extras is David Tennant's video diary - it's so cool to see how much fun they really are having making the show.

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My god! I just saw Season 3 : Episode 10- UTOPIA - Just Wow! Its 1st part of the 3 episode season finale (Utopia. The Sound of the Drum & Last of the Time Lords) with special guest-John Barrowman as Capt. Jack Harness. It was really good! it explains why Jack Harness has that hand (TORCHWOOD)Why Jack would never die? and soo many things...Cant wait to see the other two episode! I love the TORCHWOOD/ DOCTOR WHO cross over episodes!!!!

J*

Updated On: 3/1/09 at 01:45 PM

I love these clips from UTOPIA!! (Doctor Who : Season 3 Episode 10)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLEMeoJgGMY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9mjNSVJ0J8&feature=related

Updated On: 3/1/09 at 01:51 PM

my favorite episode of season 1 "The Empty Child" is on. HUZZAH!

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Don't forget Nancy! Season 1 had so many of my favorite one-off characters. (Remember Jabe?)

Yep. I thought she was lovely, and that was a really well-done bit of prosthetics/makeup/costuming, too.

I've only seen all episodes once, but we're about to start from Season 1 again soon ... after watching all four seasons starting last Fall - busy schedules - it feels weird to not be waiting for the next dvd.

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Jaystarr the fifth series hasn't yet started filming. I believe they start filming those episodes this summer. They are currently filming the second of the four special episodes with David Tennant, the last four he will do as the Tenth Doctor. The 2008 Christmas special is available via UK DVD if you have a multi-region player, and includes the Dr. Who Proms concert, which was performed last summer at the Royal Albert Hall. The first special, PLANET OF THE DEAD is expected to air around Easter, in about four weeks, and will hopefully be up somewhere for us outside UK fans on the net somewhere not too long after that.

To answer your other question, Sarah Jane, Capt. Jack and some others do appear in the series four two-part finale.