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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject:
okay, blink was hella awesome. at least i thought so. still felt like a doctor who story even with the absence. so good.
i don't have anything constructive to say. D: next episode, looking forward to jacobi and the captain coming back, but otherwise it doesn't seem terribly exciting.
and the music in the classic series when they switch to the radiophonic workshop for the incidental stuff is terrible and doesn't hold up to the passage of time very well. it's really really annoying to me, even though the only one i've watched so far is castrovalva... _________________
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:46 am Post subject:
fruiterian wrote:
okay, blink was hella awesome. at least i thought so. still felt like a doctor who story even with the absence. so good.
Yes. As you can see, Moffat is definitely the best Who writer nowadays. Blink was another perfect episode, complete with wonderfully creepy villans, and best of all, a rational explanation for them. Shame the ending was a bit predictable, but really, any other ending wouldn't've been as good. Maybe I like Moffat so much just because he can, in his mind, run a bunch of time streams simultaneously that go in various directions. The first Doctor Who thing he wrote for television was actually a parody called The Curse of Fatal Death. It has time-stream overlapping as well, to quite a humorous effect. It also does a great job at capturing (and roasting) the classical Who feel. Moffat gets what Doctor Who should really be like. It's a shame that he's the only writer who does.
Well, Mark Gatiss does, I want to believe, but he's not nearly as creative as Moffat is. Probably a better actor, though.
The only bad thing I can say about this episode is how annoying Martha was in it. It's pretty clear that Moffat only stuck her in because he had to. Perhaps she's written as annoying because that's how the author feels about her character in general.
But man, I love it. RTD stuck the single causation loop in Smith and Jones. SM comes in and blows him away with no less than three causation loops, and the Doctor sending correspondence to his future pen-pal a'la Back To The Future II, only much more cleverly. Brilliant.
Ha ha, and I loved the epilogue... with the Doctor repeating his speech over a montage of a bunch of real life statues. In case the four evil statues didn't scare the crap out of the kids enough, Moffat fires off this little gem that will make them wary of any statue they ever come across. I love it.
Well that was good. Shame it'll be the only good episode this season. Oh well, maybe next season he'll be made head writer. We can always hope!
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and the music in the classic series when they switch to the radiophonic workshop for the incidental stuff is terrible and doesn't hold up to the passage of time very well. it's really really annoying to me, even though the only one i've watched so far is castrovalva...
Yeah, have to agree with you there, it's a shame the Doctor Who series has midi audio throughout the entire 80s. The more you watch, the less it bothers you, trust me. The first 80s theme song is great though.
And the composers get better. Even though it stays midi, the music's not half bad by the time McCoy rolls around, and Davison does have decent music at times. _________________ Come into my den let me hear you cluck
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:54 pm Post subject:
Okay, not terribly crazy about the episode upon first, very interrupted viewing, but I fucking love John Simm.
edit // Upon rewatching it (though once again, not continuously, skipping over stuff): the plot of the episode itself is pretty secondary to all the character reintroductions and development going on. That part I can't complain about, I'm liking those developments, but as a story on its own this just doesn't hold up--it's just a vehicle for other things. Awesome cliffhanger though, very cool.
also, slightly unrelated: moffat apparently has written another 6 part drama on saturdays now: jekyll... downloading the first episode now, it looks good to me. _________________
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:14 am Post subject:
man, this story started out stupid. Then as soon as the master came back on the scene, it was awesome.
Awesome until the scene in the conference room. RTD just doesn't handle confrontations very well. The Doctor was able to function fine as an old man before, I don't know why he'd be feeble now.
And if he were to die, hello #11. And the Master knows this. Dumb.
Still, the Master's personality's about right, though. I loved the Gallifrey shots. I was concerned that RTD was trying to add a bunch of crap to the Time Lord mythos there, but then I realized he was just glorifying most of the things that have already been established.
And then adding new ones, but oh well. _________________ Come into my den let me hear you cluck
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject:
nay 'till the end.
And Martha gets extremely annoying.
Watch as she has a bunch of "Rose moments" 'cause RTD was too lazy to give her different dialogue. _________________ Come into my den let me hear you cluck
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject:
Lizzy wrote:
Season 3 started tonight and I must say I like Martha about 7 million times more than Rose.
So what's the general consensus on the season so far from you guys? Yay/Nay?
I liked her in the beginning and then she just became infuriatingly annoying and worse than Rose even. D: I wanted to like her, I really did, I tried to, but the fact of the matter is I couldn't, and the last episode finally cemented it. I'll disclose I don't have very high hopes for the finale--the beginning of it was really good, but then the ending destroyed that.
and it is pretty damn stupid at times, but i watch it anyways because i'm a loser. _________________
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:49 pm Post subject:
okay, can we really petition RTD to just get fired? _________________ Come into my den let me hear you cluck
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject:
nope, I hated every second.
Did RTD write this episode just to see how many people he could tick off? _________________ Come into my den let me hear you cluck
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject:
RTD is only clever enough to be clever 5 times a season.
He used them all up at the end of Utopia and the beginning of Sound of Drums.
I was reading an interview where RTD talked about each episode of the season, and he was talking about his "shopping list." Turns out, he gives each writer a bunch of restrictions for each story. Well, I call them restrictions, he probably calls them good ideas.
He said Helen Raynor had the biggest list, including daleks, Manhattan, pig creatures, and the Empire State Building.
So no wonder Evolution of the Daleks was crap. RTD probably restricted Raynor too far. I'm willing to give her a second chance. She knows what good writing is, and I'm sure she can pull it off if she tries.
I hope she can.
RTD, leave her alone next time and see what she can do without your crap. _________________ Come into my den let me hear you cluck
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A bite to the leg, it's time to play
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