The Dr Who thread

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:24 pm 0

Harlequin wrote:But not HGFB. If I ever find myself invited to fill a Sparrow/Harkness Captain Jack sandwich I shall deny him the opportunity to join me.

Don't be mean. You know I was just speaking generally. Quite a big chunk of Torchwood was really good (The bits with Jack in them generally) and the last two episodes rate very highly in HGFBland.

Overall I'd give Torchwood a B-. Must try harder and I think the delay until Jan 2008 means they're doing just that. That sound you hear is probably 13 scripts being rewritten under RTD martial law as we speak.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:26 pm 0

The last epp of torchwood was much better then the rest indeed.

Its hard to really judge a show till its second season anyway.
Some shows get better progressively, others get worse.

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:49 pm 0

HGFB wrote:
Harlequin wrote:But not HGFB. If I ever find myself invited to fill a Sparrow/Harkness Captain Jack sandwich I shall deny him the opportunity to join me.
Don't be mean. You know I was just speaking generally. Quite a big chunk of Torchwood was really good (The bits with Jack in them generally) and the last two episodes rate very highly in HGFBland.

Awwww... Okay, then. I will put in a word for you if I ever get the opportunity to participate in a Captain Jack-off.

Darkflame wrote:Its hard to really judge a show till its second season anyway.
Some shows get better progressively, others get worse.

Very true. I would put the modern Star Treks, Babylon 5 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer into the former category.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:51 pm 0

Harlequin wrote:Very true. I would put the modern Star Treks, Babylon 5 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer into the former category.

And the Highlander series. I really liked the later stuff in that, but it started off lousy.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:58 pm 0

Id also say Farscape. It took me season to get truely hocked, and season 3 and 4 were much better then 1 and 2.

Still, it goes the other way with some shows;
DeadZone and 4400 had fantastic first seasons, then went downhill pretty fast. DZ did recover quite a bit in s5 however.

The most successfull shows seem to me too be the ones with the most flexible concepts. Dr Who and Stargate are pretty much the longest running sci-fis, and they both have a scenero that allows almost any story to be told.
Still, that said, by that logic Sliderz would still be around

Post by **Snakey** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:19 pm 0

Harlequin wrote:Captain Jack-off.

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:15 am 0

Darkflame wrote:Still, it goes the other way with some shows;
DeadZone and 4400 had fantastic first seasons, then went downhill pretty fast. DZ did recover quite a bit in s5 however.

I personally thought that The 4000 picked up nicely last year. Partially, perhaps, due to adding Whedonesque and Terminator elements to the X-Men Files scenario and maybe thanks to the extended roles of Jeffrey Combs and Summer Glau's characters.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:40 am 0

The last season was sometimes better then the ones before, but no where upto Season1's standards.

The problem I found was too many of the main characters acted irrationally or changed their minds on things too fast.
It seemed at times like characters were doing things for the sake of making a new plot line, rather then the plot line coming about naturally due to the situations.

Also,on a minor note, the last epp kinda missed a point.
It wouldn't really be 50/50.
In a real life situation, probably at least half the ones being exchanged on the street would be urine filled

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:20 am 0

HGFB wrote:Martha has a blog

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... 763b3e31ML

Erm... I already linked to her myspace page back on page 182... but I don't think anyone's interested.

The latest entry is interesting, from the point of view that it seems like the Doctor might have read it at some point towards the end of last Saturday's episode...

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:22 am 0

Ollie wrote:
HGFB wrote:Martha has a blog

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... 763b3e31ML
Erm... I already linked to her myspace page back on page 182... but I don't think anyone's interested.

The latest entry is interesting, from the point of view that it seems like the Doctor might have read it at some point towards the end of last Saturday's episode...

Yeah, thats slightly nicer then the "he was just stalker her" angle

Incidently, certainly a very strong h2g2 influence going on, I just spotted this season as an eppisode titled "42"

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:32 am 0

Ollie wrote:
HGFB wrote:Martha has a blog
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... 763b3e31ML
Erm... I already linked to her myspace page back on page 182... but I don't think anyone's interested.

Oh, an absence of response does not necessarily imply a lack of interest.

Ollie wrote:The latest entry is interesting, from the point of view that it seems like the Doctor might have read it at some point towards the end of last Saturday's episode...

I felt much the same.

Time does, however, appear to be distorting around her even before meeting the Doctor.

Two weeks between March 26 and March 30?

Darkflame wrote:Incidently, certainly a very strong h2g2 influence going on, I just spotted this season as an eppisode titled "42"

Hehe. I noticed.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:17 am 0

Ollie wrote:Erm... I already linked to her myspace page back on page 182... but I don't think anyone's interested.

C'mon Ollie. You can't expect us to remember what happened 8 pages ago.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:35 pm 0

Here's a three minute clip of the next episode

http://freemaagyeman.com/news/2007/04/0 ... e-preview/

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:12 pm 0

I've just been rewatching the best episode of Doctor Who ever. The Girl in the Fireplace.

I like to rewatch it every now and again and it always blows me away.

The genius Steven Moffat not content with his place in the history books for Press Gang has so far written the best Doctor Who episodes in each of the new series so far. (Empty Child, Doctor Dances in series 1. Girl in the Fireplace in series 2). I'm hoping he can go three for three with his series 3 episode Blink.

In fact I'll go as far to say that Moffat has single handedly written the best Doctor Who episodes ever.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:20 pm 0

HGFB wrote:I've just been rewatching the best episode of Doctor Who ever. The Girl in the Fireplace.

I like to rewatch it every now and again and it always blows me away.

The genius Steven Moffat not content with his place in the history books for Press Gang has so far written the best Doctor Who episodes in each of the new series so far. (Empty Child, Doctor Dances in series 1. Girl in the Fireplace in series 2). I'm hoping he can go three for three with his series 3 episode Blink.

In fact I'll go as far to say that Moffat has single handedly written the best Doctor Who episodes ever.

I set my Sky box on auto start for that the other day, but completely forgot about it and played on the 360 instead, not noticing the Sky box come on.

Sophia Myles.