The Dr Who thread

[IronGiant]

Never mind, I found it as a torrent... but I couldn't sit through the whole thing. I'd forgotten how insufferably smug and self-congratulatory the commentaries are.

Especially when you have the 'aren't we wonderful' terrible threesome, Davies, Collinson and Gardner.

[HGFB]

A spoiler for the Doctor-Lite episode in Series 4.

The Sun is reporting that the "Doctor-lite" episode of Series Four is going to be "Doctor-less". According to the article, Rose, Martha and Donna take the TARDIS controls after an accident leaves the Doctor lost in space during an alien invasion.

The article's source adds: “It is a bit of a gamble having Doctor Who without the Doctor – it has never been done before. But everyone is so interested in the different assistants that it should be fantastic.

“Donna, Martha and Rose are all competing for his attention in different ways and all want to be the best.

“But the question will be, can they work together?”

[Ollie]

Never mind, I found it as a torrent... but I couldn't sit through the whole thing. I'd forgotten how insufferably smug and self-congratulatory the commentaries are.

Especially when you have the 'aren't we wonderful' terrible threesome, Davies, Collinson and Gardner.

Someone ought to explain to them how to do commentaries. In particular, that the point of them is to provide something for the listener, rather than just a nice social get-together for the commentators. For example, I'm pleased for them that they had such an uproarious and lengthy laugh at their little private in-joke about water-skiing, but really, unless they're prepared to explain it to the listener, they should save it for the pub afterwards and get on with the job at hand.

Come to think of it, in general (not just Dr Who) DVD commentaries shouldn't be undertaken unless people are willing to put a bit of effort into them. I've heard loads where it just degenerates into people having a bit of a natter and pretty much forgetting that there's a film playing in the background.

[Zoot]

A spoiler for the Doctor-Lite episode in Series 4.

The Sun is reporting that the "Doctor-lite" episode of Series Four is going to be "Doctor-less". According to the article, Rose, Martha and Donna take the TARDIS controls after an accident leaves the Doctor lost in space during an alien invasion.

The article's source adds: “It is a bit of a gamble having Doctor Who without the Doctor – it has never been done before. But everyone is so interested in the different assistants that it should be fantastic.

“Donna, Martha and Rose are all competing for his attention in different ways and all want to be the best.

“But the question will be, can they work together?”

The only question for me is whether all three of them are gonna lez-it-up, or not?

[Governmentyard]

Six quality norks flailing through space and time.

[juice]

A spoiler for the Doctor-Lite episode in Series 4.

The Sun is reporting that the "Doctor-lite" episode of Series Four is going to be "Doctor-less". According to the article, Rose, Martha and Donna take the TARDIS controls after an accident leaves the Doctor lost in space during an alien invasion.

The article's source adds: “It is a bit of a gamble having Doctor Who without the Doctor – it has never been done before. But everyone is so interested in the different assistants that it should be fantastic.

“Donna, Martha and Rose are all competing for his attention in different ways and all want to be the best.

“But the question will be, can they work together?”

Welp... that fits in with the statement Tennant made on Newsround, which was along the lines of "I haven't done a single scene with Billy, but you'll understand when you see the story"!

[anon76235]

A spoiler for the Doctor-Lite episode in Series 4.

The Sun is reporting that the "Doctor-lite" episode of Series Four is going to be "Doctor-less". According to the article, Rose, Martha and Donna take the TARDIS controls after an accident leaves the Doctor lost in space during an alien invasion.

The article's source adds: “It is a bit of a gamble having Doctor Who without the Doctor – it has never been done before. But everyone is so interested in the different assistants that it should be fantastic.

“Donna, Martha and Rose are all competing for his attention in different ways and all want to be the best.

“But the question will be, can they work together?”

NOW THAT WOULD BE WORTH WATCHING

The only question for me is whether all three of them are gonna lez-it-up, or not?

[HGFB]

Welp... that fits in with the statement Tennant made on Newsround, which was along the lines of "I haven't done a single scene with Billy, but you'll understand when you see the story"!

Except that she's in three episodes and not just one.

[juice]

Oh, and as to the Xmas special...

It was pretty standard Christmas-lite fare, and if nothing else, it got bonus points for not including those bloody alien Santas and Xmas trees. Admittedly, the Host wasn't much better - they seemed really cheap and tacky compared to the relatively lavish look for the rest of the show. Actually, they were really, really crap - but still better than alien Santas.

The show did go completely down the drain in the last 20 minutes though - the stupidity of the fork-lift scene, the bloody ridiculous flying scene, the stupendously cheesy cameo appearance for Buckingham Palace and the pathetic "how can we take Kylie out of the show in a kid-friendly fashion" finale.

There's all sorts of other things that I could bitch about (the seemingly pointless fat couple, the "earthology" rubbish, etc, etc), but I think the biggest problem is that Dr Who (and the Poseidon Adventure) has done all this before - most recently in "42".

Take RTD's pen away (he's writing 5 of the next series episodes!) and let Steve Moffat take over. As the short story in the Guardian showed, he's actually capable of writing something interesting...

[anon76235]

RTD
OUT

[HGFB]

RTD
OUT

He came out years ago dear. Can't you tell?

[zip accident]

HGFB wrote:

RTD
OUT

He came out years ago dear. Can't you tell?

I think I can, just by watching Dr Who. Is that wrong of me?

[Ollie]

There's all sorts of other things that I could bitch about (the seemingly pointless fat couple, the "earthology" rubbish, etc, etc)

Judging from the comments on the commentary, the only point of the fat couple was that RTD offered his fat mate from some godawful comedy show a part in The SJ Adventures and she said "I'd sooner have one in Dr Who," upon which he wrote the part for her.

[Jedburgh]

The article's source adds: “It is a bit of a gamble having Doctor Who without the Doctor – it has never been done before. But everyone is so interested in the different assistants that it should be fantastic.

-100 Whomosexual points for letting that one go.

[HGFB]

You're assuming I even notice the errors the tabloids throw into their articles. My mind just blanks them out as irrelevant. I wouldn't expect the Sun to remember about Dalek Cutaway anyway (+100 Whomosexual points, -100 street cred points for using the nerd name for the episode).