The Dr Who thread

arron · Post by **arron** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:56 pm 0

Don't know..Ask him - does he have television wherever he is now? Probably unwatch the programme or something like that. Does that programme have any merit? Whu!

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:01 pm 0

I liked it, so there.

Yes, parts of the story were a bit cliched but I loved the idea of a deserted London - keeps the continuity going nicely. And season 4 looks cracking too.

Kelloggs · Post by **Kelloggs** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:24 am 0

Well, I've managed to watch the first twenty-five minutes of it.

Before my DVR hard disk proudly decided it was full, and stopped.

Which I've just discovered. Four hours late.

<voice type="Dalek">BOLLOCKS</voice>

(I though it was looking alright, actually... and the last bit it recorded was the Doctor, proudly stating his credentials, age and point of origin...)

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:37 am 0

SimonB wrote:I liked it, so there.

Yes, parts of the story were a bit cliched but I loved the idea of a deserted London - keeps the continuity going nicely. And season 4 looks cracking too.

That was the Hayes in Cardiff, you could make out Gamestation in the background.

S4 does indeed look to be handy. So long as they put the proper music back on and Davies/Tate don't bollocks it up.

/edit and yeah - Xmas special 1 = meet the new Doctor, Xmas special 2 = Someone 'not Rose', while Xmas special 3 = Strictly Celebrity Doctor Who featuring past-it Kylie vs. a poor man's Lumic who was a poor man's Davros, with irrational everything and not enough Cribbens. Hale and Pace would have striuggled to come up with something as jaw-droppingly pathetic as that fucking spacking about with the Queen and so on.

It will take until an episode or two into season four to see if Davies has managed to jump the shark before he goes. I hope to christ he hasn't, there's no other telly I like and hasn't been for years.

Honestly though, can anyone really say they thought that wasn't below-par, let alone cringingly awful and aimed at a common denominator lower than the cunting Fimbles?

No more celebrities on this show, for fuck's sake.

Viscount Charles · Post by **Viscount Charles** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:00 am 0

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it was shite. I was saying all the way through "I bet this is an RTD-written episode; all of his episodes are rubbish" - though the credits scrolled far too quickly for me to check (was there something up that meant the BBC had to speed them up?).

Though even my dad saw through it. "It's just like the Poseidon Adventure" he kept muttering, while trying not to fall asleep.

Purple Grapefruit · Post by **Purple Grapefruit** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:04 am 0

Dear Yakyak, i'm aware that Kylie has a massive gay
fanbase and that she also has many heterosexual men
lusting after her who don't really appreciate her
ernormous contribution to modern culture.

As a really big fan of Kylie, who would also like to
shag her i suspect i may be sexually confused.....

please advise?

Viscount Charles · Post by **Viscount Charles** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:44 am 0

Why should wanting to shag Kylie make you "sexually confused"? I want to know, in case I need counselling too.

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:23 am 0

Goatboy wrote:Who featuring past-it Kylie

Everything else you said was forgiveable, but this isn't.

You are saying that you wouldn't, given half a chance?

anon76235 · Post by **anon76235** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:26 am 0

RTD HAS SHAFTED US YET AGAIN

Ely · Post by **Ely** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:29 am 0

Nice to see everyone playing nicely in this thread

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:33 am 0

12.2 million viewers with a 50% audience share. It was only beaten by one episode of Eastenders with 13.9 million and a 53% audience share.

By contrast Who this year was placed directly against Emmerdale which got 5.8 million and a 24.2% audience share.

betamax · Post by **betamax** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:38 am 0

Stop crying, chumps.

There, my hat is once again in the ring, taking all comers and this is why. Christmas TV is all twee, saccharine toss. It's designed that way, that is it's purpose. The previous Who Christmas specials were cringe inducing- all that aliens perspective on love, family celebration stuff made me want to puke out my own skeleton.

It wasn't a wonderful episode, not by a long chalk. It took the path of least resistance in all things (even stooping so low as to nick concepts from the fucking Poseidon adventure) and was packed to the brim with saw-it-coming fluff. But I still enjoyed it. I enjoyed it because it was throwaway Christmas brain gum, as it was intended to be. And because it had a superdeformed Darth Maul in it. In a Tux.

Just belt up and watch the trailers for next season again. Ginger whats her face is coming back- there, now you have a legitimate reason to moan, you miserable buggers.

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:44 am 0

betamax wrote:
Just belt up and watch the trailers for next season again. Ginger whats her face is coming back- there, now you have a legitimate reason to moan, you miserable buggers.

Best companion evar, IMNSHO, but I agree with everything else you said 0 it wasn't meant to be mainstream.

Oh, and I loved the queen bit. It was a total piss-take, and had me laughing out loud.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:48 am 0

I'm with Zoot (I think). We've only had Donna for one episode so far but she's my fave companion from New Who.

Jonesey · Post by **Jonesey** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:58 pm 0

I didn't rate that Chrimbo spesh. at all. And Tennant's Doctor is really starting to get on my nerves now - regenerate, already!

The flying Hosts and that Queen nonsense, Max ("Headroom" - no accident) - naah - had me cringing, all that.