The Dr Who thread

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Sun May 28, 2006 6:34 pm 0

Are you sure it's not in case one runs off so that you can then say "Doggone"?

grue · Post by **grue** » Sun May 28, 2006 8:12 pm 0

Just watched this.
Best so far IMHO. I don't think we'll have any Empty Childs this season though

Tennant goes from "Hey! I can act!" to "I'm a spoiled brat and I need a smack." too often for my liking. Chris Eccleston was (and is) a much more sophisticated actor.

I think I don't like Tennant, I 've seen him in Harry Potter (oh my goat, his idea of evil is to lick his lips repeatedly

) and in Being Considered (which sucked anyway) and I really can't come to terms with his acting (and I use the term very very loosely).

I really hope he gets better.

BlackJedi · Post by **BlackJedi** » Sun May 28, 2006 9:13 pm 0

grue wrote:I think I don't like Tennant, I 've seen him in Harry Potter (oh my goat, his idea of evil is to lick his lips repeatedly )

Hardly fair (or maybe just not observant), as that was the character's scripted mannerism - you know, the tic that gave you a clue when he was shapeshifted.

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:25 pm 0

Amnother brilliant episode, another cracking turn from Tennant. Piper is back to normal now as well. It's all good

merman · Post by **merman** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:38 pm 0

Good episode, clever use of the time period as well. Billie was VERY good in this episode, with all the flag business and then doing her own bit of detective work, leading her into danger...

I agree with the "Little Shop of Horrors" thing though, as good as The Wire was in terms of character, the writer could have come up with another line...

Post by **Snakey** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:55 pm 0

merman wrote:I agree with the "Little Shop of Horrors" thing though, as good as The Wire was in terms of character, the writer could have come up with another line...

or just used it less often.

Kelloggs · Post by **Kelloggs** » Mon May 29, 2006 12:08 am 0

Hmm.

Sinistar wrote:I HUNGER!

Any better?

Viscount Charles · Post by **Viscount Charles** » Mon May 29, 2006 12:08 am 0

Just caught a bit of Dead Ringers on BBC2. For those who haven't seen it, there are a series of sketches with third-rate impressionists. One of tonights targets for satirisation was Doctor Who - the gag being that the music is so loud the Doctor needed to use his sonic screwdriver to bring up subtitles for everyone.

Looks like SOMEONE at the Beeb should have noticed the music issue by now, if their own comedy writers have.

Gorecki · Post by **Gorecki** » Mon May 29, 2006 12:11 am 0

Well, either my hearing is particularly good or particularly bad because I haven't had any problems with the music volume at all. Seems pitched just about right to me.

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Mon May 29, 2006 12:54 am 0

Audrey II wrote:FEED ME!

Viscount Charles wrote:Just caught a bit of Dead Ringers on BBC2. For those who haven't seen it, there are a series of sketches with third-rate impressionists [...]

I personally think that they've proved themselves to be particularly good impressionists, on radio, although I feel that John Culshaw's David Tennant still has far to go before it approaches the quality of his Tom Baker.

Viscount Charles wrote:Looks like SOMEONE at the Beeb should have noticed the music issue by now, if their own comedy writers have.

Especially as quite a few of their comedy writers also write for Doctor Who

Gorecki wrote:Well, either my hearing is particularly good or particularly bad because I haven't had any problems with the music volume at all. Seems pitched just about right to me.

I haven't particularly noticed it myself. Mind you, I watched the pre-broadcast version of Rose and just about anything after that seems acceptable by comparison

Indeed, I hardly noticed the music in the Dead Ringers sketch until some time after they started talking about it

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offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Mon May 29, 2006 7:23 am 0

I Didn't feel it was the volume of the music that is the problem - its the inappropriate use of it. It kind of 'lays it on with a trowel' when they try an emotional scene and typically justs ruins a moment, rather than subtly adding to it.

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Mon May 29, 2006 11:54 am 0

I liked that one! More from Mark Gatiss please.

The BBC did a nice job of making the TV stuff look very authentically '50s - the VHF antennas, the 405 line displays and a nice selection of vintage tellies.

Billie dead good in it too. I look forward to catching up with season 2 properly.

Matrixxx · Post by **Matrixxx** » Mon May 29, 2006 6:37 pm 0

There can't be many more eps can there ? *sad* - wonder who the next female assistant will be since IIRC billie is hanging up her boots at the end of the season.

I guess fanbois will know, i'm just curious...

Btw - is it just me, or did all the aerials in the last ep look like swastica's with the bottom bit twisted round ?

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Mon May 29, 2006 6:40 pm 0

Matrixxx wrote: Btw - is it just me, or did all the aerials in the last ep look like swastica's with the bottom bit twisted round ?

Nope, I thought that too...

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon May 29, 2006 6:41 pm 0

Matrixxx wrote:There can't be many more eps can there ? *sad* - wonder who the next female assistant will be since IIRC billie is hanging up her boots at the end of the season.

I guess fanbois will know, i'm just curious...

There hasn't been an announcement of her quitting. Just tabloid rumours.

Just the opposite in fact

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds31067.html

Of course that doesn't say she's in all the episodes ...