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Thad · « **Reply #460 on:** December 26, 2010, 07:30:51 PM »

Well, certainly, but I'd say all that was more the hallmark of RTD Who than Moffat. Not to say it's been absent under Moff, but I don't think he's emphasized it the way Davies did. #11 isn't as sad as the last two.

Bal · « **Reply #461 on:** December 26, 2010, 07:39:32 PM »

No, he just goes out of his way to remain distant so he doesn't get hurt the same as last time.

Thad · « **Reply #462 on:** December 26, 2010, 10:12:40 PM »

But he's doing a worse job of it than ever. He's managed to hang on to a companion for more than one season, he's invited her husband onboard and into the opening credits, and he runs into River every three weeks. Sure, he occasionally manifests an evil alterego who tries to kill everybody, but he also plays soccer with the neighborhood children.

Verde · « **Reply #463 on:** December 27, 2010, 02:29:40 PM »

That'll do pig. Can't wait for the new season.

BTW:

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There's a little bit of gender politics at work here. Stripped of Who's derring-do and down to brass tacks, this is a story about an old man who keeps a woman in a box in his basement.

I agree 100% with this blog post about the gender politics in the Christmas special, but it didn't affect my enjoyment of the episode one single bit.

Thad · « **Reply #464 on:** December 27, 2010, 02:56:13 PM »

In, not to put too fine a point on it, a refrigerator.

Bal · « **Reply #465 on:** December 27, 2010, 07:59:08 PM »

They don't force her to do anything, and it's implied that she has input on several if not all of their adventures. She's got eight days left, and she has an amazing opportunity to live them more fully than just about anyone else. So my reply to this is is a solid "Hrumph".

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #466 on:** December 28, 2010, 02:17:38 AM »

So I've finally binged my way through season 5! Did anyone else notice that Amy's house and the nonexistent second floor from The Lodger have the same stairs?

Thad · « **Reply #467 on:** December 28, 2010, 07:23:03 AM »

Quote from: Bal on December 27, 2010, 07:59:08 PM

They don't force her to do anything, and it's implied that she has input on several if not all of their adventures. She's got eight days left, and she has an amazing opportunity to live them more fully than just about anyone else. So my reply to this is is a solid "Hrumph".

I think it's something more fundamental than that -- she's not a realistic character, she's just an absolute saint. She has the voice and disposition of an angel, and to that end, nothing anybody does can hurt her, even a few decades of imprisonment.

Viewed from that angle, the leading lady in the story IS just there as a somewhat insubstantial character whose purpose is to motivate the protagonist.

Which would probably be a problem if it were a pattern, but in point of fact Moffat's given us plenty of strong female characters: Madame de Pompadour, Sally, River, and Amy, off the top of my head.

Quote from: Ted Belmont on December 28, 2010, 02:17:38 AM

Did anyone else notice that Amy's house and the nonexistent second floor from The Lodger have the same stairs?

Had not! But the homemade TARDIS from The Lodger is in the trailer for season 6.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #468 on:** December 28, 2010, 02:47:05 PM »

Doctor Who - Season 32 - BBC America Promo_cz

Stetsons are cool.

Thad · « **Reply #469 on:** January 20, 2011, 10:49:15 AM »

Doctor Who #1 is one of those comics that makes a bunch of jokes about computers and technology, but surprisingly, it actually works and I enjoyed it.

Rory uses his magic cell phone to access his E-Mail, and for reasons Lee has the good sense not to actually try to explain this results in every piece of spam he will ever get phyiscally manifesting aboard the TARDIS.

Some of the jokes are a little dated (Clippy? Wasn't he removed from Office in 2003?) but on the whole it was a suitably fun and nonsensical first outing for #11 and his companions.

It's still likely to be the last one I pick up until I get a job, but them's the breaks.

EDIT TO ADD: Oh, also, Michael Moorcock wrote a fucking Doctor Who novel and it's out now. It's about parallel universes, because of course it is. (EDIT 2 to add: And according to the synopsis, there is a character named Captain Cornelius.)

I've never picked up a Doctor Who book before, but I don't think I'll be able to pass this one up.

...once it's out in paperback.

Thad · « **Reply #470 on:** March 13, 2011, 04:02:57 AM »

Bleeding Cool has a teaser for the upcoming Comic Relief shorts, and some deleted scenes from the DVD of last season.

Thad · « **Reply #471 on:** March 28, 2011, 11:26:32 PM »

The title of Neil Gaiman's upcoming episode is "The Doctor's Wife".

Mongrel · « **Reply #472 on:** March 29, 2011, 02:42:46 AM »

Quote from: Thad on January 20, 2011, 10:49:15 AM

Some of the jokes are a little dated (Clippy? Wasn't he removed from Office in 2003?)

This just made me laugh because I saw slippy only yesterday on someone's computer at work. Our IT department is HIP AND WITH IT.

Thad · « **Reply #473 on:** March 30, 2011, 03:23:56 PM »

Doctor Who - Full Length Trailer for New Series 2011 - BBC One

Verde · « **Reply #474 on:** March 31, 2011, 03:47:19 AM »

There also a "prequel to" (read: trailer for) the first episode on the BBC Doctor Who site. I figure it's geoblocked, so here's a real crappy version on YouTube.

Doctor Who Prequel 1

Looks like typical Moffat stuff. Monsters are hiding in the black space behind your head. Sleep tight, kids!

Thad · « **Reply #475 on:** April 02, 2011, 10:46:56 PM »

Full HD Doctor Who BBC America Full Length Trailer for Series 6

Verde · « **Reply #476 on:** April 22, 2011, 03:34:46 AM »

After spoilering the crap out of myself last season, I've vowed to avoid reading too much this time around. Thankfully, there's a spoiler-free article on the Guardian (patronisingly) called Doctor Who: are you looking forward to the dark first episode? that's had me pretty stoked for tomorrow's season opener.

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Since the revival, as fans there's always been a tiny little bit of nervous apprehension about revealing to people quite how deeply you are into Doctor Who. With this, it looks like those days are over. Doctor Who might now be one of the coolest, sexiest, smartest most stylish things on television.

Doubt it, but I'm all for Doctor Who being a little more adult and a lot less fucking twee.

Mothra · « **Reply #477 on:** April 22, 2011, 06:20:38 AM »

Well at this point in Davis' run we had the fucking farting fat aliens, so we're definitely on the right track.

Verde · « **Reply #478 on:** April 22, 2011, 11:15:16 AM »

So true. RTD deserves some praise for raising the series from its grave, but he was responsible for all sorts of horrible. The sad thing is that his other shows have demonstrated there's so much more to his writing than just fart jokes and twenty minute goodbye sequences with Billie Piper.

Thad · « **Reply #479 on:** April 23, 2011, 12:07:10 PM »

Well! That was a lot of timey-wimey right off the bat.

So okay. As we know, River was in prison for killing a man. And we're clearly meant to assume it's the Doctor.

[spoiler]Given this, I initially assumed it was her in the spacesuit. Given that she seemed pretty surprised by the whole thing, I assumed that the "her" in the spacesuit was from her future. And given that we'd already seen her in prison earlier in the episode, this introduced the possibility that she was actually convicted and sentenced BEFORE committing the murder -- which sounds like a Moffat plot, doesn't it?

That's still a possibility -- after all, it doesn't have to be the same person in the spacesuit both times, does it? -- but for now we're left to assume that it is in fact the little girl, both times. And that she's probably Amy and Rory's daughter.

Plus, while the "I have a darker day coming" foreshadowing initially seemed to support my theory that River knew that was going to be her in the suit, it's much more compelling if what she told Rory is the truth: the day she dreads is Silence in the Library, an event that's already three years in our past. And it juxtaposes the (seeming) inevitability of the Doctor's death with the inevitability of her (sort of) death.[/spoiler]

The new monsters: Internet speculation, up to this point, has been that they are the Silence, or Silents, alluded to last season. [spoiler]One of them talks, which tends to undercut this theory, but[/spoiler] I'm still inclined to agree. [spoiler]Indeed I can totally foresee the Doctor or Amy asking them how they can be called the Silence if they talk.[/spoiler]

Anyhow. What can I say that's not Big Block of Spoilers? Great episode, great way to start the season off with a sense of urgency, a whole lot of weird and a whole lot of fun. Banter among all the players was great, and really you can't go wrong with Richard Milhous Nixon.

If I were to nitpick one little thing, it's that Washington, DC is hardly the only place in the country where you're going to see streets named Jefferson, Adams, and Hamilton.

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