― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Monkey Girl: Earth Defence would've been a better title.
Apropos, does anyone know if Bella And The Boys (starring B Piper) will be released on DVD? Torrents hard to come by I've found.
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Seriously, had anyone heard anything about this thing before it got "cancelled"?
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
"Mawdryn Undead"!"Mawdryn Undead"!"Mawdryn Undead"!
also, "Warriors of the Deep"! Davison just nails the tragic finish!
― literalisp (literalisp), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Hello ILE. I have decided to educate myself in the way of old-skool Who and am watching as much of it as I can, over the internet, in order.
I have got as far as the second episode, but that lengthy scene with the cavemen arguing about who gets to be the leader is interminable. Talking to someone who'd never heard of Doctor Who, you'd never be able to convince them that it would survive, on and off, for over forty years.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Things get better with "The Daleks".
― HI DERE, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i have never attempted to watch dr who in any kind of order
― rrrobyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
well obv except for these latest seasons and i guess when it was on tv when i was younger
i commend you
Dan is right, "The Daleks" is quite brilliant.
― aldo, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Matt, when you say "over the internet", do you mean some streaming thing? Or torrence?
― accentmonkey, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been doing exactly the same thing Matt, I'm a few months ahead of you. I'm at the start of T Baker now. I haven't been watching them all, that would be far too much of a mission - what I suggest doing is going to the very comprehensive episode guides on the BBC site and skim reading the review bit at the bottom of each to determine if the serial is worth watching.
"The Daleks" is quite brilliant.
Absolutely, for the first three or so episodes. It does drag rather towards the end. If you don't mind skipping ahead a bit and want an example of how great the Hartnell stories could be, I recommend 'The Ark'.
― chap, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, are you planning to listen to the audio of the incomplete ones? I didn't bother.
― chap, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
all I remember of this is the pantomime horse monster.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 1 June 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
what's brought this on?
― Alan, Friday, 1 June 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Well it was mostly discovering this really, but also I just wanted to watch them.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 2 June 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a real pity about the drop in quality between the first-ever episode and the rest of "An Unearthly Child."
I watched "Ghost Light" for the first time recently. Similar to "Warrior's Gate," in that I spent much of the episode wondering what the powers that be were smoking when they approved the script. "Warrior's Gate" made slightly more sense, though. The first couple episode are marvelously creepy and insane (why the hell does the moth collection come alive?), though the conclusion is kind of a letdown.
― clotpoll, Saturday, 2 June 2007 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
dud
― blueski, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
The scene with Rose, Martha and Donna all in the same room is going to be dreadful.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Like the threesome in Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
and then they all lez up
― onimo, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
You only see it through the Dalek eye.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Oooer missus long stalk with a single eye at the end, nudge nudge DIE RTD DIE YOU CUNT
― aldo, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
billie piper is the only reason ever to watch this trash.
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link
darra out
― aldo, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
would watch if jol was shexy companion.
― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i think it could be amazing
― Alan, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been watching the repeats of Tennant's first season and I have to say she is pretty good.
Q: In her first-ever episode, who's the mixed-race dude that Rose kisses goodbye on the lips before jumping into the Tardis? And he looks ruefully after her, then walks towards the flats behind TV Centre a tower block? Is he ever referred to again?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:44 (sixteen years ago) link
You mean Mickey? He's in most of the first two series.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link
what is the point of bringing her back? just so they can do rub emo "I love y..." 15 minute send off again.
― blueski, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm assuming there is a ratings fluctuation (i.e. drop) between Bille and No-Billie episodes.
― onimo, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
the point is lesbian spank inferno massive conflagration for great finale when RTD goes so they can clear the boards for the specials and someone else (MOFFAT) to take over when it comes back in 2009 or whever the HELL it is
― Alan, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i have to admit, i'd watch dr who if martin jol was the bungling dalek leader.
steve staunton for next dr who
"waaael, wayal just hofta seaa wha happens"
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
(MOFFAT) to take over http://www.resonancestore.com/aidanmoffat/items/13172.jpg
― onimo, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link
All episodes to take place off camera, repeated on camera as monolgues.
― aldo, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Matt - OK! The only other Rose-era Who I've seen besides that first Tennant episode is the awesome one with Madame Bouffant and the weird spaceship that leads to an extra-dimensional fireplace.
Can I make a guess based on what I know of nu-Who that Rose is "torn" between the trad pleasures of Mickey and the exciting yet dangerous Doctor?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
On a more serious note, the finale has been rumoured for some considerable time to be Doctor+Donna+Martha+Jack+Sarah Jane+Rose vs Master +/vs Davros. (This came from the same source as a perfect description of the last series finale, down to Jack hanging off the TARDIS, The Master return, the first time the name 'Toclafane' was heard...)
This was bolstered considerably by some off the cuff remarks by RTD about how each finale had to be bigger than the year before, and how the next finale would be UTTER FANWANK OF THE WORST KIND.
Before this confirmation the least likely part of it to be true was assumed to be the return of Rose. Now I fear the worst...
― aldo, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Well Belle de Jour's not exactly setting the world on fire.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah it's def gonna happen now re Davros and co. (now there's a spin-off...).
― blueski, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
no mention of the Children In Need thing? was pretty forgettable.
― koogs, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Davros, classic-or-dud would be a good one to consider. I say dud, apart from in Genesis of the Daleks.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Davros kind of sucks.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Davros? Is the leader of the Daleks some dirty Greek?
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Davros such a brilliant villain on paper but crap in practice
― blueski, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link