^That's just Tennant giving his 'good Carrie' impression.
― tl;dr swinton (suzy), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
what super powers?
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
"trapping people in a mirror dimension like the Richard Donner Phantom Zone" powers
"transforming people into scarecrows" powers
"magicing up unbreakable chains and wrapping them around people with his mind" powers
― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Friday, 17 December 2010 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, the mirror and scarecrow ones were great, didn't put any of this down to 'super powers' more like some practically magic devices he had lying around the TARDIS...but it doesn't matter how!
didn't like the chains one and the one where he "tricks" the woman into a black hole or something tho
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Friday, 17 December 2010 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I felt "detached" about Matt Smith at first, but by the end of the season (starting from that daft vampire story) he was knocking 'em out the park.
Also, COME ON, that last episode was probably one of the best ever, I think.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 17 December 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Fez!
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 17 December 2010 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I *cried* during the part where he is giving his speech to young Amelia, I am pathetic.
― THX THO... (Nicole), Friday, 17 December 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Orrite, fez moment was a genuine flash of genius, I'll give you that.
― I mean Emma Watson Premier League fit (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 17 December 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost Nicole, I did too. Blubbering idiot, me
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 17 December 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Ugh. Awful. I actually said out loud how bad it was more than once when it was on.
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Saturday, 25 December 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah c'mon. Climbing into the film, and "I am. I'm showing you now" - brilliant.
― e.g. delay koala, ok ya! (ledge), Saturday, 25 December 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Schmaltzy as hell and purely for the kiddies but I loved it. Best Christmas special by some margin.
H8 Katherine Jenkins though.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 25 December 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Dr was a bit thick to not notice the days counting down. And of course he could have whisked her off to some future planet of medicine, bish bosh all yer ills cured with a pill. But who's nit picking.
― e.g. delay koala, ok ya! (ledge), Saturday, 25 December 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Throwing away the cornerstone of NuWho to go back and change the history of an individual?
Singing to fish makes them peaceful? Worst shoehorning of guest star evarr.
How did the close-to-death shark get into the basement from the roof, since the clouds had lifted so much that it couldn't even breathe any more? And how did it manage to live for that long (from Gambon being, what, 10 to his current age)?
When did Gambon's actual brain change, because how you think shouldn't change your brain pattern (if that's how it works)?
Why did Gambon's dad take fatally ill people as downpayment? It's not much of an incentive, is it - this person who's going to die will LIVE if you don't pay me! Also, not exactly moral of the Doctor to just leave all those people frozen, is it? He's certainly changed since New Earth when he risked everything to save a room full of people locked in cells who were fatally infected...
Riding behind a shark is the new jumping it.
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess that means it's me nitpicking by the way.
Never change.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
okay I'll skip this thread again then.
great ep btw
― I write the lols that make the whole world zing (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Four adults and four kids watching that one. And we all thought it was terrible. It managed to be boring, which is the cardinal sin of Whodom. Too many plot holes for comfort, too.
― Alan Partridge Project (ithappens), Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/Teyla-rolling-her-eyes.gif
― I write the lols that make the whole world zing (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
doctor who is rubbish
― conrad, Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
doctor who is in the gutter
fyi bbc america is marathoning all the specials since davies so i'm drinkin n watchin and i will with pride report on respective quality
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 25 December 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
this is the first special since Davies hoos
― Stay J0rdan Fresh (sic), Saturday, 25 December 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
like 'all the specials since davis took over and beyond' i meant
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 25 December 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
wow ok whatever this is, i guess last year's xmas special with dr song and there's gilliam and there's smith, already its' rad. whole diff feel and pacing
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 December 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i haven't seen anything since tennant left so this is a helluva way to start off, instantly so diff
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 December 2010 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
ahhhhh what a rad open
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah the Moffatt/Smith era has gone for a much more magical/children's fiction feel, which is why this was so good at actually feeling Christmassy (as opposed to companion's family bickering round the turkey). Which is why things like the lifespans of flying sharks or why all the soot suddenly disappeared from the Doctor or whatever don't really matter.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
A sort of cross between Christmas Carol and that episode of Star Trek with Joan Collins
― Mark G, Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Liked bits of that but it was rather slow in places. Needed more fish and less singing.
(at the time I assumed her family prob thought they had been quite clever giving him a fatally ill woman as their loan security, so I didn't see that as a plot hole at all, but I guess having a big counter of days until death on her ice-box was a bit of a giveaway to him so eh. still I am happy with the slightly creepy childhood dream style of magickal bollocks from Moffat where RTD's magic nonsense plot resolutions made me itchy)
― bauble metropolis (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i didn't realize this was the 3rd special with smith already, where the fuck have the years gone
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
not really interested in doctor who but saw a bit of this and that redhead assistant is just ridiculously hot
― jabba hands, Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
no joke
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.comicsreporter.com/images/uploads/aldo.jpg
this thread, you guys
― THX THO... (Nicole), Sunday, 26 December 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Thought this was pretty bad. It mostly seemed to be an advert for Katherine Jenkins CDs. The CGI looked awful. The schmaltz was pretty terribly overboard and the plot holes were glaring, but those things can often be made up for - they just weren't on this occasion.
― emil.y, Sunday, 26 December 2010 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
ha that rapid fire deduction at the start is v holmes
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 December 2010 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
omg Nicole thank you for the Aldo jpg
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 26 December 2010 05:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked this special a lot. I will admit the "Back to the Future"-trained part of my brain was freaking out abt young & old versions of the same guy being in the same timeline together. Definitely way less embarrassing than cyber-cavemen or machine gun robo-Santas or space Titanic. Felt more scifi-y than xmasy but that's fine with me. Also the shark singing woman had my same name and there was a lot of cool knitted stuff in this ep so those are two sweet onuses that probably no one else got qa kick out of.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 26 December 2010 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
haha onuses was supposed to bebonuses
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 26 December 2010 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 December 2010 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
this is the first special since Davies hoos!
wtf are you watching?
― Stay J0rdan Fresh (sic), Sunday, 26 December 2010 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link
or why all the soot suddenly disappeared from the Doctor or whatever don't really matter.
he's still a bit sooty out in the fog, he doesn't get properly clean until after he's spent a few hours or days or weeks travelling around in time finding Michael Gambon's old home movies and accumulating enough local currency to bribe Gambon's entire staff AND Mrs Mantovani - plenty of time to take a sonic shower in the TARDIS during all that
― Stay J0rdan Fresh (sic), Sunday, 26 December 2010 08:52 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ expert plothole filling-in, there, take a moment to appreciate, you don't see it every day
(also, the close-to-death shark got from the roof to the basement and was able to breathe because the place was built on a fog marsh and therefore fish could live in the cellar, this was actually explained?)
I wished with the singing they'd chosen slightly less religious carols or elided out the most jesus-y bits, it kind of didn't seem appropriate to the magical scifi future her to be warbling 'our god heavn cannot hold him nor earth sustain' (you aren't on earth anymore!!). and considering they cut the carols weirdly anyway...
― cleo: dessins, cassettes (c sharp major), Sunday, 26 December 2010 09:02 (thirteen years ago) link
No, the fog had lifted from the roof and it couldn't even swim any more because of it - have no problem with the basement being a fog marsh* but there was no way for it to get there. I suppose the hand-wavy answer is that enough fog had escaped from the basement and worked its way through the house to support the shark...
* no, wait, there is. The whole thing is about seeing a fish because everyone else at school has and he's the only one that hasn't. Then the kid shows abolutely no surprise that his basement is full of them (ignoring the frozen bodies) and even explains why, like he's always known, even implying he's been down there before with his father (which is why he knows about Abagail). Surely that would be the best story for a 10 year old possible! Also, he's quite comfortable in and around them, but it was established in the scene before where he doesn't see the small one and only sees the shark as it comes through the door then dies/not dies that he hasn't seen any.
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Sunday, 26 December 2010 09:15 (thirteen years ago) link
the basement's not full of them the first time iirc, it's on a subsequent awakening that Smith flashes the half-a-screwdriver at one?
Dr was a bit thick to not notice the days counting down.
Smith's Dr has been established as a) easily distracted and b) prone to missing things rly rly obviously under his nose (not the first Dr like this, but it was hammered home in the immediately previous story) - once the alarm goes off and distracts him, it makes sense that he doesn't spot it again - they're always poised to get her out and partying, with hats and scarves and fezzes ahoy, rather than studying the box for the first time as when the shark's in it
― Stay J0rdan Fresh (sic), Sunday, 26 December 2010 09:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah, all you see of subsequent awakenings is a KJenks POV shot of them saying Happy Christmas Eve! until the last one.
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Sunday, 26 December 2010 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link
ps lol Geordie LaForge
― Stay J0rdan Fresh (sic), Sunday, 26 December 2010 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link
no, we definitely see Smith flashing his light at a fish while mini-Gambon's saying goodbye one time
― Stay J0rdan Fresh (sic), Sunday, 26 December 2010 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll take your word for it then, I'm not rewatching to check.
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Sunday, 26 December 2010 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
This was basically not a bad story, but parts of it were so so aggravating, like to a baffling extent. HATED the singing, and Murray Gold completely undid himself in terms of making you want to find the nearest orchestra, then round up its members and execute them. Poor old Amy had absolutely FA to do, which made me a bit sad. On the plus side, the steam punk design was quite nice.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Sunday, 26 December 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I have not said Blinivitch Limitation Effect at any point, you will notice.
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Sunday, 26 December 2010 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link