Doctor Who: Classic or Dud?

BBC America has ad breaks approximately every two minutes (I exaggerate, but they are seriously often). It's terribly disconcerting when BBC programming is chopped up, if you're used to the British lack of adverts.

The cuts are annoying, too - in the Kylie Xmas episode, the bit at the end where they fail at getting her out of the fireball is excised completely. Lazarus Experiment on in about five minutes, so will check for dumb edits.

Did anyone watch the Doctor Who 'Proms' thing with the music and stuff at Royal Albert Hall? It was corny as hell but I enjoyed it.

So that singing lady really does sing like that irl?

yes she does

Pretty amazing pipes for a little gal!

BBC America has ad breaks approximately every two minutes (I exaggerate, but they are seriously often). It's terribly disconcerting when BBC programming is chopped up, if you're used to the British lack of adverts.

The cuts are annoying, too - in the Kylie Xmas episode, the bit at the end where they fail at getting her out of the fireball is excised completely. Lazarus Experiment on in about five minutes, so will check for dumb edits.

― tl;dr swinton (suzy), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 01:55 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so is this how they combat online piracy or

I really liked this--first properly Christmassy Christmas special, nice lines for Matt, loves me some Gambon, the kid was very good, clever time travel twist on Dickens--ya boo sux to those who didn't like it; that is all

― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Monday, 27 December 2010 10:37 (Yesterday) Bookmark

Not a big Gambon fan but otherwise OTM. What wasn't to like? Felt like one of the best nu-Who episodes so far, Christmas special or otherwise.

I like how the bearded Doctor looked like the Geico Caveman yet still inexplicably hot.

Kind of a lesser "The Girl in the Fireplace," though? I got a very dark vibe underneath the sentimentality.

Ooh yes. Good call there.

guys: i thought this over, and i really, really liked the episode. flying shark was perfect calculated nonsense, and the singing was just loverly.

Singing? Did they sing carols?

some welsh cross-over lady sung jesussy songs to keep the sharks at bay. it worked.

Burning this episode right now. Thanks for the warning.

(by 'burn' I mean 'set fire to and stoke until it is fucking dead' obv)

http://www.wheresthetardis.com/

"SHOW US YOUR TARDIS"

Other singing: people on doomed crashing spaceship trying to humanise themselves to Scrooge/Gambon so he'd want to let them live

like others i enjoyed this, but by the end i was pretty annoyed at how egregious the plot holes were getting. you could make a mental checklist as you went of which episode it was currently contradicting: girl in the fireplace, new earth, father's day...

also i know there was barely any amy, but i still found her super-annoying when she was around. the doctor's already a fast-talking snarker, i just can't deal with two of them.

Space Mosquitos shat up Fathers Day for me so yay to contradicting that rubbish

I'm with aldo on that ep - it was a waste of good actors.

Other singing: people on doomed crashing spaceship trying to humanise themselves to Scrooge/Gambon so he'd want to let them live

no, they were singing to thingammybob the clouds in the hope that it would save them but they couldn't sing as well as Jenkins so they were doomed, but the captain didn't tell them.

I thought this was very affecting!

I really, really liked this. The BBC has been showing all the RTD/Tennant Christmas episodes and specials this week, and they seemed even more clunky and unimaginative by comparison. Tennant seems a lot blander than I remember, too.

Pond is still the weak link, but, um, eye candy so who cares.

Was their currency really called Gideons or did I mishear? Bit of politics from Moffat?

Thought it was Guineas, but might have misheard.

Yeah the bit with the singing on the ship was great.

http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/201101044723/doctor-who/david-tennant/georgia-moffett-engaged/1/

It was Gideons. LOL.

idk why this thread got bumped instead of
Sea Devils And Die: GeroniMoffat's Doctor Who In The 2010s

Time(y wimey) for a new one soon, probably.

http://www.readplatform.com/northamptons-most-famous-son/

Assumed that was about Dom tbh

It says famous not fatuous.

Wow, he didn't mention the two Northampton facts 'everyone' knows, eg. BAUHAUS and 'murder Mecca of the Midlands'.

Didn't click on the link til now, ew.

Definitely best NuWho christmas special. Felt very old who, Smith can be very impish in a hartnellesque way.

Pls to explain the "Gideons" ref?

Gideon is the real name of George Osborne, the current Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain - and is responsible for the Scroogey budget cuts to students, the poor and public services. The last two months in Britain have seen huge (and intermittently violent THANKS POLICE) demonstrations you may have read about.

The historic Lewis Chessmen feature in a new Doctor Who story written by Ayrshire-born novelist Jenny Colgan.

hahaha

She was my best mates sister and the year above me at school.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-16651810

ASR had a crush on Jenny Colgan!

hardly

does anyone actually buy these books?

LOL

I did read one that my co-worker suggested to me because it was "so good" but it was a new one about Rory and his emo manpain so naaaah.

I shouldn't have taken her advice in the first place because she thinks Torchwood is better than Doctor Who.

lol, i should have said "apart from dan".

My co-worker has read every new Who and Torchwood book published. It's a bit strange.

all the nu-Who books are hardcover and like $14 apiece, which is just too much damn money

I had no problems dishing out for these things when they were paperbacks and $6

To be fair she orders them all from our interlibrary loan system so she's not paying for them, but still.

Also, she went to England for the specific purpose of seeing David Tennant & Catherine Tate in Much Ado About Nothing.

DJP, some of them get reissued as paperbacks for about that price. I don't know what they're like because I've not read anything since Gallifrey Chronicles, doubt they're ~essential~ though

The one I read was baaaad. But then I don't care very much about Rory's inner feelings, so.