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.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Monday, 27 December 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
So that singing lady really does sing like that irl?
yes she does
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Monday, 27 December 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Pretty amazing pipes for a little gal!
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Monday, 27 December 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― complimentary browse of the Daily Mail (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 27 December 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I like how the bearded Doctor looked like the Geico Caveman yet still inexplicably hot.
― THX THO... (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Kind of a lesser "The Girl in the Fireplace," though? I got a very dark vibe underneath the sentimentality.
― penis with a man hanging from it (Leee), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Ooh yes. Good call there.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
guys: i thought this over, and i really, really liked the episode. flying shark was perfect calculated nonsense, and the singing was just loverly.
― they call him (remy bean), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Singing? Did they sing carols?
― complimentary browse of the Daily Mail (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
some welsh cross-over lady sung jesussy songs to keep the sharks at bay. it worked.
― they call him (remy bean), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Burning this episode right now. Thanks for the warning.
― complimentary browse of the Daily Mail (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
(by 'burn' I mean 'set fire to and stoke until it is fucking dead' obv)
― complimentary browse of the Daily Mail (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.wheresthetardis.com/
― tl;dr swinton (suzy), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"SHOW US YOUR TARDIS"
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Other singing: people on doomed crashing spaceship trying to humanise themselves to Scrooge/Gambon so he'd want to let them live
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Space Mosquitos shat up Fathers Day for me so yay to contradicting that rubbish
― Stay J0rdan Fresh (sic), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm with aldo on that ep - it was a waste of good actors.
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.
― onimo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought this was very affecting!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 12:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 12:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Was their currency really called Gideons or did I mishear? Bit of politics from Moffat?
― Stevie T, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Thought it was Guineas, but might have misheard.
Yeah the bit with the singing on the ship was great.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/201101044723/doctor-who/david-tennant/georgia-moffett-engaged/1/
― JimD, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
It was Gideons. LOL.
― pwn de floor (suzy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
idk why this thread got bumped instead ofSea Devils And Die: GeroniMoffat's Doctor Who In The 2010s
― idgi fridays (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Time(y wimey) for a new one soon, probably.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.readplatform.com/northamptons-most-famous-son/
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Assumed that was about Dom tbh
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
It says famous not fatuous.
― not the sort of person who would wind up in a landfill (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, he didn't mention the two Northampton facts 'everyone' knows, eg. BAUHAUS and 'murder Mecca of the Midlands'.
― pwn de floor (suzy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't click on the link til now, ew.
― not the sort of person who would wind up in a landfill (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Definitely best NuWho christmas special. Felt very old who, Smith can be very impish in a hartnellesque way.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Pls to explain the "Gideons" ref?
― nomar little (Leee), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― pwn de floor (suzy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link
The historic Lewis Chessmen feature in a new Doctor Who story written by Ayrshire-born novelist Jenny Colgan.
hahaha
― Your Host For The Top 10 Countdown for Metal Poll (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 20 January 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
She was my best mates sister and the year above me at school.
― Your Host For The Top 10 Countdown for Metal Poll (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 20 January 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-16651810
― Your Host For The Top 5 Countdown for Metal Poll (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 20 January 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
ASR had a crush on Jenny Colgan!
― Frobisher (Viceroy), Friday, 20 January 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
hardly
― Your Host For The Top 5 Countdown for Metal Poll (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 20 January 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
does anyone actually buy these books?
― Your Host For The Top 5 Countdown for Metal Poll (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 20 January 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Seriously, who votes for Drake? (Nicole), Friday, 20 January 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
I shouldn't have taken her advice in the first place because she thinks Torchwood is better than Doctor Who.
― Seriously, who votes for Drake? (Nicole), Friday, 20 January 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
lol, i should have said "apart from dan".
― Your Host For The Top 5 Countdown for Metal Poll (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 20 January 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
My co-worker has read every new Who and Torchwood book published. It's a bit strange.
― Seriously, who votes for Drake? (Nicole), Friday, 20 January 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Friday, 20 January 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Seriously, who votes for Drake? (Nicole), Friday, 20 January 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 20 January 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
The one I read was baaaad. But then I don't care very much about Rory's inner feelings, so.
― Seriously, who votes for Drake? (Nicole), Friday, 20 January 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
Our interlibrary loans cost the library abt $12 iirc and are free to the end user
I'm in the office next door to the ILL staff so I think they might come and kill me if I ordered 6000 Doctor Who books at the library's expense
(this sounds quite funny, I might try it)
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 20 January 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link