School Doctor Who and Torchwood (whotalk is later down the page) (Read 1200 times)

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ones they have brought back:
Autons
Daleks
Cybermen (NOT the original Cybermen, so these could also be classed as new badies if you're anal about Doctor Who)
Master
Sontarans

the rest have been originals for the relaunch.
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I do think there should be a more stronger focus on making GOOD NEW BADDIES. Like most of the new stuff they do seems to be really childish/ott and boring. The Ood are somewhat interesting and the Sycorax have potential (also appeared in the comics so they can always come back). but Doctor Who does have a continuity (a heavily convulted one... but one none the less), and so of course they're gunna bring back villains who were already recurring characters. The Sontarans aren't some random obscure villain, they are one of it's popular/well known ones. Like I'd love for them to bring back the Vervoids but they are obscure(even among Doctor Who fans), and nobody would really give a shit except for like me.
I think it's also worth mentioning how tonned down things are in the new series, stories like Genesis of the Daleks simply wouldn't be allowed to be made for the new series. hit like this has really ruined the Sontarans, whose second story consisted of one of them torturing humans to find their weaknesses (also turning them into midgets instead of being body builders also seems to have ruined them).
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I liked how the sontarans have now got like old british empire general voices. Good episode I thought.
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Maybe I am just annoyed because they have DR. VS THE CUTE FAT MONSTERS. It all just seems pretty ridiculous save for the Ood who genuinely are quite cool.
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I am completely what the fuck at the preview for next week's episode.

That is all.
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NOTE: The doctor's Granddaughter, Susan, and her teachers(she liked 60's London so they stayed there, whilst the Doctor was sorting something out) were his first assistant in the 60's! I really hope there is something about Susan's fate mentioned in this episode, because the Doctor let her live in 2150(ish) London, to rebuild after the Dalek's had been defeated(they had control of the earth). It also makes me smile that his daughter is being played by Peter Davison's (fifth Doctor's) daughter.

Also yesterday's was ok. the FIRE SKY thing was ott and just didn't work for me, but then when has helen Raynor been about the science aspects(electrocuting me would mean Time Lord DNA gets infused with Dalek DNA creating Timelord Dalek human hybrids!!)
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Yeah the let's blow up the atmosphere thing seemed like rather a rushed ending to a double-episode.
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i totally missed the last two episodes. i guess i just hate doctor who nowadays. oh well.
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Doctor Who was AMAZING this week and it's one of those dreaded 2-parters. It's looking like a common plot device though I am just wondering how they are going to drop that twist.
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Yeah, I really enjoyed it. Good old Steven Moffatt. Anyone else have an inkling on who River Song might be?
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Would it really be a bad thing if Moffat just wrote the whole series?

I mean really??? Great episode.
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It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
"Field Marshal Haig is about to make yet another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cabinet six inches close to Berlin."

Sam: "What assurance do you give, Taraka, that this bargain will be kept?"
Taraka: "My word? I shall be happy to swear by anything you care to name--"
Sam: "A facility with oaths is not the most reassuring quality in a bargainer..."
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i dont normally watch doctor who but the most recent episode was quite entertaining

i thought it would have been some really gay foe with all the STAY OUT OF..THE SHADOWS... but it actually was pretty cool.
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Would it really be a bad thing if Moffat just wrote the whole series?

I mean really??? Great episode.
He is taking over as head writer next series. Now all we need to do is get rid of Catherine Tate and it will be perfect...

EDIT: Oh apparently Tate is also leaving after this series. Hooray!
Last Edit: June 02, 2008, 11:06:05 am by Rockman.
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She wasn't that bad. She wasn't exactly complemented by any OUTSTANDING episodes this series (thus far).
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He is taking over as head writer next series. Now all we need to do is get rid of Catherine Tate and it will be perfect...
I just got told about this and it made my day.
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Did anyone else notice the staggering amount of zombies Doctor Who pulled off lately? The very first episode has the Autons, then the gas ghosts, the Are You My Mummy, the Ood, arguably the Cybermen as well, the scarecrows, and now the Vashta Nerada with their skeleton-in-a-spacesuit antics. I mean, damn. That's a lot of running away and barricading doors.
"Field Marshal Haig is about to make yet another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cabinet six inches close to Berlin."

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Sam: "A facility with oaths is not the most reassuring quality in a bargainer..."
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This week's was surprisingly good considering it was a Davies episode.
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ok ok the library 2-parter was kinda good, the whole shadows thing I didn't really like as it seemed too much of "heh scare children"(plus it seems to be ripped straight out of the x-files episode "softlight"). I get that that is a point of the show though, so I am not gunna hold it against it. It was a lot slower story at first which was better than ones like Doctor's Daughter which was all running. Moffat seems the best of the writers with pace, so it'll be great when he's head writer (I really enjoyed the first episode but not so much the second) Midnight was also cool because it was something different, and relied more on a core cast than a scary monster (and the second Doctor's son featured, so yay)

Also spoilers for the main badguy at the end of the series!

Also 4D, the Autons are robots, not zombies :(

Also if you care, Torchwood next year will be only five episodes, broadcasted over one week on BBC1, telling one main story. That's the current word anyways.
Last Edit: June 18, 2008, 12:36:01 pm by The Octave Doctor
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oh man

I have been saying this all along and people have been dismissing it as preposterous! Maybe they should have read The Telegraph more. (more spoilers I'm afraid)