GerPOLLimo! Best Matt Smith Doctor Who story

wait how was the soccer scene terrible and cringe-making

we're talking about a show that featured an episode where human beings had their faces removed but somehow didn't die of oxygen deprivation and yet the thing we're complaining about is that the Doctor is surprisingly good at soccer?

I thought that was the gag: based on what he's like, you expect the Doctor to totally suck at football, so it's funny when he's actually really good at it, and his reaction to being so good is just endearing.

(also f. hazel OTM re: Black Orchid; bring back the pure historical episode IMO)

I searched for the scene on youtube. It is very much terrible and cringe-making, but I'd still claim football scenes always are like that. The Doctor just runs and twirls around while all his opponents throw themselves on the grass, then the keeper jumps out of the way. It's really badly made.

before the great ending, which hits a similar note as the Eleventh Hour, the Doctor summoned back from oblivion by memory and faith.

Are you sure you mean the "Eleventh Hour" and not "The Last of the Time Lords"?

As for cringe-making because of execution issues -- doesn't that keep with the low-budget charm of the original series? The thought struck hard with "Into the Dalek" with the glossy production values and how disconcerting it was to see sets and props that didn't wobble when actors touched them.

Are you sure you mean the "Eleventh Hour" and not "The Last of the Time Lords"?

He's talking about how Amelia's stubbornness and imagination is a metaphor for the show's being kept alive in the minds of fans/NA authors/etc for sixteen years and then brought back to TV

No, that's a fair point though, and one I hadn't thought of before - the planet saying 'Doctor' at the same time, and a wave of love turning Dobby!Doctor into Space Jesus, also works as a metaphor for that. There may also be something to be said for a telling difference between "The planet brought him back" and "One special person brought him back".

Speaking of Metaphors, there's a reading I've seen around - I thought on ILX - that the Lodger is a statement that Moffat is tending towards to the old style of companions, where they have given up their ties to the rest of the world and the TARDIS is their home while they're on it, and away from the Rusty Years of having a family / friends / Bernard Cribbins to tether them to earth. So this would show hat the Doctor doesn't 'do' normal.

back to the Corden discussion:

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Its-Official-Tony-Winner-James-Corden-Named-Host-of-CBSs-LATE-LATE-SHOW-20140908

I suppose now the US can have an opinion of him.

Only know him from Gavin and Stacey and Doctor Who, but would have preferred Rob Brydon to take over for Craig Ferguson if that was the talent pool they were picking from, you don't want Corden shouting and being frantic at you that late in the evening, Brydon is much more relaxing before bed and it's time America learns what Welsh people sound like.

I thought that was what Torchwood was for.

I'm not sure anyone A. realized they were in Wales or B. watched the show

enough ppl watched Torchwood in the US that Starz did Miracle Day

that's B, what about A?

It was set in Wales? I thought it was Cardiff.

/murkin

I feel like "Cardiff" was said every other word on that show and Rhys at times felt like he wandered in off of the set of the fictional show Oh Look, It's A Welshman but I realize that may be just me

xp: lol Leee