Doctor Who 2008: Sontarans cometh, RTD Ood 'ave 'im etc.

I was pretty sure he wasn't going to regenerate because the way he got winged by that Dalek death-ray was so rubbish. "Rose! Aii I have been shotted!"

I knew deep down that it would be a cheap fake-out.

German Daleks over Youtube. Still funny.

whoa this thread. In retrospect, this last weekend was the clearly the worst time for me to go off for the weekend to a place with no web access/cable channels because i missed a) this and b) apparently, THE wimbledon final of the century. or something. (Have caught up with a, still upset about missing b.)

Loved a lot of this and OMG HATED a lot of it too. which is pretty much how I feel every nu-Who season finale ever, hooray!

I knew there was going to be a lot of cringe-y Rose/Doctor moments (come on, we all did) and I'm not even completely against the idea of the Doctor being in love with Rose, but that resolution *still* turned out to be ten times more awful than I expected it to be. one googly-eyed Doctor is more than enough, thanks.

Otherwise, frankly I thought Tennant was amazing in this episode - possibly his best "I bear 900 years of loneliness and repressed rage" performance. and even with so many things happening all at once, he just seems to carry the show so effortlessly, and I think only Catherine Tate so far has managed to match his energy.

Obvs love love Donna and her ending was unexpectedly bleak and mean and moving - I don't even know if it was brave or just completely horrible of RTD to do that to her character. it was pretty upsetting anyway, after the fun Doctor-Donna bits earlier.

'That button there!'

Also, re the whole fear of Time Lord genitals, the Doctor has wound up in Earth hospitals and the like on several occasions, and people were disturbed by the whole two hearts/odd blood thing, but nobody ever mentioned a lack of thing.

Tennant has been consistently brilliant for two seasons now, even when given a dead dog of a script to work with.

I'd be interested to see how he's going to play Hamlet, but probably not enough to actually pay money.

and donna just said "you're naked" while averting eyes. not "and WHAT the HELL are THOSE"

he had a toy Churchills insurance dog placed there hence the "OHHH YES"

there must be a david ten-inch joke somewhere here.

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I am so looking forward to the Sarah Jane Adventures now.

Or which returning characters from 'Classic' Who are in S2 of the Sarah Jane Adventures until it's announced (I think it could well be the Series wind-down NEWS story).

-- aldo, Monday, 7 July 2008 09:56 (2 days ago)

ME NOT BEING SPOILERY.

That is respectful, especially since we don't talk about that show in this thread!

That said, is SJA actually worth it? I was pretty turned off by the pilot episode, did the kids get less annoying/the show became more tolerable for adult viewers?

Oops, sorry. Didn't mean to be spoilery -- I thought spoilers were mostly plot-related.

I like the Sarah Jane Adventures more than Torchwood, but I'm immature.

Like Torchwood, SJA gets really good after a dodgy start. "Warriors of Kudlak" is a bit hokey and the first Slitheen story could be Chucklevision in places, but "Eye of the Gorgon", "Whatever Happened To Sarah Jane" and "The Lost Boy" are really solid. Definitely worth t0rr3nting, at least.

In terms of 'tolerable for adults' it's obviously a kids' show and never really stops being one, so don't expect anything edgy. There's an awkward teen kiss that's about as raunchy as it gets, but the OOOH MUM thing that Rusty tries to do in the main series works better when it's actual ttenagers doing it. That said, Whatever Happened... did Turn Left before Turn Left, and arguably does it better (but with much, much less spent on it).

Watched the Sarah Jane pilot a couple of nights ago, and I thought it was loads of fun! So I'm pretty excited about the rest of it.

Still haven't watched Torchwood past S1E2. I should get around to that too, at some point.

AND WITH JANE MUTHERFUCKING ASHER as alterna-sj. woo+

xpost. that was extra "Whatever happened to Sarah Jane" info

Well, this dropped off the new answers page fast.

Nu Who can be quite exhausting to talk about.

Also, y'know, it's finished now.

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As mentioned above, the Brigadier will be back for a two-parter in SJA. The latest news update mentions which ep(s) and the villian(s).

Watching Journey's End again just now. It's a bit more entertaining on second viewing now since I got all my "OH FUCK OFF" stuff out of the way the first time round. Might have to turn over before emo Rose love story ending though. Also the music was dreadful.

I love that the world is so organised that someone can rig up a massive celebratory firework display while the earth is being towed through space, and that BBC News 24 remains on air. Oh wait, no, I don't love it at all. It's shite.

Oh man, how many crazy alternative realities/lives/existences did poor Donna have to live anyway? I mean she had all this crazy, painful shit that was practically like memory wipes anyway (library database, 'turn left') and then she gets it all wiped and goes back to being ebullient sassy nobody temp. The whole thing started to really freak me out, esp. the two eps before the final. Those are the kinds of stories that have freaked me out all my life, tho.

Did anyone end up dying? I forget.

Also:

RTD was on record in the Guardian yesterday saying that he'd never introduce a woman doctor for the reason that parents would have to talk about genital swapping with their kids.

What the effing eff?

Quite a few people were vapourised and presumably the Daleks did a fair bit of exterminating when they were ruling the earth.

EXTERMENIEREN!

Russell T. Davies has revealed his co-writers for the forthcoming Doctor Who specials in 2009.

"I can confirm that after Christmas 2008 there are a total of four more specials to come before the Steven Moffat era begins in 2010," Davies told Doctor Who Magazine. "Two of next year's four will be written by me, One will be written by me and Gareth Roberts and one will be co-written by me and Phil Ford."

Roberts has previously written episodes 'The Shakespeare Code' and 'The Unicorn And The Wasp' for Doctor Who, in addition to co-writing 'Invasion Of The Bane' with Davies for The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Ford has never scripted an episode of Doctor Who before, but is responsible for 'The Eye Of The Gorgon' and 'The Lost Boy' for Sarah Jane and 'Something Borrowed' for Torchwood.

also Agyeman isn't doin Torchwood

Is Mickey joining Captain Jack?

I don't know where else to ask this: If I've seen naught else but new Who, is it ok if I watched "City of Death" straight away?

Go for it. It doesn't really rely on any ongoing plotlines, and it's lots of fun.

My gf did exactly that, and she loved it.

A very good old-Who to start with.

on a different note, steven moffat was very funny at comic-con. his reply to a question about other doctor + rose: "gotta give the Doctor *some* credit for finding a way to get rid of his slightly clingy girlfriend. another universe didn't work."

Were you there, Roz? I was half-asleep at the panel. Moffat speaks an awful lot like Dr. Tennant, yes?

Rewatched the finale again this week and realised that I am, in fact, very slow:

Russell T Davies must have wrote that last five minutes that has the Doctor wiping Timelord Donna back into normal Donna and handing her back to her family intending 'Donna' to represent the show and the Doctor as Rusty himself, right?

Cue Cribbins' "She was better with you! She was!" line, as well as all the rest of it. Dur. Can't believe it took me long to figure that out. Symbolism and meanings all working on a different level, or something.

Don't blame me - I'm just a temp and I'm no one special.

That's awfully cynical.

Not necessarily an invalid reading though.

Interesting to say the least.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AnR1CZbvhEM

Sounds a wee bit like DT, but they were both brought up in the same town, so not surprising.

Were you there, Roz?

Hehe nah i was actually looking for reports from the LOST panel and got sidetracked by Who/Torchwood on youtube. Didn't see all of it, but the bits I did see was lols. Moffat does talk a bit like Tennant but with the Doctor's habit of going off on tangents.

in that YT clip Moffat hints that he doesn't like prequels (re Star Wars ref) so no Time War stuff (as if this wasn't obvious for it would require McGann/Eccles surely)

Suspect he'll draw a line under all the Rusty stuff and concentrate on building his own supporting cast and mythology - River Song is probably the first bit of that. We'll probably see Jack again though.

River Song is probably the first bit of that.

I'd wondered about this. I remember her lines about how *her* Doctor looked much older which made me wonder if that meant oldster Tennant or old 11 or what.

i think Moffat says in that clip that he was being intentionally ambiguous about that. he really does seem like an actual hybrid of RTD and Tennant at times.

Tennant's dating Georia Moffett now apparently.

That's been going on a while. Given what a Peter Davison freak he is, that smacks horribly of when Nicolas Cage married Lisa-Marie Presley.

heh is there anyone left on the show who hasn't slept with DT?

Barrowman?