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

They were always the most boring aliens. Apart from looking like potatoes, all they did was bang on about war. So did the Daleks, and they were boring too, but at least they were scary in some way.

That's probably my favourite aspect of this incarnation, the contrast between the character's jovial, clowning side and ruthless, wrathful side. Has this distinction been as stark in any previous Doctor?

7, no doubt.

Apart from looking like potatoes, all they did was bang on about war. So did the Daleks

guess what's gonna happen

I always hated the Sontarans.

guess what's gonna happen

NO. No!

NO NO NO NO NO OH GOD

i 100% support Who enemies battling each other.

http://io9.com/380763/now-you-can-own-two-bakers-and-another-doctor

new freakish toys:

http://io9.com/380763/now-you-can-own-two-bakers-and-another-doctor

or rather:

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5188/drwhotoysbigoc1.jpg

I quite want the Tom one.

I love the story about the BBC costume person being given a bunch of yarn to knit that scarf with, and not understanding that she wasn't expected to use the ENTIRE thing of yarn.

As if I'm not already a big enough spod:

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj58/vzbx/dwbooks.jpg

NOTE THE PRESENCE OF HUMAN NATURE AND DAMAGED GOODS AND HAPPY ENDINGS

What's on the top shelf? And are all of these novels, or are there any DVDs in there? And what the heck's a spod?

And what were you measuring with the tape-measure? An extra-long scarf?

All books. Top shelf is Virgin books. Tape measure because I only just assembled the bookshelf.

no target novels, no credibility

no target novels, no credibility

-- f. hazel, Saturday, 19 April 2008 19:40 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

five (not pictured)

also lol I get the scarf reference now

plenty of target novels(like, several dozen) available at local hueg city-block-sized bookshop.

if you want me to pick them up for you, lemme know

So, what's this Jekyll show I'm hearing about?

lol, Seeing I

I rather enjoyed that one, pretty soppy ending but there was a surprisingly high body count for an episoed that was transparently for the kiddies. First time in a series or so that I've missed Ecclestone though, he could have pulled off a tremendous speech of indignation in that one.

A few thoughts:

- Bees gone missing mentioned again
- What did the Ood mean when he said to the Doctor "your song too will end"? FORESHADOWING.
- Am I right in thinking that the Ood pretty much saved themselves and didn't really need the Doctor there in the first place?

Will people still find the Simpsons funny in 4126?

A huge improvement on last week, plus it had someone falling into a giant brain.

Am I right in thinking that the Ood pretty much saved themselves and didn't really need the Doctor there in the first place?

Yeah, he didn't do much at all. Certainly not enough to warrant such a send-off, I reckon the Ood are a bit free and loose with the compliments.

All in all it was a good un, though. Lord Percy was a fun pantomime baddie. There was a pricelessly awful bit of acting from Martha in the trailer for next week.

Yeah, I hadn't noticed until this thread and now I can't think of a single way the Doctor actually helped. If the Ood want to be remembering non-Ood names they'd do better with the guy thrown into the brain. But anyway.

Gently pleased, I think. I liked the Ood being nice guys when SF has pretty much been powered since long before it had a name by suspicious anti-collectivist/communist allegories, yr identical masses of Borg or pod-people with no use for individual names (liked the Ood's farewell to combined Doctor-Donna entity; wd file Daleks or Cybermen here too except then there would be 60 posts about how they have ranks and/or names) as OH NO CRUSHING ASSIMILATION-DEATH BAD GUYS.

I thought it was funny how the Ood turned out to be a bunch of Sigor Ros fans.

BAFTAs blurb in the Radio Times:

Graham Norton hosts the TV Baftas from the London Palladium as the cream of British TV talent is honoured. And Steven Moffat should win for writing Blink, so there.

Two things I forgot to mention:
1. The Doctor being chased by the claw thing was one of the best action setpieces we've yet seen in nu-Who.
2. Are throwaway refs to Hartnell stories going to be a motif in this series? We had The Sensorites this week, and The Romans last week.

Is this the first time the Doctor has been called upon to save an alien race from evil humans?

The Sensorites, which supposedly took place in the same solar system, had humans poisoning the titular alien race for reasons I can't recall. I can't think of any other examples that come close, but I'm far from the biggest Who expert around here.

"A huge improvement on last week" WTF?

many ppl said of the Ood that they were rip-off/tribute to the sensorites. so ref to sense-sphere was a sort of in-joke.

Ood struck me as more Lisa Gerrard/Liz Fraser than Sigor Ros. Not quite so nordic, but the exposed-brains-in-the-palms thing gives them quite a bit of preciousness

Will people still find the Simpsons funny in 4126?

Yes, just as people will still be called things like Jack and John in the 51st century.

When were the bees mentioned in 4x02? Missed that.

'Your song too will end' means this is Tennant's last season, which I think we all knew anyway.

kingfish: Thanks for the offer but I'm not into the old Target novels.

I thought he was supposed to be in the 3 2009 specials before the show comes back for the next series.

Probably. They're very good at keeping secrets, though.

Anywho, here's the link to the local bookstore if anybody else wants to peruse. Their collection of licensed novels is a bit overwhelming, especially when you're there in person and it's an entire fucking aisle.

So, no one inspired to post by tonight's episode? Can't really blame you. liked the reimagining of the Sonatarans as slightly useless colonial sergeant major types, though.

I thought it was pretty good, I liked the references to 70's U.N.I.T.

Nu sontarans less scary than Old sontarans.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Sontaran.jpg
I used to be scared shitless by those fuckrs.

But, yeah, the whole Colonel Blimp attitude was pretty good.

There was a pricelessly awful bit of acting from Martha in the trailer for next week.

This continued into this week.

Nice to see a big Earth invasion, but plz at some point go to another planet, where the sky is green or something, I mean you can go ANYWHERE/WHEN.

Yeah, I quite enjoyed this one. I hope cribbins doesn't die!

He's a gonner, greater good etc etc.

Alien planets = less emotional attachment = not right for the new show atm

Dull episode btw. Sontarans as crap as ever and predictable plot/plot devices/electrical-appliance-du-jour instrumental in destroying the world. Tennant and Tate got some good lines, though.

True, satnav-is-evil was a bit weak. But the one that exploded, that was a good enough gag to make up for it.

plz at some point go to another planet

They were just on the Planet of the Ood last week, don't tell me they sprayed all that fake snow over a rock quarry and nobody noticed.

I've seen almost no old-school Who, but this morning my sister downloaded The Sontaran Experiment for us to watch before the new ep. Damn, those fuckers were terrifying. Nu-Sontarans lacked that grinning rubber clown-face quality that made them so scary.