"Back of the neck!"
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
As self-referential gags go the "are you my mummy?" line was a good one.
― DavidM, Saturday, 3 May 2008 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
enjoyed the uk news "it's like dunkirk" and then the american news "it's a biblical plague".
pretty good one, i thought. don't much about who history, so can someone please explain the daughter thing?
― Gukbe, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
When a daddy Timelord and a mummy Timelord love each other very much ...
― Alba, Sunday, 4 May 2008 06:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh god. Just dreadful.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:31 (sixteen years ago) link
What, last night? You SOOO picky. "Back of the neck" was good, "are you my mummy?" was Vince Hilaire.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:33 (sixteen years ago) link
'Are you my mummy' was misplaced and stupid. The Doctor was out of character, the plot was rubbish, the Sontarans are ever bit as shit as they always were, Martha was pointless, Donna did almost nothing, 1/2 hr of people in silly caps running around shooting things, just crap.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:36 (sixteen years ago) link
This is why I don't read these threads :(
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:37 (sixteen years ago) link
xp In fact the whole eposide rode on a fetid jetstream of in-jokes and obscure fanwank.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean yeah, sorry, I'm not aiming that at you but the whole thing really was awful.
We all watch for different things, I guess.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:40 (sixteen years ago) link
It's particularly annoying because the new show is regularly witty, clever and involving, but occasionally you get this quasi-Hollywood shallow nonsense. The kiddies probably get a kick out of it.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:42 (sixteen years ago) link
It's still ostensibly a kids show. To be honest there aren't that many of the "deep" eps that I think are especially awesome, I just try and take the series as the variety bag it is.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:44 (sixteen years ago) link
The variety is nice, definitely, but when they waste 90 minutes on running around and blowing up things, it's not exactly gratifying to those of us who are bored by that sort of thing.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm sure no-one will disagree with me when I say that that was hugely entertaining stuff from beginning to end.
― DavidM, Sunday, 4 May 2008 08:14 (sixteen years ago) link
For those of us who still like fun, obviously.
― DavidM, Sunday, 4 May 2008 08:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I liked the Mummy line. Made the character more believable, for me.
― kingfish, Sunday, 4 May 2008 08:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Rose's face flashed up on the screen in the Tardis, didn't it?
It's getting a bit samey.
― jel --, Sunday, 4 May 2008 09:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought I saw Rose being flashed up, yeh.
I rather enjoyed all that. "You will face me, sir!" Although I did think of this thread when doctor was running around making the atmosphere-conversion gizmo that would save the episode while explaining his plan at a frantic pace.
― The Wayward Johnny B, Sunday, 4 May 2008 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Unbelievably bad. Helen Raynor should never be allowed near the show again.
I LUV YOU YOUR MY FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHMILY is the new running up and down corridors. Utterly pointless and sucks all the momentum out of the show.
Next week looks like a big pile of wank. "Oh yes, when I kept on crying because I was the last one, I was actually lying because I always knew there was another one. Sorry." Plus it was guaranteed as soon as Georgia Moffett was announced that this was what she was doing. OMG THE DAUGHTER OF A DOCTOR IS THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER I AM SO CLEVARR BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP ME I AM RUSTY I AM GENIARSE.
― aldo, Sunday, 4 May 2008 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
aldo otm
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't usually agree with Autumn Almanac on Who EVER but 'Are you my mummy' was misplaced and stupid. OTM
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link
'whole world under attack' episodes never work for me
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Well I thought that was enormous fun.
― chap, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link
It was fucking rubbish.
― Alba, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
was sad when they shot Stephen Gateley
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I missed the end but surely
"in-jokes and obscure fanwank"
is not the same as
"quasi-Hollywood shallow nonsense"
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 May 2008 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
the effects are getting better and better tho. fiery sky all over the planet was good.
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
-- chap, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:46 (1 hour ago) Link
-- Alba, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:48 (1 hour ago) Link
ILX in 2 posts. I'm on Chap's side. I loved that the Dr had to give the sontarans a choice. And the list of countries with nucleur weapons.
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 4 May 2008 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
" I loved that the Dr had to give the sontarans a choice" he does this every time.
i thought this was v poor. i've only really liked the first 2 eps so far this series.
― Alan, Sunday, 4 May 2008 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought that one was bloody great, but then I like it when they do the enormous stupid blockbuster thing. It's for the kids, really, and today's kids would switch off old-Who in seconds.
It's pretty obvious that Timelords will keep coming back for ages, plus the Doctor's daughter looks hott, so I'm looking forward to next week's as well.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 4 May 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
'OMG it was just running around shooting things and blowing everything up this would never have happened under William Hartnell YAWN!'
― Matt DC, Sunday, 4 May 2008 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I must admit I have kind of missed Aldo popping up every week to shout 'WANK!' and 'OH JUST FUCK OFF DAVIES!' every so often. Doctor Who threads haven't quite been the same without it.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 4 May 2008 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Who has always done 'save entire Earth from aliens using sticky-back plastic' type thing. When I was a kid I didn't notice this so much tho, or feel a preference for those stories. So tho as an adult I prefer the more subtle/smaller scale problems+solutions stories I'm sure many kids would too.
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy! Inter-galatic Child Support Payments!
Doctor'll have to sell the Tardis.
― jel --, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
So, uh, is that hot blonde woman Susan's mother?
― chap, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Just found out the hot blonde woman is actually Peter Davison's daughter!
― chap, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
This was mentioned by aldo in disparaging tones above.
― Alba, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
she looks like she could be M Pompadour's sprog (but obv not)
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"I thought that one was bloody great, but then I like it when they do the enormous stupid blockbuster thing. It's for the kids, really, and today's kids would switch off old-Who in seconds"
well me too. but i still didn't like it. more out of it being so by-the-numbers predictable in every way. and nothing interesting being done with the stuff set up. also this whole story (like the ood one) was like old who - just with better CGI.
― Alan, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
It's nice to be missed, I will try harder in the future.
You know the biggest problem? It's Rusty referencing his own previous series and believing that makes his references to the 'classic' series important. THEY'RE BOTH WANK.
I could rant for hours, really. Hartnell isn't better, it's just different (and my kids get on with it just fine, don't think of pacing being a difficult issue - and fuck me, I watched Invasion of Time yesterday and it's VERY VERY BAD) but I think the main thing is that someone wasn't trying to make it look like Hollyoakes.
― aldo, Sunday, 4 May 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
GPWM, this was better than Invasion of Time. faintest of praise there.
― Alan, Sunday, 4 May 2008 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't see this as a criticism.
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 4 May 2008 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 May 2008 23:13 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
Fortunately this episode had both in spades.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 4 May 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Blowing-up-the-world stories can, and have been, done better. Nothing happened in this one, just loads of running around with guns and the Doctor whinging about guns.
A few explosions is all some people need.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 4 May 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
But is she actually going to turn out to be the Doctor's daughter? But is she? BUT IS SHE?
― James Morrison, Monday, 5 May 2008 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
IS SHE???
― rrrobyn, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:14 (sixteen years ago) link
OR IS SHE???
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Who gives a shit, someone was bound to eventually answer a question that was asked 45 years ago. They should go the whole hog and bring back Susan for the season finale, played by, I dunno, Becca from Hollyoaks or something.
― Matt DC, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:30 (sixteen years ago) link
(Guess who hasn't watched Hollyoakes in 5 years, kids)
― Matt DC, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link