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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 11, 2009 4:46:28 GMT
Oh god, please not another Love & Monsters. I dunno. I kind of like Love and Monsters... except for the monster. He just won't grow on me (though I might grow on him, and I suppose that's problem; that, and he's wearing that unfortunate loin-cloth). I'm not so fond of the cheap paving slab love-life... whatever that was... thing at the end either. Just... no. Save it for TW. But everything else... I quite liked LINDA and their adorableness. I really wish they hadn't died. I LOVED Jackie (she shines so much in this eppy). I liked Elton. Forbid it, I even liked Rose in her two second appearance at the end. Now, pulling this back on track, after they did LINDA and its awesomeness, why is it that one of the specials is apparently going to have a character who is a "loving portrait of Doctor Who fandom"  |
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Post by jjpor on Mar 11, 2009 20:02:34 GMT
I didn't mind Love and Monsters at all; it may have seemed better than it was, surrounded as it was by the generally lacklustre NuWho Season Two, but I thought the only misstep really was the monster (I try not to think about the paving stone thing); in fact it was almost as if it had been designed by means of a competition on a popular children's television programme...hey, waitaminute....
Regarding: *The loving portrait of fandom, not only does it seem redundant after the earlier story, but, well, it doesn't bode well, does it? I'll hold fire until I see the Easter Special (not long to go!), but I don't know, I was hoping for more from these specials than the spoilers suggest we're going to get. You know, a bit of a story arc, with Ten going out on suitably tragic and epic note; instead, it looks like we're just getting repeated Xmas specials, guest stars and daft plots. Ah well, prove me wrong RTD, and I'll sing your praises in a years' time or so when the backlash against Moffat gets into full swing. ;D*
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Post by merrythemad on Mar 16, 2009 12:02:21 GMT
* So, if I am reading all of this correctly, Ten dies on Mars at Christmas in the presence of a whovian? Dear god, is he killed by crazed fangirls? Also, anybody heard of Lady Iris Wildthyme? I have heard she is a timelady whose TARDIS is a big red bus, much like the bus in Planet of Death, any thoughts? I'm not versed enough outside the television series to make an educated guess as to the veracity of this Iris Wildthyme.*
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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 16, 2009 15:41:28 GMT
Heh, yes, Tennant is killed on Mars by crazed fangirls... it would be a fitting death indeed, and the irony would have me laughing for days.
Iris! Iris!! Why did I not think of this...? Of course, if they brought her in that would mean that they're really incorporating in book/audio canon (in which case I would demand DEMAND a CGI Frobisher 'cause... YES!) the fannish implications of this... hmmm... would this drive off half the casual viewing audience? Well, seeing as they're beig driven off by thewhole leap-year concept anyways... (seriously, DW, you did this before, in the 80s, remember?? it didn't work then either...)
All I know about Iris has been gleaned from fanfic, a single audio adventure, and her webpage: HERE but from what I can see she's like Ms. Frizzle from the Magic School Bus but with some added alcoholism, machine guns, random orgies, and... um... neekid Katty Manningness?
Still, it would make me insanely happy if she WERE in the specials... just to bring in a Time Lady... and since the accepted fanon for her is, I think, that she's the crazy alt!female version of the Doctor who's escaped her own dimension and is now devoted to finding armageddon-causing hand bags and flirting with her alternate self/ making his life as annoying as possible... yes, yes, I could see this.
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Post by jjpor on Mar 16, 2009 23:09:26 GMT
but from what I can see she's like Ms. Frizzle from the Magic School Bus but with some added alcoholism, machine guns, random orgies, and... um... neekid Katty Manningness? Well, count me in! That'd all go down well on BBC1 at 7 o'clock on a Saturday evening! ;D * As deeply amusing as Iris is, if they're going to start canonising characters from some of the spinoff media, she's some ways down my list. Beep the Meep and Frobisher (or even better, some sort mano a mano Beep/Frobisher throwdown!) are a few rungs above her.
A wildly speculative thought occurs to me: Mars...Ice Warriors...Ice Warriors are sort of Christmassy - I mean, you know...ice...snow...Xmas... Tennant having the life choked out of him by a big green pincer...er...Nah, it'll never happen...* |
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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 17, 2009 1:31:10 GMT
I mean, you know...ice...snow...Xmas... Tennant having the life choked out of him by a big green pincer...er...Nah, it'll never happen... *falls about laughing* |
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Post by merrythemad on Mar 17, 2009 14:45:31 GMT
well, it would be the RTD-appropriate "fannish" type thing we've rather come to expect.
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Post by jjpor on Mar 17, 2009 20:38:15 GMT
Just as long as it's not Daleks...I mean, I like Daleks, but...RTD no...
And not Slitheen either, thanks; nobody likes them as much as you do, Russ mate.
(I'm doing the imaginary-talking-to-RTD-thing again. That's worrying.)
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Post by merrythemad on Mar 17, 2009 23:49:24 GMT
be fair! it could be the Master with a guest appearance by trashy red fingernails that may or may not belong to the Rani. *sniggers*
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Post by jjpor on Mar 18, 2009 21:13:21 GMT
See, I really wouldn't mind the Master - but only if he pops up out of nowhere with a really bad disguise and obvious pseudonym, and NO EXPLANATION WHATSOEVER for how he survived. You know, for that classic Ainley-era feel. If they want to put the actor's name in the credits in anagram form for just that little extra bit of mystery, even better. |
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Post by Stripes on Mar 22, 2009 14:12:01 GMT
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Post by jjpor on Mar 22, 2009 20:15:40 GMT
Now, the non-Easter one - that looks interesting... Is it the Xmas one, then?
As for the other:
*They did damage that bus quite a bit, didn't they? The fly-men look pleasingly cheap, quite oldschool actually; you could imagine them chasing Five down some corridor somewhere. Hardly the disgusting, horrifying, stuff-of-nightmares, more-iconic-than-the-Daleks things RTD was talking up a couple of months ago, though. ;D*
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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 22, 2009 20:34:50 GMT
Oh RTD... how you make me lolz. I do love the flymen though. Nothing beats a man in a monster suit!
As for the other special, well, doesn't that look interesting? I am officially intrigued..
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Post by merrythemad on Mar 24, 2009 12:45:48 GMT
eep! whitedness
** you know I never did like that Joan Redfern. Aside from the fact that she was just dead mean to the Doctor (and before you say it I can SO blame her, if I can chose to believe the broken chameleon circuit fails to affect his chameleon arch I can expect Miss Redfern to realise the man she fell in love with is a secret bit of the alien champion before her) she looks like another actress who just bugs me to bits (and it further chafes me I am unable to place the resemblance.) This does look rather exciting though, doesn't it? So since their schedule is all off and only three specials will be done this year are we going to have to wait for a fourth special before series 5? Also, is it terrible if I am more excited for the Christmas episode than the one in about two weeks? It just reminds me too much of The Doctor's Daughter ambiance-wise.**
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Post by jjpor on Mar 24, 2009 19:03:17 GMT
*Well, it looks rather shockingly like it might be a Xmas special with, like, a proper story and everything, which would make a pleasing change. Okay, that was maybe a bit scathing, but you know what I mean. I liked Human Nature/Family of Blood, but I think Joan Redfern's personal tragedy at the end was a bit overplayed, the way NuWho tends to overplay moments like that. I'm hoping to something-or-other that the rumours about Rose returning AGAIN are just tabloid-talk. And, well, Ten doesn't look very happy with her in that picture does he? I'll be honest, nothing I've seen of the upcoming special makes me hotly anticipate it, apart from the fact that it's Doctor Who, but I'm willing to be presently surprised.*
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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 24, 2009 23:19:09 GMT
Again? no, no, no...
*stumbles off in comatose daze*
that would be just too terrible for words. I actually am sort of looking forward to the Easter special though. I like the look of those 'iconic' fly monsters.
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Post by merrythemad on Mar 25, 2009 12:28:53 GMT
oooh oooh ooh ooh! whitedness follows
* of course Rose has to come back she's shagging the Valeyard, I reckon that could make one in need of a bit of help. So Morrisey may not be the Doctor (sigh) but the handdoc thing IS the Valeyard, he could even be number twelve you know, half regeneration is eleven then hand doc is twelve, of course that makes Matt thirteen, but I've no doubt they can circumvent that**
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Post by jjpor on Mar 25, 2009 21:18:20 GMT
*I was forgetting Handy was actually the Valeyard, but, yeah...I like that. It of course wouldn't happen, but wouldn't it be kind of cool if Ten went back to the parallel world only to find it in ruins, its few remaining inhabitants leading lives of suffering and slavery under the iron rule of...Handy!Ten!!! He could die battling to save the world from "himself"!! Okay, so it'd also be an excuse for lots of Ten angst along the lines of "what have I done??" etc, but I'd let him have a bit of angst if it was his last outing and everything...
The only way I'd ever tolerate Rose coming back would be as part of some sort of regeneration-flashback-montage a la Caves of Androzani; Rose, Mickey, Martha, Donna, Captain Jack, Sarah Jane, and even, maybe, shockingly, some oldschool companions going "Live, Doctor; you've got to live!", before suddenly Simm appears, channelling Anthony Ainley: "No, Doctor! Die! I said DIE!!!" It'd be cheesy, but kind of cool, I tells you. ;D
RTD is some sort of a genius, because as unimpressive as they are, I do kind of like the "most incredibly scary disgustifying iconic monsters evah!" fly-men. They remind me somehow of the rubber monsters out of Ghostlight, only in boiler suits instead of evening wear. Bring 'em on, I say.*
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Post by lynda on Mar 26, 2009 21:07:50 GMT
Regarding those links: That first one, with the Verity Newman thing, makes me very excited. It makes me want to squee. I'll calm down soon, but it's always so much fun to see things from a new story, especially when it has things like Verity Newman and what looks to be a descendant of Joan Redfern.
And then the Easter one looks like it'll be a lot of fun. The fly-people are very, well, humanoid-looking (or I could go so far as to say human-in-a-suit-looking), in the old-Who tradition. And the Doctor is wearing sunglasses, dark sunglasses! And the companion-girl needs to cut her bangs because they're in her eyes. And...um, yeah, that's about all.
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Post by clocketpatch on Apr 1, 2009 15:12:49 GMT
THE TRAILER!!! FINALLY!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcPczdGWIB8my reactions: *
Companion person: We're on an alien world
otherwise known as Dubai... because nowhere on Earth has sand...
Also: the desert, the three suns, the swarm of flying stingrays (were are IMHO terrifying and kinda awesome)
is anyone else thinking ZOMG! Pitch Black?? ...or is that just me? Now I'm going to be imagining Vin Disel as the Doctor all day *shudders*
*is psyched*
I think we might be getting Zarbi. Whoot! Seriously, Web Planet much? winwinwinwinwin!!!!* |
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