A piss poor plot, with little or no tension and far too many plot holes to list, but what really pissed me off was the way the Doctor was so bloody needy.

Martha left him literally minutes before, and he's straight out the TARDIS and chatting up the first gal who catches his eye.

Doctor Who? - Doctor Letch more like . . .

(and Svein, they've already announced the Sontarans for next year).

Although I didn't hate it, I was pretty dissapointed. I felt like they were trying too hard to make us sad at the deaths of the gang they made up, which I didn't feel at all. And the shot of Kylie falling reminded me of the titanic episode of Futurama. And the shot right after of Tennant walking in slow motion looked like a perfume ad. I did enjoy the choose who lives or dies line, and the last scene.

I also thought the trailer was disappointing. But then again, trailers can be decieving.

I was a bit under whelmed by that as well, but I'm happy to reserve judgement until the spring.

Well... the old spudheads are back

Gonna be interested in seeing how that pans out.

With 50 million credits on his card, the tour guide still ended up with Hyacinth Bucket to live out his years.

Yeah and as soon as the old bloke hints at getting on board he suddenly comes out with...
I travel alone....it's better that way

Yeah, unless you happen to be a young attractive girl apparently.
hahahaha

Hey... you're 900 year old bloke... who would you prefer... crusty old geezer or the princess of pop?

And look what happened last time he travelled with a bloke... He got stuck with Adric (drip) and Turlough (creepy drip)...

Does the Extras sketch count as Doctor Who?

Well, it was as shit as some of the last series. Does that count?

I agree. Chris, who has never watched Dr Who was a bit disgusted in how easy everything was, especially with his screwdriver, which can do anything, anywhere. The only answer I could come up with was 'But...but it is a Sonic Screwdriver' ... while the words were passing through my lips I realised how ridiculous it all is.

I did not particularly enjoy it. It wasn't as bad as a few previous episodes. I am swiftly loosing the tiny bit of faith I had left in New Dr Who. RTD is mostly to blame, as his episodes are always the worst.

Does Mickey not count then?

Or Captain Jack?

Hmmm... I dunno... all too brief... I was more thinking the longer term companians...

I watched it with my parents - throwback to childhood.

It wasn't as good as Christmas Invasion, and it was more Poseidon Adventure than Titanic. And I didn't like Kylie.

However, it had its moments, and as my parents reminded me, plot-lines have always been a bit hit and miss throughout the history of Dr Who, and all in all I think we enjoyed it

TATE & TENNANT

Apologies if posted before.

Good point!

Well in that case Kylie doesn't count either - so it doesn't matter anyway!

Just started to play this and my other-half leaned over and said "I really don't like her"
I must agree.

Yeah, but Jaime is one of the most beloved companions of all.

Turlough was okay, a bit lack lustre, but okay.

I re-watched The Runaway Bride the other day and I reckon that Tennant and Tate are going to be excellent together - there's something natural about the chemistry between them that, provided the writing is up to it, is something I think will pay off.

ROSE TYLER RETURNS

A fan made trailer for the return of Rose, no spoilers just quite a nicely done trailer!

His brother was one of my lecturers at Uni.
He was very bitter.

Oh dear, that's just soooo bad! What was the Tony Head bit in the middle all about?!

I still hold out high hopes for it... I think it's very easy to slate Catherine Tate because of her show, which is a bit like Marmite, you either love or hate it... I'm all for giving her a chance...

After all, we put up with Bonnie Langford... she can't be *that* bad!

Did we?!

Well... if you wanted to see how Trial of a Timelord ended... you had to!!!!

Was it bad? I dunno, I think I was on my third glass of red by then, I wondered about the Tony Head bit too, oh well, its better than most fanboy trailers Ive seen.

Piper worried about 'Doctor Who' return.

She "can't play Rose"... come on... it can't be *that* much of a stretch!!!

I must admit that is pretty much what I was thinking as well . . .

I'd say it's as much as an acting job as any other. She's not at all like Rose in reality, she's actually rather well mannered and spoken. Miss Piper is rather more Park Lane than Powell Estate.

You and I shall be having words one day young lady.

-m0r

I doubt it.

Back to the 'Who', was the Christmas Special a bit shit? I was heavily involved in an over-competitive, four-way, family scrabble fixture and fear I didn't give it my full attention; but it seemed shit. Was Kylie shit? Was it a misstep to have a Christmas Special in space for the majority of the time? Did the theme of people sacrificing themselves for the greater good seem really lame? Was a man stood in a big box really an effective baddie?

I need to watch it again to judge, but I have absolutely no desire to.

It passed the time, but Scrabble was far more compelling.

Yeah, it was pretty shit. Even the way in which people sacrificed themselves was really poorly mishandled, with about half the cast all being offed in the space of three minutes.

Apart from the generally poor story, I think it fell down for me because despite the special effects and the big bangs, there was no real tension in any of it - Davis has gone a bit Lucas.

Also, and I'd forgotten about this until I saw a comment on another forum, what the hell have they done with the opening credits?! The new music was terrible!

I thought that was just my parents' surround sound.

Oh dear.

Nope.

I watched Voyage Of The Damned again the other day with the red button commentary with RTD, Phil Collinson and Julie Gardener. They were saying themselves that they weren't quite 100% happy with the final script and production as the budget and time constraints didn't allow them make something just a bit stronger. They were quite candid on where some ideas didn't work as well as hoped.

Where they candid enough to say that the whole thing was a pile of unimaginative tripe?

Feel the hate, (sorry Big D.)

-m0r

Yes.

Davidson's daughter to be the next companion?

The source is The Star, so I wouldn't read too much into it, and I'd be surprised if they are auditioning for roles that won't start filming for another 18 months or so.

I read that on Digital Spy too although they quoted the Daily Star article so taken with a pinch of salt

That is the Digital Spy article . . .

I can hear mocking in that reply cant I?

Isn't his name "Davison" not "Davidson"?

There's a station promo for some show of his ("Guide to Parenting" or something?) on here at the moment and they keep calling him Davidson there too.

It is, a typo on my part.

^ Sorry, I hope I didn't come across really rude then.
I was just starting to wonder if I'd gone mad and his name actually was Davidson and I'd imagined the whole thing!

The Master chats up Sarah Jane...sort of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw-c5qdhjxk

The lovely Mr Toby Hadoke's Edinburgh hit Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf is gearing up for a big old national tour if people are interested. Tour dates on the website although it isn't quite up to date, the tour is expected to continue well into 2009. Go see.

Very funny and nice man.

He speaks highly of Mr Dolan.

Does he?

Well, mentioning you was something of an in-road for conversation, and when I told him I've still to get around to seeing you "in action" (as it were), he said, "you really should."



EDIT: Oh, and it was the Family of Blood story on BBC3 as a double bill. Even better than I remember.