Quote: chipolata @ May 31 2011, 6:45 PM BSTVery much like your opinions in the official Doctor Who thread, then.
*sniggers*
Don't even pretend you didn't get a semi as you typed that.
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ May 31 2011, 6:48 PM BST3.)Silence in the Library/The Forest of the Dead.
13.)The Doctors Wife
Doh! Forgot those.
The Impossible Steveshine
Turn Steve Sunshine
Steve Sunshine's Day
The Steve Sunshine Dances
Steve Sunshine the Dalek
The Stevesunshine's bride
Blink
The sound of Stevesunshines
and some more to follow
How about Turn Left for dropping the jaw open?
Yes Turn Steve Sunshine
was one of my favourites I wasn't concentrating
Quote: Marc P @ May 31 2011, 7:17 PM BSTHow about Turn Left for dropping the jaw open?
That was another good one.
Series 1
Dalek
The Empty Child 2 parter
Father's Day
Bad Wolf 2 parter
Series 2
The Impossible Planet 2 parter
School Reunion
Series 3
Blink
Human Nature 2 parter
Series 4
Silence in the Library 2 parter
Midnight
Series 5
The Eleventh Hour
The Time of Angels 2 parter
Series 6
None so far
Specials
None ever
good choice Badge, but school boy error you missed out The Drs Wife.
Not in my list, Sootyj. I really don't get all the love for it.
You've changed Badge.
For worst, is no one going to mention "The Doctor's Daughter"!?
Quote: Badge @ May 31 2011, 8:58 PM BSTNot in my list, Sootyj. I really don't get all the love for it.
Atlast someone with some sense.
I really cannot think of any other show that varies so wildly in quality as Dr Who. Perhaps it is an inevitable consequence of the format, but it is difficult to imagine that if someone like Joss Wheedon was the showrunner they would allow it happen.
Ok let's start at the beginning. Dr Who is stuck in a creative paradigm, unconvincing action vs an unconvincing peril.
Why don't the Daleks just kill him, how come running up a corridor gets you out of any kind of peril. So Gaiman takes the idea of what happens if you remove the peril and the action? The result the story in Who is revealed for the first time in decades.
The monster in this case, big bad what ever is utterly improbable pointless. So the question becomes how does the Dr deal with utter loneliness? He chases a distress signal and finds a grave yard.
The bitter twist being he is not alone, but will never be able to talk to or hold his love. A man alone, but not alone for all eternity.
The Amy subplot really isn't about her running down a corridor. That's just window dressing and of course the big bad could have killed her at any time. It's a similee she is trapped in the Tardis abandoned by the Dr and forever pursued by a terrifying Rory or her guilt at being unable to protect or commit to him.
The limp action plot is a little bit of window dressing to a far more powerful psychodrama enacted within.
But most people seem to eat the wrapper and throw the burger away.
And it that way I pity them.
Or make it convincing of course. You know - like what Drama is supposed to do. (Cover your ears MS) as in 'The willing suspension of disbelief'. You know... that stuff.
And I am not talking about any specific episode here.
If you can't make it convincing then don't.
Pull the drama from other areas. The story may not suspend belief but the characters and relationships can.