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Quote: zooo @ June 14 2010, 4:32 PM BSTPicts!
Quote: Marc P @ June 14 2010, 2:47 PM BSTThe comedy worked this week, I'm not sure why the Doctor started speaking like someone else, mind, and didn't really know what football is. It is my understanding he has visited this planet before and was even marooned here for some while in the seventies.
I think the disoriented and befuddled Doctor of the last coupled would have worked better if it had continued straight on from the opener, rather than after a lapse of eight weeks of sub- Tennant fayness, Godlike powers and over-use of the sonic. I get the impression that it has taken Moffatt rather longer than it should to nail Smith's Doctor.
I don't but that Moffatt can only do light and funny - The Empty Child, Silence in the Library and Blink were all dark and scary, and the best of what Docotr Who can be.
I expect the next series to be much better
Quote: Timbo @ June 14 2010, 6:22 PM BSTI expect the next series to be much better
Why? I expect it to be largely the same.
Quote: chipolata @ June 14 2010, 6:29 PM BSTWhy? I expect it to be largely the same.
Because I am a cock-eyed optimist.
And because I am hoping that Moffatt now understands Smith's Doctor and how to write for him, and is going to put his stamp on the series and take it in a more original direction. Hey - I can live in hope!
Quote: Timbo @ June 14 2010, 6:22 PM BSTGodlike powers
Which episode was that in?
Quote: Timbo @ June 14 2010, 6:32 PM BSTI can live in hope!
And die in despair!
Quote: Timbo @ June 14 2010, 6:22 PM BSTI don't but that Moffatt can only do light and funny - The Empty Child, Silence in the Library and Blink were all dark and scary, and the best of what Docotr Who can be.
Yes, and he carried that on with his Angels two parter. Pity one or two other writers didn't follow that lead a bit more.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 14 2010, 6:38 PM BSTYes, and he carried that on with his Angels two parter. Pity one or two other writers didn't follow that lead a bit more.
But ultimately Moffat must take responsibility. He's the captain of the team. It's up to him to guide and direct his writers. It's up to him to stamp his vision on the show, for better or worse.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 14 2010, 6:34 PM BSTWhich episode was that in?
How about the opening episode when he sees off the aliens about to destroy the planet by telling them that the earth is under his personal protection?
Quote: Timbo @ June 14 2010, 6:48 PM BSTHow about the opening episode when he sees off the aliens about to destroy the planet by telling them that the earth is under his personal protection?
I didn't see that as at all 'Godlike'; they looked him up, saw what he'd done in the past, and, quite reasonably, legged it.
It would be quite fun if this whole series had been building to the Doctor being humiliated and crushed at the end. He has displayed huge hubris right from the start, and it'd be nice if it was all setting him up for a colassal fall. That would set up the next series nicely.
Quote: Marc P @ June 14 2010, 2:47 PM BSTThe comedy worked this week, I'm not sure why the Doctor started speaking like someone else, mind, and didn't really know what football is. It is my understanding he has visited this planet before and was even marooned here for some while in the seventies.
Heh, heh, you presume that the sequence of episodes follows the Doctor's own personal time-line, but that ain't necessarily so. So the time when he was marooned might be in his personal future & so he didn't know what football was at this point along his own time-line.
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You can fudge around any scripting mistrakes when a time machines is involved...
Quote: billwill @ June 14 2010, 7:58 PM BSTHeh, heh, you presume that the sequence of episodes follows the Doctor's own personal time-line, but that ain't necessarily so. So the time when he was marooned might be in his personal future & so he didn't know what football was at this point along his own time-line.
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I think Mr P was referring to the Troughton/Pertwee era which are definitely in the past for the Doctors own timeline.
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ June 14 2010, 8:04 PM BSTI think Mr P was referring to the Troughton/Pertwee era which are definitely in the past for the Doctors own timeline.
Indeed. 