Quote: Badge @ June 5 2011, 8:27 PM BSTWhat are you watching next Saturday Matthew? Some of us need our weekly fix!
I think we should all agree on a classic story to watch, perhaps one from the mid-to-late eighties, that way we can all come on here and have a rumble about why it was good/shit and why McCoy was actually one of the best Doctor's ever/should be shot and his corpse raped/burnt.
Quote: Badge @ June 5 2011, 8:23 PM BSTAnd chew on this one as well. Why the hell does she call herself after a bad translation from someone else's language rather than by her real name?
Because if she was brought up by the forest folk she may think that is her name or it may simply the version she prefers.
Quote: sootyj @ June 5 2011, 8:31 PM BSTBecause if she was brought up by the forest folk she may think that is her name or it may simply the version she prefers.
Melody is a bit of a rubbish name.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 5 2011, 8:30 PM BSTI think we should all agree on a classic story to watch, perhaps one from the mid-to-late eighties, that way we can all come on here and have a rumble about why it was good/shit and why McCoy was actually one of the best Doctor's ever/should be shot and his corpse raped/burnt.
That's actually quite a good idea.
Quote: Badge @ June 5 2011, 8:23 PM BSTSurely even the translation should be River Tune as well.
As for the meeting in the wrong order thing, we've gone on about this at length. Suffice to say that you and many people seem to think it makes sense. I beg to differ.
Translations are never precise maybe they just prettied it up.
The wrong order idea is ace and it roughly works. It's way better than some of the other stupid ideas scifi chucks at us.
And Badge I believe you owe the BBC an apology, before I start calling you colonel runaway
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 5 2011, 8:30 PM BSTI think we should all agree on a classic story to watch, perhaps one from the mid-to-late eighties, that way we can all come on here and have a rumble about why it was good/shit and why McCoy was actually one of the best Doctor's ever/should be shot and his corpse raped/burnt.
Damn you Stott you've perverted me into a McCoy fan
Let's Kill Hitler is a great title but it'll do what Moffat always does: promise much and deliver little. He's had nearly 20 episodes in charge and has done nothing of note. There's no real evidence to suggest this will change anytime soon.
Chip I do have to ask you the question I would ask of any misanthrope.
What would you call a good episode?
There have quite clearly been some very good episodes since Moffat took over; and yes, some rubbish ones. Moffat himself has delivered a few crackers.
Quote: Badge @ June 5 2011, 8:33 PM BST
That's actually quite a good idea.
Yes, I'm game too.
Quote: sootyj @ June 5 2011, 9:00 PM BSTChip I do have to ask you the question I would ask of any misanthrope. What would you call a good episode?
Darlek. Blink. Basically the ones most people cite.
Of which certainly the Dr's wife is atleast as good.
Because they all work on the same alternate tension model.
I am surprised you don't recognise that?
I missed 'Darlek', but did enjoy 'Dalek'.
Quote: sootyj @ June 5 2011, 9:54 PM BSTthe same alternate tension model.
Did you just invent that term and model?
Quote: sootyj @ June 5 2011, 9:54 PM BSTOf which certainly the Dr's wife is atleast as good. Because they all work on the same alternate tension model. I am surprised you don't recognise that?
I did enjoy it but as much as I've enjoyed you redefining the laws of drama to explain why it's great (and I genuinely have enjoyed those posts) I think that it coasted after the halfway mark.
Quote: Ben @ June 5 2011, 9:58 PM BSTI missed 'Darlek', but did enjoy 'Dalek'.
Did you just invent that term and model?
There's a great story in the excelent On Writing by Stephen King. Where he describes listening to a disertation on Children of the Corn written by a brilliant graduate student.
About how it's a complex allegory for Vietnam, with the corn being the jungles of Vietnam.
He actually wrote it drunk off his ass for the money and put little thought into it.
But he accepted the student's version as some how being true.
Quote: chipolata @ June 5 2011, 10:00 PM BSTI did enjoy it but as much as I've enjoyed you redefining the laws of drama to explain why it's great (and I genuinely have enjoyed those posts) I think that it coasted after the halfway mark.
It simply works diferently.
It doesn't have the clockwork perfection of Blink. But it has a way more complex and engaging subtext.
Infact with Gaiman subtext is more important than central action.
