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Just saw the mermaid one - it just wasn't the greatest. Good start, good premise, but ... just not spot on. It was a writer that I didn't recognize, either, although I think the director was the same from last week. Anyway ... eh ...
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I think that sometimes with the new DW 1 episode (~44 minutes) is not quite enough time to fully develop some episodes. The pacing of the episodes sometimes appear a bit rushed. One nice thing with the original DW is that the 4 episode format (~90minutes) usually provided enough time for most episodes to be well developed and not seem rushed for time. On the plus side, the New DW tend to have streamlined plots without unneeded extra material. It is a balancing act. If the writing/acting is well done, I do not mind longer episodes with more detail/extra information. ================================================== == From Episode 3 (07MAY2011) I am curious:
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I really liked it. Not up to Moffat snuff, certainly, but as noted, a great premise, and I thought it was engaging and well-paced, with some great lines.
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I quite enjoyed it - a bit of an anticlimax after the opening 2-parter but to be honest there's no way you could sustain that. I have a feeling even these more "run-of-the-mill" episodes will end up resonating more once we see how Moffat ties the series up.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this - but did the Doctor see a lot of himself in a Captain who took a ship and went rogue, leaving those he loved behind? And did the objects-from-two-universes-occupying-the-same-spacetime offer a clue to Amy's pregancy/non-pregnancy?
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That's a good point!
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i just watched the latest episode last night.. can't say i liked it very much. maybe it's just because the first 2 episodes were so awesome, and that i'm not a huge fan of pirate stories. and i think the actor who played the siren/doctor also was in the vampire episode..
and did they just lose a character, or am i forgetful? during the scene where amy, rory, the boy and 2 of the pirates are hiding in the gunpowder room, and the boy gives one of the pirates a cut, the unhurt one runs out (and eventually is taken by the siren). the other pirate stays in the room with them, right, and nothing happens to him? and then we don't see him anymore. i must be forgetting something, or they just forgot about a character, which seems quite unlikely. i think i also wasn't a huge fan of the episode since it was quite predictable.. many times we figured out what would happen way ahead of time. i do wonder, though, if the fact that the tardis behaved weirdly is something that will come up later.. and the woman behind the little door makes me think that amy is in a prison/mental hospital or something.. the woman is looking in at her, and she seems to be comforting her. does this have something to do with amy's pregnancy? it's nice, though, now both amy and the doctor have something they're trying to hide from each other..
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Ah yes but Amy dressed as a pirate.... now you're talking!
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Yes, but it's a copy with only one heart (Time Lords have two hearts, for the uninitiated)- it's not an official Time Lord. It's a human version that will age and die with Rose.
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Any thoughts on The Doctor's Wife episode yet? I thought it was very good and really quite sad.
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awesome, and very neil gaiman-esque. it was also quite sad, but then again, not too much so - after all, now they got the chance to learn more about each other, and i really liked the fact that the tardis said that "she" chose him. the tardis has always had a lot of character to me, but this gave it even more so.
at one point i thought river was the tardis - maybe she isn't, but the tardis mentioning her sort of makes me think that river will have something to do with it.. it's also interesting that these 2 last episodes have both been about some kinds of parallel universes or something similar.. maybe it's just a coincidence, maybe it's a theme. i guess we'll see.
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I am not sure if I like the tardis as an actual "person". I have always considered the Tardis to be a machine that enables the TimeLords to travel through space and time. If it is a one time event, it is easier to endure, but I think they (the producers) need to be careful what they change and/or intruduce to the show. Even though it is sci/fi, I do not think you want to make changes that make the show too unbelievable (For lack of a better word, since this is just a story and not real.) The sonic screwdriver (ss) is one example for me. It seems that that ss can do more and more things as the show moves on forward.
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To be fair, it has been implied plenty of times that the TARDIS has a "soul", is "alive" and has a "mind of its own". The theory that it's the TARDIS who decides where the Doctor goes next has been knocking around for years.
Endure, though? I think it was great: it's quite something to write a story that makes you look anew at very familiar aspects of the programme. Wouldn't want it to happen every week, no, but I think we can allow them once every 50-ish years! Especially in an episode with this standard of writing and acting (Suranne Jones was superb, I thought). As for the sonic screwdriver - it's constantly being tinkered with and updated every Doctor or so. I'd be inclined to allow some "spec creep" so long as it doesn't get silly. I heard somewhere that K9 was eventually written out because it was becoming too easy to rely on its technology to get the Doctor and Co out of a fix.
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The Tardis does seem to be able to make decisions on its own. For instance, the Doctor said the Tardis had been 'scared' of Jack so that it fled as far as it could, to the end of the universe in Utopia. In a cross-over to the Sarah Jane Adventures, The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, the Tardis actively tries to break through a time-blokkade to get to the Doctor who's trapped in time. That implies some intelligence, but it doesn't mean it has to be alive and part of a species. I had thought the Doctor had built the Tardis, so I've always considered the Tardis an AI.
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I'm assured by hard-core Whovians that the First Doctor explicity said that the TARDIS was sentient.
In a fairly recent episide (Impossible Planet I think? Not sure), the Doctor said it had been "grown" rather than built.
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SO damn funnny that - great line, and a perfectly Amy-ish one too.
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