Doctor Who
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As agreed, let's start our joined Doctor Who (2005 series) marathon. Everyone is welcomed to join. You are free to slip in some classic Doctor Who episode reviews.
Should we set a pacing (e.g. four episodes per week) or would you prefer to set your own pacing?
I've finished with the Doctor Who Revisited specials. I finished up the one with the 7th Doctor. I liked that episode and I liked that Doctor.
The special for the 8th Doctor had the tv movie and I watched it. Ummm....well. I'm still not sure what to think about some it. Some things were fine, and I think the actor was fine. However, what the hell was going on with the Master? Since when can a Time Lord do that?
First of all, it freaked me out because it looked like a freaking snake. Yes an obviously CGI snake made to look like a snake made out of some sort of evil Time Lord goo or something, but still. What the hell? Someone surely could have thought of a better way for the Master to be screwing around with stuff than that. And Eric Roberts as the Master. Well..that was different.
I didn't watch the episodes with the specials for 9 through 11 since I have those season sets and have the episodes they included.
I did think it was a bit....odd that River Song was not mentioned at all..not about when she first turned up with 10, or everything with 11. That just doesn't seem right.
I did post a review on Epinions of my Doctor Who Yahtzee game...so my Who binge is underway and spreading a bit I think. lol I still might watch the few DVDs I have with Baker first.... Oh..I also went and added more Who stuff to my wish list. :laugh:
Season 1
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Rose
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Synopsis: Rose Tyler is working in a department store and is about to go home at night when some students try to play a prank on her. They've disguised themselves as mannequins and follow her. Except that these are not mannequins and they're not following her.
She's saved by a mysterious man who calls himself the Doctor but he then blows up her place of work.
Intrigued, she tries to find out who this mysterious man really is…
The Nestene Consciousness was first encountered by the Third Doctor in his very first story, Spearhead from Space. Even back then the NC used window dummies, the Autons.
My Opinion: I don't really remember what I thought about all this when I first watched it but I am a fan of Farscape as well, so wacky sci-fi doesn't bother me.
Upon rewatch I still like the episode, it's a good (re)pilot. The characters are very well introduced (except maybe for Mickey) and can portray both the seriousness as well as the humour ("There's a strange man in my bed").
My guess is that Mickey was supposed to be a one-off character who was supposed to show why it was easy for Rose to leave it all behind and start travelling with the Doctor. Well, he grew out of it.
While I was slightly familiar with Eccleston (he played the invisible man on Heroes' first season) the only person I truly knew was Rose's mum (Camille Coduri) because she played John Goodman's love interest in a guilty pleasure favourite of mine: King Ralph (also starring: Peter O'Toole, John Hurt and Richard Griffiths).
In hindsight and through knowing more about Doctor Who as a show I love how they mix modern CGI special effects with their classic foes like the ridiculously looking Autons.
The End of the World
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Synopsis: Wanting to show off a bit, the Doctor takes Rose to the day the sun explodes and consumes the Earth. Using his psychic paper they mingle among the high-ranking guests who were invited to witness Earth's death, among them the Face of Boe who may or may not be a very old Captain Jack Harkness
and the Lady Cassandra, the last Human - if you want to call her that.
But then one of the guests is starting to sabotage the station and killing the guests...
My Opinion: This is the first episode my mum ever saw - by accident. And she thought "Was für ein Stuss ist das denn?" ("What kind of rubbish is that?"). As I said before, we watched the list Christmas special live on her telly - and she couldn't have been more excited about it. ;)
I love the crazy ideas they come up with, for example the idea that they shifted the continents back into their 2005 positions for entertainment purposes. Since this is all CGI they could have arranged the continents in any way - they just chose not to. ;)
I also loved the classic jump'n'run parkour that was so aptly parodied in Galaxy Quest.