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 Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:48 pm
Spoiler:
Just when you thought that it couldn't get worse, the identity of this Christmas' mystery star guest is here.
scream xp
The amount of stunt-casting, rabid fanboyism and utter screaming overt fantasising going on in RTD's brain has just entered self-parody.End spoiler
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:16 am
*reads spoiler*
*blinks*
Um. Oookaaay....
*erases his mind and pretends it never happened*
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:48 pm
In all fairness, she's a long-running Doctor Who fan.
Anyway, the new companion for next year has been announced.
Catherine Tate.
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:12 pm
So I've heard. Obligatory RTD "comedy" chav count has now been restored ("one of Britain's greatest talents", indeed!). And "a whole host of guest stars", eh? Argh.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:24 am
Catherine Tate?
Oh gawd. There's going to have to be some pretty damn good writing to make the forthcoming series avoid disaster!
Someone should pre-emptively visit RTD with a large roll of gaffa tape. wink
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:05 am
Dear God. OK, all reports are in. Doctor Who has now officially jumped the shark.
DW
*off to watch Remembrance of the Daleks as an example of how episodes should be written*
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Warnersister Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:25 am
It's taking consioderable effort on my part to maintain my open-minded optimism towards new Who.
I have to keep reminding myself we did in fact have 12 good episodes this year.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:52 am
I counted 3 good ("Blink" and the two "Human Nature", if anyone's interested), a few mediocre and some god-awful ("Daleks in Manhattan", I'm looking at you).
I think it's time I left the TARDIS entirely...
DW
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 8:29 am
I had a chat with my mum about all this over several cups of tea today.
(Note - she's a pensioner, lives in a rest home, but will quite sternly tell anyone she can't go to any meetings or anything on a saturday night, as she has to stay in and watch Dr. Who. I have a rather cool/geeky mum. mrgreen )
She was cautiously optimistic about Tate, but shared my rather huge disappointment at the season flinale. She didn't even want to talk about the upcoming Christmas special. wink
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 8:39 am
As far as Tate goes, I must say that (as much as I dislike her alleged "comedy" and mystifying level of adulation) it'll make a change in terms of New Who to have a companion who's not young, trendy and conventionally "pretty" - but I'm wondering how long she'll stay that way, or whether or not the fact that Donna isn't a fashion plate, as smart as Martha or as... ummm... *struggles for redeeming quality* blonde as Rose is going to become as big a running joke as Jackie Tyler.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:16 am
I suspect Tate wouldn't let them.
At least, I'm hoping that.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:33 am
Although as I said elsewhere:
I'm getting a little uneasy about the way that the female companion is being portrayed as a Cinderella figure. I'm fine with the idea of them mentally getting their horizons expanded, but I don't like the way that this is outwardly shown by them having to look gradually more fashionable and "sexy".
Can't we have one who's just happy to look like themselves, or who's shown as dressing up to make themselves look/feel good rather than because they're constantly on the pull, or whose horizons getting expanded means realising that they don't need validating by someone else?
(Rosie-Sue Tyler, I'm looking at you. Hence I'll miss Martha.)
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:04 pm
At least Martha'll be back.
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:42 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:54 pm
Okay, I'm decided.
The Sarah Jane Adventures is much, much better than Torchwood.
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