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Really ?
I think it's pretty much 50% story and 50% the excellent actors leading it.
But my views on Sherlock are a matter of public record. In the Sherlock Thread.
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Ironwood
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It begins.And for the inevitable jokers, I came across this while idly reading the Guardian. It wasn't on my shrine or anything.
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Khaldun
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Ok by me: it sucks anyway.
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After reading that I'm just amused there was a sitcom called Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
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After reading that I'm just amused there was a sitcom called Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
I'm kinda gagging in my mind at the idea of eating crisps while drinking lager.
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Weird Brits.
Then again I'm not entirely sure how different crisps are from potato chips. They don't go as well as peanuts or pretzels but they work in a pinch.
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Weird Brits.
Then again I'm not entirely sure how different crisps are from potato chips.
Crisps are exactly the same thing as potato chips. And they go with a pint of lager perfectly fine. Salty, savoury snacks washed down with cold fizzyness. Doesn't work so much with any other type of beer, though. That said, I've stopped eating crisps and avoid drinking lager unless I have absolutely no alternative.
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Ironwood
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The show was also funny at points, in a strange way.
It wasn't really aimed at my demographic, however.
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It had a decent period as simple, crude humour with quirky bits. The musical episode recapping when the cast first met was pretty fantastic. It probably should have ended about 5 years ago though, frankly I'm not seeing any problems with what got axed.
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Cybermen defeated by love was the lamest episode I've ever seen. So thin.
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« Last Edit: October 01, 2011, 05:17:00 PM by Simond »
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Thought they could have worked someone else into that scene, but it was quite moving.
I actually liked the season ender, really. There's a nice twist to the status quo that maybe sets up some new story ideas/themes.
I am wondering somewhat if we're really meant to think the Doctor lived 200 years or so in *his* timeline in between dropping Amy and Rory off and showing up at Lake Silencio.
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I thought the last four episodes were pretty good, from the Girl Who Waited all the way up to the finale... right up until the final goddamn scene.
As usual, the character moments were fantastic, and I liked the way the Doctor was companion-shopping on Rita in the hotel episode. I continue to feel the creators really don't like the Doctor and so do their best to tear down the very idea of the gallivanting adventurer through time and space by turning it into some dark "I get everyone killed" thing.
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Khaldun
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But...
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Something clicked at the beginning of this last one and I spent most of the episode expecting the question. I feel it just wasn't as clever as the writers thought it would be.
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As much as I like the actors and what they've done with what they've been given, I'm getting a distinct Lost/post Cain BSG vibe from the show. Nothing about the Silence makes any sense. At least we have an idea who sabotaged the TARDIS (a brain washed River, or there was an alien in there with her, which I doubt), but who in the world would risk destroying the entire universe just to kill the doctor? It makes no sense. I still don't understand why the Daleks were in that alliance, since they tried to destroy reality awhile back.
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200ish years. The nature of the doctor makes it pretty impossible to properly portray the timing issues on TV; the past doctors won't drop in on you because they don't know you, and the future doctors haven't been cast yet by BBC so they aren't making an appearance either. At least in the case of companions he's taking them with him, so it makes the paperwork easier to manage than if he was dropping in and out at random times. If Matt Smith had dropped in on someone in the Eccleston seasons and been all "Oh hi, I'm the doctor." in answer to their inevitable "Who the fuck are you?", it would have been mildly sweet, but implies foresight that does not exist at BBC.
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Moffat would just do the handwaving 'Remember the First Rule' bollocks that he regularly puts in to hang a lantern on it and cover his own arse from his utter inept writing. The Doctor Lies. Which meant 'I Forgot because I'm a Cunt.'
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Look, there is a lot of interesting characterization in all of nuWho that happened around the character being more and more known, being not just one oddball Time Lord on the run from his own people but being the very last representative of the most powerful people in the universe. It was a pretty natural arc of development for the whole series, really: at some point, you can't keep saving Earth from aliens galore and not have that start to give you a reputation. You can't build up a "rogue's gallery" and have them not recognize the Doctor as a serious adversary whenever/wherever they run into him. Where would the fun be in every single group of Daleks or Cybermen having to through the usual 50% of a storyline going, "Who is this guy?" for ever and ever? But as a character arc, it came to a point where it required some kind of resolution. One resolution pretty much destroys the show forever (having the Doctor really become as godlike or omnipotent as his reputation). Another seems arbitrary (just downgrading him to being a no-big-deal schlep again, or having magic handwavium or Superman's amnesia-breath used to make everyone forget him). So I appreciate at least the thinking about the character that's going on, even if the results are uneven.
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There's entirely too much meta going on in Moffat Who. The question, the whole "Doctor winked out of existence and imagined into existence by Amy Pond" and such.
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I do hope the show goes back to showing the Doctor as a meddling stranger who turns up and wins people's trust by being brilliant instead of I AM THE DOCTOR, but I don't know how that fits in with the revelation that the most important question in creation is "Doctor Who?", which I guess is going to be the focus of the next season.
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"Doctor Who?
Doctor Who?
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48 years old today... This show first aired 48 YEARS AGO?!
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I have had The Wedding of River Song on an external HD I use mainly for work since, well since the Saturday it went up for download. Can't bring myself to watch it. Come back Russel T Davies, we miss you!!!
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Ironwood... Whatever you do, don't watch the Christmas special this year. Your head will explode for sure.
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I liked it.
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As with the entire last 2 seasons I liked half of it. Some things are done well, some things aren't.
What I find odd is that it's so inconsistent in its quality. For instance you get a scene with a really well done set and some good lighting and then Bill Bailey walks on wearing a space suit that's pretty well done apart from the washing machine hoses stuck out of the top and proceeds to display an utter lack of acting talent while in the same scene the guest actress delivers a couple of well-written lines with some impact and skill.
It's so weird. They take utter crap and pure gold and mash them both together and all you get is a mediocre mess with some shiny nuggets sticking out.
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