Dr. Who

[Khaldun]

I like the look of the new season from the current trailers. Don't expect it will make a convert of anyone who thinks Moffat is Hitler's stepson.

[Johny Cee]

Okay, what channel in Canada has the broadcast rights to Dr Who?  I'm not shelling out for BBC America, so I'm really hoping that it's on one of the two English Canadian stations I get.

[Reg]

Space has it but I think they run a season behind the BBC.

[Fraeg]

9(?) ish days until the new season starts.  Please give Matt Smith something to work with.   Vincent and the Doctor was so good, I just hope we see some of that magic.

[Johny Cee]

Space has it but I think they run a season behind the BBC.

That's too bad.

Hell, I'd even try to watch it on one of the French channels if they were showing the episodes as they came out.  I watched a bit of Lost ("Perdu") on the major French station we get just for laughs.

[Der Helm]

So, I decided to watch "Children of the Earth" for the first time and since it was way past midnight over here I only noticed at the very end that I had started with "Day 5" and not "Day 1".
I assumed I was watching a very long cold opening. Then the credits rolled.


Still, very, very, VERY good TV and according to Wikipedia I missed a few  of the tearjerker scenes. Having half of the team killed of at the end of season 2 was bad enough, I think.

So, yay me ?

[Reg]

Children of the Earth was amazing. It made up for what was in my opinion a pretty awful series before that.

[Surlyboi]

Miracle Day is lining up to be either awesome or the most godawful Torchwood yet.

[Fraeg]

So, I decided to watch "Children of the Earth" for the first time and since it was way past midnight over here I only noticed at the very end that I had started with "Day 5" and not "Day 1".
I assumed I was watching a very long cold opening. Then the credits rolled.


Still, very, very, VERY good TV and according to Wikipedia I missed a few  of the tearjerker scenes. Having half of the team killed of at the end of season 2 was bad enough, I think.

So, yay me ?

uhmm you went back and watched it from episode 1 i home??  Children of Earth was simply tremendous.  As good as the best doctor who.

[Furiously]

Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith died at 63 today.  

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1378645/Doctor-Who-star-Elisabeth-Sladen-dies-cancer-battle.html

[Ironwood]

Just came to post that.

Horrible, horrible news.

[Tebonas]

Thats terrribly sad news.

I am really surprised she was 63 already, she certainly looked younger in the last Doctor Who Episodes she starred in. And I was looking forward to the Sara Janes Adventures one of these days.

[Bunk]

Very sad. Include me in the bunch who had no idea she was in her 60s.

[Khaldun]

Really tragic. I gather they have some Sarah Jane Adventures already filmed that haven't been released, the fifth season? I wonder what they'll do next with the series. Hope they figure out a way to deal with it in the show itself--kind of reminds me of when Mr. Hooper died on Sesame Street.

[Mrbloodworth]

Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith died at 63 today.  

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1378645/Doctor-Who-star-Elisabeth-Sladen-dies-cancer-battle.html

 

[Jade Falcon]

Okay, what channel in Canada has the broadcast rights to Dr Who?  I'm not shelling out for BBC America, so I'm really hoping that it's on one of the two English Canadian stations I get.

Season 6 premieres Sat at 8 est on Space channel just saw the commercial.

[Johny Cee]

Okay, what channel in Canada has the broadcast rights to Dr Who?  I'm not shelling out for BBC America, so I'm really hoping that it's on one of the two English Canadian stations I get.

Season 6 premieres Sat at 8 est on Space channel just saw the commercial.

Yah, don't get that.  I have a CBC and CFCF 12 (CTV), and some French language channel. 

[Slyfeind]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that people who didn't like last season, also won't like this season. Will people watch it anyway?

[Ironwood]

Yes.  Alas.

From what I can see, it's all Alex Kingston, All The Time.

Fuck off.

[Slyfeind]

HELLO SWEETIE.

*smug smug smirk smirk*

*WINK*

SPOILERS!

[palmer_eldritch]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that people who didn't like last season, also won't like this season. Will people watch it anyway?

And post our views about each episode, yes:)

Actually I have enjoyed every season so far and I'm looking forward to this one. It looks like we'll finally get to find out who River Song is, and even though I find the character annoying this has been an interesting mystery. I'm hoping that Amy and Rory together will be fun. We've got the Neil Gaiman episode. And it's another season of Matt Smith, who I think I can enjoy as the Doctor even when the script is terrible.

[Evildrider]

I like River Song.  I think they've been plugging away at her for long enough it's about time we get to see most of it explained.

[Ironwood]

Edit :

Fuck it.  Here's a trailer.

[Arthur_Parker]

Is this worth watching?  I haven't really tried Doctor Who since Tom Baker.

[Ironwood]

HELLO SWEETIE.

*smug smug smirk smirk*

*WINK*

SPOILERS!

You were right in the first ten minutes.

[Merusk]

Is this worth watching?  I haven't really tried Doctor Who since Tom Baker.

Tennant and Eccleston were worth watching.  I don't know about the latest because I don't get SyFy or BBC anymore and haven't bothered to go looking online.

[Khaldun]

The last season had some serious lows and some great highs. Unless you're in the grip of cheerless nerd rage, in which case it's all worse than the best episode of Misfits of Science, apparently.

[Ironwood]

The great highs being.....

[Slyfeind]

...Karen Gillan's legs?

[Ironwood]

No argument.

[HaemishM]

First episode of the new season I liked. Yes, there was a bit much mugging, but then I like the River Song character. For that matter, I like all the characters, it's the goddamn stories, specifically the resolutions that I've had a problem with under Moffat's reign. I love Matt Smith AS the Doctor, just not the stories he's been put in. This one reminds me of the Weeping Angels 2-parter - the first episode was a pretty good buildup, the second was absolute shit. This one had a lot of good buildup - I only hope they don't fuck it up with the resolution. I'd like to see Canton continue as a companion along with River, but who knows where it's going to go.

[Fraeg]

first few minutes was trying too hard.   The rest of it was pretty good, but it didn't leave me saying "Doctor Who, Fuck Yeah!"

[Ironwood]

I tend not to review 2 parters without seeing the rest.  Doesn't seem fair.

Like shooting fish in a barrel.

EDIT :  oh, and don't watch the confidential unless you wanna get angry at the state of the BBC.

[Ratman_tf]

Whargarble. The show's trying to top itself over and over again. It's reached Star Trek levels of incestuous storytelling.

Moffat needs to step outside his comfort zone. Or be pushed out of it. Whichever.

[Khaldun]

Oh, dear. I and just about everybody who isn't at epic levels of jadedness seems to have thought it a pretty decent episode. Lots of things to think about, some nice set-ups, some good character work, what's not to like? The possibility that it might not turn out well in the end? That's a pretty good way to keep from enjoying anything in the moment. I keep wondering what the Who gold standard is that keeps you all warm at night. What was it that was actually good?