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> Enjoyable all round, but not a true classic, and I wonder how many people
> will desert it after the sound-screwup.
> Sound screwup? Yeah, the Beeb, after all the hype, royally screwed up by
> fading up sounds from Strictly Come Dancing (an annoying reality game show
> presented by the appalling Graham Norton) at least twice *during* the
> episode!

??????

Not on my TV it didn't !

> It felt pretty much like Dr Who about 90% of the time (and like a weekday
> childrens' show the other 10%) which is more than the TVM managed!

Yeah, espec. the bits with the boyfriend...
He was acting like he was in a bloody pantomime !!


> tiny spoilers that barely count as spoilers, but some space anyway...










> CE is brilliant- he really cracks me up (especially that mad grin when he
> says life in the TARDIS is always this dangerous.) Neither impressed nor
> unimpressed by Billie. As for his reaction to Rose's mum coming on to him
> being a sign of the Doc's asexuality- I dunno, I'd react exactly the same
> because she's a scrubby old chav!

Hehh heh hehhhh


> It was a bit of a thin romp - not much actual story - but a good way to
> introduce the show's core values to a new generation - and clearly a
> regeneration story as well. The production values were great, but most
> importantly it was real Dr Who, and CE makes a great Doctor.

What I'm concerned about is, is this whole series gonna be *one off*
episodes?
I think Who was always at it's best over mutli parts... What better than a
screen full of Daleks coming straight for the screen, metallicaly screaming
"Exterminate!" and then the theme tune HAMMERS in !

;' )))

> And thank God it didn't have that bloody shaky-cam direction that seems to
> infect everything these days.

GOD, yes!


> The bad- not mad about about the teaser for next time during the episode's
> running-time.

?????????????
Is this american TV you're talking about????


> The theme is great

Hmm.... I think it's okay.
Glad they stuck mainly to the old theme and didn't *techno* it up, but it
seems to almost get buried by the other orchestration at times.

> > Only low points in it involved characters which I hope we'll never see
> > again. (*Rose's* mum and boyfriend.)

> Sadly, we'll be seeing both of them again several times during the season.


Awwhhh... Bu**er !!!


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"Glen A. RITCHIE" <Get_Away_From_Her_You_BITCH RemoveThis @Aliens.com> wrote in message
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> > I didn't get home in time
>
> At times like that, don't you wish you'd had your own personal TARDIS ;-)
?!


Or a video recorder!


;' )

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"Adam Cameron" <adam_junk.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Who's watching Dr Who tonight?
>
> --
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> Adam

Me! Me! Me!! Loved it - it had character, which I wasnt sure it was going
to have. Eccleston is a sexy Dr. and Billie must appeal to the guys in one
way or another.
Seriously, enjoyed it and the dummies were the one thing that scared me
about Dr. Who when I was younger so was pleased to see them make a
comeback!!
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I forgot to watch the rerun
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>> Interesting how "Dr Who" and "weekday children's show" are two separate
>> things, in your mind.
>
> Weekday, big difference to the generally superior weekend kids' dramas (e.g
> the recent adaptation of Kidnapped)

Ah, OK, I see. I'm not so familiar with UK TV patterns, sorry (esp. kids
TV). And less so than I might be from not actually having a TV over here
:-S

> No, it was the story of how an ordinary shop girl meets a time-traveller and
> hooks up with him, not the story of London being invaded by Autons...

Oh get off the grass. You're really trying that on as an excuse? And even
if we run with that "reasoning", it doesn't really mitigate the fact that
there *was* all the Auton stuff in it, and that it was a bit incoherent,
because it was all so rushed.

The ep could half been a lot better if it'd been spent telling the story of
how an ordinary shop girl meets a time-traveller and hooks up with him.

What we got is a silly young girl abandoning her loving (if both annoying
for the viewer) boyfriend and mother for the first complete stranger that
comes past with a flash car. For all intents and purposes this is what
happens. And it's also pretty much how it feels as one watches it: it
seemed credible that Billie *didn't* get into the Tardis at first. And
reminded me that it didn't seem credible when a couple of seconds later
she'd had a change of mind and decided she would. I was left thinking
"ooh... silly girl... not really thinking of anyone but yourself, are
you?". Not a good message.

But I guess it's a case of the script not making up its mind what it was
trying to be, and dipping its brush in one pot too many (in this case:
two). Again, this could well have been resolved simply by following the
"double-length first episode" standard, and making more (/enough) of both
parts of the story.

But anyway... it was OK: I did actually enjoy it. Then again, I was a
major Dr Who fan when I was a kid, and a lot of that has "stuck", so it's
kinda preaching to the converted, in my case.

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"Adam Cameron" <adam_junk.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> But anyway... it was OK: I did actually enjoy it. Then again, I was a
> major Dr Who fan when I was a kid, and a lot of that has "stuck", so it's
> kinda preaching to the converted, in my case.

That's it in a nutshell - anything can be forgiven (except AR(se)), if its
nostalgic. Just hearing the Dr. Who theme tune brought back all that
anticipation and excitement of the old days!!
We could pick this new episode (and series) to pieces, but at the end of the
day Dr. Who was always tongue in cheek and a little amateur in its
deliverance. Still loved it!
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"David A McIntee" <david.mcintee.TakeThisOut@btNOTopenTOSPAMMERSworld.com> wrote in
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> "Tracy" <sistermoonconstant.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote
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>> Billie must appeal to the guys in one
>> way or another.
>
> She does nothing for me.
>
> Naoko Mori in episodes 4&5 on the other hand...
>

Ok, not some lip-smacking bombshell but cute in a fluffy kinda way, surely??
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"wmmvrrvrrmm" <wmmvrrvrrmm.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I forgot to watch the rerun

Awwhhh man !!!!

Find it on BitTorrent or something!


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"Adam Cameron" <adam_junk.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> What we got is a silly young girl abandoning her loving (if both annoying
> for the viewer) boyfriend and mother for the first complete stranger that
> comes past with a flash car. For all intents and purposes this is what
> happens. And it's also pretty much how it feels as one watches it: it
> seemed credible that Billie *didn't* get into the Tardis at first. And
> reminded me that it didn't seem credible when a couple of seconds later
> she'd had a change of mind and decided she would.

Biggest problem with the *story* certainly.

Had he offered earlier in the *episode* I might have seen it, but the 3
second change of mind cos he said... "By the way it travels in time..."..
just.. bad.

;' )

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"David A McIntee" <david.mcintee DeleteThis @btNOTopenTOSPAMMERSworld.com> wrote in
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> "Covenant" <covenant DeleteThis @joelamb.freeserve.co.uk> wrote
> > ??????
> >
> > Not on my TV it didn't !
>
> It was only on Sky Digital in England and Wales, apparently.


Hmmm...
Y'see, just before it started the entire country was apparently treated to
the opening minutes of BBC London regional news.

Maybe a hiccup from that?


> > What I'm concerned about is, is this whole series gonna be *one off*
> > episodes?
>
> No, episodes 4&5, 9&10 and 12&13 are two-parters with cliffhangers.

Oh well... it's a start !!

;' )


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"Kryten" <kryten_droid_obfusticator.TakeThisOut@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Some people have said he's sexy - I don't see it myself.

No, *I* said Eccleston is a sexy Dr. Being resident girly here, its my
goddamn right to notice things like that!! The insitu guys here all get
their say on the lumps and bumps of the likes of Sigourney Weaver - I just
getting my bit in!!!
>
> I mean, that man's old enough to be her husband! :-)

When has Dr. Who ever *EVER* found any of his assistants sexually
attractive? - he's normally obnoxious and patronising to them, altho
treating them with a fatherly respect - thats all! And I think most of his
assistants were at least 300 years younger than him to start with!
>
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In article <h5u3396627au.6nzbzxuvnxod$.dlg@40tude.net>,
Adam Cameron <adam_junk.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Who's watching Dr Who tonight?

Dr Who? :)

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>> In article <h5u3396627au.6nzbzxuvnxod$.dlg@40tude.net>,
>> Adam Cameron <adam_junk.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Who's watching Dr Who tonight?
>>
>> Dr Who? :)
>
> *Dr.* Who's on first ...

Oh dear. I knew this was going to happen. In an attempt to stave off
any further ridiculous play on an old joke, I shall now insert an entirely
gratuitous sexual reference best-suited to a Bruce Campbell flick.

Our Hero: "So....you're some sort of inter-galactic hooker?"
Alien Female: "We prefer the term 'pee-pee wrangler'."

Yet another finely crafted bit of "Dialogue You'll NEVER Hear In A
Sci-Fi-Action Epic", direct from The Needlessly Pompous Bullpen. Move along.

Hehehehe. He said "insert". Hehe. Heheheh. Heh.
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