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Catherine Tate

April 5th!



And I like the fact he's not holding the sonic screwdriver in that shot...

these are all the regeneration scenes along with some before and after. kind of neat to be able to trace the Doctor from one to the next but it's hard to get around the strangeness of William Hartnell winding up as David Tenant, but that's part of the fun of the show I guess.

this guy on youtube made tribute videos for each Doctor. normally i don't like those but this guy did a great job on them. The Tom Baker, McCoy, and Tenant videos are especially well done.

It's all the same man. Watch...

this is the greatest thread about a shit show EVAR!

bsams! Embrace Doctor Who as your friend, and...yes...even your lover...

and space?

THIS PHYSICS OBSESSION OF YOURS IS GOING TO TEAR THE BOARDS APART!!!

Not bad, as far as season openers go. Kind of slow in the beginning, I hate the new theme song, and that little 'wave' scene at the end was gay as all hell. Overall, though, I dug it. I liked the female villain, and the actress herself was very good. Tate hasn't really registered for me yet. I wasn't feeling her in this episode. But, she doesn't bother me at all. I kind of like her weirdness. Her character needs some fleshing out, though.

And what about that nice little 'nut-shot' at the end, huh? Did NOT see that coming!

The wave seen was complete shit. Overall I enjoyed it.

I liked the "Close Encounters" thingy. I'm trying not to spoil.

i enjoyed it, much more than the Christmas Special. I've seen some Catherine Tate youtube clips and just don't find her funny, but with David Tennant her style of humor works just right.
I enjoyed the overall story, the duel investigating, and even the cheesy waving at the end had a nice feel to it.

Thankyou!

That blaring sound it made was awesome. Really added a lot to the moment. And I watched it again this morning. You know...sober. Anyway, I'm still digging that Sarah Lancashire woman that played 'Miss Foster'. She was really, really smooth in that role. Nowhereman, is she known in the UK for anything?

As for Tate, I don't know that I always find her funny, really. But, her character is very much set up to be a new kind of 'Tegan'; mouthy, brassy, and shouty. I think the 'weirdness' I get from Tate (and I'm not sure if she's doing it on purpose as a character trait, or it's naturally like that) is how she pronounciates words, and holds her mouth. It's kind of disjointed and bizarre at times. Cunty, what's her accent? What region is that?

Sarah Lancashire was probably most famous for being in soap opera, Coronation Street!
She has done some other stuff though!

As for Tate, I dont know if she ever uses her real voice, I think she has developed a kinda character accent that she sticks with!

She is shit!

God, this episode was pretty shitty!
Firstly the cutesy little fat babies was just too kiddy friendly for my tastes.

Tate was fucking annoying.
I mean, the whole bit where she is hanging asking for help, then when Doc helps her, she tells him to get off.....why?
It was neither funny nor made any sense!

Bernard Cribbins as the mad old man looking for aliens was just a gay set up for Tate to waffle on about how her life is unfulfilled (and the bit at the end with her in the Tardis waving at him made me vomit from all the sugary essence it gave off)!

The bit with the news reporter constantly getting tied up, was funny though!

I kinda zoned out when Tate talked at any point with her over pronouced common London accent and her constant facial contortions, so I missed exactly why she was investigating the company.

Also, in the dumb stakes was two incidents involving the sonic pen.
Firstly, if The Doctor really had no idea what would happen if two sonic devices were put together, why would he do it?
For all he knew, it could have killed himself, or caused the world to explode of something.
Mabe it can be written off as he did know really, but was just being flippant!

The second thing though was when he discarded it in a bin.
Oh yeah, thats an intelligent way of disposing of a powerful device/weapon.

Tennant, I liked as usual, but so much of his time was spent mooning over Martha and Rose!

I seriously hope this is not how the series is gonna continue!

Hey man, it was pure Russel T. Davies. I'm just waiting patiently because I know Steven Moffat has a two-parter this season...

Normally I sit here rolling my eyes at you guys all nerding out and whining about his writing style, but this episode for me, was the worst one I have ever seen!

It was probably made worse by Tate, but I think even Billie and Freema would have had trouble making this episode good.

I also hope we dont get a repeat of the "must feature assisants family as much as possible" angle that has been so prevailant in the new run.
But then again, assuming its gonna be another series of "cant leave modern day Earth", then I fully expect to see her annoying mother and cliched grand father over and over again!

At least the next episode steps outside that box!

The new episode seemed to really be geared to small children this time.

I felt like I was watching Doctor Teletubbie at points.

Also in all honesty if you look at the digital sets in the preview for the next episode, they look like dogshit.

But the sets looking like dogshit was always part of the original shows charm.
Thats kinda why it pisses me off with nearly every episode being in modern day England, cause they dont want to have shitty sets!
Bring back the shitty sets I say!

bsams, you look so smart it that tux!

You look even smarter there!

Just watched the season opener & really liked it. Then again I enjoyed the Donna character from that Christmas episode. She breaks the traditional mode of the Doctor's usual pretty assisants. For the guys who don't care for her, from what I've read about the rest of the season you'll have lots of eye candy. We already got a cameo from a "ghost" at the end of this episode. For me I've liked both Rose, Martha & Jack but it's neat having someone more average thrown into the mix.

BTW the theme music seemed different from the Christmas special or at least this time I detected what sounded like the drums the Master was always hearing.

i've heard rose, martha, and jack will be back this year. i just hope there is at least one episode with all of them. i think it'd be interesting to see multiple companions. my favorite ninth doctor episodes were when he had jack and rose to deal with, and my favorite 2nd season ones were with mickey and rose. three people just gives it a better dynamic.

Same hear. I wonder if we'll see Mickey too?

i hope so. jackie also. i liked rose's family, they were fun and had the right balance of whining about her being gone but accepting she was going to leave. and the Doctor (both of them) had great chemistry with them.
Martha's family was kind of useless aside from the Master arc, and so far I am not impressed with Donna's family. I can honestly say that after the Christmas Special last year I at no point thought "I wish we could see more of that old newspaper vendor who worked on Christmas."

Yeah they kind of 'over-played' his character. But, still, the guy's just a stand-in, as it were. The actor that played her father the first time died. So, they re-wrote the father's part for him...

Those top four pics look familiar!

Radio Times covers.

I know.
Pro knows what I mean!

Ah. Secret gay speak. Okay.

That was what you was probably speakin, yes!

Yeah I wish they would do more covers with old Docs like that. I almost asked you to get me the one with Tennant and Davison, but I waited too late...