Doctor Who
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love2travel:
I may skip this one.... Angels that is....
Don't miss it Love2travel, it's a GREAT episode. Scary, but classic Doctor Who, great story telling - and some laughs amongst the scares to lighten it a little for the little ones watching. The trailer for the second part (showing on Saturday in the UK) looks incredible.
Triplets Love Paul:
Birthday:
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My son called my daughter over to the computer to have a look at a "new picture posted on Macca"......She's vowed that he'll pay for that!!!
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Sorry Anita.
I bet Joe's sister won't be talking to him for a while after that! And she was probably expecting a nice photo of Paul in concert or something. Hope you enjoy the Dalek episode tomorrow night - and let us know what you think. Don't forget to watch right up to the start of the credits at the end....
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Birthday:
love2travel:
I may skip this one.... Angels that is....
Don't miss it Love2travel, it's a GREAT episode. Scary, but classic Doctor Who, great story telling - and some laughs amongst the scares to lighten it a little for the little ones watching. The trailer for the second part (showing on Saturday in the UK) looks incredible.
Triplets Love Paul:
Birthday:
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My son called my daughter over to the computer to have a look at a "new picture posted on Macca"......She's vowed that he'll pay for that!!!
Hope you and your family are enjoying!!! ![](http://serve.mysmiley.net/scared/scared0016.gif[/img] [img]<a href=)http://serve.mysmiley.net/scared/scared0016.gif[/img] [img]http://serve.mysmiley.net/scared/scared0016.gif"/>
Sorry Anita.
I bet Joe's sister won't be talking to him for a while after that! And she was probably expecting a nice photo of Paul in concert or something. Hope you enjoy the Dalek episode tomorrow night - and let us know what you think. Don't forget to watch right up to the start of the credits at the end....
I am a bit of a scaredy cat from certain things.... Long story.... I had something really scarey that happened to my neighbor years ago and now when I come home, I have to look in the closets... silly but true. I love to go to museums and look at the statuary... I'm afraid this will spook me too much.... I can't watch Stephen King either... I have to watch it in bits, if at all. Maybe that's what I'll do with this.
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Hi, sorry to hear that love2travel. The first 10 minutes or so are actually very funny before it gets into the scary bits and there's another funny interlude in the middle before it gets dark again. So a bit of relief in between. Steven Moffatt used to write sitcoms (including "Coupling") back in the 90s and it often surfaces in his writing for Doctor Who, so you get that comic relief alongside the scares.
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I will give it a try Birthday...
ops: As long as it is not something like Stephen King... that's too much for me... I guess I can always turn it off
ops: I'm not a total wimp. I managed to watch quite a bit of a BBC ghost chasers story last night in one of your castles over there....
I just got home from work and am catching the tail end of Dr. Who.... gotta go....
Dalecks....
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He is just to Young to be the Doctor
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OK now.... my first Dalecks show.... I thought they might be a little more fearful than that?! Oh... was that the show that was supposed to be disappointing?
Most fearful foe in the Universe.......nahhhhhhh didn't seem like it to me.... what did I miss? I didn't see any crack this time...did I miss it?
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love2travel:
OK now.... my first Dalecks show.... I thought they might be a little more fearful than that?! Oh... was that the show that was supposed to be disappointing?
Most fearful foe in the Universe.......nahhhhhhh didn't seem like it to me.... what did I miss? I didn't see any crack this time...did I miss it?
The Doctor - and us fans - have a long history with the Daleks and have had more fearful story-lines with them - their particular "trait" is that they have had all sense of "humanity" in the sense we know removed making them ruthless opponents in their battles with their enemies - no mercy whatever. They've been around for as long as the Doctor has been on TV dating back to the days when props and special effects were in their infancy - mainly cardboard cut-outs
- and the Daleks were seriously hampered with poor mobility - the sense of menace was created more by script writing and cliff-hanger serial presentation. They're kept around out of a sense of loyalty and given more modern special effects now are much more menacing - you'd need to see their stories in the series closing story-lines of the past few series to get a better feel of their potency. These Daleks were a few straggling remnants of a much greater Dalek Empire tasked with recovering this capsule of pure Dalek DNA, for lack of a better description, with the ambition of revitalising the race (or in BBC terms - the Brand
) The new multi-coloured swap-shop set of new generation Daleks have been out and about in the UK making guest appearances to raise their profile - this episode was just a season opener - a taster of things to come - and the new form Daleks features in the first of the up-coming downloadable games. As to the crack - yes, you blinked - oops, that's next week
As the Tardis vaporised away at the end, the camera zooms in onto the crack seen in the wall behind. Martin
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Thanks so much Martin.... I can't wait to get my boxed set!!! I have had that sense about the Daleks from clips I've seen and was anticipating something fierce, then when the Doctor started bashing one...
well, they still seemed so tame.... I was expecting some more along the line of some Mars Attacks moments... but I think that might be in the earlier versions... The new Daleks were very polished looking.... I kind of like some of the more rudimentary looking ones that I've seen in the photos from earlier shows. That's part of the fun of early sci - fi.... going back to Flash Gordon... That Amy Pond just jumps right in there, doesn't she.... I wonder if the earlier companions were quite as involved as she is.... I like her character
I guess I am looking forward to the Angels.... It seems that here in the US, they are playing the last two shows back to back. It's good, because I can catch what I missed the second time around.
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Martin's summed it up pretty well there. The seasons since Doctor Who returned in 2005 have used the Daleks to far more devastating effect, both for the universe as a whole and the Doctor generally. The Churchill episode was much more low-key. The first half was a play on their usual dominance, turning that on its head and making them servile. The second half was the launch of a whole new Christmas range of toys.....err, sorry
....the launch of a whole new pure breed of Daleks. It's worth pointing out that the Daleks were created in 1963, when memories of the Second World War were fresh in people's minds. They were clearly modelled on the Nazis with their dreams of a master race and total domination.
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Just seen Episode 5 (Weeping Angels part 2) as we were out last night and had to record it. I won't give anything away for our US friends, but all I can say is WOW!!!!!!!!!!! Absolutely stunning episode - scary, dark, thrilling, but very intelligent writing, leading to a stunning climax, with hints of things to come. And don't miss this episode if you want to understand the story arc running through Season 5. There's a lot more about the mythology underpinning the season throughout this episode. I'll be re-watching this episode again later this week for sure - it was THAT good!
And The Guardian newspaper in the UK agrees with me:
I'm just going to come right out and say it. Flesh and Stone can lay credible claim to being the greatest episode of Doctor Who there has ever been. That's better than Genesis Of The Daleks and better than City Of Death and better than Tomb Of The Cybermen and, yes, better than Blink. It's just ridiculously good - so much that there's scarcely any point in picking out moments because there was an iconic sequence every couple of seconds.
Full review here (SPOILER ALERT!!!): http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/may/01/doctor-who-flesh-and-stone
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Well I guess I have to watch it now.... if it is the BEST show....
WOW don't want to miss that!
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Birthday:
The second half was the launch of a whole new Christmas range of toys.....err, sorry
....the launch of a whole new pure breed of Daleks.
Birthday:
Just seen Episode 5 (Weeping Angels part 2) as we were out last night and had to record it. I won't give anything away for our US friends, but all I can say is WOW!!!!!!!!!!! Absolutely stunning episode - scary, dark, thrilling, but very intelligent writing, leading to a stunning climax, with hints of things to come.
Sounds great!!!
So happy to learn that you enjoyed the episode, Jeremy! Cannot wait to see this...looking forward to it!!! Really wish that we were not two episodes behind!
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Wish we were all watching it at the same time too Anita. Don't know why they do that, when both channels are owned by the BBC. What did you make of the Victory of the Daleks episode then? I still can't get over a Dalek saying: "Do you want a cup of tea?"
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Doesn't look good for the Doctor Who Prom ticket sale
Ticket sales for the whole Prom series opens up at 08.00 hrs still 90 minutes away. To handle demand the Royal Albert Hall server has been set up with a virtual waiting room to accomodate demand. That virtual waiting room is full up already.. So I'm waiting for a space in a waiting room even before getting to ask for my specific concert. I suppose everyone blocking that room will flood into the booking area after the sale opens at 08.00 and at least I'll get into a queue. I appreciate that thousands of Prom goers will not be wanting the Doctor Who Prom but it is one of their more popular family concerts
Still hope remains until it doesn't.. Need a sonic screwdriver right now. Martin
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Promising.. 214 in queue
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I should have more faith
Four seats in the Circle safely bought - my first choice - safely up and away from the Daleks
The purchase was more eventful than it needed to be as my bank automated fraud detection service kicked in incorrectly and blocked my debit card. Luckily my wife was at home and a switch to her card saw the timed transaction completed in time. When I'm chilled out, I'll give the bank a call and advise them of my feelings
Just checked back to the RAH web-site - the queue is now 4754 long to enter the site to do anything - even view a seating chart. Martin
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Birthday:
Don't know why they do that, when both channels are owned by the BBC.
To whom may I write about this situation?
Birthday:
What did you make of the Victory of the Daleks episode then? I still can't get over a Dalek saying: "Do you want a cup of tea?"
Even funnier was the Dalek actually serving the cup of tea!
The triplets LOVED when the New Paradigm Daleks emerged...No doubt your sons enjoyed this part as well? They also enjoyed seeing the inferior Daleks disintegrated by their own kind...classic Dalek evil!
A bit of a Star Wars feel this week...the professor's hand and the space scene. Matt seemed less comfortable as the Doctor this week. This left me wondering about the filming schedule. Perhaps this episode was filmed earlier than the first? I think I will have a look around to see if I may locate that schedule. Amy...It was nice to see the Doctor being a bit assertive with her, indicating for her to be silent. I didn't like that she questioned the Dalek against the Doctor's wishes. I did like the bit when she leaned into the professor and asked, "Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't...Hurts, doesn't it...But a kind of a good hurt." Everyone may relate to that feeling...it was a clever touch!
It will be interesting to learn why she doesn't remember the Daleks. And of course the crack...
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martinput:
Need a sonic screwdriver right now.
martinput:
I should have more faith
Four seats in the Circle safely bought - my first choice - safely up and away from the Daleks
Excellent...Congratulations, Martin!!!
I know how much you and your family enjoy Doctor Who. This will be a lovely family night out for all of you!!!
Looking forward to your review of this event! Enjoy!!!
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martinput:
I should have more faith
Four seats in the Circle safely bought - my first choice - safely up and away from the Daleks
The purchase was more eventful than it needed to be as my bank automated fraud detection service kicked in incorrectly and blocked my debit card. Luckily my wife was at home and a switch to her card saw the timed transaction completed in time. When I'm chilled out, I'll give the bank a call and advise them of my feelings
Just checked back to the RAH web-site - the queue is now 4754 long to enter the site to do anything - even view a seating chart. Martin
Fantastic news Martin. I hope you and your family have a wonderful time.
Your dogged determination paid off!
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Triplets Love Paul:
Birthday:
What did you make of the Victory of the Daleks episode then? I still can't get over a Dalek saying: "Do you want a cup of tea?"
Even funnier was the Dalek actually serving the cup of tea!
The triplets LOVED when the New Paradigm Daleks emerged...No doubt your sons enjoyed this part as well? They also enjoyed seeing the inferior Daleks disintegrated by their own kind...classic Dalek evil!
A bit of a Star Wars feel this week...the professor's hand and the space scene. Matt seemed less comfortable as the Doctor this week. This left me wondering about the filming schedule. Perhaps this episode was filmed earlier than the first? I think I will have a look around to see if I may locate that schedule. Amy...It was nice to see the Doctor being a bit assertive with her, indicating for her to be silent. I didn't like that she questioned the Dalek against the Doctor's wishes. I did like the bit when she leaned into the professor and asked, "Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't...Hurts, doesn't it...But a kind of a good hurt." Everyone may relate to that feeling...it was a clever touch!
It will be interesting to learn why she doesn't remember the Daleks. And of course the crack...
Actually, surprising at it seems, the Daleks episode was probably the 4th or 5th to be filmed. They started by filming the Weeping Angels two-parter, possibly because of the guest star's availability (not sure if you know who's in it). They then filmed "The 11th Hour" second and then the rest of the season. So Matt should have been less confident in the Angels eps and more confident in the Daleks one. And yet it's been the other way round. He was really good in Satuday's second part of the Angels story - Karen was simply superb. If you're looking for her to show some other sides of her character, she does in spades in the Angel episodes.