Doctor Who

[faemir]

True, I dunno just seeing another gun so soon after just threw me a bit.

[ariich]

Also, Karen Gillan too young? She's 22, and Rose was meant to be 19 (ok Billie Piper was way older than that but the character was meant to be that young) at the start of series 1.

Plus Karen Gillan is rather hot.

I just watched Blink again and GODDAMN is it such a great episode. Plus the Doctor's line "well, four things... and a lizard" at the end might be one of my favourite lines ever.

[robwebster]

Oh god...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBw2IWuOA0

I'm aware that I am posting a lot of trailers lately, but this one takes the cake!

It looks like a FILM! I'm... slack jawed in amazement. Dear me this is going to be the best series yet.

[PuffyPat]

Top Gear is better!!!!!

[robwebster]

I think you just won the coveted Rob Webster "weird comparison of the day" award.

[ariich]

Yeah wtf?

And that trailer was excellent! And yeah I agree with you Rob, that gun definitely looked more like a flare gun.

Still getting through the first series of Torchwood, up to the last episode now and it's already improving quite a lot. Last 2 or 3 episodes have been excellent.

[robwebster]

Yeah, it starts to really take off around Greeks Bearing Gifts, and from there it just keeps improving without ever really losing momentum. Day One and Cyberwoman were really the height of dodginess, and even then their flaws are a bit exaggerated. From Out of the Rain's a bit iffy in the next series, but by and large it's all pretty top notch telly from here on out.

Series 1's a bit like a kind of weird hybrid between an action film and a horror, series 2's got more of a sense of fun like a comic book, and then series 3 is all out psychological drama. It gets cleverer as it continues, too.

[faemir]

I hope the revamp of Torchwood will be good.

[ariich]

Yeah, it starts to really take off around Greeks Bearing Gifts, and from there it just keeps improving without ever really losing momentum. Day One and Cyberwoman were really the height of dodginess, and even then their flaws are a bit exaggerated.

Agreed on all counts. The first episode was good fun, but after that it was a little weak until Greeks Bearing Gifts but it's been pretty solid since then, looks like the writers just took a few episodes to find their stride.

I hope the revamp of Torchwood will be good.

Revamp in what sense?

[robwebster]

Fox have commissioned their own version of Torchwood. Produced by Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner, which is quite an unusual move but I'm intrigued. If it's made by the same people it's got a fair chance of not sucking, and they won't be able to miss the point of the entire thing, as these ports often do.

https://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=1&article=53791

[PuffyPat]

Did you guys know that Torchwood rearranged spells Doctor Who?

[ariich]

I did indeed. And Mister Saxon is an anagram of Master No. Six (John Simm is the 6th actor to play the Master). That one is way cooler IMO.

[Super Dude]

Oh god...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBw2IWuOA0

I'm aware that I am posting a lot of trailers lately, but this one takes the cake!

It looks like a FILM! I'm... slack jawed in amazement. Dear me this is going to be the best series yet.

Typical Americanized trailer...


...And I enjoyed every second of it.

[ariich]

It is a little Hollywood-esque, but then most trailers are.

Why it can't it be Easter already?!

[ariich]

Omgomgomg. Half an hour!

Also, getting towards the end of series 2 of Torchwood, and you're right Rob, it gets a lot more fun!

[robwebster]

My erection is so massive that a herd of wildebeest with Maggie Thatcher faces would not be able to bring it down. I have no blood in the rest of my body.

Fantastic. Oh brilliant. Brilliance on ice. With a little parasol in it.

I just want to watch it again and again.

ariich: It is ace, isn't it. :D But more importantly!! DOCTOR WHO. IT'S BACK. NEW THEME TUNE. THINGS AND STUFF. KAREN GILLAN. MATT-IO SMITH. So exciting and brilliant that I've got wee-stains up and down the wall.



(EDIT: Male wildebeest.)

[Bombardana]

Wow that was a really good episode. Much better than the David Tennant ones I saw.

[ariich]

Wtf, I was sure I posted in here.

Anyway yes it was awesome, such amazing fun! Matt Smith was great and Karen Gillan is awesome... in a number of ways...

The phrase "silence will fall" is very intriguing as well. I'm guessing it'll be the start of an epic story arc culminating in the last two episodes...

[robwebster]

I think it is! I've heard the word Pandorica bantered around, and now Sophie off Peep Show's saying it... watching this. :D They're being "followed by a silent menace," too, aren't they? Silence will fall? It's a tenuousish link, but hey.

I've watched it twice, now. So, so good. Improved on the second viewing, too.

Love the food scene. "Yoghurt's my new favourite! Get me some yoghurt."

[ACID_FOX]

Loved it. It had the perfect mix of dark and light hearted moments, as appose to the last series where the early episodes were pretty painful to watch, and then towards the end of the series the plots would get alot darker and deeper. Matt Smith seems to be a very good Doctor, but time will tell whether he'll be as good as DT.

(Also, Amy is smoking )

[faemir]

I'm just happy he have an intelligent companion again.

Was I the only person who found Rose and Donna really FUCKING ANNOYING. And yet everyone seems to think Martha was the bad companion. WTF? rose was the worst though, at least Donna's stupidness was done comically where as Tennant had to go for Rose in season 2 

[ACID_FOX]

I'm just happy he have an intelligent companion again.

Was I the only person who found Rose and Donna really FUCKING ANNOYING. And yet everyone seems to think Martha was the bad companion. WTF? rose was the worst though, at least Donna's stupidness was done comically where as Tennant had to go for Rose in season 2 

But that scene at the end of season 2 when The Doctor and Rose are on the beach makes up for any faults in her character IMO

That scene should of won an award.

[ariich]

I'm just happy he have an intelligent companion again.

Was I the only person who found Rose and Donna really FUCKING ANNOYING. And yet everyone seems to think Martha was the bad companion. WTF? rose was the worst though, at least Donna's stupidness was done comically where as Tennant had to go for Rose in season 2 

I think they all have their plus points. Rose's overall character was a really good one, even if she was a little annoying sometimes (though only really in the first series, once Tennant arrived she became pretty cool). Martha was badass. Donna was hilarious. Amy is hot.

[robwebster]

Rose started off as very good, dampened down a little bit in series 2 but I still liked her, but when they brought her back across the course of series 4 I was kinda "bleh" about her.

Donna I really liked though. I was expecting her to be awful when she was announced - I really didn't like The Runaway Bride. I loved her right off the bat, though. Very good.

The best companion though is definitely Wilf. What a man. I want to capture him and make him tell me stories.



Incidentally, The Eleventh Hour is making a bit of a splash! Few of my friends who really didn't like Doctor Who seem to be loving it. Good times!

[ACID_FOX]

I want to kill Martha, I can't stand her.

[Super Dude]

I only got to watch half of the new episode until iBBC pulled it off of YouTube.

"Blimey, get a girlfriend, Jeff!"

[faemir]

I want to kill Martha, I can't stand her.

Why? She was intelligent and did the job. It's not her fault that her season finale was, well a bit shit.

[ACID_FOX]

I don't know, mabye it was the actress I hated as appose to the character, but she just annoyed me so much, and I was still heartbroken after Rose leaving 

[XJDenton]

Really good episode I thought.

[ariich]

It's not her fault that her season finale was, well a bit shit.

WAT? I loved the end of series 3, thought it was suitably epic, and her role in it was fab.

[ariich]

Finally caught up with Torchwood. Spoiler:























OMG I can't believe Ianto died!

[robwebster]

God, I know! So brilliantly done, though.

What did you reckon to it, on the whole though? Children in Earth particularly - I've yet to successfully rewatch that; the 456 freaked me the hell out.

Aside from that...

The Beast Below

Promo pics from the next episode are out! God I'm excited. This is the one we know the least about, and it looks thoroughly bonkers and creepy in equal measure, from the previews. Basic premise is that the UK has detached from the Earth and is whizzing about in space. And then of course we've got the Smilers! Really interested in this one.

[Sigz]

I haven't seen a single episode of Doctor Who.

[robwebster]

Well, The Eleventh Hour is as good a place to start as any. And you've come to it at the ideal time! It's the most recently aired, first in the brand new series, doesn't spoil a thing about the previous episodes, it looks beautiful, and it's designed specifically so that you can watch it once and join the ride without having to know a jot about what's gone on beforehand.

It's not like one of those things where you can't come in midway because there's x number of ongoing storylines - you can watch most Doctor Who episodes without worrying about continuity as it's a different story each week, but The Eleventh Hour especially is the beginning of a brand new story with no tedious strings attached - just one episode and you'll be bang up to date with the entire series. All you need to know is that it's about an alien man who travels through time and changes his face - it's funny, exciting, creepy and weird. Big ol' adventure which is entrenched in the bones of British culture. Get cracking.

If you like that, you can continue watching this series week in, week out and catch up on the rest later - or you can go back to Rose in series 1 and watch all that unfold.



...assuming you're interested in checking it out, that is. You might have just come in to tell us that you've never watched it. In which case cheers for the info.

[Sigz]

  No, it's definitely something I want to check out. Thanks for the info