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did one of you just move my PC closer to me when I wasn't looking?
Would someone move Amy closer to me too. Touching distance, ideally.
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Terry Pratchett says Doctor Who 'breaks most of the laws of narrative' and is 'pixel thin' as plausible sci-fi.
Says the man who's essentially built a career on writing the same book over and over again hoping that his quite frankly manic fans don't/won't care, or because they're 8, haven't formed an opinion...
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He's right though... one minute weeping angels can't move when someone looks at them because they are "quantum locked", interesting idea.... next minute they can't move if they think you are looking. Eh?
It's full of this sort of thing - just forget what we said earlier as we have a plot issue to work around.
Still good family telly though.
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I've always been annoyed by stuff I can pick holes in, like Dr Who, Star Wars, Matrix. Dr Who even more so, because of the sets that are always a bit rubbish/cheap. However, the latest Dr who, bespite all the usual script issues as pointed out above, I've enjoyed. I'm not sure if it's because I like looking at Amy Pond, or I don't give a toss anymore.
I still look back at Tom Baker times fondly, but I expect they were just as rubbish, even more so probably, but I was too young to pick holes in the script or scowl at the shonky sets.
They're producing everything to a small budget I expect and within time scales. The ideas have been pretty good this season, school boy stuff with some eye candy and titilation for the Dads.Posted 2 years ago # -
It's far too fast, too jumpy, too loud and all the characters are bloody annoying as a result! What I hate about Dr. Who though is that it reduces certain people to excitable wrecks - who can't carry a conversation with you anymore because they're too busy screaming and jumping up and down for the entire episode..
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Slap them Kat; slap them.
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Turn the telly off then miaowing .......that should concentrate their attention.
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And then slap them.
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TBH, I don't know why you would want to carry a conversation with someone so infantile and intellectually challenged, as someone who is busy screaming and jumping up and down for an entire Dr Who episode.
....try talking to the cat instead
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I used to do that to the Test Card, Ernie...
It's that clown. It freaked me out.
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Moffat writing the whole series? I thought mark gattis wrote the spitfire episode?
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I like both Doctor Who and Discworld, which pretty much labels me as a geek I suppose.
The spitfire episode was pretty crap, are they contractually obliged to include Daleks in every bloody season? The weeping angels were much better, although again they're reusing ideas from previous series.And I'm halfway through the latest Pratchett, and I can't say I'm particuarly impressed, he's done much better.
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What show/Film is Amy P is bed with her un-laddered tights on? might be worth a watch....
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arresting sight
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Oh!
I might have to watch this series!Dr Who is a modern sensation. It's a huge success. Look at how it sells overseas for a start. The BBC should be congratulated in producing something so in tune with the modern viewers.
The new Dr looks a little quirky and not in his early 20's. It's a long way from the Tom Baker days - thankfully!
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rOcKeTdOg - Member
Moffat writing the whole series? I thought mark gattis wrote the spitfire episode?All my posts come with the caveat that they are probably 70% correct.
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When I were a lad, the story covered the whole
series - i.e. it was a proper serial (no - not
Corn Flakes).Every series has at least one overarching background plot that links between the episodes. In the current one it has been the cracks in time, but previous ones had Bad Wolf, the drums, Saxon etc.
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I think alot of people in this thread seem to be strapping on a lovely pair of Nostalgia™ rose tinted glasses.
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It's a weird blend of actual sci-fi and self-parody, funny and yet serious at the same time. I think it's a great if ambitious combination, something only the Brits could do, and it works really well for me. On the whole. It's certainly conceptually very different from most stuff, which I love, and is to be applauded.
And LAWS of narrative? WTF? I don't think I'd like to live on a planet where everyone had to stick to the rules for any artistic endeavour. Actually, we did do that sort of thing a few years ago, didn't we? Spanish Inquisition, Cultural Revolution, McCarthy..?
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Says one of the 2 SF writers that I can't read...
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Terry Pratchett's one to talk - the last three or four Discworld novels have all had exactly the same plot, and its rehashed from Soul Music anyway.
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I gave up on Pratchett after the Lost Continent. It was a really stupidly lame attempt to fit Australia into the discworld.. Yes big southern continent that has yet to be discovered BUT all the parodies were of post-colonial stuff.. grr
And it was crap in lots of other areas too.
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I was annoyed this week by the continuity errors.
Dr leaves his jacket, next scene he's in it. Next scene - gone again.
Sloppy.
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we love dr who in our house.
i quite like pratchett too. his books are a bit samey but i still enjoy them. i liked the lost continent mainly for the lame takeoffs and also rincewind is a genius character.
dr who is a bit of afternoon fun for the family not some national geographic documentary.
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Watched 5mins of the first "new" Dr Who (with Billie piper).
Read 5mins of a Terry Pratchett book once.5 minutes of each was 5 minutes too much. Still not worked out what all the fuss is about for either.
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You know, much as I like redheads, and yes, she's a very nice redhead, I can't help thinking the new doctor reminds me of either a younger version of Gordon Ramsay, or George McFly.
Quite off-putting.
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Hmmm (going back to the top of the thread) Mr Pratchett is being a bit pot like, or errmm well <ahem> perhaps a bit ill in the grey matter, to knock Dr Who's failings.
Considering his career is built on parodying other authors and one could argue about the physics of a flat world carried on the backs of elephants riding a huge turtle thru's space....However, I've never found suspension of disbelief too tricky, particularly after the 2nd pint on a Sat night. So I love Discworld and Dr Who.
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That new ginger one is fit, but doesn't make up for the crap acting/storylines and VFX!
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dr who has never been about hard sci-fi or believable situations
there were some shocking monsters early on and anyone remember the bertie basset bad guy in one of the sylvester mccoy episodes
is he talking to biggins there?and as for the daleks what a terrifying planet dominating force, as long as the world is perfectly flat and smooth and they have nuked all stairs from orbit before landing- at least the can fly now
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Is there another kind of simulacrum?
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Ok, Lego and Amy Pond together, could it get any better
probably....
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I think alot of people in this thread seem to be strapping on a lovely pair of Nostalgia™ rose tinted glasses.
Agree.
Some of the 'lesser' channels are re running the old Dr. Who's (Baker, Davidson etc.) and they're quite shockingly shabby in comparison to the more recent (eccleston/tennant/smith) episodes.Sure you can pick holes in them, but they're (mostly) great telly.
Not too sure about the Spitfire episode though.Posted 2 years ago # -
jon, Is that a G string?
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