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Graham S

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I was at a picnic with David Tennant's old agent at the weekend. Apparently he's a lovely bloke, and he's delighted with his unexpected success. He loved being a spear carrier in the theatre for £3.50 an hour, so all this is just amazing.

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I was at a picnic with David Tennant's old agent at the weekend. Apparently he's a lovely bloke, and he's delighted with his unexpected success. He loved being a spear carrier in the theatre for £3.50 an hour, so all this is just amazing.

Ah bless, but I have to say he always comes as a lovely chap on DWC and in interviews. Plus he really seems to love the show.

I also know for a fact the Edinburgh Doctor Who group invited him to their meeting, before he was cast as the Doctor, but was in Casanova and Blackpool and he turned up and spent the evening getting slowly drunk and talking Who.

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I was at a picnic with David Tennant's old agent at the weekend. Apparently he's a lovely bloke, and he's delighted with his unexpected success. He loved being a spear carrier in the theatre for £3.50 an hour, so all this is just amazing.

And explains why he was sacked. :D

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Going to have to disagree with you there, not as good as The Girl in the Fireplace or The Empty Child/ Doctor Dances IMO.

Which one's TGitF? The Empty Child pair were good (The Dalek double bill were better than those two though, if only for the, "No!" bit from Eccleston), but I think it was the demon that swung this for me. I just didn't expect anything that... good. I mean, to me, it looked bloody fantastic. Yes, it was cliched as hell, your archetypal demon, but by jove, it looked bloody menacing. And I loved the story as well. Trapped in perpetual orbit around a black hole. Marvellous stuff.

Edit: TGitF? The one with the French aristocrat? Yeah, that was good too. They've all been good.

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I'm not talking about whether she should've actually shot him. That doesn't really matter. My point is that the "just a victim" part of the dillema makes no sense unless the Doctor has an opportunity to rescue Rose, which would imply he knew that the TARDIS was there.

I mean, this his how I thought it could work out once Tennant's speech began:

Rose shoots the bad guy into space, so he flies off into the black hole. The Doctor doesn't have to smash the pots and doom Rose with the bad guy, so he beats the dilemma. If he has to, he can still smash the pots to destroy the "body" afterwards.

However what happened was:

The Doctor smashes the pots. Rose is still doomed, and the bad guy's still going to spiral off into the black hole. Rose doesn't actually need to shoot the bad guy into space at all - that bit suddenly doesn't matter to the plot.

If the Doctor knew he could use the TARDIS to rescue them, it's important that the bad guy is off the ship first, and the dilemma works - he couldn't rescue Rose without also rescuing the bad guy.

Surely there doesn't need to be any logic there. If I was doomed to death by black hole and got the chance to shoot the bad guy out of the window I'd go for it. Just as a final 'fuck you'.

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FishyFish

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I've not watched any Tardisodes.

what do they have in them?

They're mini previews for each episode but, rather than just being a trailer showing bits of the episode content, they contain completely original material. i.e. the TARDISode for Tooth and Claw showed how the werewolf arrived on Earth, and the one for The Girl in the Fireplace showed what happened to the spaceship to set the turn of events in motion.

The one for The Impossible Planet was crap though.

You can watch them all here.

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Surely there doesn't need to be any logic there. If I was doomed to death by black hole and got the chance to shoot the bad guy out of the window I'd go for it. Just as a final 'fuck you'.

True, true, but it seemed they were building to some dramatic "Rose saves the day" thing. Mind you, it's Doctor Who. The storylines are just as charmingly, gawkishly unpredictable as the last couple of Doctors.

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I'm worried.

The trailer for next week looks awful.

I thought that too, but the RT write up actually sounds really encouraging. It's an RTD one though, so the haters should start probably start warming up arround now. :(

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It's an RTD one though, so the haters should start probably start warming up arround now. :(

Gay agenda: CHECK

Fart jokes: CHECK

I'm looking forward to it, then again there's not been a RTD ep I havent enjoyed loads, bar Rose. Which I must add I did enjoy, I just knew it would be the weakest of S1 and it was.

For me good RTD is

BW/POTW

Tooth and Claw

Boomtown

New Earth

AOL/WWIII

Rose

Amazing RTD is

Queer as Folk

Casanova

Second Coming

Strange how his Who hasnt matched the dizzy heights of his non Who work. Not seen Bob and Rose though but it seems to get a lot of praise.

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I thought Boom Town and Rose were the weakest episodes last series. Boom Town felt like filler.

Anyways, series 2 is on a roll at the moment so I am hopeful!

I absolutely loved Boomtown. It wasn't a filler - it was a pause for thought. The Doctor taking food with whatshername was one of my most iconic Who moments ever.

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I absolutely loved Boomtown. It wasn't a filler - it was a pause for thought. The Doctor taking food with whatshername was one of my most iconic Who moments ever.

It was a cracking scene.

Here's the SFX review, which IMO has me anticipating the next episode even more.

http://www.sfx.co.uk/news/doctor_who_previ...__and__monsters

Boy is Outpost Gallifrey going to be fun Saturday night :unsure:

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"Instead, the episode centres on an ordinary chap, Elton (Hustle's Marc Warren) who becomes obsessed with the Doctor after getting caught in the wake of his passage, and joins a group of similarly-minded fanatics."

HECK yes.

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"Instead, the episode centres on an ordinary chap, Elton (Hustle's Marc Warren) who becomes obsessed with the Doctor after getting caught in the wake of his passage, and joins a group of similarly-minded fanatics."

HECK yes.

I'm in (and I hate Peter Kay almost as much as I hate Justin Lee Collins). If it's half as good as BoomTown, it'll be great.

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