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Simon Cann

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I liked the Ood ones. Something about the direction. They felt very different.

Why have you changed your username?

Erm.. well I visit a number of sites using the name Scann so I thought I'd try to bring things into line. Also, I take a dim view of people hiding behind an anonymous name and calling other people cocks. Taking myself to one side, I noted that I was hiding behind an Internet name and calling certain folk cocks. With this in mind I thought I'd switch to my 'real life' name. Unless you've got a near encyclopedic knowldege of Paragon Publishing magazines 1999-2003 then the new handle will probably not mean much, it just makes me feel a bit a better and all.

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Mogster

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What about his throw away line about him once being a father?!

Best bit of the episode that. ;)

It's either a reference to his daughter (adopted right?) in the Eigth Doctor books, or maybe RTD wants to suggest that Susan really was his grandaughter.

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Last night's episode was pretty poor, I thought- it was just so formulaic. Within a couple of minutes of landing, we'd already had the Doctor's "Oh, we're back in London- BRILLIANT! And it's the Olympics! BRILLIANT!" followed by Rose's "Look Doctor, some kids have gone missing! We'd better go all out to solve this mystery for some reason" followed by K's "Oh, for fuck's sake".

The bits with the girl's father were good, though - the drawing in the cupboard was well-done, as was his brief manifestation at the end - but the rest was complete tripe. I've never heard acting so bad as Huw Edwards' "Um, they've disappeared. Um, what's going on" rambling, and the bit with the torch as 'symbol of love' was just appalling- a lazy, arbitrary solution to a lazy, arbitrary problem.

As for next week's episode-

As if Dimensions in Time wasn't bad enough! If you try and shoehorn Eastenders into Doctor Who, it just makes an ungodly mess. If Walford and the Eastenders cast actually exist in Who continuity, how can Rose and the Doctor make jokes about watching the show? Jokes like that go to far towards removing your ability to suspend your disbelief- it's one step away from the Doctor talking to the camera.

The same goes for shoehorning Derek Acorah and Trica in- it was funny in Shaun of the Dead, but I've a feeling it's going to look ridiculous in Doctor Who. Given that we're going to have the Doctor, Cybermen, Daleks, Torchwood, and Rose's family kicking around in an episode, it seems insane to introduce even more stuff into the plot.

Still, at least we've got some more Jackie Fuckin' Tyler to look forward to. *dies*

Of course, it could be really good. I'll be watching, so I hope I'm wrong. Please Doctor Who, prove me wrong.

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Wasn't impressed with last night's ep. The week before's was way better.

The girl wasn't menacing at all - she tried but her acting was pretty shit, the script wasn't particularly well written apart from the great Tardis gag at the start, the whole thing looked cheap and badly lit... The only atmospheric part was the first reveal of the father in the wardrobe, but the climax with him "coming to get her" was shit.

Plus the whole "oncoming storm" thing is being "hinted at" in the most unsubtle, heavy-handed way imaginable.

Next week's looks proper good though. Nice music in the trailer.

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Matt Defis

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Please don't put british heroes and americans in the same sentence it really does cheapen them quite a bit (the british heroes not the americans). Can you imagine hollywood and the Dr, the tardis would be turned into some monolithic skyscraper and the Dr would be a muscle bound idiot with 2 vulcan cannons on his shoulders. There would be no mystery just the Dr opening up his guns of doom and killing innocents until he gets to the problem.

EDIT:Now i've read that to myself it sounds far more exciting than this series has been so far.

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Erm.. well I visit a number of sites using the name Scann so I thought I'd try to bring things into line. Also, I take a dim view of people hiding behind an anonymous name and calling other people cocks. Taking myself to one side, I noted that I was hiding behind an Internet name and calling certain folk cocks. With this in mind I thought I'd switch to my 'real life' name. Unless you've got a near encyclopedic knowldege of Paragon Publishing magazines 1999-2003 then the new handle will probably not mean much, it just makes me feel a bit a better and all.

Who have you been calling a cock?

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This week's episode screamed one thing to me: "Oops. Spent all the budget. Quick, get a cheapy one out the door as quick as you can, and maybe nobody will notice the bright red scary door (oooh, scary!) or the "stadium" of people that cuts to David T. clearly standing in the corner of a studio lighting a sub-par Olympic cauldron that's much smaller than the real thing...."

Poor. Very poor. For me, this whole season is going to hang on the last two eps and how well (or badly) they play out...

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As if Dimensions in Time wasn't bad enough! If you try and shoehorn Eastenders into Doctor Who, it just makes an ungodly mess. If Walford and the Eastenders cast actually exist in Who continuity, how can Rose and the Doctor make jokes about watching the show? Jokes like that go to far towards removing your ability to suspend your disbelief- it's one step away from the Doctor talking to the camera.

The same goes for shoehorning Derek Acorah and Trica in- it was funny in Shaun of the Dead, but I've a feeling it's going to look ridiculous in Doctor Who. Given that we're going to have the Doctor, Cybermen, Daleks, Torchwood, and Rose's family kicking around in an episode, it seems insane to introduce even more stuff into the plot.

Still, at least we've got some more Jackie Fuckin' Tyler to look forward to. *dies*

Of course, it could be really good. I'll be watching, so I hope I'm wrong. Please Doctor Who, prove me wrong.

Again, I don't think they are saying EastEnders exists. I think it's in the context that they're watching TV, or somesuch. That's my natural inclination, anyway. It wouldn't work any other way.

Oh! come on Jack!

The Fifth Element and Doctor Who are both the same type of entertainment ;)

this any better:

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" Eat it Dalek Scum! "

No.

I don't know if you've watched Who before, but McCoy, the two Bakers, Davison, or in fact any of the previous Doctors were hardly macho men.

Tennant being 'namby-pamby' is not one of his faults.

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FishyFish

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One of the reasons why I don't really like him.

Let's face it, Tom's still the daddy. Neither Ecclestone or Tennant have come close. I mean just look at him!

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Bang on there Davros. The problem with both Eccleston and Tennant as the Doctor is that they don't seem to have the same feel of intellectual power as the previous Doctors. You always knew that the other incarnations would come up with the means to save the day, no matter the situation. In the new series he'd have been dead several times over were it not for Rose. The Doctor not being able to spot the Nestene transmitter in Rose being another blatant example of the Doctor not really being up to his old scratch. Maybe it's meant to be this way, and is just part of this incarnations character, but he seems to be far more fallible and, well, Human, of late.

EDIT: Oh, and that psychic paper is starting to get on my tits a bit too. The doctor used to be able to blag his way into situations by weight of character and intellectual sparring. Now he just uses a cheap 'forged ticket' device instead. It's becoming the new Sonic Screwdriver.

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On the Eastenders thing:

It implies that this ghosts thing has been going on for a while and has reached the stage where soaps are doing plot lines based around it.

Ahh, that makes sense. Thinking of it, there's no way they could make out that it was real, given that Den's ex stars in the episode as the head of Torchwood, or whatever she is.

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It's becoming the new Sonic Screwdriver.

No, the Sonic Screwdriver is the new Sonic Screwdriver. Feels like it's been used in almost every episode this series. It gets him through doors, it puts enemies out of action, it cuts rope, it cuts stone, it does practically everything. I swear, give Rose a Sonic Screwdriver and a TARDIS instruction manual and you might as well leave the Doctor behind.

I can see why previous writers did away with it. It's just cheap when it's overused like this.

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I agree with the sonic screwdiver thing. I felt that in the last series they actually had it balanced pretty well, but in this one it seems that the Doctor pulls it out at every opportunity and the worst thing is that it's increasingly being treated as some kind of weapon as well.

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Davros sock drawer

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I've never liked Tom Baker.

That's just nutty talk. Fairplay if he's not your favourite, but to say you've never liked him? Might as well say you don't like Who full stop. He is the Doctor.

Even when he was being flippant he pulled it off better than Tennant, especially as that is pretty much how Tennant is constantly.

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