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Alex W.

Alex W.

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And the Captain for just the season finale? Can't Torchwood give him the day off or something?

Tochwood Human Resources,

Cardiff,

Wales

Dear Shannon,

I was wondering if I could get a secondment with The Doctor next month. It's not that I'm bored with my work here, just that I would like to spread my horizons and add to my career path. I think fighting Cybermen with a Timelord would add valuable experience to my CV. Let me know what you think.

Yours,

Jack

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Bad Ambassador

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Good to see Stephen Moffat and Paul Cornell amongst the writers.

Definitely. Moffat is almost guaranteed to write a great episode, and hopefully Paul Cornell's two episodes will be as involving as his ep from series one. Nice to see some new writers too, shows they're not getting complacent.

The blue suit's gorgeous. Love it.

Latest rumour doing the rounds is that...

we'll be told all about the Doctor's son at some point in the next year or two. Probably not true, but sounds interesting to me.

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Aardvark

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Definitely. Moffat is almost guaranteed to write a great episode, and hopefully Paul Cornell's two episodes will be as involving as his ep from series one.

I seriously hope so. I find it endlessly entertaining that Paul writes episodes for a series written by an evangelising atheist like RTD (read Paul's novels Something More and British Summer Time if you don't get what I mean).

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The other day at work, I overheard a conversation between a dad and his son (who looked about 7 years old). The dad was trying to tell his son that Doctor Who is crap, with the argument of "Look at the Cybermen - they're rubbish! They're just men in suits!". The kid said "But Dad, that's what they are!" :blink:

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You should have punched that man.

I seriously hope so. I find it endlessly entertaining that Paul writes episodes for a series written by an evangelising atheist like RTD (read Paul's novels Something More and British Summer Time if you don't get what I mean).

I wouldn't say he was evangelising.

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He wasn't a God though. That was the point, I thought. He just thought he was a God. It had all gone to his head. "The False God", Rose called him. I must be missing something.

Incidently, the internet is a wonderful thing. Diagnosis Murder on now. The girl in it - knew I recognised her. It's Grace Holloway from the TV Movie - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0038695/

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If RTD wants to 'evangelise', let him. It's his show.

Him and Paul Cornell are good friends - nice to have a difference of belief like that on a writing team.

Oh I don't begrudge him his evangelism (when he does evangelise he does it in an intelligent an interesting way) I just find it amusing, and quite encouraging, that the two of them work together.

And yes Boyatsea, you are missing The Second Coming, go and correct this immediately.

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I never did catch it, I must admit. It's an anti-ITV thing. What's been evangelical about his Doctor Who, though?

Don't let the anti-ITV thing put you off. It's superb. Does that mean you didn't bother with Bob & Rose and Mine All Mine? A shame, if so, for they are great too. Oh, and At Home with the Braithwaites, even though that's got nothing to do with RTD.

Ooh, so much juicy stuff from RTD in the new DWM, which arrived today. The new companion was originally going to be a Victorian maid, for example. Plus, BBC1 went so far as to commission a spin off featuring Rose, designed as a Bank Holiday special. Russell changed his mind about making it though, apparently. Plus, the Ice Warriors aren't back, despite rumours, but two old enemies are. And he says the finale to series three will be even more spectacular then the previous two... oh, it's so exciting.

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Don't let the anti-ITV thing put you off. It's superb. Does that mean you didn't bother with Bob & Rose and Mine All Mine? A shame, if so, for they are great too. Oh, and At Home with the Braithwaites, even though that's got nothing to do with RTD.

I did watch a bit of Bob & Rose. Didn't like it though. Thought that was a low point for RTD, I must admit.

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I didn't particularly like it when it was first on. Now, thanks to watching it again on DVD, I think it's superb - and RTD once said he considers it the best thing he's ever done.

Heh, he said that about Doctor Who at the screening of the first episode. :lol:

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Heh, he said that about Doctor Who at the screening of the first episode. :(

Well of course he's going to say that at the press launch! :)

In the DWM interview of last summer after the first series aired, he says of Bob & Rose: "Ahh, maybe my favourite thing. Great example of tone, everyone gets the tone exactly right." And he's not wrong! Alan Davies isn't the best actor, but I love it.

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Well of course he's going to say that at the press launch! :)

In the DWM interview of last summer after the first series aired, he says of Bob & Rose: "Ahh, maybe my favourite thing. Great example of tone, everyone gets the tone exactly right." And he's not wrong! Alan Davies isn't the best actor, but I love it.

I think my point is, RTD says that of everything he's worked on. :(

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