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Mogster

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While it wasn't as good as the first season in general, I still really liked season 2. At its best it was its equal, and even initial disappointments like the first Cybermen two-parter seemed to improve massively on a second watch. The only "poor" episode of the bunch was "Fear Her", which was obviously thrown together with about twenty pence.

Still, the third series has a lot of potential. We've got a new, and seemingly rather different companion for a start, a doctor replacing a chav. ;)

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The only "poor" episode of the bunch was "Fear Her", which was obviously thrown together with about twenty pence.

I thought "The Idiot's Lantern" was piss-poor too. On the other hand, "The Girl In The Fireplace" may be my favourite episode of Who ever. Series 2's main problem was its inconsistency, and Tennant didn't help by veering between pop-eyed gurner and serious elder statesman seemingly at the drop of a hat.

I'm hoping for great things from series 3. We have an established Doctor and the writers know what they're dealing with. Plus a new companion provides just enough to shake things up a little. Can't wait. ;)

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The only "poor" episode of the bunch was "Fear Her", which was obviously thrown together with about twenty pence.

You know i watched this the other day and i thought exactly the same thing. Its dreadful. Poor acting and a monster that sounds like the honey monster.

And people say Love and Monsters was bad ;)

I've had a bit of a Classic Who marathon the last few days. Caves of Andrazoni last night which i still think it one of the best Who's ever. Also managed to see Timeflight (el cheapo episode) and Planet of Fire (Peri's introduction with 'essential to the plot' bikini shot)

Vengeance on Varos next which i dont remember ever seeing when it was first on.

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You know i watched this the other day and i thought exactly the same thing. Its dreadful. Poor acting and a monster that sounds like the honey monster.

And people say Love and Monsters was bad :P

I've had a bit of a Classic Who marathon the last few days. Caves of Andrazoni last night which i still think it one of the best Who's ever. Also managed to see Timeflight (el cheapo episode) and Planet of Fire (Peri's introduction with 'essential to the plot' bikini shot)

Vengeance on Varos next which i dont remember ever seeing when it was first on.

People say Love and Monsters was fantastic, which it was. :P

As for the classics, Caves is indeed superb, aside from a couple of moments of unintentional comedy. The first has to be Peri's fall from the first episode, where you actually see her bounce back up from the trampoline used to cushion the impact. The second goes to the random monster thing at the end of one of one of the episodes, which literally looks like something out of a pantomime. ;)

Vengeance on Varos is arguably the only decent episode from Colin Baker's run, so you're in for a treat. It even managed to satirise reality TV before the "phenomenon" really took off. :P

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While it wasn't as good as the first season in general, I still really liked season 2. At its best it was its equal, and even initial disappointments like the first Cybermen two-parter seemed to improve massively on a second watch. The only "poor" episode of the bunch was "Fear Her", which was obviously thrown together with about twenty pence.

The story was ill-advised, but the acting, script and wit was ace as usual. The whole Olympics part was a nonsense, though.

Love & Monsters was terrible, however. Not because it tried to do something different - but because of Peter Kay. Fucking awful, he was. Whereas the whole build up, with the little group and Jackie, was ace. He just ruined it with a piss-take performance. But then again - you're right, in that I enjoyed the series overall because of other episodes such as TGITF, School Reunion and The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit. They were as good as anything in the first series.

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I hope so.

When I saw the advert and shouted

Sontarans!

to my wife, she didn't know what I was on about. This from someone who claims to have read every Doctor Who book in Hucknall library in the late '70s. (Same as I did!)

I even showed her a picture of one on Google and she was none the wiser. I think she may have made up the whole Doctor Who reading thing.

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This seems to have crept up on me a bit, it starts Saturday doesn't it?

In the trailer, it really, really looks like Sontarans. So could the Rhino aliens not simply be the Sontarans, re-designed?

Everything about them says Sontarans, apart from actually seeing them with the helmet open and they're just soooo not Sontarans. I'd be pissed off if those rhino faced things do turn out to be a re-design. I want an update of the old 'potato heads'.

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So. Angry.

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Everything about them says Sontarans, apart from actually seeing them with the helmet open and they're just soooo not Sontarans. I'd be pissed off if those rhino faced things do turn out to be a re-design. I want an update of the old 'potato heads'.

Relax. Rumour has it the Rhino guys are called the Judoon.

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