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Uncle Mike

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I don't get how loads of you loved the one last week. It was everything I'm not enjoying about the new stuff, all 11/10 for emotional distress all the time and overwraught hand-wringing. It doesn't click with me at all.

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Eighthours

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Slight character spoilers from eyeing the read-through of the ep in Confidential, which showed the whole of each table at various points:

Mickey's in the finale. As is Jackie.

And now for a "who's not in the readthrough" maybe-spoiler:

David Morrissey

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c-cat114

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The Donna split is very funny. Personally, I am sick to death of her and cannot wait for her to go. The idea is right, but Tate is just an awful actress, IMO.

It's weird, that's for sure. I hope it's not a redhead thing but I can't think what it would be... She's ten times (at the very least), the actress that either Freema or Billie are, were, or possibly ever will be. IMO, natch.

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It's weird, that's for sure. I hope it's not a redhead thing but I can't think what it would be... She's ten times (at the very least), the actress that either Freema or Billie are, were, or possibly ever will be. IMO, natch.

Perhaps, but I don't think she's really done much acting. Not her fault, I don't think, but most of the episodes (especially the early ones) just asked her to be mouthy and shout someting in an exaggerated way. She was far better than Freema or Billie ever were in Forest Of The Dead and Turn Left, but by and large I haven't really seen her do much acting.

All IMO, obviously. I'm sure others will disagree and point to Planet of the Ood or The Fires of Pompeii, but I didn't think those episodes were up to much.

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I don't get how loads of you loved the one last week. It was everything I'm not enjoying about the new stuff, all 11/10 for emotional distress all the time and overwraught hand-wringing. It doesn't click with me at all.

The thing which makes these end of season mash-ups jar for me, is that the series suddenly goes from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye. One minute they're on holiday somewhere, Donna has a bit of bother with a Beetle, but essentially it's just the two of them and a localised crisis, and then suddenly the whole world is in peril. I find it extremely hard to get behind such a sudden worldwide crisis like that when it hasn't been built up properly, and it's even harder to believe when everything is suddenly all right again by the end of the episode.

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I was talking to a few people at work today, about Doctor Who, and it made me realise just how excited I am about Saturday's finalé. The wait is unbearable. :(

Interestingly, the Radio Times weren't sent a preview disc, so it looks like the BBC really are keeping it close to their chests this time. I can't imagine them going to so much trouble if we're not about to see something very big indeed.

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Space Renegade Ulala

Space Renegade Ulala

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Q. Why do the Daleks care so much about Earth? It's a middling backwater in comparison to most of the other planets and races they've encountered. Just once, I wish they would win then realise afterwards all the years and troops they wasted trying to conquer the dump? "Daleks are masters of Earth!" I bet they didn't get so excited about the other planets they nicked "Daleks are the masters of Poosh! Awe-some!"

As for the episode, I had The Fear following the previous end of series farces and all the signs are there for yet another one ('sup, Martha's mysterious reset button doodah). I'm also far too cynical to believe the BBC have pulled off an audacious switcheroo on us without anyone cottoning on before now and so await next week's novelty (non)regeneration with not much enthusiasm. Naturally, I'll apologise profusely if there is a new guy or if it messes up and and McGann, Eccleston and Tennant appear in a fog of bad CGI and go to work while McCoy cackles this was his plan all along. But I digress.

Why does Jack leave his pals behind when the same gizmo was able to take 3 people all over the place in last year's finale? Why bring back Shaun's mum with some highly implausible 'Oh, I've been working on this amazingly advanced technobabble-here comms system thing' then 'kill' her off 2 minutes later? (oh yes, we don't see it happen, like that isn't suspicious or anything). Why didn't Dempsey leap forward in slow motion while awesome 80s action music played, shooting rocket bullets from his bloody cannon that blow up Daleks like Hubba Bubba bubbles? Okay, maybe not that last one.

Davros, however, was fabulous. Wonderful. Superb. And the clip from the trailer is even better, from an outright fucking nutter just doing it because he can perspective. They really need to get him and the Doctor in a room to have a natter for 10 minutes or something, it's those kinds of exchanges that are always more interesting. See also the telephone call with the Master last year. Fleets of space ships blowing things up is nice an' all but the verbal jousts always win out for me. Bernard Cribbens continues to radiate aceness too, you kind of realise how much you took him for granted over the years in a way. And temp Donna Noble...she's not too bad either. Pity she's going to die and/or turn out to be Romana or the Rani or God knows what if the foreshadowing is to be believed.

Here's another question. Why doesn't anyone in Dalek recognise the, ah, Dalek, given a bunch of the bastards invaded the planet a few years previously? It *is* going to be another reset button job, isn't it? Awwwww.

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Calm down. The former prime minister, yes? Harriet Jones?

Yes. I don't think it's really her. Her message came through with the Master's "da-da-da-da" tone. Plus, we didn't see her shot. I think there's something fishy going on there.

That ok with you?

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On Friday morning, UKTV Drama showed episode one of The Pirate Planet (by Douglas Adams!), in which the Fourth Doctor tries to land on Callufrax but it's not there. On Saturday night, BBC1 showed the Tenth Doctor finds a plot in which Callufrax Minor was taken along with twenty six other planets.

Funny thing, this time travel.

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Calm down. The former prime minister, yes? Harriet Jones?

Yes. I don't think it's really her. Her message came through with the Master's "da-da-da-da" tone. Plus, we didn't see her shot. I think there's something fishy going on there.

That ok with you?

I assumed that they'd built the communication thing using the tech developed by the Master, hence the 'da-da-da-da' stuff. That seems to be a theme in New Who, i.e. that the humans use bits and pieces from the various people trying to destroy Earth.

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I assumed that they'd built the communication thing using the tech developed by the Master, hence the 'da-da-da-da' stuff. That seems to be a theme in New Who, i.e. that the humans use bits and pieces from the various people trying to destroy Earth.

Isn't it just a bit of an in-joke since it's the same rhythm as the Who title music ostinato?

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Boyatsea

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Shaun of the Dead Shaun.

Yes, I know who they're talking about. I'm saying I think something fishy is going on there.

I assumed that they'd built the communication thing using the tech developed by the Master...

Nah - it was developer by Mr. Copper from the Christmas Special. She said that.

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And temp Donna Noble...she's not too bad either. Pity she's going to die and/or turn out to be Romana or the Rani or God knows what if the foreshadowing is to be believed.

I wonder if there's anything in the fact that she keeps reminding us she's a 'temp'.

Like she's going to end up being a permanent fixture somehow?

That's quite weak, isn't it?

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