By overwhelming request. Here are those already listed on the Suggestion Box thread:
Good Eats: Food network
Food Network Challenge: Food network (duh!)
Iron Chef America: Food network
Modern Marvels: History Channel
Nova: PBS
How It’s Made: Discovery
Cats 101: Animal Planet
Andromeda
Doctor Who and Torchwood
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Firefly
Thank you.
May I add Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and anything else Joss Whedon)? And I might as well say Torchwood, since Luna will indubitably added.
I like Buffy. A lot. I’m currently on the second season and obsessed.
speller–Oh, gee, sure, steal the opportunity to add Torchwood. Ah, well….I can still suggest the addition of Doctor Who.
Now, speaking of Buffy…..Thanks to a certain individual (who happens to have first post on this thread), I have started watching the series. I watched….let’s see….the first five eps last night, which meant I didn’t get to bed until 3 am. (Thanks, speller.
) *sigh* I have no self control. On the bright side, I feel surprisingly awake for only getting 4 1/2 hours of not quite restful sleep (it would seem watching five eps and watching them that late at night, results in bizarre dreams. I think there were a lot of vampires. Vampires standing around, vampires falling in love with each other, vampire staring at me, vampire, vampires, and more vampires. At least they didn’t sparkle. The dreams would’ve turned into nightmares, had that occurred.) So, um, yeah, currently in the middle of ep 6, didn’t quite have time to finish it this morning before classes…..
Yeah……David Boreanz (sp?) is unbelievably hot as Angel…..Way more so than as Sealey Booth, on Bones.
And of course Giles, we mustn’t forget Giles. I have to keep mopping the drool up off my poor laptop every time he comes on screen…..Yes, I’m hopeless. Why do you ask?
But isn’t it good? Wait until you see Spike… (If you can’t tell, I like Spike.) It’s David Boreanaz, by the way. And I have definitely had Buffy-related dreams. Oh, episode 6 is weird (but good). (And Luna, you’re almost halfway through the first season already.)
Over halfway, now. I’ve seen 7 eppys so far. Contemplating going and watching the 8th, instead of studying for my organic test. Ugh, I really need to get my priorities straightened out.
Episode 6? Er, I already forgot–*pauses* *thinks for a minute (a very difficult feat, indeed* Oh, no, I remember which one that was. Sorry, it’s hard for me to keep which episode was which straight…..
And I am (im)patiently waiting to see Spike. I already peeked to see which ep he first appears in. Yes, I am a bad girl, but……I can’t help it. Marsters has been growing on me ever since I saw him in Torchwood.
I see you’re a BBC lover, Dr. Who is awesome! May I suggest The Graham Norton Show? It’s on at 10 on Fridays I think. A little inappropriate… but funny nonetheless!
Yes, ever since watching Merlin this past summer and then introducing myself to Dr. Who and Torchwood (via Merlin) in October, I have become quite enamored with the BBC.
I may look into the Graham Norton Show, although, really, right now the last thing I need is something else to watch…..And unless I can view it online, it doesn’t do me much good, either (no TV, and even at home, nothing besides basic broadcast channels). As for inappropriate, however: I’m very nearly 20–inappropriate doesn’t even begin to phase me……Perhaps it should, but, well, y’know, I’ve inherited my mother’s sense of humor. nuff said.
haha so this post is super old but i’m replying to it anyway. the BBC is freaking awesome. spike is the best. jonathan ross >>>> graham norton. <3 wossy. and i believe you can watch graham norton online. i mean you can watch most things online, i think. as a matter of fact, just about everything i watch, you can find online.
lol, yes, BBC is freaking awesome (and Spike is the best). And as for graham norton….i never actually ended up looking into that. bit busy with other tv stuff (*coughclassicwhoamongotherscough*).
and, yes, that last bit is definitely true….
I watched “Dirty Jobs” yesterday and the dude was on a snake farm in Texas. They wrestled aligators, crocodiles, ninety pound snakes, and a one hundred fifty year old african snapping turtles. A camra guy named Dave broke a glass door with his camera… It was really stupid, I was laughing the whole time!
FREAKS&GEEKS.
Can’t wait till my dad will let me watch it. He says it’s AMAZING. Have any of the GAPAs seen it?
Yes, “Freaks and Geeks” is great. It was set a few years after I graduated from high school, but it’s all very recognizable to me. The characters are well drawn, and the acting is brilliant.
One small but telling detail: some of the ninth-grade kids are noticeably bigger and more mature than others, just as they are in real life. A lot of series and movies set in high schools ignore that, probably because they use older (and/or unrealistically good-looking) actors to play the kids. “Freaks and Geeks” got it right.
i just watched freaks&geeks. loved it. i wish it had gone on longer though, things were just starting to get really interesting
and yes, it is me, hello *waves* was just lurking about but felt the need to comment. so yeah.
Am I the only one here who knows Andromeda?
I want to say I may have seen some of Andromeda once upon a time–when we had a relatively short space of time where the channel it was airing on actually came in on our TV. And then…..we no longer got reception on that channel. I’m fairly certain the SF show I’m thinking of that we were watching on that channel at the time was Andromeda.
I’m glad Good Eats is first on there! I love that show.
2- Hahaha. Several musers, myself included, had a Beffyfest this summer. Whenever I was online I was watching an episode. I only made it to season 5 though I know ebeth and Julia and mel finished the whole series (then watched Angel the show).
But you like Angel until you get Spike, and then you wondered why you liked Angel so much
Out of curiosity, where are you watching it from? DOwnloaded, or online? You can only get the first 3 seasons online legally and the rest are hard to find, but if you get there and need the site I can give it to you.
I’m watching them online. Via Hulu, for now. But I will keep you in mind if I have difficulties finding later eps.
Good Eats is amazing! I’ve memorized the theme song. Did you catch the Christmas Special on Monday?
I would suggest MythBusters, but it’s awesome and totally not geeky.
Does anyone else watch kids’ T.V. shows that were on when you were little just to get nostalgia back? I know it’s weird, but my brother and I do that a lot.
It is too geeky! Just because it’s filled with explosions doesn’t mean it’s not geeky!
Okay, maybe it is geeky, but in a good way.
Geeky is always good.
I LOVE MythBusters.
And yes, yes I do watch kids shows. Especially superhero/action shows, like the 90s animated Spider-Man and Captain Planet.
I watch Star Trek, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica on a regular basis. And by “regular basis,” I mean every once and awhile. Unless I’m still watching it for the first time. For example, I just started watching Battlestar Galactica last year, and I watched it more consistently because every episode ended on a cliffhanger and I wanted to know what happened next. But all of those shows are sufficiently geeky, and I love them all.
But I do not like Freaks and Geeks. A friend of my mom’s got it for us, and I watched the first several episodes. Everyone was just mean to each other, and it always put me in a bad mood. So no more of that for me. Also, I don’t like watching anything about “real” high schools, because I just don’t understand the concept. But mostly, everyone was just mean. I like sticking to outer space better.
And I watch all of these on DVDs. Mostly because they’re all over already, but I also don’t like commercials.
Star Trek! Yay! TNG, TOS, DS9, VGR, or ENT? I love Next Generation, myself.
Next Generation is my favorite, but I watch TOS from time to time, too.
*highfive* I got the second and first seasons on DVD! *joyfullness*
My dad is a mild Trekkie, which I think I’ve said on other occasions, so I watch every now and then when he has it on. I like the shows well enough, but not to any obsessive degree.
TOS is the best. i’m just now starting to legitimately watch TNG (i had seen a couple eps, but i’m just now watching it all the way through), but everyone sucks except picard and riker. data’s ok, but not as cool as spock.
Oh, what an awesome thread! How about Sanctuary? I’ve gotten out of the habit of watching it though.
SFTDP…
Cats 101 is awesome! So geeky though… What makes cats geekier than dogs? Oh no… I think this calls for a
I dunno. Mayhap it’s because cats use intelligence to beat an opponent, and dogs use brute force.
Eh-hem.
The original purpose of HPBs…
Aha! ‘Tis true!
6 – My friend downloaded them. I’ve been watching them with her. And I never actually liked angel much. (Buffy/Angel is cute, I’ll admit, but I adore Buffy/Spike. And I’m on season 2.)
8 – I started Galactica this summer. It was good. I should get back to it at some point.
I’ve seen four of the shows on the list. The most recent one I saw was How it’s Made, which is really interesting but it depends on what they’re showing you.
Nova’s really good. I missed the episode they had on dreams!!!! I REALLY wanted to see it, but the station I watch is a week ahead of the ones that my grandparents get in California. I suppose I’ll probably see it sometime on the internet, but still…
Dr Who… ♥ Basically the most wonderful TV show ever. I’m going to make myself a Fourth Doctor scarf. I have long conversations with anyone who will know what I’m walking about. In fact, I spent first period today (and lunch) talking about it.
Mm… Firefly too. Wish there was more of it.
Am I the only one who has ever finished a season of Firefly or Doctor Who and thought “I want to make a sci-fi TV show!”?
I have… mixed feelings about Dr. Who. Great acting, wonderful dialogue, absolutely incredible soundtrack and special effects… but some of the plots make me want to scream “SCIENCE DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY” over and over. I began to enjoy it a lot more once I started thinking of it as fantasy and not as science fiction.
Oh yes. I no longer associate science with science fiction, so I don’t care.
I have felt that way, yes. Want to produce and I’ll write?
I’d love to join you guys.
Can I act?
I want to act really.
Ooh, can I help write?
Writers:
Enceladus
KaiYves
Actors:
Alice
Unidentified:
POSOC
Don’t forget speller, she’s acting too.
I’d love to write, but I wouldn’t mind acting and/or producing…
We could all do all sorts of things. Like whoever’s not in the scene works the camera, and various people write (it being a TV show, there will be plenty of scripts to be written) and I’m not sure what producing consists of, but I’m sure we could do that too. Some people won’t want to act, so they can do solely techie stuff, and some people won’t want to do tech, so they can do solely acting/writing.
I didn’t see Speller’s name when I made the list. I apologize.
We can share jobs, that’s a good point. But first, we need a central idea for the show.
Should this be moved to Partial Scripts: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=896
Good idea! I’ll start a “head post”.
I had an idea for a sci-fi TV show once. It takes place in the future, when intelligent civilizations have been discovered all over the galaxy. There’s a war between the two arms of the galaxy, and the main characters are this group of people/aliens on a spaceship together, representing the “good” arm.
LOOOVVEE GOOD EATS…it is deserving of capslock
I like most things that are on PBS too
Okay I’m going to ask, and I don’t mean to sound disparaging of it or anything but what is the appeal of doctor who? i can’t go ten feet on the internet without someone screaming about it and I tried watching it but it just seemed rather corny and silly to me. I would love to be enlightened on this matter.
bill nye the science guy = best show ever
I don’t know…it’s just…exciting. Hard to explain. What episodes did you watch?
I saw one episode where the doctor is going somewhere (back in time?) and I think Rose is like noooo…or maybe she went somewhere? It involved a parting and someone falling in a pit of some sort and it all seemed very melodramatic
The other episode involved cyborg angels and had a Christmas theme.
I just wondered what about it you like? The plot, the concept, the changing doctors? i’m just curious. (this all sounds rather rude of me though, sorry!)
I’m not sure I know the first one you’re referring to, but the second one is definitely one of the Christmas specials. Which, in general, in my opinion, aren’t that great. They usually seem to be more ridiculous of episodes, with as much throw-in-alien/robot-santas/angels-and-wreak-havoc-on-London.
As for what I like about it, well, I can’t really pinpoint anything in particular, I just like it. It’s funny, usually has interesting if far-fetched plotlines, and….I dunno. It’s funny and entertaining. *shrug*
Neither of those were the series at its best, honestly. The “pit” is an alternate universe in one of the season finales. Most of the finales try to be extra awesome and… don’t. This is probably because they bring the Daleks back so often it’s just gotten silly. (Although Sound of Drums/Last Time Lord was epic… mostly because of John Simms.)
-cough- -confession- I cried in that finale. Only because Rose and the Doctor were Parted Forever though, not because it was an exceptionally great series of episodes. I’ve got to agree about the Daleks. If they really wanted to use them as the supervillains of the new series, then they shouldn’t have said anything about wiping them out in the Time War. Same thing with Rose. If she’s going to keep coming back, it takes away all the drama and credibility of “we’re never going to see each other again…I’m going to leave now…for the last time. I swear.” ‘Nother confession: The Sound of Drums/Last Time Lord was actually one of my least favorite finales. I didn’t really like the whole thing where everyone’s belief in the Doctor brought him back. It just seemed a little too…Tinkerbell for my taste.
And I think the pit one might have been The Impossible Planet/Satan’s Pit where the Doctor jumped into the pit and Rose had to leave on the shuttle with everyone else…I dunno, they both work.
I have to agree about the ending. It would have been better if they’d foreshadowed it a bit more, at least.
I liked “The Sound of Drums/Last Time Lord”, but that may have only been because Captain Jack was in it, and Captain Jack remains (and always will remain) one of my all time favorite characters in the series. But, yes, the whole bit with saving the Doctor by believing in him was a bit lame, I agree.
I can’t deny that the episodes vary in quality. Some, like the Christmas Invasion or that Adipose one, are indeed corny and silly, but there are some excellent stories in among them. Like “Blink.”
The first couple episodes (Rose, The Unquiet Dead) were pretty bad, I think. I remember watching them and thinking “This is not what I expected” and then some are amazing. Like Blink, yes, or the WWII one that I could have named like three seconds ago but just blanked on. Cake.
“Empty Child” and the second half, “The Doctor Dances”? With Captain Jack?
Empty Child, that’s it. All I could think was The Unearthly Child, but that’s the first EVER, with Susan.
If it’s WWI you’re thinking of, that’s Family of Blood/Human Nature. And I certainly agree with your assessment. I want to see the Family back- they scared me more than the Daleks ever did.
I would love to see more Family of Blood (though they don’t scare me overmuch–but nor do the Daleks). They seem to have disposed of them fairly permanently, though. I think the Midnight monster has got to come back at some point–Sky died and so did the stewardess, but the monster lived out there, for who knows how long, so it probably didn’t die entirely. The kid at my table in science thinks it’s going to come back with the Doctor’s form.
I never finished Midnight. Was it good?
Midnight was the first episode I ever saw. Although it wasn’t a bad episode, after watching the rest of the series, it doesn’t really stand out as that great of an episode, to me. Not enough action, I suppose, and too psychological. I mean, they don’t go anywhere, or do anything, just sit on a space bus for 45 minutes.
It was pretty good. Very creepy. Like Luna said, not a lot of action.
Just watched Midnight. At midnight.
I feel more awesome than is really justifiable right now. Also, I’m afraid to talk for fear I’ll hear Lesley Sharp’s voice repeating it right behind me…
OH MY GOSH. Blink was the best Dr. Who episode. EVER.
And another good one was… The one where they go back in time and meet Shakespeare.
Oh, yes, I liked that one, too. Am I misremembering, or didn’t it have an HP reference in it? I want to say it did……There was one that did, anyway, which totally made my day. Obviously.
Yes, it did, though I can’t remember exactly what it was just now.
Well, Martha said something along the lines of “It’s all a bit Harry Potter…” and then later when Shakespeare was destroying the witches he needed one more word and Martha suggested “expeliarmus” or however you spell it.
Oh, that’s right….And he also comments “just wait ’til the seventh one. I cried.” Which given what the seventh one ended up being…..And how everybody ended up crying…..
Expelliarmus. With 2 “l”s. Because I’m a perfectionist.
15 – I wouldn’t know about Dr. Who unless I was on MB. Then again, I don’t usually venture far from my e-mail and MB when I’m online, but yeah, I’ve never seen it and honestly I have no clue what it’s about.
Has anyone watched “Some Assembly Required?” It’s like the model geeky TV show ever ever ever! I don’t watch it often but sometimes it’s really interesting…kind of like “How It’s Made.”
When you said “Some Assembly Required”, I thought of the (quite disturbing) Buffy episode. I’m hopeless…
I love Food Network Challenge (and Ace of Cakes, is that geeky?). And Buffy, although I’ve only seen about four episodes.
Alright, who’s seen Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog? I’m sad no one has mentioned it yet.
Yay Buffy!
I saw Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog at one point. I don’t really think of it as TV. And it goes under the Joss Whedon category.
Ace of Cakes is amazing! But, I don’t think it counts as geeky.
I love the Ace of Cakes! But I probably wouldn’t exactly classify it as geeky…
I’ve never seen Ace of Cakes, but I *have* eaten an Ace of Cakes cake. My friend won Teen Jeopardy, and to celebrate her parents drove all the way down to Baltimore and had a cake made (in the shape of our school–it looked *exactly* the same! And it had all sorts of cool stuff on it. Like Michelle Obama. And a unicorn.), then delivered to her house. It was epic.
Wow. Michelle Obama AND a unicorn? It had to be amazing.
Mythbusters is awesome. Disovery Channel itself is awesome. And Good Eats. My family has actually made the food, it’s legit.
BOOM DE YADA BOOM DE YEDA
That is one of the best commercials ever.
I concur vehemently.
Moi aussi!
Odd… I just watched the xkcd parody of that commercial.
I wrote a parody of that song. Reposted from Song Parodies:
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I love emoticons
I love the RPGs
I love quotations
I don’t love HPBs
We love the whole blog
From ‘phytes to veterans
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
I love to throw pies
I love to study wungs
This is the weirdest song
That I have ever sung
We love the whole blog
and all its froodiness
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
I love to read books
I am a giant squid
I love the Beatles
Um … what rhymes with squid?
I love the whole blog
Because, well, 42
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
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Cool song!!!!!
Good Eats rocks!
OH MY GOSH!
How could you forget?
Glee!!!
They’re all Gleeks!
Artie is the best though… (He’s so hot…)
I don’t see what the fuss is over Glee. I haven’t actually seen it, but my dad has and I always agree with him. Seriously, ALWAYS. He said that the acting, directing, and writing were royally and spectacularly bad.
I’m critical of most shows on TV, but Glee is really good. It’s sort of like a feel good show, you know? I really enjoy it, it’s like seeing a musical every week.
It’s supposed to be silly, but aspects of it are very serious. It’s hilarious, and the singing is amazing.
19- My friend absolutely ADORES Artie.
The singing is the only good part!
He’s gorgeous… Well, without his nerd outfit. I like Sue too. She’s just plays the part so well.
I think Glee is absolutely amazing!!!!!!
*loves anything that includes musical theatre and humor*
Oh my god the last ep of season 5 buffy oh god
D:
Buffy! No spoilers, please. I’m almost at the end of season 2 and don’t want spoilers.
I won’t spoil anything, don’t worry.
I’ll just profess love for Spike and Oz and everyone now and then
OK, good. I love Spike and Oz too. Willow/Oz is currently my favorite Buffy pairing. (Because of a friend’s dare, I was writing a fic for a really messed up pairing as a joke and it almost turned into a Willow/Oz fic.)
I like a lot of the shows on Discovery, especially Mythbusters. Would that be geeky?
OOOOOOO!
How about the Science Channel?
It’s wonderful. I love the show… uhm… The Universe? I think it’s called that. I love things about the physics of black holes, and all of that stuff that I don’t understand.
Mythbusters is awesome! At my school, it’s a guy thing, but I love it, too.
In my opinion Mythbusters is a guy, girl, :idea:, and wung show!!
Okay, so I’m a bit late on this thread, but has anyone seen the newest Doctor Who specials? (there’s a christmas one and then one with a bus)
I have seen all of the DW specials up through and including “Waters of Mars” which aired in the UK on November 15.
We do not have access to a reliable television, so most of what I watch is on the Internet. Is there anywhere I can find “Waters of Mars?”
Um, yes, there is. Give me a second, and I’ll provide you with a couple different links. Or whatever the GAPAs will allow through.
Google: “surf the channel”. Click the first hit, search for “doctor who”. It has the “Waters of Mars” special, via megavideo. Not the greatest quality, and tends to have pop up ads, but…..
Also: Google “vodpod waters of mars” First link. However, Alice had lots of difficulty with this one buffering, so….I dunno.
*coughyoutubecough*
Hehe, yup, probably there as well. I take it you *coughwatchedittherecough*?
*whistles nonchalantly*
*joins Rebecca in the whistling*
thatwasmyfirstthoughtbutalligotwerealotoftrailersEr, bless you, Lady Bunniful. Would you like a throat lozenge?BUT IT ISN”T IN THE US JUST YET *headdesk*
Star Trek wasn’t one of the suggestions on the Suggestion Box??
I guess it’s more “nerdy” than “geeky”.
Nerdy is geeky, in my book.
Considering that there is no universal agreement as to what’s “nerdy” and what’s “geeky,” I’d say they all count.
In the United States, geeky implies a higher level of technical knowledge, whereas nerdy is just all ’round. In Australia, it’s exactly opposite!
Yeah… Besides, practically everyone knows it.
Now, Andromeda, that’s got black holes and tesseracts and less of that militaryHow Things Are Made on the Discovery Channel or…somewhere. LOVE THAT SHOW! Did anybody see the episode about the jawbreakers..?
Oh yeah! that was awesome!
How it’s made.
Go work on your fanfiction, Enceladus. *following instructions*
Speaking of somewhat geeky but awesome television shows, the final episode of Monk aired last night. I cried. it was a great episode. I am going to miss that show so much more than I realized.
Oh yeah! Honestly I didn’t like some of the twists, but… that montage thing at the end was so sad.
Hey, ya’ll! I don’t know if it’s been suggested, yet, but I’d like to bring up Bill Nye the Science Guy. =D
BILL BILL BILL BILL
BILL NYEEE THE SCIENCE GUY
i mentioned that…but it bears repeating
best part of science class everrrrr
also maybe I will try doctor who again then, I seem to have caught all the bad episodes. I think we still get BBC…
Bill Nye the Science Guy is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Season 1 was not the best- look for season 2 for romance, 3 for agnst, 4 for recovery then more agnst, and 5 (current) for lonely doctor agnst.
Bill Nye is pretty geeky…but I dunno, something about him is REALLY annoying.
OH OH OH OHMYGOSH.
I love that show! I especially love the episode where Bill puts a rubber ball in liquid nitrogen and then takes it out and it smashes to pieces on the ground! That rocked!
Firefly, Bill Nye, and Fringe are all on my highly rated (but sporadically watched) list!
Fringe can be annoying because it’s so close to science at times, but then so far out, although that’s what Science Fiction is for, right? I found the last episode especially appealing- genetically modified tapeworms incubated in illegal immigrants on boats. So scary, but so possible! (Not to that extent, but still!) Also Walter gets lost so his solution is to implant himself with a tracking device.
Fringe! I haven’t seen all of this season, but I’ve been meaning to catch up online. And I agree, there are some things that seem somewhat plausible (though I don’t feel I know enough to even say that haha) and then other things that are freakin crazy! But that’s kind of why it’s good…? oh well, I just love Walter
I think several people have mentioned Firefly, I should watch that too!
I’ve only seen one Fringe, and that was the episode that aired during Thanksgiving Break 2008. It was really, really weird–basically, the people were hallucinating things and the hallucinations were coming true. Like, for instance, the one guy hallucinated that he was attacked by butterflies which shredded him, and he was attacked by invisible butterflies which shredded him……Ummmm, yeah…..Let’s just say between being really tired, having to explain it all to my sister, and the science of that episode not being at all realistic to me at all, I wasn’t too impressed.
Fringe is currently my favorite show. I can feel the apprehension between the two worlds and I can’t wait for the BAAANG!
Glee Finale last night was great. Was anyone else psyched that Rachel sang a Barbara Streisand song for her ballad?
I LOVE GLEE I LOVE GLEE I LOVE GLEE I LOVE GLEE I LOVE GLEE MORE THAN ANY TV SHOW IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE AND I MEAN IT THIS TIME!!! *non-hyperbole*
I am SO sad we have to wait until spring to watch it again!!
My favorite episode, I think, was the one where they threw slushee on Mr. Shu at the end.
I really really really hate glee. I’ve watched it a couple times and I find it devoid of any kind of emotional content and the characters are very flat. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, however. Although…. I have yet to hear a convincing argument as to why glee is good.
My da and I love the doctor. When I was in grade six (so… uh…um…. anyways, when whatshisfacebaldguychirstophersomething was doctor) my dad and I watched it religiously.
Another one of my favorites, okay another two of my favorites, are Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett (lovelovelove) and Agatha Christie’s Poirot. I am a mystery fan.
I don’t watch it for the story…mostly for the music, because Lea Michele and Amber Riley are phenom singers.
Did you see the Doctor who episode with Agatha Christie in it? It’s in season 2 or 3, I think.
actually, season 4… sorry ’bout that
Ooooooh, I remember that one.
Does anyone else like Babylon 5?
I do!
Zog.
BEST SHOW EVER: Big Bang Theory. Seriously. It’s about these four Caltech geeks- Lennard (lactose-intolerant, sweet, dateless applied physicist, Shledon’s room mate), Sheldon (genius but socially clueless professor working on String Theory), Raj (incredibly shy astrophysicist), and Howard (disgusting yet amusing engineer in search of a date), and Sheldon and Lennard’s neighbor Penny, a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory.
Big Bang Theory is fantastic! And Sheldon mentioned Flatland in the last ep
Penny is annoying, but i guess she’s necessary. and Leonard’s kind of a weed. but i love sheldon and raj and howard
Are we allowed to talk about geeky/nerdy books too? Because I have a good one. The book is called Physics and it’s all of the parts of the universe. It’s very easy to understand and I think it’s a little geeky.
:'( *sadness* I love Glee. I relate to the characters!!! But yes…they ARE amazing singers. Tina should sing more often!
*wails* Why must Andromeda have only five seasons and why did it have to decline like that?! *sob*
Now I just need to get fellow MBers hooked… Too bad it isn’t aired anymore.
You know what I love that ( frustratingly ) isn’t on air anymore ( except for Cartoon Network, which I don’t get )? Old reruns of Scooby Doo. I LOVE those and the new ones are complete pieces of fragglemuffin. *stomps off to Channel 56 and demands reruns*
I’m sorry but when you click the link to the “December B-Day Thread” in the announcement for Karin Tay’s birthday, it leads here. Also it doesn’t show the thread title/description if you come here by that method. How curious.
I was going to point that out too, but I think I thought I was going crazy when it happened or something so I just ignored. The HPBs must have taken ahold of the link! *gasp*
There was once a show on the History Channel called Sex in the Civil War. Hmmm.
No. Comment.
39- They really are desperate for ratings.
I’m going to add my name to the list of people who enjoy Firefly, even though I have now seen but one episode. Though that soon will change.
40 – *falls over laughing*
Well, after going through numerous Good Eats episodes, I think I’ve determined my 3 favorite moments of the show (no orders yet):
The scene in his food sanitation episode where he’s talking about microbes (or something) while holding an old monster squeeze-toy, and he eventually squeezes it to make the guts pop out (in a bubble, not… you know) and says “Bleah! – kinda like that -”
The scene in his gumbo episode where he is disassembling shrimp, two parts I like.
“Number one, grasp the shrimp. Number two, rip his wee head off!”
“There it is, boys and girls, the vein. Now guess what – that’s not a vein, that’s a digestive tract, and that means that the dark stuff inside… isn’t blood!”
And finally, the scene in his muffin episode where he is making the batter for his English muffins: “If you yeast hasn’t produced foam within the first few minutes, odds are, either your water was too hot or your guys were – dead. *in an undertone* That’s why they put expiration dates on those little packets…”
I love that show
I remember the gumbo one …
Well, I just watched the pilot for Firefly. A space Western? Epic win.
LOVEEE Firefly! My mom (I know, sad, but she does have good taste) just introduced me to it, and I’m on disc three. I started watching on last Monday.
The End of Time? Anyone else really anticipating January 1st/2nd? (I think I’ll look for it on youtube starting on the first and see when I can find it)
I’m really anticipating it……I’ll be googling for it (hopefully not getting stuck with YouTube, it loads at a dreadfully slow pace here at home, for some perverse reason) starting the afternoon of the first (when I finally crawl out of bed around noon or so). It’s airing at 20 to 7 in the UK, which is 20 to 10 here at home, so I figure sometime in the afternoon/evening, it should be up.
YES. But…but…it’ll be the last episode I EVER get to watch with David Tennant!
Still, he’s had a good run… three full seasons, not counting the 2009 specials.
I really really hope Matt Smith does a good job… it would be horrible to have Steven Moffat’s awesome writing ruined by a bad Doctor.
I’m sure he’ll do a much better job than we’re all afraid of…..I hope, anyway.
I know, he’s been the Doctor for AGES, which is why it’s hard to imagine him going. And he’s been a great Doctor, which makes it sadder. And I’m sure Matt Smith will be a fine Doctor, even though he is ridiculously young. I mean, if he wasn’t any good, they wouldn’t have cast him. It’s not as though they didn’t have any options; I imagine there were simply hundreds of men on their knees begging for the role. But every now and then it sinks in that I won’t ever see David Tennant again, at least as the Doctor, and it’s quite sad, really. The transition from Christopher Eccleston (amazing Doctor, by the way, I’m really sad he only stayed one season) to David Tennant was eased by my already having seen David Tennant, so I knew he was fine. If only I could watch an episode with Matt Smith, then I could get excited about having a new Doctor and not mind as much.
Everybody seems to be mourning DT… am I a bad person for not really being attached to him?
No, you’re not a bad person…..You just have different tastes in Doctors, which is perfectly acceptable.
No, I think he’s an excellent Doctor… I’m just sort of indifferent to who’s playing the Doctor, as long as he’s good at it.
That makes sense…sort of.
-long pause-
Wow, I totally forgot everything I was going to say. It wasn’t very organized anyway. Something about some Doctors being better than others and oh yes! Different Doctors have different personalities. So it’s not that I’m going to miss seeing David Tennant’s face and hearing his voice (though I will, a bit), I’m going to miss all the Doctor’s little quirks that will just vanish. Like the Ninth Doctor, how he used to say “Fantastic!” all the time. And then the Tenth Doctor came along and he was all different, and I was a bit upset for a few episodes, because he wasn’t the same person at all.
They could have an episode like “The Fifth Doctor” where the 12th/13th Doctor’s TARDIS merges, or something.
There’s also still a human 10th-doctor-clone in the parallel world with rose. i know it is all impossibletocomebackomgz but doctor who has a habit of breaking its own laws, so we can still hope for at least a one-ep appearance sometime
zomg, I can’t believe I didn’t try finding the Torchwood audio dramas (4 radio broadcasts set between end of season 2, start of season 3) before now……I just watched part 1 of the first one (Lost Souls) on YouTube, and, well, let’s just say I think holding in laughter may be very dangerous for one’s health…..I’m sitting upstairs at my lap top alternately pressing my head phones into my ears (my parents have the news on, and it would seem that it’s perfectly acceptable to have the volume on it loud enough I can hear it up here, but god forbid dad let us turn it up so we can here it sitting on the couch when we’re all sitting down watching a program together.
).
so, yeah, I’m alternately holding my headphones in to block out the tv, and clamping both hands over my mouth to hold in my snorts of maniac laughter……
And luckily, an audio only video from YT loads nicely, unlike the videos with pictures……
Anyway, dinnertime.
Another encouraging factor about Matt Smith- Steven Moffat likes him, even though Moffat generally prefers older Doctors (“That slightly crazy grandfather that kids instinctively know is one of them”). So he must have something really good going for him.
Andromeda is over! *bawls*
*has finished season five and now feels lost*
Would Red Dwarf be considerd geeky enough for discussion on this thread?
49- Red Dwarf is hilarious! I haven’t seen it in ages though…I wonder if it’s online.
My parents have almost all of the episodes on videocassette.
*starts singing theme song* It’s cold outside, no kind of atmosphere…
Okay……Sorta random question. I was watching ep two of the serial “Keys of Marinus”, from season one of Classic Who. Basically, the aliens were mind controlling snails, more or less. What’s bugging me, is I have the oddest sort of deja vu feeling from the giant snails in the jars, especially when one tacks on “mind control”. Is there some cartoon/story/comic/something with mind control snails?????????
42- And SyFy has one called “The Hunt for Hitler’s Ghost”.
52 – Seriously?! I wish I got cable. Then I could watch that…it sounds interesting. But wait – who on earth would want to find H – H-h-h- Hitler’s ghost?
53- That was exactly what I thought when I saw the commerical. Hitler’s ghost is not something you look for. It is something you run from at warp speed.
Hmm… Must find a way to persuade other MBers to watch Andromeda. *complies list*
Oh, god…I just read the most spine-chillingly horrifying thing: Fox is considering/planning an Americanized remake of Torchwood. Uh, what? If they want to cash in on the brilliancy of Torchwood, for the love of god, just air the blasted original episodes–don’t take a good think and butcher it.
And the fact that RTD is in on this–and would be writing episodes–rather than reassuring me that this could, in fact, work out, merely makes me even more nauseous. I thought after what he did with CoE that things couldn’t get worse–even that I might eventually forgive him (especially if he brought a certain character back)–but now? What the cake is that man thinking? Why would he ever agree to such a–a barbaric idea.
The article I read also mentioned that if all this happened or whatever, that some of the characters/actors from the original series might be brought on board–like John Barrowman aka Capt Jack Harkness. Um, what? Well, if that’s the case, given how insanely busy that man is–he is–that basically shoves the idea of TW season 4 out the window–something I would like a heck of a lot more than a butchered American remake. Not to mention, I can’t see American broadcast TV ever leaving the character of Capt Jack as he is–are you kidding? Have an openly omnisexual character who is completely one hundred percent confident with himself and completely accepted by all the other characters in the show? Or scenes like we had between Jack and Ianto–American TV might put/leave Jack in a relationship with another man, but actually show us anything more than, say, a chaste kiss on the cheek/quick peck ont he lips? Hell, no. I really don’t see them giving us any of the heartbreakingly romantic scenes like we had between the two Capt Jack’s, or between Ianto and Jack in the episode “To the Last Man”, or “Adrift”–where we got more than just a kiss.
Quite literally, the very idea of a butchered American remake makes me physically ill. I really, really, really hope that this does not happen.
How do you caking remake Torchwood in America???
Caking good question! I don’t know, but right now I am wishing all sorts of horrible evil things upon RTD (and FOX).
I mean, if for no other reason mentioned above, hello, Torchwood was founded by the Queen of England (I forget which) to protect her empire against alien threats (such as the Doctor)–not to wander off to America and have some caked up bastardized Torchwood base.
I guess it could be a department under the president or something, but it just…won’t…work…
And what about the Doctor? Please say they aren’t thinking about porting that as well…
I don’t think they are, but….Who knows?
I mean, as far as TW goes, I could see that there could possibly be a base in the US–that either it could ahve branched out and there be versions of it in various countries, or that it would still be strictly a British protection agency “Outside the Government, beyond the Police” with a top secret base on foreign territory, but…..With some of the same characters? I mean, as far as that goes…..JB’s official site says nothing about this, which means if he’s been approached about such a thing, he’s not agreed to it. I’m pretty sure either one of my email updates for his website or his twitter thread would have mentioned if he had signed on. This gives me a smidge of hope.
I love Capt Jack, don’t get me wrong, but…..Not only would FOX totally strip everything away from his character that makes him Captain Jack Harkness, charismatic omnisexual 51st century earthling, but I don’t see that both a bastardized American version with Jack and a Season 4 real Torchwod with the BBC could possibly both happen. And I’d much rather Season 4 TW than an American remake.
I mean, why the cake don’t they just do like NBC did with Merlin? Import the show as is?
Yeah… It’s in Cardiff. Cardiff is not in America. People in Cardiff do not speak in American accents.
I don’t think the bastardize American version would be set in Cardiff–I think it would be set somewhere in the US….. *shudder*
I’m not even that big of a Torchwood fan, and this horrifies me.
Torchwood is doomed if this happens. We should all write angry emails to FOX and RTD.
Doomed is an understatement. I would write FOX and tell them I was going to boycott their channel, except, well, that wouldn’t make much difference, plus I like Bones and House, and of course I watch ’em all online usually not via FOX’s official channel, so…..It would make even less difference.
And RTD….Like he really cares. I mean, after CoE he (and BBC) had tons of letter’s/pleas/etc sent to them and that didn’t do any good…..
I don’t watch Torchwood. (I’ve promised many people I will eventually.) However, as a Firefly flan (yes, I mean flan), when I hear of Fox doing a sci-fi TV show, my first thought is that it will be canceled pretty quickly. Would that make you happier?
Probably. Unless by some streak of amazing luck it turns out to be good against all expectations. Which according to other people on the net, based upon Fox’s previous actions when it comes to sci-fi (or maybe just in general) “If it’s good, they’ll cancel–if it sucks, they’ll keep it going forever”….Or something along those lines.
Well, you can cheer yourself up by watching Firefly. And then finishing it and cursing Fox for canceling it…
At least you guys can talk to each other about it- I still haven’t been able to convert anyone to Andromeda. My new target group: Star Trek fans. It’s by Gene Roddenberry, so…
51- (Luna)- About the snails: Wrath of Khan, perhaps?
Dollhouse, anyone? Only one episode left. I am so excited for Felicia Day. ALSO I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT [ROSSAM SPOILER] I FEEL SO BETRAYED. Oh, Joss, why did you not bring the awesome before your show got canceled? Shouldn’t you have learned? Alack!
I need to catch up on The Big Bang Theory; I haven’t watched it in forever, which means I’ve missed a whole lotta Sheldon being awesome. But, -insert rant about popular appropriation/misrepresentation of geek culture- why must Sheldon be the only tolerable character?
Re: Buffy: Where’s the Anya love? She was by far my favourite character! Gettin’ vengeance, lacking tact, hatin’ men, the works. Best episode ever: Tabula Rasa.
Anya is full of awesome. xander is a [self-censored]
i need to watch the second season of dollhouse! i keep not watching the new ones because i have to see it from where i left off, which was near the beginning of the second season. i’ve heard it gets epic, but i don’t have a convenient way to watch the first eps
I need to watch Dollhouse. *adds to long list of shows she needs to watch*
Well, I hadn’t met Anya before, but yes, I’ll share the Anya love. Watch out for bunnies.
I don’t think so….I’m pretty sure I never saw that.
it’s definitely the best star trek movie
ebeth’s new pet peeve:
someone: *is blabbering about the star trek movie*
me: oh, which movie?
person: *blank stare* the star trek one
me: yeah, which one?
somebody: the one that just came out…
me: …you know there are 11, right?
this has happened (with some slight variation) SO MANY TIMES
Luna’s pet peeve:
someone learns I like Harry Potter
they make some comment like, “Me, too! I’ve seen all the movies.”
Me: *gives them incredulous look* The movies suck.
Ebeth- RAGE. It’s terribly annoying, considering my childhood was Star Trek. I saw the previous Star Trek movie in theatres as well.
That and “you don’t like Spock and Uhura together? Surely you must be racist.”
“No, no, the Vulcans are one of my favourite races, but, you see, it’s entirely illogical, not to mention he’s married and he totally turned her down on the first episode of TOS.”
I fear I will never get through to people. Or maybe I’m an elitist jerkface.
But, yeah, Khan rocks. And I personally prefer First Contact to Generations. If nothing more, it has “Perhaps today is a good day to die, prepare for ramming speed!” I love me some Worf, and his unintentional comic relief. “I am not a merry man!”
PS- Data > Spock.
Luna- YESYES The HP movies are clearly only there to be mocked. Gah! I get annoyed when people act similarly about LotR. Except those movies were half-decent. If you just watch all the scenes in the second one with Golem and/or Treebeard.
i generally dislike the idea of remaking british shows into “american” shows. why can’t they just air the british shows?
Speaking of british television, some suggestions! these are both written at least partly by graham lineham, if you’re someone that cares about writers (i tend to notice such things, which is why i was freaking out about moffat being the new doctor who script editor while all my friends were going “steven who?”)
The IT Crowd – two IT nerds working in the basement (and one occasionally-appearing IT goth who hides in the server room) and their new manager who knows nothing about computers. think of how funny the concept sounds, and then multiply the hilarity by about five billion. it’s fantastic
Black Books – grouchy irish bookstore owner, his best friend, and his rather silly assistant. also hilarious, and i know the chairman is a big fan if that recommendation means anything
black books is all on hulu, but the IT crowd is not
also, i notice basically all of the doctor who conversation has been about the new series. does anyone watch the old ones? what do people think of the first eight doctors?
Ebeth–I’m currently working my way through the old (Classic) Doctor Who series. I’m currently midway through season 2 (about halfway through the serial “The Web Planet”). So William Hartnell is the only one of the first eight doctors that I’ve seen. I don’t really care for him as much as Tennant and Eccleston, probably because I took an extreme dislike to him in “Unearthly Child,” but to be fair, he has grown on me. I think, perhaps, it was sometime during “The Dalek Invasion of Earth” that I realized, all of a sudden, that I’d come to like him. Maybe because he was showing a more caring side, underneath all his outward grumpiness.
As for 2-8….Not there yet. It’ll be awhile until I get to most of them.
ooh, where are you watching? i’d like to see them all straight through, but i’ve only seen random episodes
Currently via Daily Motion. Up through the very first episode of Keys of Marinus, however, I watched on YouTube. On Daily Motion, just type in “[Serial Name] Part X”.
Oh, for the reconstructions of various lost episodes, the main DW uploader on there doesn’t have any. Try “[serial name] episode X.Y’, where X is the number of the eppy in the serial, Y the part of the eppy.
I agree that it can have some bad results, (turning british shows american) but there are some good ones too. (The Office CoughCOUGHCOUGH)
I LOVE BLACK BOOKS!!!!!!
Much sadness. Have you seen Spaced? It’s not exactly the same people but some of them overlap a little. It has Simon Pegg. And whatsername. Jessica Hynes.
Just thought I should mention it.
I just finished Season 3…no more ever.
Does anyone like Fringe? How about Bones?
Fringe I never got into….But then, I’ve only seen two episodes, ever.
Bones, I like–the first eppy I saw I didn’t care for–Bones annoyed me, for whatever reason, but then after I saw a couple more it grew on me and I went back and watched all the back episodes.
I’m thinking of getting into SeaQuest DSV, if only because my personal hero Robert Ballard was a consultant.
So I’ve been watching Glee. It’s very good. I can see why you might not like it, but before immediately dismissing it, please at least read my reasons why Glee is good.
1. Great actors/singers. The actors can all sing, dance, and act well, which is great. A lot of them have done Broadway, and they work really well together.
2. Great music. They do a good job of picking a variety of music: showtunes, classic rock, R&B, hip-hop, more recent pop. Basically, something for everyone. And the actors sing it all brilliantly.
3. The characters are intentionally one-dimensional. They’re supposed to be caricatures. And they’re great caricatures. They’re hilarious, and they help the show with its social commentary.
4. It’s supposed to be a parody. Yes, the plot lines are overdone. Yes, the dialogue is a bit goofy at times. Yes, the characters are 1-dimensional. But it’s exaggerated for a reason. It’s all social commentary on American high schools.
5. It’s just plain fun. No explanation needed.
BEING HUMAN
that is all
I just started watching merlin… *is addicted* There are way to many tv series in my life…
Oh, that one. I might watch it eventually. One of my friends really likes it. (How far are you in Buffy?)
Stuck on episode 16, as I’m banned from the rent’s computer ad infinidum (aparently, a computer crash always is my fault for surfing the wrong kinds of sites).
Oh… Sorry. Episode 16 is so good. And 17… *does not want to spoil anything*
Yup, I’ve seen it. It’s a brilliant show. One of my top three (Torchwood, Doctor Who, Merlin).
Has anybody seen “The End of Time” from Doctor Who?
Of course.
The question is “Has anybody not seen “The End Of Time” from Doctor Who?”
Of course.
Erm… *shifts uncomfortably*
It’s ok. There’s still time.
Well, first, you go watch “Rose” on YouTube. Then, you can continue with all the rest.
I would, except I’m the type of person who needs to know absolutely everything about it, and I know absolutely NOTHING about Doctor Who.
Well, you don’t need to know much to watch Rose. You learn as you go.
Ok, ok…I’ll try it. I’ll see. Doesn’t seem like my cup of tea based on the little I do know, but I suppose with all the hype going around it’s worth the shot.
Hey, if you find you don’t like it, nothing says you have to continue watching it….
I freakin’ love your avatar (and you, too, just so you know….And, no, that wasn’t weird at all). And, yes, of course I’ve seen End of Time. *sniffle* I already miss David Tennant.
Yeah. Me too. Though, to be honest, i miss Dr. Who in general as well…the new season should start to air soon…I hope….
Something I read said it was going to resume around Easter. Of course, I think that was Wikipedia, so who knows if it’s correct or not, but….still.
Um… the second trailer confirmed that it will be out on Easter.
I’ve not seen the second trailer. BBC’s website won’t let me watch it (since i’m not in the UK) and I keep forgetting to look it up on YouTube.
I guess we all know what I will be doing when I return from Spring Break late on the April 4th….
It doesn’t really include scenes from episodes. It’s a jumble of monsters in the Time Vortex, basically.
Yeah, I actually finally got around to remembering to YouTube it late last night. Between it and the other trailer–well, the other trailer, really, this one, as you say, didn’t have much, I think Matt Smith will probably be alright as the Doctor. I’m not totally “OMG, NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!” anymore, like I was when I first heard DT was leaving….
Yes. It was weird.
Is The Amazing Race considered geeky? I suppose it sort of is, but not really.
Anyhow, I really like it.
They get to do a lot of really cool things, and they get to travel to a lot of cool places too so you get to see a lot of the world when you watch it. A new season just started! The third episode comes out tonight!
Neil Gaiman is writing an episode for Season 6 of Dr. Who.
That is all.
*leaves*
Douglas Adams wrote for Classic Who.
Wait, Season 6?!!
Which season is that? Moffat’s calling the 2010 series “Season 31” and BBC is calling is “Series 1”.
POSOC would mean so-called series 2, then. We just finished Season 4 of New Who, and are about to start season 5 (which BBC is calling 1), and then some people consider it all one thing and add on the 26 seasons of Classic Who (making the upcoming one 31).
In fact, I believe elements Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency were based on a couple of his episodes (one of which was discarded).
Life, the Universe, and Everything was originally a Dr. Who script, actually.
Yeah, Krikkit was first created for a Doctor Who ep, i think it was called Doctor Who and the Krikketmen or something like that. And then parts of Dirk Gently were initially part of the unfinished Shada (bits of which were later shown in The Five Doctors).
Oh yes i am rapidly becoming a huge DW geek. This summer, my friend and i have the hugely ambitious goal of watching every episode, starting with An Unearthly Child (first doctor) and probably just going up to Rose (which is where we started watching all of them instead of just eps here and there). We probably will not finish before school starts again next year, but we’ll get as far as we can.
Matt Smith opinions, anyone? I am definitely warming up to him, after scouring youtube for all the clips i can find. Part of that is probably just that i am ridiculously excited for Easter. I’ve also been watching some of DT’s earlier stuff though, and have been reassured that he will be awesome no matter what he does.
Speaking of, one of the first shows he was in was one that i kind of fell in love with. It’s called Takin’ Back The Asylum, and it’s about an amateur DJ who runs a radio station in a mental hospital. Tennant makes an adorable manic depressive. Parts of it are SO SAD but it’s a good show.
PS re: seasons, i’m calling it season 31.
PPS Hello again, everyone, i am pretty much here to rant about Doctor Who as there are very few people i know in collegeland who watch it (major sadface). The wall of the chemical engineering building does have “Bad Wolf” graffitied on it, but unfortunately not by the chemical engineers i know. Also i am procrastinating on studying for finals and on the scary 10-page paper that is due monday (oh geeze i have a ten page paper due monday why am i on the internet)
I was excited for him as soon as I saw The End Of Time.
Hello, Ebeth! Always good to see you.
Hey, Ebeth! Long time no see! What up?
Not much, not much. Exams coming up :-! What’s new with you?
One more show i have neglected to mention and i can’t think why because it is extremely muserly – Qi. I think just about all of it is up on youtube, and it’s fantastic. It’s a quiz show with Stephen Fry in which the questions are really hard, and you lose extra points for giving answers that are generally considered true but are actually not, but you gain extra points for giving interesting facts.
I just saw Alice in Wonderland. See my review on the Movies thread.
I doubt you’ll finish. There’s 697 episodes, although 105 or so are only reconstructions (but so far, midway through season 3, there have been recons for all the missing eps). However, I applaud the goal, as I myself am working toward the same one.
As for Matt Smith: After watching a couple of trailers on YouTube, I’m feeling much better about him as the Doctor, although I’m still withholding any real judgment until I’ve seen a full ep with him. *squee* Can’t wait until Easter…..Although the return of Doctor Who will also mark the return of me from spring break, which is the week of March 29. I fly back to school on Easter Day. *sigh*
Seasons: Currently, I’m calling it Season 5, but that may change. Honestly, I really don’t care what people call it, although “Season 1” seems a bit dorky, to me. But, hey, whatever makes people happy.
Cue the numbering flame wars.
But seriously, I’m excited. It’s called “The House of Nothing.”
MST3K. Best. Show. Ever.
Have any MBers seen it? I’ve only seen a few episodes, but it is officially my favorite TV show of all time. There are several full episodes streaming on YouTube if you can’t find any DVDs. I recommend watching “Cave Dwellers” first, because I personally had spasms of laughter every 10 seconds while watching it. It’s not for everyone, but I’m almost certain it’s right up the MuseBlog’s alley.
i’ve seen a bit of it. it’s great, but for some reason it just doesn’t incite the same love. i don’t really go out of my way to watch it. i have no idea why, because it is indeed fantastic
But on second thought (sorry for double post :-!), doctor who was the same way at first, before the new who. loved it, just didn’t really bother much. so there’s hope?
I suppose, although the show’s off air now. STUPID NETWORK PEOPLE!
You know what would be shiny?
A Torchwood miniseries set during the Year That Never Was (Master’s occupation of Earth).
The Master mentions that he sent Jack’s “little gang” on a “wild goose chase in the Himalayas,” but no mention is made of the fate of Torchwood in The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords. What did Gwen, Ianto, Tosh and Owen do, stuck thousands of miles from home in the middle of an alien invasion, with very little equipment, no Hub, and no Jack?
I read a fanfic that was at least partially set during that time…….And that’s about all I remember.
Scary thought: a petrified forest could be hundreds of weeping angels. An army of them. If they can form statues, why not trees?
AGGHGHHHGHGHGHGHHHH NOOOO!!!!
Aha. You know, it actually couldn’t be, because trees don’t move. They just photosynthesize. And plus, they’d never be able move because they’d constantly be looking at eachother.
Oh, and P.S.: Did anyone else realize that if you stand in between two weeping angels looking at eachother and no one is looking at the one that you aren’t looking at, you’re dead? Because I think that happened after the Tardis diappeared, and Sally and whats-his-face weren’t transported into another time period.
That episode still gives me the creeps. I watched it last night again.
Well, if you stand between two people, they can still glimpse each other.
Is anyone else a little worried about the Weeping Angels’ return?
I mean, look at the Daleks. First few times they appeared (back in Classic Who), they were supposedly (I haven’t seen any of their Classic episodes yet) very scary, even with the horrible special effects they had back then. They were so popular they became iconic. Now look at them. They’ve been through the Revolving Door Afterlife so many times, and downgraded so much, that they’re no longer even scary, just silly.
Am I silly for wondering if the WeAns are going down the same road? “Blink” is mentioned by fans more often than any other single episode. It’s the classic example cited for Doctor Who nightmare fuel. But every time they appear, the threat they pose is going to have to be increased, and the writers will have to invent new ways of defeating them. I think Moffat is capable of keeping them scary, but what about other writers? Will popularity reduce them to lame, underwhelming moving statues?
POTENTIAL SPOILER WARNING DOCTOR WHO. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
Actually, yeah, I am a bit. I mean, the Weeping Angels were brilliant–that’s one of my favorite episode. But part of their brilliance was probably because it was unique, not something that keeps coming back again and again and again (when the Daleks appeared at the end of….season 4, I think it was? I burst out laughing maniacally in the middle of McDonalds–where I was watching it over lunch–because it was just a moment of “Of course. Of course it would be the Daleks.
“).
It’s like with movies: They get a good movie going (say, Lion King or Jaws or lots and lots of other movies), so they decide, hey, this movie was a big hit–let’s make a sequel. They make a sequel. The sequel sucks, but, hey, it’s got that “big name” so people go anyway, and then along comes another sequel and another and they just keep getting more and more ridiculous and stupid, but the producers just keep cashing in on the name…..
I’d rather a new alien threat, as opposed to recycling of the Weeping Angels, although I did love them the first time ’round. The Daleks are pwnsome, but they’ve just back again and again, midway Season 3 of Classic Who, and we are to the 5th Dalek-centric serial. A 12 part serial–that’s 6 hours of Daleks. At this point, midway through season 3, there’s probably been a good 24 hours of Dalek-sodes. it gets repetitive….
That said, I’m also a bit worried about the vampiric people in victorian dress. Vampires? Really? *headdesk*
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I think that the Daleks will be interesting in the WWII theme; the episode might not be all Dalek-centered. The smiler might be in that one… And SPOOOOOIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSreally do not read this you have been warned A LOT cybermentombawesomeSPOILERSPOILERSPOILER SPOILERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. All these spoilers are, in themselves, hinting at a spoiler. It’s ironic.
Daleks are basically armored octopus Nazis, so the Daleks fighting the Nazis ought to be interesting.
And thinking about WWII reminds me of The Empty Child, which reminds me of Jack Harkness.
I wonder if we’ll find out what happened to those two years of his memories… perhaps he traveled with the Doctor at an earlier point in his life (pre-Empty Child), but a later point in the Doctor’s life. Time travel is confusing.
Who says they will be against the Nazis?
There have been hints that Winston Churchill will be using them.
This is just a wondering- I wonder what (or if there will be) the ‘arc word’ will be?
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And they have British flags on their shells under the eye stalk. So one could potentially assume they’re associated with the Brits somehow, and the brits are against the Nazis…..
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I love the little British flag they’ve got under the eyestalk. Actually, what’s really funny, was when one of my FB friends from MB mistook it for a little pink bowtie.
well hey, a bow tie would definitely have been interesting! still need to write that semi-formal dalek party fanfic
still, british flags on daleks are quite intriguing…
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LET US WALTZ TO THE SYNCHRONIZED SCREAMS OF DYING INFERIOR RACES
*goes to GIMP to make a picture of that*
Oh, and I really hope Captain Jack makes a return to Doctor Who….
Vampires have appeared in Classic Who before. (Again, this is hearsay for me; I’ve never seen them) And it’s Venice.
Still, *headdesks with*
Really? I wonder when….*is currently in mid-season 3 of Classic Who*
Oh, my estimate was a bit off for the total number of hours of Dalek-sodes by mid Season 3. Including the 20th serial which I’m almost halfway through (and which has 12 parts, 9 of which are reconstructions), there have only been 16 hours of Dalek-sodes, not the 24 I estimated…..(I’ve never been very good at estimating things.
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Still. When my book of Doctor Who “Monsters” has an enormous section (I want to say probably about 50 pages, but given my estimation skills…..) devoted entirely to Daleks, you know there’s a caking lot of Dalek episodes. and then there’s the two TV movies based off of the first two Dalek serials, although with a few very minor exceptions, they’re identical. Or, the first one is, anyway, I’ve yet to watch the second.
It has a huge section on Cybermen, too. I guess they just keep on coming, as well…..Actually, it’s a bit interesting just how many of the aliens on the modern series were ripped straight from the old series….And some of the episodes remind me of earlier ones, as well.
Like the episode “Inside the Spaceship” early in Season 1 Classic Who reminds me a lot (except it wasn’t as interesting, in my opinion) of “Midnight” from Season 3 New Who. And then there were the Sensorites from Classic Who, who reminded me quite strongly of the Ood (according to the entry on Ood in my DW Monsters Guide, they are related)……Anyway. Yeah. Random observations.
Does Numb3rs count?
(No, of course I’m not addicted to it! Why would you even think that? :D)
There was an article in muse about it, so yes, it does.
Been watching House. he and monty would make a brilliant couple. i’m kind of obsessed with hugh laurie now (ok, kind of -more- obsessed with hugh laurie. but i mean come on. a bit of fry and laurie? jeeves and wooster? and now house? the man is brilliant. plus he plays piano)
i generally don’t like medical dramas. buuut this one’s awesome.
same with castle and crime shows, actually. i tend to prefer good characters over plottyness.
Oh my God. Lost is getting so much better lately. Is anyone else drooling over this show as much as I am?
The third season of Buffy is coming to Hulu on April 1st.
Let those fans who are too cheap to buy the DVDs rejoice. (Though I’ll be in Yosemite and won’t be at a computer for almost a week.)
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i am really having issues with this. five days!
god i don’t know how i’m going to get through work on sunday, knowing that DOCTOR WHO is out there and waiting for me on the intarwebz…
Well, it comes out on the 3rd, yeah? You could watch it Saturday night on line, and not have to worry about getting through work on Sunday thinking about it…..
Saturday night/the bulk of Sunday during the day is going to be flammy for me, despite the fact that it marks my return to school. I am: going to read at least 2 of my 9 new TW books on my plane trip (I read a TW and DW one last time, easy), listen to my TW audiobook on my iPod (2 1/2 hours, the battery should last, if not I’ll dig out my computer and finish it on it), and then when I get back to school….that’s right, watch DW.
Yayness. It’s going to be the most fun not fun trip of my life (even more so than the flight back after Christmas, which was flammy due to the one DW and one TW book).
It works to our advantage that England is 4 hours ahead of us, so they will have seen int by our 6:25, and hopefully, someone will upload it before the end of the night. Must… resist… spoilers… the trailers don’t count, though. A couple things seem to be being kept secret, like VG, in the newest one. But must… resist… TARDIS pictures…gah. 3 more days.
I have a bad feeling about the ninja Nazi, who for some reason reminds me of Jack. He couldn’t be…
In an interview, JB refused to reveal whether or not he was coming back. He said “Every time I say something, I get in trouble” So, I’m guessing he could be coming back.
*waits for happiness from Luna*
Four? How….Oh, right. They’ve not started DST yet, have they? So East Coast would be 4 hours earlier?
what really? i thought it came out sunday…o.O
No, pretty sure it’s Saturday the 3rd. Go check the BBC DW site (bbc dot co dot uk slash DoctorWho), that should say. And Wikipedia I think says the 3rd….I’m pretty certain on this.
77- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH You’re right, you’re right…I don’t know how I’m going to get through Saturday knowing that it is being watched by people everywhere in the UK and I’M NOT ONE OF THEM.
But in the meantime, I’m whiling away the hours with Carnivà le and Foyle’s War.
I recently purchased the Good Eats cookbook. It’s very large, and I’ve made seven of the recipes within. It’s the only TV show that I watch.
How has Chuck not made it on to here yet? Sure it’s not that geeky, but come on! CHUCK BARTOWSKI! Also Shaw. *has dreamy look in eyes*
Also, 24. Jack Bauer. Just… Jack Bauer. He freaking bites through jugulars. Jack caking Bauer. All hail.
oh man, it comes out SATURDAY! Perfect! I’ll be home for a sort-of easter which means i won’t have to take the bus back after work AND i will get to see it as soon as humanly possible (without actually being in England watching it on the teevees, that is). Anyone know what time it airs?
i had my sci-fi class today and we split up into groups of four to discuss the question of “what is science fiction.” so once we had our definition worked out, i was ever-so-subtly like “soo, anyone watch doctor who?” and evan (who lives in my building) was just like “i -knew- you were going to ask that…”
(nobody watched doctor who. but it was only a group of four, i hold out hope for the rest of the class :P)
i am so excited for that class. we are watching a bit of star trek! (see, geeky TV show relevance. that’s the only TV show though, most of the stuff is movie excerpts, books, or short stories)
“Do I just have a face that no one listens to?”
“There’s one thing you should know about me. I am a crazy man with a blue box.”
That was an hour of awesomeness. *awaits Saturday with impatience*
Yes. Yes it was.
How do you like the new TARDIS? It’s pretty crazy if you ask me. I mean, a typewriter, random little date machine, and a glass bauble controlling an incredibly advanced, amazingly important time machine? I lurve you, Mr. Moffat.
It’s stuffed full with little gadgets. The episode is very quotable, also.
“I’ve commandeered a vehicle.”
” Yeah, it’s cool. Bowties are cool.”
I dunno. I don’t dislike the new TARDIS interior, but it’s going to take a bit of getting used to.
Perhaps we should have a spoiler-alert thread and/or rule, seeing as it doesn’t legally come out in the US until next week and there are evidently a few good little law-abiding citizens in the world.
also because i want to freak out and discuss every tiny detail but i am scared to spoil things :-!
Good idea, Ebeth.
Musebloggers, please use a spoiler alert when commenting about the new Doctor Who season.
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There, that should be enough.
“Evil beans.”
Oh man that was amazing. I love Amy and the Doctor’s bouncyness and crazyness and his bowtie and yay yay yay.
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Oh, god, I know. That line had me laughing so hard…..
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That’s sad…
“Because I’m The Doctor” Best. Line. Ever. David Tenant does it better though. :/
“You’re Scottish, fry me something.”
Hehehehe the screwdriver is lying in a puddle of grape jelly!
I though she looked a little hot to be a police woman…
AGH A MAN WITH A DOG CAME THROUGH THE DOOR! *doggydoggydoggy ♥ *
Ew wait no. That’s weird. It’s one organism…
“Why did you say five minutes?!”
Hehehehe “Twelve years and four psychiatrists”
We could just have a DW thread, since this one will be taken over by it anyway.
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I really was surprised when I saw Prisoner Zero and the Atraxi. A whole army of flying creepy looking eyes.
It was sort of odd when the TARDIS just *made* a new screwdriver, but that’s probably how they are made.
Really, Doctor? The day before the wedding, and two years late again? I laughed when I saw Amy’s horde of little dolls though.
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SFTDP, but the recurring theme seems to have been introduced by Prisoner Zero. Silence is coming? Also, it has pointy teeth, so do the vampires and the angels.
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Yeah, I was hoping that the arc would would be “Follow Me” since that has appeared in lots of the trailers, without explanation. And, it sounds much cooler than “Silence is coming”
“Your screwdriver’s in here.”
“It must have rolled under the door.”
“And then just hopped up on the table.”
Ebeth: I’d say that the order is 4, 11, 10, 5, 9. But, I haven’t seen as much as you.
haha that is exactly the order we have <3 assuming you've listed from craziest to least crazy
Of course, 4 would never be considered not crazy.
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“Apples. All I can think about are apples.”
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“Phone. Now. Gimmee.”
A minute later,
“Hello! Laptop. Gimmee.”
I LOVE THE ANGELS! I was sooo happy when I saw them in the previews…
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and the crack was visible in that meter thing in the TARDIS at the end of the episode.
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Yeah, I noticed that. I was wondering if I was seeing things or if the unwavering line on the monitor was indeed the same shape as the crack in Amy’s room….But I guess I’m not seeing things. Which is good.
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And then, the Doctor pulls out his sonic screwdriver on it, and it isn’t just the screen that flashes, we see a sort of flash too. Hmm…
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I don’t like the green screwdriver. Has it ever been a color other than blue, does anyone know?
haha i thought the atraxi looked like big snowflakes. not particularly frightening, but then that wasn’t really the intention
there were so many great lines. i lovelovelove moffat oh so much. it’s nice to see some humor coming back to the show
i thought matt smith did a really good job! i was expecting to hate him (not necessarily because he replaced david tennant, just because the actor himself looked like a twit) but he got a haircut and did a really great job. it’s very easy to accept him being the doctor. bill and i already placed him on the crazy scale (of how crazy they are, not necessarily how good or how much we like them). he ranks between 10 and 4. crazier than 4, not as insane as 10. the only doctors ranked are 4, 5, 9, 10, and 11 though, as we haven’t seen enough of the others to judge (although they all seem fairly calm in comparison)
i am not sure about the weeping angels coming back. we’ll see. it looks like it’s going to be a two-parter, from the air dates. i’m excited for toby whithouse to write a vampire episode though, i -love- being human (the show, not the state of being…)
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The green screwdriver is really lame. Blue is POWER. Green is… meh.
But seriously, how AMAZING was that episode?
It was SICK.
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The music is sick too. There are a few themes from the last series.
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The music is like the best part! I absolutely loooovvvveeee it. What I would give to be in the orchestra that does that music…
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I would LOVE to be in that orchestra! I mean, combining my two favorite things: Doctor Who and French Horn!
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that should be “crazier than 10, not as crazy as 4”
nothing can touch tom baker’s insanity levels
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It took David Tennant 4 seasons to take his shirt off.
It took John Barrowman 4 episodes to take his shirt off.
It took Matt Smith 40 minutes to take his shirt off.
Who da man?!
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I wish it took David Tennant 40 minutes to take his shirt off…
Matt Smith is pretty beast though. I luuuurrveee David Tennant, but I really like Matt Smith too.
I like his bowtie.
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I’m counting from the very beginning of when he came on.
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I wish it took John Barrowman 40 seconds (or less) to take his shirt off.
And of all of ’em, Matt Smith is the one I’m least interested in seeing without his shirt….(That is, of JB, DT, and Matt Smith)
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WHY DO I NOT REMEMBER JOHN BARROWMAN TAKING HIS SHIRT OFF!?!?!?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY MIND!?!?!?!!?!
What episode was it, maybe I missed it?
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Season 1 of New Who, Episode 12, I believe. On the game show? You know, they use the defabricator on him (the robot ladies do), and he makes the comment that “Your viewing figures just went up, ladies.” He was actually completely nude when they shot that scene, with a camera conveniently blocking certain bits, so all we got to see was his upper body, but…..Still. Yum. And we see even more of him in Torchwood…..
I’m sorta waaaayyy behind on Who episodes; I’ve seen a lot, but not in the right order… I’ll Netflix it one of these days…
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhh need next Saturday…cannot wait…must…watch…more…
Re: Sonic screwdriver: I believe at one point it didn’t light up at all.
Re: TARDIS: I like.
Re: Matt Smith: I knew I was going to like him because I always end up liking the new Doctor. I miss David Tennant but…the Eleventh Doctor is still crazy and excited and properly mysterious so it’s all good.
His lateness made me sad. He’s always late. Sometimes I feel that as far as Time Lords go, the Doctor is actually fairly incompetent.
I really want to know who she was marrying.
Which brings us to…Amy Pond.
Oh dear, the plight of the companion…I can tell right now that it’s not going to be nearly as platonic as the Doctor and Donna. She’s been obsessed with him too long. She left on the night before her wedding to travel with him. She’s too young and pretty. Annnnnd she enjoying staring at him getting undressed FAR too much. If he doesn’t fall for her, she’ll definitely fall for him. River Song’s coming up though, and there’s something between them…So who knows. I have my fingers crossed there will no Amy/Doctor romance. I used to feel jealous on Rose’s behalf. Now I’m just sick of it.
Overall I am pleased, and I desperately wish there was more. I think I will grow to like the Eleventh Doctor just as much as the Tenth and Ninth Doctors.
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Haven’t you seen the trailers with Doctor/Amy relationship stuff?
Re: arc It is probably the cracks, as there’s a crack in the wall, mirror, and the TARDIS. And what is the paradoric?
Re: Rory, with his 1990 hospital badge and relationship with Amy and the Doctor. And then there’s that thing with Episode 7…
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I thought that Prisoner Zero said “The Pandora” will be opened. As in Pandora’s Box.
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Yeah, the Pandoric or the Pandora. It would be bad if the Doctor is causing the cracks, but that might not be it.
From wiki on Pandora’s box: “Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them.” Hmmm.
Also from wiki: “Pandora was an ancient female Time Lord that existed early in Gallifreyan history and was the first female President of her people.” Wow. This looks more likely; Pandora was imprisoned many times. And the finale’s synopsis mentions a puzzle box.
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Though, that same wiki said that the first episode of the finale was tentatively titled “The Pandorica Opens” and then “The Big Bang”.
Meh. I still the Follow Me would be a much better arc word.
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Yeah, but the Doctor says that, so it would have to be Doctor-related.
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i disagree. how is that an arc word? i mean…it means you follow whoever’s saying it. not much of a mystery, is it? pandora could be anything! there is adventure and excitement and really wild things!
Like Torchwood or Bad Wolf.
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I thought she was marrying Rory, but she denied their relationship in the beginnning, I remember. I wonder now…
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So, my thoughts:
Matt Smith did a far better job than I feared. That is to say, I thought he looked way too young and was terrified he’s cake it up horribly. I was quite pleasantly surprised, and while I still prefer David Tennant, I thoroughly enjoyed Smith’s performance on Eleventh Hour, and think we can expect good things from him in episodes to come.
Amy Pond, I actually found myself liking. I dunno why, but from the pics and stuff posted throughout the interwebs in weeks/months past, I wasn’t too keen on her. But I like her personality, and surprisingly don’t even mind her blatantly obvious interest in the Doctor (god, that scene where he was changing….So freakin’ hilarious. As was the scene with whats-his-name with the computer. You know, the guy who “needs to get a girlfriend”.
)
A couple of things I wasn’t so keen on:
The opening credits/closing credits. I don’t like the change to the opening theme music, it’s bugs me, having the new stuff before it hits the familiar theme song just…I dunno. I don’t like it. Even on the episodes from Classic Who I’ve watched, I’m pretty sure the music for the opening credits is virtually identical to that of Seasons 1-4 New Who.
Also, I’m not sure about the whole new wormhole things they’ve got going with the credits and the new logo. I did rather like the old reddish wormhole and the little oval Doctor Who banner.
And the TARDIS interior……I don’t dislike it, per se, I just suppose it’s going to take some adjusting to. I’m sure it’ll grow on me.
Of course, those are minor complaints, and I have high expectations for this series, now that it has been shown that Matt Smith isn’t going to be a total flop as the Doctor.
I also like Matt Smith more than I expected to, but he reminds me eerily (though pleasantly) of a long ago boyfriend, who when I knew him was only slightly younger than the new Doctor. That may take some getting used to. Fortunately, the resemblance was more pronounced before the change of costuming.
You know, it’s odd you mention that. In some of the shots (namely the slightly blurry, not very close up shots, I believe), he reminded me a bit of this guy I used to have a crush on about a decade ago (lol, yes, peoples, when I was about 10). Something about the hair, and the sort of dorky looking face…..It was odd.
Anybody willing to rip themselves away from the Time Lord long enough to talk about Buffy? Just discovered it and blew through Season 1 and three episodes of Season 2 in a month. Fell in love first with Angel, then with Spike. (Hey, I can’t resist a good British accent. Or, you know, fictional sadism and bad***ery, combined with sarcasm and one-liners in the aforementioned British accent.) Have spent the past month coming up with conspiracy theories about our fellow classmates, such as:
Friend: “Gaaaawd. Why do they like Hannah Montana so much? And whyyyy do they have to play her all the time?”
Me: “Because Miley Cyrus is actually a twisted sort of siren who does not lure sailors onto the rocks, but instead turns the brains of teenage girls into cotton candy. The only way to stop her would be to explode the center of her power, located in the park. Let’s blow it up at lunch.”
Or, Friend: “Look! There’s a circle of brighter green grass over there!”
Me: “HOLY CHEESECAKE! The witches have been here! We need to perform an exorcism, stat!“
Well, I guarantee you that speller would be able to rip herself away from DW and talk Buffy. Especially considering that she has only watched season 1 DW and has nothing to contribute to the spoilerific DW Season 5 conversation……
And I would potentially be willing to talk Buffy, as well. ((Spike is hot!
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*rips self away immediately* Yay for Buffy! Yay for Spike! So what do you think of it so far? Are you just through School Hard (which might be one of my favorite episodes ever)? Keep watching. Season 2 is awesome. It’s my personal favorite, actually.
<3 spike!
oh man the second half of season 2 is going to blow you away. it's the best part of the whole series, imho.
i will definitely talk buffy, but you'll have to remind me of what happened when. it's been a while and i don't want to spoil things :-/
Ahhh, the Eighth Doctor… Here I will air my grievances.
Let me start by saying: I like Paul McGann. I liked him as Lt. Bush, I liked him as Eugene Wrayburn, and it’s not his fault I don’t really like him as the Doctor. However, the script was terrible, and there was hardly any character development. He didn’t have a lot to work with. But it was such a bad script…and a bad plot, and bad acting. Although it’s hard to tell if the acting was actually bad or if the actors just were lacking direction/the ability to make anything out of the script. Or maybe they were faking accents? I’m never sure if American accents are actually being faked, or if they just sound fake, but something about a particular kind of American accent can turn all acting into something distracting and vaguely ludicrous.
Anyway, I wish Paul McGann had had more of a chance. I remain hopeful for the first seven Doctors (the one episode I saw the the First Doctor was good…the one with Tom Baker was not so good, but I cannot possibly imagine that’s Tom Baker’s fault. I was far too distracted by the green bubble-wrap insects to pay much attention to anything else really).
heehee the movie
i haven’t seen paul mcgann in anything else.
watch some five, i have great love for five. you probably have a better way to get the episodes than youtubing, but if not, the bbc put up a few classics on their channel in pretty good quality. only thing is since they’re the bbc they get to put up half hour vids instead of breaking it up and it has to buffer like every three seconds, at least on the school network
98.1– Right. Five. What’s a good episode to start with?
i really like the caves of androzani. although it’s his last one, so you’d be going backwards if you wanted to watch the rest of them
i’ve been watching a bit of fry and laurie! i’d seen some of the sketches before, but now i’ve got the full episodes.
i was sad though, i sent a control&tony sketch to a friend and he didn’t think it was funny. either i have a strange sense of humor or he just has none. his first thought was “…they’re so british” and the next was “there aren’t any jokes” and i was just like *facepalm*
america needs more good sketch comedy *sigh*
guys. guys. seriously guys. guess what?
ONLY THREE DAYS UNTIL THE NEXT DOCTOR WHO
it is so good to have a normal season
no more obnoxiously long waits! (for a while)
101- A week is too an obnoxiously long wait! I don’t really like being caught up, but I’m glad at least it’s weekly now.
101–I know! It’s absolutely bril!
102–I dunno. I actually sort of like being caught up, because there’s something cool (sort of) about watching it as it happens, and not after the fact…..
Wait, the next episode comes in England in a week?
The second episode of this season (1, 5, or 31, whatever you’re calling it) comes out this Saturday the 10th. The comments about weeks and this being short/long time to wait is just referring to the fact that they’re coming out in weekly increments, as of right this second, like a regular program, instead of just a handful of specials with months between…..
Atraxi = AWESOME!
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Could those scorpion things be Makra?
Re: Doctor Who
I want to see a Companion from the past. I think the Doctor’s been focusing far too much on one particular decade for the people who travel with him.
I understand that it’s traditional for it to be a mundane setting that the Doctor suddenly shows up in (which rules out the future, or other planets), but why not the 19th or 18th century?
In the Classic series, he has had (up through the middle of Season 2) Companions from various times. He had his own granddaughter, a couple of schoolteachers from early 1960s London (present, at the time), a young Companion from far in the future, who he picked up on an alien planet where she’d gotten stranded, a man from the future, and a young girl from the distant past–Troy, to be precise.
But, of course, that doesn’t help you for the New series….
Yeah, I’ve always wished that. I mean, it would be cool to have a companion from the Victorian age end up, say, in New York city today.
He had his Trojan companion who went with him into the future where they ended up fighting Daleks….She believed the whole thing to be some sort of elaborate quest that she had to survive to make it to the Underworld.
107- I was just talking about that the other day. Companions from various times, places, genders, and ages would be nice… I know he used to have all sots of different companions. He had a Victorian companion once. I read about her.
We really need a separate Doctor Who thread. I haven’t seen it *flees* but I hve a feeling it would be appreciated by the MB in general.
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Ohhhhh. Just watched “Beast Below”. And there was that crack again, right at the very end, on the Starship UK. It’s definitely going to be a recurring theme, innit? And to think…..When I first watched the original seasons, I never even picked up on recurring themes. Like, Bad Wolf, I never noticed until when they called attention to it. Nor did I really pay all that much attention to the repeated mentions of Torchwood, and I couldn’t even begin to say what may ahve been a recurring theme in Season 3 and 4, but now it’s definitely cracks. Undoubtedly.
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Me too! I really liked how they changed the rhyme at the end. According to one Doctor Who Wiki, it’s rumored that Tthe finale will involve:
A mysterious puzzle box (The universe?)
Prisoner Zero coming back… and the Doctor saving it’s life to learn something (The puzzle box?)
A love story that lasts millenia (Pandora?)
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Wait, why would Zero come back?
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Because en knew something about the Pandorica…
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And there were zeros at the beginning of the episode.
I ♥ the whale.
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There were? Oh, wait, duh, there were. The poor little boy who got a zero…
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Also the floor where he was deposited.
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Oh, I don’t think I noticed that bit.
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Why exactly do the Smilers have keys?
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The 666 hasn’t yet been resolved, and Scotland has been mentioned in both episodes.
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666? Luna is confused. When was that mentioned?
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666 and the darkness have been mentioned in various ways in Seasons 2-4. Watch Doctor Who the Darkness on youtube. In The End of Time the Doctor’s mother says in the church that a demon fell out of the sky. There is a black guy in the church.
“There was a goblin. Or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. Nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it – one day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world”
There is also the Doctor’s mother and the Ood.
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And, the last episode is rumored to be called “The Big Bang” (Referring to the video, especially the first part with the Beast.)
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What’s the 666? I mean, since Amy’s sounds Scottish, of course it’ll be mentioned. But when has 666 come up?
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i don’t think the scottish thing is significant to the story arc. the first time, it was because amy is scottish, and the second time was just sort of a joke. maybe i’ll turn out to be wrong, but i think they just like making fun of scotland. isn’t moffat scottish as well?
Just watched “The Beast Below”. T’ was awesome!
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I’m really starting to get scared of Rory. There are some interesting ideas around him, but the main one is the clip of him and the woman and man in the recent trailer. He look so vengeful.
Addressed to LUNA. There is a new Torchwood Story, Shrouded, featuring IANTO and JACK, written by David-Loyd. Just thought it would interest you.
*whimper* Gah, something else I want now! All the back issues of TW magazine, plus a subscription….Hmmm. Wonder if I could con my mother into that? I’m barely getting her to keep renewing Muse.
IANTOOO
do want. is it out now?
It will be tomorrow. Torchwood Magazine.
Anyone else see last night’s episode of Glee?
The first 20 minutes….
in a theater! the gateway is showing them on the big screen now every tuesday
*is extremely jealous* Although I actually watched it full screen in the Mac Lab (since my laptop wasn’t fixed and connected to the Internet until about 20 minutes ago), and the computers are pretty big. Still… So jealous. And I couldn’t watch it on TV because of leadership education.
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So… how about the message that Amy got right after her experience in the Voting Booth?
It was obviously from herself, or a future version of herself, pleading with her to “get the Doctor off this ship.” So how did it get into the Starship UK archives? (Time travel, obviously, but more specifically.) Why will Amy try (and fail) to change history so that the Doctor doesn’t affect Starship UK? Is there some really obvious explanation that I’ve missed?
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I dunno. That episode–the ending, at least–left me quite confused, to be honest. I figured I was just rather slow and that intelligent quick-minded people found it completely understandable.
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She recorded the message right after she saw learned the truth. She didn’t want the Doctor to have to make the choice of who to kill. And then she pressed the forget button. (Doctor says it in the end, and that’s why he would have sent her home)
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Oh. OH. oh. So it really was that simple. Huh.
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And the crack makes an appearance yet again–and is presumably somehow linked to Amy’s forgetting the Daleks. Although, at the same time….I have to question a smidge if she was even old enough at the time they came to Earth in Season 4 for her to remember them, anyways? She was just a wee thing when the Doctor first met her, and it’d been the better part of a year, at least, since the Dalek invasion. I mean, yeah, the Doctor travels in time and all, so it might not, in actuality, have been very long at all since the Daleks, but….I dunno.
Still, presumably has something to do with the crack, I suppose.
And I loved the flag-stamped Ironside version Daleks…..I want one so badly….I mean, I seriously want one. Badly. It would be so very flammy.
And the rainbow Daleks.
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I think that when he meets Amy as a little girl, it’s supposed to be 14 years ago. So, here’s the timeline, I think.
1996: (Hey! That’s the year I was born!) The Doctor meets Amy the first time.
2008: The events of the Eleventh Hour happen.
2010: The Doctor meets Amy before her wedding night.
There’s also an episode which takes place 5 years after Amy stopped traveling with the Doctor, so I’m guessing 2015.
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Ohhhhh. So the Daleks’ invasion that happened at the end of Series 4 is supposed to take place during Amy’s life before she meets him as a Kissogram but after she meets him as kid? Gotcha.
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Probably. I’m just guessing what year it was based on Rory’s phone in the Eleventh Hour. It looks like a 2008 model.
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Although (DO NOT READ IF YOU DON’T LIKE THEORIES), there is this rather interesting theory that Amy is from an AU. I like it better than everyone’s theories about the Doctor being in an AU, because that just doesn’t really fit….
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I think SPECULATION WARNING SPECULATION WARNING that the main villain my be the Meddling Monk. He’s good at messing with timelines.
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But SPECULATION WARNING SPECULATION WARNING has he even been around since early in Classic Who? No, wait, don’t answer that. I’m in the middle of the 12 part Dalek serial that’s got him in it, I don’t actually want to know if he comes back later in the series.
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So then Rory’s 1990 tag definitely does not fit in.
I liked this episode, there were lots of scary menacing Daleky moments.
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Rory’s tag was admitted to be a production mistake.
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Also, today on wiki the finale was labeled “Vengeance of the Daleks” and “The Silence of Time”. Probably not true, since its not there now.But, Cybus Cybermen [31][32]
The Ha’rik
The Timoreen
The Skarkish
Silent Menace[33] are confirmed enemies in Season 5. And they are not in episode descriptions.
The Trickster, The Valeyard, The Rani, The Beast or The Master may be the main villain of the series. (They all have the power to open a hole in time/space and all of them can be the silent menace) ((says the wiki))
It also says it might be in the death zone on Gallifrey and have a bunch of enemies.
And River might be in the finale too, it seems.
Gah, I don’t like all these rumors speculation stuff.
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AAAH WINSTON CHURCHILL
great episode
sorry i’m so late in the commenting, was busy watching 12 SOLID HOURS of sci-fi movies 
anyways, i loved the doktahfreakout. it’s nice to see from time to time that sometimes things really do frighten him. was getting a bit tired of the god complex, loveably doctoriffic though it is.
i like the “amy is from AU” theory, but my guess is the doktah messed something up and it must to be fixed. or something.
rainbow dalek opinions? i was not a fan
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The testimony part was awesome, yes. I was surprised to see the Daleks so early in the episode.
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Nah, I wasn’t too keen on the rainbow Daleks–or the iDaleks as I have seen them referred to.
I prefer the design from the rest of New Who, or, even, the Ironside design–I rather liked them, with their little cargo belt and little British flag stamped underneath the eye stalk.
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They are different, though they were made to match Pond’s size rather than Rose.
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*whimper* JB! Yum. *drool*
Er, um, sorry. yes, what were we talking about? Daleks. That’s it. I don’t mind their size, if we’re talking about the rainbow Daleks, still. I just thought the bright rainbow coloring was a bit too gaudy and unappealing. The Churchill Daleks that got annihilated by their rainbow relatives, I quite liked.
yeah, i really liked the sort of beat-up look. it was more in the spirit of little tin bits of junk in a very old-school, low-budget sort of way. the colors look like they were made to be sold with McDonald’s happy meals
I watched the first episode of the new season of Doctor Who today. While, as I am forced to conclude, Matt Smith is a good Doctor, I was not stopped from going, “What. The. Heck.” when he first appeared.
I really hope that Star Whales don;t turn out to be related to 456. That would be an awful contrast.
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Re: Daleks: I don’t like the rainbow ones. The color’s kind of tacky, and they’re just not as nicely shaped as the last ones. But oh well, things keep on changing, and I have pretty well tired of complainging about the changes. I like the TARDIS, the screwdriver, the Doctor, the companion, and I can deal with the colored Daleks just fine.
Like Ebeth said, I quite liked seeing the Doctor all scared and stuff. It makes him more identifiable or something–it’s just kind of fun to see him NOT being completely confident. That’s probably the thing I like best about the Daleks–they freak the Doctor out. Think back to Christopher Eccleston in Dalek–that was a completely different side of the Doctor. It’s his weak point–he hates them and is terrified of them and will wipe them out entirely if he can, whereas with most villains he gets really mad at them but doesn’t kill them ALL.
I guess I haven’t been keeping up with the latest Doctor Who speculation forums, ’cause I have no idea what you guys are talking about with the messed-up timeline and the AU and such like. I always assumed the Doctor just went back in time, y’know, to when Amy was little and “now” she’s old enough to be being married. Rory’s 1990 tag kind of threw me at the time, but I must admit I had forgotten it by now. And I guess it’s weird that she doesn’t remember….Ah, that’s where you’re getting the AU and messed-up-ness. But who’s saying that the Doctor’s in an alternate universe? That’s silly. I refuse to contemplate it.
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I never even noticed Rory’s 1990 badge. Did it actually get stated, or was it just a visual detail? Because “everyone” is calling attention to it, and for the life of me I don’t remember….
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It is a visual detail. Something is looking wrong with Rory.
Re: Daleks. I kind of like them. The orange, white, and red ones are fine, but the yellow and blue ones are too vibrant. At least they aren’t more completely gold ones. As for their design, the top part is a bit out of proportion to the rest, and they lack little detail things. Of course, they don;t need them, and these are supposed to be the purest Daleks.
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122.1- Visual detail. It showed a close up, which said 1990.
The Doctor Who forums are all abuzz with “The timeline’s fine!” “No it’s not!” “It’s all just production errors!” “It’s on purpose!!!!” “Space and time are broken!” “It’s just a production error!” ad infinitum.
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Ah, okay. That would explain why I didn’t pick up on it….I’ve notoriously bad at missing visual details and the like, and I shall use the excuse that when I watched it I’d just got back to school after having spent all day and most of the previous night on a plane/bus/in an airport….
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So, River Song will return in the next two episodes. It’s also true she’ll appear later (unknown when, probably the finale). This is from an interview. So. Opinions on her?
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I like her. She seems to know more than the Doctor, and I don’t know if I like that or not. She had a good performance in Silence/Forest though.
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I like companions who aren’t really companions, but know more (or equal) than the Doctor. I think that Journey’s End should have waited a season, and had some other finale four season 4, then, they make season 5 with the Lady Christine de Souza being the companion, and then the Doctor regenerates in the new Journey’s end.
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125- Lady Christina de Souza never struck me as a very well-developed or well-thought-out character, she was just one of those one-episode companions, and not a very good one at that.
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Stupid question….Was Lady Christina the one who was the cat burglar? Who was on the ep where they had the double decker bus?
that was lady christina, yes. the bus through the wormhole or whatever into the desert
Yes. She was.
CHUCK is extraordinarily geeky. [Link snipped. It’s easy enough to Google. –Admin.]
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Just watched Time of Angels. Not sure what to think, except that (seriously, not joking), for the past 5-10 minutes I’ve been sitting here digging at one of my eyes because I swear there’s something there.
But that aside (am I going to turn into an angel?), I think I preferred Blink, and I’m beginning to question what I think of this entire season as a whole. For whatever reason I almost feel like I preferred the last few seasons, and not because of the Doctor. I like this Doctor just fine. Matt Smith does a brilliant job, I guess I’m just not sure how I like the stories? *shrug* I dunno. I think it’s the usual “Michelle is never happy no matter what” because, really, that does describe me rather well, in general.
I do think I liked Blink better, however, maybe just because the angels were something new….Still, looking forward to the second half next week.
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It was not as scary as Blink. This is probably because it is only the first part; the trailer for Flesh and Stone looked really good. The angels have new powers, which is probably necessary, although I have no idea how they killed Scared Bob (Hah! Reference to the Daves.). And the cliffhanger was toned down from the usual ones, but it was stretched out well.
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Oh, yes, Flesh and Stone looked like it could be pretty good. As for Scared Bob, didn’t he say that the angel slit his (and the other two peoples’) throat? Speaking of Bob, the whole Angel speaking through his dead body with his voice thing reminded me quite a bit of the episodes where we last met River Song–when they were at the library with the Vashta Nerada, and those who had been killed by the Vashta Nerada lived on for a short while in their coms or whatever. You know, they continued speaking for a smidge….
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Yes, but how did they extract his brain and use it?
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Oh….I think he said something about how they harnessed the electrical energy of his cerebral cortex? I’m not sure they actually took the brain out, just somehow are manipulating it to still function in some capacity. *shrug*
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snapped his neck, actually. and yeah they didn’t extract his brain, they just revived his consciousness enough to communicate
so granted, i am still sort of in shock over it, but i am amazed that you found things to criticize. i thought it was SO BRILLIANT. of course i was very apprehensive going into this episode (blink was so amazing, it’s so early to bring back river song, etc) so i may have had lower standards. but i thought the angels were -really- well done – i was terrified of how moffat was going to bring them back. they had worked so well for a standalone sort of ep, and i didn’t see them becoming a recurring enemy. but they worked well, it was really scary and i don’t know -how- i can wait until next week
also it was great to see that the gun wasn’t being fired at a person…that was another sort of worrying thing
i LOVED amy and river’s little giggle moments about the doctor. he was such a mister grumpyface ^_^
i am a big fan of amy pond. i wasn’t sure about her at first, but she has proven well worthy of her position. and the more i see of matt smith, the more i enjoy his doctor. i just thought the whole thing was so fantastic and i could go on but i need to shower (yes that’s right, i watched doctor who smelling like…an extremely icky, sweaty person because i am THAT OBSESSED)
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Oh, snapped? Okay….I what verb was used, didn’t quite think it was that the angel slit their throats, but I couldn’t think of any other word that fit….
Yes, definitely seeing that the gun wasn’t aimed at a person (or alien) was good, although I wouldn’t have been quite so ZOMG had it been, as many people were after the previews. After all, in earlier years, from what I’ve seen, the Doctor was not the pacifist that CE and especially DT were…
And, yes, I enjoyed the River/Amy interactions, and Amy giggling over how River is (or so she believes, and I rather sort of suspect myself–actually, on that note, in End of Time the Doctor made the comment he got married….River Song, anyone?) the Doctor’s wife….It was much more enjoyable than, say, Rose and Sarah Jane in “School Reunion” where they were both being all snarky and jealous of the other….
And I definitely like Amy Pond, too.
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Yeah, River and Amy were great in this episode. I sense more Amy character development in the next episode. After all, she goes back to Rory sometime for Venice.
Is the crack going to be resolved next episode? The Doctor will now know of its existence, so maybe it is not the Arc Theme, being so obvious.
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I loved Pond’s facial expressions as she was trying to suss out the relationship between the Doctor and River Song.
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I really liked “Oh you’re all Mr. Grumpy face today”.
Another thing this episode resolved for me. What happens when you watch an angel on a video recorder? When it moves, can you see it moving? As it turns out, a picture of an angel becomes an angel. Which means…
That if you took all the bits of Blink, Time of Angels, and Flesh and Stone with the angels, you might get a real angel. 0.o
Or maybe someone has. O.O
Just a side note: Things Doctor Who has given me irrational fears of-
Little kids wearing gas masks
Traffic jams
Smoke
Teachers
Upgrades
Shakespeare’s poetry
Statues
Drums
Volcanoes
The dark
26 planets appearing in the sky
A crack in a wall
Vibrations
War secrets
My hand turning to stone.
Gee, thanks everyone who’s written for Doctor Who. I’ll go cower in a corner now, and hope none of those come to get me.
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I’ve always been afraid of the dark, myself. A holdover from my childhood terror of it, I suppose, but I can still get myself incredibly terrified when it’s dark….
As for cracks…um, oh, dear, there’s a crack in my wall here at school. Will the Doctor come rescue me from it?
Well, is it shaped correctly? Does it glow?
I’m afraid not. It’s vertical, right below my full length mirror, and it doesn’t glow at all….
Here is a question. Is the crack in the mirror at the end of Eleventh Hour a Crack? When Amy does up her hair on the phone?
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So. Now, as well as the fact that any statue could be a Weeping Angel, any picture could be a Weeping Angel.
Once, I saw a gargoyle that looked kind of like the gargoyle from the end of Blink in a rather odd position on the balcony of a house.
Doctor Who has given me an irrational fear of:
Ticking noises
Clips attached to people’s ears
Going into the principal’s office alone
Statues
Pictures and videos of statues
Creepy people at hamburger stands
My list is pretty short, because I haven’t watched enough Doctor Who yet. I expect it to get much, much longer…
Oh, some more for me:
Fat people with zippers on their foreheads
Television stealing my face
Upward rain
Weight loss pills
Deserts
Martian Water
Diamonds that fall to Earth
… and have I mentioned that I routinely do shadow checks?
I was rehearsing for a play today. The lighting was from several directions. I had two shadows. I did realize that it was because of the lights, but it still freaked me out.
Enc, you do realize that you have. A picture. Of a Weeping Angel. Do you know what happens to pictures of Weeping Angels?
I remember reading that Steven Moffat(who wrote “Silence in the Library, “Blink”, and now the new series) has a way of dealing with Doctor Who’s problem of making children hide behind the sofa:he makes them afraid of the shadows behind the sofa.
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Oh yes about the gun. I was so glad that it wasn’t fired at a person. And I agree. I thought Blink was brilliant but this was also brilliant. I don’t think it is worse than Blink but I don’t think it is better either as both are so brilliant and so is Amy Pond and so is River Song and why can’t I have the next episode now?
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Huh. I and my friend all thought it was scarier than Blink because in Blink the doctor wasn’t there and so the people who were scared were humans, not time lords and in this one the Doctor is here and the Doctor is scared. Also Amy Pond is awesome and amazing and I loved her winking strategy and when she paused the tv set.
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Oh, yes, the winking strategy. I was very pleased to see that they implemented the strategy that I determined long ago (like, when I was watching Blink) that I would use to keep my eyes moist whilst not actually blinking….
BLONKING
anybody read doctor why? it’s a LJ community (that is sadly on hiatus right now) that makes comics that make fun of doctor who. i’ve linked it on facebook a couple times
Angel! Spike! *faints with joy*
I’m on s2ep11, moving slowy but surely through Buffy. Eager to see “Surprise”– I’ve heard great things!
oh man oh man
things are going to get EPIC
make sure you have a lot of time because you do -not- want to have to wait to see the next ep in this bit
Angel and Spike are very faint-worthy. (I think you’re at about the same part as one of my friends. He just finished What’s My Line.) Yes, watch Surprise. And then watch Innocence right after. It’s a two-parter, and trust me, you will want to see both parts. It’s epic.
Kayz!
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I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m really not satisfied with Xander and Cordy being a couple. They seem… incredibly mismatched in every way. Even if their first kiss did make me do nothing but laugh incredibly hard for about ten minutes straight.
I know a very little about what’ll happen in Season 2, since Wikipedia unfortunately has no spoiler warning. But I want to see it sooon! Must… get… through… Bad Eggs… *runs off to moon over Spike/Angel*
i’m really unsatisfied with xander. in general. i base just hate him. sortof spoilier sortof spoiler sortof spoiler he turns into SUCH a tool. but even before that he was annoying
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Hmm… I like Xander/Cordy. They just had good chemistry. I actually liked them a lot more than Xander’s next pairing…
all of xander’s pairings gave me bitter anger. he didn’t deserve any of them.
You really hate Xander, don’t you? I actually liked Xander/Cordy… Xander/Anya was fine until he decided not to marry her AT THEIR WEDDING! That was just bad. (I mean, it’s Joss Whedon. They can’t be happy, but that was too much. Especially in the middle of s6.)
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anya is SO far above xander. so was cordy, by the time they started dating. and willow? poorpoor willow. xander’s just an ass
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Xander/Willow just bugged me. I mean, why would Willow cheat on OZ with XANDER? I mean, Oz was awesome. Plus, then it turned out that Willow was gay, so it doesn’t even make sense… As for Anya, I have the same reaction. I loved her as a character, but I was neutral about her with Xander. Negative about her and Xander after season 6. Still, Xander has good moments. He’s not one of the two characters that I actively dislike.
what are the two?
Riley and Kennedy. I was pegging for them to die. Neither did.
oh fair enough. riley was awful, i hated him too
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OOOOOZZZZZ…
*cries*
He was my FAVOURITE of EVERYONE
Spike was my favorite, but yeah, I loved Oz. “Ice is cool. It’s like water but it’s not.”
Oz!!!!!!!! The monkey cracker mocks you with his monkey pants! *already knows most of spoilers* *hugs Oz anyway*
I finally started watching Doctor Who last night. I just finished watching the sixth episode, where the Dalek has an appearance. EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
OHMANOHMANOHMAN!!
TIME OF ANGELS WAS TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!
Indeed. I need to watch it again.
Okay for everyone who doesn’t watch Dr. Who or like me can’t for whatever reasons:
Has anyone else been watching the new series Into the Universe with Stephan Hawking?
I am right now, it is all so fascinating
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OH MY GOD LIGHTNING SPACE SQUID!
Eeeeeeeee hehehe *love*
Also I keep meaning to draw up a diagram of what I picture them to be like. I should do that, and send it in.
*Giant space squid, that is. My version, not his.
Did anyone here hear about how DW got interrupted by a sitcom ad in the climax of the BBC’s airing of the season finale?
Sorry, that was a horribly-put-together sentence…
yeah, it wasn’t really interrupted so much as there was a little animated bar near the bottom of the screen. but i guess cartoon graham norton was like, right on matt smith’s face in the shot where he’s holding out the gun. liv ended up getting that version, actually. i fortunately got a different video which did not have that. but there were a lot of brits being angry in my twitter feed.
It was broadcasted everywhere except Northern England and BBC HD. The actual clip is on youtube, and even thought it is 3 seconds long, it interrupts his trap line. And right when the credits air, there is a full ad for over the rainbow. Why interrupt the cliffhanger of Doctor Who when its in the credits? Bad marketing.
or wait…sitcom? finale?
did they cake this up TWICE?
*facepalm*
I heard about it, but it’s what American programs do often. So, BBC did do a very bad job.
Oh, yeah, put 24 on the list, Cat’s Eye is right! Didn’t you see him freaking bite out that dude’s throat in season 3? I’ve been watching all the seasons at a rate of one per 2 weeks, and have watched seasons 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8. I still have to watch seasons 1 and 7, and am in the middle of season 3.
Jack: Mr. Witness?
Witness: Yes?
Jack: BANG, BANG!
Witness: *dies*
Jack: Get me a hacksaw.
George Mason: W-w-ohmygod.
Repeated lines:
Jack: Just DO IT, Chloe!
Chloe: I’m on it, Jack.
Jack: Oh, son of a – BOOM!!!
Sigh. The 18 inch Voice Command Dalek is very expensive in the US. $200? A bit much, even though the Dalek is really cool.
Have I mentioned that I WANT THAT DALEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because I do.
((Buy it through Amazon UK, and you’ll save a good $70–it’s only 80 GBP, ab out $122, so tack on any shipping charges–usually not that much, and it’d be about $130 tops))
OHHHHHHHH MY GOD I WATCHED SURPRISE AND THE BEGINNING OF INNOCENCE.
OHHHHHHHH MY GOD.
That’s all I have to say.
I know, right? Awesomest plot twist ever.
Ah! Amy’s Choice is going to be Creeeeeeepy. Very much so.
Blackadder, anyone?
YESYES. Blackadder is hilarious! I have extremely vague memories of watching it as a small child, but in recent years, I have only seen season…three. I think. The Regency one. I was going to start from the beginning, but I really wanted to see the dictionary episode.
I’m on Season Two now!
And I played that game someone was talking about the other day, where you fly with the Doctor in the TARDIS, and he said I was amazing and he’d come pick me up sometime!!!!
*squees*
I <3 Doctor Who!!!!
Yayayayayayayayayayayay! Convert! yay! *is happy if you didn’t notice*
And it was me, by the way, who was talking about it.
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I’m watching Victory of the Daleks. Whaddafail. “Dalek soldier” is the biggest oxymoron ever.
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How so? Daleks *are* soldiers.
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Dalek soldier, as in a soldier for humans… Never gonna happen.
Ah, my thoughts aren’t quite lucid today, are they…?
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Can I squee with somebody about New Angel? I don’t know if it’s just me, but he seems so much cooler than Old Angel. Maybe it’s the loss of the puppydog look. Or the fact that villains get the best one-liners. Or the being of Spike and New Angel hanging out together. Squee!!!
Also Oz. I have so far stolen three of his cooler lines to say in real life. Mainly the “Hi.” “Hey, that’s what I was going to say!” one. He is my idol.
Yay!!!
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Heck yes. I kept wanting Angel to be evil again. He’s so boring when he’s all soul-having… Of course, Spike and Angel rarely actually get along, even when they are on the same side… But yes, Angelus is good.
Okay, so I just spent like ten minutes trying to find Oz’s Halloween costume from s4. I think I’m in love with him now.
I know, right? I also loved Anya’s costume. (Of course, you haven’t met Anya yet…)
What was it? I forget.
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a bunny
Anya’s or Oz’s?
I meant Oz’s, but I think I figured it out from Jadestone’s comment.
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I did, for our drama club halloween party. Also because it’s a rather large inside joke with all of my friends/acquaintances/many confused strangers that I am God.
Oz was always my favorite ♥
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Awwww. Oz and Willow. I liked him before he was a werewolf and I like him now that he is one. He and Willow are so very cute.
Speaking of buffy, i won’t link it but logo has a survey type thing up. you can find the link on whedonesque. pick the top ten buffy eps, and the top 30 that people pick will be aired on the teevees
Just for fun here is my list (i am not entirely satisfied with it, but it was extremely difficult…)
1. Innocence (2×14)
2. Hush (4×10)
3. Becoming: Part 2 (2×22)
4. Once More, With Feeling (6×07)
5. I Only Have Eyes For You (2×19)
6. Lovers Walk (3×08)
7. Fool For Love (5×07)
8. Never Leave Me (7×09)
9. Tabula Rasa (6×08)
10. Halloween (2×06)
Ebeth – I Only Have Eyes For You as number 5? I thought it was good, obviously, but not super memorable… (Of course, I think I watched 5 episodes the day I watched that one… Including BBB and Passion.)
Here’s my list:
1. Once More With Feeling (s6)
2. Lovers Walk (s3)
3. Innocence (s2)
4. Becoming, Part 2 (s2)
5. Hush (s4)
6. Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered (s2)
7. Halloween (s2)
8. Tabula Rasa (s6)
9. Fool for Love (s5)
10. Grave (s6)
see i thought about putting both BBB and Passion on the list, actually…but BBB i thought was fun but just not quite top 10 material. passion was hard to leave off. i only have eyes for you…i don’t know, it just stuck with me. i thought it was a really fascinating way to play with angel/buffy and angel’s whole inner turmoil (angel vs angelus).
you have lovers walk at 2
i love that ep, and i even think it should be a bit higher on my list. but i don’t know what it would bump down! it’s all difficult and stuff. *grumpyface* but yesss, that is a win ep.
i didn’t even think to put grave on there! that was a good one…
I loved BBB… It was hilarious… And the Xander/Dru moment is one of the best moments in all of Buffy. Passion was good, but it was far too depressing…
I loved Lovers Walk… It had everything I like… It was great. Plus, it was the only Spike one in that season.
Grave really stuck with me… It was just so heartbreaking… I was crying pretty much the whole time.
So while we’re at it, what is everyone’s *least* favorite Buffy ep? Mine would definitely be Seeing Red…
Which is the one with shirtless Oz again
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Oh. Wow. Although, I do think I’ve pinpointed what it is that occasionally bugs me about this new season. It’s too complicated for me to follow….As in, I feel really slow all the time. Yeah. Anyway. Wow.
So, 26/6/2010, Amy’s scheduled wedding, whatever happens that day is what set all the unwriting of history into motion? So….She’s supposed to marry him, or not supposed to marry him? Which is it that royally cakes up the universe? Guess we’ll find out soon, huh…..
The Doctor is incredibly slow, though. I mean, I got what Amy was saying the first (maybe the second) time that the Doctor was like “Yes….no.” And, wow, Amy seriously throwing herself at the Doctor. ’twas utterly hilarious, but I rather hope they don’t really go that way. The Doctor/Amy relationship they had on the last two eps was okay, bit of sexual tension and flirting, but no “zomg Doctor I need you now and am going to totally throw myself at you” stuff.
The next ep looks to be interesting, despite the vampires (bit anti-vampire since the book that shall not be named). Of course, that reminds me. Next weeks ep is going to be the last ep that I get to watch for probably a good month. Yeah….Next weeks ep I can watch, but the ep that’s on the 15th, I’ll be in NE shadowing food production and staying in the vet’s house, probably not the best to go semi-legally streaming DW, even if I am allowed to use his internet. And the 22nd, as well, will find me still in NE. It won’t be until the 29th that I’ll be somewhere (my sis’ graduation) where I can hopefully catch some DW. Perchance I’ll watch 3 eps over those couple of days….I think the motel has wifi….
Anyway. Yeah. That’s going to suck. 3 weeks without Doctor Who. *sniffle*
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Oh, something I meant to say and forgot: Is the Doctor supposed to be the man she killed?
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that’s one theory, and the most obvious answer. don’t worry about the next episode, it’s by toby whithouse, creator of Being Human. The vamps will be legit
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Random factoid that I came across, that really doesn’t need the warning, but whatever. The Forest on the space ship was apparently filme din the Forest of Dean. Interesting, because, well, the Forest of Dean is where Harry saw the doe patronus sent by Severus Snape, which led him to the sword of Gryffindor. Wonder if that scene will a) take place in the movie, b) be filmed there. Because if so, I’ll probably be thinking that we’ll have angel statues pop out at any moment…..
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So, did we really see the angels move? We must have. That’s not how it’s supposed to be. STEPHEN MOFFAT, WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?
Luna, where did you find Flesh and Stone online?
If you’ve not yet found it, you can find it by googling “watch series”, first hit, it’s got links there now.
Thanks!
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That was SO awesome!!
It was funny, really scary when the angels started moving and the crack, creepy, and brilliant.
River Song: Her timeline so far is Pandorica, Angels, Library. The Doctor’s is Library, Angels, Pandorica. So. They are moving in opposite directions.
6/26/10 is the finale as well as the wedding day.
3 mentions of series 2: Rose Tyler, the angels being sucked into the crack like Daleks, and something I can’t remember.
On relationships: I don’t actually mind things going on between Amy and the Doctor. It probably won’t continue because of Rory. But next episode Amy leaves for 5 years. Is married to Rory. That… skips the explosion date?
Re: Vampires. This looks nothing like twilight. At all. Nazi vampires with swords! The Doctor has a light stick somehow.
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Hang on. Wait.
Rose was mentioned? And, yeah, that scene with the angels was reminiscent of that scene at the end of Season 2.
Another mention of the past, series….oh, cake, 3 or 4. Four, I think, episode The Next Doctor. he made a comment about Giant cyberman in Victorian London and no one remembering in the future, thus an example of rewriting history.
Oh, no the vamps look totally different, I agree. And they should be pwnsome, I think.
153 – it’s on the bbc website if you know how to use a proxy to get a UK ip address, I watched it on justin.tv… if you google for it you should find it fairly easily.
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Did you notice that the day for Amy’s wedding is the day of the season finale, assuming the episodes don’t get delayed?
Also, for some reason I feel like the vampires aren’t simply vampires. Dunno why – I think there was some comment like that?
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Oh, jeebus, no, I didn’t pick up on that at all. Damn. I bet they did that on purpose. Damn. I feel slow again.
The Doctor said something about, but are you sure they’re vampires? Or something along those lines. There was definitely a comment made indicating they were something different than they appeared.
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If they’re not vampires, then what are they?
I think Amy says that in response to the Doctor.
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aliens.
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No kissing the Doctor Amy, you’re supposed to be chums! I dunno if you’re supposed to marry Rory either but you know. And those “vampires” in Venice had teeth suspiciously like Prisoner Zero’s. And I liked what River Song said about life being like a story and does she kill the Doctor at the Pandora time thingie?
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Oh, wow. I didn’t even register the fact that the teeth on the vamps does look quite a bit like those on Prisoner Zero….
As for River Song, yes, her reaction does leave me wondering if it was the Doctor she killed. (And it’s Pandorica, by the way, according to the BBC website.)
Random factlet: In order to catch up on the spoiler comments that I made a point of NOT reading when I got home yesterday, I just now did a Ctrl+F search on this page for “Doctor Who.” The Chrome search bar informed me that were 755 — yes, that is a seven — instances of the phrase on this page. Of course, most of those come from spoiler warnings, but still….
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). Anyway, anyway, I like River Song a lot better now.
Hum, I dunno. Dunno. I wasn’t really a huge fan of this appearance of the angels. It sort of contradicted everything that was said in Blink, and I liked Blink a lot better. In this one, the angels never sent anyone through time. Or at least it didn’t mention that. The angels don’t KILL people, they displace them! Gr.
So. River is going to kill the Doctor. Or not, because history can be rewritten. But at this point she kills him. I’m pretty sure things won’t work out that way though, because they make WAY too much money of Doctor Who to kill the Doctor (whenever there’s a premonition of death, that’s the thought I comfort myself with–ahh commercialization, how I love thee.
I like Amy a lot better too. Something about her falling for the Doctor, but not in a Rose-or-Martha-esque way at all. And the Doctor being like whoa, whoa, this is ridiculous, which I think is an appropriate reaction for once in his life. And the fact that he takes Rory–I like it when there’s a little more variety in his companions.
Matt Smith is gaining a lot more individual personality. For a while he seemed like a Tenth-Doctor knock-off with a different face and voice, but there’s more to him now. He lacks a lot of the Tenth Doctor’s capacity for pity (“I’m sorry. I am so so sorry” etc.) and clearly has a much shorter temper–he’s kind of freaked out on people a couple of times. Yay!
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Matt Smith and Karen Gillan have been enlisted for Season 6. River may be a companion in Season 6. Therefore, she might kill him (regenerate him) at the end of Season 6.
Ooh! That means the Christmas Special, which is written by Moffat, will have Amy! And not some random companion! Awesome.
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nonononono. it didn’t contradict -anything- in blink. Blink was a few lost, weakened angels – far from home, and hungry. They needed to zap people back in time to feed off their potential life. These angels are strong, a freaking army of them, and they’re being well fed by the huge space/time crack that supplies them with all the time energy they need. They’re not interested in -food- they’re interested in something else. Straight-up killing makes more sense for them in this situation. they don’t -need- to displace anyone, and they’re looking to achieve a goal, for which they had to get through River and the Doctor and the clerics. The best way to do that seemed to be to freak them out, pick them off one by one so some are dead and the rest are terrified. And it was evident even in Blink that the doctor doesn’t really know as much about the Angels as you would think (“No one quite knows where they came from, but they’re as old as the Universe, or very nearly”), so i can totally buy that they have hidden powers and secrets.
Also i’ve said this before, but i’ll say it again because why not – i didn’t ever think smith was a tenth-doctor knock-off. I thought there was a bit of him that was Doctor and a bit of him that was unique, the way it’s been throughout the whole series and the way it should be. Tennant himself took a lot from earlier doctors, especially Five. Eleven is a more alien doctor, which i think is great. LOVED his reaction to amy.
Also before people start complaining about amy being all up on the doctor, because i’ve seen this happening elsewhere on the intarwebz – Amy is NOT Rose or Martha. There is something wrong with her, or she is key to something. Everything in this arc is revolving around her, and my theory is that something is trying to get to the Doctor -through- her. I don’t think she is in love with the Doctor at all.
Some of that was explained in part one, I’m pretty sure.
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I had mixed feeling about this episode. I loved the Angels’ new abilities, but didn’t like seeing them move (WHAT WERE YOU THINKING STEPHEN MOFFAT???) or the lack of mention of their time displacement powers. (The Doctor did once say “That’s not how they kill you. They displace you in time…” or something along those lines, but it never actually happened to anyone.)
It did seem too me as though River did kill the Doctor, but i suppose history will be altered so that this doesn’t happen. Although, its possible that River does kill the Doctor, just not in this series…
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158.2- Oh. Duh. OK. I still thought the time displacement was possibly the coolest thing to appear on Doctor Who, and I wish they’d had more of it.
Also, the reason I thought the whole situation with Amy was tolerable was because she ISN’T in love with the Doctor. And I’m so so relieved that I don’t even care.
Please, please tell me someone else watched Into the Universe with Stephan Hawking. Because no one I know does, even though everyone keeps saying they will at some point and I really really really want to have discussions about it, because it is absolutely fascinating and I feel like I was bron far, far too soon, because no one I know cares.
161- Shoot, I missed it? I’ll have to watch a rerun…
I’ve watched a few clips and it looks fascinating, but I don’t have a functioning TV.
Hearing that some people here like it, I’ve started to watch firefly. Nine episodes later, I think that this might have been a bad decision.
Well, it’s not for everyone. The mid-to-later episodes are better, but you should be well into those by now.
I’m curious why it took you this long to figure out you didn’t like it, though.
I could be wrong, but I think she meant it was a bad idea to start watching it because she realized it is addictive and is now 9 episodes into it, presumably in a very short space of time. A space of time in which she could, instead, have gotten something more productive done….
But I’m not her, so I can’t say what she actually meant.
That’s what I assumed too… You know, the same reason that my friend’s mom wasn’t too psyched about Doctor Who…
Great…everyone keeps talking about it, and now I feel the need to watch it too. I already have a super-long list of things that I want to watch/read/write fanfiction for, etc. It’ll take me years to get though it all and I keep on adding more stuff. And now Firefly is on there.
Luna’s right XD. SPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERS I love River *kept thinking “Jane is a girl’s name” the whole time when he was a jerk* especially, followed by the Simon/Kaylee and Mal/Inara ‘ships.
I’ve been debating watching that… How inappropriate is it?
firefly? hardly at all. there are jokes about inara being a companion (sort of like a geisha) and the infamous “i’ll be in my bunk” but it’s really not that bad. plus when it happens, it’s -funny.- Plus it’s just an awesome show in general. I’m wearing my “Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal” shirt right now
lol, I’d “heard” (as in, read) the “I’ll be in my bunk” phrase about a zillion times before, but had no idea what it was quoted from. So when I was watching that particular ep yesterday and all of sudden “I’ll be in my bunk”, I burst out laughing so hard I had to stop and pause the ep….
Oh yeah, that sort of thing happened to me too when I first watched Firefly.
Does anybody know the Star Trek TNG episode where
WesduckWesley falls over into a table? I need to find it a loop it.No idea, but there are many loops of Picard’s line to him: “You don’t deserve to wear that uniform,” in First Duty.
One of my friends calls it “Wesduck’s epic fall”
I am a Doctor Who fanatic!!!!!!
And I introduced you to it.
I just watched “Hush.” One of the best Buffy episodes I’ve seen in a long time… perfectly balances heartwarming, hilarious, and insanely creepy. (Last night I checked twice to make sure I could still talk.)
Oh, yes, that was an absolutely incredible episode. I remember finding it extremely good, being how it was very unique for any TV episode….
Most of the time, the “unique” demonic monsters are kind of silly to me. Not so the Gentlemen. I found them genuinely terrifying. The utter silence, the silver grins, the exaggerated politeness, the way they move without touching the ground, the contrast between their psychotic calm and the mute flailing of their straitjacketed servants… and especially the way you can’t scream for help. They’re not quite equal to the Weeping Angels, but they come darn close.
Yes. One of the best Buffy episodes of all time. Just the whole thing was amazing. How when you hear that they need 7, you think they’ll just take 7 of whatever they need and be done, but instead they take everyone’s voice. It’s amazing.
And then you find out that what they need seven of is HEARTS. AAAAGH
And it was so FUNNY, too. Giles’s exposition-slideshow is a goldmine of visual humor. The crude stick figures, Anya’s popcorn, Buffy’s outraged “I’m not that fat” gesture, Willow’s excited hand-raising and obvious frustration when she realizes she can’t answer, and of course the joke I’m probably not allowed to mention on the blog.
The joke? You mean some mimings of stuff that looked like something entirely different than what they were supposed to represent? That was hilarious….
Yes, that joke.
And at least one other. Whedon’s said he was surprised some of the stuff in Hush got past the censors…
hush is SO GREAT. i love that ep. it is terrifying and funny at the same time. no idea how that works.
I think it’s because the major concept of the episode (everyone losing their voices at the same time) has massive potential to be both hilarious and scary. Whedon milked it for both.
As far as the hilarity goes… well, I mentioned it in an above reply- the amusing misunderstandings are legion, and some of them are not safe for Blog. A special note to the man selling Message Boards for $10, just two hours after Sunnydale went silent. It just seems so awesomely C.M.O.T Dibbler.
On the other hand, the Gentlemen, terrifying as they are, are incidental to the horror. There are all sorts of things, seen only in passing, that are just as freaky if you stop to think about them. The crashed car, the fights breaking out over nothing, the man sitting in the middle of the street looking at the pavement, the fact that all the stores are closed (except the liquor stores, with people going in and out non-stop). It shows how dependent we are on verbal communication, and how the town is slowly breaking down without it.
What scared me about Tara’s flight wasn’t the monster opening the door with a beating heart in its hand. The frightening part is that monsters are closing in on a girl, in a public place, only she can’t call for help except by knocking on people’s doors… and since that’s what heralds the arrival of the Gentlemen anyway, everyone’s too scared to answer.
“Can’t call to mom.
Can’t say a word.
You’re gonna die screaming
but you won’t be heard…”
*RUNS AWAY*
*shivers*
man now i want to watch that episode again.
I am pretty sure that the only two Doctor Who fanatics in my school are me and one other student.
Extremely scarey.
Hush was a fantastic episode. I too liked the Gentlemen, they were satisfyingly creepy, unlike most of the monsters on the show (I love it despite that, of course).
What’s a good episode to start watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer?
The beginning. A bit unfortunate, but true. The first season is not the most exciting by far, but it gives you the background that you need for the EPICness that is season 2 (and beyond)
Uh, the first one? that’s usually the best place…..
Yeah, you really have to start at the beginning. The rest won’t make sense otherwise.
guess who’s gonna get to see a shadowcast showing of once more, with feeling?
been wanting to see that ever since i heard of their existence
Really? I hate you.
I really can’t wait until Vampires In Venice comes out.
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Oh, I liked that one. I mean, it started (or, very near the beginning, anyway), with the Doctor popping out of a freaking cake, and not only did I realize I’d fallen for another Doctor (because, wow, he was so adorably cute and hot–which, before Smith took over as Doctor, I never thought I’d think, as I thought he looked seriously dorky), but, wow, his comments, and the way all the guys at the stag party were just looking at him in stunned silence, contemplating tearing him to pieces. ’twas epic.
And the “vampires” were fun, and the ominous note it ended on–the fish lady having said that they fled from the silence, the silence that came with the cracks, and then, as they’re getting ready to leave Venice: The Silence.
And then the next-time trailer (which, unfortunately, I won’t get to see for 3 weeks, or possibly more, since I’m going to be shadowing a veterinarian in NE for 2 weeks, and it probably would be better if, even if I can use his internet, I don’t go semi-illegally watching TV on his internet connection. *sigh* But, on the bright side, the motel where I’ll be staying the last weekend in May at my sis’ graduation has free wifi.
I can watch the 3 eps I will have missed then.) looks absolutely briliant. “You can call me the Dream Lord.” and the village that time forgot (why does that phrase sound hauntingly familiar?), which is presumably Amy’s village, which reminds me of all the speculations I’ve heard that she’s from a different dimension, or just somehow separate somehow…..Which would fit in with her being from the village that tiem forgot. And then the Dream Lord saying that “If you die in the dream world, you’ll wake up in the real world.” Cue flash back to my dream of a few weeks ago when I dreamt the yellow Dalek killed me, causing me to wake up in the real world. And then the “If you die in the real world….” Rory: “What happens if you die in the real world?” DL: “You’re die, obviously.” Or whatever. It was freaking hilarious!!!!!!
My only quarrel with this ep, is the whole somewhat bumbling idiot fiance tag along Rory is highly reminiscent of the few eps in Season 2 with the bumbling idiot (ex)boyfriend Mickey tag along.
Other than that, though, I really rather liked this ep. And I’ve officially decided that Matt Smith is hot.
Oh, I also liked where the Doctor whipped out what he thought was psychic paper, and there’s a card (his library card, apparently) that’s got a picture of his earliest incarnation. ’twas amusing.
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ViV was awesome. And I can’t wait to see Rory with long hair.
The Dream Lord seems very creepy. If I like his appearance, I think he should appear later.
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His appearance isn’t all that great, if you mean physically, as opposed to creeptastically speaking. However, I am pretty sure he is played by the actor who did the voice for Dobby, which is cool an a random unrelated note.
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I meant if I like how he acts, and stuff, rather than how he looks.
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Ah. In that case, I’m thinking he will probably be pretty great. It looked like it would be, him and all the rest. I loved that line where he said “[if you die in the real world] you die, idiot.”
Or whatever exactly the line was….
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“You die, stupid, that’s why it’s called reality.” Stop misquoting!
Why is this guy doing this? Dunno, but it is cool in a freaky way.
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To be fair, I acknowledged the fact that my quote was more of a paraphrase of the actual line, since I didn’t remember it word for word….
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That was awesomeness again.
People are starting to die! 3 people died this time on screen. With 2 suicides. And creepiness/sadness.
And a keyhole. It zooms in on a keyhole. Keys.
Big fish/shrimp things. Didn’t Rosanna’s head look like Prisoner Zero?
This episode was actually 48 minutes long! 7 extra minutes!
The humor in this one was really good, as usual. When the Doctor started bending Amy and Rory’s heads…
Amy’s Choice:
The Dream Lord looks seems to be this murderous meddling Auditor. Who is scary.
Dead TARDIS and Earth in one world? But danger in the other? Death in both worlds? They both seem equally scary, creepy, deadly, and fragile.
Yay, we get more Rory. Who is better than Mickey, cause he’s actually appreciated.
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oh man that was great. space fish! i’m really excited for next week’s, it looks brilliant
rory is no mickey. i was scared of that at first, but he actually -tries.- and he wanted to go along. mickey was just like “wah wah i’m mickey i can’t do anything rose stay with me i’m scared of everything”
Advisory to those who went to Watch Series for Doctor Who — my anti-virus software detected a trojan on every page I clicked on the site. It never had a problem before.
I don’t watch them on watch series, I found another really cool website to watch them on.
Rebecca- Would that mean I might have a virus? How would I get rid of it? What if I just watched it on the web and didn’t download anything?
Somebody else could answer that better than I can. I let the software take care of it.
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I really liked that part where The Doctor goes “Tell me the whole plan!” The vampires hiss, and he goes, “One day that’s going to work.”
I also liked when The Doctor burst out of the cake and said, “Oh, their you are, Rory. I was afraid I’d burst out of the wrong cake. Again.” Overall, it was a pretty good episode. I can’t wait till next week.
Also, could anyone tell me how scary “Fear Her” is? I’m about to watch it, so…
Fear Her isn’t very scary, it’s more suspenseful.
Is Fear Her the one with the kid whose drawings come to life?
I just watched that on…. Tuesday. Not very scary at all.
*watches Smith and Jones, wondering if I will be able to finish watching it today because today will be busy* *hates busy weekends*
Fear Her is just sort of adorable
In my opinion, it’s only the Moffat episodes, and “Midnight” that you should be worried about.
Yes. I’ve started noticing a pattern in Doctor Who episodes. The ones that completely and utterly terrified me(Silence in the Library, and Blink) were written by Steven Moffat. And now he’s writing for the series full-time. we’re doomed. (By a strange coincidence, I also loved those two.)
And now, I’m sorry, but… Gah! That angel in your avatar is getting closer!
Oh dear. I’ve tried to change it.
Now it’s all black.
But of course that’s the Vashta Nerada, isn’t it?
Or the angel escaped.
*is suddenly inspired*
POSOC, do you still use the Gimp?
Dad switches operating systems every few weeks, so my having or not having the GIMP is usually intermittent. And I never quite learned how.
There are lots of good online tutorials, available as links from wikipedia.
oxlin, try downloading AVira antivirus – it does a scan every day at 12:00 noon. You can also use your Windows firewalls and defense systems to do scans. If you have a Macintosh, you have nothing to worry about – Macs don’t get viruses. They’re cool that way.
They may not get viruses, but they are susceptible to some trojans–which is what Lady B mentioned her AV software detected.
There may be fewer risks for Mac users, but Macs aren’t immune. Any browser has vulnerabilities that malware can exploit.
What is a good mac antivirus software?
Yay! Another person added to the DW fan base.
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Have I lost my love for Doctor Who? It can’t be, it can’t! I like Matt Smith. I like Amy a lot. I love Stephen Moffat! So what’s my problem?
Maybe it’s something about being caught up. Ever since I got caught up I’ve felt that something was lacking. Something of the pull. It’s because I can only watch one episode a week—I mentally prepare to have to go without it and so I become detached–because if I actually got attached I would wander around in a Doctor Who daze constantly and forever. Or possibly, the episodes just haven’t been revolutionary enough. Or something.
On the bright side, I’m pleased Rory’s coming along. And the Silence is creepy. Eep. And the next episode looks AMAZING. OH MY GOD. AHHHHHH. Like, that could be the episode that gets me intrigued again.
I SAW 5 WEEPING ANGEIS!!! And guess what? ALL OF THE ANGELS WERE IN THE SAME YARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was also a … CRACK!!!!!!!!! IN THE SAME YARD AS THE ANGELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was with him. It was very scary.
In the middle school cafeteria, on one of the columns, there’s a correctly shaped crack.
Perhaps the Whoniverse is leaking into ours! *happy*
Of course, everything in the Whoniverse wants to kill you. *still happy anyway*
…right. You’re happy in the face of death. Whoop-de-do.
The thought of the Whoniverse leaking into ours is both delightful and terrifying.
Better than being sad in the face of death. Then my end is even more depressing than need be.
I know, I know. That’s my view on it, too.
My real life friends are slightly scared of me.
Are you sure you’re not a duplicate of me, raised for an experiment to see if it’s nature or nurture?
No, you’re the duplicate, because I’m six days older.
That reminds me of my friend K, she was looking over my shoulder when I was looking at the Boston Kokonvention pictures one time. She pointed at a picture that had you in it and was like “Fireh, you look tall in that picture.” (I’m STILL 5 feet tall exactly, have been for over a year.) and I looked and saw that she was pointing at you in the picture. It took me…I dunno, five minutes to control my laughter to the point that I could explain that it wasn’t me, and the person in question was a boy.
XD WIN.
I haven’t got many pics of you, so that hasn’t happened to me yet.
We need to Kokon. I don’t know how. But we need to.
Yeah, we really need to kokon. XD
And then we can blow up the world with holy hand grenades.
Just kidding.
Or am I?
Yeah, and that’ll attract the Doctor’s attention long enough for us to travel with him!
And then we can wreak havoc upon the entire universe!
Well, that’s one way to do it. I was thinking the Donna Noble tactic of go wherever there’s trouble and eventually you’ll run in with him… And the more passive (but easier) method of waiting for the TARDIS to materialize on the street corner.
!!! I have an idea! I will build a blue box, put it on a street corner downtown, and…do something. I could get some friends and do a role-play…we could have villains and the Doctor and a companion or two, and we could have a vague script and have it all planned out…running around frantically–it would be mostly improv but we’d have a goal and a few rules…it would basically be a public spectacle for the benefit of any DW fans (granted, most of them would be involved) and it could attract the Doctor’s attention. ‘Who’s impersonating me?”, that sort of thing.
Alice~oooh, that would be lots and lots and lots and lots of fun.
*is sad that she won’t be able to watch DW for TWO WEEKS*
A college student I know got together with some of her buddies and built a life-size cardboard TARDIS as a going-away present for a friend. It looks rather spectacular in the dorm room (in an undisclosed location).
*whimper* *whimper whimper whimper* That would be so utterly flamablamablous. I wish I had a life-size cardboard TARDIS in my dorm room. *makes mental note that she wanted to make one this summer*
One person I know has a friend who made a lifesize TARDIS, put it against a background painted with stars, and then made a console room. I need that.
*makes note to ask roommate about having a TARDIS next year* We’re already going to have flying pigs in our room…
SFTDP
It’s completely terrifying, but it’s so so exciting
There’ll be galaxies, planets and moooooooons!
And an awful lot of running to do!
Oh, yes. I love that song.
Let’s just say, while watching the first couple of episodes of Doctor Who, starting with Rose, with Alpaca and my sister, I had multiple moments of breaking into song randomly and them getting mad because they couldn’t hear over my singing. XD
(I’m on Season… Three? But they insisted on me watching with them.)
*the Doctor sticks head out of door, waves bomb* “Run for your life!”
Me: *bursts into song* “He looked out and said to me, run for your life!”
My sister: SHUT UP!
When Pseudonym and I watched the first episode together, we spent like an half an hour repeating “Nice to meet you, Rose… Now run for your life!” at each other and laughing.
Last weekend I was at a sleepover, and I tried to convince the girl I was sleeping over with to watch The Vampires of Venice with me, and she said yes. (She’s just cool like that.) Then about halfway through her dad went to the Grocery store and her two-year old little sister came into the room and started to watch it with us.
She was saying things like “Oooh, it scary,” and things like that, but she was actually laughing at it through the whole thing. And after it was over she started crying when her dad said she couldn’t watch anymore because it was to scary.
It was amazazing.
Yup!
Joss Whedon-directed Glee with NPH next week! *is excited* I have to say that at the end of the trailer where NPH says “and neither will yous”, it reminds me a lot of Dr. Horrible.
SO EXCITED
i’m watching at the gateway. that’s right, big screen
i love that he and schu are rivals. i hope NPH crushes him
…in song, that is
VIOLENCE IS WRONG, KIDS
(but seriously, go NPH)
In song? But it’s a brand new day, and Schu’s gonna die! (Come on. You *know* that violence is always the answer.)
I agree. I liked Schu before he made out with the entire cast of Wicked… Plus, can’t let Dr. Horrible get beaten.
*is so excited* *will have to watch it on my little computer screen* Unless I can convince my friends to watch it with me Tuesday night, because they’re all HUGE Joss Whedon fans even if they don’t like Glee…
NPH stands for…? I saw the trailer but I FORGOT!
WHAT I hit PREVIEW not COMMENT you stupid computer
Never mind, I guess I hit comment. Anyway, I was going to add…What’s wrong with Schu?
NPH is neil patrick harris. schuster is a little weed who doesn’t know what he wants
Bwuh?
he annoys me SO MUCH. every single issue in his life is his fault. it took him -forever- to realize his wife was crazy and divorce her (he can be forgiven for marrying her in the first place, but really, after a while…). But even that is sort of okay, because he thought he still loved her blah blah, but then he’s cheating, and cheaters are just bastards, even thought-cheaters. he yells at his wife for keeping secrets (which, i mean, she’s crazy) but this whole time he’s been hiding his thing for emma because he’s not man enough to admit he doesn’t love his wife, and then when they’re divorced it is all “OHAI SEXIN’ TIME” but emma doesn’t want to, which is perfectly legit that early in the relationship (if you could even call it that, at that point), so he gets all self-pitying and grabs at all this credit for being a great guy because he makes it seem like some huuuge sacrifice, when really, he’s just kind of a manwhore. honestly. And then it’s like “waaah i’m unfulfilled let’s make out with idina menzel” which is sort of understandable because, i mean, idina menzel, who -wouldn’t- make out with her if she showed up on your doorstep. And then the whole kristin chenowith thing, that’s just more of the self-pitying drama “oh look at me i’m such a great guy i’m making her sleep on the couch even though she really wants to have sex with me isn’t that SO forbearing”
UGH. *breathes* thank god emma stood up for herself for once. i haven’t seen the newest ep yet, but i sincerely hope he was taken down a few pegs.
Re: Glee – apparently joss has stated in an interview or something that nobody is going to die. i find this both oddly depressing and really fantastic that this was an actual question. (i am also a little depressed that nobody is dying, just because…like…it’s joss.)
Yeah, but Glee? Dead people? Eh… He joked that he was going to kill Figgins. And I love how he stated that he wasn’t killing anyone “You know how many people die? ALL OF THEM. You know how many I’ve killed? Statistically, somewhat fewer.”
What does make me sad is that he said that there will be no OMWF or Dr. Horrible in the ep,.. Because there are some of those songs that I could definitely see Glee doing. (In particular, I could see Kurt singing Under Your Spell.)
I love Kurt. I was so glad that he got TWO SINGING SOLOS! last episode. *glee*
Okay, that was so not intentional. I promise.
i feel like NPH -and- doctor horrible in the same ep would be overkill. plus doctor horrible songs are mostly pretty specific. kurt singing under your spell would be FANTASTIC though, i’m really sad that is not happening. maybe they will be smart and throw it in for some later ep
Yeah, it probably would… I read the thing about no OMWF or Dr. Horrible before it was confirmed that NPH would be in the ep… But I really hope that they can use OMWF in some later ep.
uggghh now i have to go watch it again. see what you do to me speller? making me watch awesome musical episodes of awesome shows for the bajillionth time…tsk tsk.
i’m under your spelll/how else could it be/anyone would notice me?/it’s magic i can teellll/how you’ve set me free/brought me out so easily/you make me compleeettteee
(i might be mixing up verses there, i don’t really remember)
Because OMWF is the best 50 minutes of TV ever.
I saw a world enchanted, spirits and charms in the air…
i always took for granted, i was the only one there
But your power shone brighter than any I’d known! I’m under your spell. Nothing I can do. You just took my soul with you. You worked your charm so well. Finally I knew. Everything I dreamed was true. You make me complete… (What? Of course, I don’t have all the lyrics to all the songs in OMWF memorized…)
NO SPOILERS I REALLY WANT TO WATCH OMWF BUT I’M STILL ON SEASON 4
Check whedonesque for an interview with Joss Whedon about his episode of Glee (him fangirling over brittany=cutest thing evar)
Oh, yes. It was on the Glee FB page… <3s joss.
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Oh my god. So good. I cried when Amy decided to suicide. And the whole doctor self-loathing thing was well done.
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Finally finishing up Buffy, after not being able to watch the last season all year cause of classes and stuff.
Halfway through season six, Buffy/Spike is aww. I love Spike *drools*
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Spike is awesome. And Spuffy is awesome if messed up. (I mean, in s6, she’s pretty much just using him and then… bad stuff happens. It gets better, though.) So do you love s6 or hate it? Most people tend to be one or the other.
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WAAAAAAAAAHHHH. That’s my reaction.
This episode is certainly the equal to Blink. Ponderous, dark, confusing, and not everybody lives. And a new monster that could certainly return.
And scary.
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Ahhhhh so good! It was the first episode where I’ve been actually glued to the screen and actually emotionally attached. And there being two dreams was an AMAZING plot twist. Yay.
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Yesssssss. Emotional episode! Really sad with Rory’s death and Amy deciding what to do! More deaths than last time, things are starting to become more dangerous. The Dream Lord was a good acting performance. I really like the etherealness of Leadworth.
Yay! It’s done it! This last episode of DW has actually caught my interest again. I find myself vaguely thinking about DW in the back of my mind, the way I sometimes do with Hamlet or JS&MN, and I can’t even comprehend waiting another week to watch the next one. YES! I am obsessed again!
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i actually wasn’t as impressed with this one as the rest of the series. that’s not at all to say i wasn’t impressed, i thought it was fantastic and in any other season it would have easily been one of the best episodes. it just wasn’t as gripping as the others, possibly because it was obvious (i thought) that the village was a dream (although the end twist of them both being dreams was brilliant, but i think it could have been played up more), and partly because i watched it a day late while completely exhausted. still, i absolutely adore amy and i still am really impressed with matt smith’s doctor, he was very convincing. i love how amy is in the center of the whole dynamic between the characters, and i like rory in the clueless bf category a LOT more than mickey. rory is actually endearing, where mickey was just annoying and clingy. i think this episode basically gave us a much better look into each of the characters, which was really great, but maybe wasn’t quite as compelling a story as the others. still, brilliant though.
who is RIDICULOUSLY excited for glee tomorrow? (answer: me) <3 <3 <3 NPH
also the songs he is singing oh man it should be EPIC. piano man by billy joel and dream on by aerosmith
Eee! They’re singing Piano Man!?
Yeah, pretty much.
PIANO MAN?!
-A
Glee + Joss Whedon = EPIC YAY.
Ah, Piano Man…I saw Billy Joel perform that when he was still playing high-school auditoriums.
This is a fact that both achieves and exceeds the bounds of awesome. How was it? And when? Was it in a high-school auditorium?
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A high-school auditorium somewhere around Charlotte, North Carolina. It was flamablamablous. One of my best ever concert experiences (Maybe 2nd after Bowie.). He said to the audience at the beginning, “you’re paying my rent, so I owe you a good performance.” And he paid in full. Wow. Amazing energy.
This was in the mid-1970s. No one I knew at college had heard of him unless I hummed a few bars of “Piano Man.” “Oh, yeah, that guy. Whatever happened to him?” I tried to convert my roommate with no luck until she went to a Beach Boys concert at which Billy Joel was the lead-in. Yes, the Beach Boys. Though I suppose that seemed a lot weirder then, long before “Uptown Girl” and the like.
(“Turnstiles” and the other albums of that era remain my favorites. “Summer, Highland Falls” is probably my favorite to play. My senior art exhibit included a portrait of him (mostly in phthalocyanine green) called “Angry Young Man.”)
Hm. Phthalocyanine green doesn’t seem to me like an angry color.
I think I was aiming for something that would reflect the mocking viewpoint of the song, not anger per se. (I ended up with a lot of it on my face due to scratching with the brush handle, not realizing there was a gob of paint on it till I caught sight of myself in the restroom mirror.)
I suspected.
i am SO JEALOUS. that sounds completely flamablamablous
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” a love that lasts thousands of years…” The crack could be two people holding hands.
When was that?
It’s in “The Pandorica Opens” episode description.
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oh my god.
not only NPH (who was gorgeous and wonderful and oh god i love him)
but idina menzel/lea michele duet of i dreamed a dream? FANTASTIC.
By the way, I massively envy anyone who’s already seen Glee. We had caking leadership education while it was broadcast… And I was actually planning to watch this on TV! I had actually make plans to watch it with my (future) roommate! (Those plans have now been moved to a pajama party tomorrow morning.)
Why do I have the distinct impression that this episode is going to be sad, though? I mean, Safety Dance is nice and happy. Safety Dance from a guy who’s wheelchair bound is a bit… less happy. Also, I have a feeling we’re going to get Jossed (because that’s what Joss does).
Can i just throw out there how validated i feel by the latest big bang theory? specifically the quote “TOS over TNG, but picard over kirk.” i have uttered those EXACT WORDS many a time, and now i find i would pass sheldon’s first barrier! woo! and this kid in band STILL will not admit that TOS is better than TNG because quote “they didn’t give any arguments and i’ve been watching star trek longer than you”
trekkies can be really obnoxious sometimes. like when we had the spock vs data debate (spock is SO MUCH BETTER what is he even on about) he started insulting me in klingon and was all “see i know more than you” and i was like “yes because a thorough knowledge of klingon has SO much to do with data and spock, whut?”
aaanyway. just thought i’d mention how thoroughly awesome i am. sheldon and i would totally be bffs
Ahh! I’m right up to the episode where Anya appears (please don’t spoil it for me!) and I’m really excited about her but I have to write the stupid french book report and spanish homework and my mom won’t let me stay up unless I’m working on them. *excitement*
Meh. Spike is better than Anya. And Spike’s in the ep before Anya. Although Anya’s pretty cool in that ep.
Yes, that Spike ep was cool, but I was so afraid
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that Cordy was dead (she kinda grows on you). And I feel so sorry for Oz, though Zan/Wil is pretty cool.
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xander/willow was NOT cool. i am SO not okay with xander/willow. SERIOUSLY. it’s an issue. xander’s a massive toolbag, and willow is cool.
i actually think as far as characters go, i like anya better than spike. she’s certainly funnier. spike is just funny as well as being really really really gorgeous
also spoilerspoiler i don’t remember when this happens so i can’t say the season but best not read if you haven’t finished the show spoiler spike/anya was SO GREAT
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Xander/Willow was perhaps my least favorite pairing on that show… (Willow/Kennedy was bad too, though. Hated Kennedy.) Willow deserves better than Xander (and she’s gay although she wasn’t at that point), and it broke up 2 pairings I really liked!
Spike/Anya was funny, but I very much liked Buffy/Spike, so I didn’t love it… Plus, it was at that really depressing part of s6. And I like Spike best out of the characters… I never actually loved Anya. I mean, I like her enough, but she was mostly just funny. And I liked Cordy better than her.
I just watched the first few episodes of Invader Zim. ♥
Heh. Gathering ideas on what won’t work for world-domination plots?
Whoaaaaa. There are some unresolved things in the Series 5 Coming Soon trailer.
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All right, from the beginning. First, a cyberman picking a cyberhead off the ground, in a tomb place. Then, Stonehenge with River. (TPO/BB)
The Doctor with a mirror running and looking behind him. Now what do mirrors do? Things with perception filters can not be seen in mirrors, since your mind does not generate something to fill the gap. It looks like a village, could be anywhere.
Kid and Silurian and Amy. (HE/CB)
Soldiers. Soldiers in red at night. Van Gogh? Maybe?
The Doctor with sonic in a yellow lit clearly alien room. Most likely TPO/BB.
A corner with yellow lit area. This could be the same room as the Cyberman room.
Amy in HE.
3 horses. Probably Van Gogh.
People clips! Van gogh, okay. Nasreen, okay. Dream Lord, Vincent. Rory and Nasreen and the other guy, okay. Liz 10. The guy from the Lodger. Roassana. Churchill(!). The old guy played by Nye. Who could he be? Museums?
Then, Van Gogh with chair and being thrown backwards. Castle area.
The LIGHT scene. I always thought this was Angels, but Nooooo. There are 3 lights, the doctor on a rock thing. A soldier is to the left. A guy in blue is to the left. Other unseen things on the other sides. Probably the Pandorica opening scene, which means the soldiers from before in the finale.
3 cybermen. Amy with ropes on the ground, then behind glass.
Soooooo. The cyberman tomb, the soldiers, the light scene, and Amy on the ground are all in the finale, judging by the looks of the different clips, and the clothings. Yay!
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And The Doctor is holding River’s book in the light scene.
There’s also a clip with Amy listening against a door, and then a sword gets stabbed through, and she shrieks. Might be Hungry Earth/ Cold Blood, in Silurian territory.
Nay, cause swords = soldiers.
There are soldiers Cold Blood, the Silurian ones, but I’m guessing it will be in Vincent and the Doctor.
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Aww, that’s so cute! The creepy vampire girl has the same name as me! (Isabella)
I love Amy’s scared expression, the one with her mouth closed, but her eyes open wide.
what are peoples’ opinions about bones? i keep hearing about how funny and great it is, but idk crime shows aren’t generally my thing. thoughts?
i like bones, my self.
I finished Buffy (finally) and am now starting Dr. Who. Whee!
It is not quite summer yet, but i am initiating my summer project now. All of doctor who. Every single available episode. I’m getting season 1 as we speak. My goal is to make it through tom baker by the end of the summer. we’ll see how it goes.
i’ve also been told i should start watching doctor who confidential, so i may start doing that :-/
No one has commented on Hungry Earth yet? Not yet?
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I am happy that the trend of awesome has continued. This episode was more menacing and introductory, similar to the first 2-parter. I like the parallellness of the Doctor in the Next Time trailer compared to the Angels next time…
Lots of unanswered questions, like Amy + Rory in the future, Amy’s ring, why they landed in the wrong place. It has a tense warlike feel, and the Doctor takes it all very seriously. The cliffhanger- Amy to be vivisected, a whole ton of Silurians, the green poison… (Tvtropes’ entry on Amy’s cliffhanger led me to the horrible Body Horror page… do not go there. Really do not.) And in Cold Blood, we get the first real alien civilization of the series! With war! And lots of Silurians, who are awesome.
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i honestly just want part two. i haaaate having to wait for the two-parters. but i can’t bring myself to go a whole week without it to watch them together.
Same. I liked it when they were all on one disc and I only had to wait for as long as it took me to navigate to the next episode.
Okay so again, it is not -quite- summer, but i have started watching classic who from the beginning and OMG. i had never seen the first ep before, it is just one nerdgasm after another. they find the TARDIS, the sonic screwdriver comes out, they go back in time, the parts have names like THE CAVE OF SKULLS and THE FOREST OF FEAR it is all so fantastic. i have only seen clips of the first doctor, i was expecting to be like “ehh, weird old man, boring” but he is actually wonderful and snarktastic.
there are SO MANY EPISODES. it’s one thing to read it on wikipedia, it’s another to see them laid out before you. but it will be an adventure
WHERE DO YOU FIND THEM??? MUST KNOW. I need more ways to fritter away my valuable homework time…
I heard somewhere that if you google “watch doctor who online,” about the third link down (the one with “doctorwho” and “episodes” in the site name), you can get them *shifty eyes*
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Daily Motion/YouTube. Up through the end of the First Doctor (i’ve only got a couple mor eps) you can even get all the reconstructed eps, too. Many are probably fan recons rather than official, but they’ve got stills and the audio track, so….It works.
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i’m being naughty and downloading them but they are certainly available online
Woah. What happened to the upper comments?
Alright, did anyone see that Lost finale!?
Ok… I must admit…. I know nothing, and I mean nothing about Doctor Who…. Will someone please enlighten me?
It is the longest running sci-fi show ever, with 764 episodes. it began in 1963 and is about a time lord called the doctor who travels through space/time in his ship, called the TARDIS, which is shaped like a police box because the chameleon circuit broke. he fights some recurring monsters like the daleks and the cybermen, and he usually has a companion with him, generally a human, who travels around with him. the show ended, and in the 80s a TV movie was made. the series was revived in 2005 by russell t davies and the cast and crew are now almost all people who grew up watching the show as kids, which i think is just so cool. william hartnell played the first doctor, and he was super old and wanted to retire, so they created the concept of regeneration to allow the show to continue. so every so often the doctor will be dying, and regenerate every cell in his body and have a different face and different personality. the show is on the 11th doctor right now. time lords get 13 regenerations, but i think there were hints that the doctor might have more, just because he’s special. there’s a lot more, but that’s the gist i think.
You for the “it’s only one of the mot freaking awesome shows EVER” part.
hahaha well THAT goes without saying. OBVIOUSLY it’s fantastic
my hobby: going up to trekkies and being like “yeah, i’m totally obsessed with this really iconic, long-running sci-fi show. it’s kind of a problem, but the show is just so great. i’m talking about doctor who, of course”
Ah…. Thank you…. I might watch it this summer, when I actually have free time…….
Two days and I am DONE with Dr. Who Series one. God this is more tv than I watched all of my sophomore year but I can’t stop >.<
just watched ep 2 of season 1 (the REAL season 1, jadey, not 27 :P). first appearance of the daleks! TOTALLY geeked out when they first ordered someone to be exterminated
i love ian. dibs on ian. barbara is annoying and does not deserve him.
also such LULZ at first doctor! such a manipulative little old man…i love how he seems to mature over the course of the show while his appearance gets younger…not really planned, but a really neat idea anyway.
I actually didn’t like the First Doctor, until quite a few serials in. but then…I realized he may be a bit of a crusty old bastard on the outside, but had a huge soft spot on the inside.
SERIES I said not SEASON. I started season one before someone corrected me and got me into the recent batch, but I watched 3 episodes of the original, so I know what you’re talking about!
hahaha i love you jadey
DID ANYONE SEE THE NEW GLEE???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD*
So, that episode totally ruined the Finn/Kurt romance I had pictured in my head. True, Kurt was totally inconsiderate of Finn’s requests not to have Kurt design his room, but still. He could have been less of a jerk about it. And the fact that Finn knew Kurt liked him also ruined their pairing for me, because now we know that Finn is totally straight.
On the bright side, though, the promo for next week’s show totally proves that Jesse was a traitor like I thought, and never really loved Rachel. So now she and Fin can get back together. Took them long enough.
Also in the promo…Mr. Schuester and Sue…what on earth??
Yeah, I saw it. I actually saw it when it aired for once.
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No, Finn/Kurt is still amazing. OK, I’ll be fair. I don’t see it actually ever happening in the show, but I still love it. Also, where does it say that Finn is totally straight. I mean, yes, of course, he knew Kurt liked him. He’s not that obtuse. (Well, yes he is, but that’s beside the point.) In fact, I could construct an argument that Finn’s reaction to Kurt’s liking him proves that he does like Kurt… Also, of course Finn was a jerk about Kurt designing the room. Finn’s always a jerk. (OK, I kind of hate Finn.)
I liked Jesse. I have always violently disliked Finn/Rachel. It seems 99.9% of the time, one of them is being a jerk about their relationship. Also, I think that both actors have better chemistry with their other pairings. In particular, Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff are amazing together. (Which shouldn’t be a surprise as they were in Spring Awakening together.) When they sing together… *melts* Cory Monteith really isn’t a singer. Jonathan Groff is. And Jonathan Groff is hotter in my opinion.
Yeah… And Terri/Finn… I think Glee is starting to play too much with crack pairings.
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No, finn/kurt is still FAIL. just like it’s always been. i’ve always strongly disliked finn, and now i just kind of totally despise him.
also all of ohio is NOT homophobic thank you very much, it really is just because they’re in caking lima. nobody likes lima anyways.
GO KURT’S DAD though, amirite? that was a -great- moment
ugh i hope rachel/finn doesn’t happen again. like seriously guys, i honestly hate finn. have for ages. plus he’s not even attractive. at all. like i seriously don’t understand what the big deal is
The guy who plays Kurt’s dad is a really great actor. He should get some recognition. And yeah, I was pretty much cheering when he kicked Finn to the curb. I’ve never liked Finn, and I never liked Rachel, either, so getting them both to stop whining would be just peachy.
On the other hand, Puck is pretty hot.
PUCK. SLASH. KURT.
It’s crazy… but it just might work!! *squee*
Lol… Don’t think it would work. Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they’re frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.
Too bad Jonathan Groff isn;t on the market, though, at least not for us girls because he’s gay. Still, very, very attractive. And a great singer, too. *sigh*
Honestly, though, Terri/Finn could not ever even exist. It just…couldn’t. That’d be TOO wrong.
I just visited for a little and saw this epic thread!
Good Eats – LOVE THIS SHOW, though I haven’t seen it in forever.
GLEE! It’s okay. I absolutely adored “Dream On” and the Madonna episode, but I don’t think it can really top that, so my interest has waned. Though I did like the bit about how “my father is the king of the Asian vampires, and Asian vampires are the most powerful”. But other than that it’s getting a bit melodramatic.
*scrolls up* *sees Gleek passion*
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Asian vampires rule.
And I agree that it’s getting into melodramatic territory. I stick around for all the hilarity.
I just watched my first firefly episode-train job.
No, no, watch the pilot (Serenity) first… Everything will make much more sense if you do.
Why was it aired later, then?
Because the people at Fox are mmksdnkjasflf. Why do you think the show got canceled?
Cold Blood comes out today! Yay!!
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And BBC America is airing Episodes 1-6 tonight and tomorrow!
I am now starting anew watching Classic Who. Just finished Marinus and am starting the Aztecs. Ebeth, where are you at?
uh? i just finished the mutants, so next up is the edge of destruction
Same here. Actually I’m ten minutes into The Edge of Destruction, but it’s so weird. Like, it’s a good concept I think, but (so far) not very well executed. Right now it just feels random so I’m taking a break.
I can’t find Cold Blood! -dies-
The site I usually go to only has one link, which takes me to another page with several links, but the only one that works takes a million years to buffer.
I just found it… ((google wisevid cold blood and follow the links))
I found it.
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Oh god, Rory. I knew something bad was going to happen but… I can only console myself with the knowledge that he comes back in the finale…but how, exactly, I cannot imagine. Also, what about Amy’s ring? Won’t she see it and wonder? And she remembered the clerics who went through the crack…I’m confused. I feel like they definitely mentioned something about it but the full explanation didn’t sink in because of my own reaction to what was going on.
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WHAT THE CAKE. Rory’s death is horrible! Amy doesn’t even remember! To be killed, and THEN erased from time? The worst death!
And the TARDIS explodes?! The finale is looking bleak.
Amy does not remember because Rory was part of her history. The clerics weren’t.
Just watched the first three parts of the first episode of the FIRST EVER season. I don’t quite know how I feel about it. It’s…not about aliens. Which is nice, I’m always happy to have a break from the aliens and I know I’ll see the Daleks soon enough. I quite like it really–Ian’s cool, Susan’s cool, Barbara’s a bit hysterical. The Doctor, of course, is the Doctor, but not any of the Doctors I’m familiar with so it’s a little weird hearing him referred to as the Doctor. He’s not nearly as omnipotent as 9-10-11 have been, which is kind of good but kind of disappointing, since I’m so used to the Doctor knowing–or thinking he knows–the answer to everything. Still, this could grow on me. Yes it could.
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WAAAAAAHHHHH!
Rory is DEAD!
At least there is a rumor that he’ll be coming back in the finale…
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I think that there were shots in some trailer (JW said this) of Rory in Roman armor. Perhaps instead of vanishing, he’s been transported/ made to be born in another timeline?
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Rory in armor? I didn’t see that. But the crack is 2 points in space and time that should never have touched. We have no idea what is on the other side.
Prisoner Zero and the Saturnites made it through fine.
Note: When watching Beast Below today, Amy’s marital status in 29th century is UNKNOWN. Not SINGLE, not MARRIED. Hmmm.
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Ha! You’re right. I was all like “Wahhh Rory’s dead” but that’s a good point. You may be erased from one history to appear in another. Possibly another alternate universe? Or too overused?
Well, not exactly. The thing is, me and AM saw some pictures from the finale, and there was a picture of Rory in roman armor.
Ah yes. The released spoiler pictures. I’ve spoiled way too much. Someone yell at me to stop it.
This is bloody stupid! I was in the middle of the Dalek serial and now the website just keep throwing me back to some stupid advertisement! It won’t even let me get to the page with the videos on it!
Mmf. I was going to watch Firefly this summer, but since my computer’s dead, I really don’t think I will. I don’t want to watch it on Mom’s computer, since that’s in the open and I don’t think Mom would particularly approve of my watching it. She would tell me I spend too much time on the computer, or some such, and I don’t need to watch it.
Which is something I’ve been fighting with myself over.
So I won’t watch it after all. Ah well.
See, that’s why you need a library five minutes away that has all episodes of firefly and buffy.
For those of you interested in watching Into the Universe (highly recommended by Jadestone, see comment 135 and following, above), you can see it on topdocumentaryfilms.com
Yes! Go watch, everyone! It’s all so fascinating.
I watched two episodes. It’s great!
Yes! Did you see the one with the lightning space squid?
I sqee’d.
Yeah! ‘Twas epic.
TORCHWOOD IS COMING BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *dies of sheer joy*
It’ll be different, sure, but hopefully it’ll still be good, even with so many of the characters (especially a certain one in particular) having been killed off, and with the no longer consistent locale, but….I’m holding out hope it’ll live up to the previous series.
www . johnbarrowman. com/fanzone/television/newtorchwood.shtml
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What. If. The Doctor goes back to when he first met Amy. He tries to stop the crack then, and the TARDIS blows up because he forgets/doesn’t hear the cloister bell. Rewriting history. Sort of. And the explosion… transports back to 2010? That first crack was a dormant crack, though, for at least 14 years. He opened it, and then ‘closed it’ without feeding it. Why was it dormant? Theoretically, he could go to the prison, probably Storm Cage Prison, and leap back? That crack joined 2 parts of space, not time. Eleventh hour happened at the same time as the stuff in the prison, cause the Atraxi can’t journey through time. Eleventh Hour was quite a large setup for something.
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I HAVE JUST WATCHED THE “BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY” SEQUENCE ON GLEE AND IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING MOMENT OF THE ENTIRE SHOW’S LIFE. I SWEAR. YOUTUBE IT NOW. I MEAN IT.
Vocal Adrenaline was singing “Bohemian Rhapsody”, and they were flashing from that to Quinn in labor. It was so beautiful. I’m hyperventilating. I can’t do it justice.
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OMG.
That’s the first ep of Glee I’ve actually seen on TV, rather than online. had to watch the past 3 earlier this evening, since I’d not gotten them watched yet….
*is dreadfully behind on TV shows* Like, 3 weeks behind…..I have 13 episodes I need to watch, including this Saturday’s DW. :/
I am a gleek. Enough said.
So have you seen the Joss Whedon ep yet? Because it’s totally the best.
Yes, it was awesome… Although somewhat less awesome when my mom was pointing out how all the bits of Quinn in labor were completely unrealistic… I was going to say that this was the first episode I saw on TV with my family, but then I realize that I watched all of the first 13 eps with my family on DVD. (My mom bought the DVDS… Yeah.) But the season finale was great! And Sue… Just… Sue. And there’s also the fact that Idina Menzel could easily be back. (And I really hope she is. She’s amazing.)
They were unrealistic, yes, but Vocal Adrenaline’s performance of Bohemian Rhapsody was meshed very cleverly with Quinn giving birth–and it was SO touching.
It was so caking obvious that Shelby was going to get Beth. Also that Finn was going to sing Jesse’s Girl at some point.
Oh, Sue Sylvester. That was so…can you call her poignant? Erm…but I was confused. They’ve done a good job of developing her character, but I liked when she was just deliciously evil instead of believable.
speller – my mom did that too.
Glee made me cry tonight. I feel rather pathetic saying this, but I sat in my kitchen, alone, crying, eating ice cream and getting sentimental over Sue Sylvester. Twas amazing though.
Who else knew that Rachel’s mom was getting Beth since about forever? And what the cake was up with the corrupt celebs??? They were insanely not well characterized, not believably at least.
THAT WAS GREAT.
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I loved how Puck was kind of crying when he saw Beth for the first time, and how he wanted to keep her. It was sooooo sweet. ^.^
I also gotta say, although the kiss was random, I loved the “Break a leg” from Rachel and the “I love you” from Finn before the ballad. I giggled.
This was a GREAT episode.
I had a brilliant idea for a project we could do- take songs we like and pair them with episodes of shows we like. Eventually, we’d make music videos of them. Only catches are-
The subject of the song has to be appropriate to the episode
The tone of the song has to be completely inappropriate to the episode.
For example- The Doctor Who episode “42” and the Beatles song “Good Day Sunshine”. Come up with your own, perhaps we’ll be able to get a whole album!
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Matt Smith in a towel? Ohhh yeah.
The rest of the episode? It was good, I thought. Liked the cat. Cliffhanger was cool.
But…. Matt Smith in a towel!
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Loved it. (The episode, not specifically the towel bit). Perception filters! Extra floors on houses! Scrambler! Cool TARDIS! Creepy picture on the wall.
Pandorica Opens = Epicness. Daleks, Cybermen, Nestene, Chelonian, Slitheen, Judoon, Sontaran, Dravhix! All in the same episode! Crack! *applauds Mr. Moffat*
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Yeah, that was an awesome episode.
Apparently, there was a kid’s television show that asked for a design for a TARDIS. The one in the upper floor of the house wasn’t it. *jazz hands*
And then there are a bunch of other monsters/aliens that are in the finale- Weevils, and then three that haven’t appeared before.
But Matt Smith + Towel = WIN
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The Blue Peter design was not used, correct. Liars! Or not?
River’s sentence in the trailer is cut off, presumably the other species are mentioned then. Weevils will be interesting in this portrayal, maybe they will be tame ones.
The green light in the Pandorica – green light of the sonic…
Yum.
ALMOST caught up in Doctor Who. In the ucrrent season now, episode 2. This is my fourth episode of the day, and I started watching around 9:30 pm. This probably is a bad thing. But I CAN’T STOP.
Fandom has sunk to new lows. Up at 1 in the morning watching Buffy even though I’m trying to transform my sleep schedule back into something remotely human.
Ooh! Which eps? And I’ve done the same.
About the first half of Season 5. Moving on to the second half as soon as I finish breakfast.
My sleep schedule just did an odd about-face: I went to sleep at 8 and woke up a little after midnight.
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Also: Spike is truly pathetic now. Ye gods.
Hehehe
Oh Spikey ♥
He does get rather sad. I went and wateched the first ep of Angel, which had originalspike in it, and he was so different. Kind of amusing.
The chocolate? The dummy? The soap operas?
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My theory is that Dru leaving him really broke his spirit. That and the chip in his head.
i mean that’s less a theory and more definitive canon. still, it’s kind of pathetic.
As of the 14th episode, it’s become painful to watch him. I need to re-watch season 2 just to get the taste out of my brain.
(season 5 is still pretty good though. I don’t get what the big deal is about Dawn, she’s annoying occasionally, but nothing like the obnoxygen refinery people claim.)
But… he’s blondie bear! (Yes, I call him that. I have no shame.) But I don’t really mind his patheticness. It’s hilarious, and I adore Spuffy.
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Grrr. Rory’s death has got to be The. Most. Pointless. Death. In. Doctor. Who. Ever. In fact, the only good bit part of that episode is when the first see the Crack and it’s “Oh no, not again, not here.” Also, if the homoreptilia hostage hadn’t died, they’d have tried to come to the surface and live peacefully with humans, why did it take the other one (Reztac? I forget) trying to kill them all for the Doctor to tell them to wait a thousand years. And if Rory really was erased from time, or at least Amy’s history, how can the engagement ring be there? I suppose if this series does reach such a low that it’s even worse than love and Monsters then it’ll be so bad it’s laughable and I’ll still want to watch it, but PLEASE. The first episodes were watchable, Vampire In Venice was at least different, but this? AAAAAAAAAH.
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The crack can’t erase everything connected to something! Think of the duck pond: The pond remains, but no ducks.
The two factions had a chance and a hope for peace. Once Restac and Ambrose messed everything up Eldane decided it would not work. But, he was willing to try again in 3020.
And please give this series a chance! Episodes 10 and 11 are great. *won’t start about Love and Monsters*
I have successfully turned my father into a Firefly addict. I’m so proud.
Hurrah!
With me, now: ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
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Oh. My. God. My faith in Doctor Who has been restored. I’ve not felt this way after a single of the previous episodes this series. Just,
.
For starters: I had the crap scared out of me when I was watching Cold Blood, and Elliot was in the stasis chamber, when out of nowhere, some small and tickly brushes against my arm. Scared me to death. Turns out, Gandalf had wandered upstairs to see what I was doing….Or, more likely, to find out if he could nibble on the pizza I was eating (I swear, he’ll eat nearly anything).
Next: I’d forgotten all about the cracks until, out of nowhere, one appears at the end of Cold Blood. Yeep. They’d totally slipped my mind in the month since one was last on the show.
And Rory. Oh my god. As if him being dead weren’t bad enough, they had to get him erased from Amy’s memory? I mean, cake, having the guy you love killed is horrible. Forgetting him? Oh god.
I’m holding out for when the whole crack thing gets sorted out, him not being dead. Slim chance, probably, but…Still. Just, oh. I did not see that coming. I thought it was the little boy, when Cold Blood started, and the head homo reptilian was talking about losses, I thought for sure the little boy was a goner, Rory never even crossed my mind.
Gotta go buffer more DW, maybe watch the rest that I’ve missed tonight….
Oh, and the piece of shrapnel. As I was downstairs brushing my hair and getting ready for work, right after finishing the two eps, I had a sudden realization. A literal light bulb in my brain moment. The piece of the TARDIS, the explosion. It’s not something in the future, it’s what could (should?) have happened between series 4 with the Tenth Doctor, and the Eleventh Hour, with the Eleventh Doctor, when he crashes and meets Amy Pond for the first time. The TARDIS wasn’t supposed to ahve survived, but it did, and so all the cracks opened up.
I’m betting that’s the explosion, but I suppose I could be wrong. It just seriously hit me, out of nowhere.
But, oh, wow, seriously, I never saw any of that coming, I feel quite shell-shocked, really…..
Urgh, gotta leave for work in 5 minutes.
No, the explosion can’t have been the crash, because the cracks are emanating from June 26th, 2010. The beginning of the Eleventh Hour takes place in the nineties.
based on what? i thought rory’s nametag was a production error
rory’s nametag was a production error, but there’s a lot of little “dates-being-wrong” type stuff – amy’s age is off by two years in the beast below, for instance, when she’s in the voting booth. Most of TEH was in 2008, I think is the current theory, which makes the beginning 1996?
Yeah- The night before her wedding is 2010, and TEH took place two years before that.
What would happen if Amy was brought home to that night again? And she saw her dress, combined with the ring?
No, but the beginning, when Amy’s little.
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Yeah….I guess, I forgot the date thing, but…Still. I mean, the bit of the TARDIS shrapnel? Gotta make you wonder if the TARDIS crash wasn’t the explosion that sent out the cracks….Or is related, somehow.
There is a phrase in the Lodger that makes you think about possible explosions.
There is always the idea of the Doctor fiddling around in his own timestream!
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True. I did wonder about the TARDIS surviving, but forgot about it. I’ll be interesting to see if that bit ever gets explained…
Oh my god I felt so bad about Rory.
Just watched “The Body.” Feel like screaming “CURSE YOU JOSS WHEDON” from the rooftops, but obviously that’s impracticable.
All caught up in Doctor Who! Starting Torchwood now
I was introduced to Dr. Who today. By my cousin. A few days ago, she turned to her father and told him they needed to introduce me. Today, she made good on that threat. We watched- I don’t remember it’s title, the most recent one aired in the U.S. The Hungry Earth, maybe?- the Eleventh Hour, the first recent Weeping Angels, and half of the second. We’re watching the other half tomorrow.
Anyway, I can understand DW obsession now, and a Sonic Screwdriver is definitely on my list of Really Neat SF Gadgets That I’d Like To Have.
Got a bit into Torchwood but am switching to Firefly for now. I’ll need the Torchwood for when I’m feeling Who deprived between parts 1 and 2 of the finale.
Just finished Season 5 of BtVS. l am slowly beginning to hate Joss Whedon.
i spend a large portion of my time while watching joss whedon shows shouting at the screen
but it’s very much a love/hate relationship
About to start Season Six. I’ve heard this is very polarizing among fans- and thanks to TVTropes, I know most of the major spoilers. (“Seeing Red” particularly. Yeah, you all know what I’m talking about. Knowing about it in advance is only making me dread it more.)
Should I watch the next two seasons, or just join a large portion of the fandom and pretend everything ended with The Gift?
No, no, no. Season 6 is really depressing and dark and stuff (and Seeing Red is the worst ep in the whole show IMO), but it’s really, really good. Plus, Once More With Feeling! Best ep ever!
You don’t really need to watch season 7, though. Although you might want to. There were a few good eps. (Selfless, Conversations With Dead People, and Storyteller come to mind.) But even I pretend that half of season 7 didn’t happen. Oh, and the most romantic speech ever is in s7, ep 20.
*freaks* What did the Toclafane arrive through? A CRACK in time and space!!! Wahhhhhhhh! Multi-series link!
800th post!
And yeah, I know about Once More With Feeling. It’s legendary. Can’t wait to watch it.
I found Firefly on Teh Interwebs! We cannot die! Why? Because we are so… very… pretty!
Mal is my idol.
I’m watching Firefly as well!
I’m using watch x online, by the way, when I ran out of Hulu. Not bad size/resolution.
But I’m loving all these excellent quotes! “Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”
♥ Mal. And Simon.
“Define ‘interesting’!”
“… ‘Oh god oh god, we’re all gonna die’?”
“Boy, sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don’tcha think?!”
Firefly is teh major epic win. ♥ Mal, Kaylee, River, and sometimes Jayne.
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OH. My. God. That was….Yeep.
I mean, the Pandorica containing the Doctor was no surprise to me. I knew the Doctor was inside from the moment the Doctor was examining it, saying something about it containing a goblin or ghoulie that dropped from the sky. I just knew it was him, I just didn’t ever get until right near the end, when all the creatures he had ever gone up against assembled in an alliance, that it didn’t have him in it yet and that he was only just then going in….
And the Romans. I was completely fooled until River explained it to the Doctor. I guess I just wanted to believe too much that Rory was actually still alive, I was even convinced he’d gotten touched by a Weeping Angel right after he was absorbed by the crack, and that’s how he went back in time. Of course, logically, that wouldn’t work, but, hey. *shrug*
And I didn’t grasp they were Autons, until they held there right hands straight up in front of them, and then I realized. Autons. Which I really ought ot have thought of, prior. I mean, river even mentioned that the Nestene was out there, and just in “Rose”, we had the Nestene Consciousness with the living plastic Autons. Ah, well.
And Rory. Dammit, I so wanted him to be alive, and well, and him and Amy back together again. Should have known that was too much to wish for…..Probably Rory is permanently dead, still holding out hope that Amy isn’t dead. Part of me thinks it’s heard that she’s coming back fro season 6, but I could be imagining that (dont’ tell me if you know, I’ll find out next week…..).
Anyway. Yeah. I thought it was good, better than many finales. Or first halfs of finales.
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It was quite a twist with the blind alliance, instead of just them and the Doctor also. The creepy creepy voice… is creepy. Waaah Amy Doctor Rory River….
The universe actually explodes. It is shown. How will that be remedied?
Wow, this season has flown by at the speed of Time Lord thought.
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Well, I can see one way it could be remedied: Something along the lines of what happened with the Year That Never Was, at the end of Season 3, with the Master and the Toclafane. But I don’t know how it’ll be fixed, but presumably the entire universe can’t be permanently gone, because then what would happen? :/
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i don’t even know if i’ve recovered enough to say anything worth a spoiler alert yet. i’ve seriously just been sitting here in shock for a good two minutes or so. but oh. my. god. ohmygod. ohhhhhh my god. i can’t even…gaaahh. MOFFAT. oh my god.
i’m with luna, figured it was the doctor, but didn’t realize it was a trap until everyone started showing up in twos and threes and then it was like “oh **** that’s why”
ohgodohgod rory. amy. doctor…ohmygod
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It’s the best cliffhanger so far of NuWho!
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Maaan… I also thought it was the doctor, and kind of thought it was a trap. But like, I thought the doctor would come OUT and then later in the episode Matt-Smith-Doctor would get put IN… yeah idk where that was going in my head. But! Ahg. Poor Rory
I wonder how this’ll turn out!
Have you seen I get that a lot?
Just looked it up, the main problem i can see with it is that i honestly wouldn’t recognize most of those people. Also it’s not really geeky i don’t think
I know. Actaully, its lame.
I watch all these shows by getting them from the library. It can go on the TV or the computer, and it gives me an incentive to bike (not that I need one).
I just had a massive Fridge Brilliance moment.
I was browsing old threads, and I saw a post made by Spelluna… remember when speller73 and Luna were sharing the same account? Well, at the time, I didn’t know who the person in their avatar was. I guessed, correctly, that she was a BtVS character, as they are both rabid fans. But having recently watched Season 5 of Buffy, I realized it was Glory, who shares a body with Ben.
If that was intentional, I commend them both on a brilliant visual joke.
It was intentional. But it’s really only our speller half who is a rabid fan of BtVS. The Luna half, while enjoying the series, is not rabidly into it.
I’d come up with a coherent response but I’m staring at your shared avatar in the hopes that that will keep it from eating my sanity.
Okay, it’s settled, I’m being Saffron for Halloween. O.O
SPOILERS UPCOMING: I love this woman. She flirts with Inara and kicks Wash in the head. She steals Mal away from Inara. I want to steal Mal away from Inara. She is AMAZING.
I accidentally found songs from “Once more with feeling” on YouTube, and am determined to watch it even though I’m somewhere in season 3. Spoilers ahoy.
Hey, I’ve died twice! So brilliant… But you really have not not care at all about spoilers, because it will give you some of the most major spoilers of the whole show… I’d wait.
Wouldn’t it be about time for a new version of this thread?
Definitely past the expiration date. In fact, I meant to make one several days ago. Le voilà !