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Post by Rachael on Mar 21, 2006 12:28:19 GMT -5
Seems like silly fun. The actor who plays The Doctor seems to be having a lot of fun with his role. Telepathic field is a good explanation for why everybody understands English. These bugs were in Minority Report. So these were the weakest episodes? I can live with that ;D Is this show more story-arcing or stand-alone episodes. Cause I can see myself getting really into it if everything ties together, but only watching it in passing if it's just stand-alones. The answer is that they're both. In fact, all the episodes tie together, but you may not notice how at first - it's quite surreptitious. Everything is leading to the finale. *laughs* It may seem like silly fun now, but wait a few episodes. This series can go from infantile farce to grim meditations on mortality and selfhood in the blink of an eye. It is fun, but there are some chilling moments that speak of death, existentialism, and entropy (in the poetic sense, Rachael ). Hey, the Doctor has dealt with REAL entropy, too. In fact, Doctor Who was where I first encountered the Laws of Thermodynamics. And I never hold them to the actual science. Where would be the fun in that?
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Post by Lola m on Mar 21, 2006 13:11:09 GMT -5
The eps you just saw are two of the weakest in the Season. If you liked them, you have some great television coming your way. There are some other questionable stories, but from now on most are good, and, I promise, by the end of the finale you'll be hooked. Gosh. If these are the "weakest", then I definitely have something to look forward to! They both felt very . . . "Dr Who" to me, you know? (The first one even more than the second.)
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Post by Lola m on Mar 21, 2006 13:12:33 GMT -5
It would be interesting to see how they'd handle one of those stories in which the Doctor's various selves meet up. It'd be quite a crowd, now. I've always been amazed that he can resist doing it more often. I mean, wouldn't you be really curious about your future selves? And with that ego, and the Doctor's (mostly) lack of worry about contaminating future timelines, it'd seem even more likely. ;D I've always enjoyed how they just don't DEAL with things like paradoxes and multiple selves existing all at the same time, and how you could (if you really wanted) keep going back to a place where something really bad happened until you fixed it. There are rules, obviously, but they have to do with "good story" and nothing to do with "rational science". Yep. 'Cuz Dr Who is all about the "good story" and not so much the "rational science". ;D
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Post by Lola m on Mar 21, 2006 13:16:03 GMT -5
The eps you just saw are two of the weakest in the Season. If you liked them, you have some great television coming your way. There are some other questionable stories, but from now on most are good, and, I promise, by the end of the finale you'll be hooked. Oh, hooked already. Those were classic Doctor Who, at least in feel. If the "feel" had been wrong, I'd never have been able to fall back into the story so easily. In fact, I felt that the feel of the television movie was wrong...enough so that I don't remember it, except to remember that I didn't like it. There's this gap in my knowledge. Actually, I don't know how the seventh Doctor finished, either. We never got those eps on my PBS channel here. Meh. Yes, I don't know what happened with the most recent Doctors either, so I'm looking forward to catching up on things through this Doctor. For example, this whole "last Doctor" thing was news to me. (I mute SciFi ads if they're for something I don't want to know too much about in advance. )
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Post by Lola m on Mar 21, 2006 13:18:06 GMT -5
Seems like silly fun. The actor who plays The Doctor seems to be having a lot of fun with his role. Telepathic field is a good explanation for why everybody understands English. These bugs were in Minority Report. So these were the weakest episodes? I can live with that ;D Is this show more story-arcing or stand-alone episodes. Cause I can see myself getting really into it if everything ties together, but only watching it in passing if it's just stand-alones. The answer is that they're both. In fact, all the episodes tie together, but you may not notice how at first - it's quite surreptitious. Everything is leading to the finale. *laughs* It may seem like silly fun now, but wait a few episodes. This series can go from infantile farce to grim meditations on mortality and selfhood in the blink of an eye. It is fun, but there are some chilling moments that speak of death, existentialism, and entropy (in the poetic sense, Rachael ). Oooh, goody! (And I'm not being sarcastic - I like that kind of stuff. )
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Post by Riff on Mar 21, 2006 14:16:28 GMT -5
The answer is that they're both. In fact, all the episodes tie together, but you may not notice how at first - it's quite surreptitious. Everything is leading to the finale. *laughs* It may seem like silly fun now, but wait a few episodes. This series can go from infantile farce to grim meditations on mortality and selfhood in the blink of an eye. It is fun, but there are some chilling moments that speak of death, existentialism, and entropy (in the poetic sense, Rachael ). Hey, the Doctor has dealt with REAL entropy, too. In fact, Doctor Who was where I first encountered the Laws of Thermodynamics. And I never hold them to the actual science. Where would be the fun in that? To be honest, I just wanted to point out that I knew the difference. ;D When, in the Sixties, it became clear that the show was becoming obssessive viewing for children, the BBC decided that it had to be educational. I have a DVD of the Second Doctor story "The Seeds of Death". Near the start, the TARDIS materialises in a space museum for the sole purpose, as far as I can tell, of allowing the Doctor to tell his companions about the history of spaceflight in the 20th century. It's quite touching.
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Post by Riff on Mar 21, 2006 14:17:58 GMT -5
The eps you just saw are two of the weakest in the Season. If you liked them, you have some great television coming your way. There are some other questionable stories, but from now on most are good, and, I promise, by the end of the finale you'll be hooked. Gosh. If these are the "weakest", then I definitely have something to look forward to! They both felt very . . . "Dr Who" to me, you know? (The first one even more than the second.) There are another 10 eps, and six of them are good ones.
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Post by Riff on Mar 21, 2006 14:19:13 GMT -5
The answer is that they're both. In fact, all the episodes tie together, but you may not notice how at first - it's quite surreptitious. Everything is leading to the finale. *laughs* It may seem like silly fun now, but wait a few episodes. This series can go from infantile farce to grim meditations on mortality and selfhood in the blink of an eye. It is fun, but there are some chilling moments that speak of death, existentialism, and entropy (in the poetic sense, Rachael ). Oooh, goody! (And I'm not being sarcastic - I like that kind of stuff. ) Laughter and tears - Dickens's tried and tested formula. And speaking of Dickens...
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Post by Cal on Mar 25, 2006 8:47:25 GMT -5
Most definitely hooked. Especially when... and the Doctor did... Yes, definitely hooked. ;D Have you any idea when the next series starts over here yet, Riff? I can't wait. I think Season Two starts on Saturday the 15th May. Thanks, Riff.
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Post by Rachael on Mar 25, 2006 20:15:48 GMT -5
Oooh, goody! (And I'm not being sarcastic - I like that kind of stuff. ) Laughter and tears - Dickens's tried and tested formula. And speaking of Dickens... Hey! No spoilers! I mean, okay, not in the technical sense, because it'd already aired a long time ago elsewhere, but...HEY!
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Post by Riff on Mar 26, 2006 14:29:25 GMT -5
I think Season Two starts on Saturday the 15th May. Thanks, Riff. You're welcome.
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Post by Riff on Mar 26, 2006 14:30:02 GMT -5
Laughter and tears - Dickens's tried and tested formula. And speaking of Dickens... Hey! No spoilers! I mean, okay, not in the technical sense, because it'd already aired a long time ago elsewhere, but...HEY! Sorry! I'll be good.
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Post by Cal on Mar 30, 2006 8:31:27 GMT -5
Thanks, Riff. You're welcome. I read today that the new series starts (in the UK) on Saturday 15th April, with the new trailer airing for the first time this Saturday.
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