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Boy Wonder

Joined: 27 May 2008
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 13 12:15 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Boy Wonder wrote:

What did everyone think about the second episode? I thouroughly enjoyed it, and have been converted to a Whovian!

It was silly.

Yes, but the doctor is meant to be a bit silly.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 13 2:23 pm Post subject:

Boy Wonder wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

Boy Wonder wrote:

What did everyone think about the second episode? I thouroughly enjoyed it, and have been converted to a Whovian!

It was silly.

Yes, but the doctor is meant to be a bit silly.

I have no problem at all with the doctor being silly, but a humongous god like monster exploding because she waved a leaf at it defies credibility even in the Doctor Who universe.

Nell Merionwen

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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 13 3:37 pm Post subject:
I think it was more supposed to be about what the leaf represented to her.

Boy Wonder

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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 13 3:55 pm Post subject:
Yes, the leaf was meant to be a metaphor.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 13 4:46 pm Post subject:
I kept waiting for it to grab me (the show, metaphorically. Not the monster literally) but it never did. Not the leaf, not the "things I have seen" speech, not the mass singing. I liked the boogeyman in the plastic box though - very Pan's Labyrinth-like.

Behemoth

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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 13 4:47 pm Post subject:
I prefer shouty-bang episodes and usually snooze through the meainigful twaddle in the last 5 mins.

jamanda
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 13 4:47 pm Post subject:
To be fair, it is really a children's programme isn't it? eta and elephants

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 13 4:50 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

To be fair, it is really a children's programme isn't it? eta and elephants

No it's a family show, always has been and always will be, it was an OK episode it not one of the very best

jamanda
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 13 4:54 pm Post subject:

joanne wrote:

Jamanda wrote:

To be fair, it is really a children's programme isn't it? eta and elephants

No it's a family show, always has been and always will be, it was an OK episode it not one of the very best

fair enough - but family means suitable for children. I can't see that this incarnation is any less silly than Tom Baker or Jon Pertwee ones. I thought they were pretty far fetched then. But I enjoyed them.

Hairyloon

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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 13 6:25 pm Post subject:

Nell Merionwen wrote:

I think it was more supposed to be about what the leaf represented to her.

Yes, I did understand that, but if the creature was so easily overloaded by a metaphor, then why could they not just as easily find a metaphor to sustain it instead of requiring the human(oid) sacrifice?
Is this not the same doctor who refused to commit genocide even to the daleks?

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 13 8:00 pm Post subject:
It was a bit disappointing, yet again there was no tentacles.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

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Posted: Sat Apr 13, 13 8:54 pm Post subject:
Episode 3 much improved. I like Gatiss's writing

Boy Wonder

Joined: 27 May 2008
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 13 9:13 am Post subject:

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:

Episode 3 much improved. I like Gatiss's writing

I agree, much better. None of this wishy washy metaphaor stuff, just big bangs and crashes. Great.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 13 10:40 am Post subject:

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:

Episode 3 much improved. I like Gatiss's writing

I thought it was very bland.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 13 11:51 am Post subject:
Was it Gatiss who wrote the one in the Library, and the weeping angels? I think uber-creepy is much more effective than CGI/costumes and "love" saving the day

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