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jamanda
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 13 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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.

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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?

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 13 8:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It was a bit disappointing, yet again there was no tentacles.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 13 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Episode 3 much improved. I like Gatiss's writing

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 13 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 13 10:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:
Episode 3 much improved. I like Gatiss's writing


I thought it was very bland.

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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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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 13 11:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:
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


No that was Moffatt - Last nights was an excellent old-school Doctor Who episode, updating a Classic monster sympathetically and showing Clara the consequences of travelling with the Doctor - We loved it and the kids were scared

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joanne wrote:

kids were scared



Did they hide behind the sofa?

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 13 1:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I don't like it when they win through pure luck.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 13 2:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hairyloon wrote:
I don't like it when they win through pure luck.


Mmm but that's probably quite realistic. For a time travelling alien, I mean

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 13 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We been thinking that Dr Who should be a winter series it seem wrong watching it in daylight.

We did enjoy tonight's though

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 13 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Goddamn it, I have failed to watch it "live" every single week! Iplayer time again...

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 13 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

cir3ngirl wrote:
We been thinking that Dr Who should be a winter series it seem wrong watching it in daylight.
We did enjoy tonight's though

Thank you, it's not just me then!
Saturday evenings:
Grandstand
Tom and Jerry
News
Basil Brush
Dr Who
Dixon of Dock Green
Generation Game
Duchess of Duke St
The Two Ronnies
Starsky and Hutch

Now that's a proper TV schedule...

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 13 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The A team! Then go up town on the pull

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