Daviace
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Posted Apr 3, 2010, 4:46 pm
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Posted Apr 3, 2010, 11:35 pm
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Yeah, I'm pretty much sold. That was spectacular. I'm not too sure about the new theme. It'll probably grow on me, it's just the first bit--the first few seconds after the sting--that kind of threw me when I first heard it; and the latter half is certainly a welcome callback to older themes. Here's the full theme, if any of you want to give it another listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OokBFJDvuTc It's about :34 seconds in that I started getting flashbacks to DH from the 70s.
Moffat certainly didn't put off introducing the season's arc; cracks in the universe, silence will fall, whatever (or wherever) Pandorica is, and all that. Can't wait to see how it plays out.
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Daviace
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Posted Apr 4, 2010, 12:58 am
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Yep, I 100% stand by my predictions that this would be my favourite series featuring my favourite Doctor and companion since the show returned.
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Posted Apr 4, 2010, 10:32 am
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Heh, Smith may not be my absolute favorite, but he'll certainly make my top five (a list made more prestigious now that five counts for more than half). He does have a very good style, somewhere between Eccleston's rough-and-tumble and Tennant's hi,-I'm-crazy. Creating his own way that is reminiscent without emulating.
And I think I can live with "Geronimo!" as his catch phrase, so long as he always does it before making a jump into a very large fall (such as into the library's swimming pool).
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There's something you'd better understand about me, and it's important; one day, your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box.
It's not supposed to make that noise. You leave the breaks on.
I can run away from anything I like. Time is not the boss of me.
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Daviace
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Posted Apr 4, 2010, 10:53 am
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Oh, not absolute favourite - favourite since the show returned. And geronimo has certainly always made more sense to me than allons-y - amusingly, the majority of those that bitched to me about geronimo and how the show was going to suck without RTD, Tennant, et al didn't even know what the catchphrase they stood by actually meant. 'Let's go' is a bit lame, in any language.
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Posted Apr 4, 2010, 4:46 pm
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I always considered Tennant's to be "Brilliant!" At least, he did repeat that one a fair amount of the time, too.
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There's something you'd better understand about me, and it's important; one day, your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box.
It's not supposed to make that noise. You leave the breaks on.
I can run away from anything I like. Time is not the boss of me.
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Posted Apr 7, 2010, 2:49 pm
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This episode has prompted me to come out of retirement from Doctor Who fandom to say...
I absolutely bloody loved it.
Let me be clear - I did not have high hopes. I thought Matt Smith was too young to play the Doctor. I was worried by some of the plot leaks. I thought the 11th Doctor's costume was awful (to be fair, I still do). The pre-credits sequence did little to quell these worries. And so it was with low expectations that I sat down to watch - and was blown away. Matt Smith was utterly convincing as a younger Doctor, different enough to Tennant and Eccleston to emerge from their shadows as a man in his own right, and he manages to make mannerisms that in isolation or on paper might seem forced and faintly ridiculous into an eccentric but natural and believable performance. Amy Pond immediately impresses, both with her character and her actress. And the new TARDIS set - WOW. This is how to do half-eclectic and half-alien without it looking like a load of junk. If I have two problems it is the new theme tune (quite like the opening, but the "woo-ee-oo" is weak and not unlike one of a dozen unremarkable fan remixes from Whomix) and the butt plug time rotor (the only part of the new TARDIS set I actively dislike). But if those are the only true negatives I can find in this story, it promises great things for the coming season. I find myself actually looking forward to the next episode, and it's been YEARS since I've been able to say that and mean it.
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Bazinga.
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Posted Apr 7, 2010, 3:33 pm
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Quote:butt plug time rotor
I'm glad I'm not the only person who felt that way about it.
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There's something you'd better understand about me, and it's important; one day, your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box.
It's not supposed to make that noise. You leave the breaks on.
I can run away from anything I like. Time is not the boss of me.
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Posted Apr 7, 2010, 6:26 pm
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Nope - you are not alone in having a dirty mind. There has been much comment on the intarwebs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1TIGGzF0O4
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Posted Apr 8, 2010, 11:30 pm
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I passed that along to a friend on Facebook who is also a big DH fan. His response:
Quote:Now we know how the TARDIS opens those tunnels through space time, and why they are so freaking huge. Spacetime= slut.
It makes sense to me. Spacetime is practically its own character, always playing games with the Doctor, making him arrive just in time for exciting things.
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There's something you'd better understand about me, and it's important; one day, your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box.
It's not supposed to make that noise. You leave the breaks on.
I can run away from anything I like. Time is not the boss of me.
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