Comments on: Dr Who is such a tart!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:02:10 +0000

Dr Who a tart? Lucky Joanna Lumley didn't get the gig (again)….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:49:03 +0000

Pfft, Russel T Davies has seriously killed Doctor Who.
He's not even the main character anymore, they may aswell rename it 'The Rose Tyler Show'

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:43:23 +0000

If anyone's seen the online trailers every day this week, there's confirmation as far as I can see of something I've thought for a while, namely that Davros is back. I cannot think of any other character that would describe itself as 'the god of the Daleks'. Davros, the Emperor Dalek: no doubt looking (as well as sounding) a bit different to his last on-screen appearance which aped the TV comics from the 60s.
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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 08:56:21 +0000

well in this most recent episode: bad wolf, it looks like davros is the “bad wolf” controling earth's destiny. it would seem he was the one who saved the dalek's from the time wars' but that is just my opinion, if youd like to chat about it mail me at emberingdeadNOSPAM.com@gmail (figure out that address ane mail me, anti-spam filter in use)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:56:40 +0000

That's the best analysis of Doctor Who I've seen.
Btw, what do you make of the Bad Wolf thing?
– acb

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 May 2005 20:11:51 +0000

They are 'behind the scenes' shows – probably worth getting if you're a Dr Who nut. I shall try not to blog spoilers, although please forgive me if i get a bit carried away.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 May 2005 19:26:10 +0000

Suw – I'm enjoying the series in Chicago with the help of Mr. Bittorrents (until the bad guys book him, at least). Since I have been predicting chip implants for some time, I had a good laugh when I saw it acted out. I'm ready for cranial downloads whenever they're ready. I'm 2 weeks behind in watching so don't give away too much of the plots. Should I also be downloading the Dr. W Confidential shows? What are they all about?
Hwyl fawr, Chris in Chicago

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 May 2005 15:30:06 +0000

I was right about the internet. Waaay back in 1995, I described it as “filled with more anoraks than the cloakroom at a Dr. Who convention”.
There's many a true word spoken in jest. ;->

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 May 2005 07:42:57 +0000

One of us… one of us… one of us… one of us…
Mwahahahahahahahahaha!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 May 2005 15:52:44 +0000

I thought I'd left geekdom behind : here was I thinking I'll be alright now, I've replaced the parka with something more teutonic and trendy-looking, I've moved to a country where absolutely no-one knows what the hell Dr. Who is, I've learned to play the electric guitar and only occasionally give in to the dark side and pull out the box set of “The Prisoner” DVDs, but you, you rotten lot, you've started it all over again.
You do realise I've gone and found somewhere I can download the new Dr. Who, don't you? I've actually gone and done it? That I'm going to be sitting indoors developing my geek tan in front of the laptop, and it's all because of you lot going on about a dalek making them cry.
I'm going to the English shop to buy some pot noodles so I can sulk into them whilst watching the first episode and it's all your fault.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 May 2005 13:50:06 +0000

That is exactly why I don't want to see Davros return. His role in creating the Daleks and the way his own creations subsequently turned upon him, treating him in exactly the same way as he programmed them to treat other “lesser” species in “Genesis Of The Daleks” was fasciniating but should have been the beginning and the end of him.
It would be interesting to see the Master again although it would raise the question of exactly how many times can one person die, fer chrissakes?
Now, if you will excuse me, I must go and refill my thermos with lemon barley and replace the selotape that holds together my thick, plastic-rimmed spectacles.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 May 2005 12:56:27 +0000

Russell T in this month's issue of Doctor Who Magazine confirms that The Master doesn't return. The general feeling is that Davros won't be returning to TV either because he renders The Daleks as foot soldiers rather than the main threat (although he's still hanging about in the Big Finish audios). Actually there are a hundred questions thrown up by the Time War to do with what happened to all the Timelords, their place in history and the web of time. We should have a chat about this one day.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 May 2005 12:35:24 +0000

Nooooooo! Not fair!
*stamps foot and pouts*

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 May 2005 12:22:57 +0000

Shooting on the new Dr. Who series starts this summer. There'll be a Christmas Special and Series 2 (or, to be pedantic, Season 28) will air this time next year. It took 'em eight months to shoot this series so you'll have to wait!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 May 2005 12:03:47 +0000

Oh, I'm all about the pedantry, dear. That's what blogs are for.
You really must see Battlestar Galactica. It is truly fantastic. I can't wait for the next series.
Equally, I hope they don't make us wait too long for the next series of Dr Who. Having resurrected it so amazingly well, and got us hooked, I hope that they don't then say 'ok, now you have to wait til next year'. Cos that would suck.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 May 2005 11:22:56 +0000

Pedantry is so sexy, isn't it?
I agree with the general thrust of what you are saying: this Doctor is clearly fucked up about what happened and I like your theory as to way he has been rather passive and a bit useless in this series.
One request, Mr. Davies: More Daleks but please no Davros.
And screw Battlestar Galactica: Blake's 7 rules! (Actually haven't seen the new Galactica but everyone tells me it is wonderful so I'll accept that).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 May 2005 10:46:51 +0000

I bow to your superior wisdom, o Nichevo. :-p
But you know what I was driving at, even if my knowledge isn't as deep as yours. And it was 1.20am this morning, and I was a bit drunk when I posted and and and and…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 May 2005 10:20:42 +0000

He's willing to sacrifice the unknown masses in order to safe the known individual – a logic that previous Doctors would never have followed.
That's not entirely true. In Peter Davison's final story, The Caves Of Androzani, he spends most of the time ignoring the bigger conflict going on around him in order to find a cure for his poisoned assistant Peri. People drop dead all over the place but he is manically focussed on saving Peri even to the extent of denying himself the antidote so that she may live.
Damn you, Russell T Davies. Damn your ability to make me cry over a Dalek!
Russell T. Davies didn't write the Dalek episode: Rob Shearman did. Strangely, as much as I admire Davies as a writer and for what he has done with the series, my favourite episodes so far have all been written by others: Mark “League Of Gentlemen” Gatiss (”The Unquiet Dead”); Steven “Coupling” Moffat (”The Empty Child”; “The Doctor Dances”) and the aforementioned Shearman. Hmm, curious.
He's done something truly different with the Doctor – he's made him human, fallible, vulnerable.
I'd refute that, as would Russell, I suspect. The Doctor has always shown those characteristics. They are the very characteristics that drew Russell to the character in the first place. Yes, he has certainly concentrated on those elements more and the Doctor is clearly more traumatised in this latest incarnation than he has ever been but the Doctor has always been a human, sometimes fallible and vulnerable character.
I think that if you rewatched some of the older series now you would be surprised how many of the elements you praise Davies for bringing to Doctor Who were actually there all along.
OK, so I'm a feckin' geek.