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Post by The Thinker on Jun 11, 2006 3:38:56 GMT -5
Post here for after episode ranting. Anyway, at least it's safer than throwing knives at the refrigerator.
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Post by Ice Warrior on Jun 12, 2006 23:53:46 GMT -5
That Tardisode was really odd, but unfortunately it has got me very curious!
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Post by Dominic Smith on Jun 13, 2006 10:56:17 GMT -5
Although this is one of those 'off-beat' episodes I'm never too fond of, I'm looking forward to this one because I'm a big Peter Kay fan, that coupled with the fact that when I'm usually doubtfull about an upcoming episode I'm usually proved wrong by the time it's over
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Post by davisonera on Jun 13, 2006 12:23:07 GMT -5
Not looking forward to this, although it has got Marc Warren.
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Post by Eryx on Jun 13, 2006 12:30:18 GMT -5
Looks a bit silly to me, but we'll see.
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Post by dmg111 on Jun 17, 2006 7:20:58 GMT -5
It does look like one of the slightly more lighthearted episodes. It's good to have them every now and then.
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Post by chapel on Jun 17, 2006 13:48:26 GMT -5
Speaking as a fan of wrestling I have to ask, Is Vince Russo working for the Beeb now? This episode was god awful. Whoever thought of the competition, the kid who designed the monster and whoever wrote the scripts are all loads that should have been swallowed.
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Post by amitchell on Jun 17, 2006 13:50:57 GMT -5
Diabolically poor. An absolutely rubbish episode. Marc Warren's performance leaves a lot to be desired. The worst episode out of the entire new series without a shadow of doubt and one of the most inferior stories out of both series. The show is called Doctor Who - should it not have featured a lot more of the Doctor and less of the dismal Elton character?
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Post by The Thinker on Jun 17, 2006 14:24:34 GMT -5
I saw this and it made my stoumach churn. Note to self- Don't watch again.
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Post by amitchell on Jun 17, 2006 14:30:32 GMT -5
For the first ten minutes I was actually cringing. I have never seen an episode as bad as that.
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Post by thevalyard01 on Jun 17, 2006 15:01:17 GMT -5
Kill me. Kill me now! Drop me into the time vortex. Let me get sucked into a balck hole. Let me listen to a Billie Piper song. But never ever let me watch that again!
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Post by The Thinker on Jun 17, 2006 15:38:05 GMT -5
I saw the start of this, the bit with the slobbering alien and the buckets, I thought "Oh God! Gnrrrgh! Who wrote this?!?!"
If you ask me the only episode opener more contrived than this would be the beginning of part One of "Time and the Rani".
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Post by Dominic Smith on Jun 17, 2006 15:55:02 GMT -5
From my Blog:
Love and Monsters: A Doctor Who Related Rant
We get nowhere in this life without experimenting. The world has developed to this technological utopia we live in because of the ‘mad rantings’ of people who dared to dream about something different. Experiments have a definite outcome, they rarely have an ambiguity and at the end you always have a solid opinion regarding what is going on.
Granted many ‘experiments’ do not always have a desirable outcome; the work of Ricky Gervais (controversial), the Sinclair C5 (not so controversial) and a particular episode of Doctor Who called ‘Love and Monsters’ (just read a Doctor Who fansite to find out more), which will surely go down in history as the single episode that split the fandom of the show more than any other…how and it comes as no surprise that it was written by Russell T Davies, whose scripts vary from catastrophic to brilliant for no apparent reason.
The episode was an experiment. It dealt with the effect the Doctor had on other people’s lives; an area of study we have been forced to digest ever since the series returned last year. We know how Jackie Tyler feels when her daughter goes jaunting around the universe with a stranger, we know how Mickey Smith feels when his girlfriend rejects him for a space traveller, and now we tragically know how a cockney stranger named Elton feels when he meets the Doctor, an idea not so dissimilar from the plot of far superior episode ‘The Girl In The Fireplace’. (Granted the cockney was a French queen but in today’s modern society you’d not be blamed for not noticing a difference.)
The Doctor and Rose appear for all of five minutes of this episode and nothing can really save the show from this, not least the rather uninteresting ‘alternative; way of telling the narrative and unnecessarily unbelievable plot (OK it’s a sci-fi show, weird things happen but this was drunken step too far). The plot barely exists; the premise for the alien being known as the Abzorbaloff (you’d be right for guessing an eight year old thought that one up) appearing was strenuous at best.
Yes I’m a traditionalist; I prefer the good-old Doctor Who romp; run in, find trouble and save the day. The frankly over-the-top emotional out-pour of the series (which at times is admittedly interesting and entertaining but usually when written by other writers than Mr T Davies) holds no ground here, the last few scenes tell us all we need to know for the narrative and the filler in-between is tedious at best only lightened by the eerie flashbacks of the Doctor when he first appeared in Elton’s life.
Now after my unbridled rant at the rest of the episode I shall lighten my spirits in perhaps the most controversial part of this episode; the casting of Peter Kay. I’m a big fan of Peter and I think he did well here, he was genuinely funny if corny and his last few scenes had me laughing out loud. He does suffer from a bad script, his characterisation is not the best and to be honest I would like to have seen him in the role of Elton, for which he was originally offered.
So all in all the experiment this episode took was a bit of a flop, and the conclusion we can draw is that you should never mess with the format of the show too much, it’s not called Doctor Who for nothing, and if this episode sets a trend for more episodes to come we’ll be renaming it Doctor Who? Secondly, monsters designed by eight-year olds belong stuck to the refrigerator and lastly, off-beat episodes are a waste, bring us more stories like the two-parter that preceded this episode, dark eerie and downright creepy, the way Doctor Who was meant to be.
Rant over. Apologies to those who don’t agree.
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Post by Eryx on Jun 17, 2006 16:09:37 GMT -5
An absolutely awful episode. Nuff' said.
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Post by chapel on Jun 17, 2006 16:42:10 GMT -5
This wasn`t a doctor who episode, this was Peter Kay in a crap costume with much r**********s
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