Doctor Who

I'm finally getting around to continuing with old DW while replaying Dragon Age. I am in season nine, on The Sea Devils. I've grown a bit tired of UNIT and the 'modern' Earth based serials. The 3rd Doctor is okay, but I more so find myself really enjoying the 1st Master. I really enjoyed how he was the "big bad" of season 8.

The serials still seem far too stretched out (like a Bendis comic), but the stories aren't horrible. I'm look forward to the Fourth Doctor just to (hopefully) get back off of Earth. I am also really looking forward to The Three Doctors. Seeing the first two again without missing episodes and in color has a lot of promise :D

I do like that the third Doctor seems to be the most well developed so far. However, that may be due to not having seen so many episodes of the 1st and 2nd.

Also, Jo Grant has been a cute/enjoyable companion.

The Sea Devils is pretty good though, since they got the navy's permission to use their stuff.


I dislike Jo. Just wait until season 5 when Sarah Jane Smith arrives.

Yeah, they're starting to improve. I guess they realized they needed to mix it up some. Sea Devils was cool. Now I'm in the middle of the mutants. With luck, I might finish season 9 today. That'll be it until Monday though. I'll be out of town for Mel's graduation.

Okay, Jo is starting to wear on me. I'm most of the way through the Green Death, so she's almost gone. She just sits around being ditzy most of the time unless it interesting for her to show scientific knowledge. When she's not doing that, she's just being clumsy. She feels like she's been around way too long.

The one good thing about Jo is that her tenure has some really strong episodes that have political and social commentary tied to them, such as The Mutants, The Green Death, the Peladon stories, the war between the Draconions and the Humans whose name I can;t recall, and so forth.

Did you see the Neil Gaiman episode of season 6, the 4th one a week ago?

Heck yeah! We thought it was pretty damned good. I was really excited that there might be other time lords. I was also really excited that the Doctor might be able to communicate with the TARDIS going forward. Unfortunately neither came to pass.

Also, I just finished Genesis of the Daleks in the old stuff.

Are you current on new who? You've seen The Almost People, but not A Good Man Goes to War, correct?

What did you think of that two parter? And let me know when you see the Good Man. I'd like to hear what you have to say.

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Originally Posted by kerbythepurplecow

Are you current on new who? You've seen The Almost People, but not A Good Man Goes to War, correct?

What did you think of that two parter? And let me know when you see the Good Man. I'd like to hear what you have to say.

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Correct, curremt as of last Saturday, so I saw the weak two parter - didn;t deserve to be a two partner. I'm also starting to get alittle bored of Other Doctors as a plotline - Another 10th Doctor vs the Daleks, a clone that is his Daughter, Him as a Human, Him living among Humans as a Doctor trying to blend in, DoctorDonna, and now this. Boring.

Yeah, I didn't really care for that two-parter at all. It seems like just a round about way to get around him "dying" in the first episode. I didn't really find the two of them that amusing. I would like to see Jenny come back just because it's a dangling plot line.

I heard that they've been talking with John Barrowman about dropping in.

He is the character Moffet created, so I wouldn't be surprised if that happens

Didn't Moffat have something to do with Jenny too?

I think you are thinking that because her name is Georgia Moffet. Georgia Moffet is the daughter of Peter Moffet, better known by his stage name Peter Davison, the 5th doctor. Lots of Moffets.

Just finished the episode. I think it shows the weakness of building plots like this in this format

Realistically, suppose The Doctor is assembling an army to fight. First of all, he has never done this before, it's just out of character. I agree that the Davies/Moffet Doctor has a tendency to be pretty silly with enemies, just throwing himself in the midst of giant armies, and that's a bit out of character with the old series Doctor, and River was right to call him on it.

Here is the weakness. You've seen a lot of The Doctor. Knowing who he is, and his ability to go to any time, who would he have brought on? Now, I agree that we should see some new characters to represent people and adventures we've not seen, and that's a nice angle. But, here are some people he would absolutely assemble:

1). Jamie McCrimmon, Highlander, companion, warrior, trusted ally for years
2). Ace, companion, has own explosives and would absolutely love to be turned a bit loose.
3). Captain Jack Harkness - Really? How would you not grab him from somewhere along his extensive timeline for assistance? Not only would he willingly grant it, but it would be one person the Doctor wouldn't be afraid of dying.
4). The FUCKING Brigadier. How would the Doctor ever have access to all of time and space and yet not grab the Brig for a major battle. For that matter, why not a ton of other UNIT people, both named (Yates, Benton, Sullivan) and generic soldiers.



A large number of people from the classic series. He has allies including an Arthurian Knight with Excalibur, K9, some Ice Warriors, numerous monsters, robots, creatures, and more. But, no. It's all people from this season or a bunch of randoms. Feh.

You can;t do it in this format, so you should do in it novels and perhaps audios. It also wasn't much of a battle. There like ten people plus a squad of Silurians.

Ah, I see what it was Moffat suggested the character live at the end of the episode.

Wow, we hadn't even thought of that angle. We were so disconcerted by the silliness of the reveal that the army bit didn't even get attention. I thought the River bit was predictable and just not very good at all.