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Post by Sting on Oct 23, 2018 2:34:34 GMT -5
I loved all that Tim Shaw stuff lol. I have so far only been able to watch the first episode and think she is a good fit so far. I just hope when she needs to be really serious that she can pull it off. Tennant was really good at going from funny to serious. Smith too. Watch Rosa. Funny to serious in under a second. Speaking of, that episode just got plastered everywhere on the internet this morning. Everyone, everywhere is talking about it. There's people here in the states calling for Emmy nominations for any/all combinations of Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, and Jodie Whittaker on that episode alone. Graham's hatred of having to remain in the situation to ensure the fixed point in human history is carried out alone...the struggle Walsh brought to Graham...brilliant. Heaven Sent will always be my favorite episode. Peter Davison will always be my favorite Doctor. But Rosa may well be the most well made episode of Doctor Who ever. Holy hell. Such a powerful episode not just for Who, but television as a whole. Many a show have tackled the topic, but the fact that a British show was able to make such waves and handle the Montgomery situation with such poise, grit, and grace the likes rarely achieved by US TV? And to relate it to modern day and the future? BBC is gonna gain a ton of new lookeyloos after how big a wave this episode made, here's hoping they can capitalize. Uhhhhh I'm so excited to watch episodes 2 and 3 now! I'm gonna put my building work on hold tonight and watch them.
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Post by bad guy™ on Oct 23, 2018 22:12:46 GMT -5
Watch Rosa. Funny to serious in under a second. Speaking of, that episode just got plastered everywhere on the internet this morning. Everyone, everywhere is talking about it. There's people here in the states calling for Emmy nominations for any/all combinations of Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, and Jodie Whittaker on that episode alone. Graham's hatred of having to remain in the situation to ensure the fixed point in human history is carried out alone...the struggle Walsh brought to Graham...brilliant. Heaven Sent will always be my favorite episode. Peter Davison will always be my favorite Doctor. But Rosa may well be the most well made episode of Doctor Who ever. Holy hell. Such a powerful episode not just for Who, but television as a whole. Many a show have tackled the topic, but the fact that a British show was able to make such waves and handle the Montgomery situation with such poise, grit, and grace the likes rarely achieved by US TV? And to relate it to modern day and the future? BBC is gonna gain a ton of new lookeyloos after how big a wave this episode made, here's hoping they can capitalize. Uhhhhh I'm so excited to watch episodes 2 and 3 now! I'm gonna put my building work on hold tonight and watch them. So what'd we think?
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Post by Sting on Oct 24, 2018 5:47:59 GMT -5
Uhhhhh I'm so excited to watch episodes 2 and 3 now! I'm gonna put my building work on hold tonight and watch them. So what'd we think? I watched episode 2. Really liked it. I like the direction the series is going so far. The tone and feel of it is perfect. At first I thought 3 companions was a stupid idea but the dynamics of them work quite well. The new Tardis design looks incredible too. Will watch Rosa tonight!
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Post by bad guy™ on Oct 24, 2018 14:28:16 GMT -5
I watched episode 2. Really liked it. I like the direction the series is going so far. The tone and feel of it is perfect. At first I thought 3 companions was a stupid idea but the dynamics of them work quite well. The new Tardis design looks incredible too. Will watch Rosa tonight! Good, that's the one I want the reaction from. Ghost Monument was good, but Rosa is in a class of its own.
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Post by Sting on Oct 25, 2018 2:31:38 GMT -5
I watched episode 2. Really liked it. I like the direction the series is going so far. The tone and feel of it is perfect. At first I thought 3 companions was a stupid idea but the dynamics of them work quite well. The new Tardis design looks incredible too. Will watch Rosa tonight! Good, that's the one I want the reaction from. Ghost Monument was good, but Rosa is in a class of its own. I watched Rosa. Good episode, very serious in the issues it dealt with and combined the past and modern times brilliantly. Ryan, of course, was brilliant. The Doctor did what she had to do at the end. I felt more emotion and better acting from Graham and Ryan than I did from the Doctor though. Maybe that was how it was scripted, for obvious reasons. When it was first announced that Bradley Walsh would be on the show I didn't think he'd do that great. I thought he'd be like Donna's granddad, just comedy relief for the most part. But he is a very experienced actor and it shows, he acts scenes out perfectly. I want to see Jodie get angry soon, like the other doctors have. I never saw any of her previous work but her first 3 Who episodes have been really good so far.
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Post by Sting on Oct 25, 2018 5:12:41 GMT -5
King Richius have you seen the first 3 episodes of S11? How are you liking it so far?
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Post by King Richius on Oct 25, 2018 10:07:50 GMT -5
King Richius have you seen the first 3 episodes of S11? How are you liking it so far? It's been pretty good so far. Jodie is fitting in well as the Doctor and although I'm more of a one companion at a time fan, I'm adjusting to the trio with Graham being my favorite.
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Post by bad guy™ on Nov 2, 2018 16:12:25 GMT -5
Good, that's the one I want the reaction from. Ghost Monument was good, but Rosa is in a class of its own. I watched Rosa. Good episode, very serious in the issues it dealt with and combined the past and modern times brilliantly. Ryan, of course, was brilliant. The Doctor did what she had to do at the end. I felt more emotion and better acting from Graham and Ryan than I did from the Doctor though. Maybe that was how it was scripted, for obvious reasons. When it was first announced that Bradley Walsh would be on the show I didn't think he'd do that great. I thought he'd be like Donna's granddad, just comedy relief for the most part. But he is a very experienced actor and it shows, he acts scenes out perfectly. I want to see Jodie get angry soon, like the other doctors have. I never saw any of her previous work but her first 3 Who episodes have been really good so far. Ryan and Graham had to be more emotional and angry than The Doctor that episode. The Doctor obviously knows of discrimination being on Earth forever, and they've hinted in the past that Doc is from a high and mighty Gallifreian family compared to lower Time Lords (something Ashildr/Me talked about in both of her future meetings with 12), something The Master always also brought up arguably teasing that Master was low class and Doc was high born and they were friends and Rassilon was the one that put the wedge between them. But aside from that, Doc has seen misogyny first hand and xenophobia, but race well...Doc has always been white as have a strong majority of the companions so it never came up too much. Graham and Ryan though, being in an interracial family having to shut up so the movement could start...I think it was written that way.
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Post by bad guy™ on Nov 2, 2018 16:14:24 GMT -5
Arachnids in the UK was a good episode. Nothing near Rosa, but still good. The political commentary was brilliant. Curious about this week. It kinda looks like they're either on New New Earth (Face of Boe place with the cat nurses) or a proper Mondas prior to the advent of the Cybermen. I'm interested. Also wanna see if Krazko comes back.
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Post by Sting on Nov 2, 2018 16:44:02 GMT -5
I watched Rosa. Good episode, very serious in the issues it dealt with and combined the past and modern times brilliantly. Ryan, of course, was brilliant. The Doctor did what she had to do at the end. I felt more emotion and better acting from Graham and Ryan than I did from the Doctor though. Maybe that was how it was scripted, for obvious reasons. When it was first announced that Bradley Walsh would be on the show I didn't think he'd do that great. I thought he'd be like Donna's granddad, just comedy relief for the most part. But he is a very experienced actor and it shows, he acts scenes out perfectly. I want to see Jodie get angry soon, like the other doctors have. I never saw any of her previous work but her first 3 Who episodes have been really good so far. Ryan and Graham had to be more emotional and angry than The Doctor that episode. The Doctor obviously knows of discrimination being on Earth forever, and they've hinted in the past that Doc is from a high and mighty Gallifreian family compared to lower Time Lords (something Ashildr/Me talked about in both of her future meetings with 12), something The Master always also brought up arguably teasing that Master was low class and Doc was high born and they were friends and Rassilon was the one that put the wedge between them. But aside from that, Doc has seen misogyny first hand and xenophobia, but race well...Doc has always been white as have a strong majority of the companions so it never came up too much. Graham and Ryan though, being in an interracial family having to shut up so the movement could start...I think it was written that way. What are your thoughts on the writers hinting at the Doctor having previously been a female? That's what they hinted at right? I can't remember exactly what she said, something about being a nurse. She said she was a little girl or something? I need to re-watch that scene. I just remember sitting there scratching my head thinking the writers must never have seen any of the previous episodes lol. If they are suggesting she was previously a female then they must have forgotten about all the previous regenerations. Apparently the writers have already run out of ideas and won't be giving us an Xmas special this year. I'm all for them givingus new characters and not going down the same old Cyberman/Dalek route etc in episodes but Jesus H. Christ just give us an Xmas special!
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Post by bad guy™ on Nov 2, 2018 17:00:29 GMT -5
Ryan and Graham had to be more emotional and angry than The Doctor that episode. The Doctor obviously knows of discrimination being on Earth forever, and they've hinted in the past that Doc is from a high and mighty Gallifreian family compared to lower Time Lords (something Ashildr/Me talked about in both of her future meetings with 12), something The Master always also brought up arguably teasing that Master was low class and Doc was high born and they were friends and Rassilon was the one that put the wedge between them. But aside from that, Doc has seen misogyny first hand and xenophobia, but race well...Doc has always been white as have a strong majority of the companions so it never came up too much. Graham and Ryan though, being in an interracial family having to shut up so the movement could start...I think it was written that way. What are your thoughts on the writers hinting at the Doctor having previously been a female? That's what they hinted at right? I can't remember exactly what she said, something about being a nurse. She said she was a little girl or something? I need to re-watch that scene. I just remember sitting there scratching my head thinking the writers must never have seen any of the previous episodes lol. If they are suggesting she was previously a female then they must have forgotten about all the previous regenerations. Apparently the writers have already run out of ideas and won't be giving us an Xmas special this year. I'm all for them givingus new characters and not going down the same old Cyberman/Dalek route etc in episodes but Jesus H. Christ just give us an Xmas special! Well. No Christmas special means no regeneration. Which is good. That said, I HIGHLY doubt they're gonna gloss over a Christmas episode for Whittaker. They have this year GUARANTEED before she even considers leaving, it's basically a rite of passage for everyone not named Paul McGann. Running out of ideas doesn't surprise me. The reception of Timshaw and Krazko wasn't all that hot, and last weeks villain was basically Donald Trump with it the headpiece so they're not exactly rolling in great villains right now. Which is odd, because CC wrote Torchwood. And, so far as I know, the only paranormal entities the Doctor encountered that were also Torchwood were the Slevene and Captain Jack himself. Why not dig up some of the Torchwood villains Whovians may have a tiny bit of knowledge of if they watched both, and spell them out a little bit more for totally new fans who came in after Tennant/end of Torchwood? You don't have to blow the budget on crazy alien worlds and special effects every episode. Jump into the vault. Bring back the Valeyard, or Rani. CC said he wouldn't be using any villains used in the Moffat era, and that's fine. As long as we get ONE obligatory Dalek episode during her tenure, we don't need The Master, Cybermen, Weeping Angels, or The Silence. Doesn't mean we can't see old villains from the classic series, or villains from the branch off series Torchwood, Mary Jane Chronicles, or Class. Hell, give us an episode where the Eye of Harmony s up. Those were always fun. Take Team TARDIS to Gallifrey and make sure Rassilon has remained exiled, explain what happened (telling them that 13 iterations of herself showed up to save the world will blow all their minds). Hell, have The Doctor and Friends accidentally run into McGann's Doctor at some point between the end of his movie and his regeneration into 8 1/2, like tell us how he was and what he was doing right before he wound up saving the girl in Night of the Doctor before crashing.
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Post by bad guy™ on Nov 2, 2018 17:04:53 GMT -5
And regarding Doc previously being a girl, or joking about it, Doc talks without thinking a lot. Remember Missy talking to Clara saying "I AM HIS BEST FRIEND. I was there when he ran off with Lord Rassilon's daughter, when he was a small little girl, and tried to steal another TARDIS but it was already broken. And only one of those is a lie." Or something like that. It was the episode Davros from Clara's final season.
I don't think Doc was anything other than what she is now or we've seen. Born a boy, lived to a ripe old age before regenerating because of age (1) and here we are today.
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Post by Sting on Nov 2, 2018 17:21:16 GMT -5
And regarding Doc previously being a girl, or joking about it, Doc talks without thinking a lot. Remember Missy talking to Clara saying "I AM HIS BEST FRIEND. I was there when he ran off with Lord Rassilon's daughter, when he was a small little girl, and tried to steal another TARDIS but it was already broken. And only one of those is a lie." Or something like that. It was the episode Davros from Clara's final season. I don't think Doc was anything other than what she is now or we've seen. Born a boy, lived to a ripe old age before regenerating because of age (1) and here we are today. I bloody well hope so haha. I'm all for them mixing things up, but only if they stay true to the basics (e.g. past regenerations)
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Post by King Richius on Nov 3, 2018 7:26:13 GMT -5
I watched Rosa. Good episode, very serious in the issues it dealt with and combined the past and modern times brilliantly. Ryan, of course, was brilliant. The Doctor did what she had to do at the end. I felt more emotion and better acting from Graham and Ryan than I did from the Doctor though. Maybe that was how it was scripted, for obvious reasons. When it was first announced that Bradley Walsh would be on the show I didn't think he'd do that great. I thought he'd be like Donna's granddad, just comedy relief for the most part. But he is a very experienced actor and it shows, he acts scenes out perfectly. I want to see Jodie get angry soon, like the other doctors have. I never saw any of her previous work but her first 3 Who episodes have been really good so far. Ryan and Graham had to be more emotional and angry than The Doctor that episode. The Doctor obviously knows of discrimination being on Earth forever, and they've hinted in the past that Doc is from a high and mighty Gallifreian family compared to lower Time Lords (something Ashildr/Me talked about in both of her future meetings with 12), something The Master always also brought up arguably teasing that Master was low class and Doc was high born and they were friends and Rassilon was the one that put the wedge between them. But aside from that, Doc has seen misogyny first hand and xenophobia, but race well...Doc has always been white as have a strong majority of the companions so it never came up too much. Graham and Ryan though, being in an interracial family having to shut up so the movement could start...I think it was written that way. As a time lord, the Doctor has a better grasp of history and those pesky "fixed points" in time that can't be altered... and in this case shouldn't because without Rosa's part in the civil rights movement the whole thing might have been delayed or altered. She has a certain objectivity due to knowing how things turn out that the humans don't. Doesn't mean she didn't like what was going on, just that she was better equipped to see it as a part of a bigger picture that had to happen. In a way, it reminded me of that Quantum Leap episode that dealt with the assassination of Kennedy where Sam and Al could not prevent JFK from dying because it was a "fixed point"... but they did alter things enough that Jacquie lived.
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Post by Sting on Nov 6, 2018 3:20:41 GMT -5
Episode 5 was a snooze fest.
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Post by bad guy™ on Nov 12, 2018 0:33:21 GMT -5
Another banger of an episode. I'm really digging the return to roots Who, with a focus on history as much as it is on aliens and villains. In half these episodes, you could argue human nature was the true villain. Jodie is an amazing Doctor, and the two speeches tonight by Pram, the one with Graham/Ryan, and with Mandeesh at the end, were phenomenal.
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Post by Sting on Nov 12, 2018 5:57:49 GMT -5
Another banger of an episode. I'm really digging the return to roots Who, with a focus on history as much as it is on aliens and villains. In half these episodes, you could argue human nature was the true villain. Jodie is an amazing Doctor, and the two speeches tonight by Pram, the one with Graham/Ryan, and with Mandeesh at the end, were phenomenal. Totally agree. I'm half-way through the episode atm, really enjoying it. My wife is Pakistani too so this episode feels extra special for me and her.
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Post by bad guy™ on Nov 12, 2018 18:18:22 GMT -5
Another banger of an episode. I'm really digging the return to roots Who, with a focus on history as much as it is on aliens and villains. In half these episodes, you could argue human nature was the true villain. Jodie is an amazing Doctor, and the two speeches tonight by Pram, the one with Graham/Ryan, and with Mandeesh at the end, were phenomenal. Totally agree. I'm half-way through the episode atm, really enjoying it. My wife is Pakistani too so this episode feels extra special for me and her. Yeah. Rosa hit close to home for my mum because she was a forefront supporter of the Civil Rights Movement here in Pittsburgh, one of the many young, white, Irish or Polish-Americans standing with the men and women who lived on the "other side of town" but worked mill jobs with. I've successfully turned her into a Whovian. She's a Bradley Walsh fan so when I told her he was on she was interested. She never liked the other Doctors because they came across as pompous to her so she never invested time into getting to know the show. She's now giving it a fighting chance because she loves Whittaker in the role and I'm picking and choosing certain episodes that were "key" from Eccleston to now for her to watch to get more of the lore. Because Whittaker won't be around forever, and eventually Chibs will have to bite the bullet and reintroduce something like Daleks, Cybermen, Valeyard, Angels...some kind of key villain from the past.
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Post by Sting on Nov 25, 2018 16:06:02 GMT -5
Loved Kerblam, I’ll watch today’s episode tomorrow. This season is pretty enjoyable. I like the 3 companions. I didn’t think I would at the start, but I really do now.
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Post by Sting on Dec 2, 2018 6:43:54 GMT -5
This season is going too fast. The preview for today's episode looks really good.
**Edit**
Yep, the episode was bloody brilliant!
Looks like Tim Shaw is back for the next episode.
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