[CD93]

Legs on the Wall.

Best. Name. Ever.

[CoalHillJanitor]

Originally Posted by CD93

Legs on the Wall.

Best. Name. Ever.

Amy Pond discusses Pink Floyd.

[Sophie ~Oohie~]

I didn't see most of it. I had to climb up the scaffolding to save someone who'd impaled herself on a spike in part of the building. I managed to untangle her from all the wires and cover up where we were so she didn't freeze, then she started glowing kind of weird and I was like what in the actual world of f-ck is happening to the pyrotechnics, then she completely changed in a way that should not be possible and most definitely wasn't special effects (I mean they're good, but they're not that good) and told me not to let anyone see her because 'no-one can know about this', so we sneaked out and I hid her in a shut office block on the next road and went back to my group who never even noticed I was gone because they were too busy with a near-riot, then -

Never mind, that's the story idea I'm writing down. I just sorta stood there all evening and was so hungry I wanted to raid the all-night store but I wasn't allowed to get separated from the group. It was a fairly awesome performance though, except one bit that scared me.

[CoalHillJanitor]

Originally Posted by Sophie ~Oohie~

I didn't see most of it. I had to climb up the scaffolding to save someone who'd impaled herself on a spike in part of the building. I managed to untangle her from all the wires and cover up where we were so she didn't freeze, then she started glowing kind of weird and I was like what in the actual world of f-ck is happening to the pyrotechnics, then she completely changed in a way that should not be possible and most definitely wasn't special effects (I mean they're good, but they're not that good) and told me not to let anyone see her because 'no-one can know about this', so we sneaked out and I hid her in a shut office block on the next road and went back to my group who never even noticed I was gone because they were too busy with a near-riot, then -

Never mind, that's the story idea I'm writing down. I just sorta stood there all evening and was so hungry I wanted to raid the all-night store but I wasn't allowed to get separated from the group.

Only one comment from me.

[Sophie ~Oohie~]

Originally Posted by CoalHillJanitor

Only one comment from me.

And you're a cheeky git.

[CD93]

Time for more drinking, nonsensical discussion and continued, shameless, cheap, tiring pluggery.

Have at it, folks.

[Sophie ~Oohie~]

Originally Posted by CD93

Time for more drinking, nonsensical discussion and continued, shameless, cheap, tiring pluggery.

Have at it, folks.

My phone showed that word as "bluggery" I assumed the l was to get round the swearing filter!
I was about to say something about Captain Jack.

[Nikki E.]

Originally Posted by CD93

Time for more drinking, nonsensical discussion and continued, shameless, cheap, tiring pluggery.

Have at it, folks.

Ha, ha! Love it!

[CD93]

Originally Posted by Nikki E.

Ha, ha! Love it!

Mission Accomplished.

[pajs1000]

Originally Posted by Sophie ~Oohie~

I didn't see most of it. I had to climb up the scaffolding to save someone who'd impaled herself on a spike in part of the building. I managed to untangle her from all the wires and cover up where we were so she didn't freeze, then she started glowing kind of weird and I was like what in the actual world of f-ck is happening to the pyrotechnics, then she completely changed in a way that should not be possible and most definitely wasn't special effects (I mean they're good, but they're not that good) and told me not to let anyone see her because 'no-one can know about this', so we sneaked out and I hid her in a shut office block on the next road and went back to my group who never even noticed I was gone because they were too busy with a near-riot, then -

Never mind, that's the story idea I'm writing down. I just sorta stood there all evening and was so hungry I wanted to raid the all-night store but I wasn't allowed to get separated from the group. It was a fairly awesome performance though, except one bit that scared me.

Keep doing your thing!

[Hallamsteriscoo]

Quiet in here tonight, is something happening that I'm not aware of?

*pours drinks for all those not interested in watching 22 men in shorts kick a bag of wind around on a patch of grass*

[Tumpy]

Watching the 22 men but its penalties. Not that I care really because I'm Welsh.

[CoalHillJanitor]

Hoping lach surfaces soon to comment.


Rock Solid

The first of two episodes featuring a song composed and performed by Lee Ross. We hear the chords from the first song played on the guitar throughout this episode as we find Kenny dealing with everyone’s emotional problems at the Junior Gazette, including Lynda and Spike who are both phoning in.

Kenny mentions the existence of electric typewriters but doesn’t really mention that the manual ones were already an anachronism in their time.

So there is Colin hiding in Kenny’s wardrobe with Frazz taping the song. Was that actually a reel-to-reel tape recorder? I can’t remember now. Kenny is Colin’s latest cash cow in progress. Meanwhile Lynda keeps hallucinating Spike in the newsroom and we learn that he has quit the Gaz. Finally the bigger bomb is dropped at the close: he’s returning to America. But nothing is necessarily as it seems…

Kenny, after receiving a slappogram – ‘Normally beautiful women just ignore me. I see I’m entering a new phase.’

Colin, to people queued up for his bricklike mobile – ‘Hello, this isn’t a public phone, I was just … How much?’

Kenny, mocking plans to make him a rock star – ‘Colin, you are almost worth knowing for moments like this.’

Not one of the best episodes but still entertaining. I think series 2 was the one that won the BAFTA.



The Big Finish?

Finally the episode that gave Big Finish Productions its name. In by-now-traditional Moffat fashion this one is told in flashbacks as Lynda waits by the phone in the dark and empty newsroom. Graduation time and the future of the Junior Gazette is in doubt, as was the future of Press Gang.

I love moments where the writer talks indirectly to the audience through one of the characters.
Lynda to Tiddler: ‘There is going to be no traditional ending.’

The Moff’s first marriage was breaking up during this series as his first wife Maggie had left him for a man called Brian. So he took out his frustrations on guest character ‘Brian Magboy’, who announces himself as Kenny’s replacement but finally backs out after suffering horrible bodily injuries throughout the episode.

When Spike first enters the newsroom there is great rapid-fire dialogue between him and Lynda, too much of it to transcribe. Then he gives Sarah some massive snoggage in front of Lynda even as Sarah contemplates a relationship with Magboy. More of Moffat’s psychodrama laid out for the cameras.

Spike to Colin – ‘You have a face that people want to stab in the back.’

Sullivan to Kerr – ‘That’s the thing about teaching, Matt. Sometimes they actually learn.’

Spike to Kenny – ‘And if you get in trouble out there, just think of me. I always do.’

After repeatedly hallucinating Spike, Lynda apparently sees him coming into the darkened room but it’s actually Kenny given the Spike treatment. But Spike soon follows and the long-postponed relationship stuff happens. We now learn that Lynda can use the ‘L word’ after all, which sort of makes the earlier stuff a bit pointless and makes one wonder why we got to this point. Clearly Lynda wants the relationship, or so it seemed, and the fact that she ‘just wants to run a newspaper’ doesn’t seem reason enough to end it. But perhaps Moffat’s own breakup wasn’t making rational sense to him either.

Spike – ‘I don’t think that was an answer.’
Lynda – ‘I didn’t think that was a question.’
I always get flashbacks to dialogue like this during the ‘Are you asking?’ scene with River Song in The Big Bang. And Spike and Lynda briefly use dancing as a metaphor for the way they deal with each other, though it’s not the same dancing metaphor as in The Doctor Dances.

So it ends with the ringing phone, could be about the paper’s future or it could be Spike’s dad. Lynda – ‘Either way, I think someone’s expecting us to grow up.’ Close with the second Lee Ross song performed by Rockstar Kenny under the credits, followed by the shortest audio vignette of all: ‘Hello, Junior Gazette.’

7 stars out of 7½.


Next time IIRC, the greatest Innuendo Squad moment of all.
6 episodes each in the remaining series, could be done in threes I suppose.

[davrosdodebird]

Hi all!

*sits down in comfy chair with jelly babies*

I'm reading "Inside The TARDIS: The Worlds of Doctor Who" by James Chapman. It's a very intellectual read, and very informative too. I didn't realise just how complex the origins of the show were!

[dgembadgemba]

Originally Posted by Tumpy

Watching the 22 men but its penalties. Not that I care really because I'm Welsh.

bahaha this cracked me up

[CD93]

Just watched The Big Bang again. Realised that when The Doctor arrives in the TARDIS to save River, it's the same moment as from "The Wedding of River Song."

"...and what sort of time do you call this?"

Still love how it was the first "happy ending" of the new series.

[Tiggs99]

Hi-di-hi Campers!

I thought I'd pop in to say hi, as it's been so long since I passed by.

So, new Doctor Who getting nearer. Fandabbydozy.

How is everyone? Are you all behaving yourselves?

[Sophie ~Oohie~]

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[Webslark]

Originally Posted by Tiggs99

Hi-di-hi Campers!

I thought I'd pop in to say hi, as it's been so long since I passed by.

So, new Doctor Who getting nearer. Fandabbydozy.

How is everyone? Are you all behaving yourselves?

As much as we ever do
In fact its been quite quiet round here of late. I put it down to too little DW on telly and too many outbreaks of a tiresome.nature.

**pours large CHV for the stripy one**

[Tiggs99]

Originally Posted by Webslark

As much as we ever do
In fact its been quite quiet round here of late. I put it down to too little DW on telly and too many outbreaks of a tiresome.nature.

**pours large CHV for the stripy one**

Thank you...chin chin.

Outbreaks? How awful. I hope you kept yourselves isolated from anything nasty.

[Webslark]

And you may find this amusing, which a good friend brought to my attention

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJMVxZ8pGzA

[Webslark]

Originally Posted by Tiggs99

Thank you...chin chin.

Outbreaks? How awful. I hope you kept yourselves isolated from anything nasty.

A certain degree of quarantine only. After all without a decent surgical removal it would only fester and spread.

What news from your part of the world? the Clan McTigger all hale and hearty I trust.

[Sophie ~Oohie~]

Originally Posted by Tiggs99

Thank you...chin chin.

Outbreaks? How awful. I hope you kept yourselves isolated from anything nasty.

Edit: Oh he means the trolling on here. I thought for a minute you were referring to the episode with the outbreak of Failed Regeneration Virus. And right after they manage to undo the Time War and fix everything as well

[Webslark]

Originally Posted by Sophie ~Oohie~

Edit: Oh he means the trolling on here. I thought for a minute you were referring to the episode with the outbreak of Failed Regeneration Virus. And right after they manage to undo the Time War and fix everything as well

You've been using the spare TARDIS to watch those episodes from season 15 with the 13 doctor again haven't you?

Who would have thought Miranda Hart could pull it off

How's you Sophie?

[Sophie ~Oohie~]

Originally Posted by Webslark

You've been using the spare TARDIS to watch those episodes from season 15 with the 13 doctor again haven't you?

Who would have thought Miranda Hart could pull it off

How's you Sophie?

Uh no I read it on doctorwhospoilers.com