If rumour, speculation and the Daily Fail are to be believed (and its looking like they are) then tomorrows episode is going to end with a scene that'll most likely send certain sections of fandom and this forum into meltdown

Me? I could care less if whats rumoured does prove to be true, I'm more fussed about the 41 minutes of exhilarating drama we have to look forward to thatll lead up to it. But undoubtedly some are going to want to flame and moan and rage and use it as a stick with which to beat the new series.

With this in mind may i politely ask that this thread be used for all the:

HOW DARE THEY SEXUALISE DR WHO THIS WAY!

THIS WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED IN MY DAY!

AMY POND IS A HARLOT!

THE BBC ARE FILTH MONGERS!

I HAD TO PROTECT MY CHILDREN FROM THIS FILTH!

THE END IS NIGH!- AND THIS TIME I MEAN IT! I KNOW I SAID IT BEFORE BUT THIS TIME IT IS QUITE PROBABLY THE NIGHEST NIGH AN END COULD HAVE AND IT IS VERY VERY IMMINENT!

rants and comments that are likely to probably obscure and ruin any reasoned and fun debate of the episode as a whole.

Of course i have zero proof this will happen and might be totally wrong (mods are of course free to close this thread forthwith), but I'll have my tinhat on all the same.

This is brilliant

I've never had a problem with the Doctor's romantic escapades..but from all that description on the daily fail site - it just all looked a bit...strange, basically!

Good call

Now all it needs is Graham Norton over the important bits, to distract the children

Doesn't bother me either, interested to see how it's handled.

She is not a Harlot.

She's a STRUMPET

Oh my God, the kids I don't have will be so shocked.

I, like those stalwarts of morality that guide us through the hallow'd pages of the Daily Heil, fully intend to continue rewatching any clips of a sexual or violent nature that appear in Doctor Who over and over again in order to ensure that they are indeed as shocking and corrupting as they first appear. I shall also, in keeping with Tabloid tradition, endeavour to reproduce screen captures of the offending moments in order that small children who may have blinked () and missed them or not actually realised that the very fibre of their moral being was at risk can study at length the depravity inherent in this disgusting programme.

I can't help thinking that the BBC have scheduled this evening's episode 20 minutes earlier in order to deliberately bring this torrent of filth to as many extra young viewers as possible thereby bringing about the collapse of society as we know it.
Last edited by JohnFlawbod : 01-05-2010 at 07:23

My son was so scared last week he had to go and get Peppa AND George Pig to cuddle! Thats how depraived this programme is! I'm not going to watch EVER AGAIN (until tonight) If there's and monkey business going on tonight, well... Whats OFCOMs number?

You mean to say they're not on your speed dial? what on earth were you thinking?!?! Clearly not of the children.... Do so!

Fortunately I do not have to risk my soul to corruption and have to watch tonights episode to know that I am completely outraged. Thats the job of the tabloid media.

I am writing to my MP to complain even now. Should I wait till Thursday incase his name changes? Clearly the election should be delayed until this shameful matter has been resolved.

Outraged of Bristol.

What was I thinking? I'll ring them at leat 10 times just to make sure- I'm bound to be outraged- how do I go about being misquoted in a Daily Fail article?

There are of course the others

I blame RTD for this sexualisation of Dr Who.

Why does the Dr not want Amy, has RTD made him gay?

It's definitely totally and utterly gone downhill. I believe everything I read in the Daily Fail, and although I haven't read this particular bit of excellence, I'm sure they are right.

The end is not just nigh, it has already overtaken us, and it's grinning at us from each of the remaining episodes. What has happened to my lovely Dr Who.

Having read the article about how it's done, i reckon, it might be quite funny actually with The Doctor failing to get the hint.

Noromo

Joke all you wish, but this tacked on scene at the end of FaS is going to ruin the episode almost as much as having Norton's face appearing. I don't personally believe it is the slightest bit necessary to feature this kind of crap in Dr Who. And it's so pathetically predictable too. Rose's obsession? Yawn! Martha's obsession? Yawn! And now we have the exact same thing from Moffat. You can have chemistry and a spark between the Doctor and his companion without constantly having it rubbed in our faces. I was a huge supporter of what Moffat has done so far in this series but if he's not careful I'll start wishing for an epic fail.

If we end up with a meepmork then I will turn off forever
Noromo

I thought I had stumbled into a Simpsons thread for a second lol

Its like that Field of Dreams movie...'build it and they will come'

Find solace here discontented one :sleep:

Ah well, there's always one

Why is it, that whenever love or romance or sex get involved in sci-fi/cult shows, it always makes the uber-fans (nerds) get really uncomfortable and decry it as "this kind of crap" or other such dismissive terms.

I'm forever seeing people on DS saying they don't like True Blood (for instance) because there's too much sex in it, or that Lost is rubbish when it focusses on the Jack/Kate/Sawyer/Juliet love-square.

It's the same with 'Who: The simple fact that young women, faced with an endlessly charismatic and almost omniscient man who appears not too much older than themselves, might possibly fall for him seems like heresy to the hardcore fan.

Disregarding Rose & Martha for a moment (RTD's creations, so not fair to use as a stick to beat The Moff with), it absolutely makes sense that Amy, after 12+ years of waiting for her Raggety Doctor, might become overcome with desire for the man she's waited her entire adolescance for. Imagine wanting just one man/woman above all others throughout puberty.... only for him/her to turn up just as you reach sexual maturity, you'd jump their bones within minutes, let alone after five episodes!

Dare I suggest that certain fans' lack of experience in such areas fogs their view of such issues? Of course not, that would be a sweeping generalisation of course.

Be interesting to read the comments of the usual suspects on here about this after their withering condemnation of RTD and his alleged ruining of Dr Who by the romantic interests of Rose/Martha with the Doctor.

We've been told many times by the usual suspects about Amy being a throwback to the 'more traditional' companion of Classic Who, well I don't know if my memory is going but I don't remember Sarah Jane or Tegan acting in the way that Amy apparently does tonight.....

By the way, I have no problem with the scene, my comments are aimed at those who have claimed that SM is taking Dr Who back to it's 'golden era', when the reality is he has taken what RTD had created so successfully and changed very little, and quite rightly so IMO....

I think SM has rightly built on the brilliant foundations laid down by RTD and has retained many aspects but I think its understating things to claim he has changed very little.

The Eleventh Hour is tonally quite far removed from much of the RTD era and the fact is an episode quite like Time of Angels would never have been made under the RTD reign.

No, I'm afraid the fact isn't...the fact is that Time of Angels wasn't made under the RTD reign...but we're digressing: what about the children?

Personally, I've noticed the echoes from RTD's reign so far under the Moff regime, but I tend to see them as, "yes this has been done before, but this is how I'm going to do it!"

If that makes me a Moffat apologist then so be it, I loved the best of RTD's stuff as much as the next man, but it really jarred when it didn't work, nothing in the new series has jarred in quite the same way as some of the worst RTD.

I agree about Eleventh Hour, but The Time of Angels could easily have been an RTD-era episode, I reckon.