Originally Posted by
Saturn:
“I thought season 4 was pretty terrible and haven't bothered downloading 5 but now it has finished i'll download the lot and watch it back to back.
It just seemed like they were throwing too much at it....werewolves, werepanthers, shapeshifters, witches, fairies, Lafayette's dude. I preferred it when more of the cast were just normal.
I never like when programmes have a jump in time either (when Sookie lost 2 years of whatever it was). When Desperate Housewives moved forward 4 years was precisely when I gave up on it.
I also hated what they did to my Eric
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It does seem to be getting that way. I liked how real series 1 felt, and, although I enjoyed it, series 2 lost that spark.
Originally Posted by
weedydiamond:
“Oh, goody, no-one has revealed any spoilers about the new episode of Doctor Who, as I haven’t seen it yet. And I’ve seen every episode since the first one, way back in 1963 (and that meant staying in on Saturdays, before we had our first video recorder in 1980.
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Sexual Tension? Really? Generally the Doctors Companion is usually a cute and or feisty youngster, and usually female, whose job is to ask the Doctor the questions that the audience would ask.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_(Doctor_Who)
As examples I give you the original grand-daughter Susan, Polly, Victoria, Zoe, Jo and Nyssa. (Please don’t mention the irritating Tegan, Peri, Melanie and Ace!)
As the Doctors have got younger, there has always been some possibility of sexual interest, but the writers have always steered away from it, making the Doctor particularly naïve about this human trait, and as such, a rich source of humour. I expect the dark-haired cutie from Emmerdale to be no different.”
It only seems to have become such a common trait over the past few years. It's never from the Doctor himself. It just seems shoehorned in, for a cheap gag.
Quote:
“Merlin - Bumped into Arthur Pendragon (and the knight Adetomiwa Edun) in the bar of a Cardiff hotel earlier this year – they tend to use locations around Cardiff for some of the filming (I am always spotting bits of Caerphilly Castle in the show) and the medieval village you’ve seen is at Cosmeston Lakes near Penarth.
I also walked through the Being Human outside location set last week. What with Doctor Who, Torchwood, Merlin, Gavin and Stacey, Being Human, Cardiff and its environs is fast becoming the UK’s Hollywood!”
I often visit Cosmeston, but not the mediaeval village. They were filming at the caves near Cinderford in the Forest of Dean a few weeks ago.
Being Human manages to include supernatural characters without overdoing it.