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Doctor Who 21st may

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Salford_Who

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by Mulett:
“A good writer ensures viewers engage and invest in a story. Why would we bother investing if it turned out we’d been watching a fraudster for 3 months?

Dramatically, it wouldn’t work because for every viewer who was shocked/excited by the twist, there would be millions more who would find it a massive turn-off. And that's the last thing Doctor Who needs after 16 years in the wilderness.

Think about Bobby Ewing coming back in the shower in Dallas. Did that work dramatically? I think not because it undermined the integrity of the entire show, leaving viewers thinking “God, how stupid”. They pulled in the viewers for his come-back episode, but it was down-hill all the way thereafter.

I’d hate to see something like that happen with Dr Who.”

Whilst I agree with you about a shock ending, if RTD started to build up the idea that the doctor wasn't who we thought he was now, then we would believe it.

If this is introduced in the last episode, as a quick fix, I agree that it would alienate many viewers.

cj592

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by xxsammiexx2003:
“looks as though its a good one. although in my oppinion they all are.”

Thats if they show it.. They may decide to cancle it due to the FA cup going into extra time

Cj

JohnFlawbod

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by Salford_Who:
“Whilst I agree with you about a shock ending, if RTD started to build up the idea that the doctor wasn't who we thought he was now, then we would believe it.

If this is introduced in the last episode, as a quick fix, I agree that it would alienate many viewers.”

Indeed...God I hate extra time...if it goes to penalties I hope they shorten they news! Of course, the programme is called "Doctor Who" the character is called "The Doctor" - only past mythology has equated the two...my mind remains open to whatever is thrown at it before I cry Foul! Ref! D'you need glasses or what? Sorry...mmm, hope the 18:30 time stays as scheduled.....

JordanDS

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by cj592:
“Thats if they show it.. They may decide to cancle it due to the FA cup going into extra time

Cj”

Panic over - Junior Mastermind has been postponed until tomorrow.

Alrightmate

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by DenWatts:
“Spoiler tags are not needed for conjecture - it's not 'fact' so it's not spoiling anything. It's simply someone's opinion.

As mentioned before, if you know a fact from a future episode or plotline, then spoiler tags must be used.

And Eric Roberts would be a definite low for this series, in my humble opinion.”

I agree with you.

I don't know why some people are complaining about spoilers.

Absolutely nothing has been "spoilt" in this thread as far as I can see.

If we put spoiler tags on theories and ideas, then the thread would be unreadable, and the page on first glance would be almost completely covered by big grey boxes.

Jenna Corinth

21-05-2005

Spoiler

Alrightmate

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by DenWatts:
“Traditionally John, we have had problems in the past in that we were originally told to keep posts about DW to a single thread.

Posters had been told to "feck off" for starting multiple threads (I kid you not), and there were complaints of 'not another DW thread' from tv forum members, so out of regard for other members of the tv forum, we restricted ourselves to posting everything in the one thread, hence the speculation and everything else gets added into the single episode thread.

We did request a seperate sci-fi sub forum - I myself wrote a very polite request detailing everyone's points as to the advantages of this. Unfortunately, although several of us took this approach, the request has at present time been denied. We have also been told that starting extra threads would not help the case.

We have been promised that this will be looked at in the future, so at present time I'm at a bit of a loss as to how we progress this. Due to the fact that we had to be restricted to one thread, nobody really objected when people veered 'off topic' in this thread, as long as it was DW related.”

We were also told that there were not enough Doctor Who threads started to warrant a new forum.

Alrightmate

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by KennyT:
“Hmmm, I thought he was just trying to kill the Dalek, not torture it!

K”

Just trying to kill it?

Oh, well that's okay then.

Killing's cool. It would have been too terrible to even think about if he tortured it instead.

Alrightmate

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by Rmcdowell:
“Yes, I thought 'torture' was a gross exaggeration, imho.”

A gross exaggeration of somebody killing someone??

Torture as a gross exaggeration of killing??

Another person who feels that murder is much more acceptable than the terrible idea of torture.

Alrightmate

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by ChinaTea:
“So what Gwynneth actually said was: "The things you've seen... Jack Harkness... The big bad Wolf..." ”

That's nice.

I get the sarcastic rolling eyeballs because my tongue in cheekness is read as stupidity.

I'll piss off for a few days I think.

Black Guardian

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by Alrightmate:
“

A gross exaggeration of somebody killing someone??

Torture as a gross exaggeration of killing??

Another person who feels that murder is much more acceptable than the terrible idea of torture.

”

That is why we saw it from Rose's perspective that what they were doing to the Dalek was unacceptable even to the point where the Doctor was prepared to kill it, she challenged him.

*edit: please don't disappear on us AM. your contributions are valued on the forums.

Black Guardian

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by Jenna Corinth:
“

Spoiler

John Barrowman didn't say he's an adversary to the Doctor and Rose. He said Jack starts off by trying to con them because he's lost his memory, then they become allys and a 'threesome' [sic]!

”

In the interview I saw with JB I am sure he described CJ as more of an

Spoiler

SteveW2

21-05-2005

with FA Cup having Extra time and Penalties, will BBC drop Mastermind or move Dr Who and shorten National Lottery ?

See in fact they have dropepd Mastermind - now on Sunday 3.35pm
Last edited by SteveW2 : 21-05-2005 at 18:20

*Eileen*

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by SteveW2:
“with FA Cup having Extra time and Penalties, will BBC drop Mastermind or move Dr Who and shorten National Lottery ?”

Well they have just showed a trailer and said Dr Who is on at 6:30, so I don't know what they're doing in between but it seems that DW is still on as scheduled.

Alrightmate

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by Black Guardian:
“That is why we saw it from Rose's perspective that what they were doing to the Dalek was unacceptable even to the point where the Doctor was prepared to kill it, she challenged him.

*edit: please don't disappear on us AM. your contributions are valued on the forums.”

It's okay, if I'm inclined to post, I will.

I would have thought torture is bad, but killing is worse.
But the point is that they're both bad aren't they?

SteveW2

21-05-2005

you are quick Eileen, I've seen that and just edited my post !

Black Guardian

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by Alrightmate:
“It's okay, if I'm inclined to post, I will.

I would have thought torture is bad, but killing is worse.
But the point is that they're both bad aren't they?”

Quite! I couldn't agree more! Think RTD was trying to make us think about Guatemano Bay (not sure if that is how it is spelt!) and the the human right abuses that allegedly took place there.

As far as I am concerned torture and murder is unacceptable and Rose illustrated that perfectly in this episode.

thms

21-05-2005

i like this episode already..somehow it feels right

StewartF

21-05-2005

Looks good so far.

Barbara2001

21-05-2005

It's mauve and dangerous!

thms

21-05-2005

good catch

kev_6655

21-05-2005

That kid is scary.

thms

21-05-2005

it's very creepy

SteveW2

21-05-2005

bad wolf any body ?

StewartF

21-05-2005

Originally Posted by thms:
“it's very creepy”

Supposed to be one of the scariest eps of the series.

The little kid is very weird.

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