The Mechanoids were wonderful, and a proper match for the Daleks - but you sort of got the impression that you'd been waiting all of the story until you met them?

And what about number two who jigs.......Dr Dances anyone???????????

Where is the bloddy poll!!!!!!!!!!

Blame the 19.55 Birmingham to Leicester.

It'll be there in a tick.

Bx.

Do you reckon Mickey might go bad? She has treated him badly.... I hope not I quite like him, he's grown on me...

And there it is!

who would have thought it ?

the 19.55 train
from birmingham to leicester
gets a mention

in a dr who thread



lol

Thanks Beth - kick your fellow mods though as me and several other people have nagged them about this tonight Glad you're back - even if the trains were late

I've voted v good btw

Some interesting stuff as always. With the Daleks returning, is it safe to say they have had input throughout when various threats (Autons, Slitheen, Gelth) have been made on Earth?

Well either they have or the people controlling them have been creating diversions to put DW off the scent.

OOOH Thats an idea with legs.. and the Daleks and/or their controller have been watching it all on Bad Wolf TV?

And so has the whole of humanity - as a game show - completely oblivious to what's about to happen..............

I just voted poor. Personally I found it very slow. I felt that there wasn't a real story line for the first 30 min, in fact at half past I looked at watch and wondered when it was starting. Then they tried to pack a relatively complex story line into 15 min. By complex I mean it should have been extended and then it could've been decent. If they had explained more about the powers of the tardis and gone into more detail about it in general

on again now

on bbc3


i just wanna see
the next week trailor again

wooooooo !!!

i forgot to say

i voted fair

wasnt that exciting really

but not bad

....just a bit different,
slowish ?

but i am loving this series
and my fav doc was pat troughton

who are you lot
fav docs ?

I didn't like all the cardiff sentimentality

ok so most of the crew are welsh, but that doesnt mean i want to see a five minute long opening shot of a panorama of cardiff and all its sights.

Oh yes... and he has an ally - remember Adam?

@ La'G

Does it really take five minutes of camera work to show all of Cardiff's POI's?

I timed it - 20 seconds

And now I feel slightly ashamed for even making a slight quip!

Im liking this possibility more and more,, It seems plausable and would be a great twist

A filler episode. But a good one.

A nice character piece. Fun, good acting, and not too much farting...

But the trailer. Can't wait for next week!!!

noted (why do I always have insomnia the day before a double shift )

The episode held my rapt attention all the way through.

The story wasn't about the rift really, and calling it Boom Town is a misnomer, but it did the thing that RTD does best - characters.

Capn Jack and the Doctor made a good double act, the upset stomach "gags" (bad turn of phrase) didn't drag the story down the way the farting did, and Annette Badland was deliciously twisted. I loved her explaining away various accidents that had befallen the nuclear power station project "But they were French...."
The restaurant conversation, with all of Margarets attempts to kill the doctor being foiled was good, I had started feeling sorry for her, and I really liked the Doctors rejection of her "mercy".

Rose annoyed me a bit, she seemed to be a bit high, when she jumped into the doctors arms when she pronounced the planets name she was like a giddy schoolgirl, (especially with those pigtails) and that's never good. I think they were trying to highlight how Rose has now fitted in with her new life, showing the, er, rift between her and Mickey. Mickey does annoy me a little bit too, but not enough to hate him. I work with someone exactly like him, so he doesn't strike me as over the top or particularly different. It's mainly because RTD seems to have him perma-thick, which doesn't help you respect the character at all.

As far as not feeling like Dr Who, I was trying to think when in "classic" Who did they ever do a decent contemporary setting? In Remembrance of the Daleks the streets of London were totally deserted, in Survival Perivale was empty, and all the earlier stories set in Britain were either down mines, sewers or in a studio.

Boom Town showed a city, Cardiff, in the blistering sunshine, with a TARDIS crew that were confident, having fun and played by good actors. That's why it didn't feel like traditional Who to me, and it's all the better for it.

I can't wait for next weeks episode now, although I am working next Saturday and Sunday. The Daleks getting involved in the media sounds clever, although why they are tampering with reality TV in the first place could be the stories undoing. There is an audio adventure where the Daleks are interested in Shakespeare, but I haven't finished listening so I don't know how it turns out. Daleks quoting Shakespeare though is a highlight! I do hope next weeks story is all part of a dastardly plan that will showcase the Daleks as the evil, twisted, creatures that they were before Davros. (The Chase excluded).

Did anyone notice the Bad Wolf reference?

In the Daleks the mercury-things needed er, more mercury. Or something. But that's refuelling.

And the TARDIS did go dead on Exilon as it's fuel was drained away by the city...