Is it just me or did the hologram that talked to Craig look and possibly sound like...
the first doctor?
5x011 The Lodger (Grading/Discussion) SPOILERS!!
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I really enjoyed it loved how good the doctor was a football and doing a proper job.
Really enjoyed it - and I honestly expected to hate it.
Largely it was Smith stealing the show, but Corden wasn’t as bad as I thought he would be – I felt he played the character very well. The twist of there being no upstairs was entirely unexpected, and that it was essentially another TARDIS (with the same dimensional transcendentalism) was another nice touch.
The ‘next week’ trailer really has me looking forward to it. Things were mentioned that I hope we see, and I spotted a few more in that single frame in the preview…
Confidential, on the other hand – Karen Gillan, lovely girl though she is, really isn’t great with the voice-over stuff, and the space scientist they’ve got in needs to talk slower.
Largely it was Smith stealing the show, but Corden wasn’t as bad as I thought he would be – I felt he played the character very well. The twist of there being no upstairs was entirely unexpected, and that it was essentially another TARDIS (with the same dimensional transcendentalism) was another nice touch.
The ‘next week’ trailer really has me looking forward to it. Things were mentioned that I hope we see, and I spotted a few more in that single frame in the preview…
Confidential, on the other hand – Karen Gillan, lovely girl though she is, really isn’t great with the voice-over stuff, and the space scientist they’ve got in needs to talk slower.
It was the RTD-era TARDIS set, stripped down...
an ok episode, until the end, which had some great ideas (even if some of them were pinched from previous Doctors Whos and even Star Trek), whilst the TADRIS esque thing reminded me of the 8th Doctors console.
As for Confidental, someone needs to remind the BBC that it is not apporaite to film scientist when they are high, no other reason she could speak that fast.
Still not 100% sure what stopped the Doctor from going up the staris from the first day he arrived, other than he didnt know there was no upstairs, and the risk it might effect Amy in the TARDIS.
Still pleased to see it was not a straight remake of "The Lodger" even if that was unlikely given the absence of Mickey, the head butt I learn about you thing, seemed like a cheat to allow the James Codren character to be more like Mickey.
From the creator of Coupling, and the executive producer of Doctor Who, comes a brand new comedy, starrying James Codren "Booze, Pizza, Telly" coming soon to BBC 3.
Like Six Pints... only they never go to the pub
As for Confidental, someone needs to remind the BBC that it is not apporaite to film scientist when they are high, no other reason she could speak that fast.
Still not 100% sure what stopped the Doctor from going up the staris from the first day he arrived, other than he didnt know there was no upstairs, and the risk it might effect Amy in the TARDIS.
Still pleased to see it was not a straight remake of "The Lodger" even if that was unlikely given the absence of Mickey, the head butt I learn about you thing, seemed like a cheat to allow the James Codren character to be more like Mickey.
From the creator of Coupling, and the executive producer of Doctor Who, comes a brand new comedy, starrying James Codren "Booze, Pizza, Telly" coming soon to BBC 3.
Like Six Pints... only they never go to the pub
i enjoyed it.
didn't think there was a damn thing wrong with it.
as for mrs space scientist woman, Karen Gillan was talking faster than her! i don't think she even breathed in her opening bit at Greenwich!
didn't think there was a damn thing wrong with it.
as for mrs space scientist woman, Karen Gillan was talking faster than her! i don't think she even breathed in her opening bit at Greenwich!
this is true, but that is normal for Karen.
Five minutes of Doctor Who and forty minutes of unfunny sitcom / Soap Opera rubbish.
Not quite as bad as 'Fear Her' but at least that was more of an episode of Doctor Who, rather than an episode of "The James Corden Show" (This week Craig gets a wacky new Lodger with hillarious results!)
Not quite as bad as 'Fear Her' but at least that was more of an episode of Doctor Who, rather than an episode of "The James Corden Show" (This week Craig gets a wacky new Lodger with hillarious results!)
Interesting. I knew they hadn't struck the set. That raised the question -- might we see it again...? Interesting that it's turned up.
Personally I loved it, thought it was a great episode. Lots of laughs, fun, and that's all that was needed. Corden wasn't annoying, Smith was funny.
Not too awful after all. As fluff episodes go, it's one of the better ones I suppose. The Doctor pretending to be a normal bloke was genius in all honesty. I cried with laughter when he spat the wine back into the glass, but that was the culmination of the rest of his antics - the rent money, the football, the shower (happy, DAK?), the bedroom... I also very much liked that crazy Tardis upstairs.
Two things I learnt today:
-Matt Smith is hilarious, and much moreso than Corden.
-Daisy Haggard is even more irritating than Corden
Good. Roll on the Pandorica and that epic-looking space scene!
Two things I learnt today:
-Matt Smith is hilarious, and much moreso than Corden.
-Daisy Haggard is even more irritating than Corden
Good. Roll on the Pandorica and that epic-looking space scene!
Execpt it makes absolutely no sense given the amount of time he's spent on Earth, including several years in exile.
The Doctor, the man who knows everything about everything suddenly doesn't know what football is. Fucking bullshit.
Oh please. He didn't say he didn't know what football was, he asked to be reminded which one it was. Don't you think 'knowing everything about everything' makes picking out specific bits of everything less than straightforward? You know, as evidenced by the Doctor's behaviour, oh, every week? And which part of his UNIT-years exile involved him living as 'a normal bloke' anyway? Out for a pint with the lads? A kickabout with the Brig? Back to the bachelor's pad with a tie hanging around Benton's door?
And anyway, comedy doesn't let facts get in the way.
And anyway, comedy doesn't let facts get in the way.
A very nice little episode. The Doctor was at his most quirky when acting human, some great little scenes, mainly for comedy.
The twist of it being a Time Machine hologram that is the main villain was very interesting. At least it wasn't evil, as I was expecting.
Craig was acted very well by James Corden, I have to say. The scene where the Doctor let Craig know everything was brilliant the way they kept interrupting each other.
Some very interesting things happening next week. The final is starting to look epic.
The twist of it being a Time Machine hologram that is the main villain was very interesting. At least it wasn't evil, as I was expecting.
Craig was acted very well by James Corden, I have to say. The scene where the Doctor let Craig know everything was brilliant the way they kept interrupting each other.
Some very interesting things happening next week. The final is starting to look epic.
I think they've struck it now, but needed (bits of) it for this first
Given the amount of references to that subject we've had this season, I'm beginning if whatever is happen goes all the way back to that point in time. And if so is the only way to fix the universe is to do a hard-reboot of time-- hence the explosion that creates that cracks.Is it just me or did the hologram that talked to Craig look and possibly sound like...
the first doctor?
A 'Good' vote here. Yes it was fluffy but still fun and entertaining. A story made of pure Squee. 
Besides, with all hell getting ready to break lose next week, I think we probably need something light.
The truth about the upstairs flat took me a bit off-guard. I was going for the 'the upstairs is actually an alien life form squatting on the roof' explaination.
Of course the big question is, who's ship was that? Naturally the first thing that came to mind was 'secret project left over from the Saxon administration'.
And please tell me the song the Doctor was singing in the shower was the same one Pertwee did back in Spearhead From Space.
Speaking of which, the gadget in the Doctors room seemed a bit of a nod to something the 3rd Doctor built way back in The Time Monster, with a wine bottle and a couple of forks.
I'm starting the think the 'show shots of all the Doctors previous incarnations' is becoming as much a weekly ritual as 'bowties are cool'.
Besides, with all hell getting ready to break lose next week, I think we probably need something light.
The truth about the upstairs flat took me a bit off-guard. I was going for the 'the upstairs is actually an alien life form squatting on the roof' explaination.
Of course the big question is, who's ship was that? Naturally the first thing that came to mind was 'secret project left over from the Saxon administration'.
And please tell me the song the Doctor was singing in the shower was the same one Pertwee did back in Spearhead From Space.
Speaking of which, the gadget in the Doctors room seemed a bit of a nod to something the 3rd Doctor built way back in The Time Monster, with a wine bottle and a couple of forks.
I'm starting the think the 'show shots of all the Doctors previous incarnations' is becoming as much a weekly ritual as 'bowties are cool'.
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Was that the flat from Spaced?
I know who is in the Pandorica.
Lets say he took 10 to 15 years off to be a better man, to out doctor the Doctor and become the most absolutely superb spacetime superhero... To be a reinvent himself into a top bloke for her.
It's Rory.
It's either Paul McGhans Doctor escaped from the time War or it's Rory in a bow tie.
Lets say he took 10 to 15 years off to be a better man, to out doctor the Doctor and become the most absolutely superb spacetime superhero... To be a reinvent himself into a top bloke for her.
It's Rory.
It's either Paul McGhans Doctor escaped from the time War or it's Rory in a bow tie.