7X02 Dinosaurs On A Spaceship (Grading/Discussion) (SPOILERS!)
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^ R U The Doctor?
did they let you have a horse called Susan?
We don't have basements in Australia.
Therin will now pop in and inform me that yes, some people do have basements.
I have never seen one. We rarely have useable attics either. It must be something about the vast emptiness of the continent that makes us feel we do not have a pressing need for storage space.
Therin will now pop in and inform me that yes, some people do have basements.
I have never seen one. We rarely have useable attics either. It must be something about the vast emptiness of the continent that makes us feel we do not have a pressing need for storage space.
As for episodes on the same par as 'Blink' or 'TGITF' during Moffat's show running tenure?
'The Eleventh Hour', 'Amy's Choice', 'Vincent and the Doctor', 'The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang', 'A Good Man Goes To War', 'The Girl Who Waited', 'The God Complex'. Only a fool would not say those are quality episodes
'The Eleventh Hour', 'Amy's Choice', 'Vincent and the Doctor', 'The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang', 'A Good Man Goes To War', 'The Girl Who Waited', 'The God Complex'. Only a fool would not say those are quality episodes
This is on BBC America again, I actually agree with a lot of the flaws but this episode does a pretty good job of running fast enough to get away with it. By the time your thinking they really should do more with it being Nefertiti the Doctor is already confounding Brian or being teleported or whatever.
This one made me cry!
Seen it several times and it still makes me cry.
That moment ... when Vincent overhears the curator talk about the significance of van Gogh's work ... after we've seen his contemporaries reject him and the demons of self-doubt that crippled him and drove him to alcoholic relief. My God, the mere memory of that scene can move me to tears! And then the revelation that even that wasn't enough to alter the artist's fate. There's an Internet meme out there about the loyal pooch from an episode of Futurama as a symbol of tear-jerking TV shows, but that's got nothing on "Vincent and the Doctor".
A pretty decent summation of some of the reasons I'm enjoying the hell out of Moffat Who. Thanks for saving me the thinking and typing.
One of the things I...dislike (not quite the word I'm looking for, but anyway) about RTD Who is the fact it pretty much ignored the premise. The Doctor is a character who can go literally anywhere in time and space...yet the majority of RTD-era episodes were set on Earth (worse, contemporary Earth) and featured enemies we'd seen a zillion times before in classic Who. Moffat's the one who introduced some new aliens (and some creeptacular ones at that) but more importantly (at least in the view of a fan who grew up watching classic Who) he's restored the anywhere-in-time-and-space aspect. He's brought back the show's premise, the thing that always set Who apart from every other SF series out there. I prefer his Who on that basis alone. I readily admit that's my bias and I'm well aware it's not a viewpoint that's universally shared. But no matter. To each their own.
True, but "horror lurks in everyday life" is also part of the Doctor Who premise, and for it to work, you need contemporary Earth.
Yep. Some basements have been nicer and more usable than others, but I honestly can't remember ever being in a house without one at all.
<Double Checks Thread Topic> I don't think you'd want to keep Dinosaurs in your parents basement
I still program in COBOL. My kids call me the dinosaur in THEIR basement.
<Double Checks Thread Topic> I don't think you'd want to keep Dinosaurs in your parents basement
I still program in COBOL. My kids call me the dinosaur in THEIR basement.
They should do one about the terror lurking in the basement.
Shut the flock up! I have enough trouble convincing my seven year old to fetch something from the basement without your notions making their way back to the BBC!
I live in Arizona and no one here has a basement. I guess it's assumed that, in the event of a nuclear attack, there's no way it could possibly get any hotter than it already is.
I agree with all of those episodes except for "A Good Man Goes to War." While I love the Moffat era, I thought that episode had very little to recommend it. And the Amy's baby arc just didn't work for me at all. On the other hand, "Let's Kill Hitler" was comedy gold!
I agree with all of those episodes except for "A Good Man Goes to War." While I love the Moffat era, I thought that episode had very little to recommend it. And the Amy's baby arc just didn't work for me at all. On the other hand, "Let's Kill Hitler" was comedy gold!
Be honest now, it's not your seven year old you're worried about being too scared to go in the basement.
What can I say? That place is full of creepy noises and holes that could go anywhere.