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Post by Michael on Jun 17, 2007 11:15:07 GMT 1
Was it me or were there a few 'Dr Who and the Daleks' nods? The Professor's costume and title? His lab looking like the film version of the TARDIS?
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Post by stuhuggett on Jun 17, 2007 15:49:21 GMT 1
Hmm, I think that's just in your eyes. Ace called The 7th Doctor 'Professor' too. The only deliberate nod to the Peter Cushing films that I've noticed has been the adoption of the term 'Rels' as a Dalek measurement of time. Honestly, I do have another life...
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Post by carrie on Jun 18, 2007 9:29:02 GMT 1
yeah, as a dalek!!!!!
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Post by stuhuggett on Jun 18, 2007 12:29:42 GMT 1
Oh, thinking about it, the interior design of the TARDIS in the new series also owes something to the Peter Cushing films (specifically the doors).
Quiz: How many episodes of the current series were set in Southwark? (More than one...)
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Post by stuhuggett on Jun 29, 2007 7:36:56 GMT 1
Oh well, last episode tomorrow.
I reckon it was Widdicombe what done it.
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Post by carrie on Jun 29, 2007 8:53:30 GMT 1
i hope my mother has gone to her hotel by then(if extreme weather doesn't cancel the trip altogether, i grew up virtually in the midlands you know), i do not want to spend half the last doctor who explaining who captain jack or the master are.
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Post by stuhuggett on Jun 29, 2007 12:12:54 GMT 1
Tell her they're three members of an 80's boyband, who've since fallen-out. Big Fun, maybe? This could be more convincing if McFly make a re-appearance.
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Post by caroline on Jul 2, 2007 13:27:47 GMT 1
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Post by marcusjr on Jul 2, 2007 18:07:35 GMT 1
Don't get it. What's with the stunted vocabulary? These are bad knob gags, badly spelt. Am I missing something? Is the bad spelling the joke?
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Post by caroline on Jul 2, 2007 18:39:44 GMT 1
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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 2, 2007 18:50:04 GMT 1
Other funny things:
- "Say hello, Gandalf." - Reggie Yates' mysterious 'Brighton' disappearance. - No-one at the BBC daring to point out to Russell T Davies that there was no real point spending X-thousand pounds creating a tiny CGI Doctor for the middle of the final episode, when David Tennant in a latex mask was entirely adequate for the plot. - The 900 year-old CGI Doctor's tiny suit. Did The Master run one up for him? - Those deranged, giggling Toclafane. - The Doctor's dogbowl. - All those running themes from the series, that actually had no bearing on how the final story panned-out. Or maybe (gasp!) the Production Team were actually just making it all up as they went along.
etc...
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Post by carrie on Jul 2, 2007 20:54:06 GMT 1
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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 2, 2007 22:03:08 GMT 1
Is it too late to audition?!
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Post by petra on Jul 2, 2007 23:33:01 GMT 1
Sally Sparrow 4 prez
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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 3, 2007 7:42:31 GMT 1
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Post by Kylie on Jul 3, 2007 12:18:20 GMT 1
If you can't find the music To get down and boogie All you can do is Step back in time!
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Post by carolyn on Jul 4, 2007 0:46:13 GMT 1
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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 6, 2007 20:40:30 GMT 1
The new set of Doctor Who Top Trumps came into the shop today. If anyone else buys a pack, we could play online... Aw no, not Chloe Webber!
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Post by carrie on Jul 6, 2007 21:04:01 GMT 1
...just rewatching last weeks (without that lovely talking child). ugh, could it have been any more sickening. i did suggest on sunday that maybe the three need to be watched together.
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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 6, 2007 21:21:55 GMT 1
By 'sickening', I assume you're largely referring to the worldwide "Doctor!" bit? Yup, that was bobbins. I enjoyed the rest of it though (except the 900 year old Doctor...)
Anyway, if no-one wants to play Virtual 'Doctor Who' Top Trumps, how about another game? Virtual Connect 4? Virtual Trivial Pursuit? Virtual Twister?
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Post by carrie on Jul 6, 2007 21:53:05 GMT 1
and 'i love him' 'he never looked at her twice' fuck off drippy. that may be a bit harsh actually.
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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 6, 2007 22:22:08 GMT 1
Bah, the old companions never fancied The Doctor! As this (genuine) opening paragraph from the novelisation 'Mission To Magnus' (Philip Martin, Target, 1990) proves:
" 'Can't you stop it, Doctor?' Peri asked for the umpteenth time. The Doctor shook his head and watched helplessly as the column before him reared up and down with increasing force."
The old companions only ever got the hots for minor characters in individual programmes, as illustrated by this (genuine) extract (p127) from 'Survival' (Rona Munro, Target, 1990):
" The yellow ebbed out of Karra's eyes and revealed them to be a clear and sightless blue. Karra was dead. Slowly, Ace reached out and stroked Karra's face as she had once touched her fur by a lake on another planet."
Huh, and Marcus complained about the 'bad knob gags' on Caroline's link!
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Post by caroline on Aug 19, 2007 23:58:00 GMT 1
Just been watching 'The Awakening', lent to me by Mr Stu because it scared the living shite out of me as a young 'un. Some thoughts:
- I now have a crush on the man I had a (non-sexual) crush on twenty-odd years ago. Which is peculiar.
- Turlough's hair. Really? (A Google image search for Mark Strickson suggests yes. Poor chap.)
- What is it with the assistants and the constant blundering into peril? I'd forgotten about this, but it got a little tedious after a while. For example:
"Split up!"...and run straight into the arms of one of the bad guys.
"We must go and tell the Doctor!" ...and run straight into the arms of one of the bad guys.
- Building the alien into the wall, so you can get away with just veeeery slightly articulating it, and still not quite managing that is a bit shonky. I know it was a long time ago, but still.
All of that said, I did enjoy watching it again, but I think Russell T's spoiled me for the old Who...
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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 20, 2007 12:23:34 GMT 1
I watched 'Enlightenment' (same line-up of charcters, from the previous season) for the first time since I was a kid yesterday - It's the one with the sailing ships.
It was like being stoned, really strangely druggily lethargic, but much better than I remembered it.
But the cast! On the plus side: Keith Barron ('Duty Free') being impassive; Tony Caunter (Roy Evans from 'East Enders') being a terrified teetoal sailor. On the minus side: Lynda Baron ('Open All Hours' wasn't it?) hamming it up like Grotbags; Leee John (from, um, the pop group Imagination!) not being able to act; Valentine Dyall (as The Black Guardian) having a "Nyah-ha-haa!" laugh, which wasn't very evil at all.
Makes it onto my Recommended list though!
Nb: Caroline's Google search may have revealed that apparently Mark Strickson now makes nature documentaries in Australia. So there you go.
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Post by petra on Sept 5, 2007 14:24:41 GMT 1
Haha. Hahahahahahahaha. I just joined the Facebook group 'We want Beth Ditto as the Doctor's new companion'.
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 9, 2007 13:30:29 GMT 1
Next week's 'Children In Need' 5th vs 10th Doctor special nearly passed me by! I must be slipping.
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Post by stuhuggett on Dec 4, 2007 15:30:37 GMT 1
From the Hastings Observer of November 2nd 2007 (p3) - Tom Baker's moved to Brede! How come nobody mentioned it - y'all must be slipping too!
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Post by stuhuggett on Dec 26, 2007 15:23:51 GMT 1
Kylie Illogical.
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Post by stuhuggett on Jan 26, 2008 9:07:48 GMT 1
I didn't see Adam, or any children at all, in 'The Sea Devils' when I watched it, and his Dad wasn't involved in the production (as far as I could see) - maybe he, or I, got the story wrong? Can anyone remember, without going to the effort of just asking him myself and possibly ruining his childhood memories?
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Post by stuhuggett on Apr 3, 2008 18:14:43 GMT 1
For those who want warming up for Saturday's new Doctor Who - and the woman at work who gave me a brace of those recent Sun-freebie dvds certainly helped - 'Voyage Of The Damned' is on BBC3 tonight, 8pm.
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