Doctor Who Series Four Discussion (spoilers)

[Gojira_2000]

[Robert Saint John]

[Gojira_2000]

[lhb412]

[Apelinq]

Well Moffat taking over is a good thing.
The Poison Sky just falls apart in the last fifteen minutes, With Helen Raynor's predictable writing. Supposed bad guy turning good and sacrificing himself, just like last season with Dalek Sec. I wish Davis would stop letting this woman write episodes with classic villains.
The Doctor's Daughter and The Unicorn and the Wasp were on par with the beginning of the season, so their both good episodes. Have to wait until the thirty first to see Silence in the Library, since Moffat is writing it, it has to be good.
Screw waiting for Sci Fi channel, its better to download them and watch two parters all at once.

[Robert Saint John]

[lhb412]

[TheMaster]

pretty much

[lhb412]

[Kailem]

EDIT:

[Gojira_2000]

[GhostMachine]

[Shonokin]

[Simon]

Just finished "Turn Left", episode 11 of DOCTOR WHO SERIES 4. Decent episode, but the brilliant part was the last two minutes. (Spoilers) When Donna tells the Doctor of the "blond girl", and the composer's BRILLIANT, FANTASTIC 'YANA' theme begins, and then Donna utters the 'two words'...The Doctor races out of the hut and sees 'Bad Wolf' plastered EVERYWHERE.

THAT WAS FANTASTIC!

Sent chills up me spine, it did! I am absolutely amped to see the two-part finale. Bad side affect of not watching TORCHWOOD yet: I don't know who those two characters are that I'm sure are from TORCHWOOD.

Cheers mate,
SuperGarahsarp

[Destroyer D]

[TheMaster]

[Jim Ballard]

[lhb412]

[Kailem]

[Robert Saint John]

My review of the 2 part series finale:

That was poo.

I hope they never, ever confuse fan fiction with proper television writing ever again.

Because that was poo.

Carry on!

[lhb412]

^So series 1's finale is still the best? (Probably because it was the most simple and straightforward)

...perhaps the best advice anyone could have given RTD during his run on Doctor Who was; "Slow down! Less is more."


Ah well, soon Moffat will take over. I love his stories, and while I'm aware of what people have criticized as repitition (Creepy, but not necessarily evil baddies; sympathetic children; happy, almost pacifistic everyone lives endings... I actually like those things!) I think that the guy knows how stories work and that the show will be stronger overall because of this.


BTW, The one thing that bothers me about the new show and is very present in Moffat's work; the whole Doctor/savior stuff. I prefer the underdog Doctor of the Troughton and early Tom Baker era's. The kind that Robert Holmes wrote of who had to get down and dirty and make mistakes in solving a problem.

[Destroyer D]

[GhostMachine]

[Enshohma]

I liked The Stolen Earth, but as typical of RTD the second half of his two-part finales sounds dumb from all the detailed reviews I've read.

Anyway, I hope RTD is not in charge of the 2008 Christmas special or the movie-length Bank Holiday specials of 2009...but I guess that's not the case.

And as much as I love Steven Moffet (I loved Jekyll), I'm afraid that his own preferences will overwhelm the show...got nothing wrong with happy, everyone lives endings (RTD's scripts are all about death, camp and sex), but I hope this doesn't end the cool variety of monsters, old and new, that the new series has been good at...to many subtle, creepy, sympathetic monsters would be a let down at least for me.

And is it just me, or whenever the Who fans hate a producer, they refer to them only in acronyms?

RDT

JNT

See!?!

[Simon]

"The Stolen Earth" was perfect fun, but "Journey's End" was just rubbish. [Spoilers] The whole two Doctors thing is rather dumb - but decently executed. Donna becoming endowed with half of the Doctor was somewhat cool, but simultaenously a 'wtf?' moment. The prophecy bit was cool (ecspecially that Kahn left out a detail); BTW, who was the "one left to die"? Donna did not, in fact, die (though I think that would have been a better ending to her arc...), nor did any of the other characters.

Overall, another dissapointing conclusion. Series 2's "Doomsday" is really the only rather brilliant finale they've done, in my opinion.

Bloody hell, the Christmas special looks like nothing spectacular. Wish 2010 was here already.

Also, anyone think Rose was COMPLETELY under-used in her three-eps? This entire season seemed to be leading to a finale that was INSANE --- but it was lackluster...