Yeah that recording was a seriously nice touch. Not sure if I liked all the statues turning out to be Angels but we'll see how it goes.
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Yeah that recording was a seriously nice touch. Not sure if I liked all the statues turning out to be Angels but we'll see how it goes.
Semantics Alert! Semantics Alert!Quote:
Originally Posted by Skyblade
This is NOT a reboot. A reboot would be if they pretended like none of the previous Doctor Who episodes existed. These new series are a sequel to the previous stuff.
I'm still on the fence with Matt Smith. And it's not just because I miss Tennant so much (which I do). I got over the Ninth Doctor by the end of the first or second episode of the Tenth Doctor. The Eleventh is still not sitting well with me, and I can't quite figure out why. And I'm not sure I like Amy Pond much. Loved Rose, loved Martha, LOOOOOOOVED Donna. And I liked Amy in the first episode, but for some reason she annoyed the hell out of me in the second episode. It was like she was already too "settled in" or something. She exuded some sort of entitlement about being a companion way too soon. Companions have to earn it. :P
I agree that it's weird that Amy is simply thrown in without any..."task". It's the famous Half-Life Walrus thing (yeah, famous. Totally famous.). Though I can get over that because she's hooot.
I like Amy, it's nice to have someone who can have an argument with the Doctor without shouting really loudly in a foghorn voice (*cough Donna *cough*). Plus the Scottish accent helps.
I kinda went off Tennant towards the end, I'm glad he left when he did, it means I still like him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bastian
Yeah, that recording was scary as hell, apart from when it actually came out the screen. When she kept looking away and it moved slightly, I was papping my pants.
WOW Amy tonight! you go girl, Can't say i blame her. i think i would have tried the same thing.... But Rory, he seems pretty bleh.
Haha, I dunno, him waving a broom at that sword-wielding vampire in the preview was pretty funny :D Although quite why the Doctor didn't sort Amy out (his words, not mine!) I don't know.
I didn't like some of the cop-outs in this episode. In particular the "they assume you can see, therefore they are stone!" one when Amy had her eyes closed. If they're perceptive enough to know when someone blinks, then surely they wouldn't be fooled by that!
Yeah that was a bit of a cop out, but I'd rather them cop out a little then come up with some stupidly overly complicated plot devise, i think that happened a few times in the Tennant episodes.
I'd sort her out too, for sure lol, I mean he did kiss her back a teeny bit before pushing her away, If only it weren't a "Family show"
To be fair, the Doctor first met Amy when she was a little kid, I imagine having it off with her as an adult might feel a little strange in those circumstances! That and her getting married the next day.
The Tennant episodes often had some magical solution out of nowhere, like the button that made Daleks spin in circles. So yeah this is a lot better than that, for sure. Still, I think it would've been better if the Doctor and River had been watching on cameras, desperately trying to switch to the right one and having to restore faulty ones. That would've led to more tension imho. But hey it's only a small thing, decent episode. Really liked the cruelty and malice of the Angels, and the Doctor going on about comfy chairs :lol:
Also fair play to Amy for being up front about it and trying to get what she wanted, rather than spending her time looking longingly at him but not actually doing anything like Martha did.
"Possibly the most important thing in the history of the universe is that I get you, Amy Pond, sorted out right now."
I lol'd.
Smith has really grown on me as The Doctor. I love Nine and Ten both but this kid is pretty awesome.
The copout about the Angels didn't make any sense at all. The whole point is that they have no choice in the matter. They don't choose to move when you blink, they turn into literal, immobile statues whilst they are being observed. But I agree that it was of a significantly lesser degree than a lot of them have been.
I had actually thought, however, that they were statues because they were being observed from the cracks.
I thought they were statues because we were perceiving them. Well, I didn't think that, but I wish that was the case. That'd scare little kids :bou::bou::bou::bou:LESS.
"Why aren't they moving?"
"I don't know. There's...there must be someone else watching them."
Boom. Messy pants. And then later on they could have an episode where Doctor World gets mixed into Real World (multiple universes after all!).
I'm definitely enjoying Smith more and more. I like the kookiness. He's fantastic at being weird, and I love it. And I totally agree that he should've just ploughed Amy there and then.
I know I would've. =x
twice overQuote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
I wasn't sure which word to use there. Sequel would probably be better (I just didn't think of it), but how many shows do you know of that come back from a fifteen year cancellation? It doesn't have a term. It never happens. Except now.Quote:
Originally Posted by BastianSemantics Alert! Semantics Alert!Quote:
Originally Posted by Skyblade
This is NOT a reboot. A reboot would be if they pretended like none of the previous Doctor Who episodes existed. These new series are a sequel to the previous stuff.
I was really happy when they acknowledged the past Doctors in the first episode of this season. The old series was awesome, and it deserves more tie-ins. That and when they brought back the Time Lords, complete with the ridiculous outfits, and made them look awesome. Timothy Dalton is now no longer James Bond to me, he is Rassillon forever. :)
And, yeah, I totally messed up the Season Four repeated hint. The images of Rose were from Season Three. My bad. But I still think the point is valid. The plot device has gotten tired. It's not even a gradual build-up, since we don't learn anything new from most of the hints. It's just a repeated teaser, and I think it's gotten old.