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rj_andersonOkay, I shamelessly admit to skipping the entire S4 finale and I doubt I'll change my mind on that point, but this preview has me all pumped for S5, despite* the occasional romantic clichés we've seen in every season so far, such as Companion Unexpectedly Kisses the Doctor.
So do we have an actual date for the beginning of S5, or just this vague promise of "Spring"?
Note to self: Need Matt Smith icon.
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* Oh, all right, maybe BECAUSE of that part. What can I say, I'm an Old Skool Whofan, I still haven't got over the novelty of it.
So do we have an actual date for the beginning of S5, or just this vague promise of "Spring"?
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* Oh, all right, maybe BECAUSE of that part. What can I say, I'm an Old Skool Whofan, I still haven't got over the novelty of it.
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Date: 2010-01-01 08:54 pm (UTC)Maybe, just maybe, everything's gonna be okay :)
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Date: 2010-01-01 09:23 pm (UTC)I may have rewatched 0:16-0:17 about eight times just to watch Matt Smith's knees buckle. ALSO, THE DOCTOR WITH A GUN ajdslkjdfg;dhakj. Of course he is merely shooting through a rope or otherwise showing off his mad non-lethal skills as usual -- unless it's a Dalek he's shooting, I suppose, in which case we have precedent. :)
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Date: 2010-01-01 09:45 pm (UTC)I love the Troughton - esque bowtie and was pleased to see that Smith's Doctor will also be a very physical one (like Two and Ten, actually). And the Doctor throws a punch! Jon Pertwee would be pleased. I'm also thrilled that his hair is combed so that we can see the right side of his face (something I was seriously worried about based on the interview clips I'd seen).
I, too, confess to enjoying the novelty of the occasional kiss. While the Doctor never ran around kissing people until RTD, the arms-length rules instituted by JNT took a lot of fun out of things. I think the Doctor should be (like Pertwee) flirty but innocent, if that makes any sense.
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Date: 2010-01-01 11:51 pm (UTC)And I like that description -- "flirty but innocent". I think that's just about right.
Yay for Action!Doctor!
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Date: 2010-01-02 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-01 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-01 08:57 pm (UTC)I mean, I loved David Tennant, but his leaving the show is NOT the end of the world.
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Date: 2010-01-01 09:24 pm (UTC)I absolutely agree with you on all these points.
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Date: 2010-01-01 10:12 pm (UTC)I've heard people say that they won't watch the show since RTD left. I don't understand that at all! Steven Moffat wrote "Blink" AND "The Girl in the Fireplace," which are absolutely amazing and probably in my top four episodes ever (note that I've never seen Old School DW). So...yes. I'm looking forward to the next few years.
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Date: 2010-01-01 11:54 pm (UTC)But then I also like River Song, so clearly I am a blinkered Moffat fangirl with no sense of objectivity. :)
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Date: 2010-01-01 09:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-01 09:20 pm (UTC)a) draggily paced;
b) badly plotted (read: what plot?);
c) massively self-congratulatory and overindulgent; and
d) embarrassing to nearly all the actors involved, except Bernard Cribbens (Wilf) who puts in quite a decent performance amid all the stupidity.
I figured I'd rather imagine my own send-off for Ten than sit through two-plus hours of that.
Also, I think "The Next Doctor" is about the right place to stop, really.
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Date: 2010-01-01 09:29 pm (UTC)Ugh. I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe I'll just re-watch favorite episodes from the earlier seasons...
But on the bright side, that Season 5 promo is *very* exciting!
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Date: 2010-01-01 09:14 pm (UTC)Have a Matt Smith icon... :o)
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Date: 2010-01-01 09:57 pm (UTC)I'm an old Dr. Who fan. Grew up with Tom Baker and Peter Davison, so I've seen lots of changes. I'm okay with it & really like the idea of getting back to basics. Adventures! With a companion again! Yay!!
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Date: 2010-01-01 10:09 pm (UTC)(Am amused by the Dramatic Gun Firing. Five fired a gun more than once, but as a tool, not a weapon.)
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Date: 2010-01-02 12:02 am (UTC)As for Five and his shameful love affair with guns, it's worse than that, I'm afraid. In "Resurrection of the Daleks" he used a pistol to shoot a Dalek in its green squishy face until it was very, very dead. Then he handed the gun back to the soldier like it was a two-week-old dead lark* and walked away.
He also nearly fired a laser pistol at the Cybermen in "Earthshock" (the only thing that prevented him was the door coming down), and threatened to kill Davros with a gun as well. Of course he didn't actually follow through on his threat, and made lots of Regretful Faces afterward, which is probably why nobody remembers it. But still.
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* With apologies to Douglas Adams.
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Date: 2010-01-02 03:44 am (UTC)Also, the new little logo with the DW and the Blue Police Box - very nice.
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Date: 2010-01-02 07:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-02 03:02 pm (UTC)I can take that on a little faith, I think.
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Date: 2010-01-05 06:30 am (UTC)Actually, that has nothing to do with why I'm here. The actual reason is that I literally just put down Knife after reading it with a glee I rarely get from books--there are very few that make me have to put them down just so I can squee. I hereby give you the highest praise I can give an author, which is that I really wish I'd thought of it first.
Anyway, my point is, I would like to friend you, and it's always polite to let someone know.
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Date: 2010-01-05 03:18 pm (UTC)River Song
Date: 2010-01-08 06:00 pm (UTC)River simply struck me as an unspectacular character. After 11 generations I'd expect something more. Someone who could touch his soul. If a man's remained unmarried that long I wouldn't expect him to want to deal with someone who wasn't in some way his equal or a Joan who actually loved him enough to stay with him.
Until the writers understand Agape I'm afraid The Doc will be looking for love in all the wrong places.
Re: River Song
Date: 2010-01-10 02:52 am (UTC)That being said, I don't think we've seen enough of River Song to really judge her clearly. Not that I don't agree with you to some extent -- I wouldn't have chosen her necessarily as a candidate for Companion The Doctor Actually Marries -- but I do think she gives indications of being potentially the Doctor's match in wits and courage, and certainly not in awe of him (which is a nice change from the hero-worship we got from some of the other New Who companions). Which seems to me a decent start, anyway. I guess I'll wait and see.