Episode One:
1)I'd forgotten that this was Jo's first trip in the TARDIS, and how freaked out she was.
2)The director confesses in one of the extras that the effect of the Doctor's (and later the Master's) TARDISes "blinking" in and out instead of fad
Read more…1)"Pterodactyls are vermin. Do not feed." "Do not feed the flying pests!"
2)Dickens!
3)"Holy Roman Emperor Winston Churchill"?
4)"Knitting for Girls"?
5)"The skulls eat them." Awesome.
6)"I'm afraid Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart passed away." I'm gl
Read more…1)"She didn't."
2)"You've redecorated. I don't like it." A callback to "The Three Doctors".
3)"Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All".
4)"I'm the Doctor. I work in a shop."
5)"Silver rat" - a Cybermat?
6)So,Amy's a famous model now?
7)"Petrichor - for the
Read more…1)A gorilla?
2)The room full of dummies is creepy.
3)"There's a room here for everyone, Doctor - even you."
4)The Doctor has a degree in cheese-making?
5)"All I want to do is go home, and be conquered and oppressed - is that so much to ask?"
6)"Don't
Read more…1)"Planet of the coffee shops."
2)"Disneyland-Clom"?
3)Old, mean Amy is scarier than any number of Daleks.
4)"I will not help her."
5)"If you love me, don't let me in."
Overall: I suppose we were meant to be all teary-eyed at the end of this. Oh, we
Read more…1)Old lady eaten by a garbage pile - haven't seen that in awhile.
2)"Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday" - a callback to the old stage play with Trevor Martin.
Overall: This is a story that would have been vastly improved by being an "old ser
Read more…1)"Mels" is kind of obviously Melody.
2)"A state of temporal grace" - a callback to "The Hand of Fear".
3)A shape-shifting mecha?
4)"Remain calm, while your life is extracted."
5)"I haven't memorized every room in the universe, yet - I had yesterday
Read more…I saw that Titan Books had , in fact , put out an American-targeted DOCTOR WHO INSIDER , meant to be different from their long-established UK-issue DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE , which I bought at least semi-regs 'til ( Sniff ! ) my financial status , and ,(
Read more…Episode One:
1)"No one's going to turn me into an interplanetary puppet." "Interplanetary Puppet" would be a good band name.
2)The Ogrons always remind me of the Gumbys from Monty Python - I keep waiting for them to go, "Hello! Shut up! Sorry! Hello!
Read more…Part One:
1)There's some interesting use of language in this.
2)Ah, another in along line of lame Doctor Who robots. Vaguely reminiscent of a War Machine.
3)"What are boys?"
4)"Is she fat?" Uh-oh.
5)"We're the Rezzies." I...uh...no.
6)I'm a little ske
Read more…"A Holiday for the Doctor":
1)Ah, yes, "Doctor Who and the Questionable 'American' Accents"...
2)"Doctor Caligari." "Doctor Who".
3)"Mr. Werp." For some reason, I find that gag endlessly amusing.
4)He can face down armies of Daleks, but he's afraid to
Read more…Part One:
1)He's trusting Turlough to work on the TARDIS now?
2)A crack in a wall portending trouble for the Doctor? Hmmm....
3)A callback to "The Visitation"...
4)Cliffhanger: Lots of smoke comes out of the wall!
Part Two:
5)The Malus - and its amazin
Read more…This is a re-post of something I originally posted on the old board, which I will update and edit as I can. It's my thought and reflections on all the Dalek stories (and a few non-Dalek stories that refer to the Daleks), with my thoughts and questio
Read more…1)"Melody"?
2)"Oh, don't give me those blank looks."
3)"We're the thn-fat gay married Anglican marines."
4)A Sontaran nurse?
5)"This is the day he finds out who I am."
6)"Demons run when a good man goes to war."
7)"We are not fools."
8)Danny-Boy?
9)"
Read more…The Master (Eddie Izzard), The Doctor (Craig Ferguson), and the plucky companion (Kristen Bell) with new showrunner, Edgar Wright. How would that not be AWESOME?
The above photo was from this weekend's NY Times covering Ferguson's taping of shows
Read more…The Rebel Flesh
1)"My mum's a huge fan of Dusty Springfield." "Who isn't?"
2)I smell a "base under siege" story.
3)"For want of a better word - owww!"
4)I can't stand these "Who is really who they are?" type stories. Not because it's a bad or invalid
Read more…1) Sounds like he's re-telling "The Androids of Tara".
2)Ah, there's the box from "The War Games".
3)OK, the bit with Amy giving the premise before the opening titles has got to go. Who are they trying to reach with that, the five people in Britain
Read more…1)"Yo-ho-ho! Oh, does nobody actually say that?"
2)OK, Amy, you don't have to tell us the premise before every story.
3)"You should dress as a pirate more often." Hear, hear!
4)"A green, singing shark in an evening gown."
5)There's Nicola Fury, again
Read more…The Impossible Astronaut
1)"Says she's going to some planet called 'America'."
2)"I wear a Stetson, now. Stetsons are cool."
3)"Space 1969".
4)"I'm 1103."
5)"Or, 'Hello', as people used to say."
6)"My life in your hands, Amelia Pond."
7)"Hippie." "Arc
Read more…Part One:
1)"Leave the girl - it's the man I want." That's kind of sloppy - leaving a potential enemy just like that. I hate when characters do stupid stuff just to serve the plot.
2)I suppose they did the best they could with the regeneration.
3)Th
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