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First Impressions of the 11th Doctor Who
Mirk writes "The first episode of Doctor Who's new series 5 has just aired on BBC1 in the UK. This is an important episode for the show because so much has changed: Matt Smith plays the new Doctor, replacing David Tennant, and Karen Gillan portrays a new companion, Amy Pond. Maybe most important, Russell T. Davies is replaced as showrunner by Stephen Moffat, who is known for acclaimed Doctor Who scripts including The Empty Child and Blink. Here is an early review of the new Doctor, companion, showrunner, and series."
Yeah, what else is new?
I really don't get the appeal of this show. Dumbest stories this side of Ed Wood.
Well, are you sure that it didn't... maybe just make you feel a little.... inadequate?
http://skepchick.org/blog/2010/04/doctor-whos-new-tardis-nsfw/
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
...but like other Aussie women, they all have small, saggy breasts, doughy fat stomachs, and hairy, grotesquely mangled and smelly vaginas.
Just saw the episode. Seldom have I seen someone with such a displeasing assemblage of facial features. From certain angles, he looks like the love child of Tucker Carlson and that creature from the Mask movie with Cher.
The whole episode was confusing rubbish. Granted, I have a very difficult time with British accents when they're running the words together but the BBC tends to make it all worse with crowding loud music in there so you can't make sense of anything. They do the same stuff on the Sarah Jane series. It's awful.
The story was a jumble of one or two good ideas mixed with a load of tosh. I like the idea of a little girl meeting the Doctor and thinking him a childhood fantasy only to run into him later. I like the idea of a cute redhead in general and this particular one is pleasing to the eye. But the man cast as the Doctor is awful. He keeps trying to do manic in a pastiche of the past two Doctors. It just doesn't work. There's always supposed to be a sense of whimsy and wizardry to the character but it's more like Jim Carrey schtick. It's affected and wearisome. And as for the prisoner zero thing, it made no sense going in and made no sense going out. And the writer is Moffat, the man responsible for some of the best episodes of the past two Doctors? What the hell happened? A bad Russell T. Davies script holds together better than this mess. And don't even get me started on the redesigned RETARDIS.
Here's hoping they can do something to salvage the mess.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Yeah, and tell me that the scene you refer to was
1. Well written.
2. Well acted.
3. Relevant to something.
4. At least based on a good/interesting idea.
5. Anything but pure crap.
Sadly, it wasn't any of these things. Like much of the rest of the episode, it was an orgy of overacting - even by Doctor Who standards.