Billie Piper leaving DW :(

[Scooter]

Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium

At least it'll kill off this ridiculous pseudo-relationship.

I did think it was a pity, until I saw tonight's ep., when she reverted to Dumb Chavette Mode.

Given that she had nothing to do this ep, it's hard to really judge her. I'd say something about the braided hair, but that's nothing compared to the hideous denim thing she was wearing in "Tooth and Claw."

Still I laughed a lot at this weeks ep, just from the sheer lunacy. I could wish that Elton hadn't suggested he was having the sort of "relationship" he was having at the end of the ep (to put it delicately without spoilers), but I liked a lot of it -- especially Jackie and the way she anticipated all of Elton's infiltration maneuvers, then got tough when she needed to.

[Chancellor Valium]

Oh, quite. But nonetheless, her dialogue, and the episode as a whole in fact, made me want to wretch and pluck out my eyes and liver simultaneously.

[Scooter]

Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium

Oh, quite. But nonetheless, her dialogue, and the episode as a whole in fact, made me want to wretch and pluck out my eyes and liver simultaneously.

Actually that was one of my reactions to the show as I was watching it -- CV is going to hate this one! It certainly represents everything about the new series that people who hate the new series hate about it. And so -- not surprising at all it's an RTD script.

One thing I cringed at is Elton's reference to the sonic screwdriver as a "magic wand", which only points out the fact that for RTD that's precisely what it is -- it can literally do anything. I mean, what setting on the s.s. does what he does with it at the end of the ep? In the classic series it just unlocked doors, and even that was so deus ex machina that Christopher S. Bidmead deliberately destroyed the thing to help reintroduce drama and suspense to the series. And it's true -- how can you have suspense if you've got a magic wand than can get you out of any scrape imaginable? RTD does not get that. That's the thing I liked least about "Christmas Invasion" -- how does a s.s. evaporate an attacking Christmas Tree? Short-circuit, yes. It should have plopped to the ground dead. But evaporate?

[Chancellor Valium]

Scooter: Quite. But it only highlights the talantless heap of molasses that RNT is, absorbing other people's ideas and spewing faeces like this afterwards, IMO.

[Scooter]

Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium

the talantless heap of molasses that RNT is.

Russell Nathan-Turner? Is that a coinage that's out there, or a very interesting typo?

Either way it's apt. There are parallels...

[PointyHairedJedi]

I think it was a Fruedian slip, myself.

[Chancellor Valium]

Originally Posted by Scooter

Russell Nathan-Turner? Is that a coinage that's out there, or a very interesting typo?

Either way it's apt. There are parallels...

Nope, it was intentional.

I recently rewatched "Revelation of the Daleks", and the single-entendres brought me inevitably toward the gurning visage of Eccleston...

[Burt]

I didn't mind it too much. It was a little silly, and different, and maybe it didn't quite work this time, but look at Buffy. They did two 'Weird' epiosdes(Hush, Once more with feeling), taking a chance, it paid off. Doctor Who took a chance...and ok, maybe it wasn't quite what they hoped, but nobody can say they aren't trying different things!
One pity for me was (Kinda my own fault) I read that Jackie was to travel in the TARDIS this time. I would have like to seen that. I enjoy new people, not used to space travel, seeing these things.
Having people come in to the TARDIS, a strange tiny box, that turns out to be HUGE on the inside with endless corridors and rooms packed in it, and can travel to any time/place in the known Universe and show you wonders you never before imagined, well after a while it gets annoying when they just toss out "Oh one of those old TYPE 40's? They still around?"


Just read the post before me, and wanted to add. The Sonic Screwdriver - it's starting to grate on me too. I understand it can pick most locks. I understand sometimes it can be...'Jury-Rigged' to do extra things. But now it seems every episode it's killing baddies, blowing up stuff....... In short, I love the S.S - Please can they stop killing it!

[PointyHairedJedi]

Much as it pains me to say this, I think it would be best if RTD kept away from the scripts from now on. Sure, there are always really good moments, but there's no-one to jump up and down on the stupider stuff that inevitably acompanies it.

[Chancellor Valium]

^Ahh! The Cyniciproline injections are working at last