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Regenerated - The New Doctor Who thread

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KayHarker · 19/03/2010 19:55

I thought it would be high time to get the TARDIS party going, now we're on a countdown. Has anyone else seen the clip from the first episode yet? Looking like good fun. I might even be persuaded to squee.

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PortBlacksandDweller · 10/04/2010 21:01

"NO HUMAN HAS ANYTHING TO SAY TO ME TODAY!"

I liked the idea of the queen and the whale etc. - but what was the point of the horrid sideshow dummy thingies? Yes they are creepy as were the angels in Blink and the masks in the Girl in the Fireplace...

But if they have no point other than to be creepy it cheapens it for me...

SleepingLion · 10/04/2010 21:28

Am I the only one who, after a pretty good beginning last week, thought tonight was a bit meh? I kept waiting for the exciting bit and it wasn't!

Oddly, have just introduced DS to Dr Who and we watched the first Eccleston episode this evening - tonight's Matt Smith episode seemed a little lacking in comparison.

PortBlacksandDweller · 10/04/2010 21:33

But very similar sleepinglion - Dr takes new assistant off into the future (both second eps)... (if i've got it right it's the stretched Zoe wannamaker one)

Gets to know her 'mettle' etc.

I did find the similarities myself. Now we're in WW2 - how long was it in the previous CE eps until we got to Capt Jack??

I'm no expert but even i can see a patten...

ShadeofViolet · 10/04/2010 21:33

I think the acting was great tonight, but the story was awful IMO.

I dont like all the mindseye remembering either, which have been in both episodes.

What is the significance of the crack that was shown in the ship, right at the end - its got to be significant hasnt it!

Next weeks episode looks brill!

SoupDragon · 10/04/2010 21:35

It was the same as the crack in Amy's childhood bedroom wall.

SoupDragon · 10/04/2010 21:36

I thought this episode started out promisingly and then didn't live up to the promise, it just petered out.

PortBlacksandDweller · 10/04/2010 21:37

Did the whale remind anyone of the big cow-whale in Torchwood that they were harvesting? That they had to put down .

Nymphadora · 10/04/2010 22:49

I felt it was a bit Terry Pratchett Discworkd.

Who wrote tonights? It's not very Moffat

StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 10/04/2010 23:21

I realise that it is a small thing to be bothered by, but for me it was wrong that Amy and the Doctor dried off so quickly and so cleanly after having been swept out of the starwhale's mouth in a cascade of starwhale vomit.

Even if the starship had been so warm that they'd dried off amazingly quickly, their clothes should surely have been all stiff with dried yuckiness, and Amy's hair shouldn't have dried all silky and shiny.

I did watch DW Confidential, but Kay and Katisha are right - it was incredibly repetitious. Karen Gillan seems like she's going to be a very good companion, but did we really need to listen to everyone from the production team, from director down to tealady, telling us how wonderful/perfect for the part/witty/etc etc she was - saying the same things over and over, with slight variations in the script!

Bomper · 10/04/2010 23:32

There's definitely some kind of zero connection running through it - floor zero tongiht, prisoner zero last week..

pinkteddy · 10/04/2010 23:41

I didn't get the point of the dummies either. And what was the significance of the half human half dummy?

Overall not as good as last week and agree with dtsgirl - confidential was completely up its own backside this week. 45 minutes is much too long - what's happened to the cut downs - much better - and where is Anthony Head?!

Pixel · 10/04/2010 23:56

I enjoyed it at the time (and wouldn't mind watching it again) but the more I think back, the more I wonder what the point was of a lot of it. And if the whale volunteered, who decided to torture it and build a big mystery around the whole thing?

Also I'm hoping Amy wears something under her nighty otherwise the Doctor was getting a good eyeful when she was floating about outside the TARDIS door. No wonder he was smiling .

Pixel · 10/04/2010 23:59

And, wooden common Queen Liz put my teeth on edge.

Pixel · 11/04/2010 00:44

Ok, watched again and they didn't realise the star whale was volunteering and thought they had to trap it.

Just so you know I realise I was being dim earlier. I really must go to bed!

Idontknowhowtohelpher · 11/04/2010 08:30

I thought that they said they were feeding humans to it but it wouldn't eat the children - so it must have been eating the adults? What will it eat now?

noeyedear · 11/04/2010 09:15

I thought it was OK, just not as good as last week, which is a bit of an unfair comparison. I didn't see the point of the Smilers. They were built up to be really terrifying, and then didn't really do anything. t seemed to go really fast though, before I knew it, the episode had ended, so clearly I wasn't bored. I agree about confidential- Why is it the same length as the episode? It only needed to be 15 minutes long! I felt a bit sorry for Matt in it- got the feeling he had a bit of an unrequited crush on Karen!

RustyBear · 11/04/2010 09:21

If the star whale was the same species as the Torchwood one, then that one must have been a baby, as it fitted into a warehouse.

Did anyone else notice 'Magpie Electronics' on a shop front in one of the early scenes?

persephonesnape · 11/04/2010 09:36

i need to watch it again...but i picked up a lot of star wars references.. theer was a 'you're our only hope' i think and down the chute into what initially seemed to be a waste compactor.

i loved liz 10. liked the idea that a feisty, beautiful, black woman was the supreme authority - but a little disturbed that her mask/public face was porcelain white...

SleepingLion · 11/04/2010 10:18

I wondered what the whale was going to eat now! And really couldn't see the point of the Smilers at all except to look scary - but what were they actually doing?

I was a little irritated at the end - the writer really belaboured the link between the Doctor and the whale - 'Just in case you haven't got it yet, we'll have Amy say it one more time!'

Amy isn't growing on me yet I hope it will happen - I want to carry on enjoying Dr Who!

gorionine · 11/04/2010 10:28

I do not like Amy much either.

I was a bit surprised when in the confidential they "just knew" it would be her. Probably more based on looks (she is indeed very pretty) than anything else IMHO.

I think the smilers were some sort of spies allerting the ones in caped when someone was not following the rules properly so they sort of had a role other than being scary.

PortBlacksandDweller · 11/04/2010 10:31

Sleeping Lion - DH and i sat there going

Yes

We

Get

The

Dr

And

The

Whale

And

The

Crying

Children

Connection

Yes

We

Get

It

gorionine · 11/04/2010 10:44

Ditto PortBlacksandDweller

noeyedear · 11/04/2010 11:25

God, I didn't get the Whale/Doctor analogy at all until the end- I must be really dim! ( either that, or watching Doctor Who and reading The Hungry Caterpillar AND going 'Keep that cup straight!" doesn't really go! May need another watch!

farmerjones · 11/04/2010 13:24

loved the episode. love matt, and love amy. i was all set to seriously dislike him, but he is doing a fabulous job, even with the bow tie.
the star whale would not be able to survive on only the humans that are occasionally fed to it. creature that size would need more than just humans. probably eats star dust or something, ( making analogy to real whales eating microscopic plankton etc )

the crack at the end was good. it will be interesting to see what that plays out as, but tbh, i am still not happy with the explanation of badwolf. so may well be nothing worthwhile.

love liz ten. hope she reappears, and we see more of her. fabulous character. maybe i am being abit obsessed, but is there a royal family tree for doctor who?

EggyAllenPoe · 11/04/2010 14:19

the writer really belaboured the link between the Doctor and the

yes. i think the whole ending was somewhat insulting to the intelligence of the audience...as soon as Amy sees the claw tentacle thing stroking the little girl - that should have been the moment.....then she could have explained it verbaly to the Doctor. This bit was direly pedestrian as a consequence.

but i sat there and watched an over-long flashback sequence like a dummy. I was expecting more of an explanation of the smiler/ screamer faces.... why?