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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/1/2008 10:35:41 PM
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Sideways
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I don't get teary eyed over TV, well rarely anyway. But it was a heck of a lot of fun! I might be more coherent in the morning, but what a fantastic show!
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/1/2008 10:59:41 PM
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I felt worse for Donna. Because she can never remember; she can never know. It was a little heartbreaking. The Doctor always finds someone new.
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/1/2008 11:27:45 PM
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Sideways
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I have mixed feelings about Rose. All of the other companions, Martha, Jack, eventually Sarah Jane and Mickey grew up and got over the Doctor and went on with their lives. Donna never really had a choice. But Rose was still pinning for the Doctor, still willing to leave her brother, mom, dad and her job at Torchwood just to travel with the Doctor (and once the rift sealed she could never even come back to visit).
She was trying to save the universe, but in the end she came all that way just to find him again and leave her new world behind. Mickey knew he would never have her, and I wonder if the half-human Doctor will even be good enough for her. She still ran after the Tardis even after she kissed 10.5
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/2/2008 11:57:26 AM
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For those who are unsure if series will be back as the Doc ends the show with no companion but all loose ends tied up, news is Tennent is leaving and so is the wrighter but Starlog mag has confirmed that someone else is taking over the helm so there will be a 5th season and we'll just get a new Doctor, Im glad Donna's done with.
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/2/2008 12:45:05 PM
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For those who are unsure if series will be back as the Doc ends the show with no companion but all loose ends tied up, news is Tennent is leaving and so is the wrighter
News or rumour?
And I'd be very surprised if Steven Moffat, the lead writer and executive producer, is leaving. He's only just replaced Russell T. Davies, and is writing Series 5.
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but Starlog mag has confirmed that someone else is taking over the helm so there will be a 5th season and we'll just get a new Doctor
Really? We've heard nothing over here in the UK - don't you think that's strange?
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/2/2008 1:08:22 PM
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I felt worse for Donna. Because she can never remember; she can never know. It was a little heartbreaking. The Doctor always finds someone new.
Yeah.
OK...sniffle...sniffle...
I was REALLY stupid to follow up this show with reading the first third of Breaking Dawn. Although I was a grown-up and slept last night before going to get it. Between the show last night and the first 1/3 of this novel, I have reached the point of fictional angst overload.
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/2/2008 1:28:21 PM
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For those who are unsure if series will be back as the Doc ends the show with no companion but all loose ends tied up, news is Tennent is leaving and so is the wrighter but Starlog mag has confirmed that someone else is taking over the helm so there will be a 5th season and we'll just get a new Doctor, Im glad Donna's done with.
Not entirely accurate...
David Tennant is not leaving. At least not for the time being. The show is on a semi-hiatus through 2009 while David works on some other projects, including a stretch with the Royal Shakespeare Company playing Hamlet (he's just begun that, and is playing opposite Patrick Stewart .) I call it a semi-hiatus because although there is no series scheduled for 2009, there will be 5 movies, including the now traditional Christmas specials. The 2008 Christmas special is already in the can, and is the first to involved an enemy from the the original series. David is contracted for all five movies, and is in negotiations for Series 5. Reportedly the BBC is offering him 1.5 million Pounds to return, and considering that at one point he stated that he'd like to become the longest running Doctor since Tom Baker, I'll be surprised if he doesn't take the offer.
The one who is departing is Russell T. Davies. He's writing and producing the first two hiatus movies, and co-writing and producing the other three. After that, he'll be replaced as Executive Producer and chief writer by Steven Moffet, who's been responsible for some of the most "original series-like" episodes. If the Series 4 finale is anything to go by, Davies seems to be trying to reset the series to some degree to give Moffet a "clean slate" for Series 5.
As to the issue of a companion, well, it's been confirmed that Jenny (the Doctor's "daughter") will be back for at least one of the hiatus movies. Moffat specifically requested that the ending of The Doctor's Daughter be rewritten to undo her death, because he liked the character and has plans for her over the long term.
Couldn't agree less re. Donna... She's the first of the new series companions that I'm actually sorry to see go. Never really cared for Rose, and while I liked Martha, Davies almost ruined her by insisting on having her develop a crush on the Doc. Donna started out as a character I didn't care for, and developed by the end of The Christmas Bride into an interesting character just on the merits of being the first companion since Tegan to refuse to travel with the Doctor because she couldn't deal with the death and violence that seems to surround him. In Series 4, she became the first new companion (with the possible exception of Mickey) to grow and mature, and become three dimensional (well, Martha has too, but most of her development took place after leaving the Doctor and joining UNIT). Donna was exactly the sort of companion the Doctor needed. Someone who was neither overawed by him nor infatuated with him, but instead was there because... well gee, who wouldn't want to travel through time and space, and besides the Doc needs someone to reign in the more excessive elements of his nature.
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/2/2008 8:02:20 PM
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I did not watch most of the Martha season. I've seen the Shakespeare episode, and the series finale with her and the Master. But I actually enjoyed both Rose and Donna, but for very different reasons. I was touched by the tenderness between Rose and the Doctor. I am a romantic sucker.
With Donna, I had some mixed feelings about her at the start, but she did grow on me. I liked her no nonsense attitude with the Doctor; I liked how she never really forgot that he was an alien above all else. Both were a real treat for me.
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/4/2008 2:26:03 PM
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uh...wow
I have not liked Donna...right up until she began acting like the doctor in the finale...she was a scream! I laughed so hard I had to rewind so I could hear her again. Brilliant! And then my heart softened towards her and I remembered that she did ok as his companion this season.
I did catch the lead-in to Martha joining Torchwood.
I was not sad about Donna's memories, but I was sad for the doctor and for poor grandpa.
So...that's it for the doctor until when? fall or summer of 2009? bummer...
I hope we get access to the movies that will be available before then.
I'd really hate to see David Tennant leave the series now.
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/4/2008 3:47:46 PM
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/4/2008 5:22:58 PM
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They repeated the last 2 episodes, back-2-back last night and I watched them. I was laughing hard too, not just at her acting like the doctor, but him sounding like her (initially) too. As for her put-downs on both doctors lacking human qualities (when she gave the daleks spinning lessons  ) ~ brilliant.
that was just so funny...he had this incredulous look on his face when he realized that he sounded like her.
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/4/2008 6:41:37 PM
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I don't recall Rose ever working for Torchwood.
Parallel-universe Torchwood.
Where the parallel-universe version of her father worked. Mickey worked there as well.
In the bug-on-Donna's back episode, that's why Rose was working with all that tech.
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/4/2008 9:53:54 PM
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Well, I just watched it. Had to tape it b/c I was gone for the weekend. It was very good!! So sad about Donna forgetting her life with the doc, that it was almost as if she DID die, in a way. And what's up with the ring? They kept showing it on her hand in almost all of her scenes. And did it change colors from gray to black or was I just seeing things? I liked the heartbeat, the Human Doc calling her from the future. I also liked it how devros showed the doc's true 'soul', the destroyer of the worlds and how so many died in his name. Devros said doc was running, never looking back for fear of what he'd see. The human doc who killed the deleks came from the time lord doc, so a part of the time lord doc must have destroyed perhaps worlds? And Caan bringing Donna to the doc, thus creating Doctor-Donna, the one who saved the universe. Personally, I loved it! Very well written. Good job, brits!! :)
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/14/2008 12:01:10 AM
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I just remembered this forum and came back... and then remembered that there was a Doc Who thread!
I'll admit, I've recently developed an infatuation for Ten(what silly things crushes are). So naturally I'd come to the Doctor Who thread before anything else, LOL.
I absolutely loved the season finale. It was brilliantly written and acted! I think it was better than last year's(much better if you count that strange ending with the Doctor as a floaty glowy thing, that kinda made an otherwise really good episode corny).
My favorite bits had to be the whole exchange between Doc #2 and Donna in the TARDIS, and the whole end part. Very dramatic and well done.
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/14/2008 9:50:48 AM
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I've been watching the series one (since it came back to our screens) Dr Who. It's kind of weird watching them again. They've improved a lot!
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/14/2008 11:15:13 AM
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doinkdom
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You mean the very first season of dr who?
Wow...I bet they have improved.
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/14/2008 11:16:50 AM
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doinkdom
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So, how many of you are going to come to London in December to watch David Tennant in the Royal Shakespeare Production of Hamlet (and Patrick Stewart as his Uncle)?!! 
 probably not.
But we will be counting on you to keep us all informed!
Will any of you already on the other side of the pond be attending the play? Is it very far from where you live?
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RE: Dr Who is coming back - 8/14/2008 11:25:06 AM
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I think that I'm nearer but it's Manda that's going.
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You mean the very first season of dr who? The one with Christopher Eccleston.
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