I have just a little feeling there might be some interest in discussing what’s on ABC1 at 7.30pm.
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Elsewhere: Catriona at Circulating Library often liveblogs Doctor Who, so it’s worth checking in at 7.30pm Queensland time.
Update: Circulating Library liveblog is here.
Thanks for the reminder! I’ll have to live without the first 25 minutes.
Hasn’t started yet in Queensland!
Elsewhere: Catriona at Circulating Library often liveblogs Doctor Who, so it’s worth checking in at 7.30pm Queensland time.
That was awful.
Update: Circulating Library liveblog is here.
Once again the networks let the public down – this was of course the christmas special. I wonder how many people downloaded this on boxing day last year?
Better than the usual practice of sometime in July, surely, Andrew?
Don’t disagree, some networks seem to be learning, but I am just wondering what is their reasoning behind it.
I suspect it’s that the ABC is only now, in the face of the show’s massive ratings (beating Big Brother on Sundays), becoming away of Doctor Who’s status as premier public broadcasting event television and needs to be scheduled accordingly – if not at Christmas then at least near major public holidays.
It’ll be interesting to see how close to Easter the ABC manages to schedule “Planet of the Dead”.
I enjoyed it, and I am more than just a little disappointed that David Morrissey is not going to be a replacement for David Tennant because the young whimp that has been anointed seem to be a terrible choice, all hair gell and good looks; who can believe in a Doctor of that calibre?
I have to agree, Iain. I haven’t followed all the details of the replacement and was just thinking what an excellent choice they’d made with David Morrissey. A pretty good episode all round.
… It was a bit disappointing at the end to find him returning to normal life and his son.
Spent the whole episode waiting for Charles Dickens to turn up, and he didn’t. Have these people no imagination? Or maybe they could have got Wilkie Collins in as a sort of assistant detective?
Thought it was much better than the last Xmas special. Though I have to admit the Cybermen are a bit, well, boring.
Though the cyber-sheep dog who could climb up walls was a nice touch. Or whatever it was.
Charles Dickens has already appeared in modern Doctor Who, in “The Unquiet Dead” (2005). And it was at Christmas then too.
steampunk!
Maybe that is what he wanted.
Yeah Peter Wood Steam punk is what I thought of the giant robot.
Yes, I thought Dervla Kirwan and the giant robot were both fabulous, but couldnae get my head around much of the rest of it. One quibble: Why must the cybermen have Dalek voices? Why can’t they have something particular to them?
“Once again the networks let the public down – this was of course the christmas special. I wonder how many people downloaded this on boxing day last year?”
If the ABC had shown it on Chrstmas Day/Boxing day, I would have had to record it until I had a chance to watch it, Christmas being rather too busy a period to sit down and watch TV. (Although I did find time for a Boxing Day morning viewing of The Shining with the kids…) I assume there’s some sort of British cultural thing about watching television on Christmas day. Rather like that obsession they seem to have about what song will be number 1 on the charts for Xmas.
I really *really* don’t get this mad idea that somehow my viewing experience is diminished if I don’t watch a show mere hours after it’s shown somewhere else. There’s a bunch of shows I’m slowly getting around to on DVD. I can’t imagine they’d be better if I’d watched them last year, let alone when they were first run.
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The current Cyber-voices are a bit Daleky, though that may partly be because the same actor — Nicholas Briggs — voices them. Otherwise they’re an interesting mixture of very early, utterly incomprehensible “Moonbase”/”Tomb of the Cybermen” era voices (which I always thought sounded like a Hendrix guitar solo) and the more conversational 80s style that debuted with “Earthshock”.
Am currently watching last week’s Omnid Dijalli, then will settle down to watch the Doctor which I had to record because we had visitors. The cybermen are my second favourite villains after the Daleks closely followed by the Master.
Let’s face it, every generation gets the Doctor Who it deserves.
“Talking ’bout my regeneration”
Still looking forward to the first female Dr Who. Maybe Helen Mirren a decade ago. Or Emily Watson a decade from now.
The key word when casting Dr Who should always be “puckish”. Someone who can confront the end of universe with a boiled lolly and an equally boiled but far larger brain.
Let Who be Who. What? No, he invented the steam engine,
Now I think about it, why not Emily Watson now? She already looks she’s from outer space. Fit her up with a nice piece of boy candy as her sidekick. And instead of K-9, maybe also a big as a hog fast-talking black cat with a tommy gun.
And now I also think about it, I’ve been completely sporting the wrong Russian inflected net de plume all this time. Nabakov was always just a hangover from earlier BBS and chat sites. And the Nerve lovepiles…anyone remember them?
So, in the spirit of my new year’s resolutions to longer smoke cigars in bed, take a hip flask to work, menace my neighbour’s yappy dog with a speargun or call up old girlfriends at 4am, I’m gonna rebrand m’self online as Behemoth.
Those of you that know who I’m talking about will no doubt agree it’s appropriate. Those that don’t will be appropriated.
Behemoth,
Land monster, isn’t it?
“Land monster, isn’t it?”
Illiterate lout.
…has a penchant for chess, vodka and pistols.
Ahem re the name slot..perhaps too much chess or pistols there.
Oh, not the Bible one. Thanks for that, Behemoth. Thou hadst widened my literary horizons.