Doctor Who is a pretty cool guy. He time travels and doesn't afraid of anything.

[Kim]

So far I'm pretty sure Blink is the best Doctor Who episode I've seen. It has me on the edge of my seat and all these nifty little ideas like the Easter Egg in the DVD and what the weeping angels are is just great. Dalek comes close for being an awesome introduction for them, and I'm also really quite fond of Gridlock simply for how utterly depressing it is. I bawled.

[Preturbed]

Oh that's right, you just started watching. Man I just I could watch those episodes for the first time again. Have you gotten to Silence in the Library yet?

[Kim]

Have you gotten to Silence in the Library yet?

Not yet I don't think. I think the next episode is a three part season finale thing, so I'm pretty excited for that.

EDIT: Sec's design in Evolution of the Daleks was kinda dumb, in my opinion, but I loved him as a character.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Yeah Blink's a pretty great episode, definately one of the best. Though the 3 parter you're on now is also pretty good, mainly because of The Master.

I've actually been rewatching all these lately as well, though I just got to season 4 which I don't own, because for some reason it has a ludicrously high price tag in every shop I see it in (I am NOT paying 70 fucking pounds for a single season dvd set, not when the others were like £30). I hope the price has dropped a bit since the last time I saw it now.

[BitVyper]

EDIT: Sec's design in Evolution of the Daleks was kinda dumb, in my opinion, but I loved him as a character.

Sometimes I think some of their alien designs are shoutouts to the era when they didn't have a budget.

[Preturbed]

Sometimes I think all of their alien designs are shoutouts to the era when they didn't have a budget.

FTFY

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Yeah Blink's a pretty great episode, definately one of the best. Though the 3 parter you're on now is also pretty good, mainly because of The Master.

I've actually been rewatching all these lately as well, though I just got to season 4 which I don't own, because for some reason it has a ludicrously high price tag in every shop I see it in (I am NOT paying 70 fucking pounds for a single season dvd set, not when the others were like £30). I hope the price has dropped a bit since the last time I saw it now.

It is currentely £26.48 on Amazon reduced from £70.

[Regulus Tera]

The Girl in the Fireplace > The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances > Blink > Time Crash > Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead

But The Curse of Fatal Death > Any other Moffat story.

Also, to all RTD haters: read The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter. It won't make you an RTD believer, but it will at least convince you the guy did something good (despite being a lazy bum at times).

[Kim]

I'm at Last of the Time Lords. First off, The Master is batshit insane and that makes him awesome. Totally rad.

Secondly, did the humans turn themselves into those things to survive, or did The Master turn them into those?

[TARDIS]

...The End of Time > ALL

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

It is currentely £26.48 on Amazon reduced from £70.

Hmm, I might look into getting that then.

I'm at Last of the Time Lords. First off, The Master is batshit insane and that makes him awesome. Totally rad.

Secondly, did the humans turn themselves into those things to survive, or did The Master turn them into those?

Told you he was awesome. Easily the best villain in the series

As for the rest; I think it was probably the Master who did it. He basically promised them a way to escape oblivion, by going back in time and creating the paradox machine, and from there they could survive another 100 trillion years encased in near inpregnable armour, sort of Dalek style.

[BitVyper]

FTFY

Eh, not really. There've been plenty of non-crappy designs in the new series. There've been a few really nice looking ones too, plus they all look better in motion nowadays - no more Cybermen who just move like normal people except very slowly. I'm mostly talking about the "okay, here's some face paint and tin foil" designs.

[Archbio]

I kind of assumed the Toclafane had created themselves before meeting The Master, to survive the conditions of living in a dead universe, rather than to survive into the XXIst century.

[Regulus Tera]

Man, Jon Pertwee was a badarse Doctor. He did karate and Inferno was a better alternate dimensions story than Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel. I still like Turn Left more, though.

Currently watching The Ambassadors of Death after an unsuccessful try to get into the first Dalek serial. Pacing was horrible during the sixties.

[Kim]

I really am not liking Donna Noble. She's annoying, and she does that "Make a complete ass of myself" stuff that made me hate Rose during the werewolf episode.

[Regulus Tera]

Donna Noble is miles better than Series 2 Rose.

New Doctor Who Magazine, new information about Series 5: (http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/02/episode-titles-revealed.html)

Steven Moffat has revealed the titles of the first few stories of Matt Smith's era as the Eleventh Doctor.

The series begins with The Eleventh Hour written by Moffat himself and is believed to follow directly on from the regeneration in The End of Time. Episode Two is The Beast Below also by Moffat with Episode Three seeing the return of the Doctor's greatest foe in Victory of the Daleks by Mark Gatiss.

Speaking to Doctor Who Magazine, Moffat also confirmed a number of guest stars for the new series coming to the UK in the Spring.

Arthur Darvill will join the cast of Episode One as Rory. Darvill was previously seen in Little Dorrit, playing Tip Dorrit in the 2008 series.

Sophie Okonedo stars in Episode Two. She recently seen playing Winnie Mandela in the film Mrs Mandela and has previously started in series such as Criminal Justice, Father and Son and Clocking Off. Her role as Tatiana, the wife of Rwandan hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina in the genocide drama film Hotel Rwanda, earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. For Doctor Who she played Alison Cheney, a companion of the Doctor in the 2003 webcast, Scream of the Shalka.

Bill Paterson joins Episode Three. The Scottish actor's long career features appearances in The Killing Fields, A Private Function, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Chaplin, Richard III, Miss Potter and Creation. His television roles include Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Smiley's People, The Singing Detective and the ITV version of Doctor Zhivago.

Also in Episode Three is Ian McNeice. McNeice had a memorable role in the award-winning series Edge of Darkness. He has appeared in a number of films, including 84 Charing Cross Road, Day of the Dead, No Escape, From Hell and The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.

Episodes Four and Five see the return of Alex Kingston as River Song. Kingston first played the role in the Tenth Doctor's episodes Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead also written by Steven Moffat. She is best known for her role in ER and has appeared in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, A Pin for the Butterfly, Croupier and Boudica.

Episode Ten sees Tony Curran join the cast playing Vincent Van Gough in the Richard Curtis episode. Curran has appeared in many films including Shallow Grave, Great Expectations, Gladiator, The Mists of Avalon and Miami Vice.

[Kim]

Okay, really liking Donna now. Feeling very meh about this whole season so far, though. The Doctor's Daughter was kind of an okay episode, but the ending sucked for about a billion different reasons.

[BitVyper]

Yeah, season four wasn't the best, but Donna was a pretty fun companion.

[Regulus Tera]

http://i46.tinypic.com/6znf4z.jpg

If that's the new Time Vortex I'm squeeing.

Amy Pond's legs = <33333333333333333333333333333333

[Mirai Gen]

Amy Pond's legs = <33333333333333333333333333333333

I'll lay money that's why she got the part.

[Arhra]

So far I'm pretty sure Blink is the best Doctor Who episode I've seen. It has me on the edge of my seat and all these nifty little ideas like the Easter Egg in the DVD and what the weeping angels are is just great. Dalek comes close for being an awesome introduction for them, and I'm also really quite fond of Gridlock simply for how utterly depressing it is. I bawled.

I thought Gridlock had a nice start but then GIANT CRABS.

Unfortunately I can say this about a fair few episodes where they started with an interesting premise but it goes off the rails or something pretty contrived gets stuck in.

I'd say even Silence in the Library falls under that. The first half was excellent but for the second... it's not to say the ending was necessarily bad, but it wasn't as good as it could have been. Part of what made the Vashta Nerada so creepy was the fact they were a threat that you couldn't reason with.

I think in the new series Donna was the best companion so far. She actually did stuff and seeing her develop was very interesting.

[Kim]

Eh, I loved Silence in the Library. Any complaints I have with it are instantly compensated by it having Donna and HOLY CRAP the Vashta Nerada are a terrifying thing to contemplate when you're lying in bed and can't sleep.

[synkr0nized]

The new actor for the doctor is so lacking Tennant's cuteness, for lack of a better word.

[Archbio]

I thought Gridlock had a nice start but then GIANT CRABS.

I think the thing that made that element specially bad, as far as I'm concerned, was the DEVOLUSHION! stuff. I mean, it's a time travel show, for freak's sake. They didn't have to go: "well, we need a random established alien from the series and we need to cheaply explain away why they're just a mindless/unsignificant plot contrivance." Just say it's the past and be done with it.

[Regulus Tera]

I'll lay money that's why she got the part.

Check your PMs.

[Mirai Gen]

Thank you.

[synkr0nized]

At this point you may as well at least mention what you posted to one another, since you're waving it in front of us anyway.

[Regulus Tera]

Karen Gillian's sexy physique.

[Kim]

At this point you may as well at least mention what you posted to one another, since you're waving it in front of us anyway.

Little do you know they're actually swapping pics of her playing DDR, completely innocent and SFW!

[Mirai Gen]

There's no naughty bits but we're just playing it safe.

[Regulus Tera]

More Amy Pond please:

http://www.twotalkingmonkeys.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/karen-gillan-amy-pond.jpg

And a new trailer is coming out on Saturday! And it's gonna be shown in 3D in cinemas! Amy Pond in 3D omg!

[Archbio]

I'm not very familar with police uniforms from these isles, but that can't possibly be right.

[Mirai Gen]

Thread has been de-railed by Karen Gillan's legs.

I'd be upset but I'm pining for fishnets.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I'm not very familar with police uniforms from these isles, but that can't possibly be right.

It's right if she is a policewoman who also works in a strip club.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

He's absolutely right, that skirt is far too long.

[Archbio]

It's right if she is a policewoman who also works in a strip club.

Or a stripper who works in a police station.

[Regulus Tera]

New trailer is TRIP-PY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpbmMhNe6aA&feature=player_embedded)

There's a portion of the script from ep. 7 online. SPOILERS: http://i47.tinypic.com/16m69ev.jpg

[Kim]

So I was watching Silence in the Library with my younger brother, and it occurs to me that River Song is going to meet Jack Harkness probably. Reason I think so is she has his sonic blaster that he used in The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances.

I guess it makes sense, since Jack first showed up in a Moffat episode, but the immortality thing didn't sound like a Moffat thing to me, so I didn't think he'd keep him in Moffat Who.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I think it's more likely that Jacks blaster was left inside the TARDIS during Parting of the Ways, seeing as Jack didn't have it on him during the Dalek attack and hasn't used it since. Most likely River gets it from the Doctor at some point.

[Preturbed]

New trailer is TRIP-PY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpbmMhNe6aA&feature=player_embedded)

There's a portion of the script from ep. 7 online. SPOILERS: http://i47.tinypic.com/16m69ev.jpg

I like it already.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Not liking new doctor. Maybe he'll grow on me. Maybe.
His face is so hideous though and his voice creepy.

[Green Spanner]

Not liking new doctor. Maybe he'll grow on me. Maybe.
His face is so hideous though and his voice creepy.

I'm willing to give him a chance, especially as there are probably countless people who won't under any circumstances.

Tennant is a hard act to follow.

[Archbio]

Tennant is a hard act to follow.

I didn't like Tennant all that much (Eccleston is a tough act to follow,) so I'm not really averse to the new one out of the gate.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Ecclestone was bald and thus shit. Tennant was ok if hammy. Still doesn't mean new guy isn't terrible though. And part zombie.

[Preturbed]

Ecclestone was bald and thus, the shit.

FTFY

[Regulus Tera]

We have a release date: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx6QfyWtt6g

Longest month ever.