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Technically, not an asspull, because they've been foreshadowing with the "bad wolf" thing the whole series.
In any event, asspulls are par for the course on Doctor Who. Russell T Davies is just trying to stick to the series' formalisms. The Bad wolf thing is a lampshade hanging.
I am shocked at how ecstatic I felt just from the background hum on the ship at the end. The number of little things in the episode sold me.
I thought ita was referring to the appearance of Captain Jack's gun. Which was a total asspull. I did love him with the Trinny and Susannah-bots. Captain Jack has totally grown on me. I don't know if he'll survive the series though.
On edit: according to Doctor Who Confidential (which is on BBC3 just after the show is on BBC1), a shot of Captain Jack's bum from behind after he's been defabricated was the ONLY THING in the entire series which the BBC refused to show. Damn.
Oh, yeah. Duh.
Odd, Tom, that you weren't as fixated on the idea of Captain Jack's ass as I was, or as Fiona.
Or perhaps not at all.
I should be grabbing these confidentials, shouldn't I? I wonder if they'd be on a DVD release.
I love everyone on that show right now, which is weird, because I'd not expected to love a third wheel. Maybe the HoYay helps.
Okay, maybe not maybe.
I heard that the confidentials won't be on the DVDs.
I don't find the Confidentials that great, I have to say. They're about 20 minutes of self-promotion of the new stuff and about 10 minutes of digging up old stuff, and the proportions need to be the other way round to keep things interesting, IMO. Occasionally there are some nice little tidbits, though, plus Russell T. Davies is a hoot, I love the guy. Peter Davison and Sylvester McCoy have hardly aged a jot, Tom Baker has aged well, Colin Baker hasn't.
I'm surprised they won't be on the DVDs. Seem like prime filler-fodder to me.
Russell T. D. speaks.
Edit - heh:
The team began to gather. If we had been in LA, we would have just wandered along the lot and snapped up production teams from whatever sci-fi show had been axed that week. But that expertise did not exist in the UK.
And
On screen, the Doctor was deliberately flying the flag as a very British icon (Routemaster buses, Big Ben, Simon Callow) while off screen, the concept was given a very American kick up the arse. We built in sweeps episodes - event episodes and two-part stories placed strategically throughout the run, designed to boost ratings. The last in the series quickly became the "season finale". And we did not just learn structure from the States, we stole story. So many good dramas - thank you, Buffy - had expanded the genre. They showed us that if you can laugh and cry in the middle of a story, then the adventure is that much better.
Did I mention that I love Russell T. Davies?
And we did not just learn structure from the States, we stole story. So many good dramas - thank you, Buffy - had expanded the genre. They showed us that if you can laugh and cry in the middle of a story, then the adventure is that much better.
So Dr. Who falls in love with a Dalek with a soul?
Wash your mouth out, Tommyrot.