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Too bad he spent most of the article talking about how bad it was that it didn't follow the books, and then grudgingly admitted it was pretty good on its own.
Personally, I don't want a cast of thousands. It works in the books, because there's more time/space to develop them and their relationships with Harry, but in a 42-minute show, they'd just steal time from the characters I really care about: Harry, Bob, and Murphy. If they only show up a couple times a season, that'd be okay; it would be nice to know that Harry has built up a support system out there even if we didn't see them all the time. Harry needs a support system besides Bob.
I'm finally almost done with the old Who that's out on DVD, and I think I really want Ace to pop up at some point in the current incarnation. Looking at her bio on wikipedia (And can I just take a moment to comment on the amount of extended universe content?), such an appearance could be substantially different from Sarah Jane's.
Actually, given how similar she and Rose were, it would have been interesting to have done that episode instead of School Reunion, even if I can think of several meta reasons for going with Sarah Jane instead.
Andi and I just watched Series II ep 2 of the new Dr. Who incarnation. Wow. Russel T Davies really embraces the Buffy TVS habit of pop culture referencing, doesn't he?
For instance,
Harry Potter
and
Back to the Future.
Who'd have guessed we'd see those things referenced in Dr. Who?
If the Tardis was worth the police box from which it was built, we would have had those references from the First Doctor.
I loved Who 3.02. I was cackling with delight throughout the whole thing, and just about lost it at
"Fifty-seven academics just punched the air."
As for the actor who played
Shakespeare,
I thought he was fabulous. Does anyone know what else he's been in?
Er... I assume this means that the new episode is available now out there in the electronic aether?
Yes. Ahemming is possible.
Even as I type this, I could be gaining access to the file via semi-grey-area-legal-means. In a gratifyingly quick manner....
As for Who 3.02, I am still chuckling at the Doctor telling
head-full-of-hair Shakespeare not to rub his head too hard lest he go bald.
Also, I wanted
Kenneth Branaugh to play the Bard up till that moment.
Furthermore I called Martha turning up as
Shakespeare's Dark Lady.
The other thing that had me chuckling was the Doctor
telling Shakespeare that no, he couldn't nick the Dylan Thomas quote (which does sound vaguely Shakespearian, actually).
It was little things like that, and the
indignant "That's one of mine!" that kept that particular running gag from getting too stale.
