I really don't like the new Doctor. I'm trying but he's not working for me.
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon
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sj - Aug 30, 2014 5:26:54 pm PDT #25587 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Frankenbuddha - Aug 30, 2014 6:14:15 pm PDT #25588 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I like Capaldi well enough, but I don't like what seems to be some serious revisionist crap on the Doctor's....morality? ethics? Whatev.
beekaytee - Aug 30, 2014 6:45:06 pm PDT #25589 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
More than a little disappointed that Amanda slept with creepy mayor dude.
One HUNDRED percent this. Seriously. What the ever-loving are the writers thinking.
I like that actor just fine...because of Primeval...but holy cow that made me mad. So, the creepy, stalky rapist wins? All over the place. The doctor lies for him and the mayor lies with him. Feh.
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I do like the new doctor, but I'm just as, if not more disappointed with the writing so far. The first half of tonight's episode had me smiling but the last half seemed less coherent.
I like the Danny character and am curious which direction that will go, though I am a bit wary of the potential for amped up romance. I actually love romance as entertainment, but don't think Doctor Who really needs it. There is so much more going on in the Universe to focus on!
Typo Boy - Aug 30, 2014 10:20:01 pm PDT #25590 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
The Doctor doesn't take soldiers as companions? Leela might have something to say about that.
Calli - Aug 31, 2014 1:57:48 am PDT #25591 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The Doctor doesn't take soldiers as companions? Leela might have something to say about that.
As would Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
DebetEsse - Aug 31, 2014 1:59:12 am PDT #25592 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I can actually buy that as a post-Time War thing.
billytea - Aug 31, 2014 2:20:23 am PDT #25593 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The Doctor doesn't take soldiers as companions? Leela might have something to say about that.
So might Jamie. And Ben.
Typo Boy - Aug 31, 2014 7:30:09 am PDT #25594 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I suppose there are technicalities for all of them. The Brigadier never really lived in the Tardis, and only traveled in it occasionally. Ben was an able seaman and might have corrected anyone who called him a soldier. Jamie was a piper. But piping was important to keeping time and giving orders during battles (like drummers). So that would have been the hardest to get around. He might have challenged to a duel anyone who got too insistent about his not being a soldier.
WindSparrow - Aug 31, 2014 8:54:37 am PDT #25595 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
As it seems new and specific to this Doctor, the no-soldier rule might be a reaction to recovered War Doctor memories, Gallifrey being hidden rather than destroyed notwithstanding. Pretty sure Centurians, however plastic, count as soldiers.
ETA: Anybody else suddenly have an urge to see this Doctor have a conversation with Jack Harkness?
Just me, then?
Anne W. - Aug 31, 2014 9:03:07 am PDT #25596 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
That makes sense as a way to reconcile the no-soldier rule with the Doctor's past, but I still got the overall feeling that the no-soldier rule is primarily there to set up conflict in regards to Danny Pink coming on board the TARDIS. It works, but it still feels lazy and contrived.