Hm, I think "The Empty Child" is when I gave up watching. I did catch "Blink" because people here raved about it, though, and it was fun. I think seeing it with ad breaks made it signficantly less nightmare-inducing, though.
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Strega - Mar 17, 2008 8:42:38 am PDT #5465 of 10001
Emily - Mar 17, 2008 8:44:00 am PDT #5466 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Some of those two part episodes I think could have been edited down into single episodes.
I agree. I liked the Captain Jack stuff, of which there was more in the second episode, but things are always tighter in single-episode stories. Well, almost always.
Kathy A - Mar 17, 2008 8:47:27 am PDT #5467 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
If any fans of Uno, the beagle who won Westminster, are around, there's a fun video of him visiting the WGN radio studios at the bottom of this page.
msbelle - Mar 17, 2008 8:48:15 am PDT #5468 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
The Empty Child is one of the 2 dr. who eps I caught, but I think I caught part 2 so it was a little confused. Not terrifying though.
Laga - Mar 17, 2008 8:51:16 am PDT #5469 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Not terrifying
oh man, when The Doctor says I sent him to his room. This is his room. I get chills. I'm getting chills right now just thinking about it. Now I'm all twitchy and glancing behind me as I type.
Emily - Mar 17, 2008 8:55:36 am PDT #5470 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Not terrifying though.
"Are you my Mummy?" spooked me. I know it was kind of calculated to do so, but still. Eeeee.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2008 8:57:51 am PDT #5471 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The Doctor Dances (part 2) isn't quite so scary, but The Empty Child is creepy as fuck.
Kathy A - Mar 17, 2008 9:04:10 am PDT #5472 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
For me (a long-time DW fan), "The Doctor Dances" was not as creepy as "The Empty Child," but it was more satisfying, simply because the one big constant in just about every DW episode is death, and in "The Doctor Dances," as he says, "Everybody lives. Just this once, everybody lives!" His sheer delight in granting life instead of death is almost intoxicating to watch.
(Watching TDD always brings to mind the episode from classic Who when his companion Tegan Jovanka leaves because all the death and loss is just too much for her. For a show that's supposedly for the kids, it's really quite dark, even before it was revived.)
SuziQ - Mar 17, 2008 9:05:10 am PDT #5473 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
GC, I'm not familiar with that style, but one of the things we had to do when refrencing a web site was to add the full URL and "retrieved on March 17, 2008" since URLs do change and you want to let them know when you pulled your data in case it changed after that.
msbelle - Mar 17, 2008 9:10:40 am PDT #5474 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
ok after reading the descriptions, maybe I saw the Dr. Dances and not the Empty Child.