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I loved it - the episode, and the music.
There a lovely, lyrical piece when she creates the Sonic that seems like it might be the Doctor's theme. She's a violin 
(I think it's a violin. Might be a cello. I'm not great with anything music but appreciating it)
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Here’s your new routine, Paul.
4-6.30pm, pub. 6.30-6.45pm, walking back from pub to find on arrival at home that wife and mother-in-law have cooked dinner. 6.45 to 7.45pm watch Doctor Who with tray on lap while women put the world to rights in the dining room. 8pm mother-in-law washes up in gratitude for being allowed to eat with you while you catch up with last night’s Match of the Day.
You’re welcome!
I love your ideas TG. IT'll never happen! But thanks for trying.
So it went like this: 4-6pm pub. 5-7 cooked dinner. 7-8-ish, eating dinner with no political row! After we packed the m-i-l off, we sat down to watch The Cry. It stars someone called Jenna Coleman. Then we finally watched this new series based on an old favourite with that bloody woman in it. On the catch-up service. First time I haven't recorded it since recorders were generally available (to me ...1982).
It was ok. No great shakes. As a slice of tv sf/fantasy it entertained. The scoring was refreshing after years of (the excellent) Murray Gold, but I currently dislike the theme. They said it would use the original Delia Derbyshire version as a base. But Gold's did in 2005 and was much better. I didn't like his second one at first but it grew on me. And it is better than his last two, especially the Capaldi one which was TERRIBLE!
The woman was ok if I think of it as a new show based on my old favourite (the later Star Treks do have the decency to display the title "based upon Star Trek). She was too giddy, and looked like a kids entertainer in her new outfit, and the rest of the cast weren't bad.
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The woman was ok if I think of it as a new show based on my old favourite (the later Star Treks do have the decency to display the title "based upon Star Trek). She was too giddy, and looked like a kids entertainer in her new outfit, and the rest of the cast weren't bad.
Not seen it yet - it can't be any worst than the decade just gone, some incapable Dr's, btw, Jodie Whittaker.
DW was designed to dress wacky he always has - now its JW's turn. What did Baker, Davidson, C-Baker & McCoy's outfits remind you of - they weren't so cool too the eye. Hartnell 63 looked like a drunk gypsy after that PT - JP, part-time limo men, magicians. I'm cool their garms.
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The woman was ok if I think of it as a new show based on my old favourite (the later Star Treks do have the decency to display the title "based upon Star Trek). She was too giddy, and looked like a kids entertainer in her new outfit, and the rest of the cast weren't bad.
Not seen it yet - it can't be any worst than the decade just gone, some incapable Dr's, btw, Jodie Whittaker.
DW was designed to dress wacky he always has - now its JW's turn. What did Baker, Davidson, C-Baker & McCoy's outfits remind you of - they weren't so cool too the eye. Hartnell 63 looked like a drunk gypsy after that PT - JP, part-time limo men, magicians. I'm cool their garms.
I take your point especially with the eighties ones. Very few would argue with you on Colin Baker's terrible outfit. He looked as much like Ronald McDonald as he did The Doctor! Even he said he was glad he was on the inside looking out. And his producer responsible for it also admitted later it was a mistake.
McCoy's outline was perfectly ok once the tv movie removed all the stupid question marks. Davison too had a naff designed uniform that was about the best of a bad eighties bunch. All the others were fairly eccentric it's true, but they were either trampy/bohemian, or out-of-time grand ott.
The revival gave the new Doctors fairly ordinary clothes. NOTHING unusual about Christopher Eccleston's. David Tennant's coat might have been a bit long, and Matt Smith's was ok to me until they chickened out and saddled him too with the old frock coat.
I'm sorry but however odd the 60s, 70s and 2000+ ones are, they're not the eighties throwback I see in Jodie Whittaker's attire. For me it's the worst one since that godawful Colin Baker one.
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Tomorrow night's could be a make or break episode. Rosa includes the story of Rosa Parks, and many fans are watching to see whether DW has the right chops for this sort of thing. I reckon the BBC and all the press reviewers will rave about it as being very worthy. We shall see. I seem to recall Quantum Leap handling racism, sexism, and a whole load of 'issues' and doing them well, but they didn't need time for monsters running around...
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Tomorrow night's could be a make or break episode. Rosa includes the story of Rosa Parks, and many fans are watching to see whether DW has the right chops for this sort of thing. I reckon the BBC and all the press reviewers will rave about it as being very worthy. We shall see. I seem to recall Quantum Leap handling racism, sexism, and a whole load of 'issues' and doing them well, but they didn't need time for monsters running around...
I thought it was going to be a pure historical... but apparently it's not.
Apparently, Russell T Davies once said they watered down historicals or DW would end up looking like Game of Thrones.
In terms of looks (obviously a family show isn't going to be awash with blood and guts!) I don't think Game of Thrones is a bad show to aspire to. It has more gravitas to it's imagined medieval setting than any new Who's idea of a historical one.
I've said many times that a pure historical wouldn't be difficult to achieve. If the story is gripping and absorbing enough, not to mention a bit of action in there, any audience would forgive one episode a season for not having monsters. Especially if it was a middle episode where they're on the run, or chasing something. If desperate enough, the pre-title sequence, and of course the 'next time' trailer can carry out and out sf trappings to tick that box.
A shame. Because apart from the first episode and The Daleks, the 'pure' historicals (that is our heroes being there being the only sf aspect) are the best stories in that very first William Hartnell season. Marco Polo and The Aztecs are not only well written by a man who knew his history, John Lucarotti, but gave the cast ESPECIALLY Hartnell the best scripts. They all stepped up to the material. And The Massacre is incredible from later on. Yet we're constantly told how good the new series writers are. Obviously not THAT good...
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