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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 13:14:41 GMT
Oh now, Earthshock I DO like. There we go. Common ground at last. I'm rather fond of The Visitation as well from that season.
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Post by mrperson on Apr 20, 2017 18:12:58 GMT
Shows how an opinion can differ, I found that really gripping. Both now and a kid. It's The Most Dangerous Game and Goth drowning the Doctor has got to be one of the most brutal cliffhangers on television. Honestly, that doesn't say very much. 'Tis a very good season all round. We are, after all, talking about a run of stories that began with The Masque of Mandragora and ended with The Talons of Weng-Chiang here. Mandragora - there's another dead boring one! Still, at least it's not Planet of Evil. If memory serves, I forgave the story because Tom carried it with relentlessly funny quips.
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Post by melkur on Apr 20, 2017 23:48:28 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2017 0:12:19 GMT
I was going to just post this in the TV thread but with Nardole on team TARDIS, and the ep thread a week old nearly, why not here? www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKgXSccikPc3.52 in - Matt Lucas as Shirley Bassey, one of my favourite impressions ever. When I first saw Rock Profile in the late 90s, I thought this was one of the funniest shows I'd seen. It was on the short lived UK Play channel if any others remember that!
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Apr 21, 2017 9:26:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2017 22:25:12 GMT
There's a show here in the UK, called 'Gogglebox'. Believe it or not, it focusses on people watching TV, and their reaction to TV shows. This week, Doctor Who: The Pilot was featured and I'm delighted to say it went down very well, with people saying how scary the 'face in the puddle was', and how varioius viewers remembered watching Doctor Who as a child. The bit that got the best reaction was when the girl in the puddle jumped out of the water and, screaming, grabbed Bill's face - the reaction from the featured viewers was just as it should be: one communal 'jump out of the chair' moment. Wonderful! Steven Moffat - job done!
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Apr 22, 2017 0:01:07 GMT
There's a show here in the UK, called 'Gogglebox'. Believe it or not, it focusses on people watching TV, and their reaction to TV shows. This week, Doctor Who: The Pilot was featured and I'm delighted to say it went down very well, with people saying how scary the 'face in the puddle was', and how varioius viewers remembered watching Doctor Who as a child. The bit that got the best reaction was when the girl in the puddle jumped out of the water and, screaming, grabbed Bill's face - the reaction from the featured viewers was just as it should be: one communal 'jump out of the chair' moment. Wonderful! Steven Moffat - job done! A) that's the reaction you want and B) the fact Gogglebox even exists is a crime against reason.
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Post by elkawho on Apr 22, 2017 2:40:05 GMT
There's a show here in the UK, called 'Gogglebox'. Believe it or not, it focusses on people watching TV, and their reaction to TV shows. This week, Doctor Who: The Pilot was featured and I'm delighted to say it went down very well, with people saying how scary the 'face in the puddle was', and how varioius viewers remembered watching Doctor Who as a child. The bit that got the best reaction was when the girl in the puddle jumped out of the water and, screaming, grabbed Bill's face - the reaction from the featured viewers was just as it should be: one communal 'jump out of the chair' moment. Wonderful! Steven Moffat - job done! That's the reaction my son had as well. It was great.
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Post by sherlock on Apr 22, 2017 9:17:31 GMT
There's a show here in the UK, called 'Gogglebox'. Believe it or not, it focusses on people watching TV, and their reaction to TV shows. This week, Doctor Who: The Pilot was featured and I'm delighted to say it went down very well, with people saying how scary the 'face in the puddle was', and how varioius viewers remembered watching Doctor Who as a child. The bit that got the best reaction was when the girl in the puddle jumped out of the water and, screaming, grabbed Bill's face - the reaction from the featured viewers was just as it should be: one communal 'jump out of the chair' moment. Wonderful! Steven Moffat - job done! A) that's the reaction you want and B) the fact Gogglebox even exists is a crime against reason. Yeah it's not exactly a ringing endorsement of current TV viewing where a hugely popular show consists of watching other people watch TV. But hey that's a good reaction.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2017 9:52:44 GMT
I think someone should make a show that concentrates on peoples' reactions from watching peoples' reactions from watching Gogglebox. I wonder if Alan Partridge is reading this?
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Post by ollychops on Apr 22, 2017 14:00:49 GMT
Haven't gotten around to watching the latest Gogglebox yet, but I'm glad to hear that it was included because I'd wondered if it would be. The only time I can remember them watching it previously was The Day of the Doctor.
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Post by TinDogPodcast on Apr 24, 2017 10:14:38 GMT
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Post by TinDogPodcast on Apr 24, 2017 10:15:38 GMT
Haven't gotten around to watching the latest Gogglebox yet, but I'm glad to hear that it was included because I'd wondered if it would be. The only time I can remember them watching it previously was The Day of the Doctor. Goggle box sampled and points of view too at end of current podcast
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Post by omega on Apr 24, 2017 10:17:45 GMT
Well, hindsight is a wonderful thing. "The Deadly Assassin" is vaunted as a classic but didn't get that kudos on broadcast so...we'll see. Voted bottom of that year's series poll, wasn't it? Never listen to the word of the fans! Wasn't Kinda like that as well? Yet today it's celebrated as one of the best of season 19.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2017 10:20:48 GMT
Voted bottom of that year's series poll, wasn't it? Never listen to the word of the fans! Wasn't Kinda like that as well? Yet today it's celebrated as one of the best of season 19. I wouldn't put too much faith in polls, to be honest. The sample size is rarely the size that most expect and data is often collated according to hard mathematics rather than due consideration. They aren't compulsory after all.
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Post by omega on Apr 24, 2017 10:20:52 GMT
Oh now, Earthshock I DO like. There we go. Common ground at last. I'm rather fond of The Visitation as well from that season. Those two and Kinda are the best of season 19, rubber snake and all.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2017 15:59:13 GMT
Now the 7 day ratings are in - The Pilot was the third most watched BBC1 show of the week behind my fave, Line Of Duty and Peter Kay's Carshare. It was also in the Top 10 for all channels for the week - first time since Listen back in Series 8. That's a very strong result. As you'd hope, there was a good jump in I-player views putting it far ahead of the likes of Mrs Brown.
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Post by Ela on Apr 25, 2017 20:40:08 GMT
Last night, I watched this for the second time (the first time I was out of town, BBCA has the first episode online for free for a limited time and I watched it on my computer in a hotel with an iffy internet connection).
I really enjoyed it. My first reaction was, "There goes Steven Moffat making something normal and everyday scary, again."
Pearl Mackie was great, and her reactions as Bill were fresh and different, not a cookie cutter of how previous companions have reacted to their first encounter with the Doctor. Loved the scene where her roommate "finds" a box of pictures of Bill's mother and Bill is looking through them. Nice Xmas present from the Doctor.
The interaction between Heather and Bill seemed realistic enough to me - it was an attraction, not an actual relationship, so I didn't expect it to look like a relationship. Someone can get attracted to another that fast; that's not unrealistic. Heather was taken, so to speak, before an actual relationship ever had a chance to develop.
And I didn't see the mindwipe scene as a rehash or default scene, but something he thought he'd have to do to protect whatever it is he's protecting. It was different and for a different reason, and in the end, he didn't do it. I felt the poignancy of it when she asked how he would feel, thinking of what he's lost in terms of past memories (the most obvious being his lost memory of Clara, as indicated by the choice of music).
A good start to the series, overall, as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by aztec on Apr 26, 2017 16:36:19 GMT
Now the 7 day ratings are in - The Pilot was the third most watched BBC1 show of the week behind my fave, Line Of Duty and Peter Kay's Carshare. It was also in the Top 10 for all channels for the week - first time since Listen back in Series 8. That's a very strong result. As you'd hope, there was a good jump in I-player views putting it far ahead of the likes of Mrs Brown. Very good result, a lot of fans seem caught up worrying/complaining about decreasing ratings, but frankly I've surprised and delighted they are still that high after 12 years and 9 series, very few modern UK shows get to 130 episodes (and as far as I'm aware nothing on the scale of Who has) and it's to the show's credit that it still pulls in millions of viewers after all this time and the huge changes in how TV is watched over the last 12 years.
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Post by Ela on May 1, 2017 1:32:30 GMT
I was just remembering I loved the joke of Bill saying "Doctor What?" instead of "Doctor Who?" I went back to watch the opening bits just now just to see it again.
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