ReturnOfTheMack

No worry. I only found out a few days ago anyway.

I've got a feeling Green Lantern will be really good, I think DC comics have a lot to prove after all the successful great Marvel movies, DC's only hits in the last 20 years have been the Batman ones.

Depends how picky you want to get.Watchmen was a hit.And from DC owned prints you have:ConstantineStardustRoad To Perdition.All of which made significant profits and/or got good reviews.

Stardust isn't owned by DC. It was a novel. The only time DC got involved was for a comic adaptation of the novel.

Emmerdale, I have no reason as I just dont know myself why its the one I like best. But Corrie has comedy down to a fine art.

I've got a feeling Green Lantern will be really good, I think DC comics have a lot to prove after all the successful great Marvel movies, DC's only hits in the last 20 years have been the Batman ones.

Depends how picky you want to get.

Watchmen was a hit.

And from DC owned prints you have:

Constantine

Stardust

Road To Perdition.

All of which made significant profits and/or got good reviews.

Yeah, my best mate is a bird, but she looks like Nessa from Gavin and Stacey, so no danger of sexual related hijinx there. When I was 17 on the other hand, I was well pally with a girl I wanted to slip a length to, I used all the same excuses as Midas is doing now. Stupid thing is, she once offered it up to me and I paniced and said no. I'm a fucking moron at times.

Shes OK, if I was 20 again I wouldnt be ashamed either... oh, right.

Any of this 'proof' that it wasnt planes not been debunked by actual experts yet?

I'd be dissappointed if it was suddenly decided that The Doctor can change sex when regenerating

It was covered years ago that Time Lords could change sex during a regeneration. In fact when Tennants Doctor became Smiths he thought he may have been a girl at first.

From what I had read up until recently science still believes that nature plays a part, its not entirely nurture. But in light of Casey V I'd like to abandon any kind of association of any nature argument.

Yeah dont get me wrong, I'm enjoying Smith as The Doctor. I think he's been hampered a bit with the writing, but he's giving a good showing and could be better than Tennant. Up to now I dont think he's as good as Tennant (or Davidson ) but he's certainly better than McCoy and Colin Baker.

I disagree.

 

Case in point; the bit in this weeks episode where he grabbed the 'mic' and launched into that overblown, grandiose speech, essentially telling the incoming attackers that he is great and they should sod off. With Tennant's style being overt, cocky and somewhat arrogant that would have come off a bit dickish, whereas Smith's awkward, madcap, social outcast-ish style made it as cool as it had every reason to be. Same goes for the Weeping Angels speech which ended 'there's one thing that you should never, ever put in to a trap...ME'. With Tennant that would have come across as inexcusable cliched nonsense.

To quote a friend of mine when I pointed this out on another forum.

Much of this series was written alongside the final Tennant episodes as they were working so far ahead.

 

According to Russell T Davies in his book, Steven Moffat did make a play for David Tennant to stay for Series 5 which seemingly nearly happened. With this in mind its likely that much of this series was written with Tennant as The Doctor with only rewrites hiding the most obvious Tennant traits.

The Angels/traps line could easily have been uttered by Tennant.

The only gripe I have had with this latest series is that the writers were still writing as if for Tennant rather than Smiths style, and that hampered him a bit. Hopefully now that will pass and we will get to see Smith really shine.

Red Dead Redemption may be the best game I have played for years. Loving every second and its killing my housework time. I havent hoovered in 3 days.

Just read 'The Regional Accounts Director Of Firetop Mountain'.

A nice little parody of Choose Your Own Adventure books, worth reading for a laugh if you were into those sorts of books as a kid.

They explained the thing with Freema as it being Marshas cousin who worked at Torchwood.

She lost 20 minutes in that room, the bit of film we saw her watch lasted a few seconds. Obviously it was a cut away jobby and she taped it before pressing forget.

I thought the crack was a far too obvious runner, the rest had always been more subtle until they all slotted into place in the last few episodes.

Good point. Also I suppose its as fault ridden as the rest of the TARDIS!

The TARDIS also has one it's why nobody notices a 50's/60's Police Phone Box in odd places also the reason unless you already know about it (or it crashes) you don't see or hear it arrive or leave

In fairness the box is often noticed in odd places, the first one that came to mind was the episode with Pompei. The TARDIS is removed and sold as art work.

The community charge was known generally as the poll tax and we had that for a few years.

Smith's nothing like McCoy. Smith is a good actor.

They both used the same slapstick style of physical acting, the pratfalls and sligth buffonery.

Also, as a side point, you can't say 'McGann' is dark and moody because of books. You can say that the 8th Doctor is, but not McGann because he didn't act in the books. And even then you probably can't because the books aren't really considered to be 'canon' by the people who make the TV series, or by 99% of the viewer base. Big Finishes maybe. Books, no. There's been too many contradictions.

RTD has himself said that there isnt a definitive 'yes' or 'no' about if the books are canon. He stressed in one interview that he 'cannot put in the TV series any reference to a licensed product which might be taken as requiring BBC viewers to purchase something in order to know the whole story'. That indicates, to me anyway, that he considers the BB books as (mostly) canon but isnt allowed to say so.

Smith is more like McCoy than Tennant IMO, the slapstick was far more like his Doctor.

Well, I could do without the hairstyles.

Yeah, I reversed it when I saw the Union Flag, the wife missed it.

I hope they are careful not to be too wacky, but as its the post regeneration storyline its expected to be a bit out of wack. I do think they need a third person in the TARDIS, maybe an older person to balance it out.

Yeah, I liked Smiths Doctor. Hints of McCoy to it, like Tennants had hints of Davidson. the new TARDIS and new music worked as well IMO.