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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 11:09 am 
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So what did everyone around here think about it?

I myself quite liked it although there were some redundant parts and underdevelopped ideas. And I also can't come to peace with the idea that that is how the Doctor's daughter is born and that's what they relationship is like for the first... half hour of their aquiantance. But on the whole I liked Jenny (after she's been heavily reformed by her father) and I hope she'll return - hopefully in a Moffat-episode, seeing that it was his idea to save the character's life in the first place.

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It's nice that being Peter Davidson's daughter she is the Doctors daughter in real life!.

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...And Sandra Dickinson's too!

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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:41 pm 
i want to sleep with georgia moffet.

and there will be a spin-off series probably.


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I throught it was pretty good. My biggest problem with it actually was the Doctors daughter. She was completely unnecessary for the story. I mean, if they had to tell the story of the Doctors daughter, they should have made her the focus of the story. Instead, she was a sidestory, something that the Doctor has to deal with alongside his adventure. It could have been so much better, but they completely dropped that ball. Everybody did excellent with what they got, especially Ms. Moffett, who was in great danger of just being an example of stunt casting.

Speaking of which, Martha had nothing to do in this episode. Most of the episode, she was not even with the Doctor, and she did nothing of any importance to the plot, perhaps except being the voice of the fish-people, which makes you wonder why they did not just give them voices. It felt like she was just in it out of the writers sense of begrudged duty, or like she was an afterthrought, thrown in at the very last minute, but the writer not really wanting to rewrite his script to much, so he just added a few pages.

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Arclid wrote:
i want to sleep with georgia moffet.

and there will be a spin-off series probably.

Yes, I think she'd prefer it if you were asleep.

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The way I am with the new series of Who is they could show credits, a black screen and then then end and I'd still enjoy it

Apart from the fact they managed to drown a fish...

How did Jenny get the Doctor to land there when technically she hadn't been born?

Who cares. Wonder what she'd have been like if she had got the part of Rose. Can dream.

Now, about that Sally Sparrow...

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I hope that instead of making an unnecessary spin-off for Jenny too, they'll just simply bring her back as a companion instead of Donna. To whom, by the way, I've taken a great liking.

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(Im finding it difficult to sleep at the mo, sp thought up this, fires up laptop and just for the DAC)

Little Miss Moffatt
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I showed her my gun,
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And shot up her milky way

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Ol' Peculier wrote:
(Im finding it difficult to sleep at the mo, sp thought up this, fires up laptop and just for the DAC)

Little Miss Moffatt
Sat on my profit*,
Eating ice cream for play,
I showed her my gun,
Set it to stun,
And shot up her milky way


*Yes, it was profit, my portfolio doubled...

Is that an ode to Steven? :mrgreen:

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Spin off? :mrgreen:

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I thought it was a good episode if a bit blatantly a set up for some sort of potential spin off.

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I thought Miss Moffet played the role well although the scene where she lures the guard and does the sexy kiss bit, was well, superflous, was the doctors sonic screwdriver unable to open the lock this time?

Is Martha secretly Little Weed? Or does she have a babbel fish, or has the TARDIS' universal translator become selective?

Minor gripes really.

Although I must admit I am having trouble liking Donna, she's turning it into Eastenders in space (although Rose and her mum had a good go at that). And this plethora of assistants (and daughters) is really quite strange.



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Arclid wrote:
i want to sleep with georgia moffet.

and there will be a spin-off series probably.


If I got my hands on her, there wouldn't be much sleeping involved ;)

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I don't mind too much if they do something silly like resurrecting Jenny (was it Time Lord regeneration - in which case those Messaline colony progenitor machines are pretty damn advanced!! Or was it something to do with the terraforming cloud, or both?) But if you're going to do something so cheesy, don't cheapen it further by torturing the Doctor, leaving him thinking she's dead. Either he'd better grieve a bit in subsequent episodes (unlikely) or she'd better meet him again (likely).

Martha continued to suck, though I did get a bit sad at a big rubber fish "drowning", which means kudos to the director and the music I guess. Donna finally achieved a remarkable thing for me - she surpassed Barbara as best-acted companion. She had been edging in there for weeks, and now the cumulative effect was completed with her response to the Doctor's expression of the deadness of his capacity for family feelings: "I'll tell you something Doctor. <bracing herself with an intake of breath> Something I've never told you before. <exhales, half smiles, wryly - then looks him dead in the eye> I think you're wrong." There's a masterclass of acting in her pauses, look aside, and slight moistening of the eyes when she says it. Martha and Rose fans please study how an experienced, excellent actress works - you'll then know truly great acting when you see it.

4 out of 5 - 5/5 for Donna, but minus a point for Martha's unnecessary presence.

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At around 10:45ish, look behind Jenny, bottom right

There appears to be a piece of equipment with a UNIT logo on it

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Ol' Peculier wrote:
At around 10:45ish, look behind Jenny, bottom right

Sorry, can't do it!

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I'm catching up on Who and just finished watching this episode.

Gods, why must you Brits create such strikingly cheeky and adorable girls?

I was a bit flummoxed as to how Jenny lured the Doctor there before she was born and all that but you can explain away anything with the word paradox.

Oh... I get it. Tennant. Davison. Pair of docs.

Incredible!

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