Amph Doctor Who Discussion (Russell T. Davies returns)

Based on your thoughts, I will definitely give it another go after Tenth Planet

 

Saw this car today...

 

Wiiiiiiiiiiii

 

Yeah, this was an enjoyable episode by and by. Plenty of cute Ten/Rose moments and a badass Queen Victoria (even if she did banish Ten/Rose at the end and form Torchwood)

 

QFT.

 

After Matt's 'Thank you' to the fans, some fans on YouTube have turned right around and made a 'Thank you' vid to him:

 

Best thing about Tooth & Claw is a Scotsman doing an Englishman doing a Scottish accent.

And the reference to Balamory is simply a delight.

 

I will admit that I do wish the show had let Tennant speak in his own Scottish accent a bit more during his run.

 

Couldn't disagree more I'm afraid. The Doctor is English. Ecclestone's accent is as far away from the Queens English as I'd like to go

 

What about McCoy?

 

That's funny, I thought he was an alien. And yeah, McCoy?

 

Nowhere near as pronounced as Tennant's natural accent. And I'm not going to get drawn into the 'he's an alien' debate. Though I will touch on that tomorrow with my review of the next Hartnell episode.

 

I'm not one for plastering my face on the internet... but I kind of wish I were in that.

 

I hear you completely on that one.

 

Oh snap. That's where I am next. I might just watch that over the weekend.

 

I take back my "Doctor should have an English accent" comment though I am still glad Tennant used one.

As for the Alien thing, I'm into the 2nd season now and it seems clear to me that they had no clue as to the Doctor's history at this point. He's hardly even in the shows with all the action happening with the companions. Doctor Who? indeed. He has made more than one reference to his "heart", he has a grand-daughter. And I may be wrong on this point, but I don't recall any reference to him being non-human.

But moving on to the opening of Season Two

Planet of Giants

This episode is simply wonderful. I was chuffed with myself for figuring out within minutes what I thought would be the big twist at the end only for the characters to realise it seconds later. But everything about this episode works. The music is excellent, but top top credit has to go to the set and the director. Everything seemed to be in scale, from matches to plugs, phones to briefcases The cuts to the briefcase were spot on, and the director really managed to get a sense of the scale with close-ups, and high shots. I'm just glad they didn't see any spiders.

 

It's only 6 episodes

 

Re: the Doctor's accent. Personally I don't care what it is, as long as it comes from the British isles. It's, after all, a cult British show, so I wouldn't want the Doctor to have an American or French or whatever accent. But anything British is fine by me - whether it's Welsh or Irish or Northern English or Scottish.

 

I don't care what accent The Doctor has so long as it isn't painfully forced. It's the performance and personality that is important to me, not the accent.

 

Hartnell yesterday, Chesterton today!

 

Pics of the 1st Doctor's TARDIS console from An Adventure In Space and Time

 

I really miss the roundels in the new series.