http://wifeinspace.com/2011/01/introduction/
Has anybody read this blog ? It's hilarious.
One man force-feeds the entire Classic Series to his wife in chronological order (including YouTube reconstructions of the missing episodes, Christ even I don't bother with those
) and gets her to score all the stories out of 10, and records her priceless wisecracks episode by episode.
Genius.
Sample comment (and I'm quoting from memory here so it's probably not 100%) :
It's
The Daleks and she remains unimpressed by William Hartnell's grumpy anti-hero, and his apparent willingness to sacrifice the Thals to the Daleks just to get his TARDIS working again and bugger off.....
If he was a modern Doctor, you'd assume he had a plan up his sleeve but you can really believe this git might actually sell them out. What a knob. Not even remotely heroic. They should have called the show "Ian".
River Song to return for the Doctor Who Christmas Special
^^^ Just reading that.
I don't know what's worse, the fact she's coming back, or the article referring to her as a 'fan favourite'!
I don't think it would be spoiling thing to say she is one of the most annoying characters ever created, every time she appears on screen i just want to turn the programme off.
^ The Silence in the Library I thought worked...but then they spoiled it by reusing her too much : each "revelation" just made the character less and less appealing in my view : I can see why it might have thought to have been a good idea to have a developing character like that but for me it was handled too sitcom-y and romcom-y and just ended up being too "The Time Traveller's Wife" and not really what Doctor Who should be at all imo.
Having read recently about Peter Capaldi's statement about his future as the doctor I wonder which direction they will go once he does leave and he has shown a dark side to the Doctor at times.
I am looking forward to the new series which looks good but sometimes I wish there y could look at the old series say from Jon Pertwee's and Tom Baker's eras and possibly revisit some old storylines
when was the last the Doctor landed on Skaro or Peladon? and possibly would hurt so much to look at doing a new western themed episode but more in the style of the Gunfighters where the Master in her current guise could materialise as maybe Belle Starr to thwart the Doctor?
What would be REALLY balls-y is if they did an old-fashioned historical adventure episode where it turns out there's NO ALIENS or timey-wimeyness in it all.
Imagine all the kids sitting there in disbelief, on tenterhooks waiting for a special effect to show up.
But then again it would require writing a plot that doesn't just make up a totally "magic" solution to whatever the problem is out of nowhere, usually by completely "re-writing" what has happened before and making a nonsense of everything you've just been watching. And I think that's beyond the writers' skills.
Just look at what they do with Sherlock these days. Oh he's dead...oh no he's not...how did he survive exactly..oh let's not be boring, let's be post-modern about it and just make fun of all the theories about how he might have faked his death without coming up with a good explanation..hang on didn't Matt Smith in Doctor Who fake his own death with a robot..good thing the inhuman forces of cosmic fate and inevitable universe-destroying time paradoxes are fooled by that lame dodge and time can't tell the differnece and just doesn't explode or whatever..are these series interchangeable ?...oh look Moriarty's not dead after all either...
Continues in grumpy old fan-git mode endlessly...
Bringing back River Song yet again = Go to Hell, Moffat
Horror channel repeats fans will know that Peri-mania is running again, with Caves of Androzani today & tomorrow (and presumably a few of hers with Colin Baker next week). Caves manages 2 of the series best ever cliff-hangers, too
