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I thought the Doctor Who season opener was AMAZING!

 

Matt Smith is mind blowing and as I watched I just thought....Tennant who?

Actually his surname was Tennant. Jeese even I know that.

He will do just fine. :D Also now have a mega girl-crush on Amy. She's awesome.

 

Favorite line: "...strange box comes crashing out of the sky, strange man comes out of box, strange man eats fish custard. That didn't scare you at all... So you know what I'm thinking?...That must be a hell of a scary crack in your wall."

 

Nah, that reminded me too much of Tennant.

Hmm... did anyone else notice that the door on Amy's house is very Tardis-like?

 

i noticed that there's a new badge/sticker on the door of the Tardis.............

looked like the St John's Ambulance logo, actually.

Dr Ooooh! How the Time Lord's saucy, short-skirted new companion sent viewers into orbit

 

 

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He's spent hundreds of years travelling the universe with rather tomboyish companions by his side.

 

But when Doctor Who returned to our TV screens on Saturday night, the Time Lord was joined by a new sidekick - a kissogram with an almost non-existent mini-skirt.

 

The revealing outfit prompted a flood of comments on online message boards, with a section of fans accusing producers of 'shamelessly sexing up' the long-running family show and labelling it 'slutty'.

 

 

 

 

Raising eyebrows: Karen Gillan in character as Amy Pond, left, and, right, pictured at a photocall in Manchester to launch the new series of the show

 

The reaction threatened to overshadow Matt Smith's well-received debut as the Doctor after taking over from David Tennant. Some 8.3million viewers tuned in.

 

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New companion Amy Pond, played by 22-year- old former model Karen Gillan, first appeared on screen in a policewoman's outfit with a tiny skirt. In one scene her character tells the Doctor that her kissogram repertoire also includes nuns and nurses' outfits.

And in another, she watches as the Doctor completely undresses in front of her while getting changed.

 

As he strips off, Amy's fiance Rory asks: 'Aren't you going to turn your back?' to which she replies, 'No', while running her eyes over the naked Doctor (though viewers saw him only from the waist up).

 

Model looks: The 22-year-old is already a hit with influential fashion magazines including Grazia

 

 

It was even more surprising given the rather conservative attire worn by actresses who have played the Doctor's companion in the past, including Bonnie Langford and Elisabeth Sladen.

Even her more recent predecessor, former pop star Billie Piper, covered up for the part, preferring hoodies and jeans - although fans with longer memories will recall leggy Leela, played by Louise Jameson in a skimpy animal skin costume, or Peri (Nicola Bryant), who made her debut in a pink bikini.

Writing about Amy, one viewer in an online forum asked: 'Why did she dress up as a tarty policewoman? Surely that's not fitting for a family show.'

 

Another said: 'They've completely demeaned Doctor Who by replacing good episode stories with slutty girls.'

 

 

But Miss Gillan defended the decision to dress in a mini skirt, saying: 'I tried on different things and when it came to the short skirts, I just thought it was right. I mean, look down most high streets and girls Amy's age wear that. It's not that weird.

 

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'Short skirts show that Amy is confident and comfortable about her look. You have to have confidence to wear something like that.'

Doctor Who's executive producer Piers Wenger said that Steven Moffat, the series' new boss and chief writer, had wanted a sexier companion for the Doctor.

 

He said: 'The whole kissogram thing played into Steven's desire for the companion to be feisty and outspoken and a bit of a number.

 

New Doctor Who Matt Smith and his sidekick proved a successful lure, with 8.3million viewers tuning in

 

'Amy is probably the wildest companion that the Doctor has travelled with, but she isn't promiscuous.

 

'Sci-fi has a long and happy history of sexy female characters and long may that continue.'

 

As the 11th Doctor, 27-year-old-Smith impressed fans in the special 65-minute episode, The Eleventh Hour, in which the Time Lord had 20 minutes to save Earth from aliens.

 

One fan wrote on the BBC's Points Of View message board: 'Matt Smith has made an excellent start - very impressive.'

 

Another said Smith is fast on his way to filling Tennant's shoes

(I wondered how long it would take for the latest bout of manufactured moral outrage to show up here. :rolleyes: Too bad the moral police aren't capable of doubling as the logic police)

 

 

Doctor Who in media storm over 'too sexy' kissogram companion

 

By David Bentley on Apr 6, 10 01:31 AM

 

NEVER mind scary monsters, weeping angels or destructive Daleks, there's something far more horrifying in Doctor Who, according to the UK's tabloids.

 

The Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Metro are all carrying near-identical articles, with exactly the same quotes, saying viewers have been sent fleeing behind the sofa by the Time Lord's sexy new sidekick.

 

THE return of Doctor Who on Saturday night introduced us not only to Matt Smith as the new Time Lord but brought in a new companion called Amy Pond, played by Karen Gillan. And then came the hysterical headlines...

 

According to the Daily Mail, whose article was headed 'Dr Ooooh! How the Time Lord's saucy, short-skirted new companion sent viewers into orbit', Gillan's appearance as a kissogram, dressed as a policewoman in "an almost non-existent miniskirt", caused "a flood of comments" that "threatened to overshadow" Matt Smith's debut.

 

It also mentioned the scene in which Matt Smith strips off and we see the briefest glimpse of his upper body while he changes into new clothes. Oh, the horror!

 

Meanwhile, the Telegraph spluttered 'Viewers think new Doctor Who is 'too sexy' and said there had been a "host of complaints" on online message boards.

 

And the Metro told us 'Racy new Doctor Who series deemed too sexy' and said the first episode had "come under fire as viewers complain the sci-fi adventure has become too sexy." It said the show had sparked "a wave of complaints on fan forums across the internet."

 

All three articles used the same quotations, citing one viewer in an online forum who apparently asked: "Why did she dress up as a tarty policewoman? Surely that's not fitting for a family show."

 

Another said: "They've completely demeaned Doctor Who by replacing good episode stories with slutty girls."

 

Okay, so that's two brief comments. Does two amount to a "flood", a "host" or a "wave"? I don't think so.

 

So where did these comments come from?

 

No specific forum was named but typing them into Google reveals that the "slutty girls" comment is a hidden answer on Yahoo to a question asking what people thought of the new Doctor Who.

 

You have to scroll right to the bottom and then click to show this one hidden response, which actually says: "David Tennant is the best. They've completely demeaned Doctor Who by replacing good episode stories with slutty girls. Ew, I hope Karen Gillan gets killed off, ugly mother f****r. At least Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman and Catherine Tate were actually good actresses. Karen Gillan is an epic failure. But anyway, Matt Smith was ok-ish. David Tennant is 1000000x better. BRING DAVID TENNANT BACK!!! I think this series is going to be down-right BORING."

 

Does this represent a rational response worth quoting by the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Metro? Hardly.

 

As for the other comment about a "tarty policewoman", that appears to be based on two comments on Digital Spy's forums in a discussion about the first released images of Ms Gillan in her fancy-dress cop outfit. In one comment on December 17 last year, a message board members says: "She looks like a tarty policewoman..." and in another message on that day, the same person writes: "I did think strippogram but surely that's not fitting for a family show..."

 

Even more amusingly, Digital Spy's main news page includes a report on the Telegraph article with no realisation whatsoever that its own forum was the source of one of the viewer quotes. Hysterical!

 

What happened to research? What happened to journalism? It obviously disappeared through that crack in Amy's bedroom wall. Or I've arrived in a dimension where common sense and intelligence no longer exists.

 

Does it make any sense to have messages from last December dredged up, clumped together and used by these newspapers? Especially as Amy Pond was not a strippogram after all.

 

Miss Gillan is quoted in the papers with this explanation of her attire: "I tried on different things and when it came to the short skirts, I just thought it was right. I mean, look down most high streets and girls Amy's age wear that. It's not that weird."

 

And Piers Wenger, the executive producer of Doctor Who, said: "The whole kissogram thing played into Steven's desire for the companion to be feisty and outspoken and a bit of a number.

 

"Amy is probably the wildest companion that the Doctor has travelled with, but she isn't promiscuous. She is really a two-man woman and that will become clear over the course of the episodes.

 

"Sci-fi has a long and happy history of sexy female characters and long may that continue."

 

Let's hope it does. Because I can't wait to see what these 'news' sites come up with next. I could do with a good laugh.

 

 

Please will someone find a way to end the media echo chamber that lets manufactured stories be taken as fact.

Good headline, though!:lol:

Well then it's a pity they couldn't back it up with an actual non-fabricated story. :rolleyes:

I will watch the 11th Hour as soon as I have finished working this week !

Well then it's a pity they couldn't back it up with an actual non-fabricated story. :rolleyes:

 

It's just a bit of harmless fun, that's all. If anyone's stupid enough to take it seriously, that's their problem.:dozey:

:curtain:

 

I just watched The Beast Below, I really liked it but didn't love it as much as The Eleventh Hour :thinking: mostly because Matt Smith is really starting to get on my nerves! :uhoh:

 

but my overall opinion on the new series is: the episodes themselves are fantastic, I'm just really not liking Matt Smith :\

:curtain:

 

I just watched The Beast Below, I really liked it but didn't love it as much as The Eleventh Hour :thinking: mostly because Matt Smith is really starting to get on my nerves! :uhoh:

 

but my overall opinion on the new series is: the episodes themselves are fantastic, I'm just really not liking Matt Smith :\

 

No way! Matt is brilliant, I didn't think they could do better than David Tennant, but Matt Smith is way way better than him already, he's so great in the role.

 

I love Amelia too, she's my favourite of the companions so far too (I wasn't a big fan of Catherine Tate)

Yeah, David will definitely always be my Doctor, but Matt is growing on me a little more every time I see him. He's very, very good. I really liked how Patrick Troughton-y (sp?) he was in the Beast Below. (But he still really bugs me out of character for some reason.)

 

Heh Neil Gaiman (who is currently working on the script for episode 3 of next season...*squee*) was talking about Matt's audition on his blog recently:

 

"I loved the episode -- I'd spent some months telling people that Matt would be excellent (Admission: I'd seen his audition tapes and completely understood why he'd won the part) and that they should trust Mr Moffat..." http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2010/04/how-to-mortify-your-daughter.html

 

They HAVE to put that audition on the DVD. I never would have guessed what he was capable of from everything else out there. I really want to see what he did that was supposedly so amazing.

 

 

 

...Oh dear... :lol:

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DR Who's weird body regenerations were modelled on LSD trips, BBC memos reveal

 

Published: 2010-04-13

Yellow peril ... David Tennant makes way for new Doctor Matt Smith

 

DOCTOR Who's regenerations were modelled on bad LSD trips, internal BBC memos have revealed.

Documents released for the first time yesterday describe how the Doctor's transformations were supposed to convey the "hell and dank horror" of the hallucinogenic drug.

The latest Time Lord Matt Smith regenerated from David Tennant as the 11th Doctor.

Regenerations were introduced in 1966 to allow programme bosses to replace the Dalek fighting lead actor and write the new face into the show's plot.

In the memo dated in May 1966, producers outlined how the original Doctor, William Hartnell, would be transformed for his successor, Patrick Troughton.

It said: "The metaphysical change... is a horrifying experience - an experience in which he relives some of the most unendurable moments of his long life, including the galactic war.

"It is as if he has had the LSD drug and instead of experiencing the kicks, he has the hell and dank horror which can be its effect."

Discussing his appearance, the document says: "His hair is wild and his clothes look rather worse for wear (this is a legacy from the metaphysical change which took place in the Tardis)."

Documents also revealed the popularity of the different Doctors between 1966 and 1987.

Show bosses used an internal "appreciation index" scored out of 100.

Peter Davison, who became the Time Lord in 1982, and Colin Baker, who took over in 1984, were the most popular, both with scores of 66.

Jon Pertwee, who became the Doctor in 1970, scored 54, while Tom Baker, who took the role in 1974 and became the longest-serving over seven years, drew 53.

Sylvester McCoy, who took over in 1987, was least popular with a score of 46, when the show went up against Coronation Street and the ratings slumped.

The memos are part of a batch of documents published online today as part of the BBC Archive at bbc.co.uk/archive.

I just got back from watching The Eleventh Hour. Out of the Doctor's we've had for this new series, this was clearly the best Doctor debut. This is the introduction to the Doctor we should have had back in 2005. Why did I love it so much? Well, for me, this Doctor is more down to Earth (excuse the pun) than that of Tennant's interpretation of the role. I always felt that Tennant's use of humour (such as rambling, random shouting and spontaneous quirks) in some ways forced the audience to appreciate him. Whereas, with Smith's interpretation, there's certainly some anarchy there but there's also a great deal of subtlety to through his off the cuff remarks such as "Where's your boyfriend...the good looking one" while in the presence of Rory. In fact, out of any of the Doctor Who i've seen, including the classic era, this is by far the most laugh-out-loud moments i've experienced.

 

One of the highlights for me was early on in the episode when the Doctor is handcuffed to the radiator. In the RTD era, if any of his Doctors were in that position, it either would have been straight out with the sonic screwdriver or an obscured movement of the wrists covered up with a facetious one-liner to get move us on. Here, the Doctor needs his companion to undo the restraints or at least wait for the sonic screwdriver. These moments really added depth to the character and gave him a far less comic book character type feel. The Doctor here is facetious, arrogant but also contemplative. Where Tennant would merely ramble a solution, Smith reasons. Another noteworthy quality was the quality of performances, not only from the lead cast but also from the guest and supporting cast. The episode was extremely well shot and the CGI, explosions and overall spectacle was kept to a minimum. This is something I felt that the RTD era really lacked at times as, much like some of the performances, there was a very forceful means of maintaining the attention of the audience. Here, it really did come down to the dialogue and dramatic tension. That's not to say that there weren't moments like that in the RTD era or in any way to describe it as totally shallow (I loved his vision), but it would come and go. Instead, I get a feeling that Moffat will be more consistent with his approach to character and plot development.

 

Smith's Doctor truly brings out the alien in the title character where I felt it was absent in some of Tennant's tenure. That's not to discredit or express any dislike for Tennant. Waters of Mars is, after all, my favourite Doctor Who episode. However, I felt that even in his first episode, Tennant (at times) got to a point where he was effectively waving his arms about and throwing his voice to keep the audience interested. So far, I haven't detected this at all with Smith. Instead, he seems to invite the audience with a more slightly passive tone so when he is bombastic, it actually stands for something rather than something that can sometimes be gratutious. Furthermore, from this, i'm actually open to the idea of the Doctor having a closer relationship with his companion because...I actually feel the character deserves it more than any other Doctor because I feel this interpretation of the Doctor could truly unearth the human and alien differences between the two instead of having an alien that relates too seamlessly with the humans.

 

 

Interestingly, when I read initial reviews I was worried the tone of the show would play down to the younger audience too much. But, I was surprised and relieved to find that there is actually quite a gloomy atmosphere to the feel of the show. You can sense from the shady production and from Smith's performance that there are skeletons to be revealed in this series. I'm confident that the best is yet to come.

 

The TARDIS interior is also brilliant. Again, as with the overall episode, it's what we should have had back in 2005. Doctor Who is really back. This is the most excited I have ever been for a new Doctor. Smith could well end up being my Doctor, just when I thought nothing of the modern incarnation of the series could surpass Eccleston.

 

Until next week :)

Exterminate the new Dr Who theme tune, say angry fans

 

 

By Mail On Sunday Reporter

Last updated at 10:57 PM on 17th April 2010

 

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Its whoops and wails have made it one of the most recognisable tunes in television history. But the Doctor Who theme is at the centre of a row after it was changed for the new series.

Fans are furious about the addition of a new melody played by electronic trumpets and have complained to the BBC about the new version.

Although the theme has been revised several times since the show began in 1963, this is the first time that the tune itself has been changed.

 

Theme tune row: Time Lord Matt Smith and his co-star Karen Gillian - Dr Who fans are furious after the theme tune changed for the new series

 

One fan wrote on the BBC messageboard: ‘The nasty, nasty trumpets at the beginning together with the silly disco beat are abysmal.’

The original theme tune, composed by Ron Grainer, is recognised as one of the most famous pieces of early electronic music. The new theme was devised to coincide with the appearance of new Time Lord Matt Smith (seen left with co-star Karen Gillan).

It was composed by Murray Gold, who also wrote the theme to Channel 4’s Shameless.

About 70 people have so far complained to the BBC about the new theme and a Facebook campaign has been launched to have the old version reinstated.

A Doctor Who spokesman said: ‘The arranger has made alterations to the music four times since 2005, so change is nothing new.

‘It is important for the regeneration of the show to keep revisiting the score while always retaining the haunting and ground-breaking essence of the original.’

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The Time of Angels = AWESOME.

 

:dance:

Holy crap it's been a long time since anything gave me the heebie jeebies that thoroughly. I still feel like I have cobwebs all over me an hour later. :sweatdrop:

 

And River Song is amazing.

 

Best ep in a while. :cool:

When that guy was like "I'm dead too, sir. They snapped my neck, sir. It wasn't as painless as I thought it might be", I was genuinely freaked out. it was absolutely terrifying!

 

I just rewatched it in my dark room... BAD idea :wreck:

It was amazing. Not as scary as Blink, but it definitely creeped me out. Everything about it - a picture/video of a Weeping Angel that becomes a Weeping Angel itself and all those statues being them... :bigcry:

 

I really hope they won't put another "Next" banner right at the most important part of the episode like they did this time.

This cliffhanger killed me at the end of this episode, but I liked this episode a whole lot better than the last one. The angels were so terrifying, but they've always been one of my favorite "villians" on Doctor Who since I first saw them and when the angel was coming out of the tv, I was freaking out. The only thing is that I don't know I feel about there being someone (that is not the face of boe) knowing everything and that girl... I forgot her name, the one from silence in the library... is treading in that territory.

 

But this series is so enjoyable thus far. :)

When that guy was like "I'm dead too, sir. They snapped my neck, sir. It wasn't as painless as I thought it might be", I was genuinely freaked out. it was absolutely terrifying!

 

I just rewatched it in my dark room... BAD idea :wreck:

oh, yeah! that was freaky!

 

tho it's kinda been done before with the alien lifeform from Silence in the Library...

 

This cliffhanger killed me at the end of this episode, but I liked this episode a whole lot better than the last one. The angels were so terrifying, but they've always been one of my favorite "villians" on Doctor Who since I first saw them and when the angel was coming out of the tv, I was freaking out. The only thing is that I don't know I feel about there being someone (that is not the face of boe) knowing everything and that girl... I forgot her name, the one from silence in the library... is treading in that territory.

 

But this series is so enjoyable thus far. :)

River Song? she doesn't *really* know everything like The Doctor. she just specifically knows stuff that happens to/with The Doctor since, for some reason, he seems to keep coming to her aid in the wrong time sequence. so she knows the future of the "version" of The Doctor who comes to her aid each time, she has "spoilers" info on his adventures. but then she seems to know enough about him to not tell him what she knows.

 

tho this whole muddling up of timelines between The Doctor & River Song's seems to be something like in the book (& movie) 'The Time Traveller's Wife'....makes things a bit confusing to keep track of tho, imo. hopefully the writers are keeping tabs. :dozey:

The new Doctor looks retarded :disappoint:

^Hahaha yay