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Terran Posted Nov 23, 2008
At 5:15 pm (GMT) on 23 November 1963, Doctor Who was first aired! So today is the 45th anniversary of Doctor Who.
The Doctor is 45 today! 
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Bright Blue Shorts Posted Nov 23, 2008
Something to do with JFK? That was late November 45 years ago, wasn't it?
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Terran Posted Nov 23, 2008
"Something to do with JFK? That was late November 45 years ago, wasn't it?"
Yeah, kind of scary to think it was another world...
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Giford Posted Nov 24, 2008
As detailed in 'Who Killed Kennedy', a neglected classic of the Who canon.
Which also mentions by name one of my old locals!
Gif
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Spaceechik, Typomancer Posted Dec 25, 2008
Okay, the suspense is killing me -- is there or is there not a Dr. Who Holdiay Special this month???
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Spaceechik, Typomancer Posted Dec 27, 2008
Thanks! I'm in the US ina nay case, so we won't see it until about July...least that's the when we saw the Titanit episode last year.
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Bright Blue Shorts Posted Dec 27, 2008
"I was a bit disappointed, to be honest."
Liked the first half when we were trying to decipher who TND/DM was; but felt it got cluttered, noisy and dark in the second half.
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Sadly I am beginning to find the one episode approach of the new era is beginning to become a little predictable and samey. Especially that the monsters/villains always get vanquished in a matter of minutes by TD/DT rushing around and shouting a lot, possibly with the aid of some electrical equipment ...
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BouncyBitInTheMiddle Posted Dec 27, 2008
I liked how the root cause behind the big baddy was feminism. Made me chuckle.
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Galigan Posted Dec 28, 2008
I agree that the first half was better than the second. And the cyber-monkey things were a bit ridiculous I thought. The woman was brilliant though I thought, very good actress, and the way the other guy was the doctor but wasn't was quite clever, but the robot was a bit rubbish I thought.
On a separate note, I finished reading The Time Traveller's Wife recently. Oh my goodness it's brilliant! Instantly in my top 5 books I've ever read. One of the best purchases I've made in a while, highly recommended.
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Orcus Posted Dec 28, 2008
The cybermonkey things were straight out of Time Bandits weren' they?
I also wanted some Power Rangers to turn up to take out the MechaCyberman!
I essence, Christmas day episode, whilst there was some good stuff - mostly it was pants. For me at least
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Elentari Posted Dec 28, 2008
"On a separate note, I finished reading The Time Traveller's Wife recently. Oh my goodness it's brilliant! Instantly in my top 5 books I've ever read. One of the best purchases I've made in a while, highly recommended."
I concur completely, brilliant.
The actress playing Miss Hartigan was Dervla Kirwan - she was in Ballykissangel back in the day and she does the M+S adverts. 'This isn't just a cyberman, this is an M+S giant cyberman'.
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3Dotsplus1 Posted Dec 28, 2008
Nice premise with the 'other Dr', crap overall story (David Morrissey was very good - I will probably watch it again to see if he, as has been mentioned, got some characteristics of the other Dr's into his acting). There was no need to kidnap kids...the Cybermen could have done all that stuff themselves...they had already built a huge duck-off transformer before they got the kids.. Another big baddie rampaging through London sorted out by the Dr in a trice and forgotten by the historians. And can anyone explain the 'damn-dirty ape-cybermen'? Though did it pass the kid test anyone?
I did like the fact that they had a shot of Paul McGann in there...TV movie was BBC/Canada so no reason why there shouldn't be and he's still doing audio stuff. Now he is someone I would like to see come back in a Dr Who TV episode.
Lets hope Moffat does 'smaller' stories. Though unless there's some reset, which I doubt, everyone apart from dumbass Donna knows there are baddies around AND they know about Torchwood who can sort everything out...and Sarah jane (Schwing) can stop the Earth being destroyed so who really needs the Dr...let's have Sarah Jane on Saturday Nights...
...+1
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Deb Posted Dec 28, 2008
I can sum the episode up in two words: Cybermen again.
Enough already.
Deb 
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