Doctor Who Thread

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Oh, and on a slightly more highbrow level, I did like the use of the Minotaur myth. When that kind of thing is placed in a sci-fi context it usually ends pretty badly, but it worked quite well in this case.

It's not the first time it's actually been used on this show - it featured in the highly camp Season 17 story "The Horns of Nimon".

As soon as I heard that there was a minotaur in 'The God Complex' I knew that it would be doing at least something right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-8np3aw-Cw

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Caroline John has died aged 72

Oh no! RIP. Liz wasn't one of the longer-serving companions but I've always thought that such time as the character got was one of the little gems of the series' late-sixties-to-late-seventies heyday.

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Mary Tamm has died aged 62

She was actually my favorite. RIP.

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I only ever tolerate this show in order to tease Laura about how much she likes it. I don't get it. It's overrated and has no idea what it wants to be.

Just my opinion, which I now realize I'll be reamed over the coals for.

I'm at a loss as to how, exactly, the Doctor Who concept, of all concepts, could come to 'know what it wants to be'.

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christmas ep...better than last year's, and overally not awful at all really.

That's all I really ask for from the 'plot' of a Doctor Who Christmas episode.

MasterJedi is watching the First Doctor? Excellent.

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I still haven't forgiven Russell T. Davies for what happened to Donna, which was not only depressing (like every other post-2005 companion with the arguable exception of Martha) but depressing in a way that was completely unjustified from the perspective of character or thematic development (unlike every other post-2005 companion with the arguable exception of Rose).

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Seriously looking at gender in post-2005 Doctor Who (and a lot of pre-2005, but not all) is, indeed, more often than not an absolute misery.

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Mind you, seriously looking at gender in almost any popular television show is more often than not an absolute misery.

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It might have something to do with the fact that the entire production staff and main cast changed all at once for the first non-sixteen-year-hiatus-related time in Doctor Who history.

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See, the thing is I think Russell T. Davies is a mediocre writer in general, and I'm very much of two minds about...pretty much about Doctor Who, as written, as a whole, actually, with some exceptions scattered over the decades. It's very possible to dredge the sixties, seventies, and eighties for gems, it's just a somewhat arcane task at times.

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At this point I'd be at least as committed to following that as I am to Doctor Who.