Doctor Who Club of Australia

Greg · Last edited by Greg on Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:24 am; edited 1 time in total

Every month we are aiming create a new Poll and publish the results in our club newsletter Data Extract.

We also encourage you to make comment. A selection of the best comments will also be published in Data Extract, including the 'comment of the month'.

Try to keep your comments concise and spoiler free as possible. (Up to five lines is ideal for editing responses for the magazine.)

POLL OF THE MONTH: OCTOBER

Who was your favourite story in series 3 - and why?

charlie · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject:

A lot of episodes were good this series but I think Blink was the best.
It made some real achievements in terms of cheap, involving, real looking SFX and Sally Sparrow was a great character like Elton before her.
It's good to have a break from the Doctor and I thoroughly enjoyed the roundabout time logic.

Ickabod · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 475 Location: far far away

Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords

appealed to me as it brought back The Master and made me go nicely down memory lane, plus john Simm was fantastic as The Master, the Yang to David Tennants Ying as The Doctor. Plenty of tears all round.

I did love when The Master danced....the song was very upbeat and catchy.....we;ve had The Doctor dance and now it was The Master's turn....yay

montypython · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:02 pm Post subject:

Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords without a doubt. This story just had so much action and suspense. It was great to have Jack back (the final twist about him being the Face of Boe was awesome) and John Simm did a fantastic job as the Master. There was also some great acting by Tennant when the Master died.

KnottyEmily · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 91 Location: Melbourne

Where's The Shakespeare Code?

Greg · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:23 am Post subject:

Bugger! Added.

Sadly at the end - can't add things in earlier without stuffing things up once the voting has started!

ADAMK · Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 211 Location: Canberra

Human Nature/The Family of Blood for me!

Paul Cornell's adaptation of his 'New Adventures' novel was superb and had me in tears!

Still honourable mentions for RTD's 'Gridlock' and Steven Moffat's 'Blink', which were also wonderful!

KnottyEmily · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 91 Location: Melbourne

uhumanite · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 88 Location: Sydney

Human Nature/ The Family of Blood
gets my vote Shocked

Wonderful acting by Tennant and a story that connects to who The Doctor is even when he isn't around to rely on.

Powerful emotion here my friends Wink

Chickmacgyver · Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 28 Location: Hobart, Tasmania

It is such a hard question this month! For me it was a toss up between Paul Cornell's retelling of his novel, Human Nature, and Steven Moffat's Blink. With a lot of umming and arrghing I chose Blink as it was such a well written work and it still keeps me thinking, the way I think Doctor Who should do. At one point I literally jumped in my seat the first time I watched it!

Both works had a great intensity and thoughts about time displacement, not to mention brilliant monsters. The scales might have tripped more towards Human Nature if it had my favourite archaeologist Bernice Summerfield in it, like the original novel did...

I hope next season there will be more new Doctor Who of this quality!!!

Smiles, Izzy

SharazJek · Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 885 Location: Hobart, Tasmania

I wish Utopia was seperate from the other eps, as I do believe it is a more stand alone story.

While Blink is without a doubt the best written episode of the season, I can't can't past the sheer emotion and brilliant performance of Derek Jacobi in Utopia.

Heart-pounding stuff!!

Ickabod · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 475 Location: far far away

Chickmacgyver · Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 28 Location: Hobart, Tasmania