Doctor Who Club of Australia

Ohica · Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 30 Location: Karn

Where can I get some of those adipose pills? I need a few to jump out of me. LOL. I was disappointed when the Doctor threw away the sonic pen .But......which bin did he throw it into? Was it the one that Donna threw her keys in? If not, will the mother go scratching around in that bin looking for the keys and find the pen? Could Donna then have herself a sonic pen when she returns home? How cool!!! There's got to be some sort of follow up to that. It was a bit obvious when he threw it away. Good old Rose won't be there to tell Mum which bin so things could get interesting.

Nice to see Billie Piper with out the caked on makeup.

I love Donna's Grandad. He missed the space ship but seeing Donna in the TArdis was really great. I love that scene. I think it is up there with my faves for this new series.

charlie · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:03 pm Post subject:

Lame.

That thing with almost running into each other was overplayed and made no sense since the last time we saw bride she wanted nothing to do with the doctor and they weren't looking for each other etc etc. We should have been told Martha now felt exactly the same as all the other companions of the new series before they almost found each other. Its mistakes like these which will date this show so its hard to enjoy in 20 years.

And as if bride wasn't annoting enough last time anyway. Why bring her back?

Rose looks like another lame story arc which isn't really an arc.

Ickabod · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 499 Location: far far away

I liked and enjoyed it....the grandfather was/is great and the fact that we don't have another female wanting to "shag/kiss/fall in love" with The Doc is great

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3901

What a fun start to this season.
The first shot of Donna is identical to how Martha first appeared in the previous season opener Smith and Jones.
I so love the expression on Donna's face when she first sees the Doctor again.
Penny is so unbelievable - she got the chance to escape courtesy of the Doctor only to be captured again.
Sarah Lancashire is superb as Miss Foster.
Not too sure practically it was a good idea for Donna leaving her keys in a bin for her mother to pick up.
Wow in the midst of all this Rose appears and literally disappers. Lovely to see her back albeit very briefly this time around.

Incidentally this week's episode of Medium on 10 is also called Partners In Crime. Good timing my viewing of the Doctor Who episode.

Dougy · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject:

It was okay. It seems Who starts off the season with a so-so episode and then build up after about ep 3 or 4. It was almost a little too silly although the Adipose were very cute. The Nanny was less scary as a villain than my left foot and there was no sense of danger in the episode at all. And Donna....I'll just say I'm looking forward to Martha's return.

But it was fun, so not a terrible episode. Kind of take it or leave it for me. Next week looks good though.

montypython · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:16 pm Post subject:

I voted average for this one. I know it was meant to be light-hearted and fun, but it's hard to get the adrenaline pumping through your system when the aliens are cute little balls of CGI. And in Doctor Who Confidential when the actress playing Miss Foster said she saw her character as a bit of a goodie, well that takes even more out of it. Who wants a good villain?

I loved the scene where the Doctor and Donna saw each other again. Very amusing - especially when they saw that everyone was looking at them. But all the times they missed each other was certainly dragged out a bit.

I got a bit bored when Donna was talking to Gramps about how she wanted to see the Doctor again. In my household we used this time to discuss what we'd seen Gramps in before (the answer was Fawlty Towers as Mr Hutchison the spoon salesman). I did love Gramps - it put a smile on my face to see him jumping around at the end, and it was hilarious when he missed the spaceship.

Interesting parallel between the Adipose and the baby Racnoss.

Rose! Yay! I know Rose has received a lot of criticism for her falling in love with the Doctor, but can I say something in her defence? I think the blow was lessened due to the fact that:
1. The Doctor obviously felt something (I'm not saying what that something is) for her too, and they were both comfortable in their relationship (it didn't get complicated, like it did with Martha)
2. Rose didn't go declaring her love for the Doctor to random strangers wherever she went

Finally, it seems the writers are being a bit generous to Catherine Tate regarding her age. She's actually 40, but for Donna to have a grandpa that active and a mother that looks like that she'd have to be way younger.