Season four of Dr Who has had some excellent episodes in it, all building up to the extended finale that airs next week in the UK, I felt a little cheated last week as I thought that episode was a bit of a filler and that Rose’s proper return deserved a little more.
This week’s episode The Stolen Earth was a lot better but still felt if it were simply leading up to better things, and yes better things are definitely coming!
I can’t really talk about the episode without spoilers so I’m going to resort to the trusty sonic spoiler saver:
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It was so good seeing Torchwood again, can’t wait for their next season to see what the hell they’re going to do with the show - especially with all the rumours flying around. Â I only watched one episode of the Sarah Jane Smith series but she is such an ultimate amongst the companions it is always nice to see her!
I love their reactions to the Dalek invasion fleet appears and we hear ‘exterminate’, Jack is great as a tear rolls down his face and he apologises to Gwen and Ianto that there’s nothing he can do and that they’re going to die. Â I think though that Sarah Jane Smith steals the show with her reaction, it’s been a long time since she’s faced the Daleks and Davros.
Davros, brilliant he’s back but I thought it a bit of an anti-climax, granted I knew he was coming but I don’t know if the episode conveys the magnitude of the event. Â Also the Shadow Proclamation might have been handy to fight the Daleks?
Rose is the one that really gets me, I know she’s been in an alternate universe but she sure is a misery guts, I’m depressed everytime I see her, I think that she’s a little over rated anyway, Martha is gold.
The Harriet Jones former PM joke got taken a little far, to a point where it belittled her death scene in my opinion.
I loved Gwen declaring that she won’t go down without a fight, like Hoshi and Owen.
So the Doctor is regenerating and they’re keeping it all a big secret for next week, where I can tell you that something will happen to stop him changing, as we know Tennant isn’t going anywhere. Â It may be an appearance of one of the other Doctors but ultimately Tennant will be restored as the current Doctor, or maybe that’s the thing, maybe he won’t be.
Either way next week’s episode should be pretty awesome!
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30/06/2008 at 3:25 pm Permalink
My computer died when I was half-way through walking to cousin Larry’s to see this episode (GRRRR!!!)
Since good business ethics stop me from walking to cousin Larry’s from work, I’ll now have to wait…
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Let’s see how long I wait until I’m tearing open up the spoiler to put me out of my missery.
30/06/2008 at 5:47 pm Permalink
:: Shields eyes from spoiler ::
Just wanted to say my cousin larry sent me a copy of Stargate Atlantis Season 5 ep 1. Very Nice! thank you for the encouragement to give this series another go. It has proven well worth it.
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30/06/2008 at 7:16 pm Permalink
SGA 5.01 was well worth the agonising wait till 5.02 hits
I don’t want to spoile myself by reading your spoiler
But..does anyone know if I can use that spoil function in blogger? And if so, enlighten me *just leave a comment on my blog instead of hijacking this commenthread*
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30/06/2008 at 8:46 pm Permalink
Sometimes going and seeing cousin Larry can be a real pain in the arse
I admire your ethics in not walking to Larry’s from your place of work!
Don’t read the spoilers, watch the episode and come back and tell us what you think.
30/06/2008 at 9:12 pm Permalink
Marita - I think so, if it can keep up the pace of that first episode it should be a pretty good season!
30/06/2008 at 9:16 pm Permalink
Arjan - I think you’ve been around here long enough that you are welcome to hijack the odd thread! But no I don’t have any idea about plugins for Blogger.
30/06/2008 at 10:14 pm Permalink
Never heard of Larry before… I always call him Laz.
I liked the episode, but I was a bit disappointed that I knew so much of what would happen… might have to unsubscribe from that Who blog!
I actually heard that there was uncertainty as to whether Tennant would be staying on, but hey maybe he will. I was disappointed that they were potentially creating a plot hole because it seemed to me like River Song knew the Doctor with a David Tennant face…
BTW, saw SGA 5.01. Pretty sweet. I’d started liking Wolsey too
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30/06/2008 at 10:27 pm Permalink
We know him as cousin Larry round here.
I wasn’t quite sure about River, I had the feeling she knew him from maybe a couple of faces. I might have to watch the episode again. I certainly hope that we visit River Song again in the show.
SGA has some interesting characters being developed I think.
01/07/2008 at 12:20 pm Permalink
Well, hot damn… that was a good piece of “thank you” to the fans. Everybody but Mickey and the Tylers was in that one.
I’m with you on Rose. Not quite as fun as she used to be. Guess living in an alternate dimension’ll do that to you.
I wish I didn’t know a couple things ahead of time… primarily that Tennant is scheduled to return and who the big bad guy is.
I don’t remember anything about the sub-wave being mentioned before. Harriet seemed a bit out of place to me.
Btw… what’s the name of that spoiler hider? That could come in handy on my blog.
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03/07/2008 at 11:43 am Permalink
Hey Jeff - sorry it took me so long to answer this - everytime I went to do so I got sidetracked when finding out the plugin name -Simple Spoiler Enhanced - do a search for that and it should give you the right plugin.
If not just email me and I’ll send you the address.
Someone is suggesting that Tennant may not be returning and they’ve just gotten very good at covering up spoilers. So there is some little doubt in my mind.