The DW pirate story

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Don't have a DW icon so going with the next best thing. I just watched last Saturday's DW and...

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....I have to say, that was silly. Not the concept as such, with the virtual doctor etc, but the pirates and all the yo-ho-ho-ing. And the world's most rubbish CPR. And could the music be any more bonkers? I wish someone would give the entire orchestra a tranquiliser.

Oh well, daft as it may have been, it was still better than last year's ep with the teletubby daleks.

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[eac.livejournal.com]

It was perhaps the weakest Who ep I've seen since the re-boot. But I figure that every season gets a couple of these. :)

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It does, and I do think it was better than the dalek one last year. Those multi-coloured daleks were even sillier than the pirates.

[eac.livejournal.com]

I think that being American, and having seen only a few eps of the old Doctor Who, I am missing out on Daleks. They all seem silly to me. :)

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They were plenty scary back in the 60s in black and white, but I can see they look pretty lame now.

[ningloreth.livejournal.com]

When they first appeared, in 1963, there was nothing like them. They were implacable. You couldn't reason with them, couldn't negotiate with them, couldn't bribe them. They lived in a metal city with long, narrow corridors and if you were silly enough to enter it there was no way you could escape -- they 'exterminated' you with a blast of electricity, and you died screaming.

I was 6 years old and the only reason I could sleep at night was because my bedroom was upstairs (and they couldn't levitate in those days, LOL)!

They're not so scary now. These days it's all about nostalgia :-)

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Yep. Pretty much my experience too.

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

I was a bit annoyed with Eleven for being so negative about Amy's cutlass exploits.

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Well, he's pretty negative in general really.Dunno what that's about.

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

I think this was definitely an episode aimed at children. Enjoyable enough, but yes, very silly. I'm very much looking forward to next week's Neil Gaiman episode, though.

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Yes, it does look interesting. I agree about this ep being aimed at children more than usual.

[hello-spikey.livejournal.com]

So I've been watching Dr. Who on Netflix for a few months now and Sunday I watched that episode and am Officially Caught Up!

OMG! I haven't watched a TV show AS IT AIRED in a while! Well, except Supernatural, which I caught up with over winter. Hee. Now I have TWO shows I can watch as they air. And an excuse to own a Tivo, which is good since I own a Tivo.

Just thought I'd share. I've had to avoid most 'about that last episode' posts for everything for eons and I was so excited to see your post.

Ahem. I thought the pirate story was a bit flat, yeah, but I do like the idea of a pirate space ship flying through the sky. How funny! I wonder if they'll be held up by them in a later episode?

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Now I have TWO shows I can watch as they air.

:) I think DW is the only one for me. Other things I might want to see are inevitably on channels I don't get so I either have to wait ages or d/l, and usually d/l'ing is the better option because it stops you getting spoilered by accident.

I'm not averse to space pirates as such, but the ones in this ep did adapt to space a bit easily. Never mind. It was fun(ish).

[ningloreth.livejournal.com]

I rather liked the pirate story, because

a) I'm already very fond of a Dr Who space pirate story, read by David Tennant, which I got free with Radio Times.

b) I'm all in a quandary about POTC 4, because Will Turner's not in it, so I probably won't bother seeing it, and this was something of a substitute.

c) The ship was real.

It was a shame about Lily Cole, though. She looked brilliantly graceful against the blue screen (in Dr Who Confidential) but really naff in the finished episode.

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Was she the siren? I didn't watch Confidential so I can't really compare. It was okay. Nothing terrific. I did half-expect Amy to name drop Elizabeth from PotC when she dressed up as a pirate and started waving that sword about.