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"Doctor Who Series 4"

Thought I would set up a new thread for the latest Dr Who series which starts tonight on BBC1 at 6:20PM.

What did you think of tonights episode?

I'll be the different one here, I thought it was fantastic. Really quite an original effort, the air of mystery in it was good too.

Are the next three all linked? It certainly looks so, can't wait :)

It wasn't scary at all. I was expecting something really disturbing when the girl turned around so that was a bit of an anti climax.

Disappointed, it was ok but could have been so much better. A bit of a half hearted attempt at horror from RTD.

I thought it started well but then in classic RTD fashion it trailed off.

That episode was Class A garbage.

All I found on google was this rather amusing picture. Run for the stairs!

EDIT: found the proper pics now :)

Proper Davros picture doing the rounds now, I'll let you look it up, but the new Dalek design is retro heaven, Davros looks quite funky too, if a little inspector Gadget (you'll see what I mean).

I guess the biggest news over the last few days has been the 'leaked' Davros picture.

Don't be surprised if you see something familiar in it, take a look here , then here .

Of course, this is more likely a case of same make-up team working on both prosthetics, but still...

Now I thought the ending was good. It was different enough, surprising and I know they'll find an interesting way to bring him back (in the specials?). It was just the whole Martha thing and the name thing that got us there in the first place which didn't fit with the last two episodes.

pb wrote:
> No, I'm with you. RTD isn't a bad writer per-se, but he can't do
> big conclusions, they just fizzle.
>
> That said, he's done all the last chapters of every series so
> far and they haven't exactly been stinkers, just sometimes a bit
> of a letdown right at the end. Last series for instance, the
> final episode was great in parts, especially the twist at the
> end, but the events leading up to it just didn't seem to be the
> right pace, it was too untidy.
>
> Moffat will change all that, I'm sure, but we have to wait 2
> years to see it. In the meantime we'll get some nice
> stand-alones and hopefully Neil Gaimen will agree to write
> something for the 2010 series, now that would be special.

I was really disappointed by last seasons finale. The previous two episodes were good but the whole Martha globetrotting just so everyone can think the word Doctor, quite frankly sucked for me. (Also we got our nice big reset button!) I wanted to see consequences, I wanted a showdown between the Master and Doctor, I wanted the Masters tardis! Maybe a few people would've been disappointed if the Master had escaped the clutches of the Doctor at the last second but I would've preffered that to ending we got. But ho-hum this year we're getting bombarded with every companion that has appeared since Who was brought back. Maybe, just maybe this won't be such a good thing...