And it's one of the reasons I love Tennant for it. Smith just seems to be trying too hard to be Tennant. And may I suggest you watch some of the ones with Christopher Eccleston in them. He's a pretty awesome Doctor aswell.captainfluoxetine said:
Doctor Who Ratings Rise in the US, Fall in the UK
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Just a thought on the whole pregnancy thing, did anyone notice river song complaing to rory about feeling ill when they went into the tunnel? hopefully this all turns out to be something to do with memory shit from the aliens....i dont wan tto see Amy getting big 
In the UK The Impossible Astronaut had a final consolidated audience figure of 8.86 million viewers, a 43.3% share of the total TV audience, according to figures released by Barb.
The number includes those who recorded the programme for viewing within 7 days of its initial showing. The figure is over two million higher than the initial overnight reported rating. A full report for the week, which will reveal the shows position in the weekly charts will be released by Barb on Tuesday.
The figures do not include those watching on iPlayer, where over 300,000 accessed the programme within the first two days following transmission.
The Impossible Astronaut had roughly the same final audience as other new series openers, excluding those with a new Doctor. New Earth had 8.6 million, Smith And Jones 8.7m and Partners In Crime 9.1 million.
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So this original article looks like a piece of impatient tabloid-style shyte yes?
The number includes those who recorded the programme for viewing within 7 days of its initial showing. The figure is over two million higher than the initial overnight reported rating. A full report for the week, which will reveal the shows position in the weekly charts will be released by Barb on Tuesday.
The figures do not include those watching on iPlayer, where over 300,000 accessed the programme within the first two days following transmission.
The Impossible Astronaut had roughly the same final audience as other new series openers, excluding those with a new Doctor. New Earth had 8.6 million, Smith And Jones 8.7m and Partners In Crime 9.1 million.
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So this original article looks like a piece of impatient tabloid-style shyte yes?
I fucking hate this show, because it's stolen my life.Logan Westbrook said:
I've gone through the first four seasons in a week goddammit doctor! DO YOU WANT ME TO FAIL OUT OF COLLEGE!?
It doesn't quickly make all of it jokes to please my impatient society?tghm1801 said:
Damn it where is my bender clip that pertains to this....
Note highly though that "councillors" is not the same thing at all as MPs. Council elections have no bearing whatsoever on the ruling government of the country. In the actual *general* election the BNP had only 1.9% of the vote and won no seats in the Houses of Parliament (source: the same Wiki page you refer to)JDKJ said:
Note also that at the end of 2009 four of the councillors resigned, and a further 26 lost their seats in the Local Elections of May 2010. {Source for this: Again exactly the same Wiki page, only two paragraphs after the bit you copypasta'd}.
They are a fringe party at best. And hold no relevance to the vast majority of British people. And please don't try to refer to *non-parliamentary* elections from three years ago when trying to put a point across, especially as more have been held since and the "party" has lost support since then.
I used to be a doctor who fan, but once I started actually examining it, it really seems repetitive and dull. I definitely enjoyed certain aspects of it, but a lot of the time it wasn't as good as people make it out to be, IMO.
Yes we play lacrosse in fact one of the best National Lacrosse League teams in here in Buffalo and is one of the only teams out of your four to have a championship.Verlander said:Urgh, Europeans don't wash XDFangobra said:Would we really want to play with them though? REALLY really?Verlander said:You guys even made up your own sports, because you didn't want to play with the rest of the world
At least you play nice with Canada. Shame it's Ice Hockey...
Also... do you guys seriously play lacrosse? I saw it on American Pie, and I've always wanted to ask.
So, I finally got to see the second episode last night, once Virgin / iPlayer decided to stop being prissy and serve up an SD version alongside the HD one my box can't play but still lists...
Good God, having watched that, and seeing the responses on here, it's true what they say, isn't it. Nerds are impossible to please, and aren't happy unless they've got something to ***** about. I have a feeling Moffat+Beeb could have served up an automatic chocolate blowjob on a stick and you'd still complain that it worked your shaft in the wrong pattern and didn't rim you at the same time.
I don't think I've laughed quite so hard in a good long time at some of the supposed-to-be-funny parts ... and almost as much at the scarier bits ... just out of disbelief that "this is supposed to be a U-rated family show?", because of the sheer audacity of putting some seriously scary ideas out there (at least, from a kiddie perspective, but also things that can worm their way into the mind of an adult in an empty house). I've seen weaker psych horror in actual "scary" movies and books. Some things were a bit confusing, but I feel they probably were supposed to be - that sense of "what the f???" injected right near the scary-stuff climax just heightened it all. I'm even more convinced now that Steven is a man who Knows His Scarypasta, and although that may be somewhat derivative and hackish behaviour, it works amazingly well. After all, some of those bits of amateur fiction you don't want to be reading late at night on your own. Unless you're some soul-less interweb automaton that thinks everything is automatically shit and buries your emotions (I'd go see a shrink - it's a sign of clinical depression).
Remember, if the Silence haven't destroyed your ability to do so, that part of the whole concept is that they can edit your memories, and therefore in a way your sense of reality. The jumpiness, the strange things going on - that's all part of it. The episode of "confidential" that went with had a lot of very jumpy editing... like someone would be talking, and although there wasn't an identifiable break in the speech, the camera would blink a few inches to the left and their posture would change. It was unmentioned, but I bet it was deliberate.
In short, I liked it. I liked it a lot. I'd go see that 2-parter in a cinema quite happily, if a couple of the slightly cheesier, obvious effects were brushed up (e.g. the very Hammer-y thunder and lightning I first figured was because Amy was dreaming... but then... what, they were being serious? Really?). Interesting concepts, well paced and balanced, some proper "human interest" drama without being glurgy, even something that was almost a false ending, and a decent wind-down. Oh yeah, and a right old cliffhanger.
I won't pretend the reboot hasn't had its problems, I didn't manage to get up the motivation to watch all of the last series (and might not manage this one), and there's some parts of the last five I wouldn't revisit by preference. But being so hard on this whizzbang series opener seems... well... like bitching for the sake of it.
Oh yeah, and further to my previous comment of 2 or 3 days ago: I went back and found the bit in ep1 where Rory says "gasoline". As I suspected, he's saying it to a septagenarian local who he's only just met whilst in the very heart of the USA. If *I*, as a born & raised Brit who personally hates the term and can't quite figure how it gained a foothold (it was a brand name for a type of petrol wasn't it?), was stood in his shoes, in that situation, I'd probably have said it as well, in order to be understood. I wouldn't go to Italy and ask for petrol instead of benzina (or diesel instead of gasolio) either.
Or it could have gone like this if they'd had an extra 10 seconds to fill:
"...Petrol?"
"Pardon me, boy?"
"Er... a can of... gasoline?"
But the way its been presented is more snappy, and doesn't feel out of place. As I said, I had to go hunt for it. First time round, I didn't even notice. He's in the USA. If he went to the nearest gas station and needed to buy some octane based petroleum spirit, then he would have to ask them for gasoline.
Now grow the hell up already and stop letting one word that you personally feel is out of place ruin your enjoyment of a 90-minute TV programme. Do you do this with every TV show and movie? I bet you take umbrage with every commercial sub and dub as well, and take pains to get hold of the original language versions and add your own rewritten subs on.
Maybe you should switch to Torchwood or Sarah Jane Adventures instead. That shit'll REALLY yank your chain.
Good God, having watched that, and seeing the responses on here, it's true what they say, isn't it. Nerds are impossible to please, and aren't happy unless they've got something to ***** about. I have a feeling Moffat+Beeb could have served up an automatic chocolate blowjob on a stick and you'd still complain that it worked your shaft in the wrong pattern and didn't rim you at the same time.
I don't think I've laughed quite so hard in a good long time at some of the supposed-to-be-funny parts ... and almost as much at the scarier bits ... just out of disbelief that "this is supposed to be a U-rated family show?", because of the sheer audacity of putting some seriously scary ideas out there (at least, from a kiddie perspective, but also things that can worm their way into the mind of an adult in an empty house). I've seen weaker psych horror in actual "scary" movies and books. Some things were a bit confusing, but I feel they probably were supposed to be - that sense of "what the f???" injected right near the scary-stuff climax just heightened it all. I'm even more convinced now that Steven is a man who Knows His Scarypasta, and although that may be somewhat derivative and hackish behaviour, it works amazingly well. After all, some of those bits of amateur fiction you don't want to be reading late at night on your own. Unless you're some soul-less interweb automaton that thinks everything is automatically shit and buries your emotions (I'd go see a shrink - it's a sign of clinical depression).
Remember, if the Silence haven't destroyed your ability to do so, that part of the whole concept is that they can edit your memories, and therefore in a way your sense of reality. The jumpiness, the strange things going on - that's all part of it. The episode of "confidential" that went with had a lot of very jumpy editing... like someone would be talking, and although there wasn't an identifiable break in the speech, the camera would blink a few inches to the left and their posture would change. It was unmentioned, but I bet it was deliberate.
In short, I liked it. I liked it a lot. I'd go see that 2-parter in a cinema quite happily, if a couple of the slightly cheesier, obvious effects were brushed up (e.g. the very Hammer-y thunder and lightning I first figured was because Amy was dreaming... but then... what, they were being serious? Really?). Interesting concepts, well paced and balanced, some proper "human interest" drama without being glurgy, even something that was almost a false ending, and a decent wind-down. Oh yeah, and a right old cliffhanger.
I won't pretend the reboot hasn't had its problems, I didn't manage to get up the motivation to watch all of the last series (and might not manage this one), and there's some parts of the last five I wouldn't revisit by preference. But being so hard on this whizzbang series opener seems... well... like bitching for the sake of it.
Oh yeah, and further to my previous comment of 2 or 3 days ago: I went back and found the bit in ep1 where Rory says "gasoline". As I suspected, he's saying it to a septagenarian local who he's only just met whilst in the very heart of the USA. If *I*, as a born & raised Brit who personally hates the term and can't quite figure how it gained a foothold (it was a brand name for a type of petrol wasn't it?), was stood in his shoes, in that situation, I'd probably have said it as well, in order to be understood. I wouldn't go to Italy and ask for petrol instead of benzina (or diesel instead of gasolio) either.
Or it could have gone like this if they'd had an extra 10 seconds to fill:
"...Petrol?"
"Pardon me, boy?"
"Er... a can of... gasoline?"
But the way its been presented is more snappy, and doesn't feel out of place. As I said, I had to go hunt for it. First time round, I didn't even notice. He's in the USA. If he went to the nearest gas station and needed to buy some octane based petroleum spirit, then he would have to ask them for gasoline.
Now grow the hell up already and stop letting one word that you personally feel is out of place ruin your enjoyment of a 90-minute TV programme. Do you do this with every TV show and movie? I bet you take umbrage with every commercial sub and dub as well, and take pains to get hold of the original language versions and add your own rewritten subs on.
Maybe you should switch to Torchwood or Sarah Jane Adventures instead. That shit'll REALLY yank your chain.
I love the new series, as do most of my friends....but honestly, ABC has a habit of showing them at really stupid times. Either really obscure, or in the middle of prime time. And I almost always have something better to do during prime time, then sit in front of the tv. Which is why we all find ways to stream or aquire them online, and watch them at times like this (1am) when there's more time to be sparedAndronicus said: