Doctor Who: The Rebel Flesh
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Bugger! Missed Outcasts. Came on here. Damn you TP Forum!!!!!!!
That image is from a friend of my daughters. He is the spitting image of David Tennant and goes to SciFiCons as Dr Who. He is trying to arrange a cosplay with all the doctors dressed up and DO the Time Warp for a festival... great idea I think.
Totally agree with you Author3. So disappointed in that episode.
That image is from a friend of my daughters. He is the spitting image of David Tennant and goes to SciFiCons as Dr Who. He is trying to arrange a cosplay with all the doctors dressed up and DO the Time Warp for a festival... great idea I think.
Totally agree with you Author3. So disappointed in that episode.
Hmmm. I seem to be the only person to have quite enjoyed the Rebel Flesh. I think one of its problems might be that there was no inherently evil monster to be defeated and it appears to be more a vehicle for later episodes. I still think the woman looking through the hatch looks like an older River Song tho. 
Penfold said:
Good point Chris, but since when has that stopped them. With any time travel sci-fi, there is always room for paradoxes......a universal storyline 'get out of jail free' card, sort off.
I feel there are a lot of plot holes in this one, many assumptions that I am being asked to make. I wouldn't pass it as a narrative. I would send it back with 'more linking between ideas needed' scribbled across.
I enjoy Rory, he is quite interesting as a character.
I didn't 'get' why Rory became so attached to the girl in these two episodes. In past episodes he's been totally devoted to Amy and then, as soon as the girl from the British version of Wallander turns up, he's like a love-sick puppy.
I like Rory - I'm kind of fed up with the whole girl-in-love-with-Doctor thing. The Doctor should have more male companions. Patrick Troughton's Doctor with Frazer Hines's Jamie, were a great partnership.
I like Rory - I'm kind of fed up with the whole girl-in-love-with-Doctor thing. The Doctor should have more male companions. Patrick Troughton's Doctor with Frazer Hines's Jamie, were a great partnership.
Spoilers for The Almost People inside in tiny letters!
Dídn't much like either of this two-parter. I mentally tuned out a couple of times watching the first episode. At least the second one had some interesting ideas like the 'flesh graveyard', Amy telling the Doctor about his death believing it was the fake one and most importantly, by highlighting the 'plastic Doctor might be the one we saw killed in the first episode' thing we're pretty much guaranteed they won't use that predictable turn of events
Dídn't much like either of this two-parter. I mentally tuned out a couple of times watching the first episode. At least the second one had some interesting ideas like the 'flesh graveyard', Amy telling the Doctor about his death believing it was the fake one and most importantly, by highlighting the 'plastic Doctor might be the one we saw killed in the first episode' thing we're pretty much guaranteed they won't use that predictable turn of events
Well, I just watched The Rebel Flesh, and I'm not sure why people say it is boring. It is slower paced, to be sure, but it's about the same pace as many a classic series story, and I think it works well with the psychological horror angle, the whole thing about the Gangers becoming 'human'. It feels like the bastard offspring of Malcolm Hulke's work and Fury from the Deep (am I the only one who thinks Cleaves, the bitch forewoman, was basically a female version of Robson from Fury from the Deep?).
It's not quite as good as The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon and The Doctor's Wife, but it's much better than the very average Curse of the Black Spot. The most egregious fault in the writing is that Jennifer suddenly snaps from being angsty to villainous at the end of this particular episode with virtually no transition. If she was more overtly fearful than venomous when she did that, I might understand.
And keep in mind that I went in thinking that it would be boring.
It's not quite as good as The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon and The Doctor's Wife, but it's much better than the very average Curse of the Black Spot. The most egregious fault in the writing is that Jennifer suddenly snaps from being angsty to villainous at the end of this particular episode with virtually no transition. If she was more overtly fearful than venomous when she did that, I might understand.
And keep in mind that I went in thinking that it would be boring.
Tonyblack said:
The Doctor should have more male companions. Patrick Troughton's Doctor with Frazer Hines's Jamie, were a great partnership.
I guess Rory (being a nurse) has a caring nature, (the need to nurture?) and here was a weak, defenceless female who would let him be the big, strong man. I find it interesting after the brilliant 'I hate Amy, kill Amy' scene in the tardis...
pandasthumb said:
Tonyblack said:
The Doctor should have more male companions. Patrick Troughton's Doctor with Frazer Hines's Jamie, were a great partnership.
And then, there were...other incidents. Like that time during rehearsals where they undid the skirt of Wendy Padbury while she was dozing, and she ended up curtseying to a vicar in her knickers.
Or a time when they were rehearsing The Mind Robber, and every time Emrys Jones (the actor playing the Master of the Land of Fiction) said "I have your dossiers right here", Patrick Troughton and Frazer Hines would clutch their groins and wince in pain.
But yeah, it's about time the Doctor had an interesting male companion. The last one in the classic series, Turlough, wasn't too bad.
pandasthumb said:
I guess Rory (being a nurse) has a caring nature, (the need to nurture?) and here was a weak, defenceless female who would let him be the big, strong man. I find it interesting after the brilliant 'I hate Amy, kill Amy' scene in the tardis...
Tonyblack said:
I didn't think it was boring - I said it was pants.
Just watched the next episode, The Almost People. Less good than the first episode, less psychological horror and more out and out horror, but still pretty good. Very scary to see the Doctor act like that, especially when you find out that it's the real one. I don't think he's been that manipulative since his seventh incarnation.
Tonyblack said:
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I like Rory - I'm kind of fed up with the whole girl-in-love-with-Doctor thing. The Doctor should have more male companions. Patrick Troughton's Doctor with Frazer Hines's Jamie, were a great partnership.
I like Rory - I'm kind of fed up with the whole girl-in-love-with-Doctor thing. The Doctor should have more male companions. Patrick Troughton's Doctor with Frazer Hines's Jamie, were a great partnership.
