Once again we have to disagree. I couldn't see anything good about it at all. (I've not been watching this season - inamac made me, and I wish she hadn't.)

Well, I suppose I'm relating it to the rest of the season, which has been awful. Trust me, this is a step up. And I felt it was important, if only to myself, to establish that I am still open to the possibility of this show getting better. Any step in that direction, however small, merits acknowledgment.

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I thought to myself "smallship1 should be pleased the deaths weren't the Doctor's fault", even if one of them did seem to be totally pointless. And there was a bit of a cheat, a huge hole, and I totally disagree with the Doctor's opinion of why Christie was a great writer, but never mind, it was fun.
I prefer Black Orchid, but that's because I prefer Sarah Sutton and Peter Davidson.

I don't think she was that great a writer myself (good, but not great), and the Countess thinks she cheats, which I suppose makes a cheat in this story authentic. But that's an allowable difference of opinion.

Yes, not only was the Doctor not responsible for any of the deaths, but nobody got to make him look like an idiot this week, not even Donna. So much so that it almost seemed that Tennant was actually playing the Doctor, and not some pathetic impostor.

No spoilers. Hurridly scanning but, no wait .. still closing my eyes .. by the time the latest series gets to Oz, what's going to be interesting is to see if I can dredge up any enthusiasm about it. A bit of a challenge by accounts here :) But you can be sure, I will try.

Well, in that sense, any talking of any kind about something is a spoiler. But I trust you to want to make up your own mind rather than take my word for it.

I like that icon.

Thanks.

Yep, mention of any specifics could constitute a spoiler but I only noted some details were included in the replies, not what those details were. It's cool.

I like things to 'spring at me', as it were, or probably better put, realisations to occur unprompted. But, sure, I interpret what I see in my own way though I don't view my opinion as the be-all/end-all of any subject.

I set the video for the episode and the DW Confidential, and it looks as if only the Confidential has been taped! And I still haven't seen last week's ep, either... Video now set for the BBC3 repeat on Sunday. When I'm going to find time to watch all this I don't know. I still haven't read Friday's Times, let alone Saturday's.

Oops. Would you like us to record the repeat as a backstop just in case? (Maybe your video's been talking to lil_shepherd's and developed taste....)

I think it gets repeated at least once more - Friday? So I should be OK.

HURRAHHH!!! =:o> [BOUNCES HAPPILY UP TO YOU AND HUGS YOU] It's great to have the "quite liking Doctor Who in some ways"-you back again. =:o} Lets hope they can manage to make you stay...

It's Moffat's one next week, isn't it? Should be at least half decent, then.

Urk. Of course I mean "the week after next". Thanks for the great birthday present, BBC: Having to wait an extra week for what will probably be the best ep. this year of the only currently airing show of yours that I regularly mostly enjoy watching. =:o\

*hugs back* Er, I never left. I've always loved Doctor Who, far more than "quite in some ways," and it's nice to know that nuWho can achieve some kind of approximation of it on a good day. They should do it more often. But they probably won't.

I notice this was written by Gareth Roberts, who's been steeped in realWho since the beginning (so presumably the silliness in The Shakespeare Code wasn't entirely his fault*) and should therefore know what he's doing.

I'm not not liking nuWho to upset people. I really wish I could get on the bandwagon and wave pompoms with the rest. But till we have a Doctor with some gravitas, and a companion who can be a match for him without dumbing him down to human level (you know, as Sarah Jane was), and for preference a TARDIS that doesn't look like some grotty garage with fungi crawling up the walls but like something that someone could live in, it just isn't the show I love.

I'm currently reading "Set Piece" having just read "The Also People." Am I going backwards, and if so where do I go next?

*Though I do cherish a mental image of kids in a couple of decades' time watching nuWho and asking their mummies and daddies what "Expelliarmus" is supposed to mean. But then I'm evil like that.

You are indeed heading backwards through the Virgins - The Also People was the 44th released, Set Piece the 35th - the immediate predecessor is Andrew Cartmel's Warlock.

Thus-ish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlock_%28Doctor_Who%29

Ah. Haven't got that one. I must work out which ones I've got and see if the gaps are pluggable.