It's a shame they used it in the trailers. I'd heard the line a dozen times before the show, so it lost it's impact (that and Graham bleedin' Norton!).
Heh, there was no Graham Norton on HD!
It's a shame they used it in the trailers. I'd heard the line a dozen times before the show, so it lost it's impact (that and Graham bleedin' Norton!).
That is the part of New Who I'm most sick of. The Doctor's kind of a dick now, he's always bigging himself up.Enjoyed the episode, and most of the banter. I do find somewhat cloying that the Doctor has to constantly pull out his laurels and say stuff like "There's one thing you never, never, ever-never, never put in a trap........................ME!" It's getting a mite predictable.
He does it all the time. That bit towards the end of the pilot where he tells the eyeball-ships to look him up and then tells them to "basicallly...run", for instance, echoes him doing the same thing "Forest of the Dead" with the Vashta Nerada.He's only done it twice.
He does it all the time. That bit towards the end of the pilot where he tells the eyeball-ships to look him up and then tells them to "basicallly...run", for instance, echoes him doing the same thing "Forest of the Dead" with the Vashta Nerada.
Powerful in some abstract sense of the word. Not powerful as in "the alien with the big claws or disintegration can't just annihilate him on the spot". If he keeps playing that card constantly, viewers will gradually start to come around to that not-terribly-subtle distinction.I love the occasional arrogance: he quite literally is probably the most powerful and capable being in the universe, as demonstrated by having repeatedly overcome whole armies again and again. As long as it doesn't make him cocky too much, I find it refreshing. So far so good.
And this week's episode was possibly even better. Certainly a lot scarier.Not to mention a woman in killer heels escape a tuxedo-clad man by blowing an airlock and leaping unprotected into outer space.
But only after blow-torching a text message --"hi can u pick me up?"-- into an intergalactic flight-safely recorder, meant for her boyfriend 12,000 years in the future.
In other words, it was the perfect hour television.