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from: Blair Leatherwood
date: 2008-06-11 18:16:26
subject: Re: OT Anybody been watching Doctor Who?

Wes Struebing wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:37:38 GMT, Amy Guskin 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:49:14 -0400, thus spake Tom (in article 
>>
>>):
>>
>>
>>>I got to tell you ever since I watched Babylon 5 I have used it as the
>>>grading curve for great scifi drama.
>>>As you could imagine I have been disappointed more often than not
>>>since B5 has been off the air, but I got to tell you I am really
>>>liking the direction that Doctor Who has taken.  Sure they have their
>>>filler stories and the occsional hokie bad guy, but the overall
>>>experience (mainly due to the writing) has gotten so much better from
>>>the first season.
>>>I am quickly becoming a big fan of Moffatt's(sp?) writing in
>>>particular.
>>>I'm not quite ready to put it up there with B5, or Moffatt with JMS,
>>>but I can envision a scenario where both are possible and that is the
>>>first time since B5 I could consider that. <<
>>
>>I've been watching, and loving it.  I think I may even like Tennant's Doctor 
>>more than Eccleston's Doctor, which is just an astonishingly crazy thing to 
>>contemplate. 
>>
>>I am not, however, wild about Donna.
> 
> 
> Well, I put up with her.  I really like(d) the Martha episodes...
> 
She has her moments--in the Pompeii episode, for one, when she woke up 
tied to the altar and said "oh, give me a break".

I do like her tendency to bring the Doctor up short on occasion, but I 
don't think they (or she) has really established a consistency of behavior.

Blair
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