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Yeah, I think her breakdown at the end was the first time I thought she was dynamic.

Sure I did! I think i just forgot to type it. I remember thinking it when you said it!

I think Derek's hypocrisy is an intentional aspect of the story that will bite him on the ass.

Tonight's episode was great for the most part. The framing device was gimmicky and didn't work past the second act-- but the story and character work was great.

He's been in most of her NY scenes as her new pal. I recognize him every time cause he is a regular on Mad Men (aka the best show ever of all time).

Two bits--

Moffatt thinks a young flashy Doctor is tired now, and wants to go back to an older, weirder Doctor.

We might find out as soon as next week who the replacement is!

Can't wait to find out who will replace David Tennant as the star of Doctor Who, the British time-travel action-comedy? You may not have to. British TV's favorite uncle, Terry Wogan, hinted the new Doctor may be announced during next Friday's "Children In Need" charity special. Meanwhile, new showrunner Steven Moffat has weighed in on the change of lead actor, saying he thinks the next Doctor should be over forty and "weird-looking."

 

 

Says Moffat,

 

 

Although I loved Peter Davison and Paul McGann, probably the best two actors in the role, I don’t think young, dashing Doctors are right at all... He should be 40-plus and weird-looking — the kind of wacky grandfather kids know on sight to be secretly one of them.

What Six said!

I have to say-- to anyone who's ever been robbed, there was a bit of gleeful satisfaction in watching thm hunt down the deadbeats that took their stuff. If only I had a Terminator on my side after my wallet was stolen from the gym.

So long as they didn't pull an Enterprise.

Just finished my Halloween reads (Night on Lonesome October, Dracula, and Call of Cthulu) for the year. I've got this idea for a steampunk novel so I've sort of charted out a cycle of books to read to get me in the mind set.

All my Halloween books were roughly turn of the century, so I'm going from Dracula to Fred Saberhagen's Holmes/Dracula File, then Gibson/Sterling's The Difference Engine, Welles From Earth To Moon, ending with re-reading select bits from The Devil in the White City.

That should sufficiently fill my mind with Victorian steam/aether post modernist angst.

Well the Master has had his regeneration cycle reset a couple times, so that's certainly in the perview of Galifreyan/Time Lord science. So they probably don't have to have to stick to a hard 13.

I think I posted a few pages back that if they run out of regenerations, they could do a prequel thing given how old Hartnell was when he started. He was already visibly enderly and chronologically several hundred years old. There's a LOT of wiggle room.

Eddie Izzard has been referenced/rumored several times since production began with Eccleston years ago. Obviously if cast Eddie wouldn't be doing his stand up act, I might be able to accept him as his less stand-upized roles have worked, however his level of fame and contract price probably is too high.

 

Bill Nighy's age, fame and price tag I imagine would disqualify him. He could make a great recasting of the original Doctor though, if they wanted to do a story where the modern Doctor interacts with him. Nighy has a passable resemblance to William Hartnel, at least a slightly younger one.

Izzard would be cool-- but he's currently got a TV show here in the US, the Riches.

Nighy OR McKidd could play Hartnell's Doctor, at different ages.

Anyone else want to throw out Doctor ideas?

I think Kevin McKidd would be a cool pick if they wanted somebody on the dark side. If they wanted an older Doctor, Bill Nighy would be really cool.

It's official-- Tennant is out!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7698539.stm

I won't lie-- I'm bummed. I think the guy is awesome, and is by far my favorite Doctor.

But that said-- I ALWAYS feel this way. I was super bummed when Eccelson left, and didn't know Tennant from Adam when he started and was prepared to dislike him. He won me over, just like the rest did.

He's on for the four specials next year, meaning he's leaving the same time Russell Davies is. With all his storylines tied up, that really gives Mr. Moffat a blank slate to work with, which should be cool.

No idea if the "next Doctor" is actually the Doctor Moffat will use, or if he is meant to be further down the line.

What he said!

If the timeline is always changing, and Judgement Day keeps getting pushed back-- how will they know when they have been successful? How long is John supposed to live like this?

Here's a question for you: What if Future John sent that reprogrammed Terminator back to kill the good doctor before he could help head shrink Skynet? What if they ****ed up by stopping this Terminator's mission? I actually think this is what was going on, and I'm not dissuaded by the chip self destructing. John could have as easily invented that as Skynet to make sure his Terminators don't fall back into computer hands.

That's an interesting twist-- so in the original timeline, the shrink just helps the T-1001; John send word to kill the shrink or at least watch him, and accidentally signs his younger self up for therapy?

That could work... but killing targets seems kind un-John like.

For the most part, another great episode. Few things bugged me, but as usual, the rest of the show was good enough for me to not care.

The good:

1. The little girl storyline-- very well done

2. The psychologist angle was a good one. he was there to help John all along

3. The fact they didn't rush through John's kill-drama, but have played it out little by little

4. Hot lesbian BSG chick. a little to skinny for my tastes, but she' stunning so it's cool

The bad:

1. Again, I don't like the ease of time travel here. I can accept, like Dexter says, this is not the same timeline as the original films. I can justify that given that I am not a T2 fan anyway. That said, when people can just keep coming and coming it kind of destroys the tension. First it was people sent with objectives, then it became people on the run with a message, now it's become easy for a deserter (forgiven if she's a spy). What's next? People taking vacations? If they abuse it too much, it begs the question-- why doesn't the resistance just set up a line and send EVERYONE back? These people are actively trying to alter the timeline and escape a horrible future-- so why not just send everyone back?

2. Terminator of the week. Kind of an extension of the above problem, but it's a plot device that bores me and is too easy to abuse.

3. The easy coincidence that John and the T-1001 are going to the same shrink. At first I thought they were lead to the guy BECAUSE the T-1001 was going there. i thought that as going to be a moment of cool discovery-- but the arrival of the second Terminator to kill the doctor turned it all into a big coinky dink, and I hate that. All of LA and they end up at the same shrink?

4. Shirley Manson. Okay. I gave her a pass before cause in 1998 I was front row at a Garbage concert and i see up her skirt. But I can admit now that she hasn't aged well, and she can't act.

5. Dexter reads Terminator EU.... gross.

You mean the father of the child!

wow! that's a shocker for Fox.

I think the strike cut into a backlog of secondary, mid season and replacement projects, so networks are more apprehensive about cutting.

Heroes has lost millions of viewers, but has a full season order as well because it's still NBCs highest rated show.

I think that Holly will end up leaving Dunder Mifflin, but will stay on as a cast member because she starts dating Michael.

She's contracted for 6 episodes.

I thought this episode kicked major ass

I agree-- perfect mix of sci-fi future angst, and shooting robots with a giant-ass gun. Great episode.

Heroes has been of SF before as they are both owned by the same parent company-- but it's just been rebroadcasts. If si-fi were to take it as original programming the show would have a HUGE budget slash. No way sci-fi can afford to take on a network budget show without some major overhauls.

Sarah Conner is even less likely considering it is a Fox property and they have equity in the brand name as a franchise. If it were an original show it might be possible, but with new movies coming out, there's no real way to legally let sci-fi take the show over. Re-broadcast maybe, but not as an original.

George-- what your saying makes sense from a technical aspect. But if we're going to the sci-fi real here of an Ai gaining sentience, doesn't that through a lot of the rules out the window?

Also-- we haven't talked about a the Machine faction that wants peace. Was that all a crock? It seems like as far as Cameron is concerned it was, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

We've also never figured out what happened to Derek and his team that were abducted by the machines.

I looked into it and noticed that this show did a 5.9 and Heroes, a show with twice the budget and three times the marketing force behind it, did a 6.0. Given that, just imagine what this show could do with a larger budget and more marketing behind it.

Is that a testament to how GOOD Sarah Conner is... or how BAD Heroes has become?

In other news:

Last week, the ratings were being called "armageddon-like" and worthy of cancellation, and they've only gotten worse since then - this week's episode saw only 5.53 million viewers tuning in, down half a million viewers from a week before, and almost a million from the second season premiere.

Bad news! ESPECIALLY for a FOX show since they love to cut and run. The show currently has 13 episodes on tap (total) so we'll hopefully get those. But a full second season isn't looking good. I expect a time change or mid-week rebroadcast soon that isn't up against Monday Night Football or another pseudo genre-geek show CHUCK so they can be sure that isn't the cause.

Rumors have it that word will come down next week as to what they are doing.