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espanolbot (espanolbot) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-08 00:01:00

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char: the doctor, title: doctor who

Trailers of the upcoming K9 and Sarah Jane Smith Adventures series,

Firstly, here's Tom Baker's Doctor meeting one of the original Cybermen,

Amusing considering what the Ninth Doctor's reaction to seeing someone's salvaged Cyberman was. Though that was admittedly just a head, I guess.

Also the fact that they allegedly weren't completely coverted into machines yet, and hence are covered in a cloth-like material to keep things in place, was interesting. Though in reality it was probably a budget thing.

Anyway, here's the trailers.

K9,

Looks interesting, though the Department seems to be very similar to Torchwood in a lot of respects. They even seem to get the same decoraters for the cells.

Sarah Jane Adventures,

Hm, I wonder if they'll bring back that Pennywise expy they had in the previous season... OH! Something for those who are interested but don't know, David Tennant's Doctor is going to appear in a two part storyline in either October or November. :) Something to tide people over until they release the next one shot they'd filmed.

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icon_uk
2009-10-08 12:10 am UTC (link)

I'd argue that SJA works much better as an adult drama than Torchwood ever has.

Whilst Torchwood makes too much of the fact it can (and does) have bonking and swearing, SJA instead has had cracking character pieces like "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane" and "The Temptation of Sarah Jane", helped immesaurably by Liz Sladen's performance, and some cracking acting support from Tommy Knight (Who could have been an uber-Welsey, but manages to avoid it) and Daniel Anthony. As such it comes across as a far more mature and assured show.

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	volksjager 2009-10-08 12:32 am UTC (link)
	I agree with you in the sense that Torchwood always seemed to force the "adult content" and the stories were always awkward. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

espanolbot
2009-10-08 01:07 am UTC (link)

I've found that Torchwood does what it was intended to do quite well: show what happens when humans try to do the Doctor's job when he isn't avaliable.

Namely, they can't cope so they get emotionally and mentally creamed.

The 456 could probably have been defeated in an in-show twenty minutes if they had managed to contact the Doctor via Martha (who was on her honeymoon and thus unavaliable apparently).

But if they had... there wouldn't have been any drama would there?

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	volksjager 2009-10-08 01:14 am UTC (link)
	I could never get over how Doctor who and torchwood could get around tripping over each other(let alone UNIT ect.)It was just a mess that never got untangled. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

stratosfyr
2009-10-08 02:55 am UTC (link)

One of the recurring themes in Doctor Who is that all of time and space, the entire history of the entire universe, is big. I read somewhere, for instance, that the fairly light adventure "Planet of the Dead" must have actually happened several months after the insanely dark "Children of Earth."

Essentially, no matter how miserable things get at any given point in history, the universe moves on. Both a depressing and reassuring message. ("This too shall pass.")

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