Doctor Who, series 3 episodes to date:

Deja Q

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Mon Apr-09-07 09:12 PM
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Doctor Who, series 3 episodes to date:

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Wed Apr-11-07 08:43 AM
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1. Smith & Jones was pretty good.

Shakespeare Code not so much. It's neat to try and tie in real historical things (what DID happen to "Love's Labours Won"?) but the witches were so fake and the technology and verbal code silly.

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Deja Q

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Wed Apr-11-07 04:26 PM
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2. More, I didn't expect Shakespeare to look so hunky or be presented as utterly stupid...

The fact the writer had Shakespeare entirely oblivious to the psychic paper, which is used to have the one seeing it believe what is said, suggests the writer thinks Shakespeare was a total idiot. (Okay, Shakespeare may have had Francis Bacon's help; but that's not the same thing as being a thoughtless idiot...)

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salvorhardin

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Thu Apr-12-07 07:52 AM
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3. I was confused

I was just confused at what the writer thought of Shakespeare. There were all these gratuitous references to Shakespeare's genius and yet the character was written like a buffoon. For that matter, the Doctor is getting written more and more as a buffoon. The Runaway Bride (the Christmas special for those who didn't see it) was fun and campy as one would expect and it's great to have those kinds of episodes every now and again, and it's great that the Doctor is written with humor, but it'd really be nice to get just a little bit of the serious edge back.

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