Posted on 04/20/2008 11:57:49 AM PDT by KevinDavis
This weeks Sci-Fi Thread:
Thurs: 9/8 - Lost - ABC
Fri: 8/7 - The Sarah Jane Adventures - SciFi
9/8 - Dr Who - SciFi
10/9 - Battlestar Galactica - SciFi
A weekend with Doctor Who, Sarah Jane, Torchwood can't be all bad, can it?
Actually, I'm not that into Torchwood and have mostly been watching it waiting for the Doctor to come back, which he has.
Didn't know about Sarah Jane almost until it premeired.
Didn't really care for Spike's appearances this season.
On another front, I'll probably stick with Battlestar Galactica until the bitter end, but I'm not enjoying it. Then again, I've never been totally crazy about the show. I always got the feel that the writers didn't "Have a Plan" as to where it was going to go or how to get it there.
I'm looking forward to "Lost" which seems like it had just come back and immediately went back into reruns.
I like this season over the last season..
Which one? I was a little all over the place in my post, so I don’t know if you meant Torchwood, BSG or even Lost.
BSG.. My mistake..
I love Torchwood. The episode with how the others got into the outfit was a very good one. "Dead" Owen was dealt with pretty well. Seeing Toshiko die was pretty sad although I liked the bit at the end with her.
Doctor Who was just as good as always. There more than a few nods to the Posideon Adventure in it.
Yeah, I pretty much expected Owen to die, as it was the most likely way for the writers to end all the dead Owen stories (and after about two episodes, it was pretty boring/inconvenient). I’m also pretty ambivalent about Tosh being killed, though... I didn’t really like her character that much, but maybe that’s just me. In any case, I’d LOVE to see Martha Jones join Torchwood since there IS an open position for her right now.
Yeah, half the hype for the second season of Torchwood was “OMG, look, it’s James Marsters!”, and he was only in two episodes, and not all that impressive IMO (although the ‘our song’ bit was 100% like Spike and therefore awesome) but I sort of liked how he turned out in the end.
I'm glad K-9 got a cameo in the first episode but is otherwise out of the picture. Not sure how I'm going to like the two kids. I assume that it's aimed at a younger audience even if they're doing a follow-up to a Doctor Who episode (two episodes, actually). I'll follow along for a while. Doctor Who was just as good as always. There more than a few nods to the Posideon Adventure in it.
Yeah, I started wondering why they bothered to name the ship "Titanic" in the first place if they were going to do so much "Poseidon".
‘Doctor Who’ still sets the bar.
Kind of glad they decided on a nice exit for Owen on ‘Torchwood’, though I was sad to see Toshiko go.
The premiere of ‘Sarah Jane’ was okay. Missed this week’s installment.
Jack.
I've got the past 4 weeks DVR'd but I can't bring myself to start watching them.......
Something changed along the way that made me lose interest........
It was good to see K-9, even if it was brief. I hope he shows up more but all the time. There was that letdown called K9 And Company. Sarah Jane is Doctor Who sort of for kids. I will take it over the garbage that runs here for kids any day.
I am glad that Who is back and Torchwood is around. I love Torchwood's theme and premise. Maybe a Captain Jack overcoat will come out sometime.
I did think it was both funny and a bit of a cheat that he flipped a switch and rolled back the walls of the TARDIS, pushing the ship back out. Actually, now that I think of it -- did they say what caused the collision in the first place? I would've thought that such a thing would've been impossible.
The Doctor tells Jabe that he was once on another "unsinkable" ship and wound up clinging to an iceberg, an apparent reference to having been on the RMS Titanic when she sank. Which incarnation of the Doctor did this is not specified, although the Seventh Doctor was on board the Titanic in the Virgin New Adventures novel The Left-Handed Hummingbird by Kate Orman (which is of uncertain canonicity).[9] He did not, however, wind up on an iceberg in that story. In the Fourth Doctor story The Invasion of Time (1978),[10] the Doctor claims that he "wasn't responsible" for the disaster. In "Rose", Clive, a conspiracy theorist, shows Rose a photograph of the Ninth Doctor with "the Daniels family of Southampton", on the eve of their scheduled voyage on the Titanic. For an unspecified reason, they canceled their trip and survived
The Titanic life preserver was a nice touch. Some other good things were Geoffery Palmer as the captain and the poor put upon husband from "Keeping Up Apperances" as guest stars. I would like to see more companions brought back here and there but not too often, just once in a while.
I googled it and found that excerpt for a wiki somewhere.
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