Doctor Who

I'm not slagging off becuase its still brillant TV for me. But I have noticed the writers all seem to use simlar ideas eg Steven Moffat twice now has done episodes that mix stuff from the distance future with something period from hisory. 55th century spacecrafts and technology over the backdrop of 1945 london blitz and now 51st century spacemen with time doors to 18th century france

Simliar kind of idea to me.

Mmmm, I've now reprogrammed Sky+ to get next week's episode off BBC1 NI, as the network (English regions) have irritating CA announcements over the end credits

Is it just me, or do most of the episodes so far this series require two viewings to fully understand the plot? I find that I don't totally get everything that's gone on by the end of the first transmission, and it's only after seeing a number of clips in DW Confidential that I totally understand the story. Could just be me being thick of course

I don't think you could really argue, though, that the stories were in any way similar beyond that - and as Doctor Who is about adventues in time as well as space, I like the idea of different times colliding/being connected.

I like quality TV like this that you can watch once and enjoy and then revisit to pick up on odds and ends later (some of my favourite books bear re-reading in exactly the same way)

Looking forward to the Cybermen next week. Hope we get a good cliffhanger as it's a two parter.

Well I recorded the episode as shown on NI for a change and great to hear the clean credits and even a little animation into the DVD slide!

And with a "Good evening, thanks for being with us" anno before the programme, their continuity really is so much better!

I had to SKY + my copy from BBC 1 London, rather than West Mids, as I was getting 'No Satelite Signal' across all English regions, plus ITV Central West, London, Granada & one of the Anglias, ITV 2 & 4(which also f**ked up my copy of 'UFO' too!)

Surely the weather would affect all satelite services, not just certain channels?

(It's still playing up now. I'm watching Corrie via Central South at the mo!)

Thank goodness that I am not the only one having to watch the episodes twice over to try to get some sort of understanding.

I feel that with each story in this series, so far, they should have been done in 2 parts just to tell the stories properly (hey but saying that if each story was a 2 parter then the stories would be the same length as the stories in the old traditional 4 part 25 mins episodes!!!!!)

Anyone else catch that trail on BBC1 just now? (11:30am) I assume there was more at the start, but when I switched on they were running through a load of clips of School Reunion, including the entire "Loch Ness Monster!" exchange. Then clips of The Girl In The Fireplace, then Rise of the Cybermen, including stuff that wasn't in the "next week" spot, then a montage of shots, some from previous episodes this series, some new. It must have been at least a couple of minutes long overall, if not more.

David

Sounds like the trail they had running on BBCi before the series started.

Is it this?

Yeah, that's it. Not a single shot of New Earth though.

David