JasonC
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What is it you like about Batgirl #1?
I found it interesting that despite feeling confident enough to put the costume back on, she gets a serious case of flashback when confronted with a gun, making her the first hero I can think of with a case of (mild?)PTSD. I'm curious enough to find out how this is going to affect her crimefighting in future, to want to keep getting the book to find out.
Also, I would like to know how she got the use of her legs back. From the little that was said, it doesn't just seem to be something that she had to work at, but something that happened suddenly.
Finally, having read a couple of Secret Six trades and several issues of Birds of Prey, I really like Gail Simone's writing.
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Well. I picked 11 comics out of the 52 to get:
Justice League - sticking with the current storyline then re-evaluate
Action Comics - keeping
Batgirl - keeping
Hawk & Dove - getting #2 and maybe #3 for further study (I have the entire run of the previous series with these two. If I put up with Karl Kessel, I can put up with Leifeld)
Stormwatch - getting #2 then re-evaluate.
Swamp Thing - getting #2 for sure. re-evaluate
Batwoman - HATE the art, LOVE the writing. I can see this one being constantly on the verge of being dropped due to my feelings over the artwork each month.
Suicide Squad - getting #2 then re-evaluate.
Birds of Prey - not picked up yet
Wonder Woman - not picked up yet
Catwoman - not picked up yet - but if its going to continue in the vein it seems to have started in, it's gonna get dropped fast.
So far, only 2 definites, one storyline pickup and two more evaluation months (at the most) for the rest. But Action and Batgirl are both pretty damn good...
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I'm just going to list my issues with it.
- "Mels" being a shoehorned plot device. If she didn't conveniently want to kill Hitler where the the robot conveniently went to the wrong point in Hitler's time stream, the episode wouldn't have happened. And while I appreciate the flashbacks for the light they shed on Amy and Rory's relationship, there's no reason to care about Mels herself.
- The Doctor "dying." All the credit in the world to Matt Smith for acting his socks off, but I did not care. It was bad enough with Rory, but now these fake deaths have become absolutely ridiculous with The Doctor is getting his share.
- Melody being able to turn from a lifetime of being brainwashed on a dime. After everything she's been through, it's just ridiculous that she would suddenly be good.
- The regeneration deus ex machina to save The Doctor. I know that "The Christmas Invasion" established that there's a 15 hour window, but that was too much.
I have just the one issue with it:
Mels said she'd regenerated once before, which we saw in Day of The Moon. But that was 1969 New York. By the 1990's, she should be around 30. How is she the same age as Rory and Amy?
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Well, it seems I'm partially right.
Since it came back, DW has aired around 6-6.30. Tonight? It starts at 7.10 and finishes at 8. X-Factor starts at 8. They're going to put it up against X-Factor and this is just a test.
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That would be an asinine reason. The BBC is a public service broadcaster and it isn't in their interest to stoke huge ratings wars. That they tried to challenge the X Factor with Strictly Come Dancing last year drew lots of criticism from the media because ratings don't matter to the BBC as they don't have to worry about adverts.
The mid-season break is, until I hear otherwise from the cast or production crew, a creative decision.
Ian, although I agree with you about the mid-season break, I disagree about the ratings for one reason. The TV license. The BBC needs to have good solid ratings so that when people ask "Why do we pay so much money for the TV license" they can turn around and say "Well, millions of people watched Dr Who on Saturday, and our other shows like Gavin and Stacey etc."
I agree to an extent. I think that the TV license forces the BBC to have a bar it has to raise its game beyond. Ratings is definitely one indicator, but not the only one. The Day Today was one of the best things BBC2 have ever put out and helped to launch Alan Partridge, one of the established faces of modern BBC comedy. But there was only the one season. Ultimately, I don't think the BBC would risk putting such an important franchise up against the Cowell ratings juggernaut. At the end of the day, Doctor Who is still a niche sci-fi show, it just happens to be punching way above its weight.
The rest of the British Media HATE the BBC and will seek out any and all excuses to show them in a bad light. And one of the Beeb's main weaknesses is the licence fee and the wages it pays people, especially the big name stars and its Directors. People (the public. MP's everyone) always want it reduced somehow. The BBC HAS to show it is giving value for money and producing shows that people want to watch, despite being given less money to do it all with.
They absolutely WOULD put Doctor Who up against X-Factor, in a heartbeat, if they thought it would help them generate a bigger profile.
That said, I think its more to do with budget that the season is split into two this year. Just as I think its to do with budget that we aren't getting a full season next year. They probably want to save money to make the 50th anniversary as big as possible.
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I've said this before but I really hope the BBC don't try putting Doctor Who up against the UK X-Factor.
Here in the UK, X-Factor is an unbeatable juggernaut. It rules Saturday and Sunday nights; any show that it put on against doesn't have much chance of being watched. Last year the Beeb put Strictly Come Dancing (or something like it) on at the same time and its ratings sucked. It runs from... well now, till Christmas to ensure that the X-Factor winner takes the coveted Xmas number one slot.
As long as DW doesn't infringe on X-Factor's running time, everything will be fine. If it runs past 7pm, viewing figures will plummet like a stone.
I think they'll run Who at about 6PM so's to not time clash with X-Factor.
We can but hope. X-Factor's opening episode last Saturday got 12.6 million, which is apparently half of those who were watching TV that night. And it stays like that till the Final.
I just can't shake the feeling that this might be the real reason the BBC split the season.
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I've said this before but I really hope the BBC don't try putting Doctor Who up against the UK X-Factor.
Here in the UK, X-Factor is an unbeatable juggernaut. It rules Saturday and Sunday nights; any show that it put on against doesn't have much chance of being watched. Last year the Beeb put Strictly Come Dancing (or something like it) on at the same time and its ratings sucked. It runs from... well now, till Christmas to ensure that the X-Factor winner takes the coveted Xmas number one slot.
As long as DW doesn't infringe on X-Factor's running time, everything will be fine. If it runs past 7pm, viewing figures will plummet like a stone.
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I have seen a theory on another forum that is simultaneously as crazy as one of Mike's theories while making a lot of sense. Not sure whether I should be posting it here or on the 'Mike's Crazy Ideas' thread.
Melody/River can regenerate. River had an eyepatch.
Madame Kovarian is either who River will regenerate into, or who River was before she regenerated into River. They are different incarnations of the same person.
Discuss.
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I just realized, the image of Eyepatch River has a Egyptian Sarcophagus behind her. It could mean nothing but Sutekh?
Never mind that!
She's wearing a damn EYEPATCH! River is Madame Kovarian!!!!!
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I'm grabbing the first issues of:
Batwoman
Batgirl
Swamp Thing
Hawk & Dove
Birds of Prey
Suicide Squad
Stormwatch
Action Comics
I have no idea yet if I'm going to continue to get any of them past the first issue. I collected the entire Hawk & Dove by the Kessel's and Karl Kessel is really just Leifeld-lite. And I'm curious as to how they're getting Oracle out of the wheelchair.
I'm just going to read em and see...
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The Doctor and Amy Pond are heading back West, this time for San Diego Comic-Con. Doctor Who stars Matt Smith and Karen Gillan will make their first-ever appearance at the mega-popular annual event, BBC America has revealed today. On Sunday, July 24, the TARDIS twosome will take part in Doctor Who panel alongside show writer (and Being Human creator) Toby Whithouse and executive producers Piers Wenger and Beth Willis.
Didn't Wenger and Willis move on to new jobs already?
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As long as it has a good script, it'll be fine. It's not like they are going to let Uwe Boll direct it.
Isn't he dead? Or was that just wishful thinking on my part? Haven't seen one of his 'movies' on the shelves for a while...
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OooooOOOOOooooOOOOOoooooOOOOOOhhhhh...
It's on my list.
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I have to admit, and I'm not proud of this, that when I first clicked on the link to read the story this morning, I half expected there to be pictures.
Clearly I'm not so bright.
You and me both
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Oh god they're being shot in 3D
On another note: Who is Evangeline Lily? She seems to be pretty damn attractive in a bikini anyway..
Lily was on Lost. She played an alright character who got way too many episodes, almost all of them terrible.
She was in Lost? That explains why I'd never heard of her. I've never watched an episode, not even the pilot.
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Oh god they're being shot in 3D
On another note: Who is Evangeline Lily? She seems to be pretty damn attractive in a bikini anyway..
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Saw it on Saturday. I give it 5/10 and that's being generous.
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A thought about "A Good Man Goes to War"
River couldn't show up until the end when she did because if she showed up any earlier, she would have crossed her time stream. That and the "Timey Wimey" stuff.
That, and does anyone remember what happened when adult Rose touched baby Rose? And with a 'complicated time/space event' like River, who knows what might have happened if she'd even been in the same room...
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Whoever made that is a genius. I am not worthy
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Oh look, what a surprise. The backlash has already begun all over the web. Like that was unexpected.
It appears that I should always go with my first reaction to seeing the original trailer. Instead I allowed myself to be swayed by the second.
I'm still going to see this tomorrow, I just won't be expecting all that much.
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I suspect this is because:
1) Next year is the London Olympics. The BBC will show wall to wall coverage as usual and this will utterly screw up the show schedules. Personally I will attempt to be out of the country.
2) Arthur and Karen have other work lined up (two movies for Karen and at least Dr Faustus on stage for Arthur) and they want them back. Or Matt has been getting other work and wants to go off and do it.
3) With the BBC budget being drastically reduced corporation wide, they simply can no longer afford to make so many episodes.
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John Barrowman has apparently been in discussions with The Grand Moff about Captain Jack showing up again on DW.
There were some rumors buzzing around that he wanted Jack to be in the most recent episode but filming Miracle Day stood in the way of that. Pity, I still want my River Song/Captain Jack meet-up to happen.
Very much this.
If Moffat hasn't thought of it already, he should have..
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John Barrowman has apparently been in discussions with The Grand Moff about Captain Jack showing up again on DW.
The Doctor Who thread
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This is why I strongly suspect that the reason we're getting a half season next year is so they can put the money towards the anniversary in 2013.