As always, non-LJ users can log in to vote using their OpenID blog url. Poll #1213113 Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth
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On the Shadow Proclamation, the aide gives Donna water and says
There IS something on your back
34 (30.6%)
There WAS something on your back 64 (57.7%)
You are a unique and special snowflake 13 (11.7%)
All the New!Who companions back
Good 62 (55.9%)
Bad 4 (3.6%)
Russell doing his "I'm so great aren't I" smug swansong 45 (40.5%)
Rose Tyler: Earth Defender
Look at the sky!
Good 65 (58.6%)
Bad 8 (7.2%)
Oh look, we blew the special effects budget on crappy CGI 38 (34.2%)
Martha Jones: Project Indigo test subject
Captain Jack Harkness
Sarah Jane Smith
Davros and Dalek Kaan
First death is another black woman
Was it? 57 (51.8%)
Rusty really should've noticed he does this too often already 53 (48.2%)
Indiana Cribbins and the paintball of doom
Good 69 (62.7%)
Bad 1 (0.9%)
Nice try but they're Super!Space!Daleks so it won't work 40 (36.4%)
Harriet Jones and the silly subwave network
Harriet Jones: Former Prime Minister
They shot Pretty!Boy!
Good 11 (10.1%)
Bad 28 (25.7%)
Finally, about time we got rid of that smug grin 6 (5.5%)
Finally, you'd have thought "shoot the Doctor on site" would've been wired in a long time ago 64 (58.7%)
Tennant is regenerating
Good 6 (5.4%)
Bad 10 (9.0%)
That surprised me, cool 31 (27.9%)
Yeah, right, he's signed up for next year, that wasn't a bluff, was it? 64 (57.7%)
Rusty will reset it by...
Donna going back and turning right at a different time 15 (13.6%)
Having a botched regeneration and there'll be some weird stuff 40 (36.4%)
Tennant will regenerate into Tennant a la Jenny in Doctor's Daughter 28 (25.5%)
He won't, it's the best done bluff in BBC PR history, proper cliffhangers R us 21 (19.1%)
Something else, for which I will comment 6 (5.5%)
ETA: My friend the astrophysicist says: Basically, doing this with a planet will screw it up but he still enjoyed it.
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But yeah, enjoyable, despite Donna and Rose, here's hoping he doesn't mess it all up next week (reset buttons suck, two in a row would really suck).
See, I thought it would've been a nice nod to original Who, if this did work! Of course, it would take everyone in the world having two paintball guns each and being a crack shot for it to have been any help, but it still would've been a nice stalling device.
*reminisces of daleks you could throw a blanket/scarf over or run up stairs to get away from*
It would be nice if they do get to blind one next week though.
I thought of that too! The simple tactic against the fearsome threat, cf "give it a virus"
A nod to "My vision is impaired I cannot see."
Still, huge chunk of others thought it was 'is', 32% at the moment. Does make things a bit interesting. Pondering the reset button is going to take fandom all week methinks.
They don't always get to work from a script, and have to transpose what they hear, it's not always someone who actually watches the show normally.
(I can't actually remember who the first victim was, so this could be totally irrelevant.)
Also, we're shooting the Doctor "on site"? Easier than when he's somewhere else, I guess ;)
And yeah, his spelling's awful, but I still love him...
I don't normally (well, always ~blush~) pick up misspellings, but I liked that one. Most of my mistakes are homonyms too...
Edited at 2008-06-29 03:40 pm (UTC)
It's not a hard and fast rule, but it's happened to often—yes, he's sometimes doing colourblind casting, but he does also seek to over-represent minorities, so this might contribute to the problem.
I'm pretty sure it's not in any way intended, but the first on screen death this time was Martha's friend in UNIT. I guess partially because he tries to present himself as being oh so very progressive, and critqued Primeval for being horribly white, etc it annoys me a bit that while it's not tokenism, it's still Bad Stuff.
I did particularly like the combining of plot devices (rift, Mr Smith) to boost the phone signal.
Regeneration:
Theory 1: David Tennant will regenerate into David Tennant again (prompting heated argument on internet as to whether he is subsequently the 10th or 11th Doctor) because that hand in the jar is there. (This differs slightly from "a la Jenny", because I believe all Jenny's regenerations are clones).
Theory 2: David Tennant will regenerate into Noel Clarke (which would be a hilarious way to end the Rose plotline) but then Martha will activate her key thing which will turn out to be a big reset button. Which would retrospectively ruin 4x12.
As did I, but the whole "get every phone to ring" was a bit too similar to last year, especially given that that wouldn't help in any way.
I'd forgotten hand-in-jar TBH, my hopes are still on double bluff new Doctor though.
And yes, I would have thought having twenty-seven planets in such close proximity would mean instant squish, gravity being what it is. But perhaps there is some plot device going on there to cancel out the squish.
Just hope that everyone who's dead stays dead this time. I'm getting so sick of 'Everybody lives!'
You'd have thought after beating the Daleks soooo many times in the last few series, they would have realised that actually they have a pretty high run rate. Or is it only something they can do with the Dr?
I mean they're all stationary, so something must be keeping them in position.
You mean from the time when they were characters with motivation that wasn't "get into the Doctor's pants"? Yes, yes they have.
I thought the whole insta-surrender thing was too OTT, sure, many would, but others would definitely fight them on the landing grounds, etc.
Quite cool to see Cribbins reprise a bit of his role from the Cushing films though.
I thought the Shadow Proclamation was a real cop-out: there nowhere to go... Oh yes there is!
And it was neat getting together all the former assistants left. (What I want to know is why have they not managed to resurrect Leela? Surely the best assistant they have ever had. Well, she was when I was 14...)
Good riddance to Russell T.
But the bits that annoyed just got more annoying :-(
Might record it so I can watch it back to back with next weeks. Maybe.
I thought it did actually - though I still think the Shadow
Debating SocietyProclamation is a real cop-out - although I can't believe they were just left sitting there: I am sure they (she?) will turn up again to fight the Daleks.And Rose with a big gun is so very Buffy... (though not as cute, obviously).
Still, I think the subtleties probably passed me by!
Oh man, this poll has cheered me right up after the shittiest day ever.
Happy to be of service. I've been asked to do two next week, so I can't promise it'll be as good...
The Key is
DawnDonna. Or something like that...Jack Harkness is not all that. Really, calm down people.
Good poll, thanks.
Of course, the Donna Noble = Domina Nobilis = Roman Time Lord = Romana speculation might be a different answer, but that'd be too silly, even for Rusty. Actually, no it wouldn't, he'd love to pull that sort of stupid.
True, but I probably still would.