{ New Doctor }

[delga]

Dude. Tennant can't pull really pull off that bipolar quality of Ecclestone's happy-for-one, pissed-for-the-next Nine but I think it works out in other quirks. He's definitely got "chipper" down, that's for sure. I think the best lineof the episode goes to Zoe Wannamaker's character - the chav line was fabulous.

Next week: Queen Victoria and Werewolves? The hell?

Why are the new episodes only 45 minutes long?

Comments

[binglexjells.livejournal.com]

Chavtastic! I really like Tennant!doctor, I guess with body changes, come personality changes.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, that's always been the way. I like Ten as ten...it's just that the people who wrote Nine are writing Ten and they haven't made any personality shifts in the way he speaks/acts/responds to things. And that's not what Ten should necessarily be about, you know?

Still, chavtastic is a word that should be in general usage already. Because, yo!

[tigertrapped.livejournal.com]

I imagine it's 45 mins so they sell it to American without the need for advert breaks editing a la Spooks.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

See, I thought so too but then I thought, well, they're airing episodes in the US right now (they've just done Dalek) ad they don't edit them. It just seems a bit stupid to me that they're pandering to the Americans when it's not even an American show and most of the really big fans are downloading to watch anyway.

[tigertrapped.livejournal.com]

There's no end to the nonsense that governs decisions such as how long an episode ought to be, or what format a show should take. You know those comedy shows that have really ill-advised "songs" in them? Think of anything from Not the Nine O'clock News to Smack the Pony - that's because if you have a song in your comedy show you can call it "light entertainment" and get a bigger programming budget. Crazy, but true.