I'm wearing a Stetson now - Stetsons are cool
Series 6 (aka Season 32) will be shown in “Spring 2011”, which usually means around about Easter.
There’s a delightfully detailed analysis of the preview above at TV Overmind.
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While I mostly enjoyed the episode, I felt badly for Abigail. As far as I could tell, nobody ever thought to freaking ask her, “Hey – when would YOU like your last day to be?” Instead a couple of men decided for her. And god forbid she be allowed to do anything other than act as a catalyst for a man to change and sacrifice herself to save the day. Annoying.
I loved the fish, though! They were beautiful. And the running “honeymoon suite” joke.
Stetsons are *cool*.
I missed the trailer and your link is blocked outside of the UK. I just wanted to moan about that.
As for the Christmas special: It was completely and utterly ridiculous to the most ridiculous degree but I loved every minute of it because I am a) a Doctor Who sucker and b) a shameless fan of Steven Moffat even when he is at his most outrageously stupid (ok, maybe not for that last season of Coupling … that was bad but I blame that on a lack of Jeff).
@Kareena, I think the particular video of the trailer that they embedded in that post is blocked, but the rest of the post (the actual screencaps & comments) worked just fine for me. You could see the video I embedded here OK, yes?
@Kareena, I think the particular video of the trailer that they embedded in that post is blocked, but the rest of the post (the actual screencaps & comments) worked just fine for me. You could see the video I embedded here OK, yes?
I was very happy to see Jeff (Richard Coyle) pop up on the cable (UKTV) showing of Pterry’s Going Postal this year. Most enjoyable.
I was very happy to see Jeff (Richard Coyle) pop up on the cable (UKTV) showing of Pterry’s Going Postal this year. Most enjoyable.
Interesting. I could watch that video on youtube when I embedded it, but Auntie BBC’s minions have been busy with the blocking. Boo.
I’m actually rather annoyed that BBC One doesn’t allow those of us outside the UK to just watch the bloody trailer already, especially now that the eps are being fast-tracked to both the US and to Oz (NZ too?). It smacks of small-mindedness.
RedSonja, agreed about Abigail. Actually, the whole freezing people issue was largely brushed under the carpet. I want the Doctor, when he comes upon a cross between slavery and a debtors’ prison, in a society where using your relatives as collateral on loans is required to survive, to free them all and bring down the system, not to express extremely mild disapproval for a couple of seconds before using one of the people so imprisoned for his convenience in a badly-thought out – and, indeed, ultimately unsuccessful – plan to save the day.
Yes, there was a spaceship to save. But Kazran wasn’t – as it turns out – needed to save it. There were ways in which the Doctor could have saved both the spaceship and the people in the freezer, and if it hadn’t been the Christmas special he would have. (What sort of Christmas message is that?)
(Also, Abigail presumably had Opera Singer’s disease, which has no symptoms whatsoever and then you suddenly drop dead)
There were good bits to the story – the first scenes with young Kazran, the Doctor, and the shark were great, and the time travel bits (as always with Moffat) were very well fitted together in both external and personal chronlogies – but the dubious morality of the whole thing, and the lack of interesting secondary characters (Kazran, being a miser, has clearly taken the entire characterisation budget), for me, means it’s not one I’ll want to watch again.
…the preview, on the other hand, looks like it might be a good series coming up.
@tigtog I am a terrible person and forgot to tick the “notify me of followup comments” box. Then I got distracted by life and forgot to check back here. Siiiiiigh …. In answer to your question, I only just (again, terrible person) found the link to the page with the screencaps and will go check it out later. I still can’t see the trailer and that irks me. Silly BBC.
And what is this Going Postal thing? I must get myself to IMDb and look it up. I really do love Richard Coyle … not that I’ve seen him in much other than Human Traffic and Coupling.
Going Postal is an adaptation of one of Terry Pratchett’s (Pterry’s) Discworld satirical fantasy books.
If you haven’t come across these yet, a great pleasure awaits you! (even if you are a terrible, terrible person who doesn’t deserve such nice things :))
Ahhh … my Geek will want to see those as he is the Pratchet fan in the house. I, oddly, never got into the Discworld books though I love Pratchet’s humour and thought Good Omens was one of the best books ever.
And I have effectively derailed this comment thread. Sorry.
No worries, Who ⇒ Pterry is just thread-drift, not a derail.
I’ve know a few people who read the wrong Discworld book at first and couldn’t find a resonance with it, and then a few years later read a different Discworld book and suddenly everything snapped into place. (ETA – I’m one of them – if I’d started with Wyrd Systers I’d have been an immediate fan, but I started with The Light Fantastic, and I was kinda meh.)
For most people, frankly, avoiding the first two books until one already has an appreciation of the Guards of Ankh Morpork and the Witches of Lancre is a pretty good idea – unless one is deeply and nerdishly into epic fantasy the first two won’t resonate at all. After those the series becomes more generally satirical and more universal, really, in its skewerings.
The Geek read The Light Fantastic to the underside of my belly when Kid #1 was in a breech position and we were trying to get him to turn (it appears to have worked as he was born head first). I fell asleep while he was reading it. LOL
I think I’ve decided that it’s that the characters don’t grab me enough to keep me reading. The humour is awesome, the concept is great, the characters don’t keep me interested enough, though. I have been forced to watch some of the movies based on the books, however, and have enjoyed them. It seems The Geek already has Going Postal and we have plans to watch it tonight. Richard Coyle FTW! 😀
I can grok that, Kareena. Brilliant though Pterry has always been, I don’t think he really truly nailed characterisation until about the 6th book, although from the 4th one on he was most of the way there.
Most of us don’t have the energy to wade through 3 or 4 books in a series before we find characters we really truly love.