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Has anyone watched this animated Who? Would you recommend it to me?

Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest

It was just marked down.

I watched "The Next Doctor" with feklar last night, and enjoyed it a lot, particularly that it looked like they hadn't spent a lot of money on it! Period costume and Cybermen, both of which I assume they already had; CGI; and some very Old Skool monsters, that is, a couple of people loping around in furry suits with cool masks.

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Dr. Who 4.13, "Journey's End":

Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dr. Who 4.12, "The Stolen Earth":

This one is most notable for the biggest stunt casting event ever and its massive cliffhanger. Wow.

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Dr. Who 4.11, "Turn Left":

Donna was splendid in this one. I love her grandfather, too, he is awesome.

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Dr. Who 4.10, "Midnight":

A bottle story!

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Dr. Who 4.9, "The Forest of the Dead":

Ah, it all comes together, click click clickety click.

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Dr. Who 4.8, "Silence in the Library":

ZOMG that was one of the best episodes ever. And creeptastic! Wah!

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Dr. Who 4.7, "The Unicorn and the Wasp"

Felicity Kendall yay! I didn't feel the episode flowed very well, but it was reasonably fun for a standalone. Also, great 1920s outfits.

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Dr. Who 4.6, "The Doctor's Daughter"

Yay Georgia Moffett! I was especially excited to see her in this episode, because the first time I went to a convention with a Dr. Who guest, it was Peter Davison. The convention was in Georgia, and in one of the brief conversations I had with him, he mentioned that it was his daughter's name. I think she was maybe 12 at the time, in that ballpark anyway.

Once again, I found the aliens a bit counter-intuitive as far as evolution goes, unless they were hoping to live underwater on their new planet.

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4.4, "The Sontaran Stratagem":

Oh, look, another short, dark-haired, crazed boy genius, who reminded me far too much of the evil trio on Buffy. The Sontarans are pretty scary in their enthusiastic warmongering. The colonel was pretty good, once he got over his awe for the Doctor and did his job. At least this time the Beeb wasn't too cheap to have more than one Sontaran.

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4.5, Part two, "The Poison Sky":

Good old-fashioned invasion story, except the invaders mostly stay on their ship.

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Dr. Who 4.3, "Planet of the Ood."

It had Tim McInnery guesting! Whom Black Adder fans should remember played Lord Percy.

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Dr. Who, "The Fires of Pompeii": very old school, I liked it! I love that Donna is so snarky and speaks and thinks for herself, very much what I love about Martha, except they left out that annoying crush business.

True, some of the conflict was a recap of "The Runaway Bride," but I think they did it because they were not assuming all their viewers had seen that episode and what it established about Donna and about the Doctor. And the actors did a great job with it.

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"That is the dematerializing control. And that, over yonder, is the horizontal hold. Up there is the scanner, those are the doors, that is a chair with a panda on it. Sheer poetry, dear boy. Now please stop bothering me."

--The Doctor, "The Time Meddler"

Watched Dr. Who 4.1 last night before I went to bed. Cute, action filled, not a lot of substance.

I've been told episode two is much better, but I didn't expect all that much from the season opener, anyway. It served its purpose: oriented viewers to the series if they'd never seen it before, and introduced Donna and what will obviously be an ongoing plot thread through the season.

I liked Donna's grandfather a lot.

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Oracne should watch season 4 DR. WHO:

I haven't yet seen the new Dr. Who episode, but I just remembered I had a DW dream last night. I was watching one of those special eps, like "The Five Doctors," except it had Ten, and Five, and Seven...I think that was all, until there was a glorious walk-through by Six, accompanied by Peri, and oddly enough Tegan and Nyssa, and some other character I was supposed to recognize in the dream but who was in fact not a real character from the show; now that I think about it, he looked a bit like one of the characters in my current novel, only blond instead of red-haired. I was cheering that Six was there, and then after the show, I seemed to be in a theatre setting, and talking to Colin Baker (whom I've never met). In the dream, he looked as he did in the late 1980s, and was wearing the costume but not the coat, with his sleeves rolled up like Peter Davison in "Planet of Fire."

I was apparently watching with someone else, and when Seven did some kind of wacky acrobatics with a cart, I said, "That's him. He's the kind of person who'll stick ferrets down his trousers. And juggle at the same time."

I find it interesting that I didn't include Four, who hasn't done much DW stuff at all, or One through Three, as if I knew One through Three's actors were dead and couldn't be in it.

I was very psyched for this episode, but I confess I wish someone other than Russell Davies had written it. I know that, in television, new versions of something that's worked before are all the crack, but I would like to see a new vision of what a Christmas special could be. This followed a slightly different pattern to the others, but still felt...sameish.

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