Showing posts with label Comic Relief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comic Relief. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 March 2011

Time And Space - Red Nose Day

... those who still think Doctor Who is mostly aimed at children should have paied more attention yesterday. Still, as an already adult whovian I loved it... well, actually not that much for I think Moffat should stop writing illogical episodes, but apart from that it was... no, not brilliant. I guess it will take at least another year until that word loses its Doctor Who reference.

Back to Time & Space. We understand that Moffat has a strict paradox + paradox = o and not 2 paradoxes policy. But he is wrong with that. There is a reason why that theorem does not work with let's say bana... apples. However, at least we got some sort of an explanation of how the TARDIS could have possibly landed in herself. Well, then that got spoiled by the Doctor telling himself that it's the wibbly-leaver he has to use to solve the situation. We already had that sort of discussion for 'The Big Bang' only that then it was the collapsing universe (time included) which saved Moffat's dignity.
But thanks to the two Amy Ponds' skirts many of us aren't remembering that tiny problem anymore. At least not too well.

So the only remaining thing to ask ourselves is 'What was Amy's question?'. And we finally know why Moffat does insist on those episodes being canonical because he twittered back 'That WILL come back. But not for a while. Oh, how ANNOYING!!'

Friday, 4 March 2011

Moffat's beloved Paradoxes

There has been too many articles featuring Moffat-caused paradoxes lately, sorry for that. But I'm afraid this year's Red Nose Day 'Comic Relief' mini-episodes will just add to an already enormous list.

Although there is to say the Big Moff didn't give too many hints away when talking to SFX, it's still more than enough to tell us that this year's plot seems to focus on a paradox, again. We remember, in his last 'Comic Relief' contribution we had two Doctors, now it will be two Amy Ponds, who even end up flirting with each other. And if things weren't already complicated enough, because after all there might *be* an explanation for someone flirting with themselves (or is that just Amy?), Moffat made sure to introduce also the question of how a TARDIS can land in her own self. I hope this time it will be him solving his own canonical problems. And all that in less than 8 minutes.
Well, giving it another thought it may have something to do with the 'Clone-Doctor' of season 6. Which would be brilliant, BTW.

However, no matter what was on Moffat's mind when writing his 'Comic Relief' episodes, the fuss it's already making is certainly not bad for Doctor Who. And fans are also curious about how 'Life Abroad the TARDIS', as Moffat unofficially calls it, looks like. Furthermore, after several Doctor Who-less months I guess there aren't many of us who care that much about the scientific background anyway.

Sunday, 15 March 2009

A Few Sentences About the Greedy Beeb

Yesterday I've been curious how long it would take to find someone uploading the whole Comic Relief to a video-sharing site, in other words to YouTube, giving all the non-British fans the chance of watching the show. Almost 24h after the original programme has started, I've found this. It's not complete yet, but I think it's getting there ;)
 
And for those who understand Lawrence Miles' humour, here's a short but pregnant rewiev of the whole story. Don't take it to seriously, although I have to agreee with some points...
 
I only want to show a few Utopian people the disadvantage of living abroad. Our "brave new world" isn't as up-to-date as the media wants us to believe. Today the French revoltion's slogan "Liberte, Egalite, Fratalite" hasn't reached the media's every-day life yet. To those living abroad, it can be pretty difficult to keep well informed, and it would be a great help if the beeb had a more open information-policy, especially when it comes up to some charity events.