I adore this particular scene, where the Donna is trying to help the Doctor when he's poisoned--and they end up playing charades--when Donna goes, "It's a song--Mammy" like Al Jolson--my god! I thought I'd split a gut laughing. There's been a lot of funny stuff on the new Dr Who--but I have to say, that "mammy" moment has GOT to be my all-time fav.
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- 18/06/2008 @ 14:49:58
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- 18/06/2008 @ 15:02:07
I do think DW has been much more adult this year, as well. Perhaps because RTD is leaving, he thought he could get away with more serious sci-fi content? I know a lot of kids seemed disappointed with Midnight.
I adore Tate's character--got sick of all the young girls and their lovey-dovey eyes all the time--bleh!
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- 18/06/2008 @ 15:40:24
Yes! I think that the BBC didn't anticipate the adult fanbase that the new DW would get, so they have to please the adults and the 3 year olds (my nephew, Lewis, 3, it's his favourite programme) at the same time. I actually think this is a hard thing to do and they have done it very well.
Lewis (aged 3) won't get the gay relationships between the son and the footman or why Donna kissing the Doc is weird, but it doesn't matter. They are cheeky things that they throw in. The kids know they mean something, but they don't know quite what until they get a bit older. But they're still funny to them. They will still be mesemerised in front of the TV for 45 minutes every Saturday night.
Ho hum.
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- 18/06/2008 @ 18:52:57
When I was a young girl, we had this programme over here, called "Laugh In." It was probably the first "adult" humour type of programme on American "prime-time" television. Often we didn't get some of the jokes, but the show had enough silliness in it (not to mention sometimes some cool guest stars, like The Monkeee and Sonny and Cher), that we still enjoyed it, and we're glued to it as much as our parent's were.
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Oh yes. I loved this scene.
Lynne (I'm doing an aside now) from work is about to give birth and her man (also a fellow colleague) is a huge DW fan so forces her to watch it and she said that it was quite confusing at the moment. I haven't seen the two Silence In The Library, etc, two parter yet, but I know that it was confusing and they thought that the kids wouldn't get it. I thought that the Agatha Christie episode was also a bit adult in some aspects, but it seemed to work.
I knew he'd get a snog out of his latest squeeze - ahem - companion, sooner or later. Donna is my favourite so far.