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I think your worries about Tenant are unwarranted. I think it's (hopefully) going to be an interesting season arc for both Rose and the Doctor. The Chastisement by the Queen was full on - and you could tell both were crest-fallen. It is VERY true that both are similar - but maybe again it's because Rose was there when the Regeneration took place? I think in the Christmas Invasion - his lecture to Harriet Jones - Prime Minister was chilling to the bone and he often has those breakouts where you can see there is something deeper to this doctor than his happy-go-lucky hijinks.
Yes they mentioned Torchwood a lot - but I thought it was nice to have a bit of continuity - I think with a lot - you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. They aren't being a subtle like the Bad Wolf of last year - but they didn't set up a TV show based on Bad Wolf.
Speaking of Bad Wolf - RTD I think said that The Parting of the Ways wasn't the last we would here of Bad Wolf. We here it mentioned in this episode BY a wearwolf in rather a cryptic fashion. Rose is possibly destined for something bigger? It may have just been referring to the events of last year - but I'd like to think that that arc is still going.
Anyone a "The Book Group" fan here? Rabb was the Lord Robert!!
As for the orange monks, I was more surprised that a bunch of Christian caucasians know kung-fu. I can't help but wonder where they learnt the fine art of backflips between prostration and headbutting planks of wood.
It was made clear that those monks had turned their backs on the church and had turned to worshipping the Werewolf. Maybe they decided that martial arts was something they would introduce or even were influenced by that alien inhabiting the human body?
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Damnation. I missed the next episode, and the Sunday repeat on BBC3, due to hospital-related hijinks. Still trying to discover if there are any further repeats before I bother to torrent it.
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Lee, if you have (or know someone who has) NTL cable tv, they have the latest Doctor Who episode for a week on their free "pick of the week" service - they save a whole load of BBC shows, and they're all free to watch. Works on the same principle as renting a movie on cable/satellite. Just watched "School Reunion" tonight over dinner. Might not be of much use, but hope it helps anyway.
Cheers
FD
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Nope, although ironically the house we bought did have NTL cable. . . at some point. Still ripping the cabling out. Even found the cable box under the stairs, so old I think it was steam-powered. Or it may have been Telewest - I can't tell, the inscriptions have faded and language has changed in the intervening centuries, making what remains illegible.
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