I'm curious as well.

GardenWeb's been having a meltdown all day. Several forums have titles posted with the missing file message when you try to read the post. Others lost most of their pages for a while. Messages aren't posting or are posting multiple times. Good times!

I checked too, and found that -- at first I suspected an anti-BBC bias, but then I realized it might be something else :)

Anyway, turned out that it *wasn't* the amazing episode we had seen last week anyway. Just the old weeping angels again. If you can find--maybe next weekend? an episode about Van Gogh, I heartily recommend that you do so. It was written by a guest writer, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter (can't remember the movie, though). I could go on and on but I feel dopey enough even recommending something like this; I'm only writing because it's stuck with me all week and has lodged itself into my brain as one of my favorite episodes of anything ever. I'll just say that it's worth your time to watch it.

My daughter (who got us into Dr. Who in the first place) informs me there's a site at which one can view this episode anytime:see below.

Hope the server doesn't eat this up.

Here is a link that might be useful: this should take you to the episode

Why is igloochic's dead thread still there after all this time? Why can't the moderator just delete it?

Thanks for posting this flyleft. I don't know why I hadn't realized that the season was going on. My TIVO must not be set up correctly. I can't wait to start watching the new season.

What do you think of the new Dr?

This also reminds me I still have to watch the last 5 part miniseries for Torchwood too. Just when I thought there was nothing to watch this summer. :)

boop--a fellow Dr. Who fan! Who knew? ;) I'm glad my post found an understanding soul :)

Hm, the new Dr. is a topic of much discussion at our house. We love David Tennant inordinately -- did you see his Hamlet?

At least twice or three times an episode we find ourselves screaming at Matt Smith, "lift your head up!" I can understand why they cast him physically--he's the complete opposite facially of the birdlike Mr. Tennant--his features are broad and soft...but the hair, man. It's a big problem. And the head down thing just bugs us so much.

The writing is by a different person this season, too. The Doctor makes mistakes, loses his cool; actually, his companion (Amy Pond, whom I like but not everyone does) ends up coming up with the solution to the problem more often than not. He's fallible!! I remember back in some of the very first Dr. Who episodes we watched online, the Doctor was tetchy and short tempered--a different character altogether from David T. This Doctor seems to fit into that kind of lineage--he's much more isolated and sad, IMO -- less of the ecstatic 'be magnificent' inspirational talk that David T. used to do, iykwim - it comes up every so often, but not the same way. And the way Matt talks even bugs me -- it's like he talks with the front of his lips and you hear every little 'p' or 'b' he makes. yuck. Do you know what I mean? What do you think of him?

All that said, I have to admit that he did a superb job on the VanGogh episode, possibly better than DT could have, because of that tendency toward introspection. I'd love to know what you think of this episode. Some folks thought it was saccharine; I didn't. I thought it earned all its bittersweetness honestly.

I haven't been able to bring myself to watch Torchwood yet at all. Definitely not w/DD, from what I've read of it. Yes?

Love Dr. Who!

I started watching it when Christopher Eccleston was the Dr. When David Tennant took over I remember looking at DH and saying 'I'm not going to like this'. DH told me this always happens when the Dr. regenerates and a new Dr. is born. I even stopped watching for awhile. When I came back to it I really ended up loving David Tennant. He 'grew' and evolved his character so much. He really was quite a different Dr. in the beginning than the one that he was in the end. I thought that the final episode was perfectly fitting of his evolution. I hope Matt Smith can do the same.

I fell aslepp during the Van Gogh episode!!!!!

Even more threads have disappeared. Only 1 1/2 pages worth still here. I assume by now this will keep occurring and will never be fixed. GW proprietors don't seem to care.

That "rock star" thread is still going to be at the top 5 years from now....

ttodd, I haven't seen Eccleston as Who, but my Dd probably has - I'll ask her. Fascinating point about David T. maturing into the role. Gives me hope for Matt S., esp. since he did such better work in the VG episode.

And fall asleep? Maybe we have different tastes, but I thought the alien quotient was so brilliantly woven into this episode, and it went so far beyond the usual Dr. Who territory and into real drama, IMO. Had you had a rough day? :)

Probably def. 2 differnt lives. Trust me I didn't fall asleep out of boredom - it was working out to be a great episode! I worked a 15hr. day that day and heaven forbid I lie down on the sofa becuase I'm out in about 1/2 an hr. no matter what! After the kids are in bed we usually only get back downstairs at 9/9:30PM (depends how long story time goes), DH brings me dinner after that on the days and nights that I work, I almost always fall asleep (despite how I try not too) on the sofa by 10 and go up to bed at 10:30.

I love and yet dread the 3 days/ nights that I work. I cram between 38-40hrs/ wk. into 3 days. I dream of the day when I can do just 3 days from 3:45AM - 12PM or so!

I looked for the VG episode On Demand but it wasn't available yet. Crossing ny figures it will be available soon!

Finally got to see the whole thing. Yes it was wonderful and I thoroughly enjoyed it!

My dad sent DS1 the 1st and 2nd seasons of Dr. Who w/ Daviv Tenant as the Doctor. I'm going to go back and re-watch some of them but if I recall correctly each time the Doctor is regenerated he has to learn to be 'human'.

Just saw these posts -- sorry! I can understand the falling asleep now -- a 15-hour day is just too much to ask. Hope it resolves for you soon.

And I'm glad you liked it, once you saw it! You've got a *cool* father, too :) Mine just sent DD books on cosmology/astrophysics--she loves them--while telling me on the phone that she really shouldn't waste her time on this particular interest (he's a retired physicist) because medicine is more important and has more career options. My DD is 12. Geez...maybe I'll sit down with her and we'll watch the first David Tennant episodes, in your dad's honor :)