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1st Season Dr. Who - The Doctor's Dance - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !
12 May 2006 19:09:25 -0700
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georgeavalos...
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"The Doctor's Dance"
5-12-06 Dr. Who
SoHillsGuy...
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Actually, it's "The Doctor Dances"....
and it was 4.9
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pv+usenet...
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It's "The Doctor Dances". And it's a 5.0. His joy at finding a solution
that not only stops the infection, but also saves the lives of everyone
affected for a change, made the episode for me. *
Tim Bruening...
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How did the Doctor reprogram the nanogenes, without any sign of a computer
interface?
Clell Harmon...
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Sonic screwdrivers are very adaptable.
doctor...
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Neil Sullivan...
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I looked as if he was interfacing with them telepathically.
doctor...
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doctor...
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Tim Bruening...
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Too bad he couldn't let the reprogrammed nanogenes heal everyone on Earth
Middlebrow...
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Since the TARDIS allows him to communicate with anything sentient, why not
doctor...
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Enough to cure Planet Earth.
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nanites (even if said communication happens non-verbally or telepathically)?
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for fear of messing up the timeline!
doctor...
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All of England is a start.
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5 stars (G.M. Balanchine)
0-1 stars (E.M. Benes)
Hobart Floyt...
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4.75 stars (Marius Petipa)
Once again this show can get totally creepy and
scary and hysterically funny and emotionally moving
all within five minutes.
Whoever wrote the line "Life is nature's way of
keeping meat fresh" should get a bonus.
And I'm a total push-over for dance scenes
with snappy repartee.
doctor...
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Jaime M. de Castellvi...
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4.999999999999.... aw, hell... I'll give it a 5.0.
doctor...
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whodunit...
Michael Bowker...
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4.3 Just this once everyone LIVES! I so glad that worked, because those
would have been terrible last words!
ANIM8Rfsk...
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Yeah.
4.5
It left me smiling. In fact my face hurts from smiling.
Jack Bohn...
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The Doctor at his best, throwing in the way he was good with
children from the previous ep, I'm very happy.
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What more can you ask?
Ken from Chicago...
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I loved those opening words. It was a nice Doctor answer. Captain Jack
seemed like an American doctor--or at least a British view of an American
doctor.
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Jack Bohn...
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When the ambulance sent out the distress call for its troops, I
wish the light on the panel had been mauve instead of red...
ANIM8Rfsk...
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Wait - doesn't red mean PARTY? That works too.
Tim Bruening...
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Humans use red to indicate emergencies, so red would be appropriate for
the situation.
Neil Sullivan...
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The ambulance wasn't built by humans. In the previous episode the Doctor had
said it 's just humans who use red to indicate emergencies, whereas the
universal colour is mauve.
pv+usenet...
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Not even all HUMANS use red to indicate emergencies. In China, red means
good luck, and is the color of bridal attire. *
Tim Bruening...
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China is ruled by a Communist Party. Communists love the color red. Communist
flags are mostly red. Its not surprising that red would be popular in China.
Diane L...
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The Chinese use of the colour red to indicate good fortune is way, way
old than its association with communism.
Tim Bruening...
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Did the Chinese use of red for good fortune help the Communists win popular
support?
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Diane L.
doctor...
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ANIM8Rfsk...
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Ha! Good point!
doctor...
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And what about the addition of Captain Jack?
Jack Bohn...
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He's a bit annoying. I want to say slightly more annoying than
the Doctor, but that may not be fair. The Doctor gets such a
free pass from familiarity.
I can't help thinking of this year as a sort of essay on what it
takes to be a companion. First of all, open to the wonder and
strangeness of the universe (Mickey turned down twice). Then, a
first impulse to help others rather than personal enrichment
(That fellow they picked up in "Dalek" and dropped off in "The
Long Game"). Does the Captain have what it takes? The Doctor
really didn't pick him; it was only that Rose asked about him
while he was still in the "Everybody lives!" kick.
doctor...
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Are you calling him Mickey?
Jack Bohn...
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Ricky? I think he knows his own name!
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