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  • Angels take Manhattan REview with Spoilers

    From doctor@1:2320/105.1 to All on Sat Sep 29 23:27:54 2012
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
    From Address: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)
    Subject: Angels take Manhattan REview with Spoilers

    This one is 9/10 .

    The audience was getting set up for the Death of either Amy or Rory.

    We also knew Stone Angels were invovle.

    River is back.

    Major twists and turn.

    The Angles invade 1938 Manhattan.

    And the Doctor is reading a novel that turns out to
    be a River Song Biography.

    Modern Manhattan 1938 Manhattan.

    Get ready!!

    Angels are not friendly.


    Also the Doctor hates endings. Big time clue!!!

    Who likes an Angel clutching River Song's wrist .

    She get s her 'husband' involved.


    All right.

    1) Who expected Rory and Amy dropping off Winter Quay would defeat
    most of the Angles?

    2) Who expected a surviving Angel to send Amy and Rory back in time?

    3) Who would expect River Song to cheer the Doctor up in the end.

    Moffat I see that Rory and Amy can return

    from 1888 to 1938 so one will have to wait.
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  • From bored@1:2320/105.1 to All on Mon Oct 1 18:34:38 2012
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
    From Address: bored@now.com
    Subject: Re: Angels take Manhattan REview with Spoilers

    3/10 at best

    The script was amateur to say the least - seriously schitzo and
    pointless all over the place - in urgent need of a half decent script
    editor guys
    The weeping angels have been done to death (as have daleks and cybermen) (Total lack of creativity now becoming a bit obvious - I could suggest
    some reading... Try Cliff Simak or Silverberg... )
    Most people probably wouldn't notice how bad it was because of the overpowering volume of the soundtrack creating a blip-vert effect
    (for those that know what that is)
    The film noire opening was over egged and a bit tacky - a genuine
    american with a genuine accent might have calmed it down but why it
    was even there in the first place I can't fathom.

    The direction was good - the acting great (as always it seems)
    The sets and effects as good as who has ever been -
    And the finale was a mark of the writers brilliance bursting through at
    the last moment - (and he IS that good some of the time - which is why
    this is so dissapointing)

    Luckily there is xmas and next year to look forward to.
    And jenna-louise - oh my - I've been in love for so long already
    and now this..... as much as I hate net cliche's .... jenna ....sigh!

    The Progenitor
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  • From Andy Leighton@1:2320/105.1 to All on Tue Oct 2 10:24:06 2012
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
    From Address: andyl@azaal.plus.com
    Subject: Re: Angels take Manhattan REview with Spoilers

    On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:34:38 -0400, <bored@now.com> <bored@now.com> wrote:
    3/10 at best

    The script was amateur to say the least - seriously schitzo and
    pointless all over the place - in urgent need of a half decent script
    editor guys
    The weeping angels have been done to death (as have daleks and cybermen) (Total lack of creativity now becoming a bit obvious - I could suggest
    some reading... Try Cliff Simak or Silverberg... )

    I think some of the sameyness is due to the format of production.
    The show-runner aspect necessarily leads to some homogeneity.
    The alternative (as in the original series) of producer / script editor / multiple writers often seemed to provide more creative tension.

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    - Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_

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  • From bored@1:2320/105.1 to All on Tue Oct 2 18:49:06 2012
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
    From Address: bored@now.com
    Subject: Re: Angels take Manhattan REview with Spoilers

    In article <slrnk6legf.eb6.andyl@azaal.plus.com>, andyl@azaal.plus.com
    says...

    I think some of the sameyness is due to the format of production.

    I'm sure you're right. But that isn't necessarily a bad thing I don't
    think.

    The show-runner aspect necessarily leads to some homogeneity.
    The alternative (as in the original series) of producer / script >
    editor /
    multiple writers often seemed to provide more creative tension.

    Watering a vision down is seldom a good idea but giving the writer more
    of a break somehow may be a way forward. The problem I suspect would be finding writers capable of writing what is a difficult genre to get
    right. I expect TV companies don't understand how much work is involved
    when a writer is sitting motionless staring into space.

    Whatever - we've all been treated to a remarkably consistantly well
    produced series for a number of years now. I don't think I've seen that anywhere other than with US imports.

    I think its just worth sounding an alarm bell now and again though.
    Over-hyping is a dangerous activity...

    The Progenitor
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