McFly: Poor Dougie {RE: No Go Queen}

This is a repost from No Go Queen (a blog dedicated to McFly)

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Frankie Sandford never argues with her McFly boyfriend Dougie Poynter about what to watch on TV, because she rules the remote. The 21-year-old singer - voted fourth sexiest woman in an FHM poll - revealed she likes to spend her nights in watching TV and snacking.
She said: "I wouldn't say Dougie and I ever argue about what to watch because we watch what I want to, and that's that." The Saturdays cosied up on a giant pink sofa in London's Covent Garden to promote T-Mobile's Night In which rewards customers by giving them 'five things for £5' at Blockbuster. Frankie has just moved back into the London home she shares with Dougie after a brief split earlier this year, but insisted they had no problem living together. She revealed: "He's more of a woman than I am. I am really messy and leave my stuff everywhere and he is always tidying up after me."

*She really wants us to hate her doesn't she? What a spoilt manipulative cow.

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[RANT/]

~ I'm so far beyond sick of her.

Not only does she not respect Dougie's privacy she exploits the poor boy for publicity. ¬_¬

I cant wait for the day that she gets knocked off her pedestal....
OK, all I'm going to say is that, ask yourself if she really did love Dougie then she would respect his privacy.

Sorry about the bashing but  what Frankie has been saying and doing through the tabloids is seriously a new level of desperate. Attention whore's born with a silver spoon in their mouth tend to make up the most ignorant people in the whole of humanity. It's just morally wrong to exploit a person in the way that she does Dougie. What makes this so much more horrible is that Frankie is dehumnising  someone she actually claims to 'love'.The girl has no shame. *sigh*

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: Amy's Choice - Thoughts (S.5 E.7)

Doctor Who: Amy's Choice
Season Five - Episode 7

Amy's Choice is a character piece. It’s an exploration of all three current cast members with a focus on Amy Pond in particular. The episode opens “five years later” with the Doctor stumbling back into Amy and Rory’s blissful married life in a sleepy English village. Amy is now pregnant and Rory has a terrible ponytail. 

What the hell happened here then?

~ I liked this episode more than i thought i would.

It's good idea but it felt that the entire plot was limping to an end.

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The character Amy has always been frankly annoyingly self obsessed to me.
I like that character of Amy, don't get me wrong.
It's not the writing that's at fault here.
I really just hate the way Karen portrays Amy.
Loud and bashful doesn't have to be annoying girls and boys! If you remember back to the character Donna you can see my point. I just find that Karen's lack of natural acting talent is sapping what life and spark the character Amy could ever of had.

So i'm afraid i am with those who are underwhelmed with Amy.

anyway...

Like i was saying i really enjoyed tonight's episode, personally finding it the best so far as it was really unsettling & creepy - reminded me a bit of Hush in Buffy or the original Prisoner series. 

While i agree that the explanation was rubbish It could've been written a bit better. 

No doubting it there.

~x~

I'm afraid. I was thinking how much better the story would have been if it was a black and white 60's episode featuring Patrick Throughton with his companions Jamie and Zoe.

 ~x~

Enter: Toby Jones’s Dream Lord.

His oddly round yet still angular face looks like William Hague pushing himself through a rubber band and a brilliant bit of casting because we could imagine in a different universe were the Doctor could still be played by an older man, Jones would be just the man to do it.  

One of the best elements of the episode was in keeping the true nature of the Dream Lord hidden so that fans could spend much of the story assuming that he was somehow The Master, The Master or my guess, The Celestial Toymaker (it couldn’t be The Valeyard, of course, that would be silly, even though functionally they were doing much the same thing, expressing the Doctor’s id, and look at how I’m burying that in some brackets).  

 

Toby Jones was the pulling force of this show. His voice expressions, his demeanor was mysterious and dangerously intimidating. The lines Toby was given as the Dream Lord were pure genius! =P

and, - The comedy and scary atmosphere were wonderfully paced together.^-^

Next Week: "I sometimes wonder why I like the people of this miserable planet so much."

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: The Vampires of Venice - Thoughts (S.5 E.6)

Doctor Who: Vampires of Venice
Season Five - Episode 6

"The unexpected, unadvertised solution which kisses it all better is known as a deus ex machina - literally, a god from the machine. And a god from the machine is what the Doctor is now.

A decent detective story provides you with enough tantalising information to allow you to make a stab at a solution before the famous detective struts his stuff in the library. Doctor Who replaces this with speed, fast talking, and what appears to be that wonderful element 'makeitupasyougoalongeum'.
 
The Doctor himself has in recent years been built up into an amalgam of Mother Teresa, Jesus Christ... and Tinkerbell. There is nothing he doesn't know and nothing he can't do... Perhaps they should start transmitting the programme on Sundays.

After all, when you've had your moan you have to admit that it is very, very entertaining, with its heart in the right place, even if its head is often in orbit around Jupiter," he said. "I might shout at the screen again, but I will be watching on Saturday." ~ Terry Pratchett 

 

 I think Pratchett is spot on...but more than 'makeitupasyougoalong-ism' being a recent curse of Doctor Who - I think it's been a problem for quite some years.

He makes a very persuasive case for the Doctor 'being God'. When you think about it like that; the propensity for the Doctor to fail vanishes. There is no conflict because the Doctor can never be stumped. Conflict drives drama - ergo; drama ceases to exist.

I did laugh when the angel 'got him' in Flesh And Stone.  We know the Doctor's never going to be 'got'; there'd be no shows without him.  Atleast they killed Buffy (although it was both in terms of plot and tv series).

anyway.. *cough*

Alas, if anything, The Vampires Of Venice is cookie-cutter Doctor Who. Yes, sumptuously lovely to look at, entertaining and witty, but it's just rehearsing any number of rather tired scenarios from the previous series and not really bringing anything new to the table.

 

 

Yes, it's difficult to try and be original after 47 years and the series is bound to keep offering up traditional stories every year but this just smacked too much of repetition. 

 

 

And for once couldn't we just have a Doctor Who story where the vampires actually are the supernatural bloodsuckers of legend and myth, maybe even tying in with the Great Vampires of State Of Decay? 

 

Why do they automatically have to be space-fish aliens? 

 

Either go for the vampires or go for the marauding space-fish because in the end it'll help avoid all the contrivances chucked into the script to explain why the space-fish are pretending to be vampires and the silly inconsistencies of having creatures that react badly to sunlight romping through the episode in broad daylight only for one of them to be vaporised by a quick flash of sunlight from Amy's Boots No 7 make up mirror.

  

Next Week: How Do You Want Amy?

 

 

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: Flesh And Stone - Thoughts (S.5 E.5)

Doctor Who: Flesh And Stone
Season Five - Episode5

 *sigh*

They need to develop Amy's character soon because so far she is as dull as Martha Jones..... thank god for River Song she's was the best thing in this Saturdays episode.

I really liked the episode but the ending...no idea what to make of it. At all. =/

- I wish Amy had a little bit more to do as she spent the whole section with her eyes closed being pretty annoying. -

The 'companion at the centre of everything' thing - please let it just be a coincidence and not the actual case. We just went through all that with Donna a mere two years ago..

The angels moving was really creepy. I didn't expect it to be at all, thought it would completely ruin the horror but it was chilling.

It's being heavily implied that River Song killed the Doctor isn't it? Hopefully just a regeneration then. Of course it isn't going to be that simple and the writers are just throwing us a huge red herring but I wouldn't mind a regeneration. I love Matt Smith but he hasn't implanted himself as the Doctor yet. I assume he will when this series is over, regardless of whether he stays or not.

Quote from: Stuart Ian Burns

 Where is this leading?  We’re still no wiser about River Song; she’s apparently not who he thinks she is, but has killed someone who we’re to assume is the Doctor but like their proposed future marriage that may be misdirection.  In trying to explain the apparent continuity error of the Doctor suddenly having his jacket back whilst questioning Amy about her memory, Wikia suggests this is some future version jumping back into his own time-stream on a detective hunt which sounds like a very Moffaty thing to do (with the possibility that some of the other inconsistencies groused about here there and everywhere aren’t errors but features).  We know that Steven sent an episode of the series to Russell for a once over – is it because the timelord travels even further back? 

Next week:  Being Timelord


Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: Cold Blood - Thoughts (S.5 E.9)

God speed Rory.

His comedy and loyalty made him a little favourite character in my eyes. Wish the poor darling didn't have to suffer the fate he did. Such a sad ending.

Shame. :(

Amy didn't deserve him, honestly.

-x-
His death kinna kicks the person who said "It is better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all" in the teeth.

What made Rory's death more severe was not only that he took 'the bullet' to save The Doctor, it was that his very memory was erased.

He ceased to exist, in all of time, space and memory.

Horrible. XS

The scene in which The Doctor was begging Amy to hold on to the memory of Rory. That "he lives on in your memory", it made me tear up.

I'm always a sucker to a good old sad scene, especially in Doctor Who.

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: The Time of Angels - Thoughts (S.5 E.4)

Doctor Who: The Time of Angels
Season Five - Episode 4

*shivers*

I genuinely think the Weeping Angels could
(if done well) become an iconic Doctor Who monster...

Even though I knew those angels were going to pop up I still jumped everytime, brilliant enemies and the scariest I have ever seen from the show.

Great episode, a return to form but I still felt it was a bit lacking as a whole their seemed to be a lot of waffle rather than advancing with the story but all in all it is a step in the right direction.



I don't like how Amy is appearing to be so useless though, the way the Doctor is constantly telling her to stay away or wait for him in the Tardis, it just makes her look pointless as far as her character/story is concerned.

And River Song is still brilliant.

Would have liked a bit more of an exciting cliffhanger. =/

-x-
I actually think Matt Smith's Doctor is evolving quite nicely. It seems to me that in the first and second episode, he was referencing David Tennant a lot, and has gradually been bringing through new characteristics and quirks. This latest episode definitely showed a progression of character.

Amy is ok, and the chemistry is there, but she NEEDS MORE TO DO!..

Quote from: Stuart Ian Burns
I’ve tried to spend the past four hours and eight paragraphs not looking for some deeper meaning, because until the results of next week’s poll are in, sorry, we’ve seen next week’s episode (the election is getting to me) with all of its Moffatty twists and turns, as ever its impossible to really say what this story is about. Silence in the Library was good, but it was Forest in the Library which made it special and though it’s certainly true that across new aand classic Who if a story is rubbish to begin with its rare to see a massive increase in quality and vice versa, The Space Museum also starts well in a museum (obviously) and look what happened there. We fans don’t forget.

Next Week: Everybody must get stoned …

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: Victory of the Daleks - Thoughts (S.5 E.3)

Doctor Who: Victory of the Daleks
Season Five - Episode 3

WOW, that episode went rather too fast.















The pacing was just a mess to be honest. For the size of what could've been a great plot was entirely cut. I didn't feel like there was any MASSIVE thing at stake ( i know the entire earth was gonna be 'blown up', duh.) but there was no intense feel around the Daleks.







When all the colourful Daleks rolled out i immediately (don't judge me) thought of the teletubbies! haha ...not my most adult moment i must say.




I'm thinking that Big, Bright, Primary colours are not and will never be threatening. The Daleks did openly and honestly look like plastic toys. (not a good thing).

























I do love the development of Amy and the new Doctor though.









- overall the episode was a 'little' messy, but i did enjoy watching it. I wish they would bring back the two episodes per plot thing again like they did in classic Doctor Who, if you know what i mean...

Quote from: Stuart Ian Burns

Perhaps I’m reaching, but what if the crack that’s either following the Doctor around or as I suspect the Doctor is following around (A month later? Really?) is a revisionist switch, a chance for Moffat to pull back on some of the more eccentric mythology from the Davies era or even eep, the nu-Who equivalent of the Faction Paradox, a way of explaining some of the inconsistencies? Three episodes in there are mysteries afoot and they’re character based, not disappearing bees and planets. My brain, so full of stuff, is now casting about and wondering if he’s even reaching as far back as The Next Doctor, when Tenth wondered why a giant Cyberman stomping London isn’t in the historical record or if Churchill’s apparent ignorance of Torchwood is also connected. Probably not. Either way, it's an indication that Moffat isn't ready to put a lid on his predecessor's work just yet, not completely ignoring continuity or totally embracing it but something else. Good here, init?

Next Week: Let the River RUN!

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: The Beast Below - Thoughts (S.5 E.2)

Doctor Who: The Beast Below
Season Five - Episode 2



For some reason it feels to me that new who and classic who where intermingling in this episode. Which must i say, is FANTASTIC! (pun intended)

I really don't like spoiling things for people (and this is why i don't do reviews anymore) i really want you (yes you, the person reading this) to see this episode with fresh eyes. That's what Doctor Who is about, having no idea where the Tardis will take you next.

-x-
I'm really not getting the appeal of Amy at the moment.

I still don't know anything about her, in the sense that i really don't feel close to here character and have yet to come to actually caring about her. Most likely it's down to her character still being in development though.












The Smilers where literally terrifying! (i would've freaked out to even have been near one of those masks!)

Quote from: Stuart Ian Burns [on April 11, 2010]

Then, right at the end, Moffat curiously evokes The End of the World himself. But instead of Rose being disturbed by the Doctor as she looks out into the immensity of space, it’s the Doctor ruminating on his failure to see the details which were right in front of Amy. I thought initially we were supposed to assume that he had been testing his new companion, her moral code, but instead he seems like a man who understands what he’s lost in this regeneration, that the human elements of his tenth persona which inescapably led to his doom have been divested and he knows he’s returned to having an alien perspective. When he clumsily embraces Amy, it’s as though he’s trying to literally absorb her humanity. Then its off to the TARDIS again and Moffat commits another surprise as like the early Hartnell era we effectively get the next episode teaser as part of the story, Churchill, Daleks and all (oh yays) because like children, no sooner have we read one story, we want to be enchanted by the next one straight away.

that is all ;)
Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour - Thoughts (S.5 E.1)

Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour
Season Five - Episode 1

So this is how it begins. Matt Smith has landed. He seems to have landed on his feet and not on his back, thank god!


This episode was a 'cracking' good beginners episode. Good introduction to both a new Doctor and Companion. The CGI was iffy, but all in all i thought it was a great opener for the new season ahead.




My favorite moment from Eleventh Hour, was when The Doctor made the Atraxi view the information about Earth with scenes of the alien threats then asked them who stopped followed by old archives of his former incarnations asked them then he pops through the video hologram of David Tennant and said "I'm the Doctor, run."
And then those Atraxi ran like hell. EPIC!

Quote from: Jackie Tyler-Wilde [on 10 April 2010, 22:20:38]
It all suffered a bit from RTD style "far future not seeming all that different to our time" syndrome.

Agreed.
Russell had a little problem with this in his era, and it really irritated me.
But i know Steven Moffat (hopefully) will not go there.
Moffat lives for Doctor Who so I'm thinking he's checking everything twice and wont let us down.
-x-

and that is all ;)
Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: Season 5 - Thoughts, and opinions begin right here!

Hello, ladies and jellyspoons.



--I've watched DW since i was a little girl (i'm now just turned 16). When i was little (around six-ish) i started watching Doctor Who Classics on re-runs with my father. That was of course way before 2005 when NuWho came back to our tv screens.)--

I'm a neurotic Doctor Who fan like some may already know and I'll be giving my 'thoughts 'on the new season of Doctor Who, the beginning of Matt Smith's era as The Doctor.

I say 'thoughts' because i will not be doing full blown reviews unless it is needed. My life is rather hectic at the moment so my thoughts will be all that I'll have time for. Plus i don't really make a great reviewer, sorry folks. but meh what you going to do (small grin) if you want amazing full blown reviews then you know to go right here [Behind the sofa - Doctor Who REVIEWS]

that is all ;)
Stephanie xx