{"id":20841,"date":"2011-04-23T23:21:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T05:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=20841"},"modified":"2011-04-23T23:21:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T05:21:58","slug":"a-brief-doctor-who-series-6-premiere-episode-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/23\/a-brief-doctor-who-series-6-premiere-episode-comment.html","title":{"rendered":"A brief Doctor Who Series 6 Premiere Episode comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20842\" title=\"The TARDIS\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tardis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/>Stated below the fold just to be absolutely non-spoilery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Leave it to Steven Moffat to make the scariest thing in the world be not remembering the scariest thing in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That said &#8212; well, plenty of horror, and some very cool near-history bits. A great Nixon White House, even if I can&#8217;t imagine Nixon accepting a Negro as the head of his Secret Service detail. River Song continues to be annoying (though she also has the requisite intriguing bits). Amy and Rory are fine, if not quite yet gelled as a couple.\u00a0 The Doctor seemed particularly non-sequiturishly blithering.<\/p>\n<p>But it was all still great fun.\u00a0 I just hope it comes together in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Comment to BBC America: I&#8217;d rather see the full, uncut episodes, then the &#8220;Behind the Scenes with Doctor Who&#8221; claptrap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stated below the fold just to be absolutely non-spoilery. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-tv-doctor-who"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tardis.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":160267,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2023\/11\/26\/the-once-and-future-doctordonna.html","url_meta":{"origin":20841,"position":0},"title":"The Once and Future DoctorDonna","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 26-Nov-23 12:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"A look back at Season 4 of NuWho, and the best Companion ever.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Doctor Who&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Doctor Who","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/media-tv-doctor-who"},"img":{"alt_text":"Doctor Who Donna Noble Catherine Tate","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Doctor-Who-Donna-Noble-Catherine-Tate.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Doctor-Who-Donna-Noble-Catherine-Tate.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Doctor-Who-Donna-Noble-Catherine-Tate.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Doctor-Who-Donna-Noble-Catherine-Tate.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":38541,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/22\/more-doctor-bits.html","url_meta":{"origin":20841,"position":1},"title":"More Doctor Bits","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Aug-13 11:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"So there's been some controversy over whether the previous discussions in canon Doctor Who of only 12 regenerations (and, thus, 13 Doctors) still held. \u00a0After all, we're heading into the Twelfth Doctor with Peter Capaldi (plus what may or may not count as a Thirteenth with John Hurt), and if\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9990,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/01\/tenth_doctor_second_serie.html","url_meta":{"origin":20841,"position":2},"title":"Tenth Doctor, Second Series, First Impressions","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Oct-06 8:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"Watched Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion and the \"New Earth\" episode of Doctor Who on the DVR last night. 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