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March 11
2013
True Heroes : A Buffyverse/Dr Who tribute.
A worth-watching video about Buffy, Angel and the tenth doctor. Can definitely see why people compare these shows.
Liam12
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[ edited by Volo on 2013-03-12 04:52 ]
Volo | March 11, 20:52 CET
lisatwingomez | March 11, 20:59 CET
Volo | March 11, 21:25 CET
Kaan | March 11, 21:56 CET
katysha | March 12, 00:44 CET
And far too many resolutions pulled out of thin air, like the otherwise tragic and heartbreaking Donna ending involving her just pressing lots of buttons and spouting technobabble to defeat the Daleks and then more technobabble to explain why she couldn't live as she was. Buffy sending Angel to hell at the end of S2 was far more heartbreaking but also inevitable in hindsight. She had to do it, and once you saw it you knew that's what she had to do.
DW is less satisfying because rarely as a viewer can you work out the ending, or even realise the ending made sense once you'd seen it. It was just technobabble. The Jesus Doctor defeating the Master came out of nowhere and his emo trip before turning into 11 made me want to throw things at my TV.
Moffatt is one of the few writers I rate alongside Joss, mainly for Coupling and his DW episodes like Blink, Empty Child/Doctor Dances, Girl In The Fireplace, but his time as showrunner has been less stellar. Bringing back the Angels was IMHO a huge mistake. Like the Matrix sequels it took something perfect and amazing and diluted it.
zz9 | March 12, 00:46 CET
clive | March 12, 03:18 CET
BtVS has my heart. The Doctor is part of me.
Gill | March 12, 03:37 CET
lecter | March 12, 04:48 CET
With his 50th anniversary coming up, the Doctor will continue to be heroic--in his many guises. (And I like Moffat just fine--the third series of Sherlock begins filming next week!)
not_Bridget | March 12, 05:17 CET
redeem147 | March 12, 08:39 CET
Generally the Doctor is a great character. He doesn't sound like a hero by definition, because he's primarily just a traveler and shouldn't interfere, but he'll still save everyone's life, when he's somewhere in the vicinity...
And that video will make me dream of a Buffy/Angel/Doctor-Who-Crossover, which would be out of this world. I'd like to see Buffy fight the sobbing angels or the 10th Doctor take on the First Evil. :) Pure gold there!
veraishq | March 12, 11:08 CET
(And boy is it weird to watch those two suddenly getting in romantic entanglements! Including a big kiss at the end! LOL!)
So maybe someday the person who made this could make a follow up comparing Angel, Doctor Who and the two versions of Much Ado!
Of course Joss's is better. Though it is surprising to see how good Catherine Tate is at delivering Shakespearean lines. And it's also rather nice that David Tennant gets to act with his natural Scottish accent in it for once! (He was better as Hamlet though..)
[ edited by Jas on 2013-03-12 20:26 ]
Jas | March 12, 12:26 CET
Fred_Sonja | March 12, 13:36 CET
The vid did a nice job of capturing the elements that did cross over.
KMInfinity | March 12, 13:44 CET
The new series has had some stellar episodes... "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances," "The Girl in the Fireplace," "Blink," "Human Nature/Family of Blood," "Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead." And the twist toward the end of the third season was phenomenal... still makes skin crawl the way that played out... (Don't want to give it away, but a certain *familiar* object is found that turns an otherwise ordinary episode on its head)
I do, unfortunately, have to agree that the Matt Smith/Steven Moffat era has been a bit of letdown. And the Angels get worse and worse each time they're brought back. In "Blink" they were mysterious and terrifying, the stuff of nightmares, but each time Moffat has brought them back he's given them more abilities and altered their nature to fit the storyline, and that has diluted their impact.
[ edited by pacer on 2013-03-12 22:59 ]
pacer | March 12, 14:57 CET
But I liked some of the stand-alone Buffy episodes best (Hush!), so I don't mind them in Doctor Who either. Also, it's much more of a family show, but it can still get kind of creepy.
veraishq | March 13, 01:22 CET
CrystalSC | March 13, 07:36 CET
ActualSize | March 13, 11:51 CET