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View Poll Results: Please rate Doctor Who 3x09 - "The Family of Blood"
10/10 - Brilliant 11 68.75%
9/10 - Fantastic 3 18.75%
8/10 - Great 1 6.25%
7/10 - Very Good 1 6.25%
6/10 - Good 0 0%
5/10 - Fair 0 0%
4/10 - Poor 0 0%
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Old June 2, 2007, 1:56 PM
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Doctor Who 3x09 - "The Family of Blood"

Plot Summary - Written by Paul Cornell
The Family of Blood attack the school in an attempt to capture the Doctor's time lord spirit.
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Old June 2, 2007, 1:58 PM
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A fantastic episode! I'm giving a 10/10 for the whole story.
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Old June 2, 2007, 2:01 PM
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Better than last week's.
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Old June 2, 2007, 2:02 PM
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Last week was a perfect 10/10. This week it all came unravelled for me in a similar way to Evolution of the Daleks. It was all a bit random, in particular the ending. That WW1 stuff and closing monologues felt badly tagged on, Tim walking away from the TARDIS seemed the perfect natural place to end the story.

8/10
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Old June 2, 2007, 2:04 PM
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Agh, wasn't it all a bit loud? I found it a little rushed as well, too fast paced for my liking. I liked the way the scarecrows moved though, very authentic, and as ever, Gerald Horan (Ray Butler out of Frost and DC Yelland in Kingdom) was great as Mr.Clark. Latimer was a bit too ugly, sorry. Strange how he grew up into a George Bush lookalike though.
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Old June 2, 2007, 2:23 PM
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Strange how he grew up into a George Bush lookalike though.
Indeed. I also appreciated the guest appearance from Al Pacino as old John Smith towards the end.
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Old June 2, 2007, 2:36 PM
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That was a trully exceptional episode. It was certainly the best episode of the series. That scene where the boys were fighting the scarecrows, I found that bit quite moving and it was well done.

The John Smith persona kinda struck me as a coward to be quite honest, I mean I can understand not wanting to shoot the girl but meh.

The WW1 and Remembrance Day stuff at the end was brilliant, I thought that was really well done.

10/10.
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Old June 2, 2007, 2:38 PM
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I knew Ross would like the war references
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Old June 2, 2007, 2:57 PM
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Much better than last week, and wat a touching ending with the The Doctor and Joan and Memorial service
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Old June 2, 2007, 2:58 PM
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What can I say, this truely was a brilliant piece of work, so moving and exciting. I actually thought the monologues where pretty good, it rounded of the episode quite well. I thought the ending was chilling.
Only thing is, the tape I was recording on ran out at the final minute (really) and I was frantically trying to change the tape, I lost about 15 seconds, so I might just rerecord it tomorrow.
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Old June 2, 2007, 11:52 PM
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10 out of 10. Truly, a thing of beauty.
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Old June 3, 2007, 5:42 AM
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10/10 A brilliant episode. Each episode gets better and better.
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Old June 3, 2007, 8:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Ross Hendrie View Post
The WW1 and Remembrance Day stuff at the end was brilliant, I thought that was really well done.
Agreed, it was well placed.
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Old June 3, 2007, 12:31 PM
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God, this one's got loads of Brilliant votes. But hell, it deserves it, best I've seen in ages.
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Old June 3, 2007, 12:56 PM
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Im pretty sure this would be a candidate for best episode of the new Doctor Who.
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I'm with MI7, the stuff after Tim walked away from the TARDIS seemed a bit unnecisary, but it was still a fantastic episode. The plot was great, but poor Mr. Smith.

Ah, kinda stinks being caught up. That trailer was really teasing and I have to wait a whole week!
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I loved the ending -- very moving. It wasn't at all unnecessary.
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Old June 4, 2007, 9:26 AM
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The ending of the actual storyline was unnecessary. It wouldn't be if it wasn't rushed but that's what happens nowadays. It's either all quality, no quantity, or too much in too little time.
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He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt him it was really quite hypnotic.

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Old June 4, 2007, 10:18 AM
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How would you have reworked those scenes so that they could have stayed in but felt less rushed?
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Old June 4, 2007, 10:24 AM
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How would you have reworked those scenes so that they could have stayed in but felt less rushed?
The Doctor dancing in a pair of hotpants. That probably would have slowed down time for anyone watching.

... no really, I have no idea. I didn't actually think it was rushed myself... at least not as much as the Lazarus Experiment or 42, which were still good. Wore me the heck out though.
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