{"id":214,"date":"2005-04-16T19:48:27","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T19:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=214"},"modified":"2005-04-16T19:48:27","modified_gmt":"2005-04-16T19:48:27","slug":"would-you-mind-not-farting-while-im-trying-to-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2005\/04\/would-you-mind-not-farting-while-im-trying-to-save-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Would you mind not farting while I&#039;m trying to save the world?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Doctor Who<\/cite> grows up and enters its second childhood all at once.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time we see the emotional impact of a companion returning home after some time spent away with the Doctor. And in the same episode we get a bunch of fart gags.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pq\">But there&#8217;s nothing wrong with fart gags, so I have to say that I loved this episode.<\/div>\n<p>It was the closest so far to traditional <cite>Doctor Who<\/cite> &ndash; a cliffhanger, an alien running around a hospital, something creepy going on in the corridors of power. And it reintroduces <acronym title=\"United Nations Inteligence Taskforce\">UNIT<\/acronym> in a way that will, fingers crossed, please old fans whilst not overwhelming new ones. Likewise the concept of regeneration was subtly alluded to for the first time (handy that, considering).<\/p>\n<p>My one gripe is with the visual aspects of the aliens &ndash; dodgy CGI as they emerged from their &#8220;suits&#8221; and then dodgy rubber costumes. But the Big Ben crash was excellently put together, and the pig alien was <em>so cute<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>9\/10<\/p>\n<p>Ah, and David Tennant? I think he&#8217;ll be good. I&#8217;m not worried about him being &#8220;too young&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/ggreig.livejournal.com\/24354.html\">some<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/lonemagpie\/30009.html\">people<\/a> are feeling old &#8216;cos he&#8217;s the first Doctor to be younger than them, but I&#8217;m safe until next time at least \ud83d\ude09 and he&#8217;s five years older than Peter Davison was when he took over) and on the evidence of <cite>Casanova<\/cite> and <cite>Quatermass<\/cite> he can act well enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor Who grows up and enters its second childhood all at once. For the first time we see the emotional impact of a companion returning home after some time spent away with the Doctor. And in the same episode we get a bunch of fart gags. But there&#8217;s nothing wrong with fart gags, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fxq5-3s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}