I Can’t Decide Whether BBC America Should Live or Die

I caught “Last of the Time Lords” on BBC America last week – and they’d cut out the following scene!

Now admittedly that scene doesn’t really advance the plot; but still, I would bet it’s the one scene that fans best love and remember from that episode. (Plot isn’t everything.) And of course BBC America offers its viewers no announcement that they’re watching truncated versions of episodes.

6 Responses to I Can’t Decide Whether BBC America Should Live or Die

  1. Jesse Walker October 27, 2010 at 10:05 pm #

    There are fans who hate that scene. I think they’re nuts, of course; and they in turn probably think I’m nuts for believing approximately 90% of the program’s scenes with Daleks could be improved if the monsters were replaced by camp villains singing the Scissor Sisters.

  2. Jesse Walker October 27, 2010 at 10:11 pm #

    By the way, thanks for the reminder of how good the Russell Davies epoch could be. I just made the mistake of watching Death of the Doctor, and was this close to forgetting why I ever liked his work at all.

  3. Roderick October 28, 2010 at 3:14 pm #

    Btw, John Simm was great casting as the Master — but it wasn’t completely out of the blue, because he’d played Caligula a few years before:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=john%20simm%20caligula&tbs=vid:1

  4. Black Bloke October 29, 2010 at 12:38 pm #

    The finest of the RTD episodes is still “Midnight” imo.

  5. Briggs October 29, 2010 at 9:08 pm #

    Those rat bastards! How dare they tamper with Davies Doctor!

  6. Aster November 1, 2010 at 6:54 pm #

    “Last of the Time Lords” is looking greatly like the future of our world.

    “Dying… everything dying… the whole of creation is falling apart….”

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