The most radical departure in NBC's Law & Order: Los Angeles (Wednesday, 10/9c) isn't the new location, but the lack of a portentous "these are their stories" intro. It's not the only thing that has been lost in the transition.
The pilot episode (which includes a brief glimpse of Wanda de Jesus as the police lieutenant, replaced afterward by ...
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“Kids, they never listen.”—Donna NobleThe runaway TARDIS transports the Doctor, Donna and Martha to the planet Messaline. Upon exiting he time machine, human soldiers apprehend them and create a woman almost instantaneously by using the Doctors DNA -the Doctor's Daughter, eventually named Jenny. The reason for this instant creation is to help resupply troops for a war between the humans and the Hath, fish-type beings. During an initial Hath attack, Martha is separated from her companions and captured by the Hath. The separated group each discover that the was has waged for generations over something called “The Source” or the 'breath of life' as described by General Cobb, the leader of the human forces. The Doctor and Martha each inadvertently uncover hidden passageways that lead to The Source's location. Cobb imprisons Doctor/Donna and Jenny when the Doctor/Donna protest Cobb's plans (dreams) of killing all the Hath once the power of The Source is harnessed...
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Picking up from the cliffhanger, ATMOS systems would-wide are out of control and spewing forth the Sontaran poison gas. Donna's grandfather is rescued by Sylvia via an ax to the windshield. Back at UNIT, the clone of Martha has been busy helping the Sontarans with the gas attack. The Doctor asks Donna to head back to the TARDIS for refuge and she receives her very own key to the time machine. Unfortunately for Donna, the Martha clone has the TARDIS teleported onto the Sontaran spaceship with Donna inside! During a communication with General Staal, the Doctor secretly signals Donna about the TARDIS's phone. Luke Rattigan's students decide to abandon ship —apparently, they'd rather be with their families than starting a new civilization with Rattigan. Against the Doctor's wishes, UNIT orders a world-wide nuclear strike against the Sontaran vessel; however, again, the Martha clone secretly intervenes and shuts down the launch via her hacked PDA and repeats the process every time...
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This past November 6th saw the DVD release of Doctor Who - The Complete 3rd Season in North America, culminating in an epic three-part story where The Doctor (David Tennant) had battled, and seemingly lost the Earth to, one of his longest-running enemies.The advance material and the included booklet for the DVD release both said that the season finale, "The Last of the Time Lords", would include a cast commentary track by David Tennant ("The Doctor"), Freema Agyeman ("Martha Jones") and John Barrowman ("Capt. Jack Harkness" of Torchwood). However, that wasn't the commentary track fans found on the release when it arrived! Instead there was a podcast, which had previously been released on the internet, recorded by show producers Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Phil Collinson.Naturally fans felt upset, especially when it became known that the proper cast commentary had been included in the U.K.'s DVD release of the same episode. Our own Gord Lacey turned to BBC Video for an explan...
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“Martha Jones, you saved the world.”— The DoctorRight then! Here we are at the end of the third season of the new Doctor Who series and what a ride it has been to get here. First the Dalek raged war upon the human race, followed by the Cybermen (and Dalek) also raging war upon the human race. Who else could possibly top that duo of evil and wage war upon the human race again? The Master, that’s who! And who exactly is needed to help put an end to the Master’s reign of terror? A potential doctor: one Martha Jones.One year has passed since the events in the previous episode. The Doctor, Martha’s family and Captain Jack are all still prisoners of the Master on the flying aircraft carrier Valiant. During this time, the Master with the help of his "children," the Toclafane, have conquered and enslaved the Earth. Labor camps have been set up with the purpose of building a fleet of ships and devices capable of decimating the universe in the process of setting ...
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