[TV] The Doctor Who Thread
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How does that work, anyway? If it's like buying music digitally on Amazon, I'd be okay with it. With music, I can download the mp3s and do with them as I please.
That was a very good episode...
I was a little sad that the Girl did not turn out to be a new companion.
Just a little something involving the main stars and current showrunner of Doctor Who:
I just experienced geek joy.
figmentPez
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I had fun, but I was also very disappointed.
I thought this was an amazing opportunity to examine the Dalek mind. What constitutes an insane Dalek should have been played with more. This should have been an episode with Daleks acting very strangely, and in some very un-Dalek ways. Instead of a Dalek insane asylum, we got a Dalek geriatric ward. 
Loved Oswin though.
Also, I want to see rule 63 cosplay of Rory as Nina.
Loved Oswin though.
Also, I want to see rule 63 cosplay of Rory as Nina.
BananaHands
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Is there an unwritten rule that all image macros have to be misspelled?
I am now caught up and can speculate about stuff! And maybe question between season finales of 5 and 6:
Such as, if the Silence organized a fixed point in time where the Doctor would die, to prevent him from destroying everything with the answer to the question, why screw with the Tardis at the end of season 5 and cause the end of the universe that way? The only way I see that is that they didn't know it would do more than kill the Doctor, even though the cracks were appearing all over time and space.
I just finished the first season Dalek saga! Pure B & W goodness. I gotta get those DVDs for my birth-day.
Actually after the reveal
i was hoping she'd still be one in her current state...
Now that would have been something.
Oh good, I'm not the only one.
The stuff with the radiation was incredible for a 60's show... and the Daleks themselves where awesomely conniving... and i'm pretty sure they stole the opening music from the future...
Thanks for sharing that.
Probably, I mean that shit is crazy futuristic. I loved the idea of radioactive mutations being the source of a creature's evolution, which is indeed amazing for a 60s show.
BananaHands
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Eggs, stir, min: 8.
They're not trying to kill us, they just want to share their wonderful souffle recipe!
BananaHands
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Although an interesting thing is that her souffle always came out burned, it could have been because she was subconsciously keeping her humanity in check.
This is a tangent but does it bug anyone else when characters toss not only ruined food but the cookware the food is on into the garbage in TV and movies?
People on the web have pointed out that Oswin's chair is the same as the one that Jenny from The Doctor's Daughter (or as I like to call her, Jenny Doctorsdottir) sat in when she flew off Messaline. One theory going around is that Oswin is a regenerated Jenny, meaning that her reappearance later in the season could pretty much only happen the way you theorize. It would also add an extra layer of tragedy to the whole situation, and since Moffat seems to have a Whedonesque hatred for joy, that seems plausible. Alternately, we'll either have a Gwen Cooper/Gwenyth from 1869 "spatial genetic multiplicity" situation going on or the character will be from Messaline or a similar world where reproduction by cloning is the norm.
Dinosaurs....on a SPACESHIP!
The plot was kinda weak this episode but damnit if I wasn't grinning like an idiot all the way through. Doctor Who is sometimes just cheesy entertainment and this was a prime example. Mark Williams was great as Rory's dad, the dinosaurs looked pretty good (Tricey nooooo) and it was all around a good hour of fun.
The plot was kinda weak this episode but damnit if I wasn't grinning like an idiot all the way through. Doctor Who is sometimes just cheesy entertainment and this was a prime example. Mark Williams was great as Rory's dad, the dinosaurs looked pretty good (Tricey nooooo
) and it was all around a good hour of fun.
That's how long the robots where stuck on the ship.
"How do you start a tricerotops?!"
"I'm easily worth two men? You can help, too, if you like."
"No, I'm Rory's queen..."
Oh my god. So many awesome quotes. I do agree that plot itself was pretty simple, but for sheer, delightful fun? Loved it. This has been a great season so far and next week doesn't look any different to change my mind on that.
"I'm easily worth two men? You can help, too, if you like."
"No, I'm Rory's queen..."
Oh my god. So many awesome quotes. I do agree that plot itself was pretty simple, but for sheer, delightful fun? Loved it. This has been a great season so far and next week doesn't look any different to change my mind on that.
"William Pond..."
"I'm not a Pond."
"Yes you are."
"I'm not a Pond."
"Yes you are."
His name was Brian.
Your mom's name is Brian!
favourite line of the episode?
Matt smiths enthusiasm definitely helped carry the episode. I've felt before that he can carry a slightly less well-written script far better than tennant could, and I *like* tennant.
I watched this episode twice last night (got to re-watch it with my dad
), and I ... really liked it.
Its not the brilliantly plotted mindscrews that have been running around courtesy of moffat, or the big earth-shattering life-changing revelatory epic that have been going on since the show came back.
its just... a fun, light-hearted episode that the shows been kind of short on recently. not to say that we haven't had fantastic stuff, but... I felt like this was a breather episode, and a pretty good one to boot. It wasn't about the thrill of a sudden plot twist, it was just the thrill of
and there were some great one liners, and a pretty dark response at the end. We don't always see the doctor being that...direct to someone who's pissed him off.
bring on the next ep!
"I'm thirty-one. I don't have a christmas list" "I do!"
I watched this episode twice last night (got to re-watch it with my dad
), and I ... really liked it.Its not the brilliantly plotted mindscrews that have been running around courtesy of moffat, or the big earth-shattering life-changing revelatory epic that have been going on since the show came back.
its just... a fun, light-hearted episode that the shows been kind of short on recently. not to say that we haven't had fantastic stuff, but... I felt like this was a breather episode, and a pretty good one to boot. It wasn't about the thrill of a sudden plot twist, it was just the thrill of
well, seeing two awesome people fighting velociraptors with stun guns aboard a thousand year old space ark created by lizards, which is about to crash into the earth.
and that shot of Brian pond/williams sitting happily in space, legs dangling over the side of the tardis, watching the earth go by, with a sandwich and thermos of tea is honestly one of my favourite images of Who in a long, long time. and the ongoing shot was great too, with amy and rory both looking at the earth with the same expression as brian... and the doctor unable to relate.
and there were some great one liners, and a pretty dark response at the end. We don't always see the doctor being that...direct to someone who's pissed him off.
bring on the next ep!
BananaHands
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