bengraven
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A classic episode. All my favorite episodes of the Tennant run were written by Moffat, I realized one day while going over them.
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Doctor Who Series 2011 |OT| Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Stuff
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A classic episode. All my favorite episodes of the Tennant run were written by Moffat, I realized one day while going over them.
I never put the two together until I wrote that, but damn.
Hot Coldman
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DENTAL PLAN
I am Sutekh the Destroyer. Where I tread I leave nothing but dust and darkness.
Dr Zhivago
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It's Easter and there's no Doctor Who 
bengraven
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Hot Coldman
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More like SPOIL-ASS
As in, that ass is spoilt
IDK
bengraven
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I like her hump.
Bigger spoiler/some speculation:
Moffat has said that the final appearance of Amy and Rory will be "their final confrontation with the Weeping Angels" and now apparently the fifth episode of the season will be Amy/Rory in NY with weeping Angels.
I'm thinking that something will happen with the Angels and the two will be either sent into the past, the future, or another dimension (yes, very Rose-like) and they'll be happy to be there, away from the drama. The end.
I'm thinking that something will happen with the Angels and the two will be either sent into the past, the future, or another dimension (yes, very Rose-like) and they'll be happy to be there, away from the drama. The end.
More weeping angels, good. Throwing companions in alternate dimensions as a means to get them out of the show, not so much.
Unless Rory actually dies for good and Amy has to swap dimensions to get her baby and Rory back
Exterminieren
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Speculation mixed with a bit of episode 5 spoilers:
I wonder if, with a mix of New York and the Angels, either Amy or Rory are going to be trapped back in time, able to help Little Melody after her regeneration on the New York streets, and able to keep a watchful eye over her and make sure she gets to Leadworth alright and remains safe.
Perhaps that might clear up the question of who exactly she lived with while she grew up with Amy and Rory.
Perhaps that might clear up the question of who exactly she lived with while she grew up with Amy and Rory.
StealthGoblin
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I'd actually rather them be killed off. Killing off a companion would be a pretty emotional thing if done correctly. It would also legitimise the threat of one of the enemies. It would be a great way to introduce a new 'big villain' and build them up.
The Master...Derek Jacobi though please.
Hot Coldman
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How can you guys do this and not mention...
How can you guys do this and not mention...
Ugh. That's another episode I wasn't too fond of. Pretty repetitive, and the special effects were more hilarious than scary.
Hot Coldman
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I disagree. Didn't do anything for me except make me anxious to move onto the next episode.
Luckily:
opinion: a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
You're welcome to disagree with me.
Hot Coldman
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I disagree. Didn't do anything for me except make me anxious to move onto the next episode.
Luckily:
opinion: a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
You're welcome to disagree with me.
Well I wasn't planning to argue because you're clearly beyond help *whistles*
Jokes aside, haven't seen it in ages, but I remember it fondly... I enjoyed the plot twist with the nanomachines a lot, and it did a great job with introducing Captain Jack. The Rose/Doctor moments were some of the more memorable of that series too- can't say I found Piper and Ecclestone to have tremendous amounts of chemistry, but they were at their best there. Plus, they fucking nailed the period. And the "are you my mummy" stuff was pretty fucked up initially.
KuwabaraTheMan
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It's great, but I feel like the twist doesn't hold up as well on repeated viewings. So much of the story is built around tension that doesn't exist when you know that the enemy is actually just trying to heal everyone (unlike something like Midnight where there's just as much tension on multiple viewings). Still, the atmosphere is great, and there's some great moments with the main cast.
I would still agree about it probably being the best of Series 1 (well, it's kind of a toss up in my mind between that and The Parting of the Ways). Series 1 was just so fucking great.
Hot Coldman
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That's the big flaw, yeah. That said, I'll still give it props for being that good in the first place. Although most of Series 1 doesn't hold up for me at all. Mainly because it's visually crap. Not the effects, just the way it's filmed and such. Even Series 2 is such an improvement in that regard, although Series 3 is where it starts looking consistently good and stays there.
The Sonic Screwdriver repairing barbed wire and the introduction of Captain Jack really made that episode =D
How can you guys do this and not mention...
That's a firm favourite of mine.
Donna Noble has left the library.
Donna Noble has been saved.
(actually, the last minute of that episode drives me crazy. That voice, in that particular pitch, is pure nails-on-chalkboard for me.)
Yep. Moffat has a real habit of hanging cliffhangers on obnoxious dronings of disembodied voices.
bengraven
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Wow, really good calls all around. Might be.
I could live with that ending because they'd get what they wanted in the end.
GameplayWhore
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That reminded me of the "Silence wiil fall!" voice. Which then reminded me of other stuff, like how we don't actually know what the mechanism was for the destruction of the TARDIS. I'm also a bit iffy on how the Crack was originally a portal to another world but then suddenly became a reality eating ... thing.
Is there anywhere on the web a collection of questions which have been brought up in the past two seasons but have not yet been answered?
The Technomancer
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The Girl Who Waited was extremely good up until they actually met old Amy, and then her acting killed it for me. Something about the way she handled the emotions of the situation felt false to me, annoyingly so
infiniteloop
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Bosses. All three of them.
She's going to get so stalked.
infiniteloop
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Filming may have attracted a crowd:
Hot Coldman
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Filming in
New York City? Huh, dat budget
Box of Bunnies
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No wonder we're only getting half a season.
Somewhere RTD had an orgasm.
omg and then a bad guy will make everyone in NY look away from it and it will stomp the city in a heartbeat omg
Filming in
.. past self would have a heartattack if it knew Doctor Who could squeeze the budget for on location filming.
Question: Does anyone know if it's possible to buy Doctor Who without DRM (or any digital video for that matter)? I ask because I'd like to store it all on a NAS and stream it, as opposed to collecting bluray boxes..
The closest I've found is the newly announced BBC 'Project Barcelona', although I'm sure that will have DRM of some form on it too..
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17368514)
actual New York
Question: Does anyone know if it's possible to buy Doctor Who without DRM (or any digital video for that matter)? I ask because I'd like to store it all on a NAS and stream it, as opposed to collecting bluray boxes..
The closest I've found is the newly announced BBC 'Project Barcelona', although I'm sure that will have DRM of some form on it too..
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17368514)
I just weed a little.
And then I thought about it and how almost any implementation would look very cheesy. Not sure I want now.
Chrysler building gargoyles
statues
Looking at the US trailer for Doctor Who, which pretty much only shows the US locations, it seems like they're throwing in the odd US location to drum up more overseas licensing income. Is it still fully BBC funded, or is there some co-funding from elsewhere?
amazing episode. i really want sutekh to make an appearance in nuwho.
they've got an expanding US crowd. with the license fee freeze they're probably looking to make more money off bbc worldwide in the US. i picked up on the same thing last season when the series opener was set in the us and the trailers made a big deal of it too.
PalaceBrother
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If you haven't seen the Reddit thread, a fan was nice enough to offer them tea.
http://www.reddit.com/r/doctorwho/comments/s5cke/i_joined_the_doctor_and_his_companions_for_tea_in/
The theory above about the
is too ridiculously awesome to happen. Great idea.
http://www.reddit.com/r/doctorwho/comments/s5cke/i_joined_the_doctor_and_his_companions_for_tea_in/
The theory above about the
Statue of Liberty
He's still over 1100 years old.
He spent 200 years running from his fate, until he realized he could just use the Tesalecta to fake his death and continue on doing what he does.
On the
Weeping Angel Statue of Liberty. It might work if the episode ends similarly to Blink, they think the Angels have been disposed but we got a frightening scene implying that Lady Liberty is an Angel that can attack at anytime.
GameplayWhore
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Why are we spoiler tagging stuff that's already aired?
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