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Doctor Who Series Seven |OT| The Question You've Been Running From All Your Life

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I'm guessing that Pond Life will heavily foreshadow the Pond's eventual fate/departure as it may be. One thing I despise about the S6/7 is the mid series split they've picked up from America.

You can't call it a "series" if it doesn't run in "series." And just because you're creating the illusion that DW runs all year round, it doesn't mean it does.
 
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Jintor said:
It also totally jacks the pacing.
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I feel they fixed that this time by essentially making it 2 mini series.

Also, S6 wasn't that bad with the pacing, given the way Good Man concludes and Let's Kill Hitler opens. The Doctor went away for a while not just for us, but for the Ponds too. So it felt pretty OK.
 
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Green Scar said:
I feel they fixed that this time by essentially making it 2 mini series.

Also, S6 wasn't that bad with the pacing, given the way Good Man concludes and Let's Kill Hitler opens. The Doctor went away for a while not just for us, but for the Ponds too. So it felt pretty OK.
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I'm just pissed that essentially the increased American fanbase has led to no more 13 weeks of awesome Who in the Summer :'(
 
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ScreenSplitter said:
Does anyone else find it extremely weird that
The Doctor deprived them of raising their child (her growing up alongside you is not a substitute), and that's apparently all fine? By all rights Amy should hate his Time Lord guts.
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I'm guessing Amy and Rory will get to raise Melody in a parallel universe because of timey-wimey, mumbo-jumbo. Well at least that's what I'd like to see.
 
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Exterminieren

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I'm guessing
either Amy, Rory or both will get sent back in time in New York by the Weeping Angels to the Sixties, allowing them to look after Melody after she regenerates, eventually sending her to Leadworth to meet up with their younger selves.
 
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Exterminieren said:
I'm guessing
either Amy, Rory or both will get sent back in time in New York by the Weeping Angels to the Sixties, allowing them to look after Melody after she regenerates, eventually sending her to Leadworth to meet up with their younger selves.
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I think that's exactly what is going to happen.
 
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King of the Potato People said:
I'm guessing Amy and Rory will get to raise Melody in a parallel universe because of timey-wimey, mumbo-jumbo. Well at least that's what I'd like to see.
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And the doctor will NEVER GET TO SEE THEM AGAIN
(But he'll totally see them again)
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Exterminieren said:
I'm guessing
either Amy, Rory or both will get sent back in time in New York by the Weeping Angels to the Sixties, allowing them to look after Melody after she regenerates, eventually sending her to Leadworth to meet up with their younger selves.
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Yeah there's still a big gap in how Melody got from New York to England.
 
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I am continuing to put money on (speculation)
the Doctor having to choose between the River he knows and loves and letting the Ponds raise their child through the use of a timey whimey reset button.
 
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The s5 arc was so good.

That Doctor/Amy handholding/closed eyes scene in Flesh and Stone, then the finale? Legendary.
 
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Andrex said:
The s5 arc was so good.

That Doctor/Amy handholding/closed eyes scene in Flesh and Stone, then the finale? Legendary.
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Yeah, I think the series 5 resolution (what there was of it) actually worked pretty well. It was the middle bits, where the crack was simply used to resolve the plot where it came off the rails.
 
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MDavis360 said:
I actually would like to know a definitive list of every alien/race that has access to time travel in the Doctor Who Universe

Time Lords
Daleks
Time Agents
Tesselecta
I'm assuming Cybermen?
Silence?
Sontarrans??
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In the Sontaran two parter back in season 4 they mention about not being able to take part in the last great time war, I'm assuming this is due to their lack time travelling technology.

Also I think The Family in the human nature two parter could also time travel seeing as they were hunting the doctor across time and space.
 
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smarties00 said:
In the Sontaran two parter back in season 4 they mention about not being able to take part in the last great time war, I'm assuming this is due to their lack time travelling technology.
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The Sontarans' first appearance in the classic series has one of them stealing scientists using primitive time tech.

I think the point is not that the Sontarans weren't technologically capable of fighting the Time War, it's more that they were too unsophisticated and dull in their tactics to do so.

Also I think The Family in the human nature two parter could also time travel seeing as they were hunting the doctor across time and space.
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IIRC, their time travel consisted of a Vortex Manipulator stolen from a Time Agent.
 
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This thing?

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Looks beige to me.
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I'm impressed. Not many men can pull off a decorative vegetable.

Mariolee said:
I honestly thought Rita was set up to be the Doctor's surprise new companion since this was also the episode confirmed to have the Ponds departing and I was like, "Whoa, the Doctor's gonna have a Muslim doctor person be his companion? How progressive! :D" Then she got killed, and I think that may have been the most I've ever been upset at a side character of Doctor Who, if only because along with her body's death was the death of her potential. :(
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I'm sad because I liked all the one-off companions they had that ended up dying and would have loved to have them stay. Lynda Moss from Big Brother, Madame de Pompadour, Astrid the thief, Jenny the Doctor's daughter and Rita. Shame. They all had such chemistry with the Doctor.
 
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Astrid was a waitress. You're thinking of Lady Christina.

I liked Christina for the same reason I liked Martha. Dat ass.
 
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The Real Abed said:
I'm sad because I liked all the one-off companions they had that ended up dying and would have loved to have them stay. Lynda Moss from Big Brother, Madame de Pompadour, Astrid the thief, Jenny the Doctor's daughter and Rita. Shame. They all had such chemistry with the Doctor.
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Rita really stuck out to me because I liked her more in the minutes she had on-screen to the whole episodes Amy had in Series 6.

This is part of the reason I like Donna so much, because she had personality, chemistry and we really see her grow as a character. It's funny because most people hated her in The Runaway Bride, but I think that it was almost the perfect companion introduction, because we see how she's flawed and vapid, but then the next time we see her she's clearly grown as character just by being with the Doctor for such a small amount of time. And she doesn't entirely lose her edge or become soppy for the Doctor like every other companion has; she stands her ground when she thinks he's wrong or unfair and proves that she has something to give in return. Her attitude and the humour she brings is fantastically juxtaposed by the more emotional scenes like what we saw in The Fires of Pompeii and Planet of the Ood.
 
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That was a freaking hilarious minute there

Rita had a shit-tonne of chemistry with everybody in her couple of minutes of onscreen time :T

Although honestly if they had trolled us by having the conspiracy theorist as a companion that would have been hilarious also.
 
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Judging by the quick cuts, it looks like this
obviously takes place during or after 'Dinosaurs On A Spaceship'.
 
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I love how the Doctor's Theme starts building and completely cuts out for "and you have no idea what I'm talking about."
 
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Jintor

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I really enjoy the way time travel is being used as an active plot device rather than just a means to get to another fancy adventure. I mean, obviously it was being used before, but it seems more prominent in Moffat's Who.
 
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Jintor said:
I really enjoy the way time travel is being used as an active plot device rather than just a means to get to another fancy adventure. I mean, obviously it was being used before, but it seems more prominent in Moffat's Who.
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Hm, I kinda disagree. Using it more often as a plot device just drives home to me how completely inconsistent time travel seems to be in the show.
 
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Jintor

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I way prefer them to more goddamn aliens in goddamn rubber masks. Ontological paradoxes and timey-wimey inconsistencies can flow right by me but goddamn stupid-looking minotaurs will wreck a story immersion for me every time.
 
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Jintor said:
I way prefer them to more goddamn aliens in goddamn rubber masks. Ontological paradoxes and timey-wimey inconsistencies can flow right by me but goddamn stupid-looking minotaurs will wreck a story immersion for me every time.
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FX is something I'm able to get over pretty easily (I mean, good lord has it been terrible at times), but a plot that isn't internally consistent; even with timey-wimey taken into account, bothers me imminently more
 
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Yeah, poorly thought out time travel stuff makes me think about it too hard and then inevitably hate it. Masks are whatever.
 
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