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Doctor Who Series Seven |OT| The Question You've Been Running From All Your Life
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The Elite
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Same.
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Bernard Cribbins, man.
Of 'New Who' Rory and Wilf have definitely been my two favourites. Donna was fantastic too.
I like Amy too but every other week she seems to be damsel in distress. Getting converted into a dalek, a weeping ange, a wooden doll, a fish vampire from venice, getting left behind etc etc.
That's more the writing than her character but with only two episodes to go I still don't feel as if I know Amy's character or can actually be invested in the coming departure or for that matter, cared about any of the previous near-deaths either :/
I like Amy too but every other week she seems to be damsel in distress. Getting converted into a dalek, a weeping ange, a wooden doll, a fish vampire from venice, getting left behind etc etc.
That's more the writing than her character but with only two episodes to go I still don't feel as if I know Amy's character or can actually be invested in the coming departure or for that matter, cared about any of the previous near-deaths either :/
PalaceBrother
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He's one of my favourite characters from the show. Just thought the actor portrayed his character so honestly.
The other thing (double posting, sorry) is that with Riddel, Queen Nefertiti, Rory's dad and the small hint of Oswin there's no fear or upset of Amy and Rory going knowing we can get more exciting characters and possibilities like those teased above.
It's not quite at the stage of me not being able to wait for them to leave, but I can't help but feel that they're occupying slots that could be filled by much better characters.
It's not quite at the stage of me not being able to wait for them to leave, but I can't help but feel that they're occupying slots that could be filled by much better characters.
JoshuaJSlone
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I'm in.
JoshuaJSlone
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Given the Gunslinger's ability to detect that facial feature even through walls, I found it kind of hard to believe he was having such trouble killing Jex without harming others. Watch from a distance, see where he sleeps, get close enough at night. Seems simpler than making a symbolic barrier around the town and enforcing it.
I thought at the beginning of last year, the about-to-die Doctor said he was ~1100? Seems like he's gained a few more decades since then at least--assuming he's not just making all these numbers up.maharg said:
KuwabaraTheMan
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Well, seeing as he was 957 when he became the seventh Doctor, followed by 900 as the ninth (and that's even ignoring the thousands of years comment from 3), it seems pretty clear that he is just making all the numbers up. And that's without even getting into the 700 some odd years the eighth Doctor lives for in the novels.
JoshuaJSlone
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I think it's fair enough to separate the old show, the books, and the 2005-present show for consistency on this.
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It's a trailer about the mid season finale which is still two episodes from now. Is it a surprise? If so, I suppose I wrongly assumed the implication was there.
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I'm pretty clued up, but there were several things that I didn't know for certain in there.
Weeping Statue of Liberty, Angel grabbing River, regeneration thing on River's wrist, someone dying...
So my friend was in New York this week and came back with a few of these little packs of Doctor Who micro-figures. Anyone seen these in a chain store in the US like Target or Barnes andNoble? I see you can order them from some places online, but if I could find some in a store I could "cheat" my way to a dalek (got two doctors and an angry smiley face guy in the packs I had) since they're in blind bags and that's the only other one I'd really like.
Figured Who-gaf would be my best bet to ask.
Figured Who-gaf would be my best bet to ask.
I'm watching season 3 these days, and Tenth's ruthlessness kind of took me aback. I had only watched seasons 1&2, bits of the 4th (mainly Moffats episodes), and always thought he was the fun, emotional one. Well, he's also one brutal dude.
Oh, and damn spoilery trailers... Must resist.
Oh, and damn spoilery trailers... Must resist.
The Elite
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Holy fuck! So good but so spoilery.
Yeah Tenth is the brutal and also very depressed Doctor.
grimshawish
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Tenth is a Doctor with seriously serious emotional problems. Hes pretty fucked up.
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Next Time trailer for The Angels Take Manhatten has been leaked.
Much less spoilery, and a better trailer for my money. So good.
That smiling Angel is the creepiest.
Much less spoilery, and a better trailer for my money. So good.
That smiling Angel is the creepiest.
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I'm on total blackout for TATM. Not even watching the Next Time trail.
grimshawish
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Looks amazing. I love the idea of the Angels controlling New York.
APZonerunner
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Looks like my prediction I posted a few weeks ago is bang on, I think... here it is again - conjecture and prediction of course, but based on the trailer too now, so potential spoilers...
I think the "You Just Died" line will be to either Rory or Amy... one of them zapped into the past by the Angels. They'll bump into whoever it is in the present. That means that as with the black dude in Blink they can't go back in their own timeline and fetch him from the past as it'd create a Paradox. Thus, whoever remains has a choice: stay with The Doctor or live out their life in the past with their love. Choice is obvious, and bam, they're both gone. Who knows what'll happen with River, if anything, but potentially Young River is in New York at a certain point, too, so they could end up finding and raising her.
EDIT: All the dialogue by the Doctor in that second trailer makes me think this is definitely it.
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Don't watch. Watch and you're dead. Don't turn on the video. Don't look, and don't watch.
Good luck.
The Technomancer
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Hyyyyyyyype
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Poking around MightyGodKing, and I found this post regarding Asylum of the Daleks. Basically, the author thinks that AotD was meant to be much different:
Instead of Oswin being a Dalek, she's killed by a Dalek, who then begins to feel remorse for what it's done after she gets to him, resulting in it "taking on" her personality/identity. As the author puts it "if it was Oswin, then Oswin wasn't dead, and it hadn't done what it knew it had done.
...so this is all based on a sneaking suspicion? Okiedokie.
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CHEEZMO;42422864 said:
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EleventhDoctor
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Angels Take Manhatten looks like the greatest thing ever.
Yep. Not going to watch anything but the 'Next Time' and try and forgot it until next week.
Dinner almost ready, nice and baked, perfect timing for Who!
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