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

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Jintor

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Just wrapped Season Six and okay that was pretty bloody good. Just got to plough through the Christmas Special and I'll be up to date!
 
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DoctorWho said:
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i feel like
that dream scene of Amelia sitting on the suitcase in 11th hour will have some relevance .

More info on Pond life:

Featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, this five-part mini-adventure premieres on the Official Doctor Who site at noon on Monday with parts 2-5 stripped daily across the week. Written by Chris Chibnall and directed by Saul Metzstein, the omnibus version of Pond Life will be shown on the BBC’s Red Button on Saturday, 1st September.

Chris Chibnall commented, ‘Pond Life provides us with a lovely opportunity to catch-up with Amy and Rory since we saw them at the end of the last series. It opens with the Ponds at home and gives us an insight in to just what happens when the Doctor drops in and out of their lives. Travelling with the Doctor is one of the greatest things you can do, but it's fun to spend a few moments looking at the chaos he can also bring.’

Caroline Skinner, Executive Producer, said ‘Chris has written a beautiful, heartfelt and wickedly funny piece about the adventures the Ponds have been having with the Doctor since we last saw them on-screen. It's not long till the series itself will be back with a vengeance - but in the meantime, Pond Life is a truly heart-warming piece about our best-loved companions and their madcap relationship with their raggedy Doctor.’
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lol Chibnall
 
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Jintor

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Man I'm glad I didn't have to sit through the S6 thread while people were shooting their mouths off about TWORS.
 
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grimshawish

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Everything is looking so awesome.

Also that trailer - I love the opening dialogue. Eleven is being pretty threatening there I feel.

That last bit with River and Eleven 'You've just changed the future!' I feel were going to get a montage of The Doctor with River seeing how she plays with things - likely her future and his past - likely a fun wee montage :D

I wonder if the BBC will put out another trailer too.
 
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It's got a REALLY good wedding.

(I must say I never liked any of RTD's run in terms of story. But I freaking loved Eccleston.)
 
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Jintor said:
Man I'm glad I didn't have to sit through the S6 thread while people were shooting their mouths off about TWORS.
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Sometimes it's best to limit exposure to a GAF thread when watching a show. I find that some people on GAF like to nitpick things to hell and back. I've probably been guilty of it myself at times.
 
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Jintor

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I still think The Doctor's Wife is the perfect episode though. Just Smith and Amy applauding House is hilarious.
 
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Ahh it starts next weekend on BBC America?

I've got to order Series 6 for my pre season rewatch. I'm embarrassed its taken me this long to buy it.
 
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Jintor said:
It's got a REALLY good wedding.

(I must say I never liked any of RTD's run in terms of story. But I freaking loved Eccleston.)
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Yes, Eccleston is my favourite nuwho doctor. As for RTD's run(I assume you're talking about where he himself is writing), I thought the Journey's End three parter was the strongest nuwho finale myself, and I really did like the story...up until the last ten minutes at least.

In particular, the bit where SJS & Davros are speaking to each other and Davros's "children of time" speech were fantastic. His biggest flaw as a writer for me were his incredibly pat endings - Doomsday is the only nuwho season finale he did which had a half decent one.

Sadly this is a trend that for me, moffat has continued. Only Day of the Moon(which isn't really a finale as such) had a well thought out endpoint.
 
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So it might also be possible that "Time" and "Space" are the best resolved paradox episodes because it's nothing more than a linear causality chain that gets a little snarled but instantly resolves itself. Also: Amy Pond flirting with Amy Pond gawddamn

By the way, I am so late on this but the montage at the beginning of "Let's Kill Hitler" was incredible and also unfortunately kind of wasted :/
 
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Jintor said:
So it might also be possible that "Time" and "Space" are the best resolved paradox episodes because it's nothing more than a linear causality chain that gets a little snarled but instantly resolves itself. Also: Amy Pond flirting with Amy Pond gawddamn

By the way, I am so late on this but the montage at the beginning of "Let's Kill Hitler" was incredible and also unfortunately kind of wasted :/
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Time and Space skirt the rules of the show's Time Travel Laws because the TARDIS is stuck inside itself-it's operating outside the normal timeline...
 
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But it also makes complete sense with regards to action. Not with inspiration/information though, paradoxes always fail that test.
 
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New series in just over a week? Mini episodes next week? So good. Keeping airdates tight until last minute really pays off sometimes.
 
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JonathanEx said:
99% chance it will be.
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io9 said:
Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillan will be featured in their own 5-part collection of short webisodes which will appear at the start of the new season on September 1st, but will premiere online on Monday the 27th on the BBC1 YouTube channel.
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If they are on the BBC YT channel, it should be fine. I can watch videos posted there and I'm in the US.
 
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Is there any info on whether the new companion is still going to have romantic feelings about the doctor? Hell, one of the reasons I liked Catherine Tate is that she didn't want to jump the Doctor. And so far, the only main companion that doesn't.

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They need to make the Sixth and Seventh Doctor smaller.
 
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What was the sonic screwdriver created to do? I tried to watch this show on Netflix and its just too hokey for me to get into. But I did notice that this sonic screwdriver was used to do almost anything and seemed like a very lazy plot device.
 
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Teh Hamburglar said:
What was the sonic screwdriver created to do? I tried to watch this show on Netflix and its just too hokey for me to get into. But I did notice that this sonic screwdriver was used to do almost anything and seemed like a very lazy plot device.
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Its a Deus Ex Machina. They destroyed it once.
 
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Teh Hamburglar said:
What was the sonic screwdriver created to do? I tried to watch this show on Netflix and its just too hokey for me to get into. But I did notice that this sonic screwdriver was used to do almost anything and seemed like a very lazy plot device.
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Most of the time it just unlocks doors. It also is usually how the Doctor interfaces with computers. Occasionally it does more wacky stuff. The level of "get out of jail free" uses used to be a lot worse though, they actually destroyed it once just to stop using it as a plot device.
 
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The_Technomancer said:
Most of the time it just unlocks doors. It also is usually how the Doctor interfaces with computers. Occasionally it does more wacky stuff. The level of "get out of jail free" uses used to be a lot worse though, they actually destroyed it once just to stop using it as a plot device.
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you wood think it works with all doors :p
 
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Speaking of anniversary stuff after those pics: the official site has been updating its episode guide, so now every single episode is in the system properly at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006q2x0/episodes/guide - sometimes there's galleries, programme as broadcast reports and it's still all being updated - but one really nice touch is that the logo and background of the pages changes to the one for that era.
 
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JonathanEx said:
And the Gallifrey music. Oh, must stop myself going on another DW music love in.
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Resistance is futile.

Series 1-2
Westminster Bridge
Clockwork TARDIS
The Lone Dalek

Series 3
All The Strange, Strange Creatures
The Runaway Bride
This is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home

Series 4
The Source
The Greatest Story Never Told
A Dazzling End
The Dark and Endless Dalek Night

Series 4: The Specials
Lithuania
By Water Borne
The Clouds Pass
Four Knocks
Vale Decem

Series 5
I am the Doctor
The Mad Man in a Box
The Vampires of Venice
The Pandorica
The Life and Death of Amy Pond

Series 6
Help Is On Its Way
Deadly Siren
Melody Pond
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
The Wedding of River Song

I loved Murray Gold's RTD-era stuff a lot, but God almighty, his Moffat-era stuff is incredible at its best.
 
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