kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
You mean rat. That is what it looked like to me .
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danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
FFS, surrounded by newbs and fake fans.
Sutekh. Seth. The Typhonian Beast, Set, Sadok, Satan.
Watch the Pyramids of Mars. Then you’ll be better informed, and maybe you won’t be so sniffy about set design and special effects.
Lightweights.
surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
Gromit
International Man of Misery
What was that bit with Ruby where he talked about changing faces? What was that all about? Weird dialogue.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
And why is it always changed faces? 'After my latest regeneration, I ended up with new wrists'.
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
Thank goodness it was changed faces or we'd not have a show after 1966.
8ball
AV REFUGEES WELCOME
You mean the people still watching it?
Didn’t Tennant initially generate with a limp wrist (foreshadowing?), and got a better working one after his hand was lopped off while he still had some “regeneration energy” left?
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Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
SPOILERS, SWEETIE!!!FFS, surrounded by newbs and fake fans.
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Sutekh. Seth. The Typhonian Beast, Set, Sadok, Satan.
Watch the Pyramids of Mars. Then you’ll be better informed, and maybe you won’t be so sniffy about set design and special effects.
Anyway, I've done my homework now. There's also a point in the 70s series where a puff of smoke emerged from one of the baddies, which also features in the current one.
ginger_syn
Her Insanity laughs under pressure...👾
Anyone going to the cinema screenings on friday for the finale.
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
Did consider it. Think me and Mr Berske will just watch at home.
FabricLiveBaby!
Live Baby Fabric!
Just getting round to part 1 tonight..
Husband has many issues:
- time lords recognise other time lords. It should be obvious if she is or is not grandaughter. (Unless they are using chameleon arc)
- stupid pointless tickboxing in one scene but not one single actual foreigner.
- Doctor hasn't cried yet, but we're saving it.
- livestream "10am American time" - there is more than one timezone in America. New York time.ornwhat?
- more general pandering to US audience "declaration of independence"? - which one? American? What other planets might have had independence days? Why no witty comment from The Doctor?
So far we're 18 minutes in, and he really hates it.
I might say to him he should switch it off and touch grass, but likely he'd cry.
What a shame.
( There are other things also, but I won't mention them for fear of upsetting the perpetually upset).
Husband has many issues:
- time lords recognise other time lords. It should be obvious if she is or is not grandaughter. (Unless they are using chameleon arc)
- stupid pointless tickboxing in one scene but not one single actual foreigner.
- Doctor hasn't cried yet, but we're saving it.
- livestream "10am American time" - there is more than one timezone in America. New York time.ornwhat?
- more general pandering to US audience "declaration of independence"? - which one? American? What other planets might have had independence days? Why no witty comment from The Doctor?
So far we're 18 minutes in, and he really hates it.
I might say to him he should switch it off and touch grass, but likely he'd cry.
What a shame.
( There are other things also, but I won't mention them for fear of upsetting the perpetually upset).
Well daughter and I watched three episodes of the Pyramids of Mars last night. She was transfixed. Hopefully squeeze the last one in tonight. She's looking forward to it. People saying kids today won't watch this stuff because it is slow and shoddy etc are full of shit. A lot of you watched it as kids. I did. I watched black and white Tomb of the Cybermen on VHS and old episodes a relative recorded off UK gold in the age of Jurassic Park ffs. My Christmas present when I was 8 was the Curse of Peladon on VHS and the first missing adventure book. I couldn't have been happier.
If they have an interest they'll watch.
If they have an interest they'll watch.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Whut? How has Disney killed him
Silas Loom
Advanced. Forthright. Signifficant.
Wonderful that this is going to get small children into the Hinchcliffe/Holmes era.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Is it bad? I can’t judge these things as I’m dipping into Classic Who. But for side by side comparison here’s Sutekh across the decades:
The modern shot chosen there isn't so bad. It's is the one where he looks like he is sitting on the TARDIS waiting for a stroke that gets me.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Is Susan a timelord? It was never confirmed in her original run and I’m not at all clear about how Gallifreyan primogeniture laws worked.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Silas Loom
Advanced. Forthright. Signifficant.
Primogeniture? I thought it was a matter of heritability.
FabricLiveBaby!
Live Baby Fabric!
The Doc in the this episode even thought it was a regenerated Susan, which is what the erk was. There should be no wondering about it. Timelords recognise other time lords, So this whole "is it, isn't it" line of questioning shouldn't really happen, but at the same time kind of confirms timelord status otherwise what is there to wonder about? It's really piss poor writing.
I mean episode 1, as in back in 1963, they confirm they are from the same planet. I don't think it has to be named named outright, because people can use their brains, and of course a lot wasn't established back then, but it's pretty much a given.
lazythursday
Well-Known Member
well as you already pointed out it has already been established they could be fob-watched, and therefore not recognise each other, and it's not exactly hard for the writers to invent another reason why not.
FabricLiveBaby!
Live Baby Fabric!
Which is also exactly why it's annoying. Much in the way Sonic Screwdriver now is just a magic wand.
Who was always supposed to be scifi, with an educational Horizon like undertone, not fantasy where the writers can do whatervver-the-fuck-they-like and then make up some handwavy bullshit.
Reeks of narc-y ego.
FabricLiveBaby!
Live Baby Fabric!
51st no? Original pilot that was never aired.
lazythursday
Well-Known Member
Hmm. I think Who strayed away from hard sci fi a very very long time ago. It might have been supposed to be something along the lines of what you say in 1963 but I don't think there was a lot left of that by the seventies.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
I mean for most of the Pertwee era he was stranded on Earth and driving around in a vintage car.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
I am really looking forward to tomorrows episode, I normally watch when it is aired according to the schedule, but I have to be up early tomorrow at around the time N gets home from work - does it go on iPlayer from midnight tonight? Or do we have to wait til Sunday to watch together?
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