New Series of Dr Who

[8ball]

be reasonable, given the amount of genocide he has committed to save the human race I think he gets to call it on that front.

Given the amount of genocide he's committed he can hardly fucking talk!

 

[Stigmata]

With both humans and Silurians, it was the females who were into the murdering and the males all reasonableness... anyone care to speculate as to why?

Except for, you know, Amy and Nasreen negotiating an abortive repto-primate utopia

PS I saw Katy Manning in Shoreditch yesterday. Resisted the urge to say anything vulgar.

 

[TAE]

With both humans and Silurians, it was the females who were into the murdering and the males all reasonableness... anyone care to speculate as to why?

It makes a nice change to the usual 'men are murderers and women are sensible' perhaps ?

Also, what Stigmata just said.

 

[rollinder]

poor Rory

Who?

you bastard

 

[Augie March]

Ah well, that was a cracking 2 part episode indeed. I thought the first part was a bit slow and plodding, but in context it fitted nicely with the second part.

Yes, it was perhaps predictable at times (apart from the ending that is) but the story was written with an intelligence that delivered the emotional punches when needed.

And looks like I was wrong about Rory. He was alright it seems.

 

[magneze]

This really was one of my favourite stories of the past few series. The whole series is really good - the story arc about the crack all the way through really keeps it going.

 

[gamma globulins]

Apart from the crack bit, which if I can say felt a bit like a direction from on high, I really didn't think that was all that good.

Partly plodding, half the cast were unconvincing (esp Syal) with clunkier than usual dialogue, and the holes in the plot bigger than average. It just failed to engage me like it usually does.

/controversial

 

[strung out]

TAKE THAT BACK!!!!

 

[gamma globulins]

Oh, and the losing the kid bit, that was a plus. But it should have been a bigger point and had more emotional impact than it did.

He should have put Alea in the tardis in all fairness.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Apart from the crack bit, which if I can say felt a bit like a direction from on high, I really didn't think that was all that good.

Partly plodding, half the cast were unconvincing (esp Syal) with clunkier than usual dialogue, and the holes in the plot bigger than average. It just failed to engage me like it usually does.

/controversial

!

 

[gamma globulins]

I've read they had editing issues, 15 mins of Amy-Rory dialogue got cut, which explains why the two hardly spoke in the episode - that might have made the death a bit more meaningful.

 

[Helen Back]

I've just finished watching ALL the classic Who including the reconstructions of the wiped episodes so they're all now reasonably fresh in my mind (it's taken me about a year). Phew!

I'm now just mopping up watching/listening to the commentary tracks of the last few.

 

[DotCommunist]

Good to see my old school in Confidential. Christ those kids look like wankers in them blazers. I must have looked a wanker. No wonder the other kids in the town called us poofs.

Anyway, that pulling out of the Tardis fragment skews my theory a bit-maybe it isn't the time lock but the explosion of the Tardis resonating back through time. Unless that is how the time lock is breached, by ramming the Tardis into the lock

 

[Stigmata]

As it's supposed to happen on Amy's wedding day, I reckon it might be some attempt to bring back Rory that sets it all off.

Also re plot holes: if you have the TARDIS it's not as though Syal and the Welsh guy are going to have to stay trapped underground is it?

 

[strung out]

if they try bringing back rory from the crack, remember he still got shot and died in the real world. you'd just be bringing back a corpse.

 

[krtek a houby]

I'm beginning to tire of the over use of the sonic screwdriver. They should do what they did in the Peter Davison era and get rid of it. Gets him out of too many tricky situations.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I think The Doctor's new catchphrase should be "Physics!". As in:

"Doctor, how did you do that?"
"Physics!"

"Doctor, what on earth just happened?"
"Physics!"

"Doctor, why don't you use your sonic screwdriver for this one?"
"Fuck off, physics!"

Educational, inspirational, bound to catch on in the playgrounds

 

[Maurice Picarda]

"Doctor, why don't you use your sonic screwdriver for this one?"

Can you imagine any possible context in which that could ever be said, though?

 

[Lord Camomile]

Can you imagine any possible context in which that could ever be said, though?

Something terrible is about to happen, very possibly involving mild peril.

Job's a good'un.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

if they try bringing back rory from the crack, remember he still got shot and died in the real world. you'd just be bringing back a corpse.

yes but they fucking shot and then cremated the master and all that did was bleach his hair

 

[krtek a houby]

Something terrible is about to happen, very possibly involving mild peril.

Job's a good'un.

Hmm. I wonder is it the Black Guardian? He's due a turn...

 

[DotCommunist]

yes but they fucking shot and then cremated the master and all that did was bleach his hair

The Master is a Time Lord and an ex member of the Deca, the most brilliant and brightest of the Time Lords. Rory, human hospital porter, might not have quite the same tenacity when it comes to clinging to life.

 

[krtek a houby]

The Master is a Time Lord and an ex member of the Deca, the most brilliant and brightest of the Time Lords. Rory, human hospital porter, might not have quite the same tenacity when it comes to clinging to life.

 

[gamma globulins]

ZOMG unless he's actually THE RANI!

 

[DotCommunist]

They should bring her back. I've said it before but I'd like some of the c-lister baddies to come back. Enough Daleks, Autons etc. What about some Justice Machines or the Wyrrn?

 

[krtek a houby]

They should bring her back. I've said it before but I'd like some of the c-lister baddies to come back. Enough Daleks, Autons etc. What about some Justice Machines or the Wyrrn?

Or Magnus Greel?

 

[DotCommunist]

 

[gamma globulins]

Or Adric as a crotchety drunken pensioner.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

I'm beginning to tire of the over use of the sonic screwdriver. They should do what they did in the Peter Davison era and get rid of it. Gets him out of too many tricky situations.

I feel the same, but i doubt they'll get rid of it now.

 

[gamma globulins]

He could do with it getting broken at the beginning of a two parter though.