The Dr Who thread

pogo · Post by **pogo** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:51 pm 0

That was very good, a lot better than I thought it would be. Nothing really original - witchcraft, voodo, words of power all mainstays of fantasy - but new to Dr. Who so it worked very well. The design was impressive, and it moved at such a lively clip that you didn't have time to ponder the more dubious bits of dialog.

So with so much spent of recreating Elizabethan England, and the encounter at the end, are we going to revisit it this series ? And doesn't next week look even better ? And isn't Martha Jones settling in well !

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:52 pm 0

HGFB wrote:New timeslot next week because of the Football. 19:40.

Looks like they still haven't learnt to "not fuck with the timeslot" then...

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:52 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:Fell down a quite bit at the magic as science stuff. Explaining a voodoo doll as a DNA replication module just didn't work.

Oh, shut up and think about that shot of Martha from behind, the one where her arse looked utterly majestic.

Then think about when Tennant went all Tom Baker eyes.

Then relax

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:02 pm 0

Hay cant I have both majestic arse's and science that makes sense?
Are they mutually exclusive?

Nah, don't worry about me,it was a good epp, the science-as-magic thinking is a long running knot in my brain so I like it when its handled right. Everything can be seen as magic till its explained.
[insert Arthur C. Clarke quote here]

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:07 pm 0

Doctor Who has always made a point of expaining magic as science. It's nothing new.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:14 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Doctor Who has always made a point of expaining magic as science. It's nothing new.

Never said it was.
I just think in that episode it could have been handled better.

Stuart B · Post by **Stuart B** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:32 pm 0

Ahh, that was ace! Another strong episode and I've found that I'm not missing Roses' estuary accent at all.

Witchcraft as science? Sure why not... when a story this fun is ripping along at this pace I really don't mind

Plus the fellow playing Shakespeare was aces!

Gorecki · Post by **Gorecki** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:33 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:Hay cant I have both majestic arse's and science that makes sense?

In a programme about a time-travelling alien who travels in a box that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside whilst using a 'sonic' screwdriver and psychic paper? No, you can't.

Anyway, according to Doctor Who Confidential The Face Of Bo reveals his big secret next week. Wahey!

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:36 pm 0

Quality bit of daftness that, loved it.

Not sure how well it will date in the future, the Harry Potter references might pass people by ten years from now, or they might not.

Was nice to see a couple of bits of Warwick I recognised as well (albiet looking a lot more dishevelled than the grade 1 listed stuff there usually does). Man I miss living there sometimes.

If you watched confidential tonight right to the end then you'll be like me and wanting next weeks episode to be on like, right now. It's going to be a good one.

My guess at the face of Boe's secret? "He is not the last, there is another". Although possibly delivered in a less Ben Kenobi-ish manner than that.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:42 pm 0

Flabio wrote:
My guess at the face of Boe's secret? "He is not the last, there is another". Although possibly delivered in a less Ben Kenobi-ish manner than that.

RTD said last year

Boe's message is four words.

Post by **Jedburgh** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:50 pm 0

HGFB wrote:RTD said last year

Boe's message is four words.

"There is... another... Lungbarrow."

craigt · Post by **craigt** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:52 pm 0

HGFB wrote:
Flabio wrote:
My guess at the face of Boe's secret? "He is not the last, there is another". Although possibly delivered in a less Ben Kenobi-ish manner than that.
RTD said last year

Boe's message is four words.

"You are not alone"?

Peltazoid · Post by **Peltazoid** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:52 pm 0

HGFB wrote:
Flabio wrote:
My guess at the face of Boe's secret? "He is not the last, there is another". Although possibly delivered in a less Ben Kenobi-ish manner than that.
RTD said last year

Boe's message is four words.

is it "Fuck off you cunt!!!" by any chance??

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:54 pm 0

Gorecki wrote:
Darkflame wrote:Hay cant I have both majestic arse's and science that makes sense?
In a programme about a time-travelling alien who travels in a box that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside whilst using a 'sonic' screwdriver and psychic paper? No, you can't.

Hay, science that makes sense dosnt have to be *our* science.

Thats why I love the Discworld books so much, Prachett's universe has its own rules and logic. It has magic, but the magic itself works like a science.
You can break a magic spell down to just the bare nesscietys to make it work, even if it ends up being three small sticks and 4 cc of mouse blood

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 9:01 pm 0

It made sense to me. A technology based on words instead of numbers. Is it my fault my brain is wired up wrong? After all it took a genius wordsmith to save the world.