The Dr Who thread

Bog · Post by **Bog** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:18 pm 0

Who's got a four-tonne truck? I want to nick an angel statue and have it in HGFB's front yard for tomorrow morning....

Col · Post by **Col** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:22 pm 0

That was a brilliant, clever episode!

First thing I thought of when Sally met Kathy's grandson in the house was the end of Back to the Future 2 "Are you Martin McFly?" "This exact time, this exact place"

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:26 pm 0

I'm a week behind as usual but I'd just like to add my tip-up that the two parter was bloody marvellous. Top rank all the way. And I was lauging manically as he was flipping the switches in the spaceship and nearly crying at both endings. Just plain brilliant.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:27 pm 0

Friend of mine just pointed out that the whole DVD conversation is a really complex paradox, in that both sides of the conversation require the other side to have already happened in order for their side to take place. Now that's fantastic writing.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:37 pm 0

DutchLlama wrote:
PVB wrote:
Viscount Charles wrote:Inanimate statues, and they were scarier Who monsters than anything made out of latex.
In Confidential we found out they were actors covered in latex.
Pleast also put spoiler markers when you describe how things are done in Confidential. Given that I can get BBC1 and 2 on satellite but not 3 and 4. So I have to wait till I have downloaded the torrent.

Sorry, didn't think that sort of thing would spoil an episode.

Kenz · Post by **Kenz** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:55 pm 0

Superb episode - and I even went as far as sneaking outside and moving the statue in our garden to the middle of the lawn just to frighten the missus (she did a classic double-take when she clocked it too!)

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:39 pm 0

Flabio wrote:Friend of mine just pointed out that the whole DVD conversation is a really complex paradox, in that both sides of the conversation require the other side to have already happened in order for their side to take place. Now that's fantastic writing.

I saw it as a kinda feedback effect.
The Doc will change what he says as the writting changes, in turn changing what he says.
This process only stops when the writting makes sense from both sides.
Any other "status" of the transcript would be unstable, and would thus change again.

This, obviously, happens instantly from the perspective of any human (and probably even the docs) mind.
So potentialy the conversation went around billions of times instantly till it was "stable".

First thing I thought of when Sally met Kathy's grandson in the house was the end of Back to the Future 2 "Are you Martin McFly?" "This exact time, this exact place"

Ditto.

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:54 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Sally Sparrow should be the next companion.

Couldn't agree more. She would be excellent.

Loved the episode too, very nice and creepy.

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:54 pm 0

All those statues are in Cardiff City ventre, most on Queen Street. I can see why they used them they've always been sinister. Next time my work takes me out with the early morning homeless breakfast run, I'll be wandering deserted streets at dawn, full of these bloody things

merman · Post by **merman** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:58 pm 0

FANTASTIC!

That was superb from the start to the end (and I loved the little coda).

Must admit I didn't see the "DVD as control disk" bit coming, which made it all the sweeter.

Having the Doctor absent for most of the episode actually worked. Great writing.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:10 am 0

Yeah, that was one of the best Whos I've seen. Brilliant stuff.

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:22 am 0

What a wonderful time we live in.

Incidentily I was browsing through the one copy of Doctor Who Magazine I bought during the 1990s today, issue 219 dating from 23rd November 1994. There's an article describing a scifi video movie called Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans featuring members of the Blake's 7 and Doctor Who cast. Jan Chappell & Brian Croucher starring next to Carole Anne Ford and Sophie Aldred. Is that available on DVD by chance?

And any idea if Big Finish will ever do video plays like that (although aging actors will be a problem as it's easier to sound like your younger self than to look like).

techno12 · Post by **techno12** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:36 am 0

HGFB wrote:Steven Moffat should write every episode.

Also Sally Sparrow. Would and then Would again.

I so so enjoyed that episode! And Sally Sparrow is so close to my ideal woman it's unreal.

techno12 · Post by **techno12** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:38 am 0

Jedburgh wrote:That was ace. I particularly liked the fact that they seem to have added on that last bit with the sole purpose of shitting up the tinies

Yeah I thought that too. It was an obvious "hey we were scared shitless by Dr Who in the 70s, so this lot are bloody well gonna be too" !

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:40 am 0

techno12 wrote:
Jedburgh wrote:That was ace. I particularly liked the fact that they seem to have added on that last bit with the sole purpose of shitting up the tinies
Yeah I thought that too. It was an obvious "hey we were scared shitless by Dr Who in the 70s, so this lot are bloody well gonna be too" !

I was never that scared by Doctor Who when I lived in England in the '70s but when those sea zombies walked out onto the beach in The Curse of Fenric I nearly shatted myself.