The Dr Who thread

techno12 · Post by **techno12** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:43 am 0

DutchLlama wrote:
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.

I had nightmares of those energy monsters from I think it was Planet of Fear (or was it Terror?) for years after it was broadcast, one of my earliest memories. Nightmares galore

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:47 am 0

techno12 wrote:I so so enjoyed that episode! And Sally Sparrow is so close to my ideal woman it's unreal.

Again, seconded!

Skah T · Post by **Skah T** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 7:00 am 0

Utterly fantastic episode!

One question, though. How did the angel get the Tardis key in the first place? Grab it of the doc before they send him back in time?

Also, I hope the lights never go out in that basement or that someone doesn't come in and move one of the statues. Even when the house is eventually demolished the statues will likely lose line of sight. And why does the thought of that scare the shit out of me. *shudder*

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:53 am 0

Another excellent episode. What a series so far, must be at least seven great to excellent episodes out of ten so far.

Vintage matt · Post by **Vintage matt** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 9:29 am 0

I really think Stephen Moffat should be head writer, he understands pacing and can tell a good story.

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:37 am 0

Skah T wrote:Utterly fantastic episode!

One question, though. How did the angel get the Tardis key in the first place? Grab it of the doc before they send him back in time?

Also, I hope the lights never go out in that basement or that someone doesn't come in and move one of the statues. Even when the house is eventually demolished the statues will likely lose line of sight. And why does the thought of that scare the shit out of me. *shudder*

Do you reckon he'll just leave them there or move them to somewhere secure?

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:59 am 0

some plent perminately in light?

So...wait...*everyone* agrees this was a great eppisode?!?

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:26 am 0

Darkflame wrote:some plent perminately in light?

Pardon ?!?

So...wait...*everyone* agrees this was a great eppisode?!?

I think there was one negative a few pages back, but most seemed to love it.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:40 am 0

planet, sorry.

negative comment? really?

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:56 am 0

Darkflame wrote:planet, sorry.

Ta.

negative comment? really?

Well, there's always one ...............

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:02 pm 0

Skah T wrote:One question, though. How did the angel get the Tardis key in the first place? Grab it of the doc before they send him back in time?

It would have been nice to just have a glimmer of seeing The Doctor and Martha as being 38 years older in the present day... after all until Sally rescued them, they would have still been lingering around 2007.

My theory is that as the Doctor went there in 1969 to leave the message after he'd been zapped back, he went there just before she came to the house in 2007 and left his key there for her to collect.

Which prompts the question... did she keep the key, or did she include in the folder of material she handed over to him? If the former... bring it on her an assistant in the future, I wouldn't complain

Speaking of the folder, the conversation isn't the only paradox here in the story... the list of 17 DVDs would be as well. One thing for sure, sadly The Doctor couldn't then go rescue her mate and the police guy, because then the whole plan for rescuing him would be ruined. He had to let them stay trapped in the past. A sad reminder of the cost of this...

Skah T wrote:Also, I hope the lights never go out in that basement or that someone doesn't come in and move one of the statues. Even when the house is eventually demolished the statues will likely lose line of sight. And why does the thought of that scare the shit out of me. *shudder*

Given the police file on the incident (they knew about all the disappearances), they may very well recommend keeping the property protected and not for demolition... but good points there. In fact it did strike me strange... why would the electricity still be available to a disused property?

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:07 pm 0

I like this sort of story. It's perfect Doctor Who. Not so much breaking the laws of time as giving them a swift kick in the nuts and nipping past while they're on the bottom clutching their pods.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:17 pm 0

Mayhem wrote:In fact it did strike me strange... why would the electricity still be available to a disused property?

The owner still paid the lecky bill and never asked for it to be disconnected?

Dungeon-Dave · Post by **Dungeon-Dave** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:27 pm 0

Perhaps the Doc fiddled the leccy board's records in the past so that electricity was being supplied but "off the radar" so the board wouldn't cotton onto it. He thinks of everything, you know.

Here's a quick question: did anyone feel that ep could be classified as a "horror" story? I'm just asking since I read a lot of Hellblazer, Sandman etc and they're more chilling than horrific - but the foreward of one book mentions "bad horror is just blood and guts: it washes off the skin. Good horror permutates through the flesh, seeping up behind the eyeballs and changing your outlook on life so that you never view certain things in the same way again".

I'm approaching it from the view that the stuff I read is classified as "horror" when it ain't, but they're very much like Saph/Steel and eps like this. I'm not really shre what genre they could be described as. Chilling SciFi?

Jonesey · Post by **Jonesey** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:33 pm 0

So why didn't Martha use her marvelously magical mobile 'phone to 'bell someone in the present?

Nice episode - those statues were gleefully spooky!