The Dr Who thread

carolen · Post by **carolen** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:03 pm 0

That was good. Oh yes.

But Martha gave Jack mouth-to-mouth without tilting his head back far enough for the air to have gone in his lungs rather than his stomach. She's not a very good student doctor.

Derek Jacobi and John Simm both excellent.

Col · Post by **Col** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:06 pm 0

I AM THE MASTER!

Brilliant stuff, i knew it was coming but it was fucking brilliant.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:07 pm 0

I just hope Simm doesn't camp it up too much... I did rather like the old sinistar overtones

Speaking of which... so what IS the deal with the watch then? Or will we find that out...? As soon as I saw it I knew what was going to happen...

(I also hope how they explain somehow why he's back after the TV film!)

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:07 pm 0

foxyloxy wrote:Fucking hell, that was brilliant, and nothing like what I was expecting!

Yes I was actually groaning at the start because it seemed they had nicked every sci-fi cliche out of the book

(group of people stuck in a base working on a salvation project led by an elderly eccentric scientist with rejects from Mad Max and Blade trying to get in).

But it ended interestingly enough.

And we have

THE MASTER

back

(even if he doesn't sport that cool beard).

My take on how they will get out of this fix is this:

The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to do something to the Tardis. I guess he activated a recall program. Once the Master is delivered to Earth and exits the Tardis it will be sent back to the point where it came from. They will manage to escape just before the horde of Mad Max and Blade rejects enters the room.

dom · Post by **dom** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:10 pm 0

Absolutely stonkingly top episode

Oh, and I knew it was going to be *HIM*... I did.. well, I suspected....

Roll-on next week!

Dom

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:13 pm 0

DutchLlama wrote:My take on how they will get out of this fix is this:

Far easier than that. Martha recognised his voice, so they know where he is; Captain Jack has his own time machine, so they can get there.

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:16 pm 0

Dio wrote:
DutchLlama wrote:My take on how they will get out of this fix is this:

Far easier than that. Martha recognised his voice, so they know where he is; Captain Jack has his own time machine, so they can get there.

No, Captain Jack explained that his time device broke down so he had live through the 19th and 20th century. So they really really need the Tardis.

BTW: I'm wandering though what the Master is going to do with the Doctor's hand. It contains his DNA so it can't be anything good.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:18 pm 0

>No, Captain Jack explained that his time device broke down so he had live through the 19th and 20th century.
And you think the Doctor can't fix it?

Istar · Post by **Istar** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:21 pm 0

Oh. Shit.

That was awesome. I'd heard rumours He was going to be in this season, and of course The Face of Boe told us something of this right at the beginning.

Aside from a few silly vampiric breathing moments and Jack latching-on to a TARDIS in the middle of it's demat sequence and hanging on through a 4Space trip, this rocked my world.

And I was totally into Jacobi in that role, and then Simm appears and both me and Wife-of-Istar spouted "Am I mad? In a coma? Or back in time?" at the same time.

Inspired casting choice.

Didn't hang around for next weeks' spoilers, so please please please don't anybody let on what's coming if you did.

Somebody already said this: fucking awesome. And that only barely covers it.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:21 pm 0

Dio's point is exactly my own too

But I guess we'll just have to wait 7 days... now will please someone explain why the watch did what it did? And how Professor Yana got it? Or are those unanswerables?!

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:22 pm 0

Dio wrote:
>No, Captain Jack explained that his time device broke down so he had live through the 19th and 20th century.
And you think the Doctor can't fix it?

Well maybe Captain Jack doesn't have it anymore (it has been a long time after all). Maybe it only works for 1 person. Then again if he thought of the hand he would have brought the device with him as well if he had access to it.

Col · Post by **Col** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:23 pm 0

John Simm was great, Derek Jacobi was equally fantastic. The helpless look of the doctor at the end was marvelous.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:23 pm 0

I could be wrong, but in next weeks episode:

When John Simms introduces his 'friends' in the cabinet, are they the spherical Dalek things?

Istar · Post by **Istar** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:25 pm 0

Mayhem wrote:Dio's point is exactly my own too

But I guess we'll just have to wait 7 days... now will please someone explain why the watch did what it did? And how Professor Yana got it? Or are those unanswerables?!

Looks like they're a common bit of kit for TimeLords. It wasn't necessarily the same one The Doctor used.

This one was obviously used (and, I think, mentioned as such in the dialogue) as a hidey-hole during the Time War.

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:29 pm 0

The Doctor is good at fixing things.

Excellent performances all round, I thought, especially that of a nemesis persona to mirror Tennant's Doctor.

The watch, I think, is not one that we've seen before. It might have once belonged to a different TARDIS.

Oh, and Jack's broken vortex manipulator is still on his wrist.