The Dr Who thread

Bog · Post by **Bog** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:44 pm 0

HGFB wrote:They said it would make the FX costs too high so they couldn't do it. Torchwood S2 might be getting shot in HD though.

Personally I'm amazed the BBC don't stump up the cash for HD shooting. If nothing else it would make the show more saleable in the US.

Well, rendering *roughly* obeys a square law. If a frame takes a minute to render at 100x100, it'll take about four minutes at 200x200, because twice the res == four times as many pixels.

Standard Res is 720x576. Full HD is 1920x1080. So, all told, exactly five times the number of pixels to render in any given frame. 'Course, that's a rule of "thumb" (if your thumb's been to Chernobyl), and not even close to reality, but it does as a rough guideline as to why.

I'd actually rather have D1 frames done beautifully, than have HD frames done a bit gash, to be honest.

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:47 pm 0

That makes sense - I'm sure I read it was time not money being the problem. Like HD would mean a series every 18 months rather than every 12.

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:20 pm 0

Stuart B wrote:Obsessively observant viewers may also have noticed, in 42, a symbol that was present both on something that Martha has and on something that Saxon's people had.

HGFB wrote:

Oh. That makes at three appearances of it so far, then.

Istar wrote:[...] It works because it's The Doctor, and because he's a hard bastard sometimes, and because with that in mind if he says "Don't blink" or Something Very Bad Will Happen if you do, I'm gonna believe him.

Which reminds me of some other common seasonal themes, now including the Christmas episode:

The Doctor's ruthlessness when deeply ired (The Runaway Bride, Human Nature)
Tales of Gallifrey (The Runaway Bride, Gridlock, Human Nature)
Creatures from the Dark Days of/nearly as old as the universe (The Runaway Bride, The Shakespeare Code, Blink)
2000AD references (Smith and Jones, Gridlock)

GrapeApe · Post by **GrapeApe** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:06 pm 0

Martha better not be going anywhere. Best bit of booty The Doctor has had around.
I'm firmly in her camp (all euphemism intended). Sally Sparrow looks a bit "Sunday school" to me.

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:46 pm 0

That reminds me of something else...

xav wrote:For extra bonus points Martha would indeed stop pining for the Doctor - but only because her and Sally start something instead....

I think it has been confirmed that Martha's relationship to the Doctor will be very different next year.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:31 am 0

Captain JACK, da da da DA

They crash him, and his body may burn,
They smash him. But they know he'll return,
TO LIVE AGAIN

Captain JACKKK

Excelent eppisode.
The only nitpick I could think of was the fact there seems to be an awfull lot of "last humans" over the timeline dosnt there? :p
(Then again, maybe that comment about "There was talk of time travel long ago but I never believed it" infers the humans at the last days are all ancestors of time travelers)

I'd actually rather have D1 frames done beautifully, than have HD frames done a bit gash, to be honest.

Second.
More detail often just more to see thats wrong :p

Baggypants · Post by **Baggypants** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:09 pm 0

Harlequin wrote: 2000AD references (Smith and Jones

And there I was thinking its was a 70's cowboy show.

what is the 2000AD reference, out of interest?

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:16 pm 0

Harlequin wrote:That reminds me of something else...

xav wrote:For extra bonus points Martha would indeed stop pining for the Doctor - but only because her and Sally start something instead....
I think it has been confirmed that Martha's relationship to the Doctor will be very different next year.

What, you mean like "interesting" or "worthwhile"?

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:18 pm 0

GrapeApe wrote:Sally Sparrow looks a bit "Sunday school" to me.

Blimey - it must have been fun at the Sunday School you went to

Didn't you see Ms Mulligan in "the Amazing Mrs Pritchard"? The vicar most certainly would not approve

Kelloggs · Post by **Kelloggs** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:23 pm 0

XOR wrote:
Flabio wrote:Kill off Martha! Bring back Sally!
Give her her own series I say.

edit: Sally that is.

Yes, I think were I to be commissioning stuff for the BBC...

... I'd definitely give her one!

*snigger*

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:02 pm 0

Zoot wrote:
GrapeApe wrote:Sally Sparrow looks a bit "Sunday school" to me.
Blimey - it must have been fun at the Sunday School you went to

Didn't you see Ms Mulligan in "the Amazing Mrs Pritchard"? The vicar most certainly would not approve

Incidentily does anyone have that as Xvid?

I tried torrenting it but I only could download episode 2 to 5 from demonoid. The first and last episode were missing.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:05 pm 0

It was posted to alt.binaries.british.drama about 85 days ago. Still active on Giganews.

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:04 pm 0

HGFB wrote:It was posted to alt.binaries.british.drama about 85 days ago. Still active on Giganews.

Well membership to that's a bit too steep for me. Could you download it for me and stick it on Demonoid (or The Pirate Bay or some other place)? Thanks!

Jonesey · Post by **Jonesey** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:18 pm 0

Quick coupla questions for any number of anoraks on here -

Has Gallifrey been atomised, like, or is it still there but dead on the surface kind of thing? (I was just wondering, what with the Eye of Harmony and Temporal Vortex still functioning and all...and wouldn't it be a waste if the APC Net had been destroyed?)

And is Romana (herself a Time Lord) still knocking about in E-Space?

Stuart B · Post by **Stuart B** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:26 pm 0

I have a sneaky suspicion that we're gonna finally find out exactly what went on in the Time War in the next two eps