The Dr Who thread

[F-ZeroOne]

"ECETERA, ECETERA!"

[F-ZeroOne]

Wait! Anime crossover idea!

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DOCTOR UND PANZER!

[k345y]

Gave it a fair go.

Was enjoying it until the stupid suspended in mid air aeroplanes that weren't, they were suspended in time and space, but not just that, they were there to send a message to the world that there was a hovering aviation fuel bomb about to cause Apocalypse (an easily averted one at that by launching a few low tech SAM's towards these suspended aeroplanes) , .... but really it was a message to The Doc.


Don't know what happened after that because it had already started appealing to the shit factor, so I pressed - stop ----> delete.

[KlaxonCow]

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In fairness, Missy dismisses that when she releases them. As she lets the planes go, she does confess that she couldn't really have done anything interesting with them anyway. It was just a suitably absurd way for her to get the attention and compliance she needed out of these pesky little humans.

[pogo]

The airplanes made a lot of sense to me, as what a timelord could do if they wanted. The Doctor does not do such things because of his principal non-interference, and the Tardis is part of that. It only manipulates time and space within its space, and for its occupants. But there’s no technical reason why someone could not use the same technology outside, and so on objects like planes. Energy is not a concern: our current understanding is that if time travel is possible at all it would require inconceivable, even infinite, amounts of energy. In which case there is no difference between manipulating one object and many.

Missy’s statement about not being able to do anything else with them just confirms that it is just a manipulation of time. In theory she could have done far more damage this way. Time freeze only part of something, such as part of a nuclear reactor. But maybe that’s not possible with the technology, or she chooses something relatively harmless and undoable.

[Governmentyard]

How come The Doctor was surprised at Skaro, when his current incarnation had already been there to leave Davros for dead and abandon his screwdriver? Skaro was time locked.

[Harlequin]

I am not sure it is worth replying to people who are already determined to dislike the programme.

How come The Doctor was surprised at Skaro, when his current incarnation had already been there to leave Davros for dead and abandon his screwdriver? Skaro was time locked.

Was Skaro time locked? Was it not thought destroyed in 1963 (by Davros, via the Seventh Doctor's manipulations, in Ben's first recorded story)?

Not that historical canonicity has ever been much of a concern in Doctor Who, hence the gag about the three Atlantises (for which two of the conflicting accounts of destruction were given in stories transmitted only a year apart – The Daemons and The Time Monster starting in May of 1971 and 1972 respectively).

[Jedburgh]

'Time lock' is the new 'deadlock seal'.

[F-ZeroOne]

They rebuilt it? Maybe even Daleks get homesick...

"BUT I MISS MY TEDDY BEAR... "

[F-ZeroOne]

Wow. Just... wow.

Moffat has always enjoyed playing with Who lore... but I don't think hes ever done it any better than here.

We are going to be getting some really cool Who toys out of these episodes, aren't we?

Also, am I weird but...

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...does anyone else want a Clara & Missy team-up series now?

[Harlequin]

I do not think it likely to be too spoilerly to mention my favourite line, "Dalek Supreme, your sewers are revolting."

And we finally get to know just why the Daleks scream, "Exterminate," so much.

I thought some of those sixties and seventies models looked rather cute. Then they bought out the Special Weapons Dalek (although it still does not hover)!

A lovely little echo of Dalek in there somewhere and I might have to watch Asylum of the Daleks again.

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The glasses replacing the screwdriver for some reason gives me a sense that Capaldi wants to do this gig for the long haul.

[Istar]

Yeah, that was another solid 10, I thought. Capaldi just nails the gig when given a script not specifically aimed at 7-year-olds.

I cursed RTD for making me feel sorry for a Dalek in "Dalek". I'd never have imagined Moffat could do the same for Davros.

Also, am I weird but...

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...does anyone else want a Clara & Missy team-up series now?

If you are, I am too - I turned to Wife-of-Istar at one point and said

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"Missy and Clara - there's a spin-off series I'd watch, right there".

[Harlequin]

Also, am I weird but...

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...does anyone else want a Clara & Missy team-up series now?

If you are, I am too - I turned to Wife-of-Istar at one point and said

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"Missy and Clara - there's a spin-off series I'd watch, right there".

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But for how long could the writers postpone their killing each other?

[Governmentyard]

Missy and Clara already exists. It's called Rick & Morty and it's one of the best things on telly.

My internal dialogue went thus today:

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Davros is tricking you. Davros is tricking you. DAVROS IS TRICKING YOU. DAV...oh, look, he's tricked you. Now this can only be resolved by you acting tricked for a while then revealing that really, you were tricking h... yup, there it is.

Plus points:

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Retro Daleks and some Dalek stuff that wasn't boring Dalek stuff. Missy.

Minus points:

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Sonic shades. He's one cliffhanger away from sonic waterskijumping over a sonic shark.

[Little stoned kiwi]

I don't think there's going to be any more cliff-hangers in Dr.Who. You know the characters won't die. Even if they fall off the cliff and die, they go into a Schroedinger type box where they exist in a simultaneously dead/not-dead state until they turn up not-dead.
Dying is the new cliff-hanger.