The Dr Who thread

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:05 pm 0

merman wrote:
Old_but_still_a_kid wrote:Yep I didn't think anything unusual about a spinning Tardis as it's always spinning even on the titles. Speaking of the titles has the music changed slightly since Eccleston was the Dr??
Yep, slight remix from last season.

Recorded with a full orchestra now.

arron · Post by **arron** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:15 pm 0

Driller wrote:It's about time he showed Rose how big the Tardis really is, although he's probably lost most of it in his travels. Didn't he jettison a large chunk of it during Tom Baker's tenure? (Could have been Davidson though. I lost track a bit after Baker left).

Castrolava IIRC. I get the impression that the TARDIS is not a fixed configuration and can be made larger or smaller to suit the user, but there is a penalty to this in terms of performance and energy required to maintain the TARDIS. The jettisoning of 25% of internal mass in that story was to give the TARDIS sufficient momentum to escape the big bang..but there is nothing to say that that TARDIS could not wind up with entire areas being added to, removed or remodelled over time..

Perhaps the TARDIS is smaller now inside, given that the Doctor doesn't have the facilities of the Time Lords and Eye of Harmony to keep his machine powered and in working order, so he has to do a lot more himself and use technologies and spare parts that are different to the original specifications..

Potts · Post by **Potts** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:04 pm 0

mightyzim wrote:I would have prefered if the rocket had materialized inside the tardis, just to show how big it is. Would have made a nice end to the Impossible Planet.

I thought the rocket was going to end up inside the Tardis too. Would have been great.

Have they ever done an entire episode actually completely inside the Tardis?

grue · Post by **grue** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:13 pm 0

Potts wrote:
Have they ever done an entire episode actually completely inside the Tardis?

RTD is writing one as we speak. A two parter with Rose and the Doctor playing chess.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:20 pm 0

An entire episode of Lexx season 4 was a game of chess between Kai and Prince.

offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:39 pm 0

HGFB wrote:An entire episode of Lexx season 4 was a game of chess between Kai and Prince.

Now that was a series! I miss Lexx. Particularly season 1 and 3.

Must admit, I thought the rocket was going to end up in the Tardis. Oh well, a tow is pretty funny too.

arron · Post by **arron** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:48 pm 0

Potts wrote:Have they ever done an entire episode actually completely inside the Tardis?

This one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_destruction

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:37 am 0

I think the rocket turned around so that fik people would understand what was happening.

HGFB wrote:An entire episode of Lexx season 4 was a game of chess between Kai and Prince.

I remember that one, it was bloody excellent!

Post by **Snakey** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:49 am 0

mightyzim wrote:I would have prefered if the rocket had materialized inside the tardis, just to show how big it is. Would have made a nice end to the Impossible Planet.

Nah. Already did that last series with Captain Jacks ship. No point repeating yourself

Besides, as HGFB pointed out, the Doc decided, for some reason, that the people on that rocket didn't need to know much about him, or the Tardis.

Darkflame wrote:
Hmm, how come they didn't all explode when Rose shot the rocket's window out?
Dont think it happens that fast.

Yeah. Scooti didn't 'explode' either.

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:29 am 0

HGFB wrote:
merman wrote:
Old_but_still_a_kid wrote:[...] Speaking of the titles has the music changed slightly since Eccleston was the Dr??
Yep, slight remix from last season.
Recorded with a full orchestra now.

And the middle-eight is back!

Driller wrote:It's about time he showed Rose how big the Tardis really is, although he's probably lost most of it in his travels. Didn't he jettison a large chunk of it during Tom Baker's tenure? (Could have been Davidson though. I lost track a bit after Baker left).

They're moving to a larger studio and rebuilding the TARDIS set for Season Three. The only change the Davies has insisted upon, apparently, is the addition of the door to the rest of the ship

It appears that so many people (including myself) expected the TARDIS to materialise around the ship that I wonder how many would have complained, had it happened, that it was too predictable

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GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:50 am 0

What's peoples' current thinking about Tennant so far? I must say I'm quite genuinely in two minds about him. Sometimes I think he's perfect, sometimes I think he's absolutely terrible. He's certainly a good actor, but I can't help feeling he's a little lightweight. Or maybe his somewhat over-bearing love of humanity (whereas previous Doctors appeared cynical but protective) and the less-than-subtle relationship with Rose has kinda boxed him in script-wise. I dunno, I really enjoyed The Satan Pit a lot (especially the Pyramids of Mars link) but the Doctor actually annoyed me this time.

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:56 am 0

I went back and watched some Ecclestone episodes the other day, and I have to say that he does seem quite a bit better than Tennant.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:14 am 0

Firefox wrote:I went back and watched some Ecclestone episodes the other day, and I have to say that he does seem quite a bit better than Tennant.

Agreed but I guess it *is* preference. I'm watching the Eccleston season re-runs over here in the US whilst catching up on the Tennant series and much prefer the Eccleston interpretation. Dark, manic and brooding intelligence. If Tennant turned up at my space station unannounced and started prancing around I'd personally nut him one and try and bed Rose. If it was Eccleston I'd hide away in a little dark corner on Stock Deck C and whimper uncontrollably until he gave me my station back.

Driller · Post by **Driller** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:00 am 0

Seems to me that as he is getting closer to that magic final regeneration (Valyard), he's getting more and more juvenile. It's like a mid-life crisis for Timelords.

Baker played it well though - eccentric one minute and then deadly serious the next. I like Tennant in the role but I think he tries too hard with the manicness. (I know that's not a word).

Potts · Post by **Potts** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:46 am 0

arron wrote:
Potts wrote:Have they ever done an entire episode actually completely inside the Tardis?
This one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_destruction

1964?
They must be due another one then surely.

What I'd like is not just an episode set inside the Tardis control room, but a look around the Tardis itself, giving more of an idea of just how big the thing is. There's got to be lots of scope for an adventure or two there surely.