The Dr Who thread

toxibunny · Post by **toxibunny** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:37 pm 0

it could have done without that wedding woman showing up at the end. excellent way to ruin the mood, plus add a needless cliffhangery bit that won't be resolved for 6 months...

brilliant otherwise, though

Viscount Charles · Post by **Viscount Charles** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:39 pm 0

Kelloggs wrote:So, by the escaping Dalek uttering "Emergency temporal shift!" we can conclude that they still have time travel technology... I wonder when that one will turn up again.

Three series' ago, in 1988

Seriously, I think it's time to "retire" the Cybermen and the Daleks for at least a couple of series. They both work best when they are allowed their mystique - something that is destroyed by over-familiarity.

Col · Post by **Col** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:39 pm 0

toxibunny wrote:it could have done without that wedding woman showing up at the end. excellent way to ruin the mood, plus add a needless cliffhangery bit that won't be resolved for 6 months...

brilliant otherwise, though

Yeah, it took away all the emotion they'd built up and replaced it with her

I don't like Catherine Tate.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:39 pm 0

Interesting though. How does a woman in her wedding dress appear on a time ship orbiting a supernova god knows how many light years away from Earth?

I can't wait.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:41 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Interesting though. How does a woman in her wedding dress appear on a time ship orbiting a supernova god knows how many light years away from Earth?

I can't wait.

Am I bovvered?

/me gets coat.......

Driller · Post by **Driller** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:06 pm 0

PVB wrote:
HGFB wrote:Interesting though. How does a woman in her wedding dress appear on a time ship orbiting a supernova god knows how many light years away from Earth?

I can't wait.
Am I bovvered?

/me gets coat.......

I'll be joining you and grabbing my coat because I'm not arsed either. I had no idea who she was even when my GF told me.

Still don't fucking know and don't realy care

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:08 pm 0

HGFB wrote:
Charlie Brooker wrote:7. Stop the continuity announcers talking over the end credits so we can hear the theme tune properly.
Word motherfucker. What the hell was the point of spending all that money on an orchestra and putting the middle 8 back in if the continuity announcer is going to talk over the fucker? Tell us what's on next *after* the program has finished.

I thought they did that like most other stations simply to ruin it so you can't rip it into pirate DVDs etc?

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:11 pm 0

Surprising how little there was of Torchwood in in though, wasn't it?

I suppose they can have a clean slate now as the old Torchwood massive got done over by the cybermen. Looking forward to it.

For me though, this is where we really begin with new Doctor Who - we've established the character, with his regenerations and we've established that there is a tardis and arch foes and gallifrey/no gallifrey and a long line of companions again - after watching tonight I realise that had Rose stayed with him any longer it would have become a show about them both, but Rose and her family were there to be our link to the Doctor's adventures - we don't need them now, and it isn't Doctor Who and Rose, it's just him - and everything that they needed to do to reestablish him is done, from now on it should feel a little more like the older series, with all the new goodness we've come to expect.

The series has arrived where they were trying to put it and Rose joins the panteon of best ever companions.

A fantastic job so far, producers, on balance.

Psychophylaxis · Post by **Psychophylaxis** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:18 pm 0

Ollie wrote:I was also disappointed they didn't make more out of the fact that one of the Daleks was called Khan...

Me too, almost shouted khaaaaaaan out loud.

http://www.khaaan.com
Oh noes Khaaan is borked!

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:19 pm 0

I think the BBC have a three year license for the Daleks. What that bodes for series 3 is probably obvious.

anon76235 · Post by **anon76235** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:21 pm 0

arron wrote:It was sort of OK.

It's a shame they wankered up the storyline for the purposes of spectacle..I'd have preferred something a lot more subtle, like finding the Eye of Harmony at the centre of the Ark. Or the Master.

It would have been so much better for Rose to wind up coming to a sticky end..or for all her family and Mickey to wind up being killed because the Doctor had to do other things and then Rose blaming the Doctor for not saving them..then going off in a huff with her life destroyed. Or being trapped in the Voidship in the Ark..Virtually anything really. To push the Doctor psychologically over the edge that he's totally destroyed the life of the one person he really cared about..

you evil b*stard! you are the master!

Post by **Jedburgh** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:25 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Interesting though. How does a woman in her wedding dress appear on a time ship orbiting a supernova god knows how many light years away from Earth?

I can't wait.

Plus it yanks the show away from a Christmas special entitled "Doctor Who Mopes Around For An Hour Feeling Sorry For Himself."

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:25 pm 0

dreadster wrote:He probably popped through at a safe distance for a recce before popping back home and them popping through again in the right spot and at the right time. The Doctor and Rose were just too busy holding on and dodging flying daleks to notice.

Doesn't work. He still wouldn't have known the exact moment. On account of how he's not a time traveller, and the moment would only have become apparent at the actual moment, like. Besides which given there were cybermen all around the world being sucked in, exactly how far would a "safe distance" be?

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:26 pm 0

The theme music from MST3K explains everything

stx · Post by **stx** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:28 pm 0

Charlie Brooker wrote:5: My suggestions for next companion: Bez;

Damn, that's such a good choice.