The Dr Who thread

[pogo]

"Equip up, Junior Time Lords - it's time to go Dalek hunting."

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/8cff/

[Snakey]

KKKKKHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!

I can't believe the Doctor didn't shout that as the last Dalek disappeared. Would have been the highlight of the show if he had.

Then again, I can't believe they actually managed to make a Dalek episode that I didn't much like. That takes a hell of a lot of doing.

[Arnel]

Not bad.

Predictable the temporal shift at the end.

You could tie that one back into Dalek though.

I thought they were going to, and I really wish they had done. It was never adequately explained where that one came from, and this would have been a very satisfying call-back.

If that was the same Dalek, wouldn't it have recognised Rose when it was in the cell in chains?

Gotta love time-travel stories for continuity headaches!

[anon76235]

ROSE ISNT IN IT ANYMORE

[Bog]

ROSE ISNT IN IT ANYMORE

You know that. I know that.

Someone tell the doctor. He's nine-hundred-and-some-odd years old, you'd think he'd've growed up a bit by now.

Bit disappointed by the whole two-parter. IMAO, Tennant's starting to over-cook things a bit, and it's a shame the whole Dalek thing got, well, kinda wasted. Also, Dalek Sek was being a bit thick, to be honest. Genius? Bit lacking in forethought, more like. Big Dalekanium (pschaw!) cork in the end of Dalek Thay's gun-barrel would've been an idea, wouldn't it? Pathalogical bleating about Dalek Purity being a concern, really. Just going to rely on mindless obeying of orders? From the, er, Daleks who were designed not to just blindly follow?

Div.

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

Everything got wrapped up all a bit too nicely within the timeframe for my liking - I thought I was watching "The Bill" at times.

And yeah, I know it was 30s Manhatten an all, but did the Daleks really have to fashion their laser spitting death rays on gangster tommy-guns?

Also, how come when the Daleks were flying about shooting into the ground, the ground was exploding, yet when they hit a human they just glow?

[IronGiant]

I'm just left wondering how they're going to fit all the Dalek remains into the timeline, I mean think about it - there's the Dalek lab with all kinds of goodies in there (Sec's casing, the equipment, etc).

Then in the theatre there's a couple of zapped Daleks along with various 'Dalek-men' and their Dalek Tommy-guns. And of course hybrid Sec.

Then there's the Dalekanium and pig men on the roof of the Empire State Building.

I smell a potential government cover up ............

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

Also there's a supply of fried human-bacon in the elevator.

[Darkflame]

Daleks really have to fashion their laser spitting death rays on gangster tommy-guns?

shut-up!
That was one of the coolest visual designs of the eppisode
I loved those guns.

[phattslagg]

Also, how come when the Daleks were flying about shooting into the ground, the ground was exploding, yet when they hit a human they just glow?

So it hurts more.

Anyway, I'm firmly in the 'meh' camp on this episode. For much of it I was struggling not to fall asleep, and I even find myself getting bored with Daleks.

Yep - that's what happens when you rinse the living shit out of a single idea.

[Ollie]

Also, Dalek Sek was being a bit thick, to be honest.

You could tell he was a bit of a div by the way he couldn't talk without waggling his eye-stalk. Bugged the hell out of me, that did.

I reckon he'd picked up a bit of a Cyberman fetish, tbh. That Human-Dalek army were pretty much Cybermen without the silver suits. My theory is he only wanted human-shaped Daleks because he got off on the synchronised marching.

[Dungeon-Dave]

Also, how come when the Daleks were flying about shooting into the ground, the ground was exploding, yet when they hit a human they just glow?

I thought their weaponry was electricity-based, since one dalek used conductive properties of water to take out several guards in one episode. Guess that means it either fries your insides or explodes inanimate objects.

But yup - that dalek tommy-gun was a bit wank. Especially when the dalek-infested human shells[1] actually COCKED the fucking things in preparation. An energy weapon that requires a sliding breech?

Tennant IS getting somewhat predictable with his screaming rant - it's getting to the point I can't take him seriously when he gets into snarlmode.

[1] (which walked just like cybermen)[2]
[2] shit.. someone mentioned that.

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

Ah whilst we're about it - If it's THAT simple to "splice/inject/whatever" timelord DNA into a bunch of subjects, then why hasn't the doctor recruited a shitload of volunteers (rather than abducting them like the Daleks did) and created Nu-Galifrey?

[Bog]

Also, Dalek Sek was being a bit thick, to be honest.

You could tell he was a bit of a div by the way he couldn't talk without waggling his eye-stalk. Bugged the hell out of me, that did.

I reckon he'd picked up a bit of a Cyberman fetish, tbh. That Human-Dalek army were pretty much Cybermen without the silver suits. My theory is he only wanted human-shaped Daleks because he got off on the synchronised marching.

It's blatantly the Cybermen actors (which they spent ages training and choreographing) just doing their stompy march sans the shiny suits.

I dunno... I just feel like the last two eps were put together out of spare parts that were lying around. The tommygun based Dalek guns? Bleh. Just ... bleh.

[PVB]

Ah whilst we're about it - If it's THAT simple to "splice/inject/whatever" timelord DNA into a bunch of subjects, then why hasn't the doctor recruited a shitload of volunteers (rather than abducting them like the Daleks did) and created Nu-Galifrey?

Eh?

The companions go with him of their own free will.

The Doctor may know how to do it, but he's not the sort of person to do it, as that'd be wrong.