Frankymole
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Here's one: The curator at the end of Day of the Doctor is either a Zygon that took on the Fourth Doctor's form many years ago (hence the age), or he was The Master (also having taken on The Doctor's old form). The former would tie into the plot of the episode, in that they were hiding in paintings. The latter could be The Master trying to get The Doctor to free Gallifrey so he can hatch a plan of some sort.
That's a great idea. I was musing on Tom Baker's desire to appear in the new series as The Master. Seems he might have achieved it! This could be the less malevolent Master after The Curse of Fatal Death...
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It's not too surprising that Ford and Zaphod share a lot of the same characteristics, since they also share several of the same mothers.
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I don't think anyone can really comment on sexism in Moffat's work until they have at least watched "Coupling"...
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Some of these are even too crazy for me.
The Captain Jack one, however, is interesting.
Number One is strangely close to ideas that Barry Letts and Roger Sloman were considering for the final Master (Delgado/Pertwee) story... that the Master and the Doctor were two sides of a single personality, something along the lines of the Ego and the Id.
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I'm entirely cool with the Doctor doing something as questionable like this precisely because it's part of the arc that Moffat was setting up, with the Doctor's non-doctory actions being called into question. Hell, we're seeing the literal embodiment idea of that now with John Hurt.
Not to jump too far ahead, but there was a big furore about the Doctor's actions in "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship", towards the David Bradley character - I think there was even a Radio Times poll garnering viewers' reactions to the moral (or immoral) actions of the Doctor. So it will be interesting to see how that one compares.
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Now, the Doctor has a line about because they have travelled in the Tardis the energy from it will stabilise them so they are real people now. A few moment later he exposes Amy as a Ganger and melts her.
WHAT? WHAT?
I'm entirely sure that ganger-Amy isn't a proper ganger, but instead a remote-controlled ganger body that real-Amy is living through. So it wasn't a real separate sentient entity.
Yes, weren't the acid-factory gangers given independent life during that solar storm? Yet it didn't have the same effect on Amy's ganger, because she kept seeing Madame Kovarian and her sliding-window afterwards, so was still being remote-controlled. That's how I understood it, though to be fair a lot of this season and the next is just baffling and I could be wrong.
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True; and the Doctor exists as an idea (even when he's "officially dead" later on, too). Maybe there is some link with Time Lords "in many ways, having the same mind" as per the Master/Doctor link, and the TL's on Gallifrey having a link even through their time-bubble to The Master (and he to the Doctor, and the Doctor to River, etc, not to mention Romana in E-Space perhaps!) so it's impossible to erase every vestige of them from the universe. There are even the communications-cubes in House's blister-universe, which operate telepathically. So if Amy reboots the entire universe from an idea/memory, maybe River was the memory of a memory (being her daughter, perhaps a fairly strong subconscious one)... or something. A lot less to animate than a universe, anyway.
If the ruddy Daleks can survive annihilation in Time Wars over and over again then the Doctor deserves to
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As much as I love this two parter. Can anyone explain to me how River is able to Leave her Tardis themed Diary at Amy's and Rory's wedding, when without the doctor she would not have existed.
Perhaps she fell through a crack when the TARDIS blew up.
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Having now watched the National Television Awards skit, I'll quasi-defend it.
It's not something I'd watch again, but it's hardly the worst thing ever.
It does feature the return to Doctor Who of June Brown - star of Pertwee's "The Time Warrior" (Lady Eleanor). And a return to Eastenders' Albert Square (of Dimension in Time fame).
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I can't believe I've finally caught up. What am I going to listen to now??
And such a stormingly good episode too. Really made me want to watch these episodes/mini-sodes again (well, maybe not the National Television Awards thing!).
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Sheffield artist uses comics worth £20,000 for artwork
the pages pasted to a leg were from a first edition of The Avengers.
More:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-23203033
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RE: Moffat planning ahead. When River first appears in "Silence in the Library" and is checking her diary, she asks The Doctor if they'd "done the crash of the Byzantium yet?"
Very nice bit of continuity.
Seems strange that she's only ever met two Doctors though, and can't work out which is the earlier one.
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My dad once walked in on me when I was watching a fourth doctor story and said "I didn't know Bob Dylan was in the movies." I explaind it was not. Now whenever I am watching a fourth doctor adventure, he jokingly calls it "The Bob Dylan show."
Bob Dylan plays acting roles in about seven movies!
The pedant in me couldn't let that pass!Masked and Anonymous (2003) .... Jack Fate
Paradise Cove (1999) .... Alfred - Chauffeur
Catchfire (1990) (uncredited) .... Artist
Hearts of Fire (1987) .... Billy Parker
Renaldo and Clara (1978) .... Renaldo
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) .... Alias
The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963) (TV) .... Bobby
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I've been enjoying the Mind of Evil DVD - at last in full colo(u)r, Mr Roger Delgado!! Hope Mike and Dan will mention it on a future BOTI...
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Corsair has a snake tattoo? So did Pertwee. Hmm...
I don't see why, if Time Lords can change species when they regenerate, we can't have an alien Doctor (perhaps the blue alt-Romana in Destiny of the Daleks was meant to be an alien?); also, why is a female Doctor the only possible minority (okay, women are a numerical majority on Earth, in the population if not in the workplace, but not apparently on Gallifrey) - I'd like to see an ethnic minority actor cast, or even better one of unusual stature or even disabled. Deep Roy would be fantastic. If they're leaving the white mold, then Sacha Dhawan would be an interesting non-caucasian choice, having played Waris Hussein it'd have a nice symmetry to casting.
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Yeah man, I agree.
I found the episode to be pretty intense and engaging. It's at the top of all of the modern finales, though not by very much as I've liked most of them.
I do think that the whole River thing was confusing and not explained well enough to be totally understood. So she's dead, but she can ghost around to people's subconscious and talk to them from beyond the grave? And if this is the iteration of her that was saved in the library, how can she do that exactly? It's a bit tough to take on face value, and hard to understand logistically.
But the ending made me scream. So glad I wasn't spoiled. Can't wait until the 50th Anniversary.
Seems to me that the Library/CAL version of River somehow got to be in on the "conference calls" with Vastra (and now Clara), because somehow she's got a consciousness on the astral plane, like the great Intelligence and Vastra and Jenny when they dream ("time travel is always possible in dreams"). How she first got in touch is a mystery though. Maybe a property of the library/Doctor Moon network connection which is telepatic in some way? Or maybe by Clara temporarily - and temporally - possessing companions like Donna or even Rover through her infiltrating of the Doctor's timestream?
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We should be on at least season 9 by now...
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Quick thoughts on The
NextName of the Doctor:The colourisation wasn't up to Babelcolour standards, and goodness knows how flaky the archive clip cut-outs looked in HD, (maybe doing them in sepia or other-colour tinted flashback may have helped them blend shots? Too late now) but the episode was good fun.
Not sure how we got to see Hartnell already old and in his Edwardian costume leaving Gallifrey (with Susan?), though maybe he'd recently got back from being stranded on Earth in his Christopher Barry to George Gallacio incarnations.
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Davis was a remarkably good actor in this. I need to re-watch Willow.
I enjoyed this episode, and I enjoyed Warwick - understated acting without being wooden, his experience really shows. About time we had a smaller companion in the TARDIS, I'd say. Can we have him back for a season? (Donna came back after guesting.)
The kids? They were just kids. Most kids are a bit obnoxious. Personally I have more issues with the way they were written, though smart-alecky/wise-cracky seems to be the NuWho house style these days (years).
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Been called a "hipster" on Facebook in a small close-knit Who fans group a few friends founded. By a newbie who has no sense of humour. Reminds me of myself when I was 15...
All because they put up the most boring question in the world - "who is your favourite Dr Who" and I replied that it was a toss between Nick Scovell, Trevor Martin and Hurndall.
The second time they called me a hipster I pointed out that Douglas Camfield was missing from the picture
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Bloody Mary, Wisconsin style.
Feeds five.
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There were some truly frightening moments in this one.
Also, welcome to the forums, Frankymole!
Thank you!!! I came here as the Bigger On The Inside podcast is so fantastic. I've got up to episode 75 of the "back issues" but also been keeping up with the latest ones too. It's been a lovely couple of weeks listening, and the mention of the forums sounded so tempting I had to show up and read them too. When I finally see last Saturday's episode (I recorded it) I might even be able to contribute...!
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It bugged me that Smith pronounced it "Me-TEH-bil-is" instead of Pertwee's "Met-eh-BEE-lis". Yes, I am a nerd.
I thought that was a homage to McCoy not being able to pronounce "Spiridon" in "Remembrance of the Daleks". Let alone Pertwee's "chitinous" in "The Green Death". Perhaps it was the third Doctor who got Metebelis's pronunciation wrong?
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A few thoughts on "Hide", spoiler tagged for those who haven't seen it.
With the Metebelis III stuff, it was nice seeing visual callbacks to the IRIS machine headset that the Doctor used in Planet of the Spiders and that Professor Clegg died whilst hooked up to (when the Prof handled the Great Crystal); and also the headresses with a stone in worn by Arak and the other Metebelis humans to resist the spider's psychic power attacks.
Episode 140
in Bigger on the Inside
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The best thing about The Time of the Doctor is that it isn't The End of Time! Moffat knows how to end a Doctor's era in fine style.