illogicology
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Yeah, that one caught me.
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I feel like they've basically done that in nearly every episode this series.
He promises Amy he'll be back in five minutes, he fails. He nearly kills the star whale when he really should have noticed. He pushes and pushes at the daleks to find out what they want and basically kicks off a new dalek empire by not keeping his mouth shut. He makes the big mistake with the angels in the maze of the dead. Vampires in venice, he lets Amy go into the school and fails to save the last of an alien race. I don't have one for Amy's choice yet but i'll think of one. It seems that this Doctor has a way of making things worse before making them better, he's a lot more fallible and I love it; it's a real contrast to his older, wiser view of himself.
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One of my favourites, definitely my favourite non-moffat of the series.
also, fed up of the nutters on gallifrey base with their 20 page thread in which the same five people attack the silurian design for not being really silurian enough.
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I enjoyed, in fact I enjoyed it a lot, but I think it had issues. I think the split narrative gave it pacing problems early on, that got a lot better as the episode went on but I found the first 15 minutes hard to connect with. I wasn't having trouble following it or anything, just having trouble getting invested. I also thought the ending was a bit of an anti-climax and not as clever as Nye seemed to think it was. However, it was a lot of fun for most of the time an a definite improvement on last week.
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I thought it was the most Doctor Who-by-numbers episode I've ever seen. Nothing actively bothered me like Victory of the Daleks but nothing excelled for me. I doubt I'll really watch it again.
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Updated List:
Lost in Time Box
The Beginning Box
The Daleks' Invasion of Earth
The Rescue/The Romans Box
The Time Meddler
The War Machines
The Mind Robber
The Invasion
The Seeds of Death
The Silurians
Inferno
The Sea Devils
The Three Doctors
Dalek War Box
Carnival of Monsters
The Green Death
The Time Warrior
Robot
The Ark in Space
The Sontaran Experiment
Genesis of the Daleks
Planet of Evil
Pyramids of Mars
The Brain of Morbius
The Hand of Fear
The Deadly Assassin
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
The Invasion of Time
The Key to Time Box
Destiny of the Daleks
The Leisure Hive
The E-Space Trilogy
New Beginnings
Four to Doomsday
The Black Guardian Trilogy
Earthshock
Time-Flight/Arc of Infinity
Warriors of the Deep
Resurrection of the Daleks
The Caves of Androzani
Attack of the Cybermen
Vengeance on Varos
The Two Doctors
The Trail of a Time Lord
Remembrance of the Daleks
The Curse of Fenric
Survival
Series 1-4
The Complete Specials - Blu-Ray (awesome)
The Dalek Collection (Peter Cushing Movies)
If anyone wants info about any of those disks; quality, features etc. just let me know and I'll fill you in.
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Well it wasn't up to the standards of last week's but I think all in all it's been the strongest two-parter since The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances.
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She also asks Tennant if they've don't the crash of the Byzantium yet. Clearly he hasn't; A: She was there and it was the Eleventh Doctor she met and B: she'd established it's early days for him and therefore a younger face not an older one.
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woo, so much awesome.
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teehee... poor JNT. He wasn't that bad but I find it hard to separate him from question mark lapels.
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On 4/20/2010 at 2:15 PM, Venneh said:
I honestly feel like the whole thing was written as a sci-fi WWII propaganda movie, wasn't as enjoyable as I was hoping it'd be.
Also, the mystery with Amy and the cracks continues to build.
I agree, I didn't love it.
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I'm almost positive it was written as a two parter and then hacked down.
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Interesting article here
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=eye_tv&issue=1260
My favourite bit
At a recent screening, the unveiling of the chunkier, clunkier and frankly less frightening nu-Daleks was watched in silence until, at the end, one audience member put his hand up and asked: "Are they actually finished, or are you going to replace them with some better CGI?
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eh... not sure.
The Doctor and Amy took a bit more of a back seat in this episode, that wouldn't bother me except Churchill didn't come off that great and there were no other real characters except Bracewell. I thought the first 10-15 minutes were great. The WWII styled Daleks, the bunker, the very obvious homage to Power of the Daleks. It was classic but all felt new, their plan to lure the Doctor in for the single purpose of convincing someone that they were actually Daleks was inspired and once again the Doctor's inability to hold back when it comes to them is his undoing. After that it lost its way for me though, the revelation of their plan was too early and the story gives away its trump card The suspense. What should have been an end of story surprise is actually an early development and everything after that was outlandish and totally inferior to what came before. I hated the new design too.
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My collection has recently been updated and I'm the proud owner of the Dalek War Box Set, Keys of Marinus & the Black Guardian Trilogy. Now if only my fairy godmother would grant me The War Games...
Check out the two "stripped for action" documentaries on the Dalek War set, there's one concerning the Third Doctor comics from the time and one about Terry Nation's own Dalek comics and both are really fascinating viewing.
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I was totally wrong about DWM, I remembered reading it on the BBC website and tracked down the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/inferno/detail.shtml
edit: it's in a section handily labelled "myths"
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I was going by what producer Barry Letts said in his autobiography. It's always possible he misremembered.
If it's in Lett's biography then I'm probably way off. (and heartily apologise for over-zealous correction if I am) I know it's an often repeated fact that then I read in something (I want to say Doctor Who Magazine) was a myth, since they found Houghton's outline but I think DWM is more likely to be mistaken than Letts.
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I love Inferno, just to be a pain in the ass though, the parallel universe plot element being added later is a myth. It was there in Houghton's original outline; the monsters on the other hand weren't.
Otherwise, awesome episode as always.
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Is that the new Silurian?
I believe so. It looks a lot like the skull of the female looking reptile from the first trailer and I'm pretty sure they're silurians. While they don't have the same face as the old silurians (no kissy lips) I think humanoid reptiles with three defined ridges on the top of the head is too coincidental.
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Yes, it runs with Alice in Wonderland at the moment.
I think there are some worthwhile bits of info to be found there, for one thing I assume that's what the time vortex is going to look like now. The music was also a very different feel to what you'd get in the last five years.
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New trailer can be viewed here
I quite liked it.
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The history of Doctor Who video games has always been rather tenuous. They've made six thus far, and not a single one has been particularly good.
I would imagine a good Doctor Who game being largely similar to Mass Effect. Start of with an unseen Doctor getting killed, cut to character creation screen where you design your own regeneration and then off to the TARDIS. Then a story picks up that takes you from planet to planet, picking up various companions with various skills. Gameplay variation via your sonic screwdriver, used to hack doors, disable enemies with an electronic element and usual gaming techy stuff.
I'd buy it.
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Yeah, the extra features on the specials haven't been that great. I've got the Planet of the Dead blu-ray and the only extra is that episode's Doctor Who Confidential... pretty sure it's the edited one too.
The Doctor Who thread
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I suppose you could argue that in Season 2 the Doctor was actually kissing Cassandra...
Still, I don't think you could say Moffat's moving the show away from that, I mean River's companion status might be dubious but it's still very much "The Doctor kisses a running character."