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Series 8 & Beyond / In The Forest Of The Night / Re: Rate & Review In The Forest of the Night
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on: October 27, 2014, 09:16:10 pm
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I give it a 2 as well. It was about nothing. Literally, in the entire episode, basically nothing happened. It meandered about for about 40 minutes, during which the Doctor literally gave up and was about to leave before everything sort of just solved itself and everyone went on their way. Oh and a child who inexplicably disappeared that had absolutely 0 to do with the "story" when she was missing magically re-appeared as well.
Add to that Clara acting just as out of character the entire time as the Doctor, and you've got the makings of a real ****-poor episode. The only thing keeping me from rating it down with the likes of Fear Her, Love and Monsters, and End of Time is the fact that the child actors didn't make me spit bile and curse. But it was a close thing.
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Series 8 & Beyond / Listen / Re: The Dream
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on: September 17, 2014, 03:09:57 pm
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When I was a kid I used to be afraid of the Thing Under the Bed grabbing me if I didn't keep my feet under the blankets, but I've never to my recollection dreamt about it.
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Series 8 & Beyond / Into The Dalek / Re: Should he have accepted Journey?
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on: September 10, 2014, 04:05:55 pm
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I think this Doctor is a lot more stubborn with his prejudices than his previous incarnations. Leela was a warrior from a culture where she had little other choice; Turlough was... well, the Fifth Doctor was nothing if not a bleeding heart; and Jack was someone he owed a favour who Rose liked, and I think that's what ultimately led the Doctor to bring him along.
That being said, I think Journey could have been a cool companion. She certainly hates Daleks almost as much as the Doctor does, so they'd have had that in common for sure.
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Series 8 & Beyond / Into The Dalek / Re: Missy (part 2)
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on: September 10, 2014, 04:03:07 pm
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I don't believe Missy will turn out to be anyone we're already familiar with. I imagine she's something new entirely, something that's taken an interest in the Doctor for whatever reason and has become fixated on meeting, confronting, and/or defeating him.
Though I will admit that I like the theory floating around there that she's a projection of the Doctor's original TARDIS, from before he went rogue. "Heaven" itself would then be a room (or series of rooms) within this TARDIS itself. The Doctor left her behind and ran off with a different TARDIS, leaving her to sit and gather dust on Gallifrey until she eventually had to come out of retirement to fight the Time War, which she of course escaped or survived in some manner. Now she's been watching him, stalking him almost, and desperately wants to reconnect with him in any way possible - even going so far as to attempt to kill her competition by blowing it up at the end of Smith's debut season.
It's not likely, of course, but it's a neat idea.
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Series 8 & Beyond / Into The Dalek / Re: Mistakes & Inconsistencies
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on: September 10, 2014, 03:57:16 pm
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One scene they were covered in people goo, the next scene they were all dry and well groomed again.
There was explainer dialogue for that. The bolt hole they moved through was hot, presumably hot enough to dry them off again. Not a fantastic explanation, but surely meant to be one.
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Series 8 & Beyond / Into The Dalek / Re: Favourite "good Dalek" story
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on: September 10, 2014, 03:56:00 pm
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I enjoyed Dalek the most, to be honest. I appreciated seeing that side of the Doctor, the side that had been through so much with the enemy he'd always hated the most viciously. Eccleston was so fantastic in that episode it still stands out in my mind as the best performance by a Doctor throughout the show's run IMO.
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Series 8 & Beyond / Robot of Sherwood / Re: Mistakes & Inconsistencies
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on: September 10, 2014, 03:50:54 pm
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I can forgive the episode for basing itself in the more commonly known Robing Hood story elements. Too many people would have been confused or even complaining about accuracy had they done anything else, it just wouldn't have been worth the trouble. As a fan who often finds himself defending the show from some of the more rabid members of the fanbase, I appreciate the odd placation here and there where it can be helped. Makes my life a little easier.
The only thing that bugged me was the fact that the prize for the archery contest was a solid gold arrow. While the sheriff is plundering the countryside for gold wherever he can find it, he wastes a large portion of it on... what, exactly? A gimmick to lure out an irrelevant annoyance?
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Series 8 & Beyond / Robot of Sherwood / Re: Rate & Review Robot of Sherwood
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on: September 10, 2014, 03:44:31 pm
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I thought it was pretty clear that there's SUPPOSED to be a connection to the repair droids from the SS Marie Antoinette. Artificial life forms are looking for a "promised land" with near-religious fervor, something AI's shouldn't really be concerned with. What does this mean for Gretchen Carlisle from Into the Dalek (who's presumably human), who was brought to "Heaven" despite not (so far as we know) actively looking for it?
Overall though, I'd give Robots of Sherwood a solid 3.5/5. I had some issues with the plot - particularly, as others have mentioned, the golden arrow bit - but I went into it knowing full well that I would. It's a Mark Gatiss episode, after all. The man is not the most consistent of Doctor Who writers by any means. Robots was worlds better than anything else he's written, for sure. One thing I'll give him though is that he's the first writer to make Clara feel like a PERSON for an entire episode, instead of just a plot device. I've wanted desperately to like her for so long now, but haven't really been able to until this season; this episode cinched it for me.
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The Doctor In The TARDIS Help Centre / Introductions / Long Time No See.
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on: August 06, 2014, 03:29:00 pm
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Hi everyone. Not sure if anyone here will remember me. I was a member for a little while several years ago, and temporarily a moderator for the RP section.
I kind of disappeared without explanation back in 2011. I'm not going to get into the details of what happened, I'll just say that I went through some rather serious health issues that forced me to take a rather sudden step back from my life on the internet. I regret that I wasn't really able to give anyone - especially Doc and the other RP moderators - a heads up regarding my absence, but it is what it is.
Now that I'm home and on the mend again though, I found this place in my bookmarks and decided to drop back in. Glad to see the place is still humming!
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Travels In Time And Space / A Good Man Goes To War / Re: A Children's Show?
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on: June 15, 2011, 04:05:26 am
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Doctor Who isn't meant to be a children's show, I don't think. It never really was. It's a family show, and there's a distinct difference. A children's show is something that children enjoy, parents generally only tolerate, and that either becomes a fond memory or is forgotten entirely by puberty. Most shows that I would personally label as "children's shows" don't last much longer than four to six years, simply because their audience grows up and moves on, and younger kids can't get interested in, to them, such a long history.
Doctor Who is a show that children can and will watch with their parents, and will probably come to be great fans of as they grow older - but that parents will watch without the kids, and may even have grown up with it themselves.
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Travels In Time And Space / A Good Man Goes To War / Re: River Song
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on: June 06, 2011, 12:33:42 am
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My fiancee and I threw some ideas around last night about why she didn't seem to know what was up with the "Spaceman". One thought we had was that the information has bled from her memory, as the Doctor said (in Day of the Moon) most information about the Silence does. Another was that the Doctor purges it from her memory to allow her to grow up with some level of adjustment. Or, and this is again assuming she's the child we saw in the suit in The Impossible Astronaut, her regeneration damages her memory in some way. And another again was that she was simply lying. Rule number one: the Doctor lies; surely someone who's known him intimately for so long would learn to do it too.
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Travels In Time And Space / Join The Infinite Quest / Re: Poll: Introducing The Infinite Quest
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on: May 31, 2011, 04:28:33 pm
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Speaking as a longtime fan of the Classic series, I have a suggestion to make. The vast majority of the First Doctor's stories are either incomplete or missing altogether, as well as a large portion of the Second Doctor's. While some of the early Third Doctor stories exist only in black and white, they are all at least entirely intact.
Instead of starting with Unearthly Child, I suggest starting a few years later, with Spearhead From Space. Include a summary of the first six years of the show, particularly the Second Doctor's last story; but I think avoiding the incomplete stories would make it less frustrating for some of the NuWho fans to get into it.
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Travels In Time And Space / The Almost People / Re: Best Sixth Episode
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on: May 30, 2011, 04:47:14 pm
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I went with Dalek. Still one of my all time favourite episodes
I'm with you on that one all the way. Despite it's significant drawbacks (ie Adam), Dalek brought the Daleks into the 21st century perfectly. Never since have the Daleks felt like so much of a threat, even (or especially, depending on how you feel about TSE/JE) when there were millions of them moving entire planets.
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