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« on: August 27, 2011, 09:42:32 pm » |
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Perhaps I missed something in the dialogue, but I have no idea what they were all about, why there were there or what exactly their point was. Can anyone explain or was it actually not really answered?
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« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2011, 10:10:19 pm » |
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Nope, I am just as lost as you. I think there was an explantion because a lot of stuff was said that I couldnt make out, but I am still pretty clueless
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« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2011, 10:35:14 pm » |
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I think they just happened to be there because of the war criminal element, though they did seem to know a lot about the Silence and whatnot so I'm not too sure. Admittedly, I was left a bit confused by this element too. I'd imagine we will be seeing them again though
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« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2011, 11:00:25 pm » |
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Well I'm glad I wasn't the only one a bit baffled by it all
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« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2011, 12:24:32 am » |
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It did seem rather an elaborate way of going about it, although I got what they were doing - extracting war criminals at a point where it wouldn't change history and punishing them.
One thing I did wonder about was why a robot would have antibodies inside. OK, it deals with intruders, but I wouldn't think they'd get any intruders they hadn't brought there themselves.
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« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2011, 10:42:13 am » |
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It was a MacGuffin, and a poor one at that.
The only point to them being there was to show Mels that she was River Song.
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« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2011, 11:14:49 am » |
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I'm going to have a little rewatch sometime today and listen out extra hard, because as TFD says, other than to show Mels who River is, I can't work out why they were really there at all
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« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2011, 11:38:24 am » |
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The whole thing seemed really pointless to me so I am sort of hoping that we will be seeing them again in a later episode to flesh their story out a bit because otherwise their appearance here just seems really pointless with the exception of the last few minutes
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« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2011, 02:33:32 pm » |
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This is the one thing in the story that totally lost me. Even now I still have no idea why they were there
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« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2011, 05:07:50 pm » |
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This is the one thing in the story that totally lost me. Even now I still have no idea why they were there
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« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2011, 10:22:59 pm » |
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I'm glad I'm not the only person completely at a loss to their purpose. And the Octopobots looked ridiculous, although they gave me an oddly reminiscent feeling of Classic Who, even though I've only seen 2 episodes of Classic  |
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« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2011, 10:08:30 am » |
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The little people reminded me of a terrible German sci-fi comedy thing called 'Traumschiff Surprise' Agree with you there Joshua, they looked ridiculous and reminded me some something Classic Who, and yeah, what was the point in them?!  |
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