• Doctor Who V4 - Hello Sweetie (ƟƩ φ ɼϒΔϟ)
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[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;27000109]verynicelady's comparison is justified - you can't blame everything on rtd both episodes were about the doctor visiting a person as they grow up, and of their subsequent relationship. though I would counter it by saying that this special had a mixture of sadness romance and adventure too. I think they're about equal[/QUOTE] Not blaming it at all on RTD, more on just a change in the way moffat decided to write his episodes, though I see the similarity in plot.
I'll just leave this here. [url]http://io9.com/5718601/shot+by+shot-analysis-of-the-new-doctor-who-trailer/gallery/[/url]
[QUOTE=howling techie;27012465]I'll just leave this here. [url]http://io9.com/5718601/shot+by+shot-analysis-of-the-new-doctor-who-trailer/gallery/[/url][/QUOTE] i wish i wouldnt have read most of that
[QUOTE=howling techie;27012465]I'll just leave this here. [url]http://io9.com/5718601/shot+by+shot-analysis-of-the-new-doctor-who-trailer/gallery/[/url][/QUOTE] Well after that, I can't wait for the next series. I can't wait even more than I did already.
The christmas episode was fucking shit. I know it's a kid's show, but did they have to be so goddamn sentimental about the whole thing? They had Michael fucking Gambon, and they put him in an episode with a premise so shoestring as this? Plus the moment Matt Smith's gurning face popped up on screen I instantly knew why I stopped watching after Tennant left. I mean, the guy's not terribad, but he's no Eccleston. And remind me, what was the fucking point of putting Katherine Jenkins in this? Judging by the quality of the effects, this probably hoovered up half of the BBC's Christmas budget, which begs the question: What would a good episode with this standard of effects have looked like? It would have been glorious, and it ended up being shit. Here's my advice: Bring Eccleston back, have him kick Mr kid friendly nancy boy smith out of the TARDIS, make him turn off that shitty dance remix of the awesome Dr Who theme that I had to sit through during the main titles, and most importantly [b]VISIT SOMEWHERE THAT ISN'T COMPLETELY SENTIMENTAL AND BORING FOR CHRISTMAS[/b]. [editline]28th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;27000109]verynicelady's comparison is justified - you can't blame everything on rtd both episodes were about the doctor visiting a person as they grow up, and of their subsequent relationship. though I would counter it by saying that this special had a mixture of sadness romance and adventure too. I think they're about equal[/QUOTE] Girl in the fireplace had everything, cool spaceships, a weird and interesting premise for the bad guys to be showing up, time travel shenanigans, sentimentality but not too much sentimentality, and of course good old Dr Who monsters chasing people about. Not to mention a good bit of (funny) comedy. That was a good episode. This was not. They are not equal.
Hey, at least it wasn't on Earth.
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;27013058]The christmas episode was fucking shit. I know it's a kid's show, but did they have to be so goddamn sentimental about the whole thing? They had Michael fucking Gambon, and they put him in an episode with a premise so shoestring as this? Plus the moment Matt Smith's gurning face popped up on screen I instantly knew why I stopped watching after Tennant left. I mean, the guy's not terribad, but he's no Eccleston. And remind me, what was the fucking point of putting Katherine Jenkins in this? Judging by the quality of the effects, this probably hoovered up half of the BBC's Christmas budget, which begs the question: What would a good episode with this standard of effects have looked like? It would have been glorious, and it ended up being shit. Here's my advice: Bring Eccleston back, have him kick Mr kid friendly nancy boy smith out of the TARDIS, make him turn off that shitty dance remix of the awesome Dr Who theme that I had to sit through during the main titles, and most importantly [b]VISIT SOMEWHERE THAT ISN'T COMPLETELY SENTIMENTAL AND BORING FOR CHRISTMAS[/b]. [editline]28th December 2010[/editline] Girl in the fireplace had everything, cool spaceships, a weird and interesting premise for the bad guys to be showing up, time travel shenanigans, sentimentality but not too much sentimentality, and of course good old Dr Who monsters chasing people about. Not to mention a good bit of (funny) comedy. That was a good episode. This was not. They are not equal.[/QUOTE] Somebody's been to gallifrey base
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;27007290]Only Rory is - Amy wasn't awake inside the Pandorica. Also it's possible that the Doctor doesn't actually know how old he really is, and just says 900 years because it sounds cool.[/QUOTE] Rory's older than the Doctor, scarily enough.
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;27013058]The christmas episode was fucking shit. I know it's a kid's show, but did they have to be so goddamn sentimental about the whole thing? They had Michael fucking Gambon, and they put him in an episode with a premise so shoestring as this? Plus the moment Matt Smith's gurning face popped up on screen I instantly knew why I stopped watching after Tennant left. I mean, the guy's not terribad, but he's no Eccleston. And remind me, what was the fucking point of putting Katherine Jenkins in this? Judging by the quality of the effects, this probably hoovered up half of the BBC's Christmas budget, which begs the question: What would a good episode with this standard of effects have looked like? It would have been glorious, and it ended up being shit. Here's my advice: Bring Eccleston back, have him kick Mr kid friendly nancy boy smith out of the TARDIS, make him turn off that shitty dance remix of the awesome Dr Who theme that I had to sit through during the main titles, and most importantly [b]VISIT SOMEWHERE THAT ISN'T COMPLETELY SENTIMENTAL AND BORING FOR CHRISTMAS[/b]. [editline]28th December 2010[/editline] Girl in the fireplace had everything, cool spaceships, a weird and interesting premise for the bad guys to be showing up, time travel shenanigans, sentimentality but not too much sentimentality, and of course good old Dr Who monsters chasing people about. Not to mention a good bit of (funny) comedy. That was a good episode. This was not. They are not equal.[/QUOTE] To cut a long reply short, yes they did have to make it sentimental because it's Christmas. You stick in an hour long terrifying thriller, you're going to drop quite a few watchers. It's Christmas, we're all being sentimental teary-eyed present giving gits. Get. Used. To it.
I do love the fact that RTD was a total goon and didn't even ask Grand Moff Tarkin what he was writing Rory/Amy's honeymoon as and instead wrote that stupid planet on a honeymoon thing for The Death Of The Doctor. Also: Amy likes roleplay, and evidently being the Femdom. That we now know
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;27013058]The christmas episode was fucking shit. I know it's a kid's show, but did they have to be so goddamn sentimental about the whole thing? They had Michael fucking Gambon, and they put him in an episode with a premise so shoestring as this? Plus the moment Matt Smith's gurning face popped up on screen I instantly knew why I stopped watching after Tennant left. I mean, the guy's not terribad, but he's no Eccleston. And remind me, what was the fucking point of putting Katherine Jenkins in this? Judging by the quality of the effects, this probably hoovered up half of the BBC's Christmas budget, which begs the question: What would a good episode with this standard of effects have looked like? It would have been glorious, and it ended up being shit. Here's my advice: Bring Eccleston back, have him kick Mr kid friendly nancy boy smith out of the TARDIS, make him turn off that shitty dance remix of the awesome Dr Who theme that I had to sit through during the main titles, and most importantly [b]VISIT SOMEWHERE THAT ISN'T COMPLETELY SENTIMENTAL AND BORING FOR CHRISTMAS[/b]. [editline]28th December 2010[/editline] Girl in the fireplace had everything, cool spaceships, a weird and interesting premise for the bad guys to be showing up, time travel shenanigans, sentimentality but not too much sentimentality, and of course good old Dr Who monsters chasing people about. Not to mention a good bit of (funny) comedy. That was a good episode. This was not. They are not equal.[/QUOTE] Fair sure matt-smith hating is old now
[QUOTE=Mr. Agree;27020723]Rory's older than the Doctor, scarily enough.[/QUOTE] And hopefully he'll use some of that to his advantage in the next series. I mean really. He was a ROMAN and he guarded Amy for what? Almost 2000 years? He had to of picked up some badass somewhere along the way.
Dude that was proven, Him being plastic. and dragging a god knows how heavy box out of a burning building during the fecking blitz
The problem was, if we were to apply logic to this, it would say that because that wasn't actually Rory, it was a plastic duplicate with different strengths, muscle memory would be lost and handling any sort of weaponry like swords he might have had prowess with would have to be relearned. On the other hand, as his plastic memories are intact, he might be superawesome with a sword or fist fighting or whatever. Or I could just be talking out of my ass.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;27006971]He remembers he was a Nestene, but he isn't anymore (somehow)[/QUOTE] I think it has to do with what the Doctor said about the "imprints" that the Nestene took when they secretly raided Amy's house, something about "not just your memories, but your heart and your soul". Was the soul part just a metaphor, or was he actually referencing the existence of a soul? Maybe when Nestene Rory was made by the Nestene, his "soul" was drawn to the new body from across time. Perhaps the time cracks only affected the material universe, and didn't really do anything to "souls"? Torchwood had a few things to do with souls and that too, what with Death needing 13 souls to walk the Earth for eternity, or Jack defeating Abbadon by sending an overload of "soulstuff" when he was caught in Abbadon's shadow. But it's all just theory, we haven't really heard the Doctor fully-acknowledging the existence of souls in one way of another...
Did anyone notice the control room from The Lodger is in the trailer? [editline]0[/editline] Also the hangar doors on The Doctor as a prisoner read "A51" Wild speculation... Doctor is the Roswell alien?!
[QUOTE=howling techie;27012465]I'll just leave this here. [url]http://io9.com/5718601/shot+by+shot-analysis-of-the-new-doctor-who-trailer/gallery/[/url][/QUOTE] Ugh. Those dolls again. They actually crept into my nightmares the other night. It's not nice to dream about one of those things standing over your bed >.<
[QUOTE=CarlBooth;27022294]Did anyone notice the control room from The Lodger is in the trailer? [editline]0[/editline] Also the hangar doors on The Doctor as a prisoner read "A51" Wild speculation... Doctor is the Roswell alien?![/QUOTE] both are correct
[QUOTE=CarlBooth;27022294]Wild speculation... Doctor is the Roswell alien?![/QUOTE] I'm not sure, seeing as that Slenderman-looking thing at the end looked like a Grey. I'm guessing that the guys from Area 51 will just seize anything alien the same way London Torchwood did when they went around confiscating the Doctor's TARDIS, and adopt the whole "zomg it's alien, let's tie it up and poke it" mentality.
That link with the frame-by-frame analysis said that perhaps the greys were disguising themselves as the guards at Area 51 though, so perhaps Area 51 is some sort of Alien base on Earth or something? Like, a place where the aliens set up camp when they first landed, rather than the place being built by humans to hold aliens and stuff.
I'm most excited for the Nazis, if I'm honest.
The only thing I'm not looking forward to are the big headed dolls. Nightmares, ahoy!
[QUOTE=evlbzltyr;27023026]That link with the frame-by-frame analysis said that perhaps the greys were disguising themselves as the guards at Area 51 though, so perhaps Area 51 is some sort of Alien base on Earth or something? Like, a place where the aliens set up camp when they first landed, rather than the place being built by humans to hold aliens and stuff.[/QUOTE] So perhaps area 51 was not built to keep Alien life IN, but to keep Human life OUT. Perhaps the US government even acknowledges that they are there on some level, and gives them protection.
[img]http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/12/vlcsnap-82928_01.png[/img] An Ood in a blurry mirror. Also, Nazis will appear in the next series for the first time in Doctor Who history. Sweet.
It doesn't look like an Ood, the eyes are too big.
[img]http://www.reflectionsinthenight.com/grey_aliens_files/image002.jpg[/img] Looks like a grey to me
[QUOTE=Dan2593;27026175][img_thumb]http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/12/vlcsnap-82928_01.png[/img_thumb] An Ood in a blurry mirror. Also, Nazis will appear in the next series for the first time in Doctor Who history. Sweet.[/QUOTE] Not an Ood at all. What did you guys think of this xmas special btw? I thought it had far too little action, normally that's what an xmas episode of doctor who is all about! (though yes, they completely overdid it last year) I also really didn't like the missing scenes, the doctor getting half his screwdriver from a shark was missing, so was him taming the shark, and probably more :/ Half my family fell asleep, and that's never happened before, so I'm sure something was wrong (probably the lack of action thing)
[QUOTE=Dan2593;27026175][img_thumb]http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/12/vlcsnap-82928_01.png[/img_thumb] An Ood in a blurry mirror. Also, Nazis will appear in the next series for the first time in Doctor Who history. Sweet.[/QUOTE] If there's actually an episode about the nazis I might consider watching it.
There was a Nazi episode of Star Trek, but it turned out to be rubbish.
[QUOTE=Dan2593;27026175][img_thumb]http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/12/vlcsnap-82928_01.png[/img_thumb] An Ood in a blurry mirror. Also, Nazis will appear in the next series for the first time in Doctor Who history. Sweet.[/QUOTE] It's not an Ood if it doesn't have spaghetti face, unless it tucked it's spaghetti under the suit collar which would look retarded, and also Ood don't have those ridiculously long fingers [editline]asdfasd[/editline] Also it's incredibly fun to say Ood OOOOooOOOoooOOoooooooooOOOOdddddDDDddddd
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