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Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 4:11 pm
by GORDON
Damn, that was good. The Curator was interesting, too.
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 11:00 pm
by GORDON
GORDON wrote:I thought maybe he and River were her parents, and he'd be back for that reason.
Was just rereading this thread from the beginning, remembering the journey...
I got that prediction ass backwards, didn't I. 
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 3:36 pm
by GORDON
50th anniversary spoiler alert.
"Sir... all 12 Doctors are here."
"My God, it's my worst nightmare."
"Correction sir.... all 13."
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 3:40 pm
by GORDON
GORDON wrote:BBCA is broadcasting live and in 20 minutes is the largest global simulcast in history.
94 countries, simultaneously.
10k tickets for movie theater screenings in America sold out in 28 minutes, with zero advertising.
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 3:44 pm
by GORDON
Deleted scene from the 50th.
John Hurt nailed it, I think. So crotchety... yet so The Doctor.
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 11:58 am
by TPRJones
Damn fine show.
Don't think too hard about the fine details of what actually happened or you'll find it doesn't really make a damn bit of sense, but that's Moffet for you.
Hurt was perfect. It's a shame we won't get more of him as the Doctor than this one episode.
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 7:11 pm
by GORDON
The 5(ish) Doctors
A 30 minute thing made by some of the classic Doctors about how they tried to get back on the show...
Pretty cute.
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 3:23 pm
by GORDON
Longer xmas trailer.
This has the potential to be insane.
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Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 4:58 pm
by GORDON
Ok... first time I watched it as it aired, I thought, "Huh?" It was weird and 4 seasons of plot points were wrapped up in 45 seconds of quick conversation.
Second time I watched it, after having time to digest it, I was able to enjoy it much more.
Also, I heard 12 is going to be using his natural Scottish accent.
Next season September, 2014. See you then.
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 10:38 pm
by Paul
I saw it twice as well.
I wasn't all that impressed. I felt it was thrown together.
It's like they threw a bunch of ingredients in because the ingredients were cool.
Bad Wolf & The Parting of Ways was an epic goodby and a great wrap to the Eccleston series.
The End of Time was a good wrap up (tying in seamlessly the The Sound of Drums & The Last of the Time Lords from a previous season finale) and nice goodbye to Tennant.
I liked Smith as the Doctor, but I was disappointed at how his story arc ended. It wasn't an epic goodbye. It wasn't a good wrap up of old Smith stories. It seemed like it was pieced together, but it wasn't something that the series was leading to.
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 10:51 pm
by GORDON
....... Can't really argue, and I agree with the 9 & 10 finales, but I thought this was somehow an appropriate way for 11 to go out. "CHRISTMAS IS DEFENDED!" For 600 years he just hangs out, grows old, fixes toys for kids, and takes out the occasional cyberman or sontar invasion. He grows into an old man, there.... it feels more appropriate than for 11 than going out in a blaze like 9, or in despair like 10. He is a child Doctor. He doesn't like being enraged, he doesn't know what to do with it.
After my first viewing I missed the explanation for the Silence being in the Papal Mainframe, the discussion went so fast. That was really bugging me until the second viewing when I heard it correctly.
++++
Also, is the Pope woman a regeneration of River Song? She can fly the Tardis, she is all kissy face over the Doctor, and the Doctor at one point tells her, "You've been fighting the psychopath inside you all your life, you can continue to do so." All points to Melody.
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Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 12:05 pm
by Paul
I guess it does point to Melody Pond.
I don't think it can be though.
In Church she said that she'd never seen the Doctor in that body before, so she had him twirl around.
Melody's forms were a baby, then a little girl (the one asking for help from the President, who regenerated in the alley), then the black Melody who befriended and grew up with Amy, then her classic curly-haired self that ages in reverse and is going in an opposite direction that the Doctor, and finally she became digital when "saved" to the library via sonic screwdriver.
Even if the doctor extracts Melody from the library and into a new body, she'd have seen the Mat Smith body before.
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 12:44 pm
by GORDON
Yes, that is correct. Hmmm.
Maybe she is Metacrisis River Song.
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:22 pm
by TPRJones
I liked it, but yeah, it felt a bit rushed.
I think this sums up pretty well the differences in tone between the two different show's creators we've seen since the reboot.
I liked Davies and I liked Moffatt. I hope the new guy doesn't turn back the clock to a pre-reboot tone for Doctor Who. It was good for it's time, but that time is not now. But something about that snippet of the new Doctor felt very 1970s Doctor to me, which I find worrying.
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:25 pm
by GORDON
According to this the Doctor spent 900 years on Trenzalore.
http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-n....nzalore
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:43 pm
by Paul
On Trenzalore, with that field that makes people tell the truth, do you think any wife bothers to ask her husband if she looks fat?
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:23 pm
by GORDON
Cracked me up how the Doctor learned to hardly ever say anything truthful while in the truth field.
Rule 1:
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 7:09 pm
by GORDON
The live pre-show for the new season starts in less than an hour.
I know what *I* am doing this Saturday night.
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 5:14 pm
by TPRJones
Some people hated the new doctor. I liked it.
Not as highly polished as Matt Smith's first episode, but not bad IMO.
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 5:23 pm
by GORDON
"Why am I talking like this? I have a Scottish accent! I am Scottish! I'll be complaining about everything!"
"Doctor, we have to go figure out the mystery!"
"Yeah, I have a feeling the English are involved."
or something like that.
This episode had some good points, and bad. I like being back to morally ambiguous Doctor... "It is not in your basic programming to commit suicide, and it is not in my basic programming to commit murder. We both know that one of us is not being honest about his basic programming."
and
"Come have a drink with me... I have a bad feeling I am gong to have to kill you soon. I know *I* need one."
That's some Clint Eastwood shit.