Re: Doctor Who Thread III: Reverse the Polarity of the Neutron Flow
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Originally Posted by Androgeus
That was handy half human clone Doctor. And new series created the time war, which was ended by the doctor killing all the Daleks (and Time Lords)
It's spelt R-U-N-A-W-A-Y.
No, it was Donna after she became the Doctor Donna. Its been a while, but I don't remember Handy doing too much in that part.
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Defeating them in a mostly bloodless takeover and forcing the Colonel to say "Run away" (from one of the scariest individuals in the universe) is going ballistic? Honestly, I think that was rather tame, his take down of the Silence was far more brutal.
It was more the Doctor's conversation with Colonel Runaway and Madame Kovarian after that. The Doctor was terrifying.
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Re: Doctor Who Thread III: Reverse the Polarity of the Neutron Flow
The dalek begging for mercy never really bothered me all that much, oddly enough. Sure, it's seems counter to everything we ever see of them (although the series has been humanizing them more and more since the show was revived), but then you have to remember that it's River. The Doctor chooses his friends carefully, as he puts it, and they don't hold a candle to the Doctor when it comes to darkness and ruthless malice.
River doesn't fit that pattern, though. She's more like the Master, someone the Doctor would never associate with if it were not for his own crippling survivor's guilt and loneliness. She's a violent, self-professed psychopath who is far more ready with a sidearm than the Doctor finds comfortable, but her obsession with the Doctor leads her to channel it in "good" ways.
In short, River may very well be every bit as terrifying to the Daleks as the Doctor himself, but with one very specific caveat: the Doctor doesn't like to kill. Oh, he will, but he never likes it - or, perhaps more accurately, he's afraid of liking it. He often even tries to save his most hated enemies at the last moment, though they rarely take him up on it. River isn't like that - she represents all the terror of the Doctor without the restraint.
And then the Dalek killed the only thing that had ever restrained her. Yeah, begging for mercy sounds like a proper thing to do, especially when you're the only Dalek in existence at that point. Survival at any cost, remember?
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Now that I've seen the trailer you've been talking about, however, I'm less interested in the Daleks and more interested in the Doctor's speech about how he intends to honor "everyone who's suffered and died because of my mercy" and Amy's response of "This is what happens when you travel alone."
I love the sections that show the pain the Doctor is really in (Dalek, School Reunion, parts of the Season 3 finale, End of Time, Amy's Choice, The God Complex, Closing Time). It's easy to see the Doctor as a swashbuckling hero who has a heart of teflon, and all the pain and loss just slides off him, but the moments when you see how false that image of him is are his finest moments, if you ask me. That's why, while I like all the doctors, 9 is my favorite (11 is quickly closing in on that, though).
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Re: Doctor Who Thread III: Reverse the Polarity of the Neutron Flow
Okay, sorry for keeping everyone waiting. Now, Good as Gold.
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Stuff I liked
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Good as Gold contained a charm to it with meta-references such as the adventurers handbook.
The Dr Who specials written by children are non-canon so we can ignore continuity.
It was really sweet the way it had better Olympic spirit than Fear Her.
Stuff I disliked
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Weeping Angel was not the best choice of monster. Then again they only had four options in the contest (Cyberman, Judoon and Ood). Also an angel can’t chase an Olympic runner. Watched by thousands of spectators.
Fun Fact!
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Given the age of the young writers, they may not have known of Fear Her’s existence (2006)
Fun Fact 2!
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David Tennant didn't light the flame! The future is changed!
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8/10, don’t want to be nasty to 8 year olds but it was not as good as “Death is the Only Answer” (which was awesome).
CORRECTION: 5/10, an insult to the angels, why oh why is their threat wasted!
Sunken Valley returns on Aug 25/Sep 1 to tackle Asylum of the Daleks and what ever gems Dr Who Season 7 has to offer.
NO WAIT! Sunken Valley will/may return earlier for a special feature. Joy! No one? Ah well.
Also Season 7 will have 14 episodes. Excluding Christmas Special. 5 this year. 8 next year.
PS: I know I'm on the first page but I should get on the OP Andro.
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Re: Doctor Who Thread III: Reverse the Polarity of the Neutron Flow
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PS: I know I'm on the first page but I should get on the OP Andro.
Sorry, went through the effort to find all them and forgot to edit them in. You should be in now. Also updated to include latest Curly review. Wonder how many reviews I can link before I run out of space.
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Curlers dude!
yhea, totally forgot Curly was still only up to Unicorn & the Wasp but that was almost a whole thread ago. and that we renamed spoilers "curlers"
edit to guess at special feature, the night mini-epsodes on the dvd?
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Re: Doctor Who Thread III: Reverse the Polarity of the Neutron Flow
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Sorry, went through the effort to find all them post and forgot to edit them. You should be in now. Also updated to include latest Curly review. Wonder how many reviews I can link before I run out of space.
yhea, totally forgot Curly was still only up to Unicorn & the Wasp but that was almost a whole thread ago. and that we renamed spoilers "curlers"
edit to guess at special feature, the night mini-epsodes on the dvd?
I think so. Saw them on youtube, and they were good.
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Last Night was particularly moving: The Doctor and River's current date, first date, and last date all in one timey-wimey ball. The look between the two doctors at the end was the best, it says without words exactly what both of him are thinking: "That means she's about to go to..." "The library, yeah."
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Re: Doctor Who Thread III: Reverse the Polarity of the Neutron Flow
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8/10, don’t want to be nasty to 8 year olds but it was not as good as “Death is the Only Answer” (which was awesome).
Sunken Valley returns on Aug 25/Sep 1 to tackle Asylum of the Daleks and what ever gems Dr Who Season 7 has to offer.
NO WAIT! Sunken Valley will/may return earlier for a special feature. Joy! No one? Ah well.
Hey! I was mean to eight-year-olds, well, I held their work to the same standards as professional writers which is both mean and yet respectful in a sense.
Still, I more or less agree with you on the points you raised.
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Curlers dude!
If it helps the instant I come across a word that could even vaguely spoil me I skip the whole post.
I have reflexive actions now to any mention of the word 'Donna'.
It's trickier when it gets to season 5/6 because same people though, so I tend to skip loads.
And the fact that you remembered curlers gave me warm fuzzy feelings.
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Doing a non-Doctor Who thing over in RB. I feel like whoring myself out, so I may link it here, but if I don't check out RB some time tonight or tomorrow for
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me watching Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone blind.
Because I've not seen it since opening week.
When I was ten.
And haven't read the book since . . . perhaps 2003 at the lastest.
Don't look at me like that.
So yeah. Attention whore needs attention plz.
(Expect a Who review tomorrow or Friday at the latest - I've had a string of job interviews lately)
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8/10, don’t want to be nasty to 8 year olds but it was not as good as “Death is the Only Answer” (which was awesome).
Lulwut. 8/10 for that piece of cheese? Judge them fairly, it's not nastiness, just honest assessment.
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I feel like whoring myself out,
Oh really. *Waggles eyebrows* Well then, perhaps you'd like to come with me and-
Oh wait, you're just advertising another review you're doing. Never mind.
Re: Doctor Who Thread III: Reverse the Polarity of the Neutron Flow
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Hey! I was mean to eight-year-olds, well, I held their work to the same standards as professional writers which is both mean and yet respectful in a sense.
If you compare it to some of the winners of the "500 Words" competition it's evident that some 8-year olds can write stuff a lot better than Good as Gold.
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So Asylum of the Daleks is premeriming tomorrow at the British Film Institute. So it should be back on our screens pretty soon.
And now to active detective skills. This Saturday's Shedule already exist, and it isn't Who. 25th August does have a "TBA" on BBC 2 which is about the correct length of time, but Who is broadcast on BBC 1 so I feel that's something else. Thus I believe it'll be the 1st September.
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I get bored easily so I went deeper on my detective work on figuring out the broadcast date. BBC America's Schedule for 1st September has them showing the entirety of series 6 and Christmas special with an hour long gap before the next show. so yhea pretty confident in my prediction.
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She does have to deal with our weather now however. It's a trade off.
I lived a few years in Cambridge and must say, the weather was altogether livable and not too rainy at all...now on the other hand, i'm sat here in my shorts blessing the airconditioning which is keeping me from melting away..so, no sympathy there, from me
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I can't stand hot weather, so the trade-off so far is very favourable.
And the locals are nice.
I was thinking more of the implausible changeability of it rather than just the cold eg. bright and sunny now but in 5 minutes it could easily be raining/hailstoning, then sunbathing weather when I leave work. Have to take a waterproof to work every day just in case.
And as for locals, as long as you aren't in London they could always be worse.
On topic: do we know how many episodes River is appearing in, and if she's expected in any after Rory & Amy leave?
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fallen to the second page
We finally have an official broadcast date
In other news the audio book version of Creature From the Pit, read by Tom Baker, is being broadcast on radio 4 extra starting Thursday, expect me to say that they are alright at some point.
Edit:just remembered an idea I had, would anyone be interested in doing some live chatting via irc or some similar method?
Edit 3 - With a Vengeance: US Trailer if you care.
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Oh really. *Waggles eyebrows* Well then, perhaps you'd like to come with me 
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