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Spoilers The Doctor Who Thread

Jaffa Cake said:
I refer you to my previous post...;)

Now, in that scene he tells Amy that she has to remember what he said to her that night when she was a little girl. If I remember rightly, she said waiting, thought she hear the Tardis – but nothing. It was all a bit dreamlike.

What if she did meet the Doctor again that night, and for whatever reason can't fully remember it? Perhaps it wasn't the Doctor who had just promised to return to her, but the Doctor from the future who is also visiting her throughout her time with him? That might explain the jacket anomaly, as well as the fact that when we cut to the Doctor with River and Octavian it doesn't seem like he's just caught them up, having nipped back to say a few words to Amy.

Either that, or it's a continuity gaffe. :p
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:rolleyes:ah I didn't read all the white out text
well spotted

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Coincidence of coincidences... was just grabbing a DVD from the living room and caught the very tail end of Graham Norton. Didn't hear what he was babbling on about but I did see an animated Norton getting blasted by a Dalek :D.
No doubt it'll be on the 'tube soon enough.

edit: tail end - wishful thinking.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
I refer you to my previous post...;)

Now, in that scene he tells Amy that she has to remember what he said to her that night when she was a little girl. If I remember rightly, she said waiting, thought she hear the Tardis – but nothing. It was all a bit dreamlike.

What if she did meet the Doctor again that night, and for whatever reason can't fully remember it? Perhaps it wasn't the Doctor who had just promised to return to her, but the Doctor from the future who is also visiting her throughout her time with him? That might explain the jacket anomaly, as well as the fact that when we cut to the Doctor with River and Octavian it doesn't seem like he's just caught them up, having nipped back to say a few words to Amy.

Either that, or it's a continuity gaffe. :p
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Good theory, but I somehow see it being a bit of a mistake. I would love it to work out how you suggested though.
 
Well that was completely useless not as bad as the Dalek episode but still. And Moffat isn't writing anymore episodes this season till the 2 part finale. Though I hear next weeks episode is supposed to be good. Then we've got... Oh I guess that would be a spoiler so I won't say...

When the Doctor said he didn't want to run into Casanova I almost thought it was going to be a joke about Tennant before he brought up the chicken. Other than that the best part of the episode was when he whipped out his library card.
 
Worse one this series

This most recent episode has to be the worse one so far this series. However, it certainly isn't as bad as what Doctor Who has shown me before when Russel T Davis was main writer.

I think the problem was, was the truly awful special effects towards the end. It was as though they got bored writing and filming and just quickly wrapped it up with the Doctor cheesily climbing a rope to the top of a building to turn some generator off.

It does fit in with the whole cracks business though, and to be very honest, I think we are all in for a treat with the next episode.
 
I quite enjoyed that episode but the ending seemed a bit rushed.
It was certainly better than ep's 2-3 which I thought were really poor.

I'm starting to get used to MS as the Doctor and i think his performances have been good.
Although it does strike me that whole "crack in space" back story seems (at this stage) incredibly similar to the "disappearing planets" arc in series 4.
Actually I'm amazed how little has changed since the new production team has come in.
 
I don't know what ep you guys were watching, but the one I saw was quite nicely entertaining. It started off a little wobbly but picked up 1/3 of the way in, and reminded me of OldWho™ rather more than most of NuWho™ has, with properly pseudo-scientific explanations for the goings-on, instead of everything just being all hand-wavy magic. Definitely better than Victory of the Daleks, so my fear of non-Moffat episodes has abated somewhat....

--Eric
 
Eric5h5 said:
I don't know what ep you guys were watching, but the one I saw was quite nicely entertaining. It started off a little wobbly but picked up 1/3 of the way in, and reminded me of OldWho™ rather more than most of NuWho™ has, with properly pseudo-scientific explanations for the goings-on, instead of everything just being all hand-wavy magic. Definitely better than Victory of the Daleks, so my fear of non-Moffat episodes has abated somewhat....

--Eric
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Agreed, wasn't amazing but a good episode. Better than the Dalek one.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
Heh. I liked that bit.
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It went by so fast I almost didn't notice, but apparently that was the first Doctor's picture on the library card. I'm surprised how many references and call backs to older episodes I'm not getting this season. Crash of the Byzantium was one of the events River mentioned back in Silence in the Library when she was trying to figure out the Doctor's timeline. And when she says they will meet again "when the Pandorica opens"... that's what Prisoner Zero warned the Doctor about "the Pandorica will open and silence will fall." Guess she'll be back for the finale. I'm guessing River is Moffat's Captain Jack. She'll never be a regular companion, but she'll keep popping up multiple times each season.

Okay and this one is just me reading Wikipedia cause I would have never gotten it on my own... The workman's tent investigated by Amy in Starship UK is in front of a shop called "Magpie Electricals". A shop of the same name featured in "The Idiot's Lantern".
 
DISCOMUNICATION said:
It went by so fast I almost didn't notice, but apparently that was the first Doctor's picture on the library card.
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It was indeed.

DISCOMUNICATION said:
The workman's tent investigated by Amy in Starship UK is in front of a shop called "Magpie Electricals". A shop of the same name featured in "The Idiot's Lantern"
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Apparently the production crew use Magpie Electricals a fair bit, to get around the issue of product placement and it's a bit of an in-joke to boot. If memory serves a couple of the bits and pieces bolted onto the Tardis console carry the logo too.
 
After watching it again, I've just realised that the Doctor put a jelly baby into Amy's mouth after checking she is okay. Which is another reference to previous Doctors. Especially Tom Baker.
 
roadbloc said:
After watching it again, I've just realised that the Doctor put a jelly baby into Amy's mouth after checking she is okay. Which is another reference to previous Doctors. Especially Tom Baker.
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I clearly wasn't watching closely enough: I thought it was a mint humbug!
 
I liked that episode. It was entertaining and funny (I'm a gondola . . . driiiver so money's a bit . . . tight)

Yeah the special effects were cheesy but they always are pretty awful.

Next week's looks good though :)
 
Here's a little teaser for you all.

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Jaffa Cake said:
It was indeed.

Apparently the production crew use Magpie Electricals a fair bit, to get around the issue of product placement and it's a bit of an in-joke to boot. If memory serves a couple of the bits and pieces bolted onto the Tardis console carry the logo too.
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Some TARDIS concept art:

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This weeks episode was better than last weeks. Not great, but better. Didn't notice any cracks in the universe thread this week except for the displaced aliens, but then again that was just... spoilers for the yanks who are 2 weeks behind the UK.
 
I loved this week's episode. It was very gripping indeed. I didn't quite understand the ending though....(a slight hint for someone kind and understanding to explain it to me....)
 
I was expecting the Tardis to be the dream lord chap. It can't be the Master, I don't think they'd pull him out of the hat so soon into the new series.

Really liked that episode. I was hooked from start to finish, which I can't say for any other episode this series.
 
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