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Spoilers The Doctor Who Thread

The series finale was superb. I've been glued to the new series after tuning out halfway through David Tennant's stint. Thought I wanted to be Amy Pond...


...until River Song turned up.
 
Pipian said:
I'm really hoping that we see less of the Daleks next season. I mean, in the old series, we would see them somewhat sparingly.
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True I think we've seen to much of them, i think commercial pressures are a issue and i heard that they paid the Terry Nation estate for the rights to use the Daleks for a set number of years so they pretty much have at least one Dalek episode per year

However it's worth noting that there are more stories per year now. 11, 1 or 2 episode, stories per year compared to 6, 4 episode stories a year for the classic series (in the 70s & 80s anyway). so if they pop up once a series its the equivalent of roughly every two years in the classic series.
 
I may just be stupid and have missed it but why does the TARDIS explode in the first place?

EDIT: Never mind, i watched the ending again and realized the doctor doesn't even know and is going to find out.
 
This is cool
DW characters in the style of The Simpsons
at this guys site http://springfieldpunx.blogspot.com/search/label/Doctor%20Who

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So, we've just really gotten into Doctor Who, thanks to the significant availability on Netflix Watch Instantly. There is something that I can't seem to reconcile.

The Tennant Doctor was involved in the Stolen Planet story in 2009, and this was a remembered event, as outlined in Waters of Mars. Yet, the Eccleston Doctor went the the Utah facility in 2012 and encountered the single Dalek that nobody understood. I would understand Rose not being aware, but the other folks had lived through the Dalek invasion.

Is that just a quirk of the series, or was something explained that I just didn't get?
 
Basically, the events of The Stolen Earth happened to Ten – when Nine visited 2012 the folk there were unaware of the Daleks because the Dalek invasion hadn't yet happened – even though it would have happened in the past, if you follow.

Before The Stolen Earth, any human the Doctor meets who lives in 2009 onwards wouldn't remember the Daleks because The Stolen Earth hadn't yet happened. But any human he meets after The Stolen Earth who lives in 2009 onwards would remember it, because after that point it had happened. Of course, the universe resetting may well mean that a lot of stuff has been forgotten – Amy herself couldn't remember the events of The Stolen Earth.

So history can be rewritten, time is in flux and all that. And I've probably confused you even more with what I've just written. It's certainly had that effect on me. ;)
 
As with all video encoding it depends very much on the resolution you're wanting. Typically each episode Handbrake'd will take just under 400MB providing you don't want it in HD.
 
Queso said:
As with all video encoding it depends very much on the resolution you're wanting. Typically each episode Handbrake'd will take just under 400MB providing you don't want it in HD.
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Was going to buy of itunes, i think i might pay for the hd one for the extra £5,
 
Doctor Who is now immortal. Allegedly.


He travels through time and space, saves the Earth, and has millions of fans all over the world. But as every "Whovian" knows, the Doctor cannot last for ever: Time Lords are able to regenerate only 12 times before they die.

Fans have always thought that the 13th doctor would be the last, thanks to a 1976 Doctor Who episode, The Deadly Assassin, featuring Tom Baker as the Doctor in his fourth incarnation, and revealing for the first time the regeneration limit. But a passing comment in a children's television programme later this month is set to rewrite history and cast the Doctor, iconic hero of the world's most successful and longest-running science fiction series, as immortal.

The moment comes in the CBBC spin-off show, The Sarah Jane Adventures, which stars former companion Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith. Matt Smith, who plays the current Doctor Who, guest stars in a two-part episode called The Death of the Doctor, to be screened on October 25 and 26. While the Doctor and Clyde Langer, played by Daniel Anthony, are in the process of outwitting spooky vulture undertakers the Shansheeth, Clyde asks how many times he can regenerate. The Doctor indicates that there is no limit. The action continues.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/12/doctor-who-immortal-reveals-bbc
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There was a debate when the new series started as to whether the 12 regenerations limit was imposed by the Time Lords themselves, and whether their removal from the Universe would mean the Doctor could just keep regenerating forever. Looks like it's been resolved in the most convenient way for the BBC :D
 
Queso said:
There was a debate when the new series started as to whether the 12 regenerations limit was imposed by the Time Lords themselves, and whether their removal from the Universe would mean the Doctor could just keep regenerating forever. Looks like it's been resolved in the most convenient way for the BBC :D
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Previously they have had a finite limit – as mentioned in The Deadly Assassin, and the Master also had used up all his regenerations at one point. The Time Lords seemed to have a limit imposed, given that they also had the ability to reset or replenish an individual's regenerations – they offered to reward the Master with a fresh regeneration cycle at one point, and on more than one occasion a rogue Time Lord has attempted to steal the remaining regenerations of another.

My guess would be that either (as you suggest Queso) with the Time Lords gone the the limit has gone too, or that it was purposefully removed during the Time War, when Time Lords – used to living many centuries between regenerations – suddenly found themselves dying all over the shop and going through their allotted regenerations rather more quickly than they would have liked. The fact that the Doctor is apparently sure of the fact that he now has an infinite number of regenerations would maybe suggest the latter.

Nice that it's seen as a complete non-issue, though. :p

Anyway, he's still not immortal – if he dies before a regeneration starts to take place he's dead and no coming back. I seem to remember a line (from an episode before The Deadly Assassin) that Time Lords can live forever, baring accidents...
 
I suppose the 12 regeneration thing is the Doctor Who equivalent of the Millennium Bug and about as difficult to deal with

it's still amazes me how many people you come across that actually thought the BBC would stop production of one of it's biggest shows because it wouldn't want to contradict a line in a 1976 episode.
 
Nice to see a Doctor Who thread...

I just LOVE the new series, especially Amy Pond. She's such a badass hahaha.
The Big Bang 2 episode was just EPIC. The "I remember" part sent shivers down my spine:eek:

Anyone knows when the new season begins?
 
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