Topic: New Doctor Who (Read 59056 times)

Verde · « **Reply #500 on:** May 14, 2011, 11:32:44 AM »

I don't even care that [spoiler]Rory died again[/spoiler]

Bal · « **Reply #501 on:** May 14, 2011, 12:38:49 PM »

RE: River and The Doctor's timelines. Generally speaking it seems like they run at direct odds to one another when we're seeing them featured in an episode, but it's pretty well established before, and confirmed with the beginning of The Impossible Astronaut, that they occasionally meet out of sequence, and that eventually the doctor starts filling in his own TARDIS diary to compare notes. Who wants to bet that, when they met, his was as huge as hers in Silence in the Library and that she got the idea for her diary from his?

EDIT: Rather, when she met him, but you get the idea.

Mothra · « **Reply #502 on:** May 14, 2011, 12:49:17 PM »

I will say that I loved the hell of out River's last kiss. It's the first time she's gotten any sense of how little time they have before the end (well, beginning. Well! End I guess), and it sure as hell wasn't first kiss material either.

Bal · « **Reply #503 on:** May 14, 2011, 08:12:14 PM »

Neil Gaiman is a wonderful man. I basically have nothing bad to say about this episode except that it ended.

Thad · « **Reply #504 on:** May 15, 2011, 01:38:21 PM »

I love all the shout-outs to the old series, too; just a lovely summation of the history of the whole show. And the identity of the Doctor's eponymous Wife was so obvious in hindsight.

Plus, building to the punchline that the villain was [spoiler]giant on the outside and tiny on the inside[/spoiler] -- wonderful.

Oh, and nice Jekyll reference, too.

So, okay. "The only water in the forest is the river."

Well, I think that must certainly mean River as opposed to Pond.

As for the Forest, well, River's first appearance was the Forest of the Dead, though as I've said before I don't really like the idea of the Doctor going back and saving her from the matrix. Could be it's another forest as there are certainly a hell of a lot of them.

Mothra · « **Reply #505 on:** May 15, 2011, 08:02:14 PM »

God, what a great episode.

Bal · « **Reply #506 on:** May 15, 2011, 10:11:47 PM »

There's really not much conversation to have about this one. Fantastic from beginning to end, with almost no arc significance to debate over. That line about the forest and the river is obviously something, but it's too cryptic to be useful until we know more.

Thad · « **Reply #507 on:** May 15, 2011, 10:47:05 PM »

...did he ever actually get around to mentioning fish fingers, or did she spend half the episode alluding to him eventually saying something about them only for it never to happen?

Bal · « **Reply #508 on:** May 15, 2011, 10:50:57 PM »

It does get mentioned, but it's kind of meta, because he only talks about it because she keeps going on about it.

EDIT: Actually, thinking back on it, I think she's just talking about when Amy swore on fish fingers and custard, and she doesn't get it, because fish don't have fingers. He makes some exasperated comment with regards to it.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #509 on:** May 16, 2011, 05:03:01 AM »

Nah, it's just a self-fulfilling prophesy. She questions what fish-fingers are, he rambles before finally going "and fish fingers. mmmm"

Verde · « **Reply #510 on:** May 20, 2011, 01:42:18 AM »

Doctor Who now has an official Twitter, if you're that way inclined.

Verde · « **Reply #511 on:** May 20, 2011, 01:47:25 AM »

Also I really hope that the only reason this week's episode takes place in a doppelgänger factory is to make fans speculate about the Doctor's death in Episode 1.

Misha · « **Reply #512 on:** May 23, 2011, 11:33:15 AM »

I really liked this episode. I really did not like the teaser at the end showing [spoiler]the doctors fighting. Fuck that. [/spoiler]

Mothra · « **Reply #513 on:** May 23, 2011, 11:39:56 AM »

I definitely liked it a lot more than I usually like these things. Clone vs Original plots are hard to enjoy because you sympathize with each side equally, so you just sorta want them to stop fighting all the damn time.

I have this problem every time a sci-fi show tries to pull these off.

Still! Some great Rory so far, and I like most of the supporting cast.

Bal · « **Reply #514 on:** May 23, 2011, 01:42:50 PM »

I like these clones because, as much as they want to believe that they are the people that they remember being, they know they're not, so they're pretty obviously going insane. They also have memories, but almost no genuine experience, so they seem to be overreacting pretty consistently to everything.

Norondor · « **Reply #515 on:** May 23, 2011, 02:05:11 PM »

just like sephiroth...!

Mothra · « **Reply #516 on:** May 23, 2011, 03:09:27 PM »

Dude this is just like Sephiroth gat dang

Thad · « **Reply #517 on:** May 23, 2011, 07:22:50 PM »

...so they're going to turn into the Nestenes, right?

And wouldn't it be neat if the reason Rory was resurrected as an Auton is that he was kind to the original Autons?

Bal · « **Reply #518 on:** May 23, 2011, 07:41:38 PM »

The Doctor clearly knows something about their future. He as much as said so.

Mothra · « **Reply #519 on:** May 24, 2011, 06:03:43 AM »

Quote from: Thad on May 23, 2011, 07:22:50 PM

...so they're going to turn into the Nestenes, right?

And wouldn't it be neat if the reason Rory was resurrected as an Auton is that he was kind to the original Autons?

That would be quite cool, actually

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