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PriorMarcus posted:Do we really need weekly threads? What is a week, really? Is this not a show about time travel?
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I do like that The Doctor basically trusted Clara to do what he would do in the Dalek's memory hub. I can't remember many times when the Doctor outright trusted a companion to make something clever up to save the day.
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Aug 30, 2014 21:18
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HauntedRobot posted:Great episode but one nitpick, what happened to the liquidised human goop they were covered in between that scene and the next one? They were suddenly bone dry and cleaned up, unless I missed the explanation when my cat got spooked and jumped off the back of the sofa directly onto my nuts. The tube they crawled out of was really hot, I think the implication was that the long crawl through that tube dried them off. (Never mind that their clothes and hair wouldn't dry that neatly, but ~TV~)
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Aug 30, 2014 21:33
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SiKboy posted:I'm hoping he then goes on to meet merlin I actually really want to see them meet the version of Merlin that was born at the "wrong end of time". Popularized by T.H. White, but consistent with some of the earlier stories about him, he had foresight not because he could see the future, but because he was born moving "backwards". So he knew what would happen, but not why it would happen. Every one of our days he got younger, but from his perspective we all got younger. Our final farewells were his first hellos and vice versa. It just seems like something a good Who writer could turn into a great episode because of the built in Time Travel gimmick.
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Aug 30, 2014 22:51
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Jerusalem posted:Done and added in with the others. I can't wait for The Doctor's Wife Pt II where they enter marriage counseling for how Capaldi has been kicking her.
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Aug 31, 2014 07:18
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Jerusalem posted:DADDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYY! DE-FE-NE-STRATE! DE-FE-NE-STRATE!
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Sep 1, 2014 02:20
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Eiba posted:My question is... did Captain Jack not actually count as a soldier? I admit I don't remember exactly what he said his backstory was. Jack said he was a Time Agent, which seem to be more like time-travelling cops. I can't remember what his real backstory was (the "face of Boe" thing was that he was used in a recruiting poster, I think), but I don't recall "soldier" ever coming up. Regardless, Time Agent was the explanation at the time he was actively with the Doctor, so whatever it really was is irrelevant.
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Sep 2, 2014 04:02
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Metal Loaf posted:I was never really able to get into Torchwood but I'm fairly sure a retcon revealed that Dr Sato from "Aliens of London" / "World War Three" and Tosh were one in the same. In the same way, an off-hand comment from Martha early in season three identifies Freema Agyeman's character (a Torchwood agent killed by the Cybermen in "Army of Ghosts") as her cousin, Adeola, and a similar remark by the Doctor in "Journey's End" identifies Gwen as a descendent of Gwyneth from "The Unquiet Dead" (though Davies had already suggested that this was the case after Eve Myles was cast in Torchwood). Sure, but when Clara does it she's the specialist most impossible girl ever.
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Sep 3, 2014 01:35
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Jerusalem posted:I like Fear Her I just rewatched it to be sure. I'm not entirely clear where this reaction to the end comes from. It's mostly just absurdly silly. I guess when they sing to make drawing-dad disappear you could argue it's a really lovely resolution to a half-baked domestic abuse survivor plot, but it's not an offensive resolution, just a "makes it easy" button. The message seems to be that abuse survivors have to keep in solidarity with each other, which is a decent message, but was portrayed in a really dumb way. If everyone is referring to The Doctor carrying the Olympic Torch, that's just silly grandiose trademark Doctor Who nonsense. The rest of the episode is just totally mediocre, though it was nice to see Rose be the driving investigator for the entire episode.
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