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notprop wrote:Still, i for one am happy that (this spoiler is dedicated to Anung Un Rama) :
Spoiler:
a) the space marin...I mean the Cybermen are in the next one.
b) No more pouty ginger or feckless Rory anymore (hopefully)
That’s assuming that they have lined up a new sexy bird as a replacement after Corden is gone. I don't mind him but he is playing a particularly whiney character (version of himself) in Dr Who.
On the subject of a new sexy companion (sorry Alex Kingston fan here), I can see River Song being the next companion and thus gen up on the stuff she is supposed to know?
Spoiler:
a) Meh, they have come back too many times for my liking, same as the Daleks.
b) Yes! Damn they have got boring!
Not excited for Corben either though, and i hope to high Heaven that they dont bring River in as the companion, i lost interest in her storyline completely....
inmygravenimage wrote:Have courage, faith and beer, my friend - it will be done!
notprop wrote:Still, i for one am happy that (this spoiler is dedicated to Anung Un Rama) :
Spoiler:
a) the space marin...I mean the Cybermen are in the next one.
b) No more pouty ginger or feckless Rory anymore (hopefully)
That’s assuming that they have lined up a new sexy bird as a replacement after Corden is gone. I don't mind him but he is playing a particularly whiney character (version of himself) in Dr Who.
On the subject of a new sexy companion (sorry Alex Kingston fan here), I can see River Song being the next companion and thus gen up on the stuff she is supposed to know?
Spoiler:
b) Karen Gillan is the only reason why I watch Dr Who anymore (Matty on his own isn't enough of a reason given the poor scripts and often only average supporting actors), so i'll likely switch off until she makes a re-appearence.
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Hopefully the end of the series will have the Doctor and River leaving together and then after that they will have parted company again and their adventures in the middle won't be detailed.
Really liked the last one, thought Corden was a funny addition, but the ending was really rushed. Like, really really rushed.
Edit: Now that I have some spare time, I'll explain it.
Spoiler:
The whole thing with the Cman transformation, after the reversal thingy, suddenly it all goes tits up with the Cman and they start exploding, the only explanation being a rushed, poorly thought-of excuse of some rubbish like "emotional feedback crap". It just felt that the writer had 10 mins to finish his work and just added "The Cybermen begin to seize and explode" to his script. Bad idea, bad execution.
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Valkyrie wrote:Really liked the last one, thought Corden was a funny addition, but the ending was really rushed. Like, really really rushed.
Edit: Now that I have some spare time, I'll explain it.
[spoiler]The whole thing with the Cman transformation, after the reversal thingy, suddenly it all goes tits up with the Cman and they start exploding, the only explanation being a rushed, poorly thought-of excuse of some rubbish like "emotional feedback crap". It just felt that the writer had 10 mins to finish his work and just added "The Cybermen begin to seize and explode" to his script. Bad idea, bad execution.
I didn't mind. Let's face it, if you're annoyed by "emotional feedback crap" you're watching the wrong show. Or do I have to remind of you all of the season 3 finale.
Valkyrie wrote:Really liked the last one, thought Corden was a funny addition, but the ending was really rushed. Like, really really rushed.
Edit: Now that I have some spare time, I'll explain it.
Spoiler:
The whole thing with the Cman transformation, after the reversal thingy, suddenly it all goes tits up with the Cman and they start exploding, the only explanation being a rushed, poorly thought-of excuse of some rubbish like "emotional feedback crap". It just felt that the writer had 10 mins to finish his work and just added "The Cybermen begin to seize and explode" to his script. Bad idea, bad execution.
I was going to say exactly this.
Indeed.
Also:
Spoiler:
Anyone else notice River wearing an eyepatch and a black dress at the end of the promo for the next episode? Not.Interested.Anymore...
O and wasnt it a bit...well, easy to pt her into the suit? Shes a kick-ass the rest of the time, what changed exactly?
inmygravenimage wrote:Have courage, faith and beer, my friend - it will be done!
Anung Un Rama wrote:I didn't mind. Let's face it, if you're annoyed by "emotional feedback crap" you're watching the wrong show. Or do I have to remind of you all of the season 3 finale.
You might have to.
I don't recall a single minute of it.
This entire reboot (from Ecclestone forward) has been pretty miss and miss (except for Karen Gillan, whom I'd still watch if she was reading a phonebook) with an occasional fortunate scatter.
Then again, so were the previous incarnations.
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
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Anung Un Rama wrote:I didn't mind. Let's face it, if you're annoyed by "emotional feedback crap" you're watching the wrong show. Or do I have to remind of you all of the season 3 finale.
You might have to.
I don't recall a single minute of it.
The Master had the Doctor age about 1000 years, making him a shrivled, tiny yoda-like creature. But he got better, because Martha got every person on the planet to believe in him at exactlly the same moment all over the world.
I think that beat out the hitler episode as the worse of Matt Smith imo. Really hope the new companion(s) will make up for it. Also imo the least cool plot with cybermen in it from the new Who's. Ive started to like Smith a little but they need to do something to alter the whole river daughter wife arch they have going, just boring and not very time travelerish for me.
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Anung Un Rama wrote:I didn't mind. Let's face it, if you're annoyed by "emotional feedback crap" you're watching the wrong show. Or do I have to remind of you all of the season 3 finale.
You might have to.
I don't recall a single minute of it.
The Master had the Doctor age about 1000 years, making him a shrivled, tiny yoda-like creature. But he got better, because Martha got every person on the planet to believe in him at exactlly the same moment all over the world.
The whole shrivelled Doctor thing was awful if you ask me. Just like the regenerated Master. Too maniacal, and nowhere near enough charisma to convince. Better in the Tennant send offs though!
As to this season's finale, I'm expecting big, big things. I mean I think it's clear to all the Doctor doesn't in fact die, as to do so simply traps the series in a loop...Doctor dies, back to the Diner, rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat. But if they just do a deus ex, I'll be disappointed.
Now, please note what the Doctor wore in 'Let's Kill Hitler'. Top hat and tails. And what did he wear to Pond's wedding? Top Hat and Tails..... as he said, 'you do a lot in xx minutes'. I think it was a bit of a set up. Knowing he was going to actually properly die, he tricks River into giving him more Regenerations...a sort of back up....
Valkyrie wrote:Really liked the last one, thought Corden was a funny addition, but the ending was really rushed. Like, really really rushed.
Edit: Now that I have some spare time, I'll explain it.
Spoiler:
The whole thing with the Cman transformation, after the reversal thingy, suddenly it all goes tits up with the Cman and they start exploding, the only explanation being a rushed, poorly thought-of excuse of some rubbish like "emotional feedback crap". It just felt that the writer had 10 mins to finish his work and just added "The Cybermen begin to seize and explode" to his script. Bad idea, bad execution.
Spoiler:
This. It just felt like it was cooked up at 4:55pm on a Friday. "Right, we need a way to end this episode clean so we can have the finale the week after." "Power of love?" "Boom, let's go home."
Inhibitor chip is there because of the trauma of becoming a Cyberman. Fatty Corden was being made into Cyber Controller, linked to all the Cybermen. His chip blows, and overwhelms those slaved to him.... Either that or they couldn't get the bodysuit on around his lardy gut.
Mystery: They just keep the brains, you can't have a fat cyberman. But Aung is right. They also (in the old series) defeated the cybermen using emotions in combination with a "Cerebraton Mentor"
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Yes, but the use of emotions dont cause 80's-style head popping explosions when the Cybermen were defeated with emotions before did they?
Anung, the leader of Torchwood overrode her programming with the power of her duty....is that technically emotion? (i know she cries a swell, but its her duty to Queen and Country that spur her on past the Cyberman programming)
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inmygravenimage wrote:Have courage, faith and beer, my friend - it will be done!
Anung Un Rama wrote:It wasn't the first time the emotional inhibitor failed. The Torchwood lady in the season 2 finale managed to overpower it as well.
I'm fairly sure that their heads exploded in "The Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel" in Tennant's first season.
Anung Un Rama wrote:It wasn't the first time the emotional inhibitor failed. The Torchwood lady in the season 2 finale managed to overpower it as well.
I'm fairly sure that their heads exploded in "The Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel" in Tennant's first season.
But they also shut of their emotional inhibitors, which made them cry out in agony over all the people they killed.
purplefood wrote:What's the problem with James Corden?
He is a big fat, unfunny, talentless triple chinned pie monster, and I would rather get stuck in a lift with Fred West than spend ten seconds in his company.
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He has battled an insane half-human, half-flesh mutant called Jennifer, crash-landed in Nazi Germany and met up with his old foes the Cybermen in the series so far.
But on Saturday night the Doctor will take time off from saving the Earth – and himself – to pay tribute to one of the show's most popular actors, Nicholas Courtney, who died this year after playing the Doctor's companion, Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, over a period of more than 40 years.
In The Wedding of River Song, the 13th and final episode of the current series, the Doctor – played by Matt Smith – learns of the death of his former colleague in a phone call from the nursing home where the fictional brigadier spent his last days.
"I'm afraid Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart passed away a few months ago," the nurse tells the Doctor. "It was very peaceful. Talked a lot about you, if that's any comfort. Always made us pour an extra brandy in case you came round one of these days."
The Doctor takes a few moments to compose himself as his mind turns towards his own fate – a climax that promises to reveal the identity of the astronaut seen shooting the Doctor in episode one of the series.
Doctor Who's executive producer, Steven Moffat, said of the decision to include the tribute to Courtney's character: "In a story about the Doctor going to his death, it seemed right and proper to acknowledge one of the greatest losses Doctor Who has endured."
Courtney made his first Doctor Who appearance in 1965 opposite William Hartnell, as the doomed space security agent Bret Vyon, but returned three years later to play Lethbridge-Stewart, when the Doctor was played by Patrick Troughton.
In a memorable moment in the 1971 story The Daemons he spots a murderous gargoyle figure and instructs a subordinate: "Jenkins – chap with wings there, five rounds rapid!"
Courtney made regular appearances alongside subsequent Doctors Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison and Sylvester McCoy until 1989, when the show was cancelled by the BBC.
After its revival in 2005, viewers were told his character was in Peru until he was revived again for The Sarah Jane Adventures, a Doctor Who spinoff for the CBBC children's channel in 2008.
Courtney died after a long illness at the age of 81. Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith, died in April. The final series of her Sarah Jane Adventures begins on Monday on CBBC.
The BBC will be hoping that Saturday's finale boosts the viewing figures for the main series, which so far has performed well. According to the consolidated overnight ratings, this series is averaging 7.6 million viewers an episode, up on last year's average of 7.3 million.
There has been a generally good critical reaction to the series, the sixth since Doctor Who returned in 2005 and which ran for seven episodes with a mid-season finale before a run of six.
The Guardian's Doctor Who expert, Dan Martin, said that episode 10, The Girl Who Waited, was "a damn near-perfect episode".
Smith has signed up for a third series and Christmas special, and there has been speculation that he will appear in a fourth series in 2013, marking the 50th anniversary.
Jenkins – chap with wings there, five rounds rapid!
.. :cool: RIP fella !
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That last episode was predictable. I figured out that
Spoiler:
the android that could change shape would take the doctors place when he was first shown on the episode. The first question, the question that can never be answered, was a bit naff. Doctor who? I was expecting a little bit more than that.
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woodbok wrote:That last episode was predictable. I figured out that
Spoiler:
the android that could change shape would take the doctors place when he was first shown on the episode. The first question, the question that can never be answered, was a bit naff. Doctor who? I was expecting a little bit more than that.
It was better than the second and third Tennant finales, but it wasn't by any means amazing. Just about watchable and not too cringeworthy.
I liked what he said at the end though, about loud and noisy. I agree.
Last episode, pretty good, better than the past few finales, but a bit odd in some places:
Spoiler:
1: What was that whole deal with the "psychic beacon"? It seemed they explained it, then forgot about it completly. You could have removed it entirely from the plot, and nothing would have changed.
2: The question that is described as something like "The one question that can never be answered, the impossible question that silence will fall when the question is asked?", and all they can come up with is "Doctor Who?". Really? It would have been a much more exciting plot if he just walked away when face-box asked him about it.
3: They just had to do the whole "saving the world through love and a kiss" thing again, didn't they?
Now don't get me wrong, reading through my previous posts on this thread you may thing I hate Doc Who. I rather liked this one, just decided I'd bring up some things about the past one which could be discussed.
Not.Interested.Anymore...
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