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Deathshead420 wrote: My wife disagrees, but i think this might have been the worse Doctor Who episode of all time. To many reasons to list, you lot watched it and can figure out why i might think that. Funny how the sonic screwdriver was nowhere to be seen when he was being held by the two chucklebots.
Yup, completely agree.
Apart from 'a little bit of oil came out', that made me chuckle
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inmygravenimage wrote:Have courage, faith and beer, my friend - it will be done!
hotsauceman1 wrote: Ok, Um this episode was all over the place. The Namesake(Dinosaurs make a very short appearence and have little bearing on anything)
Think this has to do with the idea of every episode being like a movie but in forty five minutes. Did anyone really expect them to be anything other then a gimmick?
Rory's Dad was just rory plus 50 or so years.
Same could be said of Jackie or any of the companions parents that have made an appearence, they're usually an older version of the companion with a bit of comedy.
So many thins Shoehorned, Like the need for two people who share a gene to fly it.
Didn't like this either, reminded me loads of something from a crappy RTD episode, most of the ending did actually.
Deathshead420 wrote:To many reasons to list, you lot watched it and can figure out why i might think that.
*Make overly dramatic statement and refuse to explain reasoning behind it. *
Funny how the sonic screwdriver was nowhere to be seen when he was being held by the two chucklebots.
It's a screwdriver, it's not meant to be used to destroy and disable robots. It's for allowing the Doctor to fix technological stuff, not as a weapon.
Darkvoid of 40k wrote: but I was particularly proud about a baddy dying for once. Shows a somewhat darker side of the Doctor resurfacing, much to my satisfaction.
Agreed, more dark Doctor.
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WARBOSS TZOO wrote:Grab your club, hit her over the head, and drag her back to your cave. The classics are classic for a reason.
Yeah, I always found it strange that all 11 regenerations have been white and british.
The target market is white and British. The liscence fee is mainly paid for by people who're white and British. Having said that, a black doctor could work. There was no one good enough who showed an interest, though I did hear Petterson Joseph (Alan Johnson from Peep Show) mentioned. That guy would make a great doctor.
Being British is not negotiable though. It's a British show, not a world show. And when I say "British", I mean English. They made David Tennant adopt an English accent ffs
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Unnessesarily extravegant word of the week award goes to jcress410 for this:
jcress wrote:Seem super off topic to complain about epistemology on a thread about tactics.
The ending was out of place for the doctor. he should have just launched the other ship to get blown up, then drop whats his name on a new planet with all the dinosaurs to keep him company.
sirlynchmob wrote: The ending was out of place for the doctor. he should have just launched the other ship to get blown up, then drop whats his name on a new planet with all the dinosaurs to keep him company.
I was expecting him to throw him in some prison or whatever, although to be fair Solomon shot his friend's dad, forced him to help him when he would have done it anyway, murdered all of the Silurians, tried to steal his good friend Queen Neffy, and generally mess around with him. He used all his chances before he teleported onto his ship. Oh, he also killed the Doctor's pet dino.
Besides, seeing as we didn't actually see him die and there was a good few seconds of his ship flying off before it got hit by the missiles, I'll bet he comes back later down the line having escaped in some crafty way. Likely he teleported onto Earth or the moon perhaps.
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Yeah, plus, I know regenerations re-writes the entire body and supposedly he could even be an animal(?) I'm not sure it can change gender.. and I'll bet the previous incarnation has some baring on the one that follows, genetics and all that still apply in some sense with them.
What I really want to know is why Time Lords look like humans. Was that ever answered?
Well, alright mr Pedantic, you're right there, but from our human point of view they look like us. In fact, technically, I was right anyway, humans and Timelords both look like each other.
am I the only one who immediately thought of the Gunmen of the Apocalypse
As soon as I saw it I thought of A Stranger In a Strange Land cover. I know its not the wild west, I guess the cyborg Eddie look a like in the trailer must be the reason. I swear there is some Iron Maiden art with Eddie in the wild west but I cant find it now, maybe it was a poster or something I had, or maybe my mind just remembered this picture wrong.
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Yes there was. In an episode (I don't remember which one, but i believe it's with Martha) the companion say "You look Human" to Ten, to what he replies "You look TimeLord. We were there first."
SkaerKrow wrote : "We killed our own gods. What chance do you have against us?"
Kurgash wrote: "Necrons, a dead race that is more dead than anyone else. So dead that they rebuild themselves just to die again!"
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Dinosaurs on a ship? Looks like we need Samuel L Jackson.
On a semi-related note, I would actually like to see a black Doctor.
Yeah, I always found it strange that all 11 regenerations have been white and british.
I mean, he's an alien right? I thought his regen had no limit and was completely random.
By this point, we should have had an American doctor, an Asian doctor, a female doctor, an Indian doctor, a Black doctor...you get the point.
Hell, even an alien doctor would work. I mean on the outside...you know what I mean.
Asylum started off with the greatest wtf-moment in a long time. What do you mean, they're divorced? Are you kidding me?! There is NO WAY those two would seperate. Like in, ever. And then they talked about it, how he always loved her more than she did him and how she left him because she can't have children because of what the lady in the eyepatch did to her... I'm confused about the new companion though. So she really will be the new companion? Because I was quite confused when she was "killed" in the end. Though I'm not a big fan of the Doctor having a "girl genius" companion. It's not that I really need an audience surrogate character, but it shouldn't be someone who outsmarts the Doctor.
Weird way to write out the Daleks from the DW story. Although that was a pretty funny scene. "DOCTOR WHO?!" Also, Dalek Zombies.
Now, as much as I love David Tennant and pretty much the entire RTD run (I know a lot of you disagree with that), I think that Dinosaurs was exactly what Doctor Who should be, Completly whacky adventures where genres and settings merge to become this.... wibbly wobbly, well you get the idea.
It was strange to see Solomon killed, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're actually building up to something. There was line in the trailer about his darker side...
Yes there was. In an episode (I don't remember which one, but i believe it's with Martha) the companion say "You look Human" to Ten, to what he replies "You look TimeLord. We were there first."
I meant, was there ever an answer as to why they look like each other?
I'd theorise the Time Lords actually had something to do with the creation of the human race, hence the special interest. A 'toned down Timelord' perhaps.
Asylum started off with the greatest wtf-moment in a long time. What do you mean, they're divorced? Are you kidding me?! There is NO WAY those two would seperate. Like in, ever. And then they talked about it, how he always loved her more than she did him and how she left him because she can't have children because of what the lady in the eyepatch did to her... I'm confused about the new companion though. So she really will be the new companion? Because I was quite confused when she was "killed" in the end. Though I'm not a big fan of the Doctor having a "girl genius" companion. It's not that I really need an audience surrogate character, but it shouldn't be someone who outsmarts the Doctor.
Weird way to write out the Daleks from the DW story. Although that was a pretty funny scene. "DOCTOR WHO?!" Also, Dalek Zombies.
Now, as much as I love David Tennant and pretty much the entire RTD run (I know a lot of you disagree with that), I think that Dinosaurs was exactly what Doctor Who should be, Completly whacky adventures where genres and settings merge to become this.... wibbly wobbly, well you get the idea.
It was strange to see Solomon killed, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're actually building up to something. There was line in the trailer about his darker side...
The girl genius was a dalek, her mind rejected the process so she kept thinking she was human. That's how she was able to access the daleks networks.
She was still a genius though.
She was turned into a full Dalek rather than a puppet because she was so intelligent, but the fact that she retained her mind while she was a Dalek meant that she could control Dalek technology.
I liked the first episode, it had just the right level of darkness for me, while also adding a fair bit to the backstory.
I also liked the fact that they had Dalek marks other than just the standard bronze version in the asylum.
The second episode was also quite good, but not quite as good as the first. The fact that Solomon ended up pushing up space-daisies was also nice, it showed a slightly more unforgiving side to the doctor
I like the idea of a companion who is The Doctor's intellectual equal, I'm guessing that's what River was meant to be but it never came across as if she was...
Corpsesarefun wrote: I like the idea of a companion who is The Doctor's intellectual equal, I'm guessing that's what River was meant to be but it never came across as if she was...
Yeah, it always seemed like she was cheating (by having knowledge of the future, or reading her journal from the 'past') instead of being actually a genius...
inmygravenimage wrote:Have courage, faith and beer, my friend - it will be done!
Corpsesarefun wrote: Meh, River mostly came across as "I AM BADASS THUS EVERYTHING WORKS FOR ME" rather than the geeky jiggery pokery that The Doctor does...
True, but i didnt like that after the first million times (she bored me after a couple of regular appearances)
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inmygravenimage wrote:Have courage, faith and beer, my friend - it will be done!
Corpsesarefun wrote: Meh, River mostly came across as "I AM BADASS THUS EVERYTHING WORKS FOR ME" rather than the geeky jiggery pokery that The Doctor does...
Yeah, she seemed to have the same goals, but different methods. Whereas the doctor would fiddle with a door and zap it with the sonic screwdriver to open it, she would probably just kick it down. He would then try and talk down the guy with the gun on the other side with some long speech about right and wrong, whereas she'd get them to lower their guard, kiss them, and have drugged lipstick or something.
River was an excellent character.. in the beginning. After the library though, things just went down hill until she became horribly anticlimactic. Also, I might just be snatching at thin air here but are the Doctor's Diary and his sketchbook when he wrote himself into the human timeline as a teacher one and the same?
Maybe, but apart from the episode in which she's introduce, can you think of any episodes where she was able to put her medical training to use?
And she did end up being fairly high up in UNIT, which won't really happen unless you're fairly intelligent.
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