Author Topic: Heads up! Dr Who starts Saturday.... (Read 283757 times)

TimO · « **Reply #625 on:** 13 April, 2010, 04:23:10 pm »

Quote from: citizen smudge on 13 April, 2010, 04:10:50 pm

Don't know how he would have compared to Hartnell, though, since I've not seen many Hartnell episodes ...

Doctor Who - Story No 15 - The Space Museum - 1965.

Mike J · « **Reply #626 on:** 13 April, 2010, 06:49:42 pm »

Quote from: tiermat on 13 April, 2010, 02:36:03 pm

Ah but Peter Cushing was the film version, so doesn't count, and Paul McGann just doesn't count due to his totally wooden performance.... so is ackshully 10

There are some episodes that do show Paul McGann when the doctors history is involved. The Christmas one with the cyber king was one.

citoyen · « **Reply #627 on:** 13 April, 2010, 07:03:46 pm »

Quote from: TimO on 13 April, 2010, 04:23:10 pm

Doctor Who - Story No 15 - The Space Museum - 1965.

Oooh! Nice!

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Cunobelin · « **Reply #628 on:** 13 April, 2010, 08:20:36 pm »

Quote from: Mike J on 13 April, 2010, 06:49:42 pm

Quote from: tiermat on 13 April, 2010, 02:36:03 pm
Ah but Peter Cushing was the film version, so doesn't count, and Paul McGann just doesn't count due to his totally wooden performance.... so is ackshully 10

There are some episodes that do show Paul McGann when the doctors history is involved. The Christmas one with the cyber king was one.

Paul McGann's Doctor has been included several times.

In the first episode of this series he is one of the incarnations the Atraxi see when the doctors sequence through

TimO · « **Reply #629 on:** 13 April, 2010, 08:44:08 pm »

Quote from: Cunobelin on 13 April, 2010, 08:20:36 pm

In the first episode of this series he is one of the incarnations the Atraxi see when the doctors sequence through

So he is, I hadn't even realised that they go through every previous Doctor in that sequence!

TheLurker · « **Reply #630 on:** 14 April, 2010, 08:22:06 am »

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OK. So there was a separate Scottish ship. Or was there?

The way the story was written it suggested that both the Scottish ship and the English ship were built at the same time; the schoolgirl says something like, "The Scots wanted a ship of their own" to Pond whilst she's trying to pick the padlock.

The star whale was the last of its kind. So; how was the Scottish ship powered? It seemed to me, from the way the story was presented, that the English used the star whale as a 'last resort' solution which suggests either lack of technology or lack of time. Constraints that would also apply to any hypothetical Scottish ship.

I don't think there ever was a separate Scottish ship. I reckon those untrustworthy sassenachs either ditched the Scots or fed them to the star whale.

Yet another reason that Scotland should declare independence now.

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Adrian · « **Reply #631 on:** 14 April, 2010, 08:30:16 am »

I expect that the Scots just lived at the other end of the one ship but people believed that they were on a separate ship.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #632 on:** 14 April, 2010, 08:30:25 am »

Nah, once the brits buggered off, the scots turned the heat down.

Adrian · « **Reply #633 on:** 14 April, 2010, 08:33:32 am »

Quote from: mrcharly on 14 April, 2010, 08:30:25 am

Nah, once the brits buggered off, the scots turned the heat down.

The Brits can leave The Scots behind? How can that work?

mattc · « **Reply #634 on:** 14 April, 2010, 10:37:00 am »

Quote from: mrcharly on 14 April, 2010, 08:30:25 am

Nah, once the brits buggered off, the scots turned the heat down.

... before writing the royalty cheque to the estate of Douglas Adams.

TimO · « **Reply #635 on:** 14 April, 2010, 10:39:16 am »

...either that or the Scots had a bunch of Scotties borrowed off of Star Trek to build a ship from a pile of leftover bits (a la A-Team!)

delthebike · « **Reply #636 on:** 14 April, 2010, 06:28:26 pm »

The girl they meet, the school girl Mandy, looks very much like, and dressed the same as, the niece of the Peter Cushing Dr. Who, Susan.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #637 on:** 14 April, 2010, 08:06:17 pm »

The Scots used their massively superior technological abilities to build a decent ship powered by dilithium crystals and Irn Bru, and left months ago, with every other country from Earth. (Or perhaps, in best Tartan Army tradition, they chartered a submarine). England was too busy buggering about and ended up having to be rescued by a nstarwhale.

Why hasn't anyone photoshopped a narwhal-tusk to a screengrab of the star whale?

Have you noticed how many references to bikes there have been in recent episodes? Well, Waters of Mars and this last one. So, two. But still.

bobb · « **Reply #638 on:** 14 April, 2010, 08:19:58 pm »

The little girl said "Scotland wanted their own ship" There was no reference to how successful it was or if it still existed. It could have crashed and burned without a spazwhal or whatever it was called. Which could be a reference to where Scotland would go without England

*runs and hides from Scots*

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #639 on:** 14 April, 2010, 08:49:56 pm »

Pfffffffffffffft.

bobb · « **Reply #640 on:** 14 April, 2010, 09:08:25 pm »

Quote from: Kirst on 14 April, 2010, 08:49:56 pm

Pfffffffffffffft.

Absolutely rubbish retort

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #641 on:** 14 April, 2010, 09:53:14 pm »

Well, I had to taper it to your understanding.

bobb · « **Reply #642 on:** 14 April, 2010, 10:00:04 pm »

Quote from: Kirst on 14 April, 2010, 09:53:14 pm

Well, I had to taper it to your understanding.

There is such an obvious come back to that, but I'll let it go

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #643 on:** 14 April, 2010, 10:02:25 pm »

Yeah yeah. Pwnd.

bobb · « **Reply #644 on:** 14 April, 2010, 10:05:42 pm »

Quote from: Kirst on 14 April, 2010, 10:02:25 pm

Yeah yeah. Pwnd.

You can Pwnd me any day, sweetheart!

Edit: And you'll love it!

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #645 on:** 14 April, 2010, 10:08:16 pm »

I'll let you know when I have a spare two minutes.

TimO · « **Reply #646 on:** 14 April, 2010, 10:58:08 pm »

Get a room you two.

...or possibly a car park.

clarion · « **Reply #647 on:** 15 April, 2010, 04:36:08 pm »

I spoke to Matt Smith this morning!

No. Not that one. Bet he's getting pissed off with it by now.

bobb · « **Reply #648 on:** 15 April, 2010, 04:45:36 pm »

Quote from: Kirst on 14 April, 2010, 10:08:16 pm

I'll let you know when I have a spare two minutes.

It wouldn't take you that long.

citoyen · « **Reply #649 on:** 15 April, 2010, 05:20:55 pm »

This is brilliant (but kind of spoilerish if you don't want some big clues as to how the series is likely to develop, so be warned):
The Great Doctor Who Conspiracy Of The Fifth Season Bleeding Cool Comic Book News and Rumors

It does answer a couple of questions I've had so far, the main one being when the hell the first episode was supposed to be set, which has been really bugging me. Can't believe I didn't spot the clues.

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