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[BrianI]

If we consider the Silents to be a parasite, then many parasitic relationships do have a partially symbiotic nature.

I wonder if the fall of the Silents has a negative effect somewhere... something they should have triggered and that won't happen now?

You can get them in a can, now though!    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-fUeCNgIaw

[border-rider]

I liked the "probably best to record everything that happens in this office, Mr President"  - or somesuch - line

[TimO]

I just watched it, and it certainly had some good points, like the clever resolution of the Silents invasion by

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inserting a bit telling the human race to kill the Silents into the Apollo 11 landing sequence!

... but there were an awful lot of loose ends, which may or may not be tidied up at some point.

It also left me feeling rather unfulfilled, because so many things were left unexplained.

I'd just like a nice self contained episode, which doesn't have lots of obvious links to other episodes, like the aforementioned Blink, or even The Lodger, which it turns out is linked to this episode, but which does stand alone anyway.

[ravenbait]

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That bit I found totally out of character. The Doctor has effectively indirectly programmed the human race to commit genocide. He was revelling in the violence and taking the blam blam blam kill everything approach with a bit too much enjoyment to be the Doctor I know from the prior series. It was inconsistent.

Sam

[TimO]

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That bit I found totally out of character. The Doctor has effectively indirectly programmed the human race to commit genocide. He was revelling in the violence and taking the blam blam blam kill everything approach with a bit too much enjoyment to be the Doctor I know from the prior series. It was inconsistent.

Sam

That's true.

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In the previous series, he's been very pro-peaceful solutions, so just setting the entire human race up to kill the (admittedly) baddies is rather out of character, and as you say, inconsistent.  On the other hand, since they had in effect successfully invaded the planet, it's hard to see what else could have been done.

[rower40]

Avast!  Didn't see much of this episode, but am watching with *interest* the blue-screen filming on Dr Who Confidential with the rather fetching Lily Cole.  In green make-up and a sheer dress and not much more.

[border-rider]

I liked the random tank of mower petrol/2-stoke oil dangling out of the control panel of the Tardis

[Adam]

Mmm - one or two things seemed odd. 

Wasn't Rory still a 2,000 year plastic Roman centurion?  In which case how could he drown?

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Best Doctor Who line in a long time - "there's worse ways [to die] than having your face snogged off by a dodgy mermaid."

[peliroja]

Mmm - one or two things seemed odd. 

Wasn't Rory still a 2,000 year plastic Roman centurion?  In which case how could he drown?

And how could he get Amelia pregnant?

I wasn't too keen on that episode. A bit pedestrian compared to the first two.

And I fear that Amy might be dreaming it all, which would be rather dull. 

[Rhys W]

Best Doctor Who line in a long time - "there's worse ways [to die] than having your face snogged off by a dodgy mermaid."

Snogged off? Did he really say that?

I didn't think much of that episode to be honest, far too melodramatic. You just knew Rory would cough and splutter back to life after they'd milked it for a while. I sussed this out soon enough and just sat back and enjoyed it as a bit of fluff. Getting the old captain and crew to "sail" the alien ship was a nice touch though.

[Cunobelin]

I'm trying to work out the "Woman in the wall"

When they are in the Powder Store, and the woman slides open a non existent hatch, says "You're doing fine, stay calm" and then closes the hatch which disappears again!

 

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

She was there last week suggesting that Amy was dreaming.

[peliroja]

Yes, the spooky woman in the wall with the silver eyepatch appeared in the hatch of the door of the attic room which had the framed photo of Amy with a baby.

[bobb]

Pretty shit episode I thought.....

[border-rider]

I'm trying to work out the "Woman in the wall"

River Song, no ?

[TimO]

Mmm - one or two things seemed odd.  

Wasn't Rory still a 2,000 year plastic Roman centurion?  In which case how could he drown?

No, because the Universe was recreated when the Doctor used the power of the exploding Tardis to power it's regeneration.  The Amy and Rory produced from that eventually remembered the Doctor, but the plastic Rory in effect was left in that disappeared Universe.

I thought that was an OK episode, although the concept of a medical system going over the top has been done before, in the "Are you my Mummy?" episode (whatever that was called).

[peliroja]

I'm trying to work out the "Woman in the wall"

River Song, no ?

Nope.

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[Rhys W]

I'm trying to work out the "Woman in the wall"

That's clearly a series-long slow-burner.

[BrianI]

I wouldn't say that was a good episode last night.  Started off as a good  fun Dr Who Adventure on a Pirate Ship.

But did it really have to end up with alien space ship trapped in space time plot whole?  It seems to me that having an alien space ship trapped in a space time plot hole makes for an easy episode script as everything can be explained in the last 10 minutes due to an alien ship trapped in a space time plot hole.....   

[rogerzilla]

I said to Mrs Z, "That's the M&S model" and I was right 

[Wascally Weasel]

I'm trying to work out the "Woman in the wall"

When they are in the Powder Store, and the woman slides open a non existent hatch, says "You're doing fine, stay calm" and then closes the hatch which disappears again!

 

It will turn out to be related to Amy's pregnancy no doubt, hence the "You're doing fine" line.

[her_welshness]

I said to Mrs Z, "That's the M&S model" and I was right 

I think she does Rimmell 'Get the London look' but not Magic & Sparkle 

[Kathy]

That was a bit mediocre. 

[mrcharly-YHT]

They are rather nicking characters now. Renfrew in the insane asylum, Captain Avery . . .