Doctor Who — Page 21

Still John Hurt... well you could have knocked me down with a feather.

Tonights episode for what it was, was much better than that one with the little blue boxes last year.

In fact they could have crossed the two over and have that threat end without explanation and the explanation could be what happened here.

It was rather well balanced.

Not too frantic and with a nice link into what happened earlier.

Anyone spot the author of Clara's book?

The Time Rotor is sometimes in the central column but most of the time it isn't so I don't mind the movement being elsewhere.

I did once propose a Tardis control room where the column stayed still and the ceiling and floor went up and down around it which this Timemill is sort of a variation on.

"The House" from The Doctor's Wife was originally going to be The Great Intelligence too and there was nothing said onscreen to say he wasn't.

Could it be that after escaping from it's bubble universe it has set in motion a means to replenish it's supply of now extinct Tardises?

There are still lots of unanswered questions about the pseudo-Tardis seen in The Lodger and in the hands of the Silence in Day Of The Moon and indeed who blew up the Tardis in the The Big Bang, so maybe the Matt Smith big bad has been the daddy of the Yeti all along.

This second half is quite strong on old school aliens.

The Great Intelligence, The Ice Warriors, The Cybermen, a Silurian and a Sontaran.

Pulling on my pedant braces for a moment.

In the The Chase 1965 the rotor clearly wasn't the uppy downy thing it was in a panel of the console.

It wasn't in a number of Jon Pertwee stories either where like the dematerialisation circuit it's sometimes an extractable component.  

There is the central column which sometimes goes up and down but sometimes stands still while other components move inside and there is the Time Rotor which is sometimes inside the column but sometimes isn't.

The wooden primary console didn't have a column at all:

neither did the Melkur Tardis

or the Rani's first onscreen Tardis which had a spinning Kryptonian ring thing instead.

That said the writers rarely bothered to check on past stories when they wrote dialogue regarding any aspect of the show.

As JNT said, "The memory cheats" and this is as much true of the writers of the show and writers of Who wiki's as the fans themselves.

Tom Baker referred to the Daleks as robots in Destiny Of The Daleks, then you have the UNIT dating, the Doctor's age, his Morbius incarnations.

Ultimately it's a show about an alien who (sometimes) has two hearts and travels through time and space and as such continuity is just begging to be broken.

I'm really getting into Matt Smith, despite his face resembling melted wax. 

Phil Collinson is still holding out for Eccleston but I think he is too busy doing the new Thor movie even if he could be bothered (which I don't think he can).

If you think about it The Three Doctors was Pertwee and Troughton (with Hartnell on a telly screen for a few minutes) and the Two Doctors is much more fun in my opinion than The Five Doctors.

I would still like to see Paul McGann on telly for more than the TV Movie.

He got really unfairly shafted, arguably more so than Colin Baker was.

Bingowings said:

 

I would still like to see Paul McGann on telly for more than the TV Movie.

He got really unfairly shafted, arguably more so than Colin Baker was.

I agree. And he aged well. 

Hell, he's the Doctor who went through the Time War, right?

Seeing as Doctor Nine claims to have never seen his ears before it's possible that he regenerated not long before Rose bumped into him (maybe even in her shop which would explain the modern looking clothes).

In the episode he gets into the Tardis and leaves after the Earth moving speech and then comes back.

He could have done all that stuff in the gap or could have done some of it without Rose being recorded.

The Doctor also leaves when Rose turns down the prospect of traveling in his spaceship with him.

He comes back to tell her it also travels in time and she accepts (as she wants to meet her father).

Holy Chao! (spoilers ahead).

I prefer the original costume myself but direct sunlight can be unforgiving.

It's simple recycling.

Despite Kubrick's attempts to destroy all props and models from 2001 the back of some of the spacesuits ended up in a classic Doctor Who episode and one as part of a wall detail in Blake's 7.

A replica suit for 2010 ended up being used in Babylon 5 and when that was lost had to be rebuilt from scratch.

Bits of the Nostromo set ended up on classic Doctor Who as well.