Doctor Who — Page 34

A) That's cheap, cheating and counter to the spirit of the BBC Charter. You shouldn't have to buy something to get the background on something you have already have paid for it's too commercial. The War Doctor was meant to have been the destroyer of worlds, drenched in the blood of billions. in the episode he was rather sweet all the time. the tenth Doctor in the Family Of Blood was much more frightening, indeed this chap gives me the willies :

B) Who on Earth sounds like John Hurt? It would have made more sense to loosen the cuffs on the Eighth Doctor range and have him the War Doctor. He could have been in the episode and in other specials and audios and explore those past adventures.

Inventing a new incarnation played by an old actor who is difficult to impersonate and have him carry such an important story was an idiotic move.

I imagine it's more to speed up the thirteenth incarnation explanation leaving a blank slate for whomever takes over from the Moff.

I'm wondering where the call to the other Doctors came from (the Tardis perhaps but she is very rarely understood by any Doctor).

Why are ALL the Daleks and ALL the Time Lords in the universe all concentrated around one planet ? (I thought Arcadia would be a refugee colony planet) . . . Why does it take the Doctors 3 (or 13) of him and his Tardis) to do this rather than the Billions of Time Lords and Tardises on the Planet ? . . . . . What was the need for the Zygons sub-plot other than to pad the episode out (or pay for the suits to be used in later Zygon stories or to justify the new slightly different Zygon action figure) ? . . . . . etc........

They got into the eleventh Doctor's Tardis (not yet the Tomb) and got on with things, now that all the splinters of Clara had saved the Doctor's timeline.

Though I agree it's not obvious going by the way the episode was edited.

John Hurt is apparently the Doctor's name too???

yeah, they never really explained how the Doctor and Clara got out of the Doctor's timeline.

Bingowings said:

I'm wondering where the call to the other Doctors came from (the Tardis perhaps but she is very rarely understood by any Doctor).

. . . . . What was the need for the Zygons sub-plot other than to pad the episode out (or pay for the suits to be used in later Zygon stories or to justify the new slightly different Zygon action figure) ? . . . . . etc........

I was thinking about this....perhaps 3 doctors failed to save the planet.....and soon after Smith's Doctor regenerates the Capaldi Doctor enlists all previous incarnations to lend a hand.

The Zygon bit was for comic relief & to mirror .....blow up London to save the World/blow up Galifrey to save the Universe

J

they never tied up the Zygon thing.  They just left them and the humans negotiating.

Bingowings said:

John Hurt is apparently the Doctor's name too???

huh?

Moth3r said:

Jaitea said:

I loved it, saw nothing wrong with it, it was Dr Who's Skyfall

J

No way. I found Skyfall a moderately good action flick, but as a Bond film it is hugely overrated.

I though this special was brilliant, as did everyone I've talked to - apart from Bingo "miserable old git" Wings.

By Dr Who's Skyfall I meant its a film celebrating its 50 years making nostalgic references to its past

J

Warbler said:

they never tied up the Zygon thing.  They just left them and the humans negotiating.

That was it tied up, the 2 Doctors took care of the situation then joined The Warrior

J

Moth3r said:

 apart from Bingo "miserable old git" Wings.

Thanks my dear :-D

Jaitea said:

Warbler said:

they never tied up the Zygon thing.  They just left them and the humans negotiating.

That was it tied up, the 2 Doctors took care of the situation then joined The Warrior

The Zygon thing (plot wise) seemed to be there for two reasons.

A) It proved to the Hurt Doctor that despite the pain of pushing the big red rose shaped button the guilt he felt for doing it was character forming (this makes out that all the other Doctors were less capable than the McCockney and George McFly in a bow tie but I digress). It gives him the inner strength to do the right thing and destroy millions to save countless trillions (which he doesn't because.... think of the kiddies).

B) To explain how the Doctors broke through the time lock.

Remember the door? Remember how they spent ages trying to figure how to break it down with the sonic (using the same technique they would later use to move Gallifrey)? Remember how Doctor Ten was confused as to how they broke the time lock?

It all stems from that scene.

The Tardis calculations have finally worked their way up the time stream and hit the the 11th and 12th Tardis (the 9th is already in that time zone).

The door isn't locked anymore they just assumed it still was.

It's like the hot bucket in Alien 3. It telegraphs the resolution of the story.

AntcuFaalb said:

Who do ya'll think is the most attractive companion? I vote Peri.

...or the Twin Dilemma as she would be later be remembered as ( I preferred her dad...but I would...Planet of Fire is the gayest piece of television ever broadcast. it says something when Anthony Ainley is not the campest thing on screen).

As for the ladies I'm more of a Mary Tamm guy myself.

If Planet Of Fire is the gayest piece of television ever devised The Stones of Menstros has to be the most lesbian piece of family sci-fi.

Mary in a flat cap and high heels dangling off a cliff is one thing but pipe smoking Beatrix Lehmann and her companion 'quaint' Susan Engel do seem to take quite an interest in Romana the first.

Can you blame them?