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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #100 on: June 16, 2024, 03:57:52 PM »
Puzzles:
Why does Kate give the Doctor an angry look after the death of the soldier, as they are looking at his body?

The Doctor at one point says that, though he has a granddaughter, he has no children. I suppose that is possible, given time travel, but he has got a daughter, albeit not produced in the usual way, as we discovered in 'The Doctor's Daughter', during 10's tenure.

Since when is Ruby a Mancunian? She's from London, surely.

The look was because the Doctor had over ruled her order to the guard wasn't it? She had told him not to move and the Doctor said he should - hence why later he felt guilty about the death when talking to Mel.

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« Reply #101 on: June 16, 2024, 05:16:58 PM »
The look was because the Doctor had over ruled her order to the guard wasn't it? She had told him not to move and the Doctor said he should - hence why later he felt guilty about the death when talking to Mel.
Oh, right. I'm hopeless at following plots.
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #102 on: June 17, 2024, 12:27:22 PM »
Happy birthday 13 - 42 today.
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #103 on: June 17, 2024, 04:10:34 PM »
I wondered what Susan's ridiculous little Mayesque dance as she walked on stage was about. According to something on MSN, it was indeed a deliberate parody of May at the 2018 Tory conference.
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #104 on: June 17, 2024, 09:32:58 PM »
Puzzles:
Why does Kate give the Doctor an angry look after the death of the soldier, as they are looking at his body?

The Doctor at one point says that, though he has a granddaughter, he has no children. I suppose that is possible, given time travel, but he has got a daughter, albeit not produced in the usual way, as we discovered in 'The Doctor's Daughter', during 10's tenure.

Since when is Ruby a Mancunian? She's from London, surely.
She moved with Carla Sunday to look after Cherry Sunday.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #105 on: June 19, 2024, 09:58:37 PM »
BBC showing a Tales of the Tardis with an edited version of the Pyramids of Mars tomorrow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020crw

Though you could just watch the original


https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00vf241/doctor-who-19631996-season-13-pyramids-of-mars-part-1?seriesId=p00pyrpv


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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #106 on: June 22, 2024, 05:37:41 AM »
Interesting finale, with a touch of John Donne - "Death, thou shalt die". I thought Ruby was in it for at least one more series, though. Mrs Flood remains an enigma.
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #107 on: June 22, 2024, 10:12:05 AM »
Well, come on - let's have some comments! Is Mrs Flood Clara? She dresses similarly, and called the Doctor a "clever boy".
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #108 on: June 22, 2024, 11:06:38 AM »
Well, come on - let's have some comments! Is Mrs Flood Clara? She dresses similarly, and called the Doctor a "clever boy".
Haven't watched it yet. Don't see how it could be given how Clara was left.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #109 on: June 22, 2024, 04:37:20 PM »
Utterly shite. Done with it. No logic, no thought, no reason.

There is no fucking spoon.

ETA - Mrs Flood, more Rani than Clara.
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« Reply #110 on: June 22, 2024, 06:59:26 PM »
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Okay, let's talk about this. A theory that's been coming up again and again is about the Mysterious Mrs Flood: The theory as I'm sure a lot of you know is:
Mrs Flood is Clara.
Let me explain why I think this might be SORT OF TRUE.
The "sort of" part is key because a lot of people who argue it can't be Clara seem to have forgotten the most important detail about Clara. What I believe to have been her "Main" plot
Clara splintered herself along the Doctor's Timeline.
Now, the question is, does that Splinter go past Matt Smith into Peter Capaldi and beyond? I believe so, even if the writer at the time didn't mention it, Clara has the perfect plot armor to return "sort of"
"Run you Clever Boy and Remember me"
"He did it, that Clever boy, that Clever, Clever boy!"
The form of Clara's famous quote has now got more people's attention.
Here are my top reasons I think Clara COULD BE BACK other than the timeline part
1. Clara broke the 4th wall (kinda) Now, the way I'm which Clara did it, one could say that Rose did too, and that's true. But I'll mention it anyway.  In "The Name of the Doctor" Clara Narrates her own story.
And, in a minisode she does it too in which she's specifically talking about the Doctor, just as Mrs. Flood does recently.
2. The Universe may still recognize her as a Time Lady and, there may have been more than one Splinter including one that made it off Galifrey.
Again, it's a small detail but the devil is in the details especially in Doctor Who.
In "The Day of the Doctor" we see Clara ride into the Tardis on her motorbike and without missing a beat Matt Smiths Doctor mentions a draft. Clara snaps her fingers and controls the Tardis to close her doors. A power previously thought to be exclusive to a Timelord and His/Her Tardis.
Later, Clara does this again when she suspects something is up with Capaldi's 13.
3. Time balances, it MUST. my last point goes with my first in a bit more detail. Could Clara's splinters continue past Matt?
I believe they would have to. Remember the original RTD era "Father's Day" time sent wraiths in order to rebalance what Rose tipped over.  (This is where it gets dicy though)
After Clara's plea is answered by the time locked Timelords, the Doctor was likely not the only one to get a new "Cycle" the splintered off Clara's would have to as well to complete their purpose which means Clara's splinters completely die, when the Doctor dies.
But, Sutekh killed Mrs. Flood, just like everyone else. Here's the thing though, Clara's story makes her the ULTIMATE paradox. One so powerful that the only way the universe can keep in balance is to keep the paradox in tact, by keeping the Doctor alive, somehow the splinters must also, ultimately survive.
But, one thing still bothers me about this, IF Mrs Flood is a Branched Clara, why is she so threatening, well what if she knows something, what if she knows something about Cherry Sunday? Or, could she just have been wrong? Did he preceve a false threat? After all, even a Time Lord is not infallible. But why did she basically threaten God?
That, I really can't say, maybe the phrase was a red herring, maybe somehow a branch of Clara became part of the Pantheon. Maybe, the Doctor will have to save her sanity ultimately.
We will just have to wait and see.... I guess now we are "The Ones Who Wait".
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #111 on: June 24, 2024, 12:46:29 PM »
Wee advert for my friend Brendan's YouTube channel, on which I appear occasionally. His show last night on the finale was great, including the Whopets.


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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #112 on: June 24, 2024, 09:51:05 PM »
And in the end, I'm done. Awful series, written badly, and I'm sad. It's bad to have a pointy thing but it's OK for a child to have a segway that is armed? Just fuck off.
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #113 on: July 12, 2024, 06:54:08 PM »
Our son, who has Downs Syndrome, is a HUGE fan of Dr Who. He would love to be the next Dr Who. ;D
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« Reply #114 on: July 12, 2024, 07:24:54 PM »
Our son, who has Downs Syndrome, is a HUGE fan of Dr Who. He would love to be the next Dr Who. ;D
What did he think of the last series?

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #115 on: July 13, 2024, 12:15:39 PM »
What did he think of the last series?

He just loves watching the programme, I doubt he is able to make any judgements about any of the characters.
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #116 on: November 02, 2024, 11:01:27 AM »
Couple of Tom Baker stories removed from iPlayer because of rights issues


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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #117 on: November 24, 2024, 06:36:09 PM »
I notice that on 23rd December (Dr Who day apparently) BBCIPlayer are making War Games, the final Patrick Troughton Doctors story available and now in colour or at least colourised.

Details here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/classic-doctor-who-the-war-games-colourisation
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #118 on: November 24, 2024, 06:44:46 PM »
I notice that on 23rd December (Dr Who day apparently) BBCIPlayer are making War Games, the final Patrick Troughton Doctors story available and now in colour or at least colourised.

Details here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/classic-doctor-who-the-war-games-colourisation
Doctor Who day is 23rd November. RTD is announcing it on the 61st anniversary of the showing of An Unearthly Child.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #119 on: November 25, 2024, 01:39:42 PM »
It's going to be a cut down 'feature length' version at 90 minutes. Now the War Games is 10 episodes so I think given no repeated bits at start and end thar will mean about 30 minutes list, though there are also some added scenes. To be honest, there is a far amount of padding in the episodes so I can see it working.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/doctor-who-classic-story-revived-34173623

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #120 on: November 26, 2024, 09:32:40 AM »
It's going to be a cut down 'feature length' version at 90 minutes. Now the War Games is 10 episodes so I think given no repeated bits at start and end thar will mean about 30 minutes list, though there are also some added scenes. To be honest, there is a far amount of padding in the episodes so I can see it working.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/doctor-who-classic-story-revived-34173623
Actually that's bollocks. It's losing, after adjustments, for titles, and reruns of the last minute or so, about 120 minutes. While it was padded, I'm not sure that's going to work.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #121 on: November 26, 2024, 10:55:05 AM »
Actually that's bollocks. It's losing, after adjustments, for titles, and reruns of the last minute or so, about 120 minutes. While it was padded, I'm not sure that's going to work.
If the whole series is on I player in black and white and we've got felt pens then I think we're set.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #122 on: November 26, 2024, 05:36:04 PM »
If the whole series is on I player in black and white and we've got felt pens then I think we're set.
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