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Post by Islander on May 27, 2006 7:41:53 GMT -5
Emotional Inhibitor, indeed.
Menack: I meant the story of them is sad, what they are and how they came to be. As Hail said, once they were given back their emotions, it destroyed them.
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Post by HailStorm on May 27, 2006 15:51:49 GMT -5
So what did you think of tonights? My thoughts are "OMG it was written by Mark Gattis! I love him!" so I'm a bit biased in its favour. Maureen Lipman was scary. And although this sounds a bit mean, it was kind of nice to have an episode that wasn't all Doctor+Rose. Less Rose trailing around after the Doctor, more Doctor being all Grrrrrr. And the "You'll get yourself killed, your highness!" from the security guard that thought he was the king of Belgium... that was ammusing.
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Post by Islander on May 27, 2006 18:00:21 GMT -5
I thought it was excellent - a bt of a change from the norm! I'll start with the bad points, just for a change... : 1 - Although the first few "Feeeeeeed meeeeeeee"'s were great, it got a bit repetitve. 2 - Why did Tommy, and in fact all of them accept that the doctor knew what he was doing? It's like they knew he was alien, and could solve everything - kind of strange that they didn't ask more, if you ask me... 3 - I actually think the climax on the Alexandra Palace transmiter was a bit of an anticlimax - "Whoo, I taped the Wire onto Betamax, and now I'll just wipe over her". Right, enough of that, onto the good: 1 - I thought the Wire was fantastic - other than what I've previously mentioned, I don't think she could have been better, and she definitely now ranks amongst my all-time favourite Who monsters. 2 - I thought the acting was great, especially that of Rory Jennings (Tommy) - superb, really! 3 - I thought the scene with Rose and the Doctor confronting the father was pure genius. Who else saw it? ICWP, what are your thoughts?
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Post by Gooly bongoo! on May 29, 2006 12:40:29 GMT -5
WOW a GODS conversation well sorry for mesing it up! yeah the feed mee's were a bit annoying to me!..... and i didnt really like magpies death....but i laughed when every bodys faces where being eaten!
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Post by Islander on May 29, 2006 14:07:39 GMT -5
Hmm, not really the kind of thing to laugh about...
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Post by Gooly bongoo! on May 30, 2006 8:14:15 GMT -5
Hmm, not really the kind of thing to laugh about... hmm....well it didnt nake me REALLY laugh but it gave me a little chuckle
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Post by Jesi on Jun 2, 2006 12:49:19 GMT -5
Yay a friend told me she saw on TV that they will be airing Doctor Who on people&arts over here (don't know yet which doctor) I only saw two episodes when I was on hols and liked it ^^
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Post by ICWP on Jun 3, 2006 14:28:50 GMT -5
ICWP, what are your thoughts? I didn't get a chance to see it properly. I was at my father's house for the weekend, not to return until Sunday. And then I was told I'd be going to Brean 'til Friday. Thanks for the warning. Did everyone see today's? I'll complain twice, first: I'm no astronomer, but surely you aren't supposed to be able to see a black hole? Also, the trap door was "thirty feet in diameter"? You're having a laugh. I could've quite easily lay over that thing. Ha. Ood. That is all.
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Post by Islander on Jun 3, 2006 14:34:26 GMT -5
You moany old thing! That episode was pure genius - easily the best of all 22 so far! a) no, you can't see a black hole directly, but the gravity of a black hole traps everything, including light, so if you see light disappearing, i.e. a sudden dark spot, it's a black hole. OK, so that's not what we saw here, but we saw light bending, and the rest was artistic liscense! b) Yeah, the trapdoor was nothing like 30 feet in diameter, but unless you're seriously lanky I doubt you could lay over it. Also, if you had just been plummeted to the centre of a planet orbiting a black hole in an impossible fashion, expecting to find not much but actually finding the remenants of a civilisation, would your sense of size be unaffected? Honestly, I'd have thought you'd moan more about the woman just floating there in the vacuum of space, when in actual fact she would explode quite spectacularly . I want to concentrate on the good of that episode now *nods*.
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Post by ICWP on Jun 3, 2006 14:38:58 GMT -5
Oh yes, that was the best so far, no doubt. It couldn't not be, with the name "Ood" in it. I just enjoy moaning.
That's what I meant about the black hole. 'Twas all bright and flashy and what not.
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Ahaha. Ood.
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Post by HailStorm on Jun 4, 2006 6:50:35 GMT -5
Aye. It looked about 10 foot in diameter to me (but don't take my word on it. I'm not good, spacially >< )
The whole thing made me kind of annoyed. Not because it's a bad eppisode, but because of the whole "There's something massively powerful in the very dangerous place so we're going to mine down and give it a bit of a poke". How could they NOT see that going very bad? And why didn't they just shoot the posessed Ood? Come on, they've got big old weapons that only target organics (so no 'oh crap I've hit the *boom*) but they just stand there while the things get closer and closer? Do they just carry guns for decoration then? 0_o Lol at the concept of 'flat-pack space base'. It's funny to think that in a few million years Ikea could still be doing a booming trade XD
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Post by Islander on Jun 4, 2006 7:43:18 GMT -5
XD! Ikea, resellers of flatpack bedrooms, kitchens, studies and space stations... With regards to the "30 foot in diameter" thing, I think I've just worked it out. She meant circumfrence, I reckon, because she said it as she was walking around the trap door, and it would be a reasonable guesstimate to say that it was 30 foot in circumfrence. Either she or the writer ain't that good at Maths... As for the "...we'll give it a poke", I go along with the Doctor here and think it's brilliant! It's proper human curiosity - why's it happening, and can we harness it! It's a wonderful thought. And then shooting the Ood. 1) we don't know that that's not what they'll do at the start of next weeks ep. 2) they are absolutely petrified - I mean, they've been possessed by Satan! They've frozen on the spot - a very human trait. I think you probably would were you in that situation.
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Post by HailStorm on Jun 4, 2006 11:31:29 GMT -5
Nonetheless, if I had been trained in the handling of weapons, had one in front of me and had posessed things coming at me with a deathly glint in their eyes, it would deffinitely be shoot to incapacitate time. And if they don't stop then it's shoot to kill time. I don't generally support slaughter, but in a self defence situation with a space station with my friends in whom it is my job to protect and there's nobody else to help, then things are going to get nasty. Especially since one of the blokes (who happened to be attacked by Ood when with another armed fellow) reffered to them as 'little more than cattle'. I don't think that's how trained people with guns would realistically act. maybe if it was me and I'd never held a gun before I'd decide to back away slowly rather than opening fire, but come on, the guy's head of security and knows what he's doing with a gun. And is also v. scared too. He'd shoot...
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Post by Islander on Jun 10, 2006 15:02:26 GMT -5
Well, err, WOW! I'm not going to post anything else, 'cause nothing I can type will really do that episode justice... Just one thing, though: Hail, enough gun action?
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Post by ICWP on Jun 10, 2006 15:32:40 GMT -5
I did laugh at the return of "thirty feet". 'Twas the fall the Doctor could survive this time. Who needs Torchwood, eh? If she meant circumference, she should've bally well said so. But thirty feet circumference would fit Hail's estimate of ten feet diameter reasonably well. You're just lazy. Such an episode deserves a deep and thourough analysis. The CGI was nice. Pahaha. Ood. It's still funny.
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