does this thread follow the bbc american, sci-fi or another timeline? I have not watched Dr. Who since the 80's and I was trying to get back into it.
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Doctor Who: Now With Even MORE Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Goodness!
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Posts: 76 (05/26/08 9:23 PM) |
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angelgirl39 |
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Posts: 4251 (05/27/08 12:06 PM) Registered user |
We're mostly discussing the current season (Series 4), which is airing on the BBC in the UK. Fortunately nowadays these episodes are aired on SciFi/US with
only a few weeks lag, and recent episodes are available on YouTube and torrent servers, so we're all pretty much on the same page now.
If you haven't watched since the end of the "classic" series in 1989, it won't be that hard to get caught up. BBC only relaunched and renumbered the series in 2005, with the debut of the Ninth Doc, and Series 1-3 are now readily available on DVD. The events and characters of those seasons are very relevant to current storylines, so by all means check it out! Enjoy! :) |
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Screerider |
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Posts: 21749 (05/27/08 5:49 PM) Registered user |
Undertakeress wrote:Except SCI-FI took a week off too... we're hanging after Part 1 of the Atmos/Soltaran thingy. |
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Will |
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Posts: 29160 (05/27/08 6:11 PM) Not a Registered User anymore |
Doesn't SciFi air Doctor Who earlier in the week than the BBC does? I think that's why they're a week off otherwise, it'd be aired earlier in
the US
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lizzo1 |
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Posts: 596 (05/28/08 11:57 AM) Registered user |
Yeah, but they're still 3 episodes behind, so SciFi still wouldn't have caught up.
This week on Friday SciFi: ep405 The Poison Sky This week on Saturday BBC: ep408 Silence in the Library |
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Otch |
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whoops wrong thread.
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Posts: 89 (06/01/08 12:40 AM) |
hey who turned off the lights
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survivorjordancontestant |
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Posts: 1363 (06/01/08 1:07 PM) Registered user |
wow, Stephen Moffat makes all the other writers look like amateurs...
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Rackmaninohff |
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Posts: 7 (06/01/08 6:06 PM) |
survivorjordancontestant wrote: I can't wait to see what he does with the show. |
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Undertakeress |
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Posts: 6060 (06/01/08 7:18 PM) Registered User |
Stephen Moffat is a god. That is all.
Plus he seems to have a fascination with darkness/shadows (last years Blink, now Silence in the Library). This is starting to pick up, and I love Alex Kingston! |
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lizzo1 |
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Posts: 623 (06/07/08 11:47 PM) Registered user |
Bump for today's excellent episode. Not as scary as last week, but really good job tying everything together. Very satisfying. And I'm one of the
few who thought Donna would make a good companion, but she is so much better than I thought she would be. "But I've been dieting!"
Also, a really good Confidential and Commentary floating around for this ep. "Everybody lives!" |
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Undertakeress |
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Posts: 6308 (06/08/08 12:49 AM) Registered User |
Haven't watched the confidential, but rootforum finally got it up on Youtube. I loved it. Tied up what the Ood guy said about the Doctor's Song
Can't wait for my Rose to come back! |
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StatelyWayneManor |
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Posts: 6779 (06/09/08 7:52 AM) Registered user |
2 Doctors gave up saving a patient early, no?
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Mister Hooper |
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Posts: 94 (06/10/08 12:03 AM) |
Great epi but man I'm confused. I thought The Doctor went by The Doctor for the entire series and only used his real name before he started to travel in
time. Is that why River remembers him as old? But she would have mentioned the grand-daughter, unless she is the grand-daughter....aw wait my head just
exploded again.
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Rackmaninohff |
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Posts: 8 (06/10/08 6:03 AM) |
Mister Hooper wrote: He's been traveling through time all his life. To Gallifreyans that like riding in a car. Anyway, he met River before River met him(Moffat likes to
play around with the 4th dimension). It's not specific who would be allowed to know his name or not, but that person would have to be pretty important. I
figured he told her his name in order to catch his own attention in the past.
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Mister Hooper |
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Posts: 95 (06/11/08 1:32 AM) |
Rackmaninohff wrote: In the confidential for this episode they discuss in depth the mystery behind his name and how the writers will never tell it. I understand about the time travel/car analogy you made too. What I'm getting at is the role of River and her relationship to the Doctor. Is this the doctor she meets in her past (his future), or one still to come? I don't think it is a past doctor since the current one would have the memories. I was under the impression that the doctor is unable to speak his name, not just simply not using it anymore because something disastrous would happen if he did. |
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Undertakeress |
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Posts: 6392 (06/11/08 3:07 AM) Registered User |
The way I understood it is River met The Doctor in HER future. But she is also a time traveller, so who knows when that is. However she siad he looked younger.
But if they end up having another regeneration, it will have to retcon the whole episode.
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lizzo1 |
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Posts: 625 (06/11/08 5:24 PM) Registered user |
No, I don't think that's right. River has already met the doctor (her past, his future). But his timeline doesn't match up with other
people's timeline. For example, the whole timeline of Blink, where Sally Sparrow is all done with her episode, saved the Doctor and Martha by sending the
Tardis back, then runs into him in the street and he doesn't know who she is because it hasn't happened to HIM yet. Wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.
I don't think River was a time traveler, but the episode wasn't really clear about when she originally met the doctor, whether he looked the same, what their relationship was exactly or how, why, or even if it ended...it was all Spoilers for the Doctor so they didn't talk about it. |
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Mister Hooper |
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Posts: 98 (06/12/08 3:20 PM) |
Wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. I forgot about that. |
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Screerider |
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Posts: 21889 (06/12/08 6:30 PM) Registered user |
Speaking of the wibbly wobbly stuff, in the Pompeii episode, The Doctor mentioned that Time Lords can see which events in history are "fixed" and
which are not. The volcano going boom was Fixed, so he could not change that. Saving that family from the catastrophe, on the other hand, was a can do or
not, something "unfixed" (?).
I was thinking that since it turned out that he caused the eruption, maybe that explains why it was Fixed? A Time Lord was involved in the event, making it immutable. At all these major events that cannot be changed, a Time Lord must have been present shaping history. Yet... The Doctor saved the family, so why wouldn't that be similarly immutable? So my theory went to shit.
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