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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 14, 2008 21:37:36 GMT
I've been watching this serial on yt over the past few days (I really shouldn't be, SO much stuff is due at school next week), but anyway... HOLY CONTINUITY ERRORS BATMAT!!! The Doctor is repeatedly refered to as human, and is repeatedly called Doctor Who. The bad guys keep saying: Doctor Who is required... we need his advanced human brain... We require Doctor Who... It makes me giggle. Doctor Who continuity is so messed up. You can really tell that they were just sort of making it up as they went along, and I guess this is one of those things that happened before they made it up... (the calling him human bit, 'cause, until the Third Doctor and the two hearts thing, I'm not sure if the Doctor was actually ever called an alien... he *could* have been an advanced human from the far future) But calling him Doctor Who? That's just silly.
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Post by Kit on Mar 15, 2008 3:36:19 GMT
Haha, I need to watch that now! xD
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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 15, 2008 4:06:04 GMT
It is truly made of win. And the companion Polly is totally a proto-Rose or something, while the male companion, for some reason, makes me think of Turlough.
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Post by magnusgreel on Mar 15, 2008 7:37:37 GMT
I didn't remember those things about War Machines. It was established right at the start in Unearthly Child that the Dr and Susan were aliens, even if the word wasn't used, so this was awfully weirdly sloppy of them... and the "Doctor Who" business...! I remember WM as the first story that seemed UNIT-like and had the feel of familiar Who. I haven't seen it in years.
As for Polly.... not a proto-Rose, Rose is a neo-Polly! If they are alike that is, there didn't seem to be enough Polly material in existence to tell much about her. Anyway, I liked Rose, but as much as some may not want to think so, Rose is one of a long string of good companions...
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Post by primsong on Dec 2, 2008 6:01:55 GMT
I loved the War Machines, though poor Dodo gets dropped like an old potato (and hypnotised to boot!), that's really my only gripe. Not much of a sendoff for a companion being rotated out. The intro for Polly and Ben was lovely, and Ben hits the ground running, right away dubbing Polly with her nickname "Duchess" and showing his unflappable loyalty for her. Polly was totally made of WIN, I wish we had her eps with Two.
The Dalek-meets-tank-like War Machines themselves were really kind of scary, even though they were (to my mind) rather too easily defeated, and the whole 'evil computer turns people to zombies' thing was well done. I remember our "Oh nooooes! The computer got Polly!" moment. The Doctor has some very good dialoguing with the various Brit authority figures and you get 'proto-UNIT' as well. Great stuff.
The ending, at which the lonely Doctor goes into his TARDIS by himself - then gets two stowaways at the last minute - is excellent. So much for Ben's shore leave!
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