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Post by jjpor on Mar 30, 2013 18:11:01 GMT
Well, here it is - the supposed second half of Series 7 of NuWho (looks suspiciously like Series 8 to me... ) And here is your thread for any and all discussion relating to the first ep, The Bells of Saint John. As usual, keep it in here and out of the Cbox, and please, please, please use whatever method seems right to you to conceal any Spoilers you may drop. EDIT: This is me in the future! More cogent thoughts to follow, but after a first watch, three questions in imho ascending order of difficulty/significance: 1. So, are we going to see more of the Great Intelligence this series?
2. What is the significance of the leaf?
3. Who was "the woman in the shop"? (Although if you take a quick look at the spoileriffic 50th Anniversary thread, I think we can start flinging out wild guesses)
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Post by johne on Mar 30, 2013 23:37:50 GMT
Well, here it is - the supposed second half of Series 7 of NuWho (looks suspiciously like Series 8 to me... ) * I take it the servitor robots have the ability to paralyse their victims, because otherwise they'd all escape while that lengthy transformation sequence is going on. * Did the Great Intelligence recruit Miss Kizlet during its last visit to Earth in 1968 (or whenever it was)? * The rapid-fire typing gets somewhat silly after a while. It reminds me a little of the Edmund Crispin book I just read, where an electrical pylon is under repair. The foreman is constantly writing on his clipboard, and the omniscient narrator affects to believe that he's writing a novel -- and after a while starts quoting sentences from it. In the scene when it's two people doing it, I get the feeling they're competing in some game along the lines of Daley Thompson's Supertest, where the winner is the one who mashes the buttons fastest. * Loved the Doctor's solution and the way he delivers Miss Kizlet's comeuppance. It's very elegant (and reminds me somewhat of similar events in The Web of Fear).
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Post by starpanda on Mar 31, 2013 0:37:47 GMT
I really shouldn't post immediately after seeing the episode, as I'm incapable of being objective. -Scarf(!) in the background. -A book written by Amelia Williams. -Suspiciously Sherlock-esque use of typography. -Possibly the shortest introduction ever to the TARDIS/time travel/etc. -Woman in the shop? My immediate thought was Sally Sparrow (yeah, I know, but she was the only person I could think of who actually worked in a shop.). More likely, it was the person JJ alluded to. Or someone else entirely.
What is Clara's real name? Is Oswin just a nickname? Also, on that same thread, I think in whatever+ years all these mentions of Wi-Fi, FTW, and Twitter will seem pretty archaic. I'm okay with that though. I love how Doctor Who adapts contemporary technology/current events into its mythos.
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Post by kirkg on Apr 1, 2013 3:20:01 GMT
Well, here it is - the supposed second half of Series 7 of NuWho (looks suspiciously like Series 8 to me... ) And here is your thread for any and all discussion relating to the first ep, The Bells of Saint John. As usual, keep it in here and out of the Cbox, and please, please, please use whatever method seems right to you to conceal any Spoilers you may drop. EDIT: This is me in the future! More cogent thoughts to follow, but after a first watch, three questions in imho ascending order of difficulty/significance: 1. So, are we going to see more of the Great Intelligence this series?
2. What is the significance of the leaf?
3. Who was "the woman in the shop"? (Although if you take a quick look at the spoileriffic 50th Anniversary thread, I think we can start flinging out wild guesses) This is me in the next future...and I hope I get the spoilerific stuff right here... I'm not going to blow anything big here... She said the leaf was the very first page. I suspect that much as River filled her Tardis Diary, Oswin will start jumping around in her "101 things to do" and as the doctor continues to encounter her, he's going to be able to reference where she is by how many things she's got listed so far. (Much like River and he sync-ed up their diaries.
I missed the entire reference to the woman in the shop. Where in the episode does this fall? I'll go look for it if I can.
And did someone mention a scarf sighting in the background?
PS: I was thrilled to note that the Doctor riding his cycle across the bridge with Big Ben/Parliment in the background, was the exact bridge and spot where my wife and I walked almost exactly one year ago this month! How cool is that! (Of course, we didn't see him...though we did find the Tardis...)
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Post by jjpor on Apr 6, 2013 19:28:06 GMT
*Well, the leaf got explained in the follow-on episode. Still waiting on "the woman in the shop".
One thought that occurred to me - the whole thing with taking control of the plane and trying to crash it on Clara's house, while turning off all the lights in the city (and turning on all the lights in Clara's street) to provide a target. That was kind of cool, if completely evil. A sledgehammer to crack a walnut, but pretty no-nonsense. It reminded me for some reason of the X-Files episode "Kill Switch", which featured a rogue Artificial Intelligence doing similarly drastic things to people in the "real world" in order to protect its own existence - only in that case the weapon of choice was black-budget Pentagon "Star Wars" weapons satellites, which don't actually exist in real life...as far as we know...*
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