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Post by jjpor on Apr 13, 2013 16:55:26 GMT
Comradesh, we shail into hishtory...or should that be sssail into hissstory? Here is your discussion thread for the latest episode of the latest series of New Who to air in the UK *looks at clock* five minutes from now. Usual drill - keep the discussion in here and out of the cbox - please conceal any spoilers.
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Post by johne on Apr 13, 2013 21:36:01 GMT
A few things: - Of course, the practical effect of a Martian on Earth leaving his armour would be that he'd be greatly hampered by the higher gravity, and probably break several bones when he tried to do anything.
- It would have been nice to have an acknowledgement that the Martian year is about twice as long as ours, when talking of depths of time.
- If the Ice Warriors have teleporters in 1983, that rather wrecks the premise of The Seeds of Death, in which they need to hijack Earth's teleporter network. Not that the premise of Seeds was flawless before...
- If the TARDIS is at the South Pole, the Doctor's not going to be able to get all the way there by submarine.
- I wondered if the doll the Doctor was carrying was a reference to that Comic Relief sketch where Ten turns Catherine Tate into an action figure, but she still isn't bovvered.
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Post by magnusgreel on May 15, 2013 5:54:22 GMT
[/li][li]If the Ice Warriors have teleporters in 1983, that rather wrecks the premise of The Seeds of Death, in which they need to hijack Earth's teleporter network. Not that the premise of Seeds was flawless before... [/li][li]If the TARDIS is at the South Pole, the Doctor's not going to be able to get all the way there by submarine. [/list] [/quote][/spoiler] Re teleportation, oops. The nice part was that they're bridging a long-term story gap between Ice Warriors of the past on Mars, the seemingly IW-free present day and near-future Mars, and the Ice Warriors we know of in the future. It never occurred to me that plenty of them might have left Mars, and could come back and repopulate. Let's hope they never gang up with the revived Silurians of the future, against us. The future of this solar system might get a lot livelier at some point.
This is the first NuWho to seem at all like real Dr Who to me since Matt Smith's first two. While it seems like real Dr Who, Dr lands in right spot, right time to help with alien invasion, "isolated outpost", even righteous indignation about how humans are treating an alien from Matt, something missing from Moffatt Who, right? ... it's all about the alien situation, not soap opera or magic or worshipping of the Dr. and his supposed angsts........still, it's not great Dr Who, it just looks that way.
I was puzzled by the end, where 11 isn't concerned about getting to Antarctica. Is it really possible that the writer thought you could take a sub there? I'm amazed more and more about the basic facts about life and the world that are bering forgotten by the public.
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