Doctor Who: The God Complex 17/9 (9/17)
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Posted on: 2011-09-17 14:03 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Sorry to say, but io9 has the scoop that new Who may not be back until next fall, nearly 9 months after the Christmas Special this year. No word on if there will be a midseason break or not.
which is true because of the olympics next year
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Finally saw this myself last night.
Seriously, it's tough to grasp the strategy of someone who can time travel and lies. Nothing is at face value and nothing is guaranteed to be in temporal order from the viewers point of view.
I'm pretty sure the ganger Doctor is involved in someway. Makes me wonder if the Doctor who's almost killed by River is actually the ganger and River's sacrifice charged him with the energy that got dissipated when the Doctor was killed at the start of the season.
Trying to figure this out ahead of time is like going through the maze in Colossal Cave.
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Thats not how I read it. I think he has become quite relaxed (for Rory anyway) about Amy and the Doctor's relationship. And at the end of the episode he was surprised but not jumping for joy when the Doctor dumped them off. Accepting, that's Rory, accepting!
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Not from some of the looks he's been giving whenever Amy starts talking about the Doctor. Her unshakable faith in him bothers Rory especially after the last two episodes.
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This is a song about a super hero named Tony. Its called Tony's theme.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I heard from a guy in a blue box that they were bringing back Romana.
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But yeah, this season isn't over by a long stretch for two episodes to go. I thought there was no way he could pull off last season, and then he has the TARDIS go and reignite the universe and Amy Pond reimagine the Doctor back to life.
As for Amy, Karen Gillan is quoted in an interview as saying that we're going to see big, big cracks form in Amy this year, and I think it culminated in her letting go of the Doctor as being her savior and seeing him for who he was, even if she still deeply cared for him. And I think it made the Doctor feel better to have sort of helped 'heal' her. That line of River's back at Demon's Run about the Doctor being less and less like his title suggests has really stuck with me, and I wonder if he's not considering that more now that he has a firm 'death' date in mind.
But no...this Doctor is wickedly clever and guarded, and has planned so much ahead it's going to make our heads spin. Again. I frankly can't wait for the day when Ten meets Eleven and Ten finds himself horribly and devastatingly outsmarted...
...which I think will happen after this year's Christmas Special. Next season is spread over 2012-2013, and Moffat is very aware of the 50th anniversary. And there is no way that they can't do something humungously awesome for that....
S.
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I'm really hoping Christopher Eccleston doesn't keep being stubborn and refuse to do the 50th anniversary, because I feel like him not being there would just ruin it.
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
personally, I'm hoping the 8th Doctor gets brought in on the 50th action. He could really uses some canon stories that are not argued over for every detail.
Multiple Doctor stories aren't canon anyway, are they?
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
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Yeah they are.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
Multiple Doctor stories aren't canon anyway, are they?
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are you thinking of the last one, the 5th/10th mashup short? That one ended with the start of the start of the Starship Titanic story.|
Originally Posted by DarkGob
Multiple Doctor stories aren't canon anyway, are they?
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The Three Doctors originated Omega, a character that came back later in the series, and some assume will soon be returning to the show..
The 25th anniversary show, The Five Doctors, fleshed out the back story of Rassilon a bit.
I never saw the others, but these sound canonical to me.
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Originally Posted by Rodoan
are you thinking of the last one, the 5th/10th mashup short? That one ended with the start of the start of the Starship Titanic story.
The Three Doctors had Omega in it, a character some assume will soon be returning to the show.. The 25th anniversary show, The Five Doctors, fleshed out the back story of Rassilon a bit. I never saw the others, but these sound canonical to me. |
And both "The Five Doctors" and "The Three Doctors" would likely be in my top ten favourite Doctor Who episodes.
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
I consider Time Crash to be a canonical retcon too. Simply because it's freaking Peter Davison and David Tennant in an episode together as the Doctor.
My understanding was that the various Doctors lose their memories of the events they've just partaken in, since otherwise (they|he)'d be crossing (their|his) own timeline and have direct knowledge of (their|his) own future.
Or just wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
Wanna know something funny, we're talking about this and I'm watching the extras on the Five Doctors DVD...
Not because of this conversation, I just happened to be watching it.
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Don't tease. I had a very young person crush both Romana's regenerations.
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Lucky robot dog.
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Just one more reason I dislike Richard Dawkins.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Hell I've had the same high school crush on Lalla Ward for 30 years now.
Lucky robot dog. |
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I think I missed something...
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Just one more reason I dislike Richard Dawkins.
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Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5
I think I missed something...
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Lalla Ward
Born Sarah Ward 28 June 1951 (1951-06-28) (age 60) London, England Years active 19721993 (as an actor) 19851988 (as an author) Spouse Tom Baker (1980-1982) Richard Dawkins (1992-present) |
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Just one more reason I dislike Richard Dawkins.
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I think I missed something...
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that has my over active imagination wondering what nasty thing Father Xmas said about Dawkins that he decided to go back and change.
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Even folks that agree with him don't like the man, so it's not hard for me to imagine what Father Xmas' first draft post might have been.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Actually it's this part
[/I] that has my over active imagination wondering what nasty thing Father Xmas said about Dawkins that he decided to go back and change. |
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
No, it was just to go back and include Forbin's quote so people would have some vague idea of context.
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
No, it was just to go back and include Forbin's quote so people would have some vague idea of context.
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I like what my imaginations was coming up for why it was edited more than the reality.
It's also possible he didn't like apples because he'd just regenerated and stopped hating them once he'd stabilised.