oh man it's too late now.
btw Algerian Goalkeeper agrees with me re the Sontarans.
― staph white pulvules like (Schlafsack), Monday, 23 May 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
i quite liked The Poison Sky, in spite of it all
― school of seven bellhops (blueski), Monday, 23 May 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
why would the outcome be different?
well it has to resolve sometime. at least this time he was kinda checking in the background while converstaion was going on, it wasn't a drastic closeup with soaring Gold
― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Monday, 23 May 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
i meant more what made the Doctor think he might get a definite answer the third time, but maybe he's been doing elimination processes in the background, trying to see if the machine is broken &c
― school of seven bellhops (blueski), Monday, 23 May 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
he knows something is super-wrong and weird, of course he's going to keep an eye on it
― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
a bit like how they kept showing the crack last season, they're overdoing the amy is/isn't pregnant thing. and frances barber.
― Roz, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah except where the crack could at least be mounted in new and interesting places the pregnant/not pregnant thing is always just the Doctor looking at that same bloody screen.
― staph white pulvules like (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
hopefully they leave the Doctor dead/quantum babby/eyepatch lady stuff alone for the next two eps if they don't relate to the mid-season cliffhanger.
― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
looking forward to playing moffat bingo with the cliffhanger
― staph white pulvules like (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 04:23 (twelve years ago) link
- pregnant/not pregnant- time babby- rory misses the point of something- "spoilers"- timey-wimey- something about hats
― staph white pulvules like (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
your moaning time was over hours ago, you realize :)
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
this is penalty time
― staph white pulvules like (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
>:(
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
- Rory dies.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
oh christ yes of course
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll84s4ZmKh1qafmk8o1_400.gif
― Roz, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
See, aside from "spoilers" (which I believe I have raged against several times before in this thread) I think most of those things make for an amusing Who romp, and will not complain about their inevitability.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
x-post, That is awesome funny. Poor old Rory.
― “I'm a hero with coward's legs.” (captain rosie), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
- Also somone will go into the Tardis and travel to another time - Matt Smith will play a character called the Doctor
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
- space
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
Can it really be called "proper SF" when the plot is boilerplate "But they're ALIVE, DO YOU SEE" whosits?
(Though tbh, I think the biggest problem I had was not understanding the Scottish accents.)
― Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Rebel IMF (Leee), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
psst not Scottish, Northern
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
Potato, potato.
― Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Rebel IMF (Leee), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 04:55 (twelve years ago) link
pssst irish
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
quiet you
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
SF and well-worn boilerplate memes go hand-in-hand! But I just meant that it was a decent not *thoroughly* implausible premiss, with interesting and well thought out ramifications. More or less, y'know. As opposed to idk the UK escaping from solar flares on the back of a giant space whale.
― England's banh mi army (ledge), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 08:36 (twelve years ago) link
i know i know it's a science fantasy show for kids, i'm cool with that. just nice to see it taken a turn for the serious every once in a while.
― England's banh mi army (ledge), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 08:37 (twelve years ago) link
> As opposed to idk the UK escaping from solar flares on the back of a giant space whale.
it worked for pratchett...
(ok, that was turtles, turtles all the way down)
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
It also worked kind of for China Mieville.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 09:27 (twelve years ago) link
I have recently started watching season 5 of nu-Who. It seems to have really leaped in quality since I gave up on it, with a new-found ability to adequately pace episodes marking an astonishing improvement on what had gone before. I also like the new Doctor and Amy's hair.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 09:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1375512
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
DV - there's a different lead writer now so the whole tone and feel of the series is completely different.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know what DV's Mieville post means but if I find that the Mieville book I am halfway through involves a space whale I will be displeased!
(PS don't read this if you hate space whales: http://www.fictiondb.com/coversth/th_0451451309.jpg)
― russ conway's game of life (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 11:12 (twelve years ago) link
xpost to Matt DC: Yes, I had heard that... but I'm surprised at how different it is.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 11:13 (twelve years ago) link
Russ, there is a China Mieville book in which people attach a floating city to a gigantic sea creature and get it to pull them around; both Mrs The New Dirty Vicar and I were reminded of it in the nu-Who story about the flying UK spaceship city thing.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
There's a Mieville with a city on the back of a giant land tortoise as well.
Make up artists outdoing themselves this series; both The Silence and the Gangers have top notch scary faces. The cliffhanger was predictable but really well done. Would've freaked the fuck out of kids I reckon, at least.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
!
― d(▽_▽)b (c sharp major), Saturday, 28 May 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm.
By the way, spoilerphobes shouldn't look at the official site since it spoils next week and has done since the middle of the afternoon. Moffatt says it isn't a spoiler btw because it's been very strongly hinted in DWM and the Radio Times.
― 4, 5, 6, The monkey's got a hockey stick (aldo), Saturday, 28 May 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
I WANT TO WATCH THE NEXT EPISODE NOW
― d(▽_▽)b (c sharp major), Saturday, 28 May 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
plz to see the Doctor Whos now
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 May 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
Liked all the two Docs business, and the monster at the end was suitably nightmarish, and the cliffhanger was also great. Wasn't exactly gripped otherwise.
― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Saturday, 28 May 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
The monster Jen-ganger at the end strongly reminded me of a painting, but I couldn't quite bring the specific one to mind.
― emil.y, Saturday, 28 May 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
Something Dali?
― delivers maximum wtf per cubic second (suzy), Saturday, 28 May 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I think so. Most likely candidate, anyway.
― emil.y, Saturday, 28 May 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
Hieronymus Bosch?
http://data.whicdn.com/images/8857224/hieronymus_bosch2_thumb.jpg?1302942303
― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Saturday, 28 May 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
Eyes in the wall also a Dali-esque touch, yeah the monster was like those stilt-legged elephants from
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PcBsNSmA4-0/Tcq0DHe2BLI/AAAAAAAAAg4/-uEogAdoRkE/s1600/salvador_dali_elephants_postcard_1.jpg
mongst other things
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 May 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
Or Goya
http://www.michaelarnoldart.com/Goya%20painting.gif
― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Saturday, 28 May 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
tbh The Thing was the most obvious ref i think but yeah i love that there is a lot of surrealist shenanigans and running riffs on authenticity and voyeurism thru out this series
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 May 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
Oh lawks, yes, definitely The Thing! Didn't even think of it when watching, but it's so obvious when you point it out. D'oh.
All the painting suggestions are good and in the right area, but I was so sure I'd seen something almost exactly the same in a painting somewhere. Perhaps not, though.
― emil.y, Saturday, 28 May 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not very sure on the hyper spoilaz etiquette thing here. can we ask about things that were just shown?
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 28 May 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link