Posting here bc the RIP thread moved past this way too quickly
Doctor Who star Mary Tamm, who played companion Romana alongside Tom Baker, has died aged 62. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18995370
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
A few tributes here:Doctor Who - Best Companion
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
So, given the photos of who's in the Christmas special... what does anybody think? I am quite hopeful since I actually quite like the characters.
Also secretly hopeful the biopic of Sydney and Verity that Gatiss has announced could be kind of great.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
Had to go hunting to see who you meant--I'm very much looking forward to seeing more of them. Love Strax's butler outfit.
Also, I really hope this means the new companion is from the Victorian era--it's been a long time since there has been a non-contemporary or non-Earthling companion.
― computers are the new "cool tool" (James Morrison), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, with you on both of those points.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
For those who haven't seen it: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8ifg8YGYf1qzaomlo1_1280.jpg
― computers are the new "cool tool" (James Morrison), Friday, 10 August 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
sweeeeeeeeeeet
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 August 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
OH GOD I
HATE
THEM
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 10 August 2012 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
Well, her name is Clara which has made me suspect that she might not be from the 21st century. The last time Clara was in the top 20 for baby names was 1903. Otoh, Martha wasn't a particularly contemporary name either.
― NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Friday, 10 August 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
wait isn't there one more season with Amy?
― sarahell, Friday, 10 August 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
Amy & Rory leave midseason, then we get the new companion.
― NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Friday, 10 August 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
No word yet on what will happen to Rory's misogynist car.
― NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Friday, 10 August 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
For those who haven't seen it:
DON'T DO THIS PLEASE
― ʘ (sic), Friday, 10 August 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
sorry, won't happen again.
― computers are the new "cool tool" (James Morrison), Friday, 10 August 2012 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy1sIXLIyf0
― Pilot Inspektor Leee (Leee), Sunday, 26 August 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
"My other Tardis is a Delorean"
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/26/article-2193768-14B21732000005DC-140_634x898.jpg
― Roz, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
xp
A little tribute to Doctor Who, featuring me (as 11) and my teacher (as River Song)
!
― JimD, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://images.doctorwhonews.net/albums/guide/episodes/bannermen.jpg
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
The promo photos of the new girl remind me a lot of Bonnie Langford, they both have that cheesy smiley-ness.
― NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
Haha Leee, that's great
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
:-D
― R=J-L (Leee), Thursday, 30 August 2012 05:42 (eleven years ago) link
*** SPOILER ***
loved this. also brilliant to see the new girl in action (and she's smart).
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
Ambivalent. THAT character was just too much like one of Moffatt's characters from Coupling - she spoke flunt sitcom. It'll be interesting to see how the end is resolved without it being all River Song again as well.
Amy as a model surely confirms the 'two sets of Ponds' theory required to make last season's timelines work too.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
That, and the whole divorce because Amy didn't want kids (um, River? Hello?)
― ailsa, Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
new girl looks like a pal of mine (hands off, she's taken)
― ailsa, Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
Well to be fair, that's not exactly normal 'having kids'. But with no concept of how much later this is - Amy is still a successful model, so not >5 years (?) - it doesn't feel like long enough for the resentment/guilt to have grown to that extent for her to feel like she had to leave. Particularly if it's a no fault divorce (which it must have been - her ego is too big to accept the blame, as shown when it's such a big emotional thing her admitting she threw him out; and he loves her too much, as he says in the same speech, to take the blame for it all so they can split up quickly) where they must have been apart for two years already.
I didn't get why/how it took the daleks a year to find them. That wasn't explained at all.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
waht, I thought she *couldn't* have kids
idgi
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
a few dalek things didn't seem to gel terribly well, but I took the whole dalek conceit to be an excuse to tell a particular story about the leads, and just let it slide
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
Two Ponds:
At the end of the episode with Craig in it last season, Amy is recognised in the department store by a young gril as a famous perfume model. This is also the day before (as shown in a newspaper The Doctor reads) the events of The Impossible Astronaut, which doesn't leave enough time for that Amy & Rory to get to Utah. So it must therefore be a different A&R that appear in TIA - not least because her career as a model isn't mentioned in either of the series, either in building to her fantastic success or being recognised at any point by anyone other than the little girl despite being on billboards. (See also perfume name coming directly from the dialogue in The Doctor's Wife)
The easiest explanation is that the Amy & Rory dropped in their dream home with a dream car at theend of the one with the space minotaur are 12-18 months further back and live a different life, never to meet each other. The Ponds that receive the invitation in the blue envelope, for example, don't live in the dream house - which the Pond Life interior shots prove.
But I did all this in the thread last year I think.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
oh god yes, I forgot about the perfume model thing, cheers
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 September 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, is that a serious suggestion or just a convenient explanation for shoddy plotting?
Episode was ok, I guess - got better as it went along. Direction/pacing/action a bit lacklustre. A few shots at the end reminded me of that terrifying scene with the robotwoman the end of Superman 3.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 1 September 2012 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
I was so fascinated yet repelled by that superman 3 scene as a kid!
― kinder, Saturday, 1 September 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
This was alright, yet I found it pretty tiresome. Maybe I'm a bit bored of Doctor Who as it's currently done. WOuld love some more small-scale stuff at this point.
CGI dinosaurs in the next one look properly shoddy.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 2 September 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
THIS WAS FANTASTIC
― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Sunday, 2 September 2012 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
I remember when Daleks used to kill people with lasers instead of by boring them to death with shitty melodrama.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Sunday, 2 September 2012 05:03 (eleven years ago) link
Admittedly it's been a while.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Sunday, 2 September 2012 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
I really enjoyed this. Esp my favorite Who thing which = TRAPEZOIDAL HALLWAYS. Found the girl a bit too gabby but overall kinda likeable.
My biggest problem with Pond/Rory is that every time they go for a tearful relationship moment that's v touchign I'm just left kind of cold. Because I don't really like their relationship anyway and I'm not a huge Pond person. The timeywimeyness of their relationship also confuses things too, bc you're not sure which version of them it is and all that other extraneous stuff.
Anyway that was p yay and fun.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 September 2012 06:24 (eleven years ago) link
^^
I had a surge of irrits at the Amy model scene bcz of the timeline being so unclear but apart from that loved it*. Sooooo dense and fast, this was like a six-parter rammed down into 48 mins.
*OK they should have made MUCH more out of using all those old Dalek designs.
― itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Sunday, 2 September 2012 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
SPOILER POST
I was surprised that they addressed the "Rory is Amy's puppy" thing so directly but lolled that it was resolved by Amy doubling down on Rory's puppydom (was that REALLY the first conversation they had about her infertility and does Amy not know what adoption is?)
― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Sunday, 2 September 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
A little annoyed at the idea that causing the Daleks to forget who the Doctor is (and do they have no permanent records?) would cause them to stop attacking him - attacking (or enslaving) anything that isn't Daleks is very much their MO.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 2 September 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
They were going to attack him, he got in the Tardis in time to escape. But there would have been some confusion that a strange dude had just appeared in their parliament that would probably stall them from immediately attacking giving the Doctor time to showboat a bit and get away.
There are two Amys and two Rorys wandering around at some points, the model Amy is later in her personal timeline than the one in Utah. But after Utah they go travelling with the Doctor so there isn't that much overlap with the dream home, I think.
Episode was okay, I felt kind of uninvolved by it. I don't think the character we saw in this episode is the actual new companion - the companion is supposedly called Clara Oswin rather than Oswin Oswald - and there's an explanation on the way.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 2 September 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
Ah no, I meant the Daleks in the Intensive Care ward, when he was first wiped from the Path Web.
I did like the 'Doc..tor' scenes, reminded me of Dalek.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 2 September 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
*scene
EGGS!
EGGS!!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 September 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
Hens. I hate hens.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Sunday, 2 September 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
I still kind if think he should have rescued Oswin anyway
― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Sunday, 2 September 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
excuse my ignorance but is that not the New Companion?
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Sunday, 2 September 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
It's the same actress but possibly a different character? By law every companion has to have featured in the show previously, now.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 2 September 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
They've only done that with three of them, right (Martha via her cousin, Donna, new girl); everyone else has been introduced as a new character in the episode where they travel with the Doctor
― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Sunday, 2 September 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
Karen Gillan was one of the priestesses in that Pompeii episode.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Sunday, 2 September 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link