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[Tootles the Taxi]

Another nod to Malcolm Tucker when the Dr handed over the psychic paper which said he was from a Govt department. Dr Chang asked what all the swearwords were for.

Nice touch.

[dxg]

richtea78 said:

ash73 said:

Thought Michelle Gomez was terrific... am now googling Milfy, sorry Missy, to see what else she's been in

She was in Bad Education. She's married to Jack Davenport

She was also in the Book Group, an absolute gem of a comedy that got overlooked. It also introduced the mainstream to Anne Dudek (Wilson's girlfriend in House) and Rory McGann (The Hound in Game of Thrones).

Interesting that her characters tend to be slightly 'unhinged.'

[ajprice]

ash73 said:

Thought Michelle Gomez was terrific... am now googling Milfy, sorry Missy, to see what else she's been in

Green wing. Her character in that was as mad as 10 boxes of frogs on LSD.

[MartG]

ajprice said:

ash73 said:

Thought Michelle Gomez was terrific... am now googling Milfy, sorry Missy, to see what else she's been in

Green wing. Her character in that was as mad as 10 boxes of frogs on LSD.

[kowalski655]

She was great in that....scary and bat st crazy, but great. Like in Dr Who

[defblade]

MartG said:

ajprice said:

ash73 said:

Thought Michelle Gomez was terrific... am now googling Milfy, sorry Missy, to see what else she's been in

Green wing. Her character in that was as mad as 10 boxes of frogs on LSD.

I do wonder if she writes all her own scripts...

[kev1974]

A little surprised at St. Paul's agreeing to be a key location in a story that questions where exactly the "dead" go next.

Anyone else wishing Danny Plank's cremation would hurry up. Get on with it!

[Butter Face]

Well




I rather enjoyed that!!

[Jader1973]

That was good.

Wife commented that Capaldi was the only one who could have pulled some of these scripts off.

I agree.

(Had to explain who the Cybermen were though).

Edited by Jader1973 on Sunday 2nd November 10:09

[ajprice]

Very good episode, some dark stuff and then bits like the Steve Jobs line and Missy's "Sorry everyone, another ranting Scotsman in the street, I had no idea there was a match on.”

[ajprice]

Heads up for some old Doctor Who on the Drama channel (20 on Freeview). Today at 4pm is a Hartnell episode 'The Aztecs', followed by An Adventure in Space and Time, next week is a Troughton episode 'Tomb of the Cybermen'.

[ecsrobin]

Going away from modern who, the drama channel on freeview starting today will be showing Dr who omnibus's 4pm every Sunday. The whole reason I got into Dr who was UK gold blakes 7 and Dr who omnibus on a Sunday morning.

[DoctorX]

ajprice said:

Heads up for some old Doctor Who on the Drama channel (20 on Freeview). Today at 4pm is a Hartnell episode 'The Aztecs', followed by An Adventure in Space and Time, next week is a Troughton episode 'Tomb of the Cybermen'.

....which last night's episode was very reminiscent of when the Cybermen were activated. Also, the Cybermen walking down the steps of St Paul's was straight out of another Troughton story, "The Invasion".

ETA about 2 min in: http://youtu.be/oqOEyeDvfJA

Edited by DoctorX on Sunday 2nd November 10:47

[Evangelion]

Liked the intelligent use of time travel, or rather non-use where the Doctor refused to go back in time to save Danny:
"If I change the events that brought you here, you will never come here and ask me to change those events! Paradox loop. The timeline disintegrates."

At last someone understands why the vast majority of time travel plots are absolute drivel.

Bit like Sheldon explaining to Leonard that he would not be able to go back and persuade himself not to buy the time machine, because it would then be unavailable in the present to take him back.

[Langweilig]

3W - Who, what and where?

Some bloke screamed. "He's left his body to medical science!"

[marshalla]

Evangelion said:

Liked the intelligent use of time travel, or rather non-use where the Doctor refused to go back in time to save Danny:
"If I change the events that brought you here, you will never come here and ask me to change those events! Paradox loop. The timeline disintegrates."

At last someone understands why the vast majority of time travel plots are absolute drivel.

Bit like Sheldon explaining to Leonard that he would not be able to go back and persuade himself not to buy the time machine, because it would then be unavailable in the present to take him back.

Paradox problem only really exists in a single universe situation, though. If you accept a multiverse, then the attempt to create a Paradox results in a fork (or in the consciousness traversing the alternate outcome fork at the appropriate point in its own timeline).

However, it has been well-established that thw Whoniverse is mostly a single universe.

Now- the important bit, who was Missy before she became Missy ?
i.e. is she a regeneration or another stolen body - like Tremas ?

[MiniMan64]

marshalla said:

Evangelion said:

Liked the intelligent use of time travel, or rather non-use where the Doctor refused to go back in time to save Danny:
"If I change the events that brought you here, you will never come here and ask me to change those events! Paradox loop. The timeline disintegrates."

At last someone understands why the vast majority of time travel plots are absolute drivel.

Bit like Sheldon explaining to Leonard that he would not be able to go back and persuade himself not to buy the time machine, because it would then be unavailable in the present to take him back.

Paradox problem only really exists in a single universe situation, though. If you accept a multiverse, then the attempt to create a Paradox results in a fork (or in the consciousness traversing the alternate outcome fork at the appropriate point in its own timeline).

However, it has been well-established that thw Whoniverse is mostly a single universe.

Now- the important bit, who was Missy before she became Missy ?
i.e. is she a regeneration or another stolen body - like Tremas ?

I would assume it's going to be linked to the "rift" link to Galifrey and arrival of new regenerations at the end of last series? As far as I can remember we last saw The Master disappearing off with James Bond back to Galifrey no?

[FourWheelDrift]

Stolen body regeneration, would have to be the Dr's mother who we saw next to Timothy Dalton when John Simm departed with them to gallifrey if we follow the events as the have happened. However that was the Time War Gallifrey, that has now changed so the time Lords would not have sent the sound of drums message that drove the master mad. He didn't escape the time war at the end if the universe, he hasn't used up regenerations turning into John Simm etc.....

[heyhomes]

I thought this was a great episode, one of the best for a long time. That was up until the point the BBC revealed that as Pink used to be a soldier he obviously killed innocent children because that's what most soldiers do

[Munter]

heyhomes said:

I thought this was a great episode, one of the best for a long time. That was up until the point the BBC revealed that as Pink used to be a soldier he obviously killed innocent children because that's what most soldiers do

We didn't see the kid in the flashback. He could have been in there waving an AK about and thus not innocent.