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[Mutley]

Beefmeister said:

MiniMan64 said:

Didn't a tiny swarm of flesh eating robots disguised as shadows kill his wife? The Vastha or something?

Did he just give rise to the species of her death?

Ooh interesting...


Incidentally, this series has been far better than the last thus far. Enjoying it.

When I saw the swarm, I thought of the Vashta Nerada from "The Library", it felt in part like a re-write of that episode, with the pods being the moon.

Overall, 2 reasonably ok episodes to start with, though Matt Lucas has been underused, and I think the vault is going to be a rather large plot point soon

[Saleen836]

Evangelion said:

poing said:

... I would have liked the one from The Inbetweeners with the glasses and briefcase to do it ...

Anybody from The Inbetweeners would be good. Especially Carli.

Carli is too busy with her character on Emmerdale

Still not too keen on the writers re-using actors for new characters, both Karen Gillan and Mr Capaldi were in previous episodes

[anonymous-user]

Saleen836 said:

Evangelion said:

poing said:

... I would have liked the one from The Inbetweeners with the glasses and briefcase to do it ...

Anybody from The Inbetweeners would be good. Especially Carli.

Carli is too busy with her character on Emmerdale

Still not too keen on the writers re-using actors for new characters, both Karen Gillan and Mr Capaldi were in previous episodes

Should there be a parrot here ?

[DoctorX]

Interesting rumours about the finale:

David Bradley is reprising his 'Adventures in Time and Space' role as Doctor No. 1. In keeping with the appearance of the Mondasian Cybermen I suppose.

[Saleen836]

techiedave said:

Saleen836 said:

Evangelion said:

poing said:

... I would have liked the one from The Inbetweeners with the glasses and briefcase to do it ...

Anybody from The Inbetweeners would be good. Especially Carli.

Carli is too busy with her character on Emmerdale

Still not too keen on the writers re-using actors for new characters, both Karen Gillan and Mr Capaldi were in previous episodes

Should there be a parrot here ?

For what?

[Johnnytheboy]

Jesus wept, I never realised Edwardian London was quite so multicultural.

This series of DH is sucking like a 50 dollar ho thus far.

[MiniMan64]

Johnnytheboy said:

Jesus wept, I never realised Edwardian London was quite so multicultural.

This series of DH is sucking like a 50 dollar ho thus far.

Why does it matter?

It's not a historical drama, it's kids show about an alien with two hearts and a time machine?

[Johnnytheboy]

Oh look, here's a posh white guy, and - ooh shock me! - he's a racist baddie!

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Since when was 1814 Edwardian?

Oh, and you might want to readdress your understanding of UK history if you don't believe there were Afro-Carribean people living in London in 1814 especially in the Docklands area.

Edited by Ginetta G15 Girl on Saturday 29th April 20:08

[MartG]

Even fan fiction is better than these scripts

[anonymous-user]

This is to Dr Who what Abbey Road was to the Beatles
Pressure off and the like

[Johnnytheboy]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Since when was 1814 Edwardian?

Oh, and you might want to readdress your understanding of UK history if you don't believe there were Afro-Carribean people living in London in 1814 especially in the Docklands area.

Edited by Ginetta G15 Girl on Saturday 29th April 20:08

Yeah you're right about the date, I'm sure I heard the word Edwardian, which made me use that term.

And I'm entirely sure the docklands was ethnically mixed in 1814. Just not that ethnically mixed.

Saying that, Eastenders is amazingly white, given that the last non-hipster white person left the East End in about 2000. So that's balance of a kind, I guess.

Doesn't make this series of Doctor Who any better, mind.

[FourWheelDrift]

Fantasy creatures and situations are fine because they are fantasy and anything goes but changing real things to accommodate them annoys me. The Thames isn't deep enough now to have that big fish under it let alone when it was an open sewer, and how did it get through the arches of London Bridge at the end? New London Bridge which wasn't completed until 1831 is shown but old London Bridge was still in use in 1814 right next to it with even narrower arches. There were no other bridges across the Thames at London in 1814. Next one along was at Richmond.

[anonymous-user]

FourWheelDrift said:

Fantasy creatures and situations are fine because they are fantasy and anything goes but changing real things to accommodate them annoys me. The Thames isn't deep enough now to have that big fish under it let alone when it was an open sewer, and how did it get through the arches of London Bridge at the end? New London Bridge which wasn't completed until 1831 is shown but old London Bridge was still in use in 1814 right next to it with even narrower arches. There were no other bridges across the Thames at London in 1814. Next one along was at Richmond.

I can see you have put a fair bit of thought into this

[FourWheelDrift]

techiedave said:

I can see you have put a fair bit of thought into this

Only a bit of Google searching to find the painting I remember seeing of both bridges and the date of it.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Yeah you're right about the date, I'm sure I heard the word Edwardian, which made me use that term.

And I'm entirely sure the docklands was ethnically mixed in 1814. Just not that ethnically mixed.

Saying that, Eastenders is amazingly white, given that the last non-hipster white person left the East End in about 2000. So that's balance of a kind, I guess.

Doesn't make this series of Doctor Who any better, mind.

You might want to research "scientific racism" of the early 19th C.

Edited by Ginetta G15 Girl on Saturday 29th April 23:41

[Johnnytheboy]

Ok, I'll go down the library Tuesday.

Sad thing is I think Peter Capaldi is a great Doctor, but the rest of the series thus far is a real let down.

[Sparky137]

Johnnytheboy said:

Sad thing is I think Peter Capaldi is a great Doctor, but the rest of the series thus far is a real let down.

Agreed, let down by generally astonishingly bad writing. And unfortunately he will be remembered as a poor Doctor because of it.

[anonymous-user]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Yeah you're right about the date, I'm sure I heard the word Edwardian, which made me use that term.

And I'm entirely sure the docklands was ethnically mixed in 1814. Just not that ethnically mixed.

Saying that, Eastenders is amazingly white, given that the last non-hipster white person left the East End in about 2000. So that's balance of a kind, I guess.

Doesn't make this series of Doctor Who any better, mind.

You might want to research "scientific racism" of the early 19th C.

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 29th April 23:41

And the award for best edited post that's then repeated goes to........................................................

[Johnnytheboy]

techiedave said:

And the award for best edited post that's then repeated goes to........................................................

I was going to post my reply as a self quote, but I thought the classy thing to do was skate over it.