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Did they ever explain why the dinosaur was so big?
Did they ever explain why the dinosaur was so big?
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It wasn't. It was just close up.Comment
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Or the Houses of Parliament were a long way away?Comment
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But there were long shots of it towering over buildings. And of course it had a police call box in its throat. T-Rexes weren't that big.Comment
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Ahhh, pesky details. Errrr, it was an extraterrestrial beast, as opposed to an Earth dinosaur? Oh all right. It was too big.Comment
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(Sighs. Rolls eyes and grins ruefully in a 'oh, those crazy guys, whudamigonnadowivem' kind of way)Comment
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I thought that too, she's storing up the colossal amount of foes the Doctor's killed, directly or indirectly, for a big ol' vengeance spree at the end of the series.jason voorhees wrote: Rogin - I was going to say The Rani.
As ever, I liked it. It's a family show, not high art. If you don't like the elephants, the clowns will be along in a minute. Most of the old stuff was crap as well, it's just we don't have access to it all to remember how crap it was, or we've deliberately forgotten it.
Also, Strax is brilliant. "Melt him with acid." Made me laugh.Comment
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That's basically what I was wondering. The episode was so hectic that I thought I might have missed a throwaway line about it being alien (despite being apparently terrestrial in everything but size). But then there was that thing about the baddy knowing that dinosaurs would have a certain type of tissue because he was so old, which would seem to rule it out.Ahhh, pesky details. Errrr, it was an extraterrestrial beast, as opposed to an Earth dinosaur?Comment
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Strax is the best character in it. His inability to distinguish boys from girls is a genius bit of comic writing. Although it's as well they didn't get Jimmy Savile to play him.Comment
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I've got a feeling quite a few people are really not going to like this week's episode. It sounds like 'Honey I've Shrunk the Doctor'...Comment
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It was a bit crap. But then I've always found the Daleks boring.Rogin the Armchair Fan wrote: I've got a feeling quite a few people are really not going to like this week's episode. It sounds like 'Honey I've Shrunk the Doctor'...Comment
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See, I'm the opposite. I like the Daleks stories best.
I found this episode a bit boring. It was OK, but a bit Meh. They've done the comparison of the Doctor to the Daleks before.
Also, how does one Dalek take out an entire squad of Daleks?Comment
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I got the impression that the renegade Dalek would rather change the other Daleks, like the renegade Borg, Hugh, in ST:TNG, who then turned up in a later episode with a whole battalion of Borg "on the turn"Jongudmund wrote:
Also, how does one Dalek take out an entire squad of Daleks?
And talking about Doctor Who "borrowing" from other sci-fi (the Master's ring being taken - a lift from Flash Gordon, did anyone notice the lifts from Star Wars: A New Hope? The cess-pit scene, and (a bit more subtle) the opening with the stormtroopers entering the rebel alliance ship/ and the Daleks cutting through the door.
I've watched too much sci-fi in 45 years.Comment
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The motion tracker sensor the soldier was holding was straight out of Aliens , too.
"Missy" seems to be accumulating a collection of people whose death can be blamed on the Doctor.Comment
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According to last week's Radio Times, the last two episodes concern the "Nethersphere" and apparently "Death is not an end, promises the sinister organisation known only as 3W", whatever that means.Comment
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I love the fact that, somewhere in England, there are people still buying and reading the Radio Times. That in itself would be worthy of a Doctor Who episode.Comment
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I'm glad they got the dalek episode out the way quickly. They're always without exception dull as shit.Comment
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Judging by the empty shelves at Sainsbury's, perhaps not.Rogin the Armchair Fan wrote: I love the fact that, somewhere in England, there are people still buying and reading the Radio Times. That in itself would be worthy of a Doctor Who episode.
Dalek episode:
Idiots have captured a Dalek/trusted a Trojan Horse.
The Doctor arrives, issues dire warnings, is ignored.
Dalek goes bad/escapes.
Summons fellows.
Many people dressed in black SWAT gear shoot ineffectually at Daleks with guns (bullets or lasers, neither seems to do much good).
DEEEEAAATH /Grampa Simpson.
All is lost, prepare for a last stand.
The Doctor; deus ex machina.
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Cod philosophical musings on nature of evil.
Exit Tardis.
Light hearted bantz.
Roll credits.Comment
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On the good side, the Daleks have got rid of the VW designed bright coloured ones, and returned to their Bad Wolf design.
Perhaps there are different trends and cults amongst Daleks (not just the Cult of Skaro) , and somehwere there is a Dalek bar with all the ones who bought the bright coloured ones from a couple of years ago, feeling sad, everyone has gone retro now.
You can almost imagine the sledging in a Skaro mall, of some young goth Dalek , laughing at a Brady Bunch style sliding by.
Well, at least a forum, bemoaning the state of Dalek clothing today.
Also on the good side no dynamic trio were involved.Comment
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I quite liked the World War II Daleks in camo with the Union Flag discreetly emblazoned on them, from a couple of seasons ago.
But then at the end of that episode we had the horrors of the multi-coloured Daleks.
It was like we couldn't have cool Daleks on their own. We had to have flashy awful ones as well.Comment
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No, I meant the one Dalek on the spaceship decided he would be good after all and went on a rampage shooting up all the invasion squad of Daleks.Serge Gainsbourg wrote:I got the impression that the renegade Dalek would rather change the other Daleks, like the renegade Borg, Hugh, in ST:TNG, who then turned up in a later episode with a whole battalion of Borg "on the turn"Originally posted by Jongudmund
And talking about Doctor Who "borrowing" from other sci-fi (the Master's ring being taken - a lift from Flash Gordon, did anyone notice the lifts from Star Wars: A New Hope? The cess-pit scene, and (a bit more subtle) the opening with the stormtroopers entering the rebel alliance ship/ and the Daleks cutting through the door.
I've watched too much sci-fi in 45 years.
And yes to the heavy borrowing from Star Wars.
One scene that was incredibly callous was the Doctor giving something to a soldier who thought it would save his life, but which was actually a tracking device so the doctor and companions could follow his remains. The poor guy swallows it and then gets zapped by the Dalek antibodies and when the Doctor is asked about it, he says "He was dead anyway." Then when they land in the place where zapped bodily remains go he jokes that you could pay your respects to the deceased who is now the 'top layer' of the garbage pool. Lovely.
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Have they ever explained why Dalek weapons are so good at blowing each other up but human weapons are rubbish? After all these invasions and captured and destroyed Daleks, have they never reverse engineered the technology?Comment
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Lots of Dalek racism on this thread. Blinding hatred of every living thing in the Universe is colour blind! Shame on you all!Comment
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Yes I admit I preferred the British Daleks from the World War Two episode more, rather than these Daleks from foreign planets like Skaro, landing down here, exterminating people like they own the place.Comment
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They reminded me of Union Jack Jackson from "Warlord".Jongudmund wrote: I quite liked the World War II Daleks in camo with the Union Flag discreetly emblazoned on them, from a couple of seasons ago.
http://www.comicvine.com/union-jack-jackson/4005-73416/Comment
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