Saturnine Tenshi Posted November 16, 2012 Report Share Posted November 16, 2012 Yeah, she was from the Demon's Run episode. But when he recruited her I thought it was because she'd appeared in past episodes as the other recruits had and I'd somehow missed her. I thought she might have been covered in something somewhere. Even in one of the novelizations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2012 And now the trailer Killer snowmen! Given it's now midnight I'm beginning to wonder if there was going to be a Dr Who short on CiN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted November 19, 2012 Report Share Posted November 19, 2012 Would she not have been recruited from the episode where they have the mining and wake up the lizard dudes underground and someone stays behind and such? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnine Tenshi Posted November 19, 2012 Report Share Posted November 19, 2012 That's what I was thinking . . . I just don't know where the rest of it came from. Her "partner" and the setting she was recruited from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2012 That was set in 2020 though, not Victorian times.That's not the only group of silurians under the planet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Given the show occasionally features time travel appearing in 2020 and then later in Victorian times isn't exactly hard to achieve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Silurians, Victorians and Sontarans don't have time travel though. (It's also worth noting that group of Silurians was more than likely destroyed unexisted given there was a crack in their base) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 No, but they all seem rather chummy with the Doc. Maybe he transported them there, or something wibbly wobbly happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Crack in the 2020 base + it being in his time line means he can't go back to go pick em up. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that Silurian is from another base, they were a dominate species, they're all around the earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excel_excel Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Was back at my folks home today and watched 2 episodes of Doctor Who from Season 5. Vincent and the Doctor, and The Lodger. The Vincent episode was near perfect, and that ending had me crying. So good. I'm like nearly at the end of the first season and nothing I've seen comes close to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 A teaser of new TARDIS interior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=vEJNzJqMtjg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 I like her already. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012q4yl So, turns out she was woken up during London Underground excavations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 Funny that it's the lesbian couple that bothers him more than the alien and prior earth race. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Ummm. That's the joke? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Well it's a joke. Not sure it's the joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 There's a new TARDIS console. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Very retro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Only four more days. Also you can see the Silurian slowly cracking up past each song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 And suddenly these end up on the shelves of your local comic book shop.So, the Christmas Special, eh? Reveal hidden contents I rather enjoyed it, though it was clear the focus was on the new stuff than the enemies. New stuff being the new opening, which I'm quite fond of. The new TARDIS, which is harking back to the olden days, but I still quite like the brass one and feel that could have gotten more use out of it within the show. New TARDIS is much smaller and barer, I've a feeling real world reasonings on this.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKy3kZPBt90 There's a lot more galifreyian writing around this one too. I guess Moffat has noticed the fans quite like it(there's even sites online you can get your name done in galifrayen n such. Seems "whovians" are trying to turn it into the next "I know klingon".)And a new companion, who obviously has some qualities of Rory in the whole "dies every time" and the qualities of Amy in the whole "is special to the universe". Sure the Doctor has never met anyone who isn't important, but he's got a knack of bumping into people who are very important. I kinda like the Rose and Donna in the "random person, through future events becomes temporarily important (aka Badwold/Doctor-Donna)" than the "starts of important, so Doctor drags them along until he can work out why and then they become less good after that is solved" of Amy and seemingly with Oswin too. Probably a good guess she's related to the "Doctor who?" in the same way Amy was related to Pandorica.As for the episode itself, worked quite well. Loved Strax (helped by the stuff heading up to it), the "It's smaller on the outside" was an alright twist to the usual remark. I didn't quite understand what the bad guy was though, it seemed to imply it was Richard E Grant near the end (as in he'd made a sort of invisible friend, which grew up as he did and sort of became it's own separate thing), but then it turned out not to be, so..errm. Yeah. But still, it's a Christmas Special, and with a new companion. The bad guys don't matter so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 This was a pretty good Christmas Special, although I found myself... Reveal hidden contents getting a bit bored when the focus shifted from the girl (when she died) to the talking snow that I'm still kinda fuzzy about. It just seems weird. One minute they're talking about what the snow is, and then the memory worm sucks the, uh, memory (and life!) out of the old man, and then boom cold zombie. And then it rains and it solves everything. I understand their explanation, though that part is really weak compared to the first part: Souffle girl's introduction, and her discovery of the TARDIS, and the Doctor's discovery that she's souffle girl while they're in the tardis. Also, Madame Vastra and Jenny were there, I know the fans loved them in Demon's run but I don't think their appearance here is what the fans wanted from them. They're really boring here, IMO. Strax is cool. As well as bow ties. The fish is still my favorite Christmas episode. But this is good too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted December 30, 2012 Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 I only just got around to watching the Christmas episode. I thought it was pretty dire. I like the new girl, didn't like anything else about it. I was really bored and the whole thing felt stale and uninspired. I even felt bored with Matt Smith and that meat-headed sidekick of his was pretty annoying. It didn't help that I'm not a fan of Richard E. Grant either. Pretty glad I didn't watch it at Christmas, as it would have been a right downer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted January 6, 2013 Report Share Posted January 6, 2013 Billy Piper? Looks like her but I think it's a little unlikely, wouldn't something have leaked? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted January 6, 2013 Report Share Posted January 6, 2013 she flat out denied she has anything to do with the 50th anniversary hoopla when she was on the Graham Norton show on Friday. Of course that could just be to make it a surprise but she seemed genuine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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