The Sound of Drums (2912/312)

[GateWorld]

DOCTOR WHO SERIES 29 THE SOUND OF DRUMS EPISODE NUMBER - 2912 Upon returning to Martha's home, she and the Doctor discover that the escaped evil Time Lord they are seeking is the one person they never suspected. VISIT THE EPISODE GUIDE >>

[Missster.Freeman]

WTH! I don't quite know what to make of this episode. It was definitely an eye opener that's for sure! I really enjoyed the ep, but there was something that felt a bit off at times. I can't quite put my finger on what it was though. Maybe it was the sight of Spectrum's Skybase floating in the clouds. Yeah. That was it. They nicked Skybase from Captain Scarlet. The rotters.

I liked the Doctor's backstory about Gallifrey and how the Master came to be. The explanation of Jack's involvement with Torchwood was good as well. Erm, I can't think of much more at the minute. Oh and there were couple of moments that had me laughing.

Let's see what part two brings...

edit: I went and missed most of the phone conversation between the Doctor and the Master. Bleh.

You weren't knitting a scarf by any chance, Reefgirl?

[The Signal]

Wow indeed, backstory for both The Master and the Time War itself, excellent stuff.

Overall: 8/10

[Madeleine]

If there's a bad thing about this episode, it's that I've never before had such a long run of eps for any individual show which have so impressed me that I have to give it massive props and kudos; normally I get at least a 'fine', 'meh' or 'grrr' ep every three or four, which conveniently proves to me that I'm not a slavish adulator of all things the show gives.

Oh soddit, paint me besotted fangirl then.

Jellybabies! Teletubbies! Ann Widdecombe! Oh my god they killed Jack! (who's now even more of a Kenny than Daniel ever was )

I think they trod a fine line with the wacky crazy Master. Not many actors could have managed it; Simms coped and more. He made sociopathic, psycopathic lunacy look like such FUN.

DT was on top form talking about Gallifrey and the Master, and I liked the flashbacks. (Nice to see one of those Time Lord headpieces again) Better still was his conversation with The Master. Touching on one side, such black comedy on the other.

The show does suit three heroes. Doctor and Martha is good, but +Jack is better. Same with Coctor and Rose plus Jack or -Ri- Mickey.

I liked the President. Any American person reading this, please tell me: when a yank calls someone an "ass", are they calling them a "donkey" or an "arse"? (it was a great line either way.)

Mrs Saxon... what luck for The Master to find someone with the same sort of murderous loopiness as him in only a few months on Earth.

That's the best Soundtrack I've ever heard for an End Of The World, too

[Admiral Mappalazarou]

I love that episode.

Wow seriously, amazing episode. Fantastic even. I loved the effect when the atmosphere of the Earth seemed to part and reveal a sort of hell dimension beneath. I just hope that Torchwood don't turn up next ep to save the day (god I hate Torchwood), and the Daleks better stay out of the climax too.

The flashback to Gallifrey was awesometastic. The Master was beautifully portrayed by John Simm (is that his the name? The guy from Life on Mars?), the cocky, cheeky parallel of the doctor only he's a complete pshyco. Just an awesome episode, and great cliff hanger.

I liked the music that played when Martha beamed off in the end (just like the music played in Doomsday when Rose becomes trapped on the parallel world).

What are those flying metal ball thingies anyway?

[Hulabaloo]

That episode was awesome. Truly awesome and now one of my faves. It had me on the edge of my seat. Truly amazing. Well done RTD.

[Reefgirl]

You weren't knitting a scarf by any chance, Reefgirl?

No a pair of socks, one of the first things I knitted down here on the South Coast was a scarf (I used to cycle to work and needed a long scarf) it got stretched longer over the years and became affectionaly known as my 'Dr Who scarf'

[BruTak]

Well blessed screaming Atremis on a Gods-damned wholewheat cracker! What a corker of an ep that was!

"What this country needs, right now - is a Doctor..."

The aircraft carrier Valiant (oh God, my mate Cap'n Dave of the Glasgow based Sci-Fi group USS Valiant is gonna be so smug) looked like a cross between Captain Scarlet's Cloudbase (or Skybase if you watch the CGI cartoon) and Nick Fury's SHIELD heli-carrier from Marvel Comics. Looked bloody cool though.

And the return of UNIT! Hurrah! *performs Dance of Joy with extra emphatic pointy finger gestures*

Loved the sly wee winks to the Third and Fourth Doctors. During the scene where the Master/Saxon is meeting the US President, his long coat is lined with red silk - much like the opera cape the Third Doctor wore occasionally. Then just prior to the President making the worldwide broadcast about the Toclafane (or however you spell it), the Master/Saxon offers his "wife" a jelly baby - a bag of which the Fourth Doctor used to carry about with him all the time.

I may just 'splode from the sheer excitement of it all.

[P-90_177]

WTH! I don't quite know what to make of this episode. It was definitely an eye opener that's for sure! I really enjoyed the ep, but there was something that felt a bit off at times. I can't quite put my finger on what it was though. Maybe it was the sight of Spectrum's Skybase floating in the clouds. Yeah. That was it. They nicked Skybase from Captain Scarlet. The rotters.

I liked the Doctor's backstory about Gallifrey and how the Master came to be. The explanation of Torchwood was good as well. Erm, I can't think of much more at the minute. Oh and there were couple of moments that had me laughing.

Let's see what part two brings...

edit: You weren't knitting a scarf by any chance, Reefgirl? I went and missed most of the phone conversation between the Doctor and the Master. Bleh.

You missed a really cool chunk then. that was a great moment. would have been better face to face though.

I loved the bit when they killed that journalist woman.

*open door* AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH
*Closes door. silence*
*opens door*
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

That's some sound proofing.

[in circles]

John Simm is awesome. The music at the end was not.

[P-90_177]

the two things that annoyed me and there are only tiny niggles are:

Cloud base valiant lol.

And the doctors ageing for various reasons.

First the seizure he had looked wrong.
the aged look seemed a bit over done and also:
Timelord regenerations should live longer than human beings yet when he was aged to 100 he looked 100.

[Missster.Freeman]

You missed a really cool chunk then. that was a great moment. would have been better face to face though.

I loved the bit when they killed that journalist woman.

*open door* AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH
*Closes door. silence*
*opens door*
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

That's some sound proofing.

Aye. That was it! It also made me think of Ace Ventura, oddly enough.

[cvife]

that was possibly the best episode of the new series so far, however there was one detail thatreally annoyed me, martha's brother was not in brighton, i come from brighton and that was not it, rant over

[Alipeeps]

Wow. Gripping ep. Is it next week yet, dammit?

I nearly cried when I saw what the Master had done to the TARDIS. How can that ever be fixed?! And I'm so hideously impatient to know what the Toclafane really are...

[Alipeeps]

Also... forgot to say: Actually getting Time Lord backstory... *seeing* Gallifrey!! Wow!!

that was possibly the best episode of the new series so far, however there was one detail thatreally annoyed me, martha's brother was not in brighton, i come from brighton and that was not it, rant over

That's the nature of television. Very few TV shows or films are shot in the actual locations mentioned in the film. The entire *show* is filmed in and around Cardiff...

[Darkstar 2.0]

Phew, I long for seeing a great load of old episodes, I'm young but haven't seen really any before the revival came.

Loved the episode, Not sure of the Toclafane tho, seem like a toy you'd buy for kids a Xmas, like the cybermen head unit lol!!

I wonder do the Toclafane do kids homework, anyway, this can't be the end of the human race on earth:

[1] We've all seen the human race in all it's glory far in the future abeit but in many numbers and hybrid races, it's strange that in all the Doctors mianderings through time, one would perhaps download from a central network or database all recent infomation to try and learn more about this era's culture, be that history, customs, currency, and what not to wear!

Having said that, my point is in all the journey's nowhere has it been said or hinted that the human race ever almost eneded in 2008, nor did the human race die off when Earth was blown away by the dying sun, they took to new Earth and succame to vanity which as we have seen killed the topsiders and saved the people below stuck.

P.S What exacly is inside the tardis, aside from the claokroom and the bridge for lack of a better word, I've never seen or heard of other rooms or places within the TARDIS before this thread!?

any info would be great

[BruTak]

P.S What exacly is inside the tardis, aside from the claokroom and the bridge for lack of a better word, I've never seen or heard of other rooms or places within the TARDIS before this thread!?

any info would be great

Well, since the TARDIS is dimensionally transcendental (try saying that when you've had a few pints...) it be more a question of what isn't inside it.

In the classic era, we saw various bedrooms for various companions (presumably with en suite facilities), a couple of laboratory/workroom areas, a secondary console room (all Victorian-style wood panelling), and the aforementioned Zero Room.

In the Flash Animated story Scream of the Shalka, the Doctor (voiced by Richard E. Grant) has a line of dialogue "You left the umbrella stand in the Zeppellin hanger - again...".
A Zeppellin is an airship in case you were wondering.

That's all I can think of from memory.

[Reefgirl]

P.S What exacly is inside the tardis, aside from the claokroom and the bridge for lack of a better word, I've never seen or heard of other rooms or places within the TARDIS before this thread!?

I do remember Tegan coming across a Walled Garden type thing when she was 'looking for the phone' in Logopolis and while searching for conformation I found this of the BBC's Dr Who site

The TARDIS cloisters are seen for the first time. The Cloister Bell is described as 'a sort of communication device reserved for wild catastrophes and sudden calls to man the battle stations'. The Doctor states that the TARDIS was in Gallifrey for repairs when he 'borrowed' her. ('There were rather pressing reasons at the time'.) There are references to the TARDIS' (faulty) chameleon circuit.

[Coco Pops]

In the Flash Animated story Scream of the Shalka, the Doctor (voiced by Richard E. Grant) has a line of dialogue "You left the umbrella stand in the Zeppellin hanger - again...".
A Zeppellin is an airship in case you were wondering.

Blimey... And where would you take the Zepellin. You can't fly it out o the TARDIS, though that might be interesting to see done... LOL

[TheBlueDragon]

Did anyone who watched the Doctor Who Episode 'The Sound of Drums' happen to notice how the city thing of the time lords on Galifrey looks a lot like Atlantis?

Or is it just me? lol