What Doctor Who episode did you watch today?

[Billz]

I haven't watched the episode again since it was broadcast, but I was reading a Doctor Who thread on another forum I visit, and someone brought up something rather parculiar (sp? ) from "The Big Bang".

There is also a screencap. If you look to the left of the picture, behind the standing mummy casket, you can see a figure in a black robe. I have a few speculations as to who or what this could be.

1. The Trickster
2. One of the robot santas
3. Omega
4. Production error

What do you all think?

[DigiFluid]

I'm assuming you mean right side of the picture... It's not a figure, it's the shadow from the standing mummy casket

[Billz]

I'm assuming you mean right side of the picture... It's not a figure, it's the shadow from the standing mummy casket

Shadows don't stand detached from walls.
It's defintely a person. Question is, who?

[DigiFluid]

I still think it's a trick of lighting, and just a shadow

[Alan]

I think its a display stand for the sarcophagus.

[DigiFluid]

12.01 Robot

Well, but the end of part 1 I was sold on Tom Baker already While I thoroughly enjoyed the long and awkward regeneration of Jon Pertwee's Doctor, it was fun to see Tom Baker come back as a bit manic almost immediately I also really liked how thos one picked up RIGHT from where the previous story ended, even with a bit of overlap. Nice continuity there, and a great excuse to involve the Brigadier and Benton in the first story of a new Doctor.

As for the robot story itself....a bit ho-hum, to be honest. The whole thing was really carried by the wonderfully Looney Tunes performance of Tom Baker.

[Col.Foley]

Boom Town

Bad Wolf.

The Doctor was onto you you big bad Wolf

[Promethius30]

Shadows don't stand detached from walls.
It's defintely a person. Question is, who?
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...MYSTERIOUS.jpg

Its looks like the back of the sarcophagus is open.

I have today got round to watching the big bang after my holidays. A great episode can't wait for the return.
I have to admit i was disappointed with the start of the season but the last two episodes has convinced me that this Dr will be a good one.

[Col.Foley]

The Parting of the Ways

So the Daleks commited Genocide, attempted to meld human and Dalek DNA, killed his own race, attempted to destroy all the universe, and is generally the most evil beings in the universe and when they find they find Religion then and only then do they become Insane ...Season One was so subpar.

Good though, good episode.

[mr_kennedy]

The Parting of the Ways

So the Daleks commited Genocide, attempted to meld human and Dalek DNA, killed his own race, attempted to destroy all the universe, and is generally the most evil beings in the universe and when they find they find Religion then and only then do they become Insane ...Season One was so subpar.

Good though, good episode.

[DigiFluid]

The Parting of the Ways

So the Daleks commited Genocide, attempted to meld human and Dalek DNA, killed his own race, attempted to destroy all the universe, and is generally the most evil beings in the universe and when they find they find Religion then and only then do they become Insane

Sounds about right to me

...Season One was so subpar.

I dunno....I thought it brought some great stuff to the table. I really enjoyed The End of the World, Dalek, Father's Day, The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances and Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways. 7/13 is actually a pretty decent ratio





12.02 The Ark in Space
More of Tom Baker being amazing, and the first of the Doctor really showing his absolute fascination with human beings. And a trip to the distant future, to boot!

[DigiFluid]

12.03 The Sontaran Experiment

A fun little jaunt, and oddly short. I had to LOL a little at Sarah's bright yellow outfit, was she expecting torrential rain? I very much enjoy that this one was shot entirely on-location, you don't see that too often in Doctor Who. But it gave a much more 'real' feel to the long-since abandoned and uninhabited Earth.

Actually come to think of it, there's really a lot of neat stuff happening in this rather short story. There's the abandoned Earth, having begun to once again sprout life; which I find incredibly optimistic and uplifting in its resilience. And then there's the whole thing about Nerva having passed into legend, which is very very believable given that it's been 10,000 years since the human exodus from Earth. Neat stuff.

Oh and hey, Sontarans again! I love those guys! A race of military strategists is something pretty damn cool in my books, and establishing the Sontaran expedition here as cataloguing humans in a military context is also neat. In a chilling sort of a way, I mean. I wonder if the writer of this story deliberately intended them to be an allegory for the medical experimentation that Nazis did to human beings?

[Alan]

Watched Amy's Choice and Chapter 2 of The Trial of a Time Lord - Mindwarp.

[DigiFluid]

12.04 Genesis of the Daleks

A very interesting story. I think it's awesome that Terry Nation took the evil creatures invented in the first year of Doctor Who, and now 12 years later was able to do a distant origins story for the Dalek race as a whole. Very consistent in how the Kaleds, the distant humanoid ancestors of the Daleks, are so aggressive and Nazi-ish in a nod to the creatures they would mutate into in the future.

While I do find all that really nice, I think they might've gone just a touch overboard with it at times. The Kaled officer carrying a Luger (on a distant alien world!), the troops in jackboots, and their leader being a Goebbels-looking fellow in glasses and wearing an Iron Cross medal....well. Like I said, a bit much

Another thing I'm not terribly fond of so far this season is Harry as the new companion. It's not that there's anything wrong with him per se, he's a likeable enough character that I'm sure I'll be disappointed to see leave so soon into the next season. My gripe is that this year the show's writers seem to have lost the ability to effectively balance companions. Sarah's screen time is really suffering as a result of Harry's introduction.

To flip back over to positives....Thals! I love seeing the Thals. I don't know what it is about them, but as a race they totally fascinate me. And in what I think is an excellent nod to all the previous Dalek stories, here again the Thals are the survivors despite the best efforts of the Daleks

And hey, Davros! Inventing the Daleks we're so familiar with! Awesome! I love how he's such a disgustingly mutated creature, and that his voice is so similar to the voice synthesizer that the Daleks would end up with later on. Great continuity. Makes me sad that Terry Nation isn't still around these days to handle Dalek stories in the current series.




edit; and another thing....Tom Baker is hilarious. I don't just mean his Doctor, I've been watching the bonus stuff on the DVDs and even as an older guy he still makes me laugh. I especially liked in one of the bonus features on this one that he says that 'most things in TV are nicked from somewhere else, but in TV it's not called plagiarism, it's called homage'

[DigiFluid]

12.05 Revenge of the Cybermen

Ehh....I was a bit underwhelmed by this after Genesis of the Daleks. Just wasn't a terribly compelling Cybermen story in my books.