Doctor Who Season 6

[jor-el]

Rory waited almost two thousand years for Amy. And once he knew he was a father...

[jor-el]

Night Terrors. Not going very far mythos wise. Think the next epyy should be better.

[sigboy40]

Night Terrors didnt do too much for me. I was hoping in the beginning for something as scary as 'Blink', so you can understand how dissapointed I was.

I still don't completely understand the whole 'Mels' thing. All I can think is that they want to show River as twisted as possible, but why would she get placed in that position to be around her parents while growing up? Can a Time Lord regenerate into a child?

[Fletch]

I may be wrong in this, but I thought Ramona (wouldyoulikeajellybaby?) chose her physical form via regeneration?

If so, it's entirely possible that 'you never know what you're gonna get'

[LowKey]

I may be wrong in this, but I thought Ramona (wouldyoulikeajellybaby?) chose her physical form via regeneration?

If so, it's entirely possible that 'you never know what you're gonna get'

IIRC, they can control it to a certain extent....

A planned regeneration would be one thing, a regeneration "on the fly" might be another.
It could also vary from one individual to another, some having more control over the process.
It could also be that after 906 years the Doctor doesn't really care enough about his appearance to try and shape the change and/or that the Doctor has gone through his regenerations so quickly that he really hasn't had time to shape the image he wants for his next self prior to regeneration.
Think about it....Time Lords can apparently live for thousands of years (the doctors 1st regeneration/incarnation took him to 900ish years old. That puts a Time Lords lifespan (barring accidents and other causes of premature regeneration) into the 11,000 to 12,000 range.
Our Doctor has run through regenerations 2 through 10 in less than 1/18th the duration of his first....not an unreasonable assumption that he's not expected to regenerate so soon and with the press of other things (stopping alien invasions, saving whole species, preventing the end of the universe and reality) he hasn't done whatever preparations for his next regeneration...kinda like putting off drafting your will when you're 20.

I would be interested to see how they might work in a "Watcher"* type character/figure in the future, and I'm still trying to guess how they'll justify/explain rebooting his regeneration cycle when he hits his 13th....I don't think the BBC is going to let the show die off in the next 5 years.




*Tom Baker to Peter-Davidson regeneration, "Logopolis" IIRC.

[Fletch]

you know, I watched every single available episode of dr who a few months back and the sheer amount of stuff that happens made me forget a lot - anyway, I reckon that the theory regarding a rushed versus planned regeneration is probably the more likely reason, as you mentioned.

[jor-el]

As you've seen in the first half of the season, and in much of the series, a lot of these "one-off" adventures are in fact plot setups for the big blowup episodes. Like the pirate adventure that resulted in a pirate crew that learned how to operate a starship on the fly. I'm still trying to grok Madame Vostra and Jenny, who are about to become canon, if the fanfiction is any indication. A Sontaran with... mammary glands.

Now how to fit a child with reality-altering powers into the mix? No, that would be too obvious and you'd be a cad to suggest George become that.

[Fletch]

Tonights episode had an interesting few lines about the possibilities of changing the past, a set-up for the doctor escaping death maybe...

[CaptBrainFreeze]

I thought the last episode was by far one of the worst I have ever seen. I stomached 38 mins of it and was finished. I despise companion heavy episodes.

[jor-el]

"The God Complex"

He helped a Minotaur to stop eating people's faith?

And next week he quits the Time Lord business to run a Toy shop in 21st century England?

[sigboy40]

i'm going to derail for a moment...........

Thanks to the miracle of DVR's, I'm getting to know Miss Donna Noble for the first time. I dont know how I missed a whole season, but I did. But, that itsnt what I'm writing about. This morning I watched Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, where we get to meet River for the first time. So they have had her chatracter arc planned out for at least three years. She had the book, everything. It was marvelously played, and it was like the River we already knew. I was flatly amazed. It's wierd seeing her ending in the beginning, I kind of like how it ended up, she earned forgiveness for all her sins, and while still in a sort of prison, she ended on a good note.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1208129/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205440/

[Fletch]

Who wants to bet that somehow this all gets reversed/nulled?

The previews for the next episode looked EPIC but, somehow I don't think they're gonna perma-kill the doc

[sigboy40]

I'm pretty sure the shoes are key.

[Ableto]

i'm going to derail for a moment...........

Thanks to the miracle of DVR's, I'm getting to know Miss Donna Noble for the first time. I dont know how I missed a whole season, but I did. But, that itsnt what I'm writing about. This morning I watched Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, where we get to meet River for the first time. So they have had her chatracter arc planned out for at least three years. She had the book, everything. It was marvelously played, and it was like the River we already knew. I was flatly amazed. It's wierd seeing her ending in the beginning, I kind of like how it ended up, she earned forgiveness for all her sins, and while still in a sort of prison, she ended on a good note.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1208129/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205440/

When you watched those episodes, did you notice her diary, the color and the pattern on the book. I would like to tell you more, but....Spoilers.

[Ableto]

I have a question for the others here. Is it me or have the last few episodes feel like they where rushed and missing some things. To me it just felt like they where thrown into a situation where it just ended kinda stunted or like the ending didnt plan out like the producer/writer wanted. i really hope it changes in the next episodes/season.

[jor-el]

I'm not as thrilled about the stories lately myself.

[LowKey]

I've just had an epiphany!

That eye patch we've seen on the villainous woman who seems to have been in charge of abducting Amy, stealing baby River, ect.....
...with an apparently identical one being worn by River in the preview...and a quick glimpse of an eye patch on a yet unidentified male character in the preview...

Three eye-patches? All on the persons right eye?
Seems far to coincidental.
I'm going to hazard a guess that there is an image of one of "The Silence" on the inside surface of the eye patch......thus keeping them in view at all times and preventing memory loss.
Either that or it's a right/left brain thing and by blocking the optical nerve to the left side of the brain prevents "The Silence" from wiping themselves out of your memory.

Ha!

[CaptBrainFreeze]

I dunno, they've wriiten themselves into a paradox and I'm hard pressed to see an explanation that will make do.

Yea, my opinion is watch the shoes as well.

[Fletch]

The pattern of these cliffhanger series endings is bugging the crap out of me, they're basically doing a 'LOST'

How so, I hear you ask?

Lots of random storylines, which I have no doubt will culminate in an ending that points at the viewer and says 'We gave you lots of hints! you are clearly too stupid to work out what we did!'

When in reality all they seem to be doing is pinning random stories together with an incredibly tenuous (yet again) series of 'clues' in the hope that we, the viewers won't realise how bloody slap-dash and shoddy the show is becoming.

I appreciate that the doctor is famous for pulling a solution to a problem out of his butt at the last minute, but it's starting to get a bit bloody old now, and WE KNOW HE GETS PEOPLE KILLED! LESS ANGST PLEASE - THIS IS NOT STARGATE UNIVERSE!

(I probably am making as much sense as a chicken teaching quantum physics)

[jor-el]

Figured the android chameleon ship would figure into the end.

Amelia Pond's character now makes perfect sense.

[jor-el]

Now I'm 100% certain it IS Genesis of the Time Lords.

After all, River spends her days protected (though not very well) in a maximum security prison. Her nights, are with him .

[sigboy40]

If it really is the genesis of the time lords, does that make him the first and last?

But I still don't see how this clears up Amy, I see how this clears up river, she really isn't in prison, she stays there because she is safe.

[LowKey]

I just had the time to watch the episode.

First I'd like to say HA! I was right about the eyepatch

I'm actually kinda glad at how the episode played out. It had some hokeyness to it, but it's (hopefully) made a well needed reset to the Doctor storyline trends.

The Doctor has almost always (+90% of the time) been a behind the scenes mysterious figure who wanders about time getting lost and the episodes we see are the more interesting and eventful parts of his life. We don't see the uneventful days laying on an alien beach, or the weeks spent walking through safe and peaceful fungus forests on some far away world when the universe was young....we just see the days that set a persons pulse racing.

Since the reboot the writers have played a game of one-up's manship, with bigger stakes for each cycle of episodes.
Where would it end? Declare the Doctor to be Emperor and Protector of all time and space?

Episodes like "Closing Time" are al lot closer to the types of stories the first 7 doctors were involved in. On the occasions that they were caught up in an epic quest to save the universe they were quiet about it.
It's episodes like Pandorica Opens that are off key for me. Don't mistake me, I love the excitement and grandstanding...30ish years ago I started watching Dr Who in the Baker years and I've managed to see about all of the series, and watching the Doctor throw around some of the weight he's accumulated over the centuries is a blast.
Problem is that you can't keep that pace up forever.

[mr_slappy75]

Problem is that you can't keep that pace up forever.

Judging by the Doctor's parting shot to Dorium a.k.a 'blue head in a box', he seems to agree with you -and I paraphrase-
"I got too big, too many people know about me. Time to step back, time for me to go back into the shadows"