Doctor Who!!~
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Ryushikaze
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I can. He's at least 1200. Probably older.
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Matt Smith has expressed interest in having Peter Jackson direct an episode of Doctor Who in New Zealand. Jackson replied that he is a huge fan of the show and would love to do it.
Guys I really hope this happens.
Guys I really hope this happens.
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Harbinger O Great Justice
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Man... those Christmas and lightbulb references have me properly terrified. I'll be keeping a watch for them _VERY_ closely on Saturday during The Power of Three. Thanks for sharing.
Also, the possibility of Peter Jackson + Doctor Who almost made me pass out with excitement.
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Also, the possibility of Peter Jackson + Doctor Who almost made me pass out with excitement.
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Mantichorus
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Might be old news for some, but Steven Moffat speaks on Doctor Who movie.
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So, evidently, regarding that crackpot theory I brought up earlier,
apparently there was a fob watch by Rory and Amy's bedside in, I'm assuming, "The Power of Three". I didn't notice this, but now I'm tempted to go back and watch the episode again. Anybody else notice it?
CameoAmalthea
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I like this thread.
Also, that moment when you realize in the alternate universe the DoctorDonna lives with Rose, and Jack and Ianto may also be alive in this uniform. Meaning your OT4 happy ending is still possible somewhere...
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Also, that moment when you realize in the alternate universe the DoctorDonna lives with Rose, and Jack and Ianto may also be alive in this uniform. Meaning your OT4 happy ending is still possible somewhere...
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Tennyo
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Okay, so I know that I am WAY behind the rest of you, but I need to air out all of these Doctor Who feelings as I go along.
I just watched "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit." Holy shit were they intense. I don't really know what it is about these two episodes, but dang that was one hell of a roller coaster ride. So many squee fangirly feelings, and INTENSE drama. My emotions are shotbut maybe I feel this way because of more physical womanly reasons. 
*exhales deeply*
I just watched "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit." Holy shit were they intense. I don't really know what it is about these two episodes, but dang that was one hell of a roller coaster ride. So many squee fangirly feelings, and INTENSE drama. My emotions are shot
I mean, "The Impossible Planet" was okay for the most part. Lots of Doctor/Rose shipper feels, especially how they were talking about where they would live if the Tardis was gone and they were trapped. Rose joking about having to get a mortgage and then feebly suggesting that they could just maybe sort of live together and that being stuck with the Doctor wasn't such a bad thing was just plain flipping adorable.
Not to mention also how he held her after she said, "Yeah, you can start worrying about me," was just, ugh... *flails*
But to get beyond that, the second part, "The Satan Pit," was just...I don't even know. I almost feel like that episode sucked all of the life out of me. I mean, it was suspenseful enough, everyone on the base trying to escape from the ood and all. It was nice how Rose took charge and kept everyone in line. She was pretty much the reason why they all lived.
The Doctor, however, had some very powerful moments. The way he kept talking about that feeling at the back of their minds to jump into the pit gave me shivers. Not to mention his conversation with Satan/the ood while in the capsule was a very nice touch, especially with how he was telling them all not to listen.
But I think the one part that really got me was when he was dangling from the wire in the pit trying to decide whether or not he should let himself fall. His conversation about faith with Ida was good, but when he said, "If you talk to Rose, tell her...tell her...oh she knows," right as he unclips himself was quite intense. When he fell into the darkness out of view I felt like all of the air got sucked out of my lungs.
And just so that I can end on a happy note for good measure the Doctor and Rose's hug on the Tardis gave me all the feels.
I don't know if that really makes me feel any better. These episodes have me feeling a bit freaked out. It's completely irrational, I know, but Satanic stuff always makes me feel a bit freaked out. But in the end they were GOOD. So good. Very powerful, as I said before. It's a good thing I don't work until 1pm tomorrow. I'm not getting much sleep tonight.
Not to mention also how he held her after she said, "Yeah, you can start worrying about me," was just, ugh... *flails*
But to get beyond that, the second part, "The Satan Pit," was just...I don't even know. I almost feel like that episode sucked all of the life out of me. I mean, it was suspenseful enough, everyone on the base trying to escape from the ood and all. It was nice how Rose took charge and kept everyone in line. She was pretty much the reason why they all lived.
The Doctor, however, had some very powerful moments. The way he kept talking about that feeling at the back of their minds to jump into the pit gave me shivers. Not to mention his conversation with Satan/the ood while in the capsule was a very nice touch, especially with how he was telling them all not to listen.
But I think the one part that really got me was when he was dangling from the wire in the pit trying to decide whether or not he should let himself fall. His conversation about faith with Ida was good, but when he said, "If you talk to Rose, tell her...tell her...oh she knows," right as he unclips himself was quite intense. When he fell into the darkness out of view I felt like all of the air got sucked out of my lungs.
And just so that I can end on a happy note for good measure the Doctor and Rose's hug on the Tardis gave me all the feels.
I don't know if that really makes me feel any better. These episodes have me feeling a bit freaked out. It's completely irrational, I know, but Satanic stuff always makes me feel a bit freaked out. But in the end they were GOOD. So good. Very powerful, as I said before. It's a good thing I don't work until 1pm tomorrow. I'm not getting much sleep tonight.
*exhales deeply*
Mantichorus
"I've seen enough."
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- Kris; Mantichorus; Sam Vimes; Neku Sakuraba; Koki Kariya; Hazama; CuChulainn; Yu Narukami; Mewtwo; Rival Silver; Suicune; Kanata; Professor Oak; The Brigadier; VIII; The Engineer
If it makes you feel better Tenny,
the official name of that enemy is just "the Beast". 
Scant consolation, I know. Especially as the Jack Harkness centred spin-off Torchwood reveals there's a "baby" of the same species on Earth.
Back in the classic Who era, the actor who voiced him also voiced a Fourth Doctor villain called Sutekh, who was explicitly the inspiration for Set/Seth of Egyptian mythology (down to having the head of a Typhonic Beast). The serial in question was called Pyramids of Mars.
Scant consolation, I know. Especially as the Jack Harkness centred spin-off Torchwood reveals there's a "baby" of the same species on Earth.Back in the classic Who era, the actor who voiced him also voiced a Fourth Doctor villain called Sutekh, who was explicitly the inspiration for Set/Seth of Egyptian mythology (down to having the head of a Typhonic Beast). The serial in question was called Pyramids of Mars.
Of course, some of the things that the Doctor outright derides about the Beast - being a supernatural evil, existing before time - contradicts parts of classic continuity, specifically the Seventh Doctor.
In Battlefield, an alternative Arthurian universe breaches into Who!Earth's. The Doctor describes it as a universe where magic was the prevalent science (mentioning Clarke's Third Law - "any sufficiently advanced form of technology is indistinguishable from magic" - before saying that the reverse is also true). The Doctor is stated to one day become Merlin, and Morgaine summons the Destroyer, a self-proclaimed demon.
More specifically, there's The Curse of Fenric. The titular Fenric is referred to by the Doctor as a consciousness of pure evil that existed before the Big Bang. "EVIL! Evil since the dawn of time!" (It's mentioned in the episode that Fenric is just a name allocated to this evil - "evil needs no name" - and in the novelisation, the Doctor allows that referring to Fenric as evil is a generalisation, before describing it as "out of balance").
Make up your mind, Professor.
My headcanon for this is that during the Last Great Time War, either these entities fled from what the Time Lords and Daleks were doing, or they were chased out. A TL;DR line from a fic I've considered writing about this idea:
"They looked upon the Oncoming Storm, and fled in terror."
In Battlefield, an alternative Arthurian universe breaches into Who!Earth's. The Doctor describes it as a universe where magic was the prevalent science (mentioning Clarke's Third Law - "any sufficiently advanced form of technology is indistinguishable from magic" - before saying that the reverse is also true). The Doctor is stated to one day become Merlin, and Morgaine summons the Destroyer, a self-proclaimed demon.
More specifically, there's The Curse of Fenric. The titular Fenric is referred to by the Doctor as a consciousness of pure evil that existed before the Big Bang. "EVIL! Evil since the dawn of time!" (It's mentioned in the episode that Fenric is just a name allocated to this evil - "evil needs no name" - and in the novelisation, the Doctor allows that referring to Fenric as evil is a generalisation, before describing it as "out of balance").
Make up your mind, Professor.
My headcanon for this is that during the Last Great Time War, either these entities fled from what the Time Lords and Daleks were doing, or they were chased out. A TL;DR line from a fic I've considered writing about this idea:"They looked upon the Oncoming Storm, and fled in terror."
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Official response to Jackson's statement about how he'd like to direct an episode:
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Dawnbreaker
~The Other Side of Fear~
When's the next episode...or did I miss the season finale? I'm so bad at keeping track at TV shows. :/
Dawnbreaker
~The Other Side of Fear~
Ah, fuck I have a D&D game scheduled Saturday. Yay for recording (I think we have the same schedule)!