Doctor Who Discussion (All Forms, Spin-Off Series Welcome)

[Elemental_Elf]

Their methods are similar (hypnosis, images of the race utilizing racial powers, possession of "super powers" (speed, lightening, etc.)) but they differ in motive (one wishes to feast, the other dominate).

[Ninja D!]

I'd also argue that the real danger of the Silence is while you're looking at them. That's when they are able to plant the ideas in your mind. Of course, that danger doesn't really show itself until you look away and you have ideas in your had with no idea where they came from.

[Ninja D!]

This morning I finished devouring all of the extra content on the series 5 bluray set and the Christmas special bluray. I guess that with the interviews I've watched and read online must make me a semi-expert on Steven Moffat / Matt Smith Doctor Who. It has also made me VERY sick of Karen Gillan. I don't mind Amy Pond but Karen Gillan annoys me a bit.

[Elemental_Elf]

I watched an episode of Graham Norton where she was a guest... Yeah she can be very annoying and weird.

[LD]

Hm. Dr. Who. I don't know if this was mentioned yet:
http://comics.shipsinker.com/?id=16

But a 272 page fan comic on the Ten Doctors; done by the fellow who does Yet another Fantasy Gamer Comic.

[Ninja D!]

Cool, thanks for sharing.

[Elemental_Elf]

That was pretty funny. Makes me wish I could get a hold of the older Dr. Who episodes.

[Ninja D!]

They're around, if you look. There are VHS releases for all or most of the complete stories and the DVD releases are catching up. For the incomplete stories, you can find some things online.

[Steerpike]

What'd everyone think of the Gaiman episode?

[Ninja D!]

I think it was the most original episode of the entire new series. At the beginning, I thought I wasn't going to like it. In the end, I was please with it.

[Elemental_Elf]

Loved last week's episode! Really awesome! Wish "Sexy" could be around more, sadly she can't.

[Steerpike]

Yeah, I thought it was really inventive.  I really loved the sets, and the fact that we finally got to see more of the TARDIS.  Apparently the episode was originally going to feature a TARDIS swimming pool, but due to budget they had to cut it.

[Elemental_Elf]

Yeah, I thought it was really inventive.  I really loved the sets, and the fact that we finally got to see more of the TARDIS.  Apparently the episode was originally going to feature a TARDIS swimming pool, but due to budget they had to cut it.

I agree, it was really cool finally seeing what all the character see - the hallways, the rooms, the etc. I wish we could have seen the pool. I did find the corridors to be rather drab, not very becoming of the doctor and his eccentricity.  

[Ninja D!]

The corridors were awful looking but on Confidential they suggested that that was because of House.

Anyone else notice that this episode seemed strongly connected to The 11th Hour, like it was written just after watching that episode?

[Steerpike]

I think I read somewhere that it was originally intended to air in the last season but got rewritten pretty extensively for this one (Rory was added, for example).