Sorry Neroon...I was tired and didn't see Laurie!!! Just natural to think of Hugh Grant I guess and Doctor Who. Hugh Laurie would be interesting.
6x04 The Doctor's Wife(Grading/Discussion) (SPOILERS!!)
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What exactly do you mean?
I think some people turn being a kill joy into a hobby. Even though their opinion is the minority they still feel the need to express their misery to everyone else.
Anyway, I've watched this episode twice and still haven't quite figured out how to put into words how I feel about it. Basically, it was a really deeply heart felt story.
The Cosair's arm had a tat on it - similar to the way that Third Doctor* has one on his arm.
* or rather Pertwee's tattoo of a cobra.
Well, I was playing more on the fact that Hugh Laurie plays the character of "House" in is TV show, so this would be a different "House" for him to play. Then again, he really could lend a nicely controlled malevolence to the voice.
But Sheen is oh so good at it anyway!
That was discussed, though I saw it more as a convenient way for the Doctor to identify the Corsair's arm later on. It might have been a nod, though the tattoo didn't really look like Pertwee's.
In the context of the Corsair's tattoo, perhaps the Ouroboros signifies that the story arc this season is actually a closed time-like loop - eternal return - or it's probably not significant...
So then what, every other Timelord is a complete idiot who lets him/herself get killed by the giant space urchin? Hundreds of Timelords and not one could figure out a way to defeat the space urchin? Thank Omega they are all stuck in the timewar, bunch of useless idgits.
Maybe the Time Lords that got trapped then killed were the result of Darwinism. They just happened to be the dumbest of the lot who had the misfortune of running into House
A few people have commented that the sign on the TARDIS door says "PULL TO OPEN" and I think someone in this episode (Idris, maybe?) points out that the Doctor opens the door incorrectly by pushing. But this interpretation is not correct!! ... and I do find the fact that the issue pops up in the episode itself confusing...
The sign saying "PULL TO OPEN" is on the small door that opens to the compartment that holds the "POLICE TELEPHONE" that is "FREE FOR USE OF PUBLIC". This instruction is not for the door to enter the TARDIS- it is for getting to the phone. Besides, this is a Police Box. Only a policeman should be trying to enter a genuine Police Box, and he wouldn't need any instructions on how to get inside what is essentially his office/locker/mini-lock-up!
Years ago I built a Police Box as a joke (a weekend job using cardboard, tape, and a lot of blue paint!) and I had to recreate the sign, so I may have those words clearer in my mind than a lot of other fans!
I loved the episode. I think the TARDIS may be the most intriguing vehicle in story-telling, and I enjoyed seeing the "soul" of the TARDIS given a tangible form that could interact more directly with the Doctor.
The sign saying "PULL TO OPEN" is on the small door that opens to the compartment that holds the "POLICE TELEPHONE" that is "FREE FOR USE OF PUBLIC". This instruction is not for the door to enter the TARDIS- it is for getting to the phone. Besides, this is a Police Box. Only a policeman should be trying to enter a genuine Police Box, and he wouldn't need any instructions on how to get inside what is essentially his office/locker/mini-lock-up!
Years ago I built a Police Box as a joke (a weekend job using cardboard, tape, and a lot of blue paint!) and I had to recreate the sign, so I may have those words clearer in my mind than a lot of other fans!
I loved the episode. I think the TARDIS may be the most intriguing vehicle in story-telling, and I enjoyed seeing the "soul" of the TARDIS given a tangible form that could interact more directly with the Doctor.
Judging from what we've seen onscreen, the Timelords aren't exactly the most dynamic lot. You've got all the boobs hanging around on Gallifrey not doing much of anything, then you've got fellows like Drax out there too.
Keep in mind, this is a timelessly ancient race that got its ass absolutely kicked by tinfoil. So it doesn't surprise me at all that a few dozen of them got snared by House.
Keep in mind, this is a timelessly ancient race that got its ass absolutely kicked by tinfoil. So it doesn't surprise me at all that a few dozen of them got snared by House.
Also keep in mind this was the first and only time House tried to steal a TARDIS rather than eat one. I'm sure the rest of the time he kept the Time Lords busy with some mindless chatter to give their TARDIS Matrices time to die, only to kill them once they had no means of escape. House's bad luck that he tried to take off with the Doctor's TARDIS before Idris was dead.
And that big deal writer lives in Nowhere, Wisconsin.
Add me to the list of people that really enjoyed this one!
You see... I just KNEW! that was going to happen, but I went and submitted my post as-is anyway. You'd think I'd have learned by now.
I'm surprised there hasn't been more talk around McGanns return!
I know someone else mentioned it but that was definitely his uncredited voice as the Timelord on the cube which explains Matt Smiths answer when Amy asks who that is, as it's himself!! Only question is was that message recorded on the House planet or not??? If so why doesn't 11 remember it??
I know someone else mentioned it but that was definitely his uncredited voice as the Timelord on the cube which explains Matt Smiths answer when Amy asks who that is, as it's himself!! Only question is was that message recorded on the House planet or not??? If so why doesn't 11 remember it??
It's not. The voice is in the right pitch range, but it's not nasally enough. Also, McGann has a specific, and somewhat unique, way of enunciating, and the emphasis on the words is wrong. The pitch is right, but everything else about the voice is not McGann.
It's not McGann.
I have to say I agree with your wife. I didn't hate the episode, but it was fanwanky nonsense that did nothing for me. A tedious plot with some "OMG, look at how totally zany and wacky we're being woo bananas!" thrown into the mix for no reason does not a good episode make. I normally like silly too. Fortunately an excellent beginning, some fantastic scenes with Amy and Rory in the TARDIS, and some good comedy brings it up to Above Average.
yes they mentioned that on Confidentail, they should avoid doing that again
then again im pretty sure they did the same with the Presidents ship in the BSG pilot.
That would be when they used a Ferry's car deck for the landing bay aboard Colonial One which did work better than the inside brick building being the inside of a TARDIS