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Doctor Who – 4x12 – The Stolen Earth (Grade/Discuss)

Grade The Stolen Earth


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One question, if the Time War was locked, how did Eccleston get out?

Mr Awe

By living past the event. I'd think Time Locked means you can't travel forward/back to that event from any other time, but you could live through it.

I thought that originally. However, thinking about it (perhaps too much!), a time lock implies that that time is in a separate bubble that you can't get into or out of. If you can just age through it, well it's not that good of a time lock is it?! It's not really a seperate bubble that's locked off.

But, you're probably correct in that's what RTD intends.

Mr Awe
 
Oh, I WANT to see that! :D

And for those commenting on Rose's complaints, I found this on (iirc) deviantart a year or so ago (sorry for page stretch, it was much bigger):
Companion_sml.jpg

Those illustrations are done by a poster by the name of Nausicaa on the Something Awful Forums. She does those illustrations for Time Space Visualiser, a New Zealand Who fanzine.
 
^^^ Anyone know where I can get hold of a high-res version of the female companions cartoon its is rather cool??
 
Voted fantastic.

Liked everything, but the dodgy sfx when the Tardis entered the cascade. Made the mistake of watching it with female friends meaning that once the doctor started regenerating I couldn't hear the episode for the sound of cursing being thrown at RTD!

How is the Doctor threefold? What does threefold even mean?!
 
Oh, I WANT to see that! :D

And for those commenting on Rose's complaints, I found this on (iirc) deviantart a year or so ago (sorry for page stretch, it was much bigger):
Companion_sml.jpg

Those illustrations are done by a poster by the name of Nausicaa on the Something Awful Forums. She does those illustrations for Time Space Visualiser, a New Zealand Who fanzine.

mahahahha!

spot on. whiney bi ..mbo.
 
As for Rose, I'm not sure about her. Like I said in my review, for the most part I liked her, but I really wanted to smack her when she repeated her "School Reunion" whining about not being the only companion. Seriously, did she really expect The Doctor to stop having companions after her? She knows he has had many companions before her (thanks to Sarah Jane) so it only makes sense that he would continue to have companions.

Actually, her confusion could be understandable. She does know the Doctor had more companions after her, namely, Donna Nobel, who's traveling with him now and who he met soon after Rose was lost. She has no reason to suspect that there was a Donna-free gap, so that, combined with the fact that she was expecting to be the person who hadn't been connected yet,* explains her, "Where the hell did you come from?" reaction when Martha appeared.

* And really, it's kind of embarrassing that Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister, made this whole computer program to find people the Doctor knew, but couldn't tell that there were five parties on the conference call instead of four.
 
As for Rose, I'm not sure about her. Like I said in my review, for the most part I liked her, but I really wanted to smack her when she repeated her "School Reunion" whining about not being the only companion. Seriously, did she really expect The Doctor to stop having companions after her? She knows he has had many companions before her (thanks to Sarah Jane) so it only makes sense that he would continue to have companions.
Actually, her confusion could be understandable. She does know the Doctor had more companions after her, namely, Donna Nobel, who's traveling with him now and who he met soon after Rose was lost. She has no reason to suspect that there was a Donna-free gap, so that, combined with the fact that she was expecting to be the person who hadn't been connected yet,* explains her, "Where the hell did you come from?" reaction when Martha appeared.
Perhaps. Perhaps. The way she said it rubbed me wrong way.

* And really, it's kind of embarrassing that Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister, made this whole computer program to find people the Doctor knew, but couldn't tell that there were five parties on the conference call instead of four.
Or that she didn't connect with other former Doctor companions who are still around at that time. But I'm willing to look past that.
 
And I found it amusing that she said it was undetectable to any and every superior alien technology... And their one and only single use for it was to contact the the doctor and only if he was already at the Medusa cascade?

If Harriet was true in her call to save the world when the doctor is swanning off, then why did she devote all her resources to effectively making a "pager"? Something she should know that Martha could have already done... (if it wasn't broken.).

The Thunder Child took out a few tripods before it succumbed to the Martians, so
I wonder if the Valliant took out any Dalek saucers with it's big honking Vorlon gun?
 
Thanks Hobs202 for the link, I wouldn't have been able to find it. I'll have to find more of that person's art.
 
hang on a minute, contacting the Doctor, what about that intergalactic phone Sarah Jane was given in Invasion of the Bane, would have been cool to see that.
 
^ Wow, she's very good! Thanks for that!

(eyes off pic of Kate Bush in Babooshka clip costume....)
 
So, re: the most faithful bit....is Rose the one whose going to die in the next episode? I hope not, I like Rose! :(
 
So, re: the most faithful bit....is Rose the one whose going to die in the next episode? I hope not, I like Rose! :(

It's probably going to be donna and Rose will get another sucker punch in the gut because she isn't the most faithful/ only companion to claim the doctor
 
Phew!!

Although, I like Donna also and would be sad to see her go as well. Why does anyone on the side of good have to die? :( :( :( :( :(
 
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