Planet of the Dead Discuss and Grade SPOILERS!!!
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Why is it "rubbish" because he would rather it come on later in the year? At what point does it matter if it's shown in the Spring or Fall?
"Luckily"? So, it's "better" because it's NuWho's schedule? Speaking of "rubbish"...
Oh don't even GET me started on the "science fiction" of it all. These creatures can form fucking spacial wormholes across the UNIVERSE just by flying really fast around a planet?? That makes no fucking sense no matter how you slice it and how "fictional" Doctor Who is supposed to be. It wouldn't have even taken technobabble to just whip up a better explanation than that. That was just damn ludicrous. Once again, as with the bus scenes and Malcolm's character, just more RTD not being able to reign himself in. I'm counting down the days until he's gone (so that I can start complaining about Moffat...
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I meant in the beginning of the episode! A slow ass bus, 100 police behind it and they can't SIGNAL a bus driver?
2 problems with the episode, 1st the ass kissing of royalty. I'm not british so I may not understand but I hate undemocratic leaders.
2nd she was a thief, why did he let her go, what an ass. What if he also stole from kid hospitals, did he ask her? no. And he was a thief too? What thief-writer wrote that?
^I agree about the ineptitude of the police and UNIT when dealing with her, and her "morality". But, it's looong been established that The Doctor "Borrowed the TARDIS in a 'finders-keepers' kind of way" as the 4th Doctor put it. Also, if I remember your previous posts, aren't you just trying to pick a fight here? Or am I getting you mixed up with someone else?
Average for me. Michelle Ryan was too Lara Croft, and I'm not a fan of Lee Evans, so his character made no impact on me.
David Tennant was great as always, and I'm really going to miss him when he goes.
Wheel out Waters of Mars....anyone got any idea when that will be?
David Tennant was great as always, and I'm really going to miss him when he goes.
Wheel out Waters of Mars....anyone got any idea when that will be?
As far as I'm concerned, Lady Christina was NOT a Laura Croft Rip-Off, but rather an homage to Emma Peel. In fact, having seen the episode, it occurred to me that Tennant and Ryan had a chemistry that really had a Steed - Peel vibe to it, and that it might be interesting to see them star together again in a reboot of "The Avengers".
I meant in the beginning of the episode! A slow ass bus, 100 police behind it and they can't SIGNAL a bus driver?
Gotcha. Hell, my big issue with that was how the cops couldn't catch up to the bus. They had these speedy little compacts, they would've caught up to a slow, lumbering non-speeding, non-alarmed bus
You can't signal a bus driver if you can't catch him. He outran the police and didn't even know it!
I'm not British either, but where was the ass kissing? Royalty only had two fleeting mentions, one of which was an historical relic (so it *had* to be mentioned).
The thing is, the Doctor's always been more or less inconsistent. He says he won't kill and then he'll drown someone. He'll be compassionate but then he'll yell his lungs out until he's spent. I just took his releasing of Christina to be along those lines, where he would just pick and choose who deserved what.
In what possible sense did they kiss the ass of the royal family? Hell, Doctor Who usually gets criticized for being too disrespectful of the monarchy (the Queen in hair curlers and her nightie in "Voyage of the Damned," Victoria and co. being werewolves, etc.).
She did help him save the world, try to recall.
A small error
Somehow, the planet's DVLA office managed to re-register the bus so it would appear 20 years older when it got back. McMillan even says the first one aloud during the chase.
Somehow, the planet's DVLA office managed to re-register the bus so it would appear 20 years older when it got back. McMillan even says the first one aloud during the chase.
Just saw the special on YouTube. This was the first full episode of Doctor Who that I watched and I enjoyed it! The Doctor was great... I wonder what the new Doctor will be like.
Christina was a bit Lara Croftish, but I still enjoyed the character. Michelle Ryan has said in the past that she wants to be the next Angelina Jolie (she likes her action films), so it doesn't surprise me that she was attracted to this role. I would like to see the character back on Doctor Who.
The only thing I didn't like about the episode was how fakey the tritovores (or however it is spelled) looked. Well, I also didn't like how quickly everyone accepted that they were on an alien world and that extraterrestrial life exists. Not realistic.
How long were they supposed to have been on that planet? Didn't those peeps get thirsty? They were in a desert!
Christina was a bit Lara Croftish, but I still enjoyed the character. Michelle Ryan has said in the past that she wants to be the next Angelina Jolie (she likes her action films), so it doesn't surprise me that she was attracted to this role. I would like to see the character back on Doctor Who.
The only thing I didn't like about the episode was how fakey the tritovores (or however it is spelled) looked. Well, I also didn't like how quickly everyone accepted that they were on an alien world and that extraterrestrial life exists. Not realistic.
How long were they supposed to have been on that planet? Didn't those peeps get thirsty? They were in a desert!
^The reason they accepted it so quickly is to do with previous events in the series.
Yep, that was the point I was trying to make. A scary program will lose a lot of it's impact if it's bright outside and you can hear the chirps of birds and the sound of 'Greensleeves' as an ice cream van potters about. Nostalgia has little to do with it.
Furthermore, TV ratings tend to drop on bright sunny days. If shown during the winter months Who could potentially gain a lot more viewers.
Actually, it was perfectly realistic for the Whoniverse. The existence of extra-terrestrial life has become common knowledge.
In the Whoniverse's 2006, Tony Blair was assassinated and Big Ben destroyed by an alien spacecraft that crashed into the River Thames as part of an alien plot to destroy the Earth. The Doctor thwarted it when he hijacked a Royal Navy missile to destroy 10 Downing Street and thereby kill the alien who was impersonating the Acting Prime Minister.
Then on Christmas Day 2006, a giant alien spacecraft appeared over London and a third of the world's population was held hostage with a mind control technology that affected people with a certain blood type. That ship was later shot down in orbit.
Subsequently, in the summer of 2007, an army of 5 million cybernetic organisms from another dimension intent upon converting the world into their image, known as the Cybermen (who were created long before the Borg), manifested itself at locations all across the globe due to the irresponsible actions of the Torchwood Institute. The Doctor managed to suck them back into the void that exists between dimensions (at the cost of his best friend and would-be lover, Rose Tyler).
On Christmas Day 2007, London was attacked by another alien ship that appeared above the city. The Doctor managed to kill its pilot and thwart her plans (inadvertently draining the River Thames in the process) whilst the British Army shot down the ship.
Several months later, the Royal Hope Hospital in London was teleported to the Moon by a species called the Judoon who were looking for a fugitive and couldn't search the hospital while it was on Earth for legal reasons. The Hospital was later teleported back; at the same time, there UK elections were on, and one of the candidates for Prime Minister was talking about the existence of aliens as part of his campaign platform.
Then, in late 2008, newly-elected British Prime Minister Harold Saxon announced that he had made first contact with a new alien species called the Toclafane. Unbeknownst to anyone else, though, the Toclafane were working for him; he used them to assassinate the US President before the Doctor could stop him.
Then, after that, on Christmas Day 2008, Buckingham Palace nearly became ground zero for an alien luxury ship that was crashing to the Earth before the Doctor saved the ship. Then, just a few months later, an alien species called the Sontarans used a widespread new car engine system they'd planted in an attempt to poison the Earth's atmosphere to exterminate the population to use the planet as a breeding world. The Doctor and UNIT (the Unified Intelligent Taskforce, a branch of the UN) stopped them.
Then, in the summer of 2009, the entire planet Earth was transported across the universe to an area of space known as the Medusa Cascade by a group of aliens known as the Daleks, who were using Earth, along with twenty-six other planets, to emit a weapon known as the Reality Bomb that would have devastated known space. The Daleks invaded Earth in the process, destroying much of London and New York, decimating Earth military forces, and apparently killing both the new UK Prime Minister, before the Doctor and Company managed to defeat them and return Earth to its proper orbit.
Then on Christmas Day 2006, a giant alien spacecraft appeared over London and a third of the world's population was held hostage with a mind control technology that affected people with a certain blood type. That ship was later shot down in orbit.
Subsequently, in the summer of 2007, an army of 5 million cybernetic organisms from another dimension intent upon converting the world into their image, known as the Cybermen (who were created long before the Borg), manifested itself at locations all across the globe due to the irresponsible actions of the Torchwood Institute. The Doctor managed to suck them back into the void that exists between dimensions (at the cost of his best friend and would-be lover, Rose Tyler).
On Christmas Day 2007, London was attacked by another alien ship that appeared above the city. The Doctor managed to kill its pilot and thwart her plans (inadvertently draining the River Thames in the process) whilst the British Army shot down the ship.
Several months later, the Royal Hope Hospital in London was teleported to the Moon by a species called the Judoon who were looking for a fugitive and couldn't search the hospital while it was on Earth for legal reasons. The Hospital was later teleported back; at the same time, there UK elections were on, and one of the candidates for Prime Minister was talking about the existence of aliens as part of his campaign platform.
Then, in late 2008, newly-elected British Prime Minister Harold Saxon announced that he had made first contact with a new alien species called the Toclafane. Unbeknownst to anyone else, though, the Toclafane were working for him; he used them to assassinate the US President before the Doctor could stop him.
Then, after that, on Christmas Day 2008, Buckingham Palace nearly became ground zero for an alien luxury ship that was crashing to the Earth before the Doctor saved the ship. Then, just a few months later, an alien species called the Sontarans used a widespread new car engine system they'd planted in an attempt to poison the Earth's atmosphere to exterminate the population to use the planet as a breeding world. The Doctor and UNIT (the Unified Intelligent Taskforce, a branch of the UN) stopped them.
Then, in the summer of 2009, the entire planet Earth was transported across the universe to an area of space known as the Medusa Cascade by a group of aliens known as the Daleks, who were using Earth, along with twenty-six other planets, to emit a weapon known as the Reality Bomb that would have devastated known space. The Daleks invaded Earth in the process, destroying much of London and New York, decimating Earth military forces, and apparently killing both the new UK Prime Minister, before the Doctor and Company managed to defeat them and return Earth to its proper orbit.
Bottom line: It's common knowledge.
It is a bit much when our mysterious lonely god wanderer-in-time spends all of the last two shows being told by all and sundry how FANTASTIC he is and telling his companions how AMAZING and TOTALLY PERFECTLY FANTASTIC they are while everybody's busy doing basically fuck-all. Show us the Doctor and his companion DOING something fantastic, instead of just telling us for fuck's sake.
I mean, there's this push to make specials big and epic, but there's no need for that. The idea is already big and amazing and epic enough: There's this guy who can go anywhere in time and space.
Eh, in any event, it wasn't great, it wasn't horrible. Probably the best thing that Gareth Roberts has done during his tenure on Who.
I mean, there's this push to make specials big and epic, but there's no need for that. The idea is already big and amazing and epic enough: There's this guy who can go anywhere in time and space.
Eh, in any event, it wasn't great, it wasn't horrible. Probably the best thing that Gareth Roberts has done during his tenure on Who.
They used three buses to make the episode, they would all have had different number plates, the CGI guys probably got given pictures of the smashed up bus from Dubie to replicate.
The A team van would change plates not just from scene to scene, but from different camera angles in the same scene, and sometimes it would have a sunroof, and sometimes not, Shatner's stunt double was about a foot taller than him, and there were four different firefly models in the series alone.
If you let things like licence plates spoil your enjoyment of a show, you really shouldn't be watching tv.
The A team van would change plates not just from scene to scene, but from different camera angles in the same scene, and sometimes it would have a sunroof, and sometimes not, Shatner's stunt double was about a foot taller than him, and there were four different firefly models in the series alone.
If you let things like licence plates spoil your enjoyment of a show, you really shouldn't be watching tv.
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