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snoopy-virtual

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #75, on June 5th, 2011, 12:06 PM »
There is one thing I don't understand.

Are they showing Dr. Who in all the TVs all over the world (but Spain) or are you watching it through an internet channel or something like that?

I used to watch it ages ago when I lived in Scotland (and I loved it) but here in Spain there is only one TV channel that is showing a couple of seasons of Dr. Who and another couple of seasons of Torchwood (old ones) repeating the same episodes all over again, but cannot get new ones.

When I saw you were talking about it here, I thought you were getting it only in UK and France, but I have seen people from all over the world commenting about it (even Dr Malboro from Argentina) and I started to wonder if maybe there is a chance of getting it through an internet channel or something.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #76, on June 5th, 2011, 12:39 PM »
Well, you can go through a UK proxy to watch it on BBC iPlayer, which will get you the entire run of series 6 so far. (It's all being kept available until the end of the run, which was yesterday, and I think for the next week the entire 7 episodes are available)
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #77, on June 5th, 2011, 12:54 PM »
<PRV>....... And of course, for the rest of us, there's the Pirate Bay, torrentz.com, demonoid.com and so on. (I rarely go to demonoid, but yesterday the HD episode was only over there, not anywhere else I could think of.)

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #78, on June 5th, 2011, 12:57 PM »
For our US friends, I would suggest they do this, actually - because the US delayed episode 6 for a week because of last weekend's Memorial Day stuff, so while we've finished the half-season, I think they only just got episode 6...

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #79, on June 5th, 2011, 01:20 PM »
<PRV> I normally use veetle.com and/or SopCast to watch things like the NBA, important Snooker games, etc, but haven't seen in any of them any Dr. Who episodes.

Anyway, following Arantor's suggestion I have found this page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw

So for a while I will try to watch all the episodes archived there until I catch up.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #80, on June 5th, 2011, 01:30 PM »
That looks like series 6 there... there's some stuff from series 5 that's relevant in continuity terms but nothing that looking at Wikipedia won't provide for you.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #81, on June 5th, 2011, 11:08 PM »
Quote from Arantor on June 5th, 2011, 12:57 PM
For our US friends, I would suggest they do this, actually - because the US delayed episode 6 for a week because of last weekend's Memorial Day stuff, so while we've finished the half-season, I think they only just got episode 6...
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #82, on June 5th, 2011, 11:19 PM »
Use PeerBlock, it might help... Never got problems, myself.

Oh, and I watched the episode this afternoon... Loved it.
Then again, I watched the Prince of Persia movie right after it, and loved it too. Maybe I was in a good mood or something.
But still, the last-second 'revelation' really was a downer. Was mostly fooled by the twist near the end, the one you mentioned, Pete. I guessed it at best 10 seconds before the trick was revealed, so I consider myself pwned. Nice feeling eheh.

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And several hints are already there for the follow-up. I mean, we'll probably get to see the Doctor in the Gamma Forests, trying to find River as a baby... Which is where he'll encounter little girl Lorna for the first time...
Of course, he'll fail to recover her. Or maybe he'll just make sure he doesn't -- given that if he knows she's River, he might not want to change her future by saving her...

Also, my current theory for the first episode... Since that scene where the Doctor recognizes who's going to kill him (first scene that made me think, "must be River"), I've been thinking that *obviously* it's not his real death. So, maybe... Maybe the Doctor at that point was a doppelganger controlled by the real Doctor? I know, we don't get to see it die in the same way as other clones, but it might still be a good clue. Whatever happens, it's pretty obvious that River will NOT kill him. Perhaps she WANTS to kill him, though. Let's say she gets educated by the guys in war with the Doctor. They obviously intent for her to kill him at some point. Now, she's been in her astronaut costume in her childhood. Then as a young adult, she must have kept it... She had no contact with the Doctor, managed to track him down, and killed him. Then she learned of who he was (i.e. a good guy), regretted it, then later in her life, when she met him in an earlier timeframe of his life, she tells him that she kills him later, and gives him some way to make it look like he's dead, while not really being dead at all. (So that she stops trying to kill him.)
That would explain a lot... I think.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #83, on June 6th, 2011, 12:29 AM »
It's against many people, but you can always download it illegaly :P

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #84, on June 6th, 2011, 12:46 AM »
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The general consensus of the communities I follow is that the Doctor that dies in the first episode is the Ganger Doctor, because the "molecular memory" should have been able to withstand the explosion.

That, however, doesn't explain the "Time running out" and the apparent fate shown in the Coming Soon trailer. Though it does maybe explain why the screwdriver becomes red in the future...

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The Headless Monks... I suspect we will see them again. If I know Moffat, this 'rising higher than ever before' isn't yet over, and we will see them again. Likely as not, in the finale.

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Not only did the Doctor realise who killed him in that first episode, because he knew to tell everyone not to interfere, and organised it in the way only he could, but the fact that RIVER knows who it is, though not initially - she fires away but then realises why the shots do nothing. That to me doesn't seem entirely congruous with the girl in the spacesuit being her, surely she'd remember that event? But the fact that she knows the shots do nothing and she knows why means she's aware of who it is and how that works.

Your theory is certainly more cohesive than some of the ramblings I've heard thus far, and it would seem to explain everything!

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Putting aside the obviousness of the cliffhanger for this point, this doesn't feel finished. It was too neat an explanation as to who she is. Interestingly, a day or so before the episode, Moffat wrote on Twitter - http://twitter.com/#!/steven_moffat/status/76715922584383488 -
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For all of you who keep on, yes, you will find out who River is tomorrow. Thing is though - was that what you were REALLY asking?

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In other news, I wonder how many kids didn't quite make the jump from wedding night to Amy being pregant...

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #85, on June 6th, 2011, 07:44 AM »
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Quote from Arantor on June 6th, 2011, 12:46 AM
But the fact that she knows the shots do nothing and she knows why means she's aware of who it is and how that works.
Or she's just acting at this moment... Trying to make it look like she 'doesn't know'... Although it seems a bit far-fetched (I actually forgot that moment. Honestly, I don't remember much about the first episodes...)
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Your theory is certainly more cohesive than some of the ramblings I've heard thus far, and it would seem to explain everything!
Really? :lol:
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In other news, I wonder how many kids didn't quite make the jump from wedding night to Amy being pregant...
What I didn't get was... Did they actually imply that Rory & Amy had never done it BEFORE the wedding? :lol:

On a side note -- it seemed to me that Amy had some baby fat after the birth. I mean, she looked like the part. Did she actually take on some weight to make it look like she just gave birth? :^^;:

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #86, on June 8th, 2011, 08:01 PM »
Poor Bear here is still trying to work out if Amy has now become part/whole Time Lord/Lady.  :unsure:

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #87, on June 8th, 2011, 09:33 PM »
I think the answer to that is no.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #88, on June 8th, 2011, 09:47 PM »
Yeah, there'd be no reason to that...
Time vortex... Wedding night... It's all about the baby, not her.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #89, on June 9th, 2011, 11:07 AM »
Hmm, so River Song has Time Lord DNA.  :unsure:
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