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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #285, on November 30th, 2011, 08:54 PM »
Which was written by a bunch of 10 year olds, and quite amusing to boot.
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #286, on November 30th, 2011, 10:00 PM »
It didn't work for me but that's okay.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #287, on November 30th, 2011, 10:09 PM »
It didn't work, but being written by 10 year olds and not being horrendous is a good sign for their future as writers...

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #290, on December 5th, 2011, 04:56 PM »
Got a chance to see 2010's Christmas Carol. That Special is awesome. :D

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #291, on December 5th, 2011, 05:05 PM »
And just think, in another life, Kazran Sardick was a long-haired bearded man who played with wands, and was headmaster at some insanely strange school that's housed in a castle, and helped guide a small boy with a scar on his forehead to greatness.[1]
 1. The actor for old Kazran Sardick is one Michael Gambon, better known as Dumbledore for most of the Harry Potter films.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #292, on December 8th, 2011, 09:16 PM »
What was the track Abigail sang "Silence is All"? Abigail's Song from Murray Gold? Other said Katherine Jenkins?
Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #293, on December 11th, 2011, 08:16 PM »
Quote from Arantor on November 30th, 2011, 08:48 PM
Other than the top entry which is the 2011 Christmas special, most of the extra bits are just special extra scenes, like deleted scenes or extra scenes. They're all on the season 6 boxed set. (The special isn't... It hasn't even been shown here yet ;))
So Christmas specials aren't included in the season DVDs?

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #294, on December 11th, 2011, 08:23 PM »
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So Christmas specials aren't included in the season DVDs?
Well... season 2's boxed set had the one between series 1 & 2, season 3's boxed set had the one between series 2 & 3, season 4's boxed set had the one between 3 & 4. The specials between series 4 & 5 were a set of their own (so series 5 didn't have a Christmas special in it (as it was in the Specials boxed set, because it was the two part End of Time). Season 6's boxed set contains the between 5 & 6 Christmas special and the upcoming 2011 Christmas special will be in series 7's boxed set, I'd imagine. Though it'll be on sale independently too.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #295, on December 11th, 2011, 08:50 PM »
The sad thing with the French DVDs is that they don't offer the first Christmas special on any of the box sets. It's like they didn't even know it existed, even though they included the later ones...

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #296, on December 11th, 2011, 09:27 PM »
So they actually missed The Christmas Invasion? Weird.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #297, on December 11th, 2011, 10:17 PM »
I just saw bits of it... Probably downloaded it at the time, or something, but that was part of the couple of episodes I never really saw. (That, and the first episode of series 2. So that's two in a row.)

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #298, on December 11th, 2011, 10:40 PM »
Shame, because the Christmas Invasion is actually very good considering how much time Tennant spends in bed in it. Though it has one of RTD's worst deus ex machinas, and quite a few of Ten's best lines, IMO. Certainly his most quotable episode.

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Sycorax Leader: [shouts] I demand to know who you are!
The Doctor: [shouts, imitating him] I don't know!
The Doctor: See, there's the thing. I'm the Doctor, but beyond that, I - I just don't know. I literally do not know who I am. It's all untested. Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy? [winks at Rose]
The Doctor: Am I an old misery? Life and soul? Right-handed? Left-handed? A gambler? A fighter? A coward? A traitor, a liar, a nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a gob.

Aw, I wanted to be ginger! I've never been ginger! And you, Rose Tyler! Fat lot of good you were! You gave up on me! [Rose looks annoyed] Ooh, that's rude. Is that the sort of man I am now? Am I rude? Rude and not ginger.

The Doctor: ...And how am I gonna react when I see this? A great, big, threatening button. A great, big, threatening button which must not be pressed under any circumstances, am I right? Looks like some sort of control matrix. But what's powering it? Blood?
[tastes red liquid]
The Doctor: Yep, blood. Human blood. A positive... with just a dash of iron. Agh. That means... Blood control. Blood Control! Oh, I haven't seen blood control for years! So you're controlling all the A positives. Which leaves us with a great, big, stinkin' problem. I really don't know who I am. I don't know when to stop. So if I see a great, big, threatening button which should never ever ever be pressed, then I just want to do this.
[presses button]

Sycorax Leader: I can summon the armada and take this world by force!
The Doctor: Well, yeah, you *could*, you could do that, course you could, but *why*? Look at these people, these human beings, consider their potential. From the day they arrive on this planet and blinking, step into the sun, there is more to see than can ever be seen, more to do... no, hold on... sorry, that's the Lion King... but the point still stands! Leave them alone!

The Doctor: [as Sycorax Leader celebrates cutting the Doctor's hand off] And now I know what sort of man I am. I'm lucky, because quite by chance, I'm still within the first 15 hours of my regeneration cycle, which means I have just enough residual cellular energy to do this. [grows hand back]
Sycorax Leader: Witchcraft?!
The Doctor: Time Lord!

The Doctor: And this new hand... it's a FIGHTIN' HAND!

(after throwing a satsuma at the switch and killing the Sycorax leader) No second chances, I'm that sort of a man.

You're not missing so much with the first episode of series 2 (New Earth) though. It's cute, mostly as a reminder of series 1's opener, and is lightly plot related as far as certain arcs are concerned (it comes up again in Gridlock when Ten meets the Face of Boe again) but other than that... it's not that awesome.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #299, on December 15th, 2011, 07:50 AM »
Elisabeth Sladen...I didn't knew that she died. :(
Wondered why she said she was dying on the show in Tennant 's final performance when she really was in RL.
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