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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #525, on April 3rd, 2013, 08:33 PM »
Finally got to watch the epsiode....  interesting.
I didn't like Clara in this episode as much, though....  She seemed......   less interesting (I guess that's the best way to describe it)

question:

I vaguely remember something called the great intelligence... but can not, for the life of me, pinpoint it.
Which doctor faced it before?

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #526, on April 3rd, 2013, 08:52 PM »
The Second Doctor with Jamie and Victoria, back in The Abominable Snowmen.
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #527, on April 3rd, 2013, 09:39 PM »
AH!    The one with all the LOST episodes.  That explains it. I never watched much of the few espisodes that still exist for that doctor (I disliked Jamie and the doctor of that regeneration)


I have to say though, Matt Smith is growing on me as the doctor.  I wasn't thrilled with him to start...

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #528, on April 4th, 2013, 10:59 AM »
Also, the Eleventh Doctor encountered it in last year's Christmas special. No surprise the Great Intelligence was played by Richard E. Grant again, in that respect.
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #529, on April 4th, 2013, 12:55 PM »
Technically, that was only 3 months ago, so I'm hoping that Kindred at least remembered this one ;)

Pete, you're talking about my favorite doctor!! :P

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #530, on April 4th, 2013, 03:41 PM »
OH!   DUH!   the snowflake thing......

It survived and evolved...   hmmmmm

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #531, on April 9th, 2013, 03:17 AM »
Oh my...the best quote of the Doctor:

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #532, on April 9th, 2013, 03:47 AM »
And the best bit is that the epic speech was completely lampshaded by a much more powerful emotional moment.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #533, on April 9th, 2013, 04:06 AM »
Quote from Arantor on April 9th, 2013, 03:47 AM
And the best bit is that the epic speech was completely lampshaded by a much more powerful emotional moment.
You mean this?

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #534, on April 9th, 2013, 01:55 PM »
personally, I thought the episode was meh....

my favorite line was "yes, I was here once with my grand daughter.." (mostly because of Clara's response - which never got expanded on, unfortunately. 

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #535, on April 9th, 2013, 11:54 PM »
What was her response, already..?

And I thought they'd retconned his grand-daughter thing into something else, since in some earlier Tennant season he claimed he didn't have any family..? Maybe in 'The Doctor's daughter'..?

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #536, on April 10th, 2013, 02:56 PM »
It was somehting along the lines of "hang on..." as the Doctor cotinued to walk on through the market. But they never let her finish her objection.

I don't know if they retconned anything...    he said that he had no family - but all the timelord were destroyed, so perhaps he was being completely honest while not telling the whole truth.
Maybe, with this reference as a hint, we'll finally find out what happened to the granddaughter between leaving Hartnell and the timewar...
Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #537, on April 24th, 2013, 08:10 PM »
ARGH!   I did not like this past weekend's episode.


Actually, with the exception of a few lines and a few secenes, I have been disappointed in the entire 2nd half of the season.

I was so looking forward to Clara. I loved her in the Dalek episode...   she was amazingly frenetic and interesting in the snowmen episode...  and now she's blah...  they haven't made this incarnation at all interesting, Even her tiff with the Tradis is only mildly entertaining...


ARGH ARGH ARGH BLECH!

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #538, on April 24th, 2013, 08:12 PM »
It was definitely a 'meh' episode. Though the bit of it that was any good is the bit where the discussion gets around to 'experiences makes you lie' (as a coping mechanism) and that certainly sums up the Doctor.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #539, on April 24th, 2013, 09:09 PM »
Well...

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It was mentioned that he have "silver ice in his heart, not to trust him." which  give us a hint of 12th Doctor.