or "Click!, or how I went to the future and added air conditioning to my brain."
Good episode, moral: don't give anyone your phone and door key!
Quick review: Doc, Rose and friend got to year 200,000 hight of 4 earth empire. Earth very occupied, millions of worlds, earth in middle not top. Media manipulation, hiding fact that everything being run by Simon Pegg and his rather large boss. Rose's friend gets new HID, with unfortunate default activation problem (always read the manual). Much hillarity and death ensues.
Plus face of P.. is 5 million or so years younger and pregnant! Also suggest buying shares in Cat-5 cable, looks like it will still be in use in quarter of a million years time (If it ain't broke, don't fix it!)
Discuss!
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
I understood.... MOST of that post.
And UTP has probably probably Cat-4,000 by then. 10-uberbit connections.
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Face of BOH, not P. Either it's long-lived, or a title like Queen of France.
I also did not understand much of the first post. Suffice it to say though that this was still an enjoyable episode, and demonstrated that not everyone who steps on board the TARDIS is a perfect travelling companion - they don't stay long. Adam may still be able to benefit: aircon head aside, he knows that single molecule transfer technology will arrive in 2019, enough time for him to get on board.
My question is - how does the phone know WHEN to dial? Does it chronologically lock with the user's home time frame somehow? Adam is from 2012, and the phone calls he made were to basically right after he stepped into the TARDIS at the end of "Dalek".
Mark
Posted by tricky (Member # 1402) on :
Ok, a little too British, maybe more punctuation needed. Simon Pegg is rather famous here, appearing in the cult classic series "Spaced", and in the excellent film "Shawn of the Dead"
Having a telepathic time destination control on the phone would have an advantage, or, the TARDIS connects the phone to the user's original time/space location's phone network. What would be cool would be the TARDIS communicates though the earlier version of itself at those co-ordinates.
Turlough was a bit dodgy as I recall...
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Punctuation wasn't your problem. You left out half the words.
Turlough was a bit dodgy, yeah, but the fifth Doctor wasn't really the sort of person to kick a companion out like that.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
So, if the Doctor knew that the real Fourth Great and Bountiful Empire looked like, when did that happen? Are ther alternative timelines in the Doctor Who universe? And if so, why does the Doctor want to fix a timeline, if there are so many timelines?
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Well, I see it that the FG&BHE was supposed to be far MORE G&B than what they observed. It was probably remembered as being *so* G&B that the Doctor figured something was wrong when they landed in a rather run-down looking station. Putting two and two together, the Doc probably figured that if the giant maggot continued to have its way, the FG&BHE wouldn't be remembered for its high levels of G&B. Ergo something was wrong, ergo it's time to fix it.
Mark
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
The Jagrafress' Reign of Not-Exactly-Terror only lasted 91 years. The Fourth Empire may have lasted centuries. The Doctor may have known its general history, but it doesn't mean he knows every event. Maybe he'd just never visited anytime between the years 199 909 and 200 000 before.
Posted by Not Invented Here (Member # 1606) on :
I was a bit disappointed with the Jagrafress. It looked very cool, but didn't seem to be able to defend itself at all. Other than that, a good episode.
The single-episode story format is beginning to bug me a little though. Everything is over too quickly. In a story like this it would have been cooler to build things up much more slowly before finding out what was really running the show. But that's modern TV for you I suppose.
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Whoops - posted twice! (see below. bloody broadband connection)
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Speaking of bad companions, who was that upper class british twit (looks in mirror...) that the Master tried to trick into killing Doctor No. 5? Any takers?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
That was Turlough. As previously discussed.
And he wasn't actually British. He was an alien.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
And it wasn't the Master, it was The Black Guardian. He had a bird on his head, a subject of which I don't think anything more can be said.
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