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Post by Queen E on Apr 20, 2005 16:09:40 GMT -5
This is the place for all those Dr. Who spoilers burning a hole in your brain.
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Post by Riff on May 15, 2005 13:46:38 GMT -5
A spoiler for those outside the UK and Canada? There has been a terrible war between the Time Lords and the Daleks, known as the Time War. Higher species (lol – which don’t include us!) were devastated by this conflict. In the final battle, the Time Lords and the Daleks destroyed each other, the Daleks perishing as their ten million ships burnt, the Time Lords all dying as the same thing happened to Gallifrey. There were only two survivors: the Doctor and (as the Doctor is surprised to learn) a single Dalek. This was gradually revealed during the first six episodes, and I was quite glad when it turned out that it was the Daleks who were responsible. Since they have rudimentary time travel technology, I had hoped that it was them. The result for the series is that time is in flux. Without the Time Lords to protect it, time may be altered. There’s only the Doctor now and, if rumours are true, the Daleks will somehow return – in force…
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Post by Riff on May 15, 2005 13:48:20 GMT -5
I loved the sixth episode, “Dalek”. Set in 2012, a collector of extraterrestrial artefacts has a live exhibit: a badly damaged Dalek that he keeps chained in a cell. This is the last Dalek, fallen through time to land on the earth in a crater where it burnt for three days, screaming and insane. The Dalek creature within the battle armour is tortured to make it talk. It manages to regenerate both its body and its battle armour and gets up to quite a bit of mischief…
The Dalek in this episode is extremely nasty and undergoing and existential crisis. I couldn’t resist posting some of its dialogue:
“I am a soldier. I was bred to receive orders.”
“I demand orders!”
“And the coward survived.”
“I am alone in the universe. So are you. We are the same.”
“The Daleks survive in me!”
“I fed of the DNA of Rose Tyler. Extrapolating the biomass of a time traveller regenerated me.”
“Where shall I get my orders now?!”
“Then what should I do?”
“You would make a good Dalek.”
“But why? Why are you alive? My function is to kill. What am I? What am I?”
“Then hear me talk now. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate!”
“I can feel so many ideas. So much darkness. Rose, give me orders. Order me to die.”
“This is not life. This is sickness. I shall not be like you. Order my destruction! Obey! Obey! Obey!”
“Exterminate…”
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Post by Riff on Jun 6, 2005 13:55:29 GMT -5
Anyone who has been watching the new series of Doctor Who with slightly more than casual interest will have noticed that something is going on behind the scenes. The Time War, the rift, the genocide of both the Time Lords and the Daleks, and the repeated references in, apparently everyday events, to the Bad Wolf. However, this has been more widespread than I thought. Had you noticed, for example, that the series has a set of recurring numbers, like in Lost? The Bad Wolf appears obliquely on the Doctor Who conspiracy site, the website dedicated to Van Statten’s company, and the UNIT website. It also appears in all three of the new Doctor Who novels. Check the links below. The last one in particular has some brilliant observations and theories. Please have a look. www.badwolf.org.uk/www.matthewman.net/archives/2005/05/03/bad_wolf_hunting.phpwww.relativedimensions.co.uk/badwolf.htmlBEWARE! Near the bottom of the page reached by the above link there is a honking great spoiler (a real spoiler, this time) about the last episode, which I have checked and found to be accurate.
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Post by beccaelizabeth on Oct 16, 2005 21:28:20 GMT -5
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Post by Riff on Nov 18, 2005 15:38:00 GMT -5
And Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who... Here is a new Cyberman. Sort of C3PO meets RoboCop, imagined by H. R. Giger.
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Post by Queen E on Apr 19, 2006 13:07:20 GMT -5
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Post by Queen E on Apr 24, 2006 13:31:55 GMT -5
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Post by Riff on May 11, 2006 13:47:10 GMT -5
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Post by Riff on Jul 3, 2006 5:25:20 GMT -5
"Army of Ghosts" spoilers:
In a pre-title sequence, Rose announces that this is the last story she will ever tell – the story of how she died. Billy Piper is leaving the series.
The Doctor and Rose arrive back in the Powel Estate and meet Jackie. For several months, the earth has been visited by "ghosts" on a daily basis. They are blurry humanoids, and Jackie believes the one that visits her is her dead father. He smells the same.
The Doctor quickly decides this is some sort of psychic link, and that people's desire to see their deceased loved ones is helping to bring these beings into our world. They are crossing in from another dimension, imprinting themselves all over the planet. Their visible form is merely a "footprint". And a footprint does not look like a boot.
The Doctor finds the source and travels there... arriving at Torchwood HQ. Torchwood was first mentioned in the Weakest Link sections of "Bad Wolf". We've since seen that it was created by Queen Victoria to protect the British Empire from alien threats, and from the Doctor. It clearly controls a great deal, being in possession of terrible alien weaponry, and is involved with the future of humanity. The Torchwood of the 21st century intends to use whatever alien technology it can get for the benefit of a new British Empire. Obviously, this would put them into conflict with UNIT. Bizarrely, “Torchwood” is an anagram of “Doctor Who”.
Torchwood is behind the regular appearances of the ghosts, using technology it has found. A sphere which the Doctor knows is impossible, but which he recognises as a “void ship” (previously, he had considered such a craft to be a mere theory). The craft is designed to cross the void between universes. This is a literal, philosophical void: not only no matter or energy, but also no space, no time, no physical laws (not even in the most abstract sense). A mathematical point: not empty space – literally nothing. The sphere is massless and produces no energy of any kind. Yet, it exists. It appeared at the same time as the ghosts.
Torchwood is experimenting with the cracks in our dimension that allow the ghosts through. They regularly open those cracks a little, believing that they will be able to tap into unlimited energy for Britain. It is at these moments that the ghosts appear. Despite the arrogance of Torchwood, the doctor manages to convince them to put the experiments on hold. But by then it is too late.
There are nasty goings-on behind the scenes. Members of staff are being controlled via the earpieces they wear. Now they begin the experiment against orders. The Doctor, seeing that these people are now just animated corpses, ends their “lives” and then tracks down the signal controlling them. Lurking in the Torchwood HQ are the Cybermen.
The Cybermen take over, apply maximum power. This time millions of ghosts appear all over the world, and are now able to fully realise themselves in our dimension. They’ve been Cybermen all along. These are the Cybermen from the alternate universe that the Doctor travelled into earlier in the season. In seconds, they control the entire planet.
Everyone but the Doctor has forgotten about the sphere. He asks the Cyber Leader how they could have created such a thing, since a void ship is way beyond them. The Cybermen merely used the sphere; they did not create is. It opened up the possibility of crossing into our universe, but it has nothing to do with them. Its origin is unknown.
Meanwhile, Rose is with the sphere, which now has mass and is beginning to open. Mickey, who has also crossed into our universe, is with her, heavily armed. He helped defeat the Cybermen on the alternate Earth, and now he’s followed to finish the job. Whatever sort of Cybermen emerge, Mickey has the means to destroy them.
So, he’s rather surprised when something else comes floating out the sphere.
“LOCATION: EARTH.”
“LIFEFORMS DETECTED!”
“EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINAAAAATE!”
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Post by Riff on Aug 10, 2006 13:04:16 GMT -5
The BBC has posted pictures of new companion Martha and the Doctor in a nifty new suit. (I'm interetsed to know the explanation for that) New, new companion
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Post by Riff on Sept 4, 2006 16:54:17 GMT -5
If you haven't just come from the Doctor Who thread, please click here. Check this out, too!A couple of fanvids from YouTube. Both contain many Season 2 spoilers. “The Ten Doctors”. This is an inventive little fanvid. Someone has come up with a plot for a story involving a team up of all ten Doctors, and has created a lengthy trailer for it! Don’t expect utter brilliance, but do expect clips from show’s entire history, with Doctors and companions superimposed in the same shot. Also included are audio clips from what sounds like an Elizabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) interview, interviews from the first of the new audio dramas, and some substantial chunks from the truly outstanding Sixth Doctor audio drama, “The One Doctor”. “The Hero”. A fanvid made up some clips of the good Doctor at his most heroic, to Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out For A Hero”. ;D This is good fun, but suffers slightly from a lack of source material (it’s mostly the Tenth Doctor). Also, it oddly ends with a ‘shipper theme. Having said all that, well worth a view.
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Post by Queen E on Oct 18, 2006 5:48:27 GMT -5
From dukestreet.org/archives/cat_doctor_who.htmlDoctor Who: The Doctor's New Suit There's a short article up on the offical Doctor Who site about season three. There are a few things immediately evident from it, and from the picture that's currently gracing the front page. First and foremost is that the Doctor's outfit is changing; it's still a suit, but now it's blue. It doesn't look completely horrendous, but I think it's a definite step down from the season 2 outfit (it isn't really a costume, is it?), which had definite class. Martha Jones is wearing a red leather (possibly leatherette) jacket with a zip, and an expression that says "I've got Attitude, I have". I have to say that while I'm more willing than some of the commenters here to give her a chance, that picture is really rather off-putting. RTD says of series three: The Doctor and Martha are destined to meet William Shakespeare, blood sucking alien Plasmavores, The Judoon - a clan of galactic stormtroopers and a sinister intelligence at work in 1930's New York. That sounds pretty decent. New stuff all round, and no mention of any of the plot threads he overused in season two. I can live with that. With regard to the Christmas special: ... guest stars Catherine Tate as a bride who finds her wedding day interrupted by an alien plot to destroy the earth [...]. The storyline features the return of the Robot Santas ... Well, yes, alien plots to destroy the earth will mess up your day, alright. Robot Santas, ah well, can't expect them to leave a perfectly good element for only one use. Everything must appear at least twice. And more often if it's good. I know there's an element of continuity to be attended to as well, but I'd prefer clean plot arcs rather than blatant re-use. The list of writers and actors looks good, and John Barrowman is appearing (presumably as Captain Jack again?) in the series finale, although I'm a bit surprised they've planned that far ahead already. Oddly, there's been no mention anywhere of a fourth season being confirmed yet, though we knew between series one and two that there would be a third. All fairly positive, anyway, and I'm looking forward to series three now.
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Post by Queen E on Oct 18, 2006 5:55:13 GMT -5
Barrowman hinted that viewers may have to be patient a while longer - the story will only be revealed a little at a time, with the other characters also providing insights into Jack's character. And over on 'Doctor Who', fans will have the chance to see how Captain Jack reacts to the tenth Doctor in season 3, as Barrowman has confirmed he will definitely be returning when the show begins filming later this year. www.gallifreyone.com/news.php
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Post by Onjel on Oct 18, 2006 9:12:00 GMT -5
"Army of Ghosts" spoilers: In a pre-title sequence, Rose announces that this is the last story she will ever tell – the story of how she died. Billy Piper is leaving the series. >snipped< I was very sad to see her go and the way in which it was handled had me in tears. *sigh* Why, exactly, did she leave the series? There has to be an article somewhere about that.
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