Doctor Who

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[azureskies]

They didn't. I've heard rumours about what happens. It's... not good.

[coalescent]

They kept it secret enough that it wasn't all over the press, which I'd have thought it would be.

To be fair, the current speculation here is what sort of get-out clause they're going to use, not who the new actor is going to be.

[communicator]

Yeah, us too

[coalescent]

I think you're right about the hand and the DNA bollocks. At the moment I'm mostly hoping that there's going to be some spin on the Donna-dies-leading-to-reset hints that makes it not utterly predictable.

[pikelet]

Holy shitting fuck.

[coalescent]

You enjoyed it, then? :-p

[pikelet]

I don't know if I would go that far - mine is an agnostic 'holy shitting fuck'.

[pikelet]

Also, re: your third question - Daleks, in 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth'. That's why he's not really surprised when everyone starts blathering at him about Daleks on the scanner. Re: your second question, no, and I think it's just one of many awful attempts at shoehorning in Far Too Much.

But still. Y'know. Holy shitting fuck.

[grahamsleight]

I'm mostly going with "many awful attempts", less with the "holy shitting fuck".

[grahamsleight]

Re 3, surely the answer is that Earth/Ravolox was stolen by the Time Lords in "Trial of my patience a Time Lord"? In "Dalek Invasion of Earth", they didn't actually manage to steal it, right?

[pikelet]

I think the line was that 'someone tried to move the Earth once before'. I'm sure someone with iPlayer access can confirm/deny.

[secritcrush]

It was a terrible episode and a big reset button is sooo in the future.

[coalescent]

I thought it was quite fun, in a completely overblown way. But I agree that a reset has to be coming -- (a) I don't believe they'd really manage to keep it secret, and (b) I don't believe RTD is able to do a finale without a reset!

[sharp_blue]

I suspect that it'll be a mega-reset that undoes the entire Time War.

[grahamsleight]

I'm in two minds about that. On the one hand, it'd mean we get gazillions of Daleks back in creation as a whole (along with Gallifrey, admittedly): hardly a net victory. But on the other, the Doctor did say that the war was "time-locked" - for the first time, I think. And where there's a lock, there's a key.

[iainjclark]

1. Precisely. So it's totally not happening.

2. It's big, it's red, and it's a button. IMHO.

3. 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth' in William Hartnell's era, aka the film 'Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150AD'.

4. It made no sense and was bollocks.

5. Yes. We're getting very very old.

6. From what Jack said, there was a forcefield round the Earth. I suppose it could go around all the planets, and then they could in fact sail between them in a Bob Shaw stylee -- which would be cool, but seems a bit unlikely.

7. I don't really see how that makes it cheap. It's just picking up on something and stitching it into the fiction. As "ripped from the headlines" stories go it's not exactly rivalling Spooks.

8. Apparently. Run by Albino people supported by Space Rhinos. Who knew?

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7. Because in real life it's probably something caused by human activity, and it's been presented as Not Our Fault.

[predictivememo]

3. 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth' in William Hartnell's era, aka the film 'Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150AD'.

TY for saving me a trip to IMBD, I wasn't sure and was gonna ask...