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Doctor Who series 6 (split between Spring and Autumn)

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Ripeberry · 26/03/2011 22:17

What do you think of this? And when does it start? Could you stand the wait over the summer, or is it a godsend?

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teej · 09/05/2011 18:07

Arcadie you have mail.
bucaneve thank you so much for the reminder - i had forgotten it was on tonight! i remember watching the episode at the time and being Shock at the storyline - mind you, spoilers weren't quite so prevalent back then so you were able to take each episode on its own merit with no preconceptions!
still can't quite believe she's gone Sad

cocolepew · 09/05/2011 20:24

The pirate one was poop. Even DD wasn't impressed.

BehindLockNumberNine · 09/05/2011 20:28

We did not enjoy the pirate episode in this house. The pirate story was weak and the other bits did nothing except confuse us (that was probably the point)
Who is hatch woman??

teej if you are still sending spoiler links, could you send one my way? Please please please?

Will give you Brew and Wine Grin

teej · 09/05/2011 22:42

poop on the poopdeck, eh coco?

the pirate episode was harmless - but in dr who that can be fairly damning! although i did nearly fall off my chair (for obvious reasons) when the doctor asked the cap'n if he was compensating for something with the gun!

also people do spot the inconsistencies in plot eg disappearing shipmate. i'm sure some are there for the overall storyarc but others i think come from trying to fit too much into the slot and it just ends up looking a little sloppy. they need to sort out the editing or twist arms at BBC, BBC America and all the other broadcasters to allow for a bit more time.

teej · 09/05/2011 22:49

Behind you have mail!
I am normally totally against spoilers (I just looked at that link for the cast interviews and ended up spoiled by default) but am easily bribed to share with tea and wine Grin

mumatron · 10/05/2011 12:24

teej pm the link pretty please!

fantus · 10/05/2011 12:44

Ooh, ooh, what did I say? Was it the bit about the hands or the bit about Amy being different? Can't believe I might have hit on something, as I said I am rubbish at these things!

bronze · 10/05/2011 12:48

teej and me pretty please with fish custard on top

teej · 10/05/2011 13:41

sorry fantus it was the bit about this series being confusing! Blush

teej · 10/05/2011 13:47

mumatron and bronze you have mail!

BTW - anyone else UNFEASIBLY OVEREXCITED about the Gaiman episode?

fantus · 10/05/2011 14:48

Oh well, I find them all confusing! I still haven't quite figured out Bad Wolf and that was aaaagges ago!

And don't get me started on the Dr / River timeline saga - type - thingy
I need diagrams, pie charts and a degree in physics to understand that one

BertieBotts · 10/05/2011 20:46

Teej I'm glad you're against spoilers, I don't like them either :) Was so annoyed with all the stuff that kept coming up on the Doctor Who facebook page that I "unliked" it!

Wasn't bad wolf just code name for torchwood?

bronze · 10/05/2011 20:49

Managed the first part Teej, will look at the rest later
Thank you

ComeAlongPond · 10/05/2011 21:05

Are there spoilers on the Doctor Who fb page then, Bertie? Oh dear, I liked that the other day.

I WILL manage to get to the end of the series without spoilers!

BertieBotts · 10/05/2011 21:55

Well I might have overreacted. It was one image which was a magazine cover with a title which may have been spoilery (or may have been a play on words intended to be faux-spoilery) But it annoyed me.

Have you seen Mark Watches Doctor Who? (He watches and reads various other series as well, starting His Dark Materials next week! :)) They have a very strict spoiler policy. You're not even allowed to discuss the trailer at the end of the episode for "Next week...". It's the only site I go on to discuss DW except this thread!

teej · 10/05/2011 23:14

I am avoiding as much as possible - haven't even looked at the FB page never mind joined it. But I did look at DS's Doctor Who Adventures magazine and think - is it even safe to readhismagwhenhisbackisturned glance over his shoulder while he's reading it, just in case? That's bad.

I mean, it's like a personal challenge for me this season to figure out wtf is going on iykwim.

BTW - didn't Rose call herself Bad Wolf and leave markers through time and space to direct her to the time and place where she would wipe out the daleks in revenge for them trying to kill Doc 9? (Apart from those sneaky ones who always manage to escape/be somewhere else at the time/survive to come back and try and kill the doctor/ wipe out the whole of time and space again Wink)

teej · 10/05/2011 23:18

fantus even the doctor and river need props to understand their own timeline so i wouldn't worry about that one Grin

and no, i don't buy the exact chronological reverse theory, even though that's what River seemed to be saying. as well all know by now, time isn't a straight line, it's more of a timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly...thing - to paraphrase our current show-runner/doc 10 Wink

BertieBotts · 11/05/2011 00:09

I think fantus that because the doctor jumps around in time so much, it's just that each time they come across each other he happens to be a little older and she happens to be a little younger - that is how we will see it in the doctor's timeline anyway. Like how he can go to the 51st century one week, and the 15th century the next. I don't think River jumps around so much because her method of time travel (the wrist strap thing) is less reliable than the TARDIS.

But it was explained in one episode that they don't always meet in exact reverse. So say she didn't move around at all, if she was born in 1973, the doctor might come across her in this order going by "his" timeline ie the order we see things happen on the programme:

2005
2003
2002
1997
2000
1996
1992
2004
1989
1988

So at his first meeting, she has all the memories from 1988-2004, but he has never met her before. Then it goes on with him having met her once or twice and she still has most of the memories of him, through to a time where they both know each other well (which it seems to be coming to now in the series) and then it will tail off again, he'll start to meet her younger and younger, if he saw her in 1992 (in my timeline) she'd only have met him twice before, and when he comes across her in 1988, she doesn't know who he is at all but he remembers everything about her.

Although I have a theory - and I hope - just from what River said in the library episode, that the last time they met up they had a picnic and it was perfect and he cried. I think that will be one of the very last meetings, something he remembers her saying and chooses to go back and do as a sort of last goodbye. - hence the random 2004 in there. That would be really nice as both of them would be in the same place for once, a bit sad though.

bronze · 11/05/2011 08:51

Now you've made me all sad Bertie

fantus · 11/05/2011 10:03

teej - I caught the tail end of that episode where Rose said that she had left the messages for herself - just didn't understand the how / why bit. I love the way it all links in, the beach where they have the last meeting being called bad wolf bay (and didn't it sound like Dalek in Norwegian (was it Norwegian?))

Bertie - thanks for that. I will read it over a few times so that it sinks in!

ComeAlongPond · 11/05/2011 10:20

Timeline of River and the Doctor:

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BertieBotts · 11/05/2011 13:09

Pond - Lol!

Sorry bronze! I have to say the River/doctor storyline is what got me back into it again. I think the last episode I watched just happened to be the library one where she appears for the first time, then to skip straight to the first two of this season. Matt Smith and Alex Kingston have such great chemistry on-screen too. I want more! Even the inevitable heartbreaking ending :(

bronze · 11/05/2011 13:15

I know, I love them too. That's why it makes me sad. I'm not very good at endings

bronze · 11/05/2011 13:15

I know, I love them too. That's why it makes me sad. I'm not very good at endings

bronze · 11/05/2011 13:15

whoops