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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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NerfHerder · 16/05/2011 01:05

Hmm...hmm how did Donna become doctordonna? Wasn't it through the tardis?
Maybe if river's body/mind were not human in the first place, rather humanoid, then it could withstand the piece of TaRDIS soul inside?

And bronze- how do you come to be up at this hour?

AitchTwoOh · 16/05/2011 01:09

wasn't it regeneration energy discharged into the hand? i would be surprised to be correct here, i have no memory for these sorts of things.

bronze · 16/05/2011 01:11

Because my computer keeps setting itself back to being an hour out and I have only just noticed its after 1 not just after 12 Grin
Thank you I may just go to bed so I can actually get up for getting them to school

NerfHerder · 16/05/2011 01:23

ah yes- the hand!
I ccannot recall or fathom out how that works/worked. Time for sleep here too...

VforViennetta · 16/05/2011 02:15

I'm enjoying this series much more than the last one tbh, really liked The doctors Wife, the whole vibe is better (I wasn't a fan of series 5), Amy is so more believable.

I do think though that it's all a bit dark/involved, surely small children have no clue what's going on. After this whole River/silents/time can be re-written mega arc has wrapped up, they really need to give the arc thing a rest and have lots of self contained stories, which make actual sense.

I watched the DT one about the werewolves tonight and blimey, the difference is startling compared to say the standalone pirates one. You know like fleshed out characters and an actual proper storyline which progressed in a linear manner, wasn't perfect but it was interesting to compare.

I do like the arc thing in a way, small details being important, have to pay attention la la la, if I thought Moffat could draw everything together in a satisfactory conclusion I would be wetting my knickers in anticipation. After the lameness of the big bang though and his propensity for reusing ideas my gusset is bone dry, I fear this whole grand arc will collapse into timey wimey bollocks.

MilkNoSugarPlease · 16/05/2011 06:59

That episode was fantastic !!

Bunk bed bit was brilliant!

I didn't have high hopes for it after last weeks bollocks ! But I'm well and truely probes wrong!

bronze · 16/05/2011 07:40

"After the lameness of the big bang though and his propensity for reusing ideas my gusset is bone dry, I fear this whole grand arc will collapse into timey wimey bollocks."

Sentences you never thought you would write eh. I love em

BertieBotts · 16/05/2011 10:41

I wondered initially if River was the tardis as well - but then her being able to exist at the same time as the tardis does didn't make sense at all. And we know she uses a wrist belt thing to travel through time because the doctor uses it in the big bang, when his tardis is exploding (although - when does she give it to him? Did I miss that part?)

But I do wonder whether River is human, because of the way her guard was saying "Does he know who you are - what you are?" I wondered if maybe she was a timelord, but then would the doctor not be able to recognise that she was one?

I like the arcs, but Russell T Davies was better at writing the standalone episodes, I think. Although the pirates ep wasn't written by Moffat either. But one of the things I like about the show is that you can take each episode (or two parter) on it's own, and enjoy them, or watch the whole series for a deeper understanding of the whole story.

HarrietJones · 16/05/2011 11:49

The wrist thing was bought in a bar that some bloke got from the wrist of a time agent. Just like Capt Jack had!

NerfHerder · 16/05/2011 12:52

I confess to having never noticed River's wrist thingy... Blush oops. If I have, I've probably just assumed it was Jack's... unless she is an incarnation of Jack? (though I assume he's off being the Face of Boe somewhere)

I don't think River is human- a whole universe out there must have other humanoid species in it.

VforViennetta- great user name! DH and I have made that joke between ourselves before now...

The bunk bed thing made us roar too Grin

I'm wondering if the new bedroom will still have bunkbeds, only double width Wink

HarrietJones · 16/05/2011 13:15

Last series showed her buying it in a bar so she could track down the Doctor. Then the Dr uses it to jump around in time

AitchTwoOh · 16/05/2011 13:25

yes yes but if it is a secret that she is tardis-y, then she would have to conceal her time-travelling abilities from the doctor. and she always looks marvy when she tt's, while jack always looked like he'd come through a hedge backwards when he landed.

ps can i just say... i think john barrowman is AWFUL. i mean, i like him, dick emery-style, but he is basically shit.

ComeAlongPond · 16/05/2011 13:36

Ohh, I think I missed her buying it in a bar, Harriet. When did that happen?

HarrietJones · 16/05/2011 13:37

After she saw the painting of the tardis exploding.

AitchTwoOh · 16/05/2011 13:38

it was a quick scene, very much in the bar set up that is homage to star wars bar.

NerfHerder · 16/05/2011 13:40

Hmm- I missed it too Pond!

ComeAlongPond · 16/05/2011 14:41

I am still clueless. Hurray, an excuse to rewatch!

BertieBotts · 16/05/2011 16:05

Ah that makes sense. DS was jumping on me at the start of that episode which is probably what made me miss it.

If you let your DCs watch it, by the way, how old are they? DS is 2.5 and sort of got into it by accident but he loves the doctor and his "house" now and asks to watch it all the time. He doesn't seem to be scared by it or anything but I wasn't entirely sure it was appropriate.

HarrietJones · 16/05/2011 18:28

Dd2 has watched since CE & is 9 now. Lot of SMs monsters are psychologically scary so less likely to scare him?

BertieBotts · 16/05/2011 19:17

Yes that's what I was thinking, Harriet. The only bit he's been scared of so far was the man with the dog in the first episode of series 5.

DandyDan · 16/05/2011 19:41

Why are people saying "Helena Bonham Carter" would have played Idris really well and should have played her?

Yes, Idris had elements in her costume/hair/initially batty personality that bore similarities to HBC characters but really Suranne played the part perfectly as she was.

I love HBC but why can't we congratulate the ruddy actor who actually played the part in reality, to perfection, I thought... HBC would have been too famous, too quirky, too batty (as in Merlin, Harry Potter, Hamlet etc) and Suranne was just right. It was a classic episode, with the one negative that they keep killing Rory, as if it's a theme. It's becoming dull and predictable that Amy will nearly lose him, then not. Come the end of their time in the Tardis, I would hope that they would go off happy somewhere or Amy would not survive and Rory would carry on with a new person in the Tardis.

TrillianAstra · 16/05/2011 19:43

Why have you put her name in quotes? It's a bit odd, as if you don't believe that's what she is really called or something.

cocolepew · 16/05/2011 19:47

That episode was brilliant. DD thought Idris was HBC.

NerfHerder · 16/05/2011 22:39

Neil Gaiman's Q&A session here btw for the Guardian...

bronze · 16/05/2011 22:58

I thought Suranne did a fab job too

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