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Dr Who, was that a load of cack or what?

152 replies

Chirpygirl · 30/06/2007 19:56

That wasn't worth bribing DH to go up and see to DD for.
Am thoroughly disappointed in Russell t Davies!

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MamaMaiasaura · 30/06/2007 22:38

At the end. As Jack leaves he says it

Boco · 30/06/2007 22:38

So what exactly did he say as he was leaving?

LyraB · 30/06/2007 22:39

Ah, ds1 was having a spaghetti-stuck-up-his-nose incident at the end.

lemonaid · 30/06/2007 22:39

Right near the end, when he'd been chatting to the Doctor and Martha about what would happen to him, what with being immortal but still aging, and casually at the end mentioned that he was from a small place called Boe and had been the first person from there accepted into the Time Corps. It was a big deal for the locals and he'd been called "The Face of Boe". Then he wandered off, completely oblivious of the significance of what he'd said...

foxinsocks · 30/06/2007 22:40

it was a throw away comment

can't remember exactly but he said something like, his nickname was the Face of Boe because he was the first person to join the agency from Boe or something like that....

foxinsocks · 30/06/2007 22:40

ooh lemonaid said it better

foxinsocks · 30/06/2007 22:41

my children are very pleased (the real Dr Who fans in this house) - they loved the Face of Boe!

LyraB · 30/06/2007 22:41

So how does he go from being dashing Captain Jack to a huge face in a jar?

lemonaid · 30/06/2007 22:43

That will be revealed over the next several billion series...

SaintGeorge · 30/06/2007 22:49

The Face of Boe didn't die of old age. He gave up his life force to save New Earth.

foxinsocks · 30/06/2007 22:50

he was already dying though

SaintGeorge · 30/06/2007 22:59

Hmmm, I thought he was dying because he been using his life force to keep the place going.

He was ill in a previous episode, but recovered. Seems he was just a bit fed up and had given up the will to live, but reconsidered and so get better.

Ah shit. I'm outing myself as a Dr geek.

foxinsocks · 30/06/2007 23:03

I will bow to your superior knowledge St G!

cornsilk · 30/06/2007 23:08

I thought John Simm was brilliant. I like Martha best when she's not mooning after the doctor so liked her in this one too.

SaintGeorge · 30/06/2007 23:10

The Face of Boe is the kids favourite character, so maybe I just got a bit too engrossed in the back story.

foxinsocks · 30/06/2007 23:10

yes, I don't like the Martha swooning either. Although I quite enjoy the Jack swooning in a totally fag hag way.

foxinsocks · 30/06/2007 23:11

lol - it's out there St G. No getting it back now.

Face of Boe was my children's fave too - they adored him.

cornsilk · 30/06/2007 23:12

Jack swoons with style!

singersgirl · 30/06/2007 23:13

DS1 (8) cried at the idea of Captain Jack being The Face of Boe. Also, we all want to know how his face gets so big just by being very, very old.

When time was reversed to two minutes after the President died, why weren't all the aides and camera people etc back on the ship?

We were a bit disappointed; last week's episode was brilliant, I thought, and this was a bit of a let-down. Still, looking forward to Mrs Master becoming The Mistress.

bookwormmum · 30/06/2007 23:16

I thought Jack said he was born in 1892 last week when they discovered his immortality before they sent him into the nuclear room? Now he's the face of Boe (who is dead anyway?).

Bit of a cop-out rewinding time IMHO. When history was interfered with by Rose, it caused a split in the vortex or something and had to be corrected by her Dad deliberately getting himself killed so as to correct it (even though he wasn't really dead but living on another planet working for someone else etc). So how can the Doctor just rewind time today and no consquences?

cornsilk · 30/06/2007 23:18

Yes I wondered how Jack ended up being just a big pickled face. Poor love.
My ds missed it and is watching it tomorrow. I am really excited for him as he loves it when bits of the show link up. He loved the bad wolf bit and is always listening out for Torchwood.

bookwormmum · 30/06/2007 23:21

My brother (who is a real Dr Who geek - he knows most of the back scripts off by heart) said they've been too clever and have screwed up some continuity lines with what they've done in the current series - also that it's running too quickly, compared to previous incarnations ie the major used to have the Dr explain what was happening/what he intended to do as a dramatic device for the audience to catch on as well. Interesting thought.

AttilaTheMum · 30/06/2007 23:22

But Rose changed the normal course of time, which isn't allowed - the Doctor was putting time back on it's normal track, after the Master chagnged history by bringing the Utopia humans back.
Also, Jack wasn't born in 1892, that's where he ended up after his first encounter with the Doctor & he then lived through the twentieth century waiting for him - which presumably means he was in WW2 twice.....

singersgirl · 30/06/2007 23:24

Think DS1 has a bit of a crush on John Barrowman. He keeps changing my desktop picture to the Captain in a variety of fetching attitudes.

Yes, agree the messianic doctor in a kind of Silver Surfer avatar didn't really do it for me.

singersgirl · 30/06/2007 23:25

Oh, and he said he'd been in WW2 3 times, I think - his original life, his 'reborn Time Vortex' life and then his return in that episode of Torchwood.