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Y HALO THAR CHURCHILL
"Time to roll out the BBC's secret toy line."
5:1 odds that by the time the doctor goes back to Amy's time, he'll actually be on time rather than late. 16 years late, then 2 years now a month so the next time... Though maybe I'm just engaging in numerology.
A daylight bombing raid over london?
Nice poster.
They can carry stuff, so are daleks a natural side effect of super advanced roombas? duh.
"I. Am. Your. Soldier." and the daloktor crackship is launched? one has a sucky attachment and can make tea, the other is the daleks and they certainly have foeyay between them. ANYTHING with a sucky attachment deserves crackfics surely?
Morally accurate churchill, but not personality accurate - churchill did not grasp the concept of fear, or at least wouldn't display it. he was like the chuck norris of the 19th century.
Proof of ship: It is now canon that the doctor whips a big tool out and tries to beat off a dalek, and the dalek just lets him, complete with standard foeyay emotional confusion and "why can't I give you up" type angry hatecestuous emoting from both participants.
That entire scene is practically the definition of foeyay.
srsly tho: Once again, Matt Smitth is awesome - the awesome dalek hatred from 9, and the pain and fury that eccleston added to the character all balled up and let loose, but with that wonderful hyperactive physicality to the roll that is Smith's. Nice.
Shyamalan sci-fi third act plot twist: The Robot Reveal.
Churchill as companion lolwut. For the man who gassed the kurds before Saddam Hussein ruined chemical weapon based genocide for everyone, travel with the doctor would... end less than well if the doctor had to put up with him for too long.
PH33R Teh JAMMY DODGER OF DOOM PUNY DALEKS!
Note Smith's acting in this scene is made up almost entirely of talking calmly and standing still - because I know people are criticising Smith for being too shouty and jumpy SOMEWHERE ON THE INTERNET so I'm just pointing out; most of this episode's role actually involves him being very still and quiet, and he pulls it off quite well.Though not as well as he pulls off a dalek
You know who likes light pollution? Hitler. Turn off the lights when you leave a room kids.
Mighty Morphing Power Daleks! Damn, I hope the episode kills these off, as I kind of liked the beat up old dad's dalek army better than these shiny neon ones.
And RTD's canon is disintegrated in three quick bursts of xray. Woo!
FYI: This whole space flight bit makes no sense and is impossible, and yet I am not quite complaining.
Two impossible choices, third choice is... so what was that business about "the shields will be down for only a short time"? exposition is a free action apparently.
UST can stop explosions. TRU FAX. This is clearly why bomb disposal teams mainly recruit unmarried men. Only the unspoken UST of the Nerdly Nice Guy™ can defuse a bomb.
So no third choice. Hmm.
umm... an iwo jima homage... why? CHURCHILL CONQUERS LONDON, what? No seriously, WHAT!? WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE EPISODE TELL US, TELLLLLLL UUUUUSSSSS.
Y HALO THAR WEEPY LADY, Somebody important for the future just failed to be born.
Don't fuck with the Robo-scotty's head! Bad Doctor! though shouldn't you at least leave him somewhere the HUMAN SHAPED BOMB THAT EXPLODES IN REPONSE TO FEELING SAD might be safely left?
I'm still torn on whether seeing the crack at the end of every episode is more or less subtl than Rose's appearances during season 4. If it turns out the crack was an old companion I will laugh, as that would be insane.
OH SHIT, RIVER SONG AND THE WEEPING ENGELS. HUH. did not see them both coming at the same time.
shutupbrain, you don't want to play the game, it will suck.
It was an okay episode, the impression that the series was required by higher ups to bring the daleks back in a shiny new toy-friendly form is left upon the mind of the viewer, but it's not a bad episode per se - if this is the worst that moffatiem has in store for us, then this season will still be made of awesome - though if this is one of the better episodes we're screwed. The trouble is that the companions and everyone else actually kind of get pushed to the side, and technobabble, mcguffins and CGI set peices that don't involve a great deal of interaction with the actual cast are the focus of the episode, and the daleks failed to inspire fear, loathing or hatred, they acted mainly out of self defence or due to them not really grasping that earth didn't have ICBMs or nukes yet, and thus the human race might survive a single bombing raid focused on london - lots of stuff was like that and you get the impression very much that it was an attempt at putting 2 gallons of tension in a 1 gallon episode, and lots of things spilling over and not really doing anything or fitting and the rationales for them not really making any sense. Lots of stuff just seemed to happen and occur, and dramatically that doesn't really work. But the bits that did work? Those worked HARD.
non-white character deaths for this entire season = 1, total deaths for this season = 5, so the COC/White Character death ratio is 1:4, a better than average ratio actually (a practically unheard of one actually). Cue the dailyfail declaring reverse racism.
"Time to roll out the BBC's secret toy line."
5:1 odds that by the time the doctor goes back to Amy's time, he'll actually be on time rather than late. 16 years late, then 2 years now a month so the next time... Though maybe I'm just engaging in numerology.
A daylight bombing raid over london?
Nice poster.
They can carry stuff, so are daleks a natural side effect of super advanced roombas? duh.
"I. Am. Your. Soldier." and the daloktor crackship is launched? one has a sucky attachment and can make tea, the other is the daleks and they certainly have foeyay between them. ANYTHING with a sucky attachment deserves crackfics surely?
Morally accurate churchill, but not personality accurate - churchill did not grasp the concept of fear, or at least wouldn't display it. he was like the chuck norris of the 19th century.
Proof of ship: It is now canon that the doctor whips a big tool out and tries to beat off a dalek, and the dalek just lets him, complete with standard foeyay emotional confusion and "why can't I give you up" type angry hatecestuous emoting from both participants.
That entire scene is practically the definition of foeyay.
srsly tho: Once again, Matt Smitth is awesome - the awesome dalek hatred from 9, and the pain and fury that eccleston added to the character all balled up and let loose, but with that wonderful hyperactive physicality to the roll that is Smith's. Nice.
Shyamalan sci-fi third act plot twist: The Robot Reveal.
Churchill as companion lolwut. For the man who gassed the kurds before Saddam Hussein ruined chemical weapon based genocide for everyone, travel with the doctor would... end less than well if the doctor had to put up with him for too long.
PH33R Teh JAMMY DODGER OF DOOM PUNY DALEKS!
Note Smith's acting in this scene is made up almost entirely of talking calmly and standing still - because I know people are criticising Smith for being too shouty and jumpy SOMEWHERE ON THE INTERNET so I'm just pointing out; most of this episode's role actually involves him being very still and quiet, and he pulls it off quite well.
You know who likes light pollution? Hitler. Turn off the lights when you leave a room kids.
Mighty Morphing Power Daleks! Damn, I hope the episode kills these off, as I kind of liked the beat up old dad's dalek army better than these shiny neon ones.
And RTD's canon is disintegrated in three quick bursts of xray. Woo!
FYI: This whole space flight bit makes no sense and is impossible, and yet I am not quite complaining.
Two impossible choices, third choice is... so what was that business about "the shields will be down for only a short time"? exposition is a free action apparently.
UST can stop explosions. TRU FAX. This is clearly why bomb disposal teams mainly recruit unmarried men. Only the unspoken UST of the Nerdly Nice Guy™ can defuse a bomb.
So no third choice. Hmm.
umm... an iwo jima homage... why? CHURCHILL CONQUERS LONDON, what? No seriously, WHAT!? WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE EPISODE TELL US, TELLLLLLL UUUUUSSSSS.
Y HALO THAR WEEPY LADY, Somebody important for the future just failed to be born.
Don't fuck with the Robo-scotty's head! Bad Doctor! though shouldn't you at least leave him somewhere the HUMAN SHAPED BOMB THAT EXPLODES IN REPONSE TO FEELING SAD might be safely left?
I'm still torn on whether seeing the crack at the end of every episode is more or less subtl than Rose's appearances during season 4. If it turns out the crack was an old companion I will laugh, as that would be insane.
OH SHIT, RIVER SONG AND THE WEEPING ENGELS. HUH. did not see them both coming at the same time.
shutupbrain, you don't want to play the game, it will suck.
It was an okay episode, the impression that the series was required by higher ups to bring the daleks back in a shiny new toy-friendly form is left upon the mind of the viewer, but it's not a bad episode per se - if this is the worst that moffatiem has in store for us, then this season will still be made of awesome - though if this is one of the better episodes we're screwed. The trouble is that the companions and everyone else actually kind of get pushed to the side, and technobabble, mcguffins and CGI set peices that don't involve a great deal of interaction with the actual cast are the focus of the episode, and the daleks failed to inspire fear, loathing or hatred, they acted mainly out of self defence or due to them not really grasping that earth didn't have ICBMs or nukes yet, and thus the human race might survive a single bombing raid focused on london - lots of stuff was like that and you get the impression very much that it was an attempt at putting 2 gallons of tension in a 1 gallon episode, and lots of things spilling over and not really doing anything or fitting and the rationales for them not really making any sense. Lots of stuff just seemed to happen and occur, and dramatically that doesn't really work. But the bits that did work? Those worked HARD.
non-white character deaths for this entire season = 1, total deaths for this season = 5, so the COC/White Character death ratio is 1:4, a better than average ratio actually (a practically unheard of one actually). Cue the dailyfail declaring reverse racism.
