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Didn't rate this week's episode I'm afraid... was like a load of am-dram hacks shouting at each other for 40 minutes. Shades of the Impossible Planet, The Thing and Lifepod, if I'm not mistaken...

The opening SFX reminded me of the scene-setting shots that you used to see in Red Dwarf, too.

Next week looks like fun though!
 
DAC47 – I don't think... a red Dalek has actually been featured before, apart from in the two Peter Cushing Dalek films that aren't proper Doctor Who. The first thing that occurred to me when I saw that picture was that it looks like those big clamp things are designed to allow the upper part of the casing to open up.

I also note it has an extra 'bulb' on the back of its head, and is missing the regulation Dalek plunger... my guess is that it's either some top-ranking Dalek Lieutenant-type, and/or there's something (or someone) inside there that's going to be part of a big reveal.

As for last night's episode, I quite enjoyed it. What struck me was it can't have been that draining on the budget, with a small cast, only a couple of CGI shots and essentially only one set. Hopefully they'll be blowing the cash they saved on lots more red Daleks. :D
 
I enjoyed this week's episode as well. Simple, yet engaging - it definitely kept my interest for the whole episode. Nice to see an RTD story that wasn't insanely sappy and an eye-roller, as many of his usually are. :p ;)

Next week's episode looks great from the preview - it appears as though we will effectively have another 3-part season finale this year just as we did last year, which is excellent. Let's just hope it all resolves better than last years. :eek: ;)
 
Loved this week's episode simply because it defied convention. The snappy cuts, the rushed pacing of typical TV was thrown out the window. It was done more as a play than as modern television which I thought was fantastic.

Definitely creepy, but didn't get me hinding behind the couch as other episodes have. I had to rewatch Blink after this episode just to remind me what it feels like to get a good scare.
 
Cool that we had the (fifth) Doctor's daughter a few weeks ago, now we get the (second) Doctor's son. ;) It's the Doctor Who family reunion show!

Anyway, nice episode; reminded me a lot of "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" from The Twilight Zone (also a good ep). And I think we've had more episodes on alien planets this series than the previous three put together...not Yet Another Space Station/Ship (or London/Cardiff, of course). Just like old times!

--Eric
 
Enjoyed the episode this week, I think Tate did a pretty good job of holding her own. Though unless my memory is playing tricks on me, did Max Capricorn completely miscalculate how many people the Titanic crash would kill? :confused:
 
Just one question occurs to me... when Donna jumps back into her own past to change the decision, she magically appears in the middle of the street in modern day London, shouting and talking to herself.

This isn't too much of a problem, except... she's wearing a big, heavy, long overcoat, with wires and batteries running over it, and a large digital display bleeping away conspicuously...

Good job she didn't have to use the Tube to get where she was going... :eek:
 
CortexRock... I thought it a little odd that no one seemed to notice her sudden appearance too, but I suppose that – given the time travel technology was based on stuff they'd gleaned from studying the TARDIS – there could be a perception filter-type thing going on.

One thing that really did highlight how terrible... the world without the Doctor was... as if it wasn't bad enough having your home blown up by a flying Titanic and having practically everyone you know killed, you're then sent to Leeds! Words just can't describe how horrible such a fate must be.

Oh, and... that cockroachy alien thing looked awful. You just know there was a stagehand crouching beneath the camera wiggling it. :D
 
The thing I'm left with is...

..was tonight's episode a clue to what is actually going on? The Roman soothsayers saw something on Donna's back before the events in tonight's episode. The Doctor also made the comment that there was something special about Donna and alternative realities. Are events in the entire series revolving around her as with the sub-timeline because she already has one of these things attached? Was tonight a bubble universe inside a bubble universe, and is that why she has to die, to prevent the timeline where the multiverse is destroyed?
 
Oh yes, and slightly related....

What the hell was wrong with Rose's mouth? It was almost as if her lower face was botoxed!! :eek:
 
I have a question...
in the alternative timeline The Doctor was killed defeating the Racnos, Martha and Sarah Jane died in the Hospital on the moon and the Torchwood team took out the Sontarans
Er... so who stopped The Master?

anyway i probably need to re-watch the episode, Catherine Tate was really good

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next weeks trailer
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You know...

...when the Doctor regenerated – do you remember the first thing he said to Rose?

"New teeth... that is weird."

Obviously he was seeing into Rose's future and whatever's happened to her gob – they've been planning this for years! :eek:

DAC47... I would guess there never was a Master to stop. Without the Doctor and Martha's intervention he never opened the fob watch, and so died as Professor Yana. Even if he did become the Master once again, he wouldn't have returned to Martha's London and become PM, as it was the destination fused TARDIS that took him there.
 
I'm so happy that Martha died :D I know its gone back to normal and shes still alive but just for a half an episode the world was rid of her :)

The Rose and Donna relationship was great, I can't wait for them to meet again.

The London and refugee situation was fantastically written, the way UNIT found a way to use the tardis to hoot up to their own machines to use as a time machine was great also!
 
Also...
If the TARDIS was "salvaged from the Thames" then wouldn't it be kept in London resulting in it getting destroyed/unreachable in the Titanic crash?
 
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