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atszyman said:
I could buy that theory other than the fact it's already been done once and seems unnecessary by your own reasoning, unless the Daleks take advantage of the regeneration recovery time to kill everyone..
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Completely agree. If the finale went this route then this is, in a way, no different than the events in "Turn Left". Been there, done that. Plus, even the whole "rewriting history" thing has been done before, by Rose, which I might add was in a season finale involving the Daleks, so once again, "been there, done that". ;)
 
Pretty sure the shadow proclamation person only made reference to Donna having had something on her back i.e. rather than another trickster being there - would be pretty lame if they pulled that old card in rapid succession.

I still can't believe that even the combined forces of the universe all thinking 'Doctor' at the same time could make RTD make a decent finale but we live in hope.
 
Stardotboy said:
Pretty sure the shadow proclamation person only made reference to Donna having had something on her back i.e. rather than another trickster being there - would be pretty lame if they pulled that old card in rapid succession.
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I agree, it would too much of a cop-out. And yes, the reference was in the past tense I believe - "had", not "have".

Stardotboy said:
I still can't believe that even the combined forces of the universe all thinking 'Doctor' at the same time could make RTD make a decent finale but we live in hope.
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Heh heh, I hear ya, but I must admit his last two stories (Turn Left and Midnight) both pleasantly surprised me. For me, everything rests on how this cliffhanger is resolved - it will either be an amazing finale as a result, or and eye-roller that will leave a sour taste in my mouth, I'm thinking... :eek:

And the more and more I think about it, I can't see how this will indeed be a true regeneration. Being picked off by a random Dalek, well, the Doctor deserves better, and I'm sure something would have leaked out about a new actor stepping in. Plus, Tennant has supposedly already filmed for the next special... So, if they do pull some regeneration trickery, this does indeed concern me. To me it's one of those sacred Doctor Who elements you simply don't f@#$ with. ;) :D
 
I've heard some two versions of the Doctor rumours too... suffice to say I'm feeling a little uneasy about that. I could imagine it ending like DHUK suggests, in that one of them stays with Rose because the Doctor loves Rose blah blah blah. :rolleyes: ;)

Next Saturday is either going to be quite, quite ace or bloody annoying. Don't mess with our regenerations please, Mr Davies.
 
atszyman said:
I could buy that theory other than the fact it's already been done once and seems unnecessary by your own reasoning, unless the Daleks take advantage of the regeneration recovery time to kill everyone..
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The Doctor is somewhat useless during his recovery time and even though he's got tons of humans helping him out, they cant defeat the Daleks on their own.
But what about Martha's special device? What can it do? Is it like what the ninth doctor almost used to wipe out the Daleks and ALL living things as well? Or maybe something more like Jacks vortex manipulator?
 
Lyddiegal said:
The Doctor is somewhat useless during his recovery time and even though he's got tons of humans helping him out, they cant defeat the Daleks on their own.
But what about Martha's special device? What can it do? Is it like what the ninth doctor almost used to wipe out the Daleks and ALL living things as well? Or maybe something more like Jacks vortex manipulator?
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My biggest question:
Jack and Rose both have guns that can blow apart a Dalek. For the love of God, why don't they arm U.N.I.T. soldiers with these weapons or have more than two of them? It seems if they were to actually build more than 2 of those guns maybe the world wouldn't be so helpless against the Daleks?
 
It might be the case that... they're alien tech. Rose works for her universe's version of Torchwood, so both her and the good Captain have access to some exotic not-of-this-world kit that perhaps the boffins haven't been able to replicate.
 
DAC47 said:
Fortunately I have line of sight to the local transmitter so I can use the EyeTV DTT with an internal aerial and a signal booster. I occasional get some interference in the winter on the some of the underpowered multiplexs (usually the one that Channel 5 uses) but i almost always get an excellent picture on the BBC Channels.

The only trouble is that you have to keep on top of what you've recorded otherwise your hard drive fills up pretty quick ( One episode of Top Gear takes up 2.3GB Dr Who takes up 1.8GB)
the really cool thing is because it records in Mpeg2 you can burn programmes to DVD using Toast without having to re-encode the file giving you really good picture quality.

I've had it for almost 3 years now and use it almost every day i hardly bother to turn on my TV any more i just watch every thing on my 20" imac.
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Cool! Time for me to move house I guess :(

Although some sort of cable hookup for EyeTV would also be cool!
 
Jaffa Cake said:
It might be the case that... they're alien tech. Rose works for her universe's version of Torchwood, so both her and the good Captain have access to some exotic not-of-this-world kit that perhaps the boffins haven't been able to replicate.
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Possible but they successfully replicated alien tech when What's-her-face, ex-Prime Minister, was in charge to shoot the aliens in the Xmas special out of the sky.

You'd think they'd at least have some prototypes or pseudo-replicas that might be of more use than handguns against the Daleks.
 
atszyman said:
Possible but they successfully replicated alien tech when What's-her-face, ex-Prime Minister, was in charge to shoot the aliens in the Xmas special out of the sky.

You'd think they'd at least have some prototypes or pseudo-replicas that might be of more use than handguns against the Daleks.
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Technically they also seem to have been able to replicate Sontaran technology with Project Indigo, proving that it can in fact be done. That being said, even Torchwood themselves have not been able to replicate/comprehend certain technologies (e.g. the resurrection glove), while still understanding and using other alien technology, so you probably have to take these things on a case by case basis. ;) :)
 
~Shard~ said:
Technically they also seem to have been able to replicate Sontaran technology with Project Indigo, proving that it can in fact be done.
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And they did the thing with the TARDIS in Turn Left.

Anyway, the more I think about it, the more I can see Donna going back in time to save the Doctor. Either she will use the TARDIS with help from Rose (who flew it once or helped to fly it, if I recall correctly) or use Jack's time travel device (which would mean that none of the others would be able to go back with her) to land in front of the Dalek right before it shoots the Doctor, and Jack arrives to shoot it (two birds killed with one stone; Donna dead, Dalek Killed, Doctor saved), then the Donna in the new Universe created where the Doctor doesn't die still continues to live, the Doctor meets Rose, they chat over a cup of tea, introduce Martha and Donna, kill Davros, Martha sacrifices herself with that key thing to kill the rest of the Daleks, the end, Donna returns home after being traumatized at seeing herself killed, Jack continues to be a pr*ck :)P) and returns to Torchwood where Gwen and Ianto survive miraculously, and Billie Piper returns to Doctor who because the ratings dropped when she left. Tah Dah! :p hehe.

Well I'm hoping at least the Donna thing is right :p

I'm just annoyed that they made this a two parter again. A story like this really should last two or three episodes, like the other finales. The series one finale was great, then the second series went downhill as they tried to cram something so awesome into two episodes (I mean, you need at least an episodes of Daleks going around London and killing Cybermen and civilians, rather than that annoying CGI flying over London with no real battle shots.)
Then last series, the whole Master thing could have been padded out a bit, rather than there just being "a year later". It would have been nice to see the take-over of the humans, and the building of the rockets, and Martha going around to see all the people in the other countries, and a non-cop out ending of everything being reverted back to normal.
I just sense Russell T Davies doing a similar cop-out ending of this, with a "This will destroy every Dalek, put the Earth back in it's normal place, and then it'll be like nothing ever happened!". But hopefully not. Maybe I'm just being overly critical of recent Who.
 
At this point nobody seems to know anything about the finale
Seems BBC Wales have finally instituted an Apple like policy to plug the leeks(BBC Wales..Leeks...get it...oh i'll get me coat:eek:)

Anyway im willing to bet we won't have a new doctor on Saturday
 
question is what are we to do until the next show at X-mas :eek:

all this waiting this year for shows is doing my head in

first no 24 , short season of Lost - news of Torchwood next year only being 5 shows and Doctor who gap's all over the shop after this weekends episode long wait till x-mas then god knows when ,Easter ?
 
The BBC have just posted a video here of RTD talking about how they keep secrets on Doctor Who, which I thought was worth sharing!

I think they've done a sterling job in keeping it a secret that Johnny Vegas will be playing the next Doctor until now. Congratulations to them on that, and good luck Johnny!

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two doctors, 1 blue suit, 1 brow suit, i think somthing to do with the who hand, it has been in recent shots, look on youtube some kids who live i their mums basements have been filming the filming of the whodence, its has DT in two suits!

Bring on minimum of 700 seeders come 1hr after the episode
 
That was good. Although it started off a little iffy (you know what I'm referring to) it definitely got better, and I liked how it explained some things whilst wrapping up a lot of stuff in the series.

One thing though...

Why didn't the new Doctor know what was going to happen to Donna? The old one obviously did.

And how funny was it seeing Gee-ah in the middle of it all? I was hoping she would disappear whilst telling Sanjay to play with Shamila :D
 
At first I was thinking "cop out" but it did pick up. I just don't like the fact that they messed with regeneration. Does this mean that David Tennant is the tenth and eleventh Doctor? Or was this just something completely different and the Doctor still has 3 regenerations left? Because I thought Time Lords only had 13... (although The Master had more).

However, the rest of it was great. I liked the way it all wrapped up as well, with everyone having their own path to follow, rather than being dragged back for more and more series of Who. Very good. The rest of it certainly wasn't just a cop out, and I loved it. Particularly the guest appearance from ............K-9!........ as I've always loved him.

Oh and the Daleks speaking German was a nice touch - even though it sort of reminded me of Nazis.
 
ooh ooh ooh that was good. Wrapped up an awful lot of loose ends and tied them up, like Gwen being a relative of the girl from the dickens episode of series 1.

Yup, chuffed with that episode.
 
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