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Doctor Who Finale
2010-06-26, 3:07 PM #1
:awesome:

That is all.
nope.
2010-06-26, 3:23 PM #2
:psylon::downswords:.(

:confused:
2010-06-26, 3:39 PM #3
It was excellent.
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2010-06-26, 9:56 PM #4
This is the first series where all I want to do is go immediately to the shops, not pass go, not collect £200 and buy the DVD and watch it all again.

The whole thing is <3
2010-06-26, 10:24 PM #5
Martyn, use the same methods us Americans did all season.

I enjoyed it, now i need to watch the two Angels episodes again, that was crafty.

Glad they kept a companion around for once
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2010-06-26, 10:25 PM #6
Wooh double post, good job phone
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2010-06-27, 5:29 AM #7
They kept a companion around before, it's just that the ones after her weren't any good. :P
nope.
2010-06-27, 8:07 AM #8
Awesome? Really? I didn't think it was that great.

I'll add spoilers for you BBC America watchers that won't see it until next week.

For me the greatest bit was when young Amy Pond opens the Pandorica and the person inside stepped out. I was sooo not expecting that. The only other high point was the use of the phrase, "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." That was perfect. With all that said, by that point, the Doctor had already "died" once in this episode, and the audience knows he won't be dead or gone , so there was really no suspense for the last 1/4 of the show. Which is too bad, because I always thought that was one of Moffett's strengths. Where he failed was the "epicness" of the episode. The situation SHOULD have been epic, but maybe destroying the whole universe is TOO epic. R.T. Davies seemed to be able to convey that "epicness" as well as emotional/character moments, even though his episodes were generally solved by pushing a button. In this episode, I guess, it wasn't much different: instead of pushing a button, she just had to remember, and *BING* problem solved . But this episode just didn't reach me on an emotional level, I was just waiting it out for the Doctor to appear at the end.

Yeah, I'll still watch it on Christmas day (the next episode) and next season. I just felt there were better/stronger episodes this season than this one.
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2010-06-27, 8:12 AM #9
Originally posted by Baconfish:
They kept a companion around before, it's just that the ones after her weren't any good. :P


True, true.
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2010-06-27, 1:05 PM #10
:awesome:
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2010-06-28, 8:42 AM #11


Matt Smith doing the theme at Glastonbury? baconfish is lame if he didn't see it.
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2010-06-28, 8:53 AM #12
Ofcourse I saw it you pastboy.
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2010-06-28, 1:16 PM #13
It was brilliant. Can't wait for the Christmas special.
2010-06-28, 1:34 PM #14
I thought it was an excellent season finale! And I think since the first episode was so crazy/epic, that you didnt need the second half to be so intense. Yeah Rory and Amy!!!
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2010-06-28, 4:42 PM #15
The end of the 2nd to last ep had me on the EDGE OF MY SEAT (quite obviously). I thought this one was really really good, not the best! But really good. I loved how much they took advantage of the vortex manipulator. Jumping back and forth so often was kind of fun.

Has the quote Chewbubba quoted been used before? I liked it, but it seemed like there may have been more relavence than i picked up on.
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2010-06-28, 4:46 PM #16
Originally posted by happydud:
The end of the 2nd to last ep had me on the EDGE OF MY SEAT (quite obviously). I thought this one was really really good, not the best! But really good. I loved how much they took advantage of the vortex manipulator. Jumping back and forth so often was kind of fun.

Has the quote Chewbubba quoted been used before? I liked it, but it seemed like there may have been more relavence than i picked up on.


There are a bunch of problems that The Doctor never existing would have caused, such as the Earth being destroyed/taken over/blown up/conquered countless times... but nothing an explanation of timey wimey stuff can't solve.
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2010-06-28, 4:54 PM #17
Or maybe without the Doc having existed the time war ended prematurely, who knows.
2010-06-28, 4:55 PM #18
Originally posted by happydud:
Has the quote Chewbubba quoted been used before? I liked it, but it seemed like there may have been more relavence than i picked up on.

No, it's just a very, very well known saying? :P
nope.
2010-06-28, 9:33 PM #19
my guess is that the magic Pandorica light healed the Tardis and so the Doctor is saved >.>
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2010-06-29, 12:04 AM #20
Originally posted by happydud:
Has the quote Chewbubba quoted been used before? I liked it, but it seemed like there may have been more relavence than i picked up on.


It's an old wedding saying, basically it's supposed to be good luck for a marriage if a bride has something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue on her wedding day. Though typically they're separate things.
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2010-06-29, 7:14 AM #21
but megapoints if its one thing
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2010-06-29, 8:19 AM #22
Originally posted by Detty:
It's an old wedding saying, basically it's supposed to be good luck for a marriage if a bride has something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue on her wedding day. Though typically they're separate things.


the TARDIS can be described as that, thats why he tells that story to young Amelia so it sticks in her mind
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2010-06-29, 9:15 AM #23
I am seriously concerned that you thought I somehow didn't understand that...
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2010-06-29, 9:45 AM #24
Can someone explain whatever happened to the Cyberman Victorian Christmas, or why Amy doesn't remember the Daleks?

Is that because they were erased by a crack or? Also, I really loved that they brought back the Nestine Consciousness I loved 9!
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2010-06-29, 3:27 PM #25
Unresolved plot lines! It's like a real tv show now!
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2010-06-29, 5:48 PM #26
Originally posted by Mirthy:
Can someone explain whatever happened to the Cyberman Victorian Christmas, or why Amy doesn't remember the Daleks?

Is that because they were erased by a crack or? Also, I really loved that they brought back the Nestine Consciousness I loved 9!


Despite the impact the invasion had on the people of Earth, the Doctor discovered that his companion, Amy Pond, despite being from 2010, knew nothing of it (DW: Victory of the Daleks). He later linked this to to the nature of the Time Field, a form of crack or entity that, one of which, can erase both people and events from history by unwriting their/its existence. This event was seemingly unwriten from time, much to the Eleventh Doctor's suprise, and explained for him why no one remembered the Cyber King walking over London. When the cracks erase an event from history, it is known that the change to history is only minor, if nothing at all. In some cases, the consequences of the event still remain. (DW: Flesh and Stone). Since the conclusion of the Time Field arc resulted in the restoration of things lost to the cracks (such as Rory Williams), it can be safely assumed that this event has been restored to history.

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/War_in_the_Medusa_Cascade very last paragraph on the Medusa Cascade Invasion
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