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Does it drive anyone else nuts when people say the box is a phone box? it is a police box, dang it!
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Does it drive anyone else nuts when people say the Tardis is a police box? It's a time machine/spacecraft disguised as a police box!
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Also, they once asked a question on who wants to be a millionaire about what the tardis was disguised as and the answer was phone booth. I was shouting at the tv that day. I watch reruns of millionaire so this is more recent than you might think.
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I have now viewed the two-part season opener of Dr. Who in America. Very amusing. The actor they cast as President Nixon didn't really look much like him. It was cute when Nixon at the end observed that the Doctor was from the future, and asked if he would be remembered. The Doctor said "Yes, Tricky Dicky, you will be remembered." Fair enough.
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I felt he looked like Nixon based on the trailer.
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* * * * * My impression was that Amy's ganger was never independent. Amy was in there the whole time so the new flesh wasn't able to become its own person cause it had a person in there already.
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* * * * * Holy cow. I mean, holy fracking cow. I so did not see that coming. God, I don't think anyone did.
I still think the kid in the spacesuit was Melody, but... so River is a Time Lord? And she's in jail for what she did in The Impossible Astronaut? And... she didn't show up at the battle of Demons Run... because she didn't want to risk crossing her own timeline? And gah. Amy is his mother-in-law? That's just funny.
Btw, we still don't know what caused the TARDIS to blow up last season. Also... I'm glad River's death was before we met Amy. And... do we keep calling her River Song now?
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Hah! I've been wondering how they'd make a connection between Amy and River since they first announced that her name would be Pond. And I was making mother-in-law jokes ever since last year (because Amy, with her attitude, is a born mother-in-law). And when they introduced the pregnancy thing - well it was obvious. But nicely done. I didn't see the fake baby reveal coming, though.
I did wonder how they would make little River regenerate (because that had to be River. That's why she knew she couldn't really shoot herself).
So here we are. Good episode, sufficiently epic and pretty devastating for the Doctor. So funny that it never occurred to him what Amy and Rory might be up to on their wedding night. He was probably assuming they would be playing Scrabble.
Anyone else think that while Melody and Pond are perfectly great names in isolation, together they just sound odd? What tune does a pond sing? It just goes 'sploosh'. I can see why you'd change a name like that to something cooler.
Is it weird that the Doctor and River hooked (will hooken - tenses!) up? I've been trying to decide how I feel about him doing that to her for a while, and I still don't know how I feel about it.
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I don't think Melody Pond is any stranger than River Song. Less so, if anything. It's just that we're used to it.
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What intrigues me, though, is how River was still around during last year's finale, even after her father had retroactively been removed from history. I suppose it isn't any stranger than Amy still being around after her parents disappeared, but still.
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Doctor Who has been renewed for season/series 7 , with fourteen more episodes with Matt Smith (and, I know nothing, but presumably a new companion).
The fact that they're not sure yet if all the episodes will be airing in 2012 would be worrying, if it wasn't pretty clear that they'll be moving the start of the season to the autumn and winter after this year. So the end of the season might roll over into the New Year.
Not sure what that would mean for the Christmas specials, but watching the show would be more atmospheric in the dark winter evenings, and the ratings would go up. And three years with Smith would be fine. I like the guy, his acting is visibly improving - it was fine before, but he's really got it now, and any fewer would be a pity.
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They would NEVER cancel Doctor Who; I would need to see significant evidence of slipping ratings before I could entertain the possibility.
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quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: Theyre scottish!
Who are "they"? Amy is Scottish. Rory is not. The Doctor is not. River is not (at least she doesn't have a Scottish accent).
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The Doctor has been Scottish at least once!
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quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: The Doctor has been Scottish at least once!
A lot of planets may have a north but to the best of my knowledge, there was never a Scotland on Galifrey.
There is a difference between the characters being Scottish and the actors who play them being Scottish. John Barrowman is Scottish, Captain Jack is definitely not.
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quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: The Doctor has been Scottish at least once!
A lot of planets may have a north but to the best of my knowledge, there was never a Scotland on Galifrey.
There is a difference between the characters being Scottish and the actors who play them being Scottish. John Barrowman is Scottish, Captain Jack is definitely not.
Well, Barrowman was 8 when his family moved to the US, so calling him Scottish may be pushing a point.
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quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: The Doctor has been Scottish at least once!
A lot of planets may have a north but to the best of my knowledge, there was never a Scotland on Galifrey.
There is a difference between the characters being Scottish and the actors who play them being Scottish. John Barrowman is Scottish, Captain Jack is definitely not.
Well, Barrowman was 8 when his family moved to the US, so calling him Scottish may be pushing a point.
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That's so funny - a lot of people who have changed their accent do that. Whenever they're exposed to people with their original accent, their former way of speaking comes flooding back.
It can be quite shocking when you think you know someone's voice, only to find that they have another one hidden away.
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There are Americans three generations removed from their family's country of origin who still claim to be Scottish or Irish or Italian or Albanian. Which is very odd, I admit. Barrowman is actually a citizen of Scotland, so it doesn't seem a stretch to me to say he's Scottish. (It helped that the first word out of his mouth in Torchwood was not said with an American pronunciation -- we spell it differently, as well. His accent is definitely American most of the time, though.)
I'm the same way. Plink me down in the wilds of Appalachia and my own husband gives me the stank eye.
I finally talked my boys into watching the mid-series cliffie with me today. Big Boy, who still hasn't come to grips with Matt Smith, said, "It would have been better if it had been Ten." My Beloved, who rarely watches Doctor Who, admitted that it was one of the best episodes of teh show he'd ever seen. So I consider it a victory on the basis of that alone.
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quote:Originally posted by Bella Bee: That's so funny - a lot of people who have changed their accent do that. Whenever they're exposed to people with their original accent, their former way of speaking comes flooding back.
It can be quite shocking when you think you know someone's voice, only to find that they have another one hidden away.
I wonder if when he would talk with David Tennant when they weren't filming if he'd drop back into that accent. I wouldn't be surprised.
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My Beloved, who rarely watches Doctor Who, admitted that it was one of the best episodes of teh show he'd ever seen. So I consider it a victory on the basis of that alone.
