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Doctor Who has a Tardis I have the tube (London Underground)

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Tardis

We all know that Doctor Who travels through space and time in a Tardis (5 points to the first person to say what it stands for) and us lesser beings have to make do with cars, buses and rail. If looking at the London underground service (metro, subway etc.) you can see why.

I cannot imagine a Time Lord putting up with a cramped carriage, where the space inside defies the laws of physics to be ’smaller’ inside than outside.

Also, except for the times such as when the doctor installed a randomiser to the Tardis, he knows generally-ish where it is going? Well to within 500 years or miles.. lol But with the London Underground the service changes destination without the knowledge of the customers or the drivers for that matter.

So the next time you are travelling and you hate it, afterwards go home and invent a Tardis… and pop it in the mail to me, my address is …

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Doctor Who confidential – Nemesis (The Unicorn and the Wasp) (Spoiler)

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Doctor Who Confidential : Nemesis

For those of you who have not delved into the parallel universe that is Doctor Who confidential, it is an episode length making of that is aired after Doctor who on BBC3 in the UK. I am unsure whether is aired in the countries (may be some one can let me know by way of a comment).

The Wasp and the Unicorn is a particularly special episode as it is a Doctor Who murder mystery!

But this is no ordinary murder mystery, it is based around the very real disappearance of Agatha Christie in 1926, when she vanished for 10 days and later returned with no memory of what had transpired.

Such an episode has some unique challenges in comparison to other episodes, as the director Graeme Harper highlights one by explaining that having so many main characters each shoot had to have several takes in order to get enough close ups of everyone in order to not give the mystery of who the killer is away.

The car chase during the episode appears to be at break neck speed, but the 1926 vintage cars can only go at a maximum of 20 miles per hour and as David Tennant points out, when it hit a hill the engine did not want to know.

This is well worth watching..

Further information and watch live on BBC iPlayer

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Doctor Who The Unicorn And The Wasp Review

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

What was billed as a comical episode proved to be a well thought out and crafted piece of work. I would say it was a homage to the memory and works of Agatha Christie. In fact it has made me want to watch that brilliant film, murder on the orient express.

But, back to the episode. Some points that should be highlighted, the giant was ok and I think essentially a British reference to an established fear and hatred of wasps in the UK. Would it have been the same if it had been a giant kitten?

The character’s where very strong and the dialogue was equally good. The tongue in cheek innuendo was amusing and I liked the line, ‘there are no children in this house and there are not likely to be any!’.

This is a welcome addition to the series, but a little obvious at times.

I give this 7 Tardis’s.

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Doctor who questions on Yahoo Answers

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Hi all,

I have started to post Doctor Who related questions on Yahoo Answers , Check out what I have asked and give me some of those theories. Like why the Doctors Daughter did not change appearance when she regenerated?

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Sontaran affair – a bit short!

Friday, May 16th, 2008

One thing I would like to make clear in this second post inaugural post of this blog is that I like all Doctor who – all of the Doctors.

What I like in the later incarnations is references to old ‘baddies’. The Sontarans that appeared in a two part episode of ‘modern’ David Tennant Doctor Who where a pleasant addition to thers such as the Dalek and the Cybermen. But what was a real treat was the fact there was not one or two but hundreds! (Well at least 20!)

As you may agree or not agree, the modern day Sontaran where lacking in just one thing… Hight!

In previous Doctor who story lines, such as ‘The Time Warrior’ the warriors of the Sontaran empire where at least 6ft tall or even more. These little fellas where about as high as your average granny. ( The next time you see your granny think about a warrior from space being that short — oh so scary! )

It was a good effort, in fact it was good that the Sontarans continued their destroy or die policy at the end instead of creeping around, as the doctor highlighted.

I would welcome the again..

I give the 7 Tardis!

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Being a Doctor Who fan could be risky

Friday, May 16th, 2008

The BBC have warned a fan not to knit little figures based upon the little fat children from the first
episode of the fourth series, Partners In Crime . It is madness, where will it be next, stopping children from drawing the Tardis?

The article

I picked up this story from http://www.coolscifi.com

The chaps in question

BBC wallpaper from the Doctor who sub site.

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The Doctor’s Daughter Review and thoughts

Friday, May 16th, 2008

The Doctors DaughterSo, the doctor has a daughter.. Well of sorts if your happy to day that she is his offspring. It will come no shock to classic fans that he has a daughter as back in the days of the first doctor – William Hartnal – he used to travel around with his Gallifrey grand daughter Susan Foreman .

Some issues that really should be discussed include, when she regenerated why did she not change appearance and have an episode whereby she has to decide what outfit to where – and no this is not being sexist – as every doctor has this! May be that will be brought up?

Also, why not make copies of Donna and Martha and as the doctor left the planet does that mean the child support agency will be after him for maintenance!

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