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Very poor 21 3.74%
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Old 07-05-2005, 18:29
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I am still not sure about Tom Baker playing the Doctor, he just doesnt have Pertwees style...oops sorry guys wrong time zone.
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Old 07-05-2005, 18:32
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Originally Posted by DenWatts
Did anyone request a poll for this thread?

Edit: OK, I've sent the request.
Den, do you remember that post I made a while back talking about society, what it values, and how the media can control it?


Well I think this is the first episode that will touch on it.
This is one of the episodes I guessed on what the content would be about.
I guessed it would deal with propaganda, and from what I've read about this episode it looks like I speculated correctly.


If Earth eventually gets involved (or even starts) a Time War, then propaganda and religion are bound to be featured in the later episodes.
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Old 07-05-2005, 18:40
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Originally Posted by cj592
I get the impression that the altered reality is because they have materialised 'inside' a 'show' that has been set up by the editor.

Still, not long now til we find out

Cj
It was a thought I also had, but I changed my mind and think that any "games" with reality will be featured in episode 12.

I originally thought the Editor would edit reality by effectively editing people by taking them from one time zone, then placing them in another. That would be what an Editor would actually do. Like editing real film by rearranging what order a clip is played, but only doing it with people instead. cutting people from one time zone, then pasting them in another. Editing people as though time is a strip of film.
But I think if that's what's involved it would be more likely to feature in episode 12. So I changed my mind a bit and suspect that that "games" thing will happen later.

And that in this episode, Simon Pegg is literally an Editor in the truer sense. Editing news itself.
If he is editing reality, I think it's probably just the reality of the news.

Don't know for sure. Tonight's episode and episode 12 seem to have a lot in common, but I'm sure they'll try and deal with different main themes, and main ideas, or episodes might tend to be too similar too each other.

Anyway, I've managed to cover my back again by saying it still "might" happen.
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Old 07-05-2005, 18:46
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Old 07-05-2005, 18:51
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Originally Posted by Alrightmate
It was a thought I also had, but I changed my mind and think that any "games" with reality will be featured in episode 12.

I originally thought the Editor would edit reality by effectively editing people by taking them from one time zone, then placing them in another. That would be what an Editor would actually do. Like editing real film by rearranging what order a clip is played, but only doing it with people instead. cutting people from one time zone, then pasting them in another. Editing people as though time is a strip of film.
But I think if that's what's involved it would be more likely to feature in episode 12. So I changed my mind a bit and suspect that that "games" thing will happen later.

And that in this episode, Simon Pegg is literally an Editor in the truer sense. Editing news itself.
If he is editing reality, I think it's probably just the reality of the news.

Don't know for sure. Tonight's episode and episode 12 seem to have a lot in common, but I'm sure they'll try and deal with different main themes, and main ideas, or episodes might tend to be too similar too each other.

Anyway, I've managed to cover my back again by saying it still "might" happen.
Maybe, all this series is about games being played. Perhapds the editors' bosshas been mucking around with history, like the slitheen invasion and opening time rifts to let refugees from the time ward escape. All this for entertainment.

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Old 07-05-2005, 18:59
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Whoo Hooo ! Here we go
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:05
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bad wolf tv

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Old 07-05-2005, 19:07
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that little sh!te cannot act!!!!!! the sooner he goes the better
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:10
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Originally Posted by Alrightmate
In the trailer, the Doctor seemed to have got his history confused according to Rose.

So I have a strong feeling that this week, we may see the Doctor and Rose fall into a Time Rift, and appear in an Earth of an alternate universe.

But I might be wrong too.
Hopefully by the end of the episode this thread will be on the next page, so nobpdy will remember to laugh at me when I'm proven wrong.

I think that The Doctor and Rose are already in a alternate universe/timeline.

As you mentioned the Doctor seems to have got his history confussed but he insists that it's perfect, also, The Doctor stated a few weeks back that the entire population of the Earth, 5 billion, would be wiped out, surely The Doctor would know that the Earth's population is 6 Billion and I remember The Moxx of Balhoon saying "Indubatably, this is the Bad Wolf scenario. I find the inherent (?) laxity of the ongoing multiverse permutation (?)" I think that he was reffering to an alternate universe/timeline.

Of course I may be totally wrong, and I''ll be hiding behind you incase I am
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:17
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Lol, Doctor Who does Fox News!
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:33
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So Rupert Murdock is still in control of the media in the future.
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:42
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OK, so I was wrong, lol *hides*

It was down to "Max" that the time line was different. But I do still think that there is an alternate universe/timeline in place.
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:43
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Odd.

Good, but odd.
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:44
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I thought that was a good one.

But, next weeks looks really good.
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:45
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Definitely the low point of the series so far. I suppose the high standard cannot be maintained throughout all the episodes. I voted Fair.

Now we know Rose causes the time shift.
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:45
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thank god they ditched the kid that cant act
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:46
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Episodes in the future: normally rubbish
Episodes off earth: normally rubbish
Episodes including soap "actors": rubbish

Check, check and indeed, check.

Simpsons comic book guy: "Worst episode, ever".
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:46
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I liked the line about immigration. Nice.
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:46
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Just goes to show you can't trust the Radio Times. I thought it was a very good episode.
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:47
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For one episode my dislike of the doctor was surpassed by that annoying kid.
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:48
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I found that very unsatisfying. Consider the range of feelings and thoughts evoked by last week's episode and this one is just flat.
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:49
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Well, it was ok..........
It was probably better than I expected, didn't like the trailer, and the Radio Times 'blurb' put me right off. But, in fact it was ok, a nice little romp. Prefered it to the 'ailiens of london/ world war 3' eps, but it all seemed a bit...I dunno...light??..or rather, trying to be dark and not quite making it.... nice enough tale, but no real wow value.

Maybe I've just been spoiled by 'Dalek'.

Still loving the series though....I've no intention of missing an episode!

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Old 07-05-2005, 19:49
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I really enjoyed this episode

I thought that it was a very interesting concept, however, a lot did seem to be jammed into 45 minutes and it just seemed to fly by, if that's a good thing or not, I'm not quite sure yet. lol
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:50
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What was with that monster???

I've seen more convincing monsters in Hammer Horror films.

Are we really to believe that this one creature - that's unable to move(!) - has managed to enslave 1 million planets worth of humans?

It's not hard to see why this episode got rejected when RTD submitted it the first time. Including it in his own season is just egotistical and somewhat arrogant.
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Old 07-05-2005, 19:50
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I dont like this prog but im a big Simon Pegg ( the editor ) fan so i watched about 2 mins of it. Good to see him on TV more often.
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