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Post by Knuckles on Sept 20, 2011 4:58:22 GMT
I also think Moffatt has the creativity to kill off Matt Smith's Doctor and have him regenerate but still find a way to keep the Eleventh Doctor around... How is it 'creativity' when Davies did exactly the same with David Tennant? To misquote Angel, that was a whole thing with an arm in a box. I mean to have The Doctor actually regenerate, with a new actor playing The Doctor. The Tenth Doctor's regeneration kept The Doctor as The Tenth Doctor.
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Post by Knuckles on Sept 19, 2011 13:40:08 GMT
It was.... he's also technically taken on all of River Song's regenerations as well, though. Is that supposed to mean gets at least ten more (seeing as River has used two on screen)? I think she used her remaining ten to save his one life and now she has none left and he still has his two remaining regenerations. As for his next regeneration, I really hope they explore the Valeyard with it. I wrote a story where once he regenerates previous Doctors try and kill him to stop him becoming the Valeyard. I think this would be awesome to see on screen. I also think Moffatt has the creativity to kill off Matt Smith's Doctor and have him regenerate but still find a way to keep the Eleventh Doctor around... P.S I am looking forward to the Cybermen, but if The Doctor can easily blow up a whole fleet of them, then they'll have to do something spectacular to be a threat.
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Post by Knuckles on Sept 17, 2011 20:23:36 GMT
much like with "Vincent and The Doctor" the "alien monster is old and wants to die" has been so over done in this series it felt stale. How many times has it been done? This is the only time I can think of. The monster in Vincent wasn't old and wanting to die either, it was wounded and scared. (Double-post cos quoting was messing up the bloody spoiler function) I more meant that in quite a few episodes we've been led in to having sympathy for "the monster". The episode with the whale, "Vincent and The Doctor", the pirate episode. It's a recurring theme in the new series that the seemingly evil creature is given a sympathetic story or character
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Post by Knuckles on Sept 17, 2011 19:06:32 GMT
Hmmmm... mixed feelings on this week's ep. There were some really good parts to it, such as the fear/faith angle. But much like with "Vincent and The Doctor" the "alien monster is old and wants to die" has been so over done in this series it felt stale.
The conclusion seemed a little redundant and silly considering just how often Amy has been put in danger and the amount of times Rory has actually died, but could possibly be justified as it was through her faith in The Doctor that she was endangered this time around. All in all, a decent episode, but after last week's tug at my emotional strings, this week just didn't measure up in the same way.
Next week doesn't excite me too much, the return of Craig Owens and a villain measured redundant in my opinion considering how easy The Doctor finds it to destroy a whole fleet of them as he showed in the mid-season finale. I honestly don't see how The Cybermen can pose any credible threat now The Doctor has dealt with them so easily.
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Post by Knuckles on Sept 10, 2011 19:31:58 GMT
Best episode of the second half of the season by a long long long way. Loved every second of this. It was beautifully constructed, perfectly delivered, and amazing to watch. This is what Doctor Who is about. I never for a second thought Tom Macrae had this in him after Age of Steel but this had everything Doctor Who is about. Timey Wimey story, emotion dealt with properly, characters we care about and The Doctor being The Doctor so so well. Top marks to Karen Gillan for her performance. This is a classic episode to be ranked alongside Blink and The Empty Child etc. Top stuff.
P.S I guess we're just going to have to settle that Rory and Amy really are content at not chasing after River then? Oh well.
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Post by Knuckles on Sept 4, 2011 4:44:23 GMT
Putting aside the fact that I don't rate Mark Gatiss as a writer after Victory of The Daleks I tried to be as objective as I could with this episode and judge it on it's own merits. Which also meant not criticising it for the annoyingly silly Amy and Rory happy to forget about baby River in order to go adventuring with the Doctor which is doing my head in.
All in all a bland shoestring episode where the budget was obviously being saved for other episodes. Nothing happened for a lot of the episodes and the more interesting ideas were glanced over and not fully explored. By far the weakest of S6 and is only beaten by the other terrible Gatiss episode Victory of The Daleks.
Next week looks pretty good though and I hope it's a return to form for Doctor Who as I've not fully enjoyed an episode since Neil Gaiman's. S6 is looking like the weakest of the seasons so far with very few stand out episodes and has paled in comparison to S5.
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Post by Knuckles on Aug 29, 2011 22:33:22 GMT
Half decent episode, I do have a couple of issues with it though. River's transformation from brainwashed to helping the Doctor was too sudden to be believable and came across as cheap. She was brainwashed to kill the Doctor and then just suddenly she helped him just cos he kept mentioning River?
The voice activation thing was weird. I liked the idea of it but at first it kept repeating it was just a voice activation until suddenly it says "Fish fingers and custard". Why did it suddenly say that?
And as has been mentioned by others, Rory and Amy are now suddenly ok with not getting a hold of their child just cos it was Mels/River? Rubbish.
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Post by Knuckles on Jun 21, 2011 12:32:11 GMT
Now River Song has been revealed all The Big Bang stuff makes sense and I'm rather impressed. My main annoyance is one simple thing.
The location of where River was conceived made her a Time Lord? That's just retarded in my opinion. Time Lords are just a result of where they are conceived?
It does make sense in one way though. It's been insinuated that the Doctor's mother is human...
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Post by Knuckles on May 29, 2011 22:04:54 GMT
There was a lot of ass pulls and silly wrapped up conclusions under RTD it's true, but I felt the same thing was done with the finale last year. Amy suddenly remembering when River gave her the diary... and even then I thought "if nobody remembers the Doctor then how does River know Amy?". Still much better than the "Doctor Donna" crap though I agree. Except that that finale makes sense. It had been established numerous times that something that is removed from the universe isn't removed entirely. When Amy remembered the Doctor, it effectively re-validated his existence, so he could come back. Except in the S5 finale she remembers because of River Song. How did River Song remember the Doctor when everyone else had forgot? How did she know to go to Amy's wedding when it was through the Doctor these two characters knew each other?
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Post by Knuckles on May 29, 2011 20:28:01 GMT
And the Doctor killing off the clone Amy after spending the episode trying to convince the same clone that they are all people and deserve to live smacks of hypocrisy and if they don't explain that properly then that's worse than anything RTD has ever done in his run. Even if the "hypocrisy" did exist (more below), that is a lie. You are not telling me the countless ass-pulls, deus ex machina and shouts for attention for being homosexual are better than one cock-up (again, I don't think there has been one). And what you're forgetting is, Amy's Ganger wasn't hit by the solar storm. It wasn't self-aware, it was basically just a lump of... goo with Amy's consciousness programmed into it. You're talking about the man who managed to destroy and rebuild the universe in two episodes, I think we'll be fine. There was a lot of ass pulls and silly wrapped up conclusions under RTD it's true, but I felt the same thing was done with the finale last year. Amy suddenly remembering when River gave her the diary... and even then I thought "if nobody remembers the Doctor then how does River know Amy?". Still much better than the "Doctor Donna" crap though I agree. Also, apart from Barrowman I didn't notice any homosexual references in RTD's run. For me, Season 5 was superb and had me on the edge of my seat and apart from the gripe I mentioned above (as well as a sonic screwdriver unlocking a prison specifically designed for The Doctor), the finale was entertaining and well done. Season 5 was easily the strongest most conistent season of Doctor Who. Season 6 has for me been bogged down in mystery, had the eyepatch lady shoved in our faces and the standalone episodes haven't compared to last year with the exception of the absolutely fantastic Neil Gaiman episode. I hope I'm wrong but this year hasn't made me curse the six days between my installments of Doctor Who like last year did and I don't think the mid season finale will change that.
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Post by Knuckles on May 29, 2011 20:05:39 GMT
Happy Birthday STC ;D
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Post by Knuckles on May 28, 2011 20:19:01 GMT
That episode still didn't really make much sense. Especially since they spend the whole episode saying that the Flesh are all people and that they should be treated as such, and then the Doctor goes and kills one off at the end. How exactly the Doctor's experience here with the Flesh helps him with Amy's issue is also either not really explained or explained so poorly I just don't get it. A poor pair of episodes, executed messily, albeit with a good concept underneath. I can't help but feel that this is just genuinely the result of a bad writer being given more than he's capable of. Looking forward to next week's, but I'm also more annoyed that next week's is the last until, like Halloween. The rest of the summer is going to be excruciating. Pretty much agree with this. Good concept but the episodes themselves were lacking. And the Doctor killing off the clone Amy after spending the episode trying to convince the same clone that they are all people and deserve to live smacks of hypocrisy and if they don't explain that properly then that's worse than anything RTD has ever done in his run. Ending was mysterious but again they need to pull something out of the hat come the finale or it will just end up a major disappointment and I'm starting to think they've went too far and too complicated with this storyline. Cracks were nice and simple and not completely solved, and this one seems to have so many questions I doubt they'll be able to answer them all with satisfaction.
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Post by Knuckles on May 7, 2011 18:01:37 GMT
I enjoyed that episode, didn't think I would from the trailers. Was confused about why the TARDIS ended up being taken by the siren but other than that it was pretty decent.
Next week looks good too.
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Post by Knuckles on May 4, 2011 12:22:49 GMT
She does keep mentioning his appearance in Silence In The Library, so obviously she was expecting a different Doctor.
Knowing the conclusion to River Song's fate changes nothing, because time is in flux. Who's to say she definitely dies in the library. I'd like to see that episode turned on it's head in a timey wimey way.
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Post by Knuckles on May 3, 2011 0:23:00 GMT
The most fascinating part of all this for me is still to do with the Doctor 1) He's still due to die at the hands of this astronaut girl and we're no nearer to finding anything out about her
2) River assumed they had kissed before, so somewhere along the lines she's got her Doctor's muddled up. And she looked pretty frightened by it.
3) The Doctor showed a nice touch of mercilessness that reminded me of something Davros said to the Tenth Doctor about the people around him being his weapons. He lets River Song kill and kill with guns despite claiming to never like guns. It's very refreshing to see this side of The Doctor.
4) On the same note, his mischeviousness in secretly scanning Amy when outwardly being his bubbly, hyper self is a side of The Doctor I find very fascinating and hope is explored in future episodes.
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Post by Knuckles on May 1, 2011 1:55:07 GMT
I think I missed a beat. If they were all working for The President, why the need for Delaware to fool the FBI who were apparently hunting them?
Love that the chameleon circuits of the TARDIS were fixed.
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Post by Knuckles on Apr 17, 2011 17:19:12 GMT
"Monsters you see out the corner of your eye" "They're everywhere, you see them all the time".
I wonders if the Vashda Nerada are gonna make a re-appearance. I hope so.
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Post by Knuckles on Feb 7, 2011 20:38:33 GMT
Ever since the online strips started I thought it would be fun to write something. However I can think of a dozen reasons why it would not be a good idea. Then again I do have this start of an idea I would really like to work on. Should I write something? I did have all kinds of half-ideas for Knuckles. I wanted to work with his past but not introduce a horde of echidnas into the current continuity. Zachary needed a back story. Just how did Knuckles end up alone on the Floating Island anyhow? Once all of the Floating Island is repaired just what is it capable of and what are its secrets? But as for specific stories, I never really got that far. But that reminds me I found some of my old notebooks full of ideas and rough scripts and so on. One day I'll look at these and if there is anything interesting I'll let you know. Of course interesting to me does not actually guarantee it's interesting to anyone else. I don't think Sonic despises weakness. When Porker quit, Sonic got scared - he didn't want to lose Porker. His petulant response was about how he simply hasn't the emotional equipment to deal with a situation like that. Sonic, deep down, is afraid of the possibility of his own inadequacy. I would love to see you write one more (a thousand more really, but realistically one) Sonic story. It would be fantastic in my opinion, and I'm pretty sure everyone on here would be right behind it. However I do understand the reasons why you may not be as excited about it. I'd also love to see your notebooks and check out what ideas you had on the comic and where it may have went had it not been cancelled. STC is something I grew up on and still love dearly, something I share with lots of people on this forum, so an inside look at some of the ideas and notes would be amazing for me. The comment you made about Sonic fearing his own inadequacy is the point I was trying to make when I said he hates weakness. I meant that he hates his own weaknesses, and this is why he is the larger and life egotistic character. To hide his own insecurities. Amy knows this and that's why she acted as she did in "Plasma", a fantastic story btw, and one I thought showed Amy's character brilliantly as someone other than Sonic's groupie. Why did Deb dislike it?
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Post by Knuckles on Jan 18, 2011 13:58:28 GMT
I have a couple of questions for you if you don't mind. And thanks again for answering my Knuckles question a while ago, it still makes me smile that the man I grew up reading his comics and being inspired by took the time out to answer a question I asked.
Anyways... Would you ever consider writing a "complete story" for STC-O. I'm not suggesting you get involved in writing their universe, because the folks in charge now are doing a great job, but it's obvious by the fact you take the time out to visit this message board you still care deeply for the work you did on STC and I for one would love to see you write one last story for STC-O
My second question is once again regarding Knuckles. You say you had many ideas you never got to develop, and there were things about the Floating Island you would have liked to resolve. My question is did you have further plans to explore Knuckles as a tribal warrior who did not remember any of his past? If so, can you remember what these ideas were?
And for what it's worth: I think the idea of Amy and Sonic as a couple would never have worked due to the type of character Sonic is. He doesn't like his friends to see his weak side, he's constantly focused and determined to be the hero and a relationship would not have suited his character at all. Too many slash fic writers wanting what doesn't make sense to the universe I feel. Amy had a little girl's crush on Sonic at the start of the strip and she grew out of it to become a hero in her own right. Sure, she may have had feelings for Sonic even at the end, but I'm sure she knew Sonic never felt that way for her, or anyone. Sonic is a character who hates weakness. This is shown when Porker quits the Freedom Fighters. To him, being in a relationship with anyone and showing his weaknesses is not possible. He'd never be able to do it and it would have been poor writing to have him do this.
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Post by Knuckles on Dec 31, 2010 15:11:15 GMT
The effects of the Doctor changing his life didn't occur right away. As you can see from his first lines of "That didn't happen!", with a rather amazed follow up a moment later of "... but it did!", what's happening to Kazran is that his life and memories are changing in real time as the Doctor messes with his personal time line. By the end of the show, he's neither the same Kazran that the Doctor met at the start of the episode, nor the Kazran that would be the result of only the Doctor's interfering in his life, but both in the same mind. It's only when confronted with the full fear of being as bad as his father by almost hitting his younger self that Kazran's heart finally warms and that's when the Doctor finally gets his way in changing Kazran for the better. But even despite all that, Kazran still remembers his life as it was before he ever met the Doctor, because the Doctor's manipulation of his timeline was a deliberate set of paradoxes that even he doesn't usually resort to. If anything, the fact that the Doctor took these actions at all should even emphasise the level of threat at hand. My girlfriend managed to give me a headache by pointing out holes in this episode. She doesn't watch Doctor Who much and she never will with me again. Her biggest gripe was the apparently illogical story of the young Kazran meeting his older self because apparently that wouldn't happen due to seeing his older self changing him when he was younger so by the time The Doctor met him to ask him to change the clouds he would be nice and all that episode would never happen because the Doctor wouldn't need to try and convince him this time.... Headache inducing.
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Post by Knuckles on Dec 25, 2010 19:01:17 GMT
Brilliant. Simply brilliant Christmas episode Made me teary eyed though. Only niggle I have is it seems to break the rules of Fathers Day. But meh, wibbly wobbly timey wimey.
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Post by Knuckles on Dec 2, 2010 4:40:50 GMT
"It's not goodbye, it's just I won't ever see you again"
RIP
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Post by Knuckles on Jul 21, 2010 17:26:35 GMT
Absolutely amazing idea Well done! You should make it fortnightly though just to capture that real spirit of STC. Though 200+ issues every fortnight.... that's a scarily long time. P.S After realising that's a scarily long time I suddenly feel old...
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Post by Knuckles on Jun 26, 2010 17:47:06 GMT
The Pandorica was made out last episode to be the most unbreakable, strongest prison ever.
So why was it opened with a screwdriver?
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Post by Knuckles on Jun 20, 2010 9:45:33 GMT
Good episode. And I loved how Steven Moffatt made it so so difficult for everyone to find the Doctor which laughed at Wilf finding him so easily in the S4 finale. The Jack Harkness reference made me laugh. And that cliffhanger.... awesome. Who would have thought the Pandorica was empty and meant for the Doctor? Still lots of questions to be answered next ep though. What is actually causing the cracks? I know it's the TARDIS exploding but what's causing that? Who does the voice inside the TARDIS exclaiming "Silence will fall" belong to? How will Amy be revived? And why did the TARDIS decide to explode on that particular date in that particular location? A lot of questions to be answered in 40 minutes as well as providing an adequate conclusion to the first half of the finale. I just hope Moffatt answers all of them in a decent fashion and doesn't gloss over the major plotline of this series or ignore them completely.
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