Dr Who

Quote:Still don't understand the "TARDIS within the TARDIS" bit :
OK, the Master materialises his TARDIS around a real police box, and disguises his TARDIS to look like it.
The Doctor then materialises his police box TARDIS around the Master's thinking it's just an ordinary police box.
But then when the Doctor and Adric go inside it from their TARDIS control room, they enter another TARDIS control room, also with a police box inside it. And this goes on and on : when they enter the police box, they again come out into a TARDIS control room with a police box inside it. But why does it go on and on ?
"How many more of these are there?" Asks Adric. Well, quite.

The TARDIS within a TARDIS I think was because it is out side of normal time and space and creates it's own dimension so materialising one TARDIS over another creates Multi-dimensions folding within themselves and possibly a time loop so to prevent continual regression the Doctor had to do something different hence the exit through the backdoor.

Either that or it was a continuity error!

Wasn't he trying to get the chameleon circuits working again?

^ yes he was. He was jealous of the Master's TARDIS being able to disguise itself as a Doric column wherever it went

(Oh except the first time it materialises on Logopolis where it cleverly disguises itself as a tree in a tub, completely blending in with the rocky world where there isn't a single tree in sight. Luckily it quickly changes into a Earth Greek?Roman? architectural feature, also merging in seamlessly with the alien architecture which doesn't have a pillar in sight.)

The channel Watch today showing Matt Smith season 7 (again, must be at least the second repeat of these episodes on this channel) from Asylum of the Daleks through to Angels Take Manhattan ; plus the terrible Cybermen in the theme park one from a later season.

Never watched season 7 at the time - was sick of River Song & The Ponds and gave up after "Let's Kill Hitler".

Asylum of the Daleks - yeah it was OK, probably best of the bunch. (If you ignore the inherent unlikeliness of the basic premise that the Daleks would ask the Doctor for help and not just kill him; and that if they are so powerful they have the ability to send "infiltration signals/agents" out to capture the Doctor and his companions from any planets and points in time and space, why haven't they done that ages ago and just killed them ?)
the Dinosaurs on the Spaceship - oh dear. As the 10th Doctor said "Eye yate funny robots".
the Robotic gunslinger one - so-so. But impossible not to be reminded of Kryten in Red Dwarf in the one where he fights a computer virus in a virtual reality Wild West.
invasion of the Cubes - dear oh dear. All the worst tendencies of modern Dr Who to turn the programme into a sitcom. Just awful.
Angels Take Manhattan - see reason why I never watched Season 7 at the time.

How many bloody times does Rory not just bloody stay dead ?
I think he must have been "killed" pretty much every episode he was ever in.
All these modern series seem to think the only way to grab audiences is to pretend to kill (or actually kill) main characters every 5 minutes.
I disagree this is a good way to do drama - it's a lazy device, especially when you have to keep inventing implausible reasons why they don't stay dead.
Hated the concept when the X flies did it in the 90s with Mulder and/or Scully, Skinner/Cigarette Man/Krychek/take your pick... nearly every bloody season and still hate it today.

The channel Watch today showing Matt Smith season 7
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Not my favourite either.

The one good thing about the Cybermen episode is Tamsin Outhwaite.

The western episode is pretty good though and has Ben Browder from FarGate See what I did there!

They have really f**ked up the daleks not since the Chris Ecclestone has there been a decent one or any menace about them.

Horror Channel : The Ark In Space.

I'm fine with the classic repeats being a bit random in terms of varying a bit from the original transmission order.....but to show the Ark In Space directly AFTER The Sontaran Experiment (on yesterday) instead of the other way round in their original order seems deliberately perverse ? - esp. when Tom Baker's first season was one of the very few instances of a run of stories that actually directly led from one to the other in the old Sixties style

Don't they understand the fans are nerds ?!?

I see that Wonder Woman repeats are resuming on Horror soon, so it's not all bad news

Blah blah someone told me the new series starts in September, but we'll have to see, I guess.

(21-06-2015 17:50 )biggles Wrote:  The channel Watch today showing Matt Smith season 7


Not my favourite either.

The one good thing about the Cybermen episode is Tamsin Outhwaite.

The western episode is pretty good though and has Ben Browder from FarGate See what I did there!

They have really f**ked up the daleks not since the Chris Ecclestone has there been a decent one or any menace about them.

What about "Into The Dalek" in series 8, that was a good Dalek episode?

I saw that as more of an homage to Fantastic Voyage rather than a Dalek episode as most of it was within the Dalek fighting/escaping it's internal defence mechanisms, however I will submit that it's a better Dalek episode than others -

Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks
Victory of the Daleks

Horror Channel 19:50 : Genesis Of the Daleks.

How much more fondly would we think of Davros if this had been his one and only appearance ?
He invents the Daleks in his own image and dies by their hand (sink plunger/ray gun). The Daleks have been sent out into the world programmed by him to hate and destroy everything non-Dalek, and that's what they continue to do for the rest of time after they've dispatched their own creator. Perfect ending. No sequels necessary.

To resurrect him time and again as the series did afterwards just diluted his power : especially as nobody ever came close to Michael Wisher's original performance.

Was watching Genesis on Horror too - One of the best DW episodes. The Nazi overtones are done really well and some excellent support cast especially Peter Miles as Nyder.