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>Okay, but where?s the golden rule that *everything* has to be tied up and given a blatant reference?

I think it is just a general rule of drama.

Atleast when Red Dwarf leaves questions it also entertains you, ‘The End of Time (5 minutes)’ part 2 did not entertain but it left too many questions, alot more than Red Dwarf has.

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>If they were on earth at the time, and even if they were as Andrew said above ?everyone was cured? so it doesn?t make any difference, as the scene featuring them had nothing to do with the ?Master Race? plotline.

The point I am trying to make is why is Wilf special, no explanation was given as to why he was the only one on the earth not to forget the bad dreams.

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I especially liked him hitting the Dalek. I like the violence, a nice change fron Ten who wouldn’t go near a gun for most of the time.

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>The Doctor placed him in the booth and then blocked out The Master?s trickery using the chambers controls.

Then why did he remember the bad dreams but nobody else did?

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Wait, what the fuck was special about Wilf then? Why didn’t he change? He was human and I don’t remember any indication or explanation as to why he is different and not changed by the Master.
Did I miss the explanation?

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So wait, who exactly was the woman Time Lord and how did she contact Wilf if the only way any other Time Lord could was through drumming in the past.
And if the Time War was locked and the only thing that could get through was the signal from the past then how could Rassilon throw that star thing at earth.
And why the fuck mention Rassilon, that is just wanking all over the page for the sake of it and then you give no explanation.
Then there was the Donna cop-out.
Then there was the Jesus pose yet again which destroyed the TARDIS despite the fact that 3 years ago Nine was in the exact same position and it had no effect on the TARDIS, 2 years ago the Master was in the same position and it had no effect on the TARDIS, 1 year ago for the aborted regeneration, no effect on the TARDIS.

Atleast the trailer on the website is good.

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They have a trailer on the website for the next series.

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He is refrencing the TARDIS model that only actually appeared onscreen in ‘Demons and Angels’ which isn’t remastered.

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>Well it?s to make up for the Tardis they airbrushed out of the cargo bay scene isn?t it?

Doctor Who and the Airbrush of Death.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/features/bulletins/bulletin_091231_01

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This episode will be the first I will watch when it is first aired all the way from start to finish since ‘Midnight’. So obviously I am more excited, mainly about Matt Smith though.

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Torchwood Series 4.

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After seeing the latest clips (which you can find on blogterwho.blogspot.com) I give my prediction on the four knocks –
Wilf is the Doctors Dad under one of them chamelion things and when he arrives his heart beat is the four knocks of a Time Lord. Maybe the woman in white is his mother.

Normally if I found out they were showing the Doctors Dad I’d cringe but if Wilf is his Dad then I’d be rather happy with that.

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>And Nemesis, obviously. My life, that was shit. It?s a shame too, because it?s such a great screenplay.

I liked it. Mindless action is a good thing from time to time, same reason I enjoyed Terminator Salvation and Die Hard 4, a well thought out plot and a great script is great but sometimes it is nice to see some explosions!

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I think it is the same as most of the Star Trek films, I don’t really understand what the big difference is outside of a higher budget. No different in terms of action than say Nemesis except for better CGI.
Not to do it down, it was a bloody great film as are most of the Trek films (except the first one).

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>I?d like to see the Master killed outright here. I highly doubt Moffat would want to use him anyway (after Jacobi and Simm wherever they went with the character would be boring, it wouldn?t top that), and it would be great for RTD to end his tenure by leaving his mark on Whodom with something ballsy and permanent.

If you think just because the Master dies it is permanent then you don’t know Who.

The Master was killed at the end of all these stories –
‘Planet of Fire’
‘Mark of the Rani’ (not actually killed but just about to die by a dinosaur inside the Ranis TARDIS)
‘Survival’
‘The TV Movie’
‘Last of the Time Lords’

Just because a character dies it doesn’t mean they die forever, same for the Daleks, killed forever more than once –
‘The Evil of the Daleks’
‘Dalek’
‘Parting of the Ways’
‘Journeys End’

Hell the Cybermen were all killed in their first story and they returned.

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If the Master is dying then why doesn’t he just regenerate, he was brought back by the Time Lords presumably with 12 more regenerations, he has used 1.

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Congratulations. You could call it Kryten.

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>I don?t still don?t have II, III, and VI. Hopefully, I?ll get lucky and find the others in original form, but given that all my others are remastered, I?m not holding my breath.

IV wasn’t remastered (I assume that is what you meant by VI). It was planned along with V but when it didn’t do that well it was put on hold and they still haven’t made it.
I think the inside of the VHS case said that you should look out for Series IV and V in the future.

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>Hang on a minute. Are you seriously telling me you were watching the Remastered version of Dwarf for all this time? For four years? Oh ho ho ho! Whoa, that?s a classic that is, that?s a classic.

I got the remastered 1 and 2 when they came out as a birthday present, I had III, VI and VII on proper VHS, IV and V taped off the TV. Had never seen 1 and 2 until then.
I do prefer the “original” but I always look upon the remastered as the original.

Had never seen the original till the DVD release, shocked at some of the cuts.

Speaking of cuts, I was listening to the CD release of Red Dwarf Radio Show and at one point I rememer from the cassette (unabridged and radio show) and the book that Rimmer says on getting to the exam in negative ten minutes “Well, you’d have to be Dr Who” but the CD just stops at “Well”. Can anyone shed any light on that?

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http://blogtorwho.blogspot.com/2009/12/end-of-time-part-two-clip_30.html

New clip. In a word, beautiful.

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>What I?m looking forward to most is finding out why Bernard Cribbens is so drawn to the Doctor.

Because he never bloody leaves London, he has only bumped into him three times and they were all around the same area. Now Glitz he must be really important to the Doctor, he has bumped into him 3 times in totally different places.

>I know the Timelords became corrupted to some extent in the sense that they became a self-centred introverted race, but, apart from the odd megalomaniac here and there, they?re not particularly evil are they, any more than humanity I mean? Sure the main ?timelord? episodes might involve the said megalomaniacs*, but they were the exception weren?t they? Wasn?t that kind of their point? Like the Doctor in a sense. To be fair, the only other time Lords I?ve encountered are Omega and The Master. (I?ve heard of The Rani and The Monk but I haven?t seen those episodes.)

From memory these stories have rogue Time Lords –
‘The Time Meddler’/’The Dalek Masterplan’ – The Meddling Monk appears.
‘The War Games’ – A rogue Time Lord tries to find the best fighter by pitting groups of armies from earth against eachother. Later in the story the actual Time Lords from Gallifrey arrive and they are sort of rogue, they put the Doctor on trial for meddling through time and force a regeneration, it is part of their laws so if they are rogue is debatable.
‘Terror of the Autons’ onwards – The Master appears.
‘The Three Doctors’/’Arc of Infinity’ – Omega appears, sort of rogue, he is more unfortunate, he was stuck in a different dimension and went crazy, he is praised by Time Lords as a hero.
‘The Five Doctors’ – Borusa places the Doctor in various incarnation and loads of enemies in the death zone so he can gain immortality from the tomb of Rassilon.
‘The Trial of a Time Lord’ – The High Council of Gallifrey are rogue until the end of the story in which they are diposed, The Valeyard is a rogue too.

In most of those stories it is really just one crazy guy wanting power except in ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’ in which the entire council are evil, I guess either it is the same here or they are have an evil president in charge.

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I’ve downloaded all of their XFM shows with the music cut out. Utterly brilliant stuffl love crap commentary corner. Wish they had callers in to the 6 music show, it is always so funny when they take mock them (all in good humour).
I have downloaded the podcasts but I haven’t listened to them yet, between christmas tele, 2 seasons of DS9,A&J XFM shows and Red Dwarf Radio Show on CD to listen to I just haven’t had time.

For anyone who wants them you can find all their XFM shows and all their 6Music shows up until a few months ago here -http://community.livejournal.com/adam_and_joe/65492.html
The XFM ones are worth a listen, you’ll need to join humyo to download them though.

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The Times on the ratings “fail” (not my words, theirs) yesterday – http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6968533.ece

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Which is up against Coronation Street as I said before, big gamble there especially as it was that show that killed it in the 80s (well that and the A-Team).

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I just expected better ratings after all the publicity. I don’t see why a more continuity heavy episode would turn people away and cause lower ratings (until next week), it isn’t like it opens with a warning saying “You better know you spectrox from your rutan”, they need to watch it first to know it is.
10m is good for the usual program but for the show that in previous years has attracted 11+ and has had all the people from it on talk shows and plastered all over TV, you couldn’t move without seeing Tennant on something over christmas and then you have all of the christmas idents.

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I’m not saying they are bad ratings, they just arn’t that good (or atleast what what I thought it would get). It is a top watched show (3rd or 4th wasn’t it?) but it still was trounced by the less publicised and advertised and hyped show last year.

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It got 10 million viewers, frankly I don’t think that is all that good compared woth ‘The Next Doctor’ which pulled in well over 11 million. This episode should have pulled in mroe considering what it is, the last of the Tenth Doctors adventures. I don’t expect next weeks to do all that better, it is up against ITV’s flagship show, Coronation Street, just like 20 years ago.

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>But what exactly does he plan to do now that he?s copied almost the entire planet into himself? Will they all just walk around laughing, or will they move on to the rest of the universe?

Well it was a spur of the moment thing, the Master only found out about the gate late on so I doubt he has a plan, probably just make it up as he goes along.

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>For example, I?m not entirely sure why the Master has all these superpowers. I know his regeneration was messed with but if anything I?d think he would be weaker. Okay, I suppose he is in a sense with all the requirement to eat, but he?s got some major compensations there.

Tennant said something along the lines of “burning yourself out” so I guess he is using all his remaining energy to fuel the super-powers.

>I?m particularly curious about the stuff concerning Wilfred and his secret messages and the coincidences surrounding him. I?m starting to wonder if he?s got a fob watch hiding away somewhere?.

Wouldn’t that make his daughter, Sylvia, half Time Lord and stop her from turning into Simm?

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>I suspect, because it ?weaponises? him – making for an ever stronger contrast to the Doctor?and making the odds against the Doctor that much greater.

I think the Master is always weaponised in a way, certainly he always has the advantage over the Doctor in that he will go to violence quicker than the Doctor.
The first scene where I really thought that the Simm Master was working pretty good in this episode was after that laser bolt when the Doctor and the Master were talking, he really worked so well in that scene, it was so engrosing, I was fixed to the screen, then he did his super-power act and jumped away and I was taken out, luckily I was pulled right back in when the helicopters arrived and the Doctor was being shot at, I actually thought he had been shot at the end of the scene.

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>Soundableobject?s just upset that the Master isn?t a robot? :)

A cyborg actually. Really there was no reason to have that shite x-ray effect, we get it, he has gone a bit messed up, I would have thought his magic powers and super speed would be indication enough.

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The first 30 minutes couldn’t have been more dissapointing. Open with clips of ‘Last of the Time Lords’ and remind me how much I hated the previous story.
The Master’s return was shite, it was magic, it wasn’t sci-fi in anyway, they fucking used the word potions.
The Master being a crazy fucked up monster was also quite naff, him jumping up really high and shooting laser bolts was just stupid.
I don’t find horny granny jokes funny.

After the soldiers took the Master the episode picked up. At all this time I kept expecting the gate to activate and return Gallifrey but it didn’t, it just fucked up all the humans and you’d think because I hate this incarnation of the Master so much that I’d hate the end but you know what? I thought it was fucking funny and I put it all down to Simm, him as Obama was just fantastic, giving himself cheers and thumbs up, loved it.

Then the Time Lords returned and a shite To Be Continued appeared and a weird next time trailer.

On the whole it is alot better than my expectations.

The Master stuff in the first half of the episode is the stuff I didn’t like but it didn’t detract from the second half of the episode and the cliff-hanger was so barmy and out there that I just had to love it. Of course we shall see if I can keep on being positive when there is a planet of Simm Masters.

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‘The End of Time’ + Confidential
James May’s Toy Stories
Royle Family
Some radio documentary on the lost episodes of Who

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Happy Festivus.

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>I?m unemployed.

That means you’ll have to work right through christmas.

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>got a job as an elf! Quite good money apparently.

So he wasn’t short changed?

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?Planet of the Dead? was easily the biggest disappointment of the year.

Three times actually.

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Well BTE beat my expectations.
‘Planet of the Dead’ was easily the biggest disappointment of the year.

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Well BTE beat my expectations.
‘Planet of the Dead’ was easily the biggest disappointment of the year.

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I watch it anyway. It was funnier than usual. Not a very good Who quiz though, you’d think they would have a question on spectrox toxemia, you know, make it a little harder.

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Bless you Marleen. Bleen

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>KARL, IT?S ALL YOUR FAULT.

Thanks Karl. Tharl.

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Yep, no word on Martha from the cast list or set reports.

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>or perhaps even who Donna and Martha are other than being other companions (whose stories we can watch through in full at a later date).

Martha, no. Donna, yes.
That is if your flatmate wants to understand what Donna and her crazy mind is all about the in christmas episodes.

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I’d say ‘Rose’ is borderline but because of the bin and stretchyness of the naff plastic CGI it goes into Meh.

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GREAT

Midnight
Utopia
The Waters of Mars
The Christmas Invasion
Partners in Crime
The Next Doctor
Turn Left

GOOD

Journey?s End
The Stolen Earth
Gridlock
Boom Town
Smith and Jones
Runaway Bride

MEH

The Parting of the Ways
The End of the World
The Sound of Drums
Army of Ghosts
Rose
Bad Wolf

SHITE

Love & Monsters
Tooth and Claw
Doomsday
New Earth
Voyage of the Damned
Last of the Time Lords
The Long Game
Planet of the Dead
World War Three
Aliens of London

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“When I said last issue that 4.17’s title was six words long, it had a completely different name – The Final Days of Planet Earth. But then we saw it on screen and said, as one, “Naaah”. Julie said, “This story’s too big! It needs Part One and Part Two!” So we broke our own rules, cos (a) that’s what rules are for and (b) there are no rules anyway. Wild and radical, that’s us!”
RTD, DWM 416

Nothing to do with spoilers, it didn’t look right, that is all.

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I was reading some magazines from 1984-1992 that I acquired a few months back and in a few StarBursts was an advert for something like this but it was so much worse, it had Tom and Colin Baker but the faces were so much more crumpled, the images or crumpled Tom and Colin still haunt me today.

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I prefer ‘The End of Time’ Part 1 & 2 to ‘The Last Days of Planet Earth’, you could practically slap that title on half the episodes of the new series and it would be apt.

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