Re: Doctor Who is awesome, yeah?
She was trying to protect Clara so that Clara would live as long as she needed to to accomplish what she needed to.
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That makes sense. Clara telling the Doctor to take the Tardis is how Sexy knows Clara? She knows what Clara did so later on she protects her so Clara can travel back to tell the Doc...*head explodes*
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In fairness, sexy doesn't experience time the same way we do. SO to her it probably makes perfect sense.
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Makes sense to me too now 
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I woke up today with a sore neck, and I thought I just slept on it wrong. Then I came back to read this thread and realized it was from the all the whiplash retcon action.
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Tell you what, when you come back in 50 years after making a TV show making no retcons, we'll talk.
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Doctor Submarine wrote:
She was trying to protect Clara so that Clara would live as long as she needed to to accomplish what she needed to.
I'll have to re-watch the latest season, but did the TARDIS ever actually "protect" Clara though? I remember once it wouldn't let Clara in, but that was about protecting itself. Other than that, most of the friction between Clara and the TARDIS never felt like anything other than a foil for adorable banter. Which, I mean, I enjoyed and it was adorable, but it never felt (even in retrospect) that it was a part of some grander story line.
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Tell you what, when you come back in 50 years after making a TV show making no retcons, we'll talk.
I'm ok with a certain amount of retcon action...especially considering the nature of the show -- both it's longevity and dealing with time-travel. The thing is, the specific continuity issue I'm talking about isn't based on something that was created 50 years ago. It happened LAST SEASON.
On a more fundamental level, I'm not sure what the cutoff point would be exactly, but there is a point where creating a character that's supposed to have been around and effecting outcomes "all along" becomes sort of ridiculous. I'm not sure how long a show has to run before that story idea loses credibility, but clearly 50 years and 26 seasons was past that line, for me at least.
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fireproof78 wrote:I think they need to introduce another Time Lord (not the Master) for the Doctor to play off of.
Yo this is my cousin Jimmy the Time Lord, I know we've never mentioned him before, but he's living here now.
The show jumped the shark when the Doctor's people were first called Time Lords (in The War Games, where in order to defeat the War Lord the Doctor contacts his people for the first time since running away)
I have no problem re-introducing more of his people, mostly because the whole Time War thing was rather silly and just aching to be written around. Most of his people never went anywhere or did anything, so having a few around who WEREN'T super heroes or evil masterminds would make a good contrast with The Doctor.
Damn it, bring back Susan!
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Well, there ARE two time lords in the universe at the moment.* The Doctor and his clone, Jenny.
* Right? Subsequent events didn't erase that, right?
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Is Jenny technically a Time Lord though, I thought she couldn't regen... but I'll admit, it's been ages since I saw that episode, and barely remember most of it.
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BigDamnArtist wrote:
fireproof78 wrote:I think they need to introduce another Time Lord (not the Master) for the Doctor to play off of.
Yo this is my cousin Jimmy the Time Lord, I know we've never mentioned him before, but he's living here now.
Well, the Master escaped (twice!) so who's to say other Time Lords didn't? Who's to say there wasn't a Cassandra like figure who went in to exile after being ignored for so long regarding the Last Great Time War?
I mean, the Doctor has always been a loaner? Why not have someone from his own race call him on it?
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BBQ wrote:
Was I the only one that caught how Clara totally smashed the continuity from "The Doctor's Wife"? If you recall, there was this exchange between The Doctor and Idris (the TARDIS in humanoid form):Idris: Did you ever wonder why I chose you all those years ago?
The Doctor: I chose you. You were unlocked.
Idris: Of course I was. I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a Time Lord and I ran away. And you were the only one mad enough.Yet, in this season's finale...Clara is the one who chose which TARDIS the Doctor took. What was a really intriguing little exchange that created a sense of mystery and connection between the Doctor and the TARDIS...nevermind!
Inserting a character 20+ seasons into a storyline that is now magically supposed to have "always been there" throughout the entire show is audacious enough, but as soon as she hip-ly stopped the 1st Doctor was like "Hey, take this TARDIS instead!", I about threw something at the TV. The Doctor's Wife was one of the best Smith episodes, if not one of the best modern Who episodes...and to just piss all over one of the most mysterious and interesting plot points created in that episode just...ugh. *shakes head*
Well...
They already pee'd all over that a few episodes later, when "tiny Amy" was available as a hologram "voice interface", and where the Tardis was completely unable to have a resonable conversation at all
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http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/13/ … -november/
The rumor is, the BBC found the mother load, and will have them ready to release for the 50th Anniversary.
Them, believe it or not, are all the Hartnell episodes. And many second Doctor episodes.
Is it true?
Oh, I so want to believe...
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There's been a rumor that a large amount of previously lost classic Doctor Who episodes have been discovered recently. Nothing has been confirmed but would be something if it turns out to be true.
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Also, Rufus Sewell as the next Doctor-yes? No?
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Also, Rufus Sewell as the next Doctor-yes? No?
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Oh hell yeah. That would be incredible.
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I was pondering who the next Doctor could be today, and Dominic Monaghan (aka The Lost Hobbit) popped into my head.
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It'll be an unknown.
Anyone over Dominic Monaghan 
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fireproof78 wrote:
Also, Rufus Sewell as the next Doctor-yes? No?
Rufus Sewell needs to make some more damn episodes of Zen.
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He wants to, it's the darn BBC that don't.
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Since Trey has just tried out Doctor Who by watching "Blink", I thought that he and anyone else considering getting into the show could use some help understanding it, since it has such a long and storied 50-year history.
Everybody probably knows the basics (time traveler, saves worlds, periodically regenerates into a different actor), so I put together some not-so-well-known facts.
His real name is Doctor Nigel Hough
He is a dentist, not a medical doctor
His blue box is called a TARDIS, which stands for "Glorious Spaceship of the Soviet Worker" in Russian (the BBC originally felt certain the Russians would win the space race)
He can travel thru time because he was bitten by a time traveler
He is of an alien race called "ruminants" who have four stomachs
Altho his various incarnations are different heights, for unexplained reasons he must keep his weight the same by means of heavier or lighter shoes
The 3rd Doctor smoked reefer now and then
One of the 4th Doctor's companions was Cher
He votes Tory
In a controversial 5th Doctor episode now lost, he raped a girl
The 6th Doctor accidentally killed the 2nd Doctor; how this was possible was never explained
He has a brother named Benny who occasionally mooches money off him
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Benny was his female companion after Ace, but otherwise not a bad list
(In the same book that introduced Benny, the wonderful "Love and War", it's hinted the personality of the 7th Doctor killed the 6th because there was serious business to do and that aspect of him was too egotistical and self centered)
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But to really understand the Doctor, you've got to see the 4th Doctor storyline where he has a love affair with Chester A. Arthur. Really powerful stuff.
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