tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post2332614476643701499..comments2023-04-06T22:01:07.239+10:00Comments on YOA's Blog Of The Unusally Pointless: Doctor Who - Flight Through InfinityYouth of Australiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-14983515605433765962010-07-20T06:36:53.443+10:002010-07-20T06:36:53.443+10:00No response to me, Ewen? :-(No response to me, Ewen? :-(Matthew Blanchettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03829163626544348823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-19857064210534618302010-07-18T22:34:43.108+10:002010-07-18T22:34:43.108+10:00I didn't doubt it was true. I just doubted tha...<i>I didn't doubt it was true. I just doubted that it made any kind of sense. But thanks for the link.</i><br />Yer welcome.<br /><br /><i>Also: Jesus, is Katy Manning an Auton? I get creeped out by people who age so little.</i><br />I don't, but then my mum's one of them.<br /><br /><i>God, that's getting close to forty years ago...</i><br />Believe me, she acts like it was yesterday. Or possibly hadn't happened yet.<br /><br /><i>...okay. So we're going for a 'no redeeming features' gang?</i><br />At least they're making it clear instead of expecting us to find them 'endearing'.<br /><br /><i>Was thinking of a "Kaston Iago, Fiona Moore and..." gag, but couldn't think of a funny guy for that last part.</i><br />The dude from Family Guy who's in love with Chris? Herbie?<br /><br /><i>And who the fuck's going to make the coffee and piss about with computers?</i><br />*shrugs* Rhys? With the baby in one arm or something?<br /><br /><i>(Did the cute black girl who was the spy in CoE die again?</i><br />No. She got locked up in UNIT's Guanatamo Bay facility like Tosh, but the lady that stole the PM's job promised to get her out. Eventually. If there was nothing more important to do. Maybe.<br /><br /><i>I thought she would have made a good team member... but I remember RTD delighted in setting up a couple of characters as potential regulars and killing them so my instinctive belief is that she must have died)</i><br />Actually she was a last minute combined replacement for Martha and Mickey, but the actors - like everyone else it seems - was trying to get away from Torchwood as fast as humanly possible.Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-6828568559045716912010-07-18T22:13:07.969+10:002010-07-18T22:13:07.969+10:00I didn't doubt it was true. I just doubted tha...I didn't doubt it was true. I just doubted that it made any kind of sense. But thanks for the link. Also: Jesus, is Katy Manning an Auton? I get creeped out by people who age so little. And I just got the <b>Frontier in Space / Planet of the Daleks</b> double pack so I've been watching her c1973 as of last night...<br /><br />God, that's getting close to forty years ago...<br /><br /><i>My jaw's on the floor that the replacements for Tosh, Owen and Ianto are (in no particular order)<br /><br />- a sadistic CIA operative<br />- his rookie/stalker/obsessive girl pal<br />- a psychotic mass-murdering pedophile</i><br /><br />...okay. So we're going for a 'no redeeming features' gang?<br /><br />Was thinking of a "Kaston Iago, Fiona Moore and..." gag, but couldn't think of a funny guy for that last part. <br /><br />And who the fuck's going to make the coffee and piss about with computers?<br /><br />(Did the cute black girl who was the spy in CoE die again? I thought she would have made a good team member... but I remember RTD delighted in setting up a couple of characters as potential regulars and killing them so my instinctive belief is that she must have died)Jared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-22148578822951891782010-07-18T18:44:27.336+10:002010-07-18T18:44:27.336+10:00Although nobody from 21st Century Earth recognises...<i>Although nobody from 21st Century Earth recognises the Daleks any more...</i><br />Apparently that got fixed too.<br /><br /><i>I have a lot of trouble wrapping my head around this concept.</i><br /><a href="http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/04/eleventh-doctor-and-jo-grant-to-visit.html" rel="nofollow">It's true.</a><br /><br />You think you're having trouble? My jaw's on the floor that the replacements for Tosh, Owen and Ianto are (in no particular order)<br /><br />- a sadistic CIA operative<br />- his rookie/stalker/obsessive girl pal<br />- a psychotic mass-murdering pedophile<br /><br />So a pedophile. As a regular. Oh well, RTD's always happy to say Jack will shag anything, so why stop at children?Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-63481721946843807562010-07-18T18:25:22.076+10:002010-07-18T18:25:22.076+10:00Yet the reboot only covers things from this season...<i>Yet the reboot only covers things from this season. Apparently.</i><br /><br />Although nobody from 21st Century Earth recognises the Daleks any more...<br /><br /><i>No doubt the epic Eleventh Doctor/Jo Grant/Sarah Jane Smith story later this year will confirm it one way or the other...</i><br /><br />I have a lot of trouble wrapping my head around this concept.Jared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-20781511582466384032010-07-18T12:42:10.406+10:002010-07-18T12:42:10.406+10:00Brilliantly put.
Really? I thought it was my weake...<i>Brilliantly put.</i><br />Really? I thought it was my weakest review so far...<br /><br /><i>We're in agreement I think. And thanks for your wrap up of exactly what was going on - unusually I didn't put too much thought into the mechanics of it all.</i><br />Seems the same applied to Moff as well.<br /><br /><i>I got the impression that, for whatever reason, Amy could not see the Doctor, only hear him. That's why he had to race up to her on the Byzantium, when she was blind and talk to her then, asking her to remember the message he had not yet implanted.</i><br />It's easy to get that impression, since the first couple of times when the Doctor calls for Amy, she turns to look at him, but he's rewound before she can do anything - like confirm she did more than hear his voice.<br /><br /><i>But, yes, with River reappearing it muddies the waters of just how important the 'something borrowed, something new' message was was...</i><br />And how the hell did she GET to the wedding when the Doctor had her vortex manipulator? Let alone how she managed to help in the first place. Though Moff says that's something ELSE to be explained.<br /><br /><i>My friends and I have been fascinated with the way that Moffat has opened his season with an arc wherein the entire RTD Universe is broken down and then rebooted. Literally....</i><br />Yet the reboot only covers things from this season. Apparently.<br /><br />No doubt the epic Eleventh Doctor/Jo Grant/Sarah Jane Smith story later this year will confirm it one way or the other...Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-76532098084245591032010-07-18T12:05:08.367+10:002010-07-18T12:05:08.367+10:00Brilliantly put. We're in agreement I think. A...Brilliantly put. We're in agreement I think. And thanks for your wrap up of exactly what was going on - unusually I didn't put too much thought into the mechanics of it all.<br /><br />I got the impression that, for whatever reason, Amy could not see the Doctor, only hear him. That's why he had to race up to her on the Byzantium, when she was blind and talk to her then, asking her to remember the message he had not yet implanted.<br /><br />But, yes, with River reappearing it muddies the waters of just how important the 'something borrowed, something new' message was was...<br /><br />My friends and I have been fascinated with the way that Moffat has opened his season with an arc wherein the entire RTD Universe is broken down and then rebooted. Literally....Jared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-72552966967834146112010-07-16T05:31:27.583+10:002010-07-16T05:31:27.583+10:00I've got a great big smile on my face; partly ...I've got a great big smile on my face; partly from the episode, partly from your review. :-DMatthew Blanchettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03829163626544348823noreply@blogger.com