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"She was the most recent therefore the most easy to remember" is a silly argument to use when talking about events that occurred 2000 years ago. Pop-quiz: without google or wikipedia, who was the last Roman Emperor? It's the most recent one, so you should have no problem remembering him over the much older Augustus, Nero, Caligula, or Constantine, right? Or maybe it's that we remember the rulers that did something important, rather than just the last one in chronological order.
Egypt at the time of Cleopatra was hardly at the peak of its power. It had been beaten militarily by Alexander the Great and ruled by the Ptoleme dynasty for seven generations, the last five of which had essentially given up on any kind of efficient ruling of the land and sheltered themselves from the population to focus all their time and energy on family feuds and murders. Turning to Rome for military assistance against one or another sibling was a tradition several generations old by the time Cleopatra came around. Past Ptolemys had had no qualms at being puppet rulers of Egypt who were completely dependent on Roman military power to hold on to the throne. Egypt didn't lose its independence because of Cleopatra, it lost it because of generations of mismanagement and dependence on Rome. Cleopatra tried to turn things around, and actually succeeded for a while. But her success was predicated on personal connections, and when those connections died off (literally) there was nothing left to save Egypt from complete annexation.
Cleopatra didn't tie herself to powerful people, she tied powerful people to herself. Caesar's affair with Cleopatra earned him resentment in Rome, and Antony eventually fled Rome for Alexandria. And neither of these people were ever branded enemies of the Roman Empire, hell they both died before there even was a Roman Empire. Caesar was the consul of Rome, ruling the city and the Republic with absolute power, and Antony was one of the second triumvirate ruling the Republic and the one that seemed most likely to take over the Republic when that civil war started. You certainly can't fault her choice of alliances.
The first bell to come to mind is the Cloister bell we hear on occasion, as that quote seems kinda out of context. I still feel like there's weird things afoot with that part, especially given the whole 32 minutes/tuxedo thing.
I think it was a Scotland joke.
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I'm pretty sure it's shown on BBC America the same week (or maybe the the week after) the episode airs in the UK.
iTunes or BBC America both generally have the seasons same day as UK release.
Outside of that Netflix is your only other legal alternative.
Well Davies probably just died of a giant erection.
My issue is Daleks are super racist against all other variations but their own. If they all team up they should be shooting each other constantly
And hey, they managed to form an alliance with a whole bunch of non-Dalek inferiors that managed to end the universe, right? What could be more powerful than that except the same principal but with no inferior non-Dalek minions?
Besides, it could totally be a temporal inversion in the space time matrix and they all turned up at once unexpectedly instead of "they formed a grand alliance of all Daleks ever."
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An episode with several Dalek factions all wondering when to stab the others would be quite fun.
They're scary because, without the Doctor, they really would roll over everyone else. Even with him around, the stories are usually holding actions to prevent them from expanding their empire.
Do you count the Byzantines as Romans or not? If not, the answer's rather easy because the name Romulus Augustulus stands out because it's so ironic that the last emperor was named after the founders of Rome the city and Rome the empire, respectively.
(But yes, if you include the Byzantines, I don't recall that name off the top of my head.)
Ahem. Please excuse the off-topicness.
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Similar irony, the last byzzie emperor was called Constantine Palaiologos. Couldn't tell which number Constantine though.
Then again even the Holy Roman Empire claimed dominion on Roman lineage and that only truely died at the end of the 30 year war... 1650ish?
EDIT: BONUS: The Ottoman Sultan also held the title of Kaiser-i-Rum amongst his many others. So the Roman Empire died in 1919.
Makes sense. The Muslim world was as much a child of the Roman Empire as Europe.
Holy shit.
? There are lots of who monsters that had armies. Sontarans, Cybermen, Daleks, Rutons. Pretty much all of the old series's major enemies did except the master and hes not the type to need armies (Unless its an army of himself).
They all have armies and empires and wars, but what makes the Daleks distinct from them is that the Daleks are unstoppable. They aren't just another race of bad guys. They're out to conquer all life, then exterminate everything but the Daleks - the whole Nazi "master race" trip taken to the next level. The Doctor - and the entire Time Lord race eventually - were the only check on the Daleks taking over all time and space.
The others are all localized threats. The Daleks are meant to be a threat to everything and everyone.
Some episodes referred to the time lords as people who did not interfere in the universe anymore, but episodes like "The deadly assassin" suggested that they were constantly monitoring and putting time bubbles around entire worlds that were potential threats to the galaxy. "The genesis of the Daleks" established really the first time the time lords were actually worried about the Daleks (Outside the Doctors independant involvement). They tried to avert there creation or alter their path. Which if you think about it was a drastic step as it would have sent a massive shockwave through history. As it was the doctor only accomplished delaying there growth, but even that would have had a damaging effect through history, but its assumed that the time lords had the power to control that.
The new series has taken this idea and turned it into the daleks vs time lords war...its not a bad change, and in a way its an evolution of the old series. I'm not particularly happy that they turned virtually all time lords evil and removed them from potential future stories. I think the best of the old episodes were those that took place on gallefrey. It might be interesting with moffett as showrunner if he decides to bring the master back or maybe even other time lords somehow. I think he would return them as proper to the series without making them yet another enemy. The Doctor doesnt have to be the last of his kind, i think thats another plot direction i find annoying. It was enough that he was the only one that seemed to care enough to want to experience the galaxy and use his abilities as opposed to the tired demigods of his race.
Most Time Lords probably did just hover around looking somber at the universe, while the Celestial Intervention Agency went around fucking with things, at least to the point where the time war started.
OH YES.
Now I'm watching it on my phone while I work just because it's so amazing.
Seriously, this has got to be one of the most amazing TV series ever. And this is one of the greatest episodes (although there are many equally good).
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Still, none of the episodes in the last season felt like stinkers. I really disliked the fish people and Dalek ones in season 5. Also, I was not too keen on them humanizing the Silurians. If they made them look like their masks, it would have been cool.
Series 6 went the other way by laying it out in the opening and letting people speculate over the resolution all series. And that just didn't work for me, because it was something everyone knew would be undone. I know some people didn't like how the time crack story sort of 'invaded' the Angels and the Silurian episodes, providing a resolution to them out of nowhere, but that worked for me. ;D
Still, Series 6 did have a couple standout episodes. Maybe more than a couple, actually. It's really only the story arc I had a problem with. The Doctor's Wife was fantastic, and I loved the endings to Day Of The Moon, The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex
So yeah, to me, Series 5 is excellent overall with a couple weak points. Series 6 is weak overall with a couple excellent points.
Matt Smith, starting off the Olympic Torch thing in Cardiff yesterday.
Me too, I felt it added more weight to them.
It's been done.
Yeah. I just wished they did it with the right Doctor. Maybe Tennant could not do it.
Edit:
Ah. I see there was a mini episode that ties into it. Way to step on continuity though.
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