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Also time travel is logically impossible.
And don't get me started on that whole "bigger on the inside" thing. I've run dozens of experiments on dozens of telephone boxes, and it just doesn't work.
In the case of time travel, there are multiple possibilities for premises that would allow time travel as well as those that do not.
The laws of physics don't definitively rule out time travel (for ex Closed Timelike Curves) and at the quantum level, classical time travel paradoxes like the grandfather problem are mathematically resolvable and that resolution has been simulated successfully.
The best answer is maybe.
Now if the statement was "Doctor Who doesn't do a very good job of making time travel believable or realistically handling possible ways it could happen" well then yeah, of course. He's a wizard with a magic box fighting fantasy monsters. They don't specifically set out to try, although some episodes can occasionally do a fairly good job of exploring time travel thought experiments.
Dear God.
I would love to see the show play around with that theory in modern physics that our reality is a holographic projection from a black hole.
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in there. makes me wonder if that whole section was one long easter egg
But then I realised that wouldn't work. If she hadn't seen the events there as well, he would have just quietly walked off to mope alone.
There were a few other old faces in there, IIRC. Pretty sure even John Hart was there.
Just out of curiosity, is there any reason that the mirror is treated with any more respect than, say, our national enquirer?
A Dr Who article pops up on my google news feed, talking about how bad the show is doing and how moffat might get fired and surprise surprise it's the mirror...bastions of numerous other Who stories in the past that turned out to be blatantly made up. And like those times other news sites pick up the story and run with it, like it's legitimate, quoting only the mirror article and the unnamed 'fans' that the mirror article quotes.
I know, i know, fox news, but how many times can you just print made up news before people stop paying attention?
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Fox News is a pretty good comparison, except we have a few newspapers competing for that desirable 'dumb' demographic.
We also have intelligent-seeming but hilariously bigoted newspapers like the Telegraph or Mail.
I think we are unusual in that our newspapers are mostly appalling, but TV news is not so bad.
I guess, technically, they probably like to think of themselves as the flagship of mirror group newspapers which also includes papers that actually report news sometimes?
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To be fair I'd say the show has declined in Mofatt's run from mid season 7. "Last Christmas" would have been an average episode in season 5 and 6.
Christmas episodes have historically been...not great; or at the very least not among the best in a given season. Though, I'd say Last Christmas is up there as probably the best (I know, people seem enamored with Christmas Carol, but eh...)
Also it's kind of a taste thing. There's people who, beyond just liking Tennant more than Smith, for instance, like the Davies series more than the Moffat ones and ho boy does that make my head spin. So. Many. Just flat out horrible episodes and stories and acting. So many.
And, lets be fair(er), Series 5 and 6 still had shit like Vampires in Venice and Curse of the Black Dot (and yes, even the Wedding of River Song). Yes, I'd agree that they were more concentrated goodness than 7 or 8 (though, IMO 8 has been so far superior to 7 in every possible way, first or second half, that I would find it hard take an argument seriously that the show is on a downward decline), but they had their stinkers too. Personally, even the 'bad' in series 8 never reached the lows of some of the S 5/6/7 stuff, and not even close to shit like Fear Her and other miseries from the Davies era. I didn't even force my wife to watch Love & Monsters and Fear Her as we we've been going through the show, and I'll probably never force myself to watch them again either.
All that being said, my point in the question wasn't really about personal tastes in the show, since that can vary a lot, this thread making that very apparent; it was the seriousness of how some sites took the Mirror article as if it were just a given that 'a majority of fans' were 'disappointed in series 8' blah blah and that Moffat might be fired, which is patently absurd. As a reminder this is the same rag that pushed out a totally serious article about Coleman leaving after S8, to the point of even completely making up a letter she supposedly wrote about it. That's really what I was getting at.
But, anyway, here's some fun regardless:
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Alas no. And now I'm really disappointed.
That being said Moffat's redeemed himself in my eyes with season 8. Season 8 is hands down my favorite season of New Who.
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It's not good, though, is it? It's pretty terrible.
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She really got dealt a shit hand in her departure.
Also also, for anyone else watching through, all BBC shows are being removed from Netflix streaming at the end of the month, so you might want to binge.
augh, this sucks
I meant to catch up on older who since i started watching this season (also top gear)
is it still going to be on prime?
No word.
Apparently this happened last year and they got the details hammered out right before the contract expired, so it might not go away - you never know.
That being said, right now, unless something changes, contract expires at the end of the month.
Train one started of really good, but after the "revelation" about the scientists it went all down hill. That entire plot added nothing, and the scientists were useless. I guess it was just done as a setup for future episodes?
And the zombie reveal was dissapointing.
2D people one was quite good as well. Visuals were top notch and suitably creepy. Liked the uncertaintly of what their motivations and if we could even succesfully comunicate with them.
Doctor acted a lot smarter in these two.
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That nod to that episode a few seasons ago was awesome
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Looks like Netflix has renewed the deal with the BBC and Doctor Who isn't going anywhere.
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(Moffat really has a thing about a good Sombrero...)
It's nice to a see them being so aware and engaging with the creativity of the fans. Keep CLAM and trust Capaldi!
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This is thematic.
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No, it would have been thematic for the 9th or 10th Doctor.