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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    well, I remember reading on Wiki how back in the day there was a plot where the Master was dying because he had used up all his regenerations

    then in the episode where they introduced him back into the modern show, he said something about the Time Lords giving him more regenerations in order so that he could fight in the Time War

    Centipede Damascus on
  • RialeRiale I'm a little slow Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I've decided not to attempt to watch torchwood because I like that it's everywhere but mysterious in Dr. Who.

    While this is a good decision, you should probably not watch it because it's a fetid pile of shit.

    Riale on
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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Riale wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I've decided not to attempt to watch torchwood because I like that it's everywhere but mysterious in Dr. Who.

    While this is a good decision, you should probably not watch it because it's a fetid pile of shit.

    Thats what I mean. As it stands torchwood seems like a badass don't fuck with the human race organization. If I watch the show I'm sure that wont be as true.

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  • OskiOski Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Riale wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I've decided not to attempt to watch torchwood because I like that it's everywhere but mysterious in Dr. Who.

    While this is a good decision, you should probably not watch it because it's a fetid pile of shit.

    nuh uh, torchwood is actually a legitimate show. me and my friends watch it when we cant get everyone together to watch dr.who. like the other show, the spinoff thats basically a kids show, now thats some old bullshit. but torchwood is a good fucking show

    HEY O CAPTAIN JACK

    Oski on
  • OskiOski Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Riale wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I've decided not to attempt to watch torchwood because I like that it's everywhere but mysterious in Dr. Who.

    While this is a good decision, you should probably not watch it because it's a fetid pile of shit.

    Thats what I mean. As it stands torchwood seems like a badass don't fuck with the human race organization. If I watch the show I'm sure that wont be as true.

    its like the what would happen if the dr. were human. basically.

    its good. not as good as dr. who, but i mean what is.

    Oski on
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Oski wrote: »
    Riale wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I've decided not to attempt to watch torchwood because I like that it's everywhere but mysterious in Dr. Who.

    While this is a good decision, you should probably not watch it because it's a fetid pile of shit.

    nuh uh, torchwood is actually a legitimate show. me and my friends watch it when we cant get everyone together to watch dr.who. like the other show, the spinoff thats basically a kids show, now thats some old bullshit. but torchwood is a good fucking show

    HEY O CAPTAIN JACK

    Torchwood is a show that was made purely for the sake of being edgy.

    This is not a reason to make a show.

    Blake T on
  • bongibongi regular
    edited January 2009
    Blaket wrote: »
    Oski wrote: »
    Riale wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I've decided not to attempt to watch torchwood because I like that it's everywhere but mysterious in Dr. Who.

    While this is a good decision, you should probably not watch it because it's a fetid pile of shit.

    nuh uh, torchwood is actually a legitimate show. me and my friends watch it when we cant get everyone together to watch dr.who. like the other show, the spinoff thats basically a kids show, now thats some old bullshit. but torchwood is a good fucking show

    HEY O CAPTAIN JACK

    Torchwood is a show that was made purely for the sake of being edgy.

    This is not a reason to make a show.
    my favourite example of how shitty torchwood is, whenever someone asks, is to point out that in one episode captain jack shoots the girlfriend of one of his male staff, and then like three episodes later it's implied that captain jack and the staff member are boning

    bongi on
  • bongibongi regular
    edited January 2009
    the only good episode was that one episode where welsh people were cannibals

    bongi on
  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    bongi wrote: »
    Blaket wrote: »
    Oski wrote: »
    Riale wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I've decided not to attempt to watch torchwood because I like that it's everywhere but mysterious in Dr. Who.

    While this is a good decision, you should probably not watch it because it's a fetid pile of shit.

    nuh uh, torchwood is actually a legitimate show. me and my friends watch it when we cant get everyone together to watch dr.who. like the other show, the spinoff thats basically a kids show, now thats some old bullshit. but torchwood is a good fucking show

    HEY O CAPTAIN JACK

    Torchwood is a show that was made purely for the sake of being edgy.

    This is not a reason to make a show.
    my favourite example of how shitty torchwood is, whenever someone asks, is to point out that in one episode captain jack shoots the girlfriend of one of his male staff, and then like three episodes later it's implied that captain jack and the staff member are boning

    god it was all one giant orgy

    Nuzak on
  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    bongi wrote: »
    the only good episode was that one episode where welsh people were cannibals

    episode? lol

    Nuzak on
  • bongibongi regular
    edited January 2009
    it was great because they were like "NO HUMANS COULD BE THIS HORRIBLE IT MUST BE ALIENS"

    rebuttal: the welsh

    bongi on
  • OskiOski Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Blaket wrote: »
    Oski wrote: »
    Riale wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I've decided not to attempt to watch torchwood because I like that it's everywhere but mysterious in Dr. Who.

    While this is a good decision, you should probably not watch it because it's a fetid pile of shit.

    nuh uh, torchwood is actually a legitimate show. me and my friends watch it when we cant get everyone together to watch dr.who. like the other show, the spinoff thats basically a kids show, now thats some old bullshit. but torchwood is a good fucking show

    HEY O CAPTAIN JACK

    Torchwood is a show that was made purely for the sake of being edgy.

    This is not a reason to make a show.

    Xena the Warrior Princess, Private Practice, and Barney all beg to disagree with you.

    Seriously though. Me and my friends at Cal can only watch the Dr. Who in like increments, when we get the new episodes in the mail. Then we make a thing of it and watch it all together. Torchwood is a nice sort of filler for the in between times.

    Oski on
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Oski wrote: »
    Blaket wrote: »
    Oski wrote: »
    Riale wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I've decided not to attempt to watch torchwood because I like that it's everywhere but mysterious in Dr. Who.

    While this is a good decision, you should probably not watch it because it's a fetid pile of shit.

    nuh uh, torchwood is actually a legitimate show. me and my friends watch it when we cant get everyone together to watch dr.who. like the other show, the spinoff thats basically a kids show, now thats some old bullshit. but torchwood is a good fucking show

    HEY O CAPTAIN JACK

    Torchwood is a show that was made purely for the sake of being edgy.

    This is not a reason to make a show.

    Xena the Warrior Princess, Private Practice, and Barney all beg to disagree with you.

    Seriously though. Me and my friends at Cal can only watch the Dr. Who in like increments, when we get the new episodes in the mail. Then we make a thing of it and watch it all together. Torchwood is a nice sort of filler for the in between times.

    Man Xena wasn't fucking edgy, they made that show to have goddamm fun.

    And Private Practice is the opposite of edgy.

    And Barney isn't edgy for the sake of it, he is written that way as to show a different character to the stability of Marshall and Lilly.

    Blake T on
  • MikeRyuMikeRyu Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Torchwoody starring Captain Jack Penis

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    well, I remember reading on Wiki how back in the day there was a plot where the Master was dying because he had used up all his regenerations

    Yep. Roger Delgado, who originally portrayed the Master, died in 1973 or 1974, so the Master didn't return until 1977 in The Deadly Assassin. He went from this charming fellow (Delgado):

    250px-Roger_Delgado.jpg

    To this animated, rotting corpse:

    master-deadly.jpg

    It was explained that the Delgado Master was the Master's final body (Deadly Assassin was the story in which the thirteen lives limit was introduced), and he seemed to have survived in this decaying state purely through hatred.

    The Master continued like this in The Keeper of Traken, when he finally found a new body, that of Tremas (Anthony Ainley). The dying Master merged with the Trakenite and the Master looked quite dapper once more:

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    then in the episode where they introduced him back into the modern show, he said something about the Time Lords giving him more regenerations in order so that he could fight in the Time War

    Yeah. He got sucked into the Eye of Harmony in the Doctor's TARDIS in the '96 telemovie after he had already been executed by the Daleks (no, the man never dies). The Time Lords brought him back as "the perfect warrior".

    Of course, he scarpered once the Dalek Emperor took control of the Cruciform (whatever that is). Perfect warrior my arse.

    Cyvros on
  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    but what that implies is that the Time Lords, possibly through genetic engineering or some other method, impose the limit on themselves, and so there is some way to bypass that limit also

    Centipede Damascus on
  • Riggs BlitzkriegRiggs Blitzkrieg Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Ive hardly seen any episodes. Less than a handful. But I did see one called Blink. That was awesome.

    Riggs Blitzkrieg on
  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Ive hardly seen any episodes. Less than a handful. But I did see one called Blink. That was awesome.
    And Steven Moffat, the man who wrote Blink, is taking over as head writer in 2010. :D

    Cyvros on
  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Cyvros wrote: »
    Ive hardly seen any episodes. Less than a handful. But I did see one called Blink. That was awesome.
    And Steven Moffat, the man who wrote Blink, is taking over as head writer in 2010. :D

    Blink was truly a great thing.

    FortyTwo on
  • thorgotthorgot there is special providence in the fall of a sparrowRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    FortyTwo wrote: »
    Cyvros wrote: »
    Ive hardly seen any episodes. Less than a handful. But I did see one called Blink. That was awesome.
    And Steven Moffat, the man who wrote Blink, is taking over as head writer in 2010. :D

    Blink was truly a great thing.

    Definitely my favorite episode.

    thorgot on
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  • bongibongi regular
    edited January 2009
    my favourites are human nature/the family of blood but blink is close, as is girl in the fireplace

    bongi on
  • ultraexactzzultraexactzz BLEASCHMNN Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    bongi wrote: »
    the only good episode was that one episode where welsh people were cannibals

    Which is funnier when you realize that BBC Wales is the main production arm of the BBC responsible for Doctor Who.
    FortyTwo wrote: »
    Cyvros wrote: »
    Ive hardly seen any episodes. Less than a handful. But I did see one called Blink. That was awesome.
    And Steven Moffat, the man who wrote Blink, is taking over as head writer in 2010. :D

    Blink was truly a great thing.

    Blink is what I used to trick my wife into watching Doctor Who - and she cried like a baby. Great TV, that.

    ultraexactzz on
  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    bongi wrote: »
    my favourites are human nature/the family of blood but blink is close, as is girl in the fireplace
    Heh, reminds me of something my mum told me a month or two ago. She went to the library and saw a Doctor Who DVD there, so she borrowed it for me. Series 3, volume 4: Human Nature, The Family of Blood and Blink. Apparently, the librarian who checked the items out for her said that that was the best DVD.

    And I wanted to go to the library and high five that man.

    Cyvros on
  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    but what that implies is that the Time Lords, possibly through genetic engineering or some other method, impose the limit on themselves, and so there is some way to bypass that limit also

    I was reading the entry on Time Lords in Wikipedia and it seems like the regeneration thing is something the Time Lords per se invented, not something every person born on Gallifrey can automatically do. Also, their technology is sufficiently advanced for them to have a symbiotic relationship with it, as each does with their TARDIS, and something like an up-to-date copy of their mind is stored in a computer network called the Matrix:
    Wikipedia wrote:
    The biological imprint (also known as bio-data) of a Time Lord, which also defines his personal history, is kept in the Matrix, a computer network that contains the sum total of all Time Lord knowledge. The unauthorised extraction of a Time Lord's bio-data is tantamount to treason.

    This suggests that regenerations are enabled by technology external to the physical body of the Time Lords themselves. If this technology senses that a Time Lord has died, a new body is created for them from the remains of the old one and their memories and personality are re-uploaded from the Matrix.

    The Doctor has always been quite adept at outsmarting and getting around the other Time Lords even when they were still alive. Now that they're all dead, it shouldn't be too difficult for him to hack in to the Matrix and fiddle his own numbers a bit, granting himself as many extra regenerations as he pleases.

    And now I'd better stop before I delve into the murky waters of fanfiction.

    Butler on
  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    But wouldn't the Matrix have been destroyed along with Gallfrey? How then has the Doctor been regenerating since then?

    Centipede Damascus on
  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Going non-canonical for a moment, when the original Gallifrey was destroyed (War in Heaven story arc in the novels), the Matrix went along with Gallifrey. The Doctor managed to wipe his mind and download a compressed version of the Matrix into it (the novels' explanation for how Gallifrey came back only to be destroyed in the Time War).

    If it was the Eighth Doctor who fought in the Time War, then the Doctor's regenerated twice since Gallifrey's destruction.

    Cyvros on
  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    That's probably not accepted canon though. I mean if the Matrix were inside the Doctor's head, surely he would have had something to say about The Master regenerating.

    Butler on
  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    This new guy looks like he was casted for MI-5/Spooks and ended up on the Doctor Who set by mistake. Hopefully he will prove me wrong.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Butler wrote: »
    That's probably not accepted canon though.
    It probably wouldn't be. The War in Heaven was part of the BBC Books Eighth Doctor novels that were running from '97 to 2005.
    Butler wrote: »
    I mean if the Matrix were inside the Doctor's head, surely he would have had something to say about The Master regenerating.
    The new Master came about on the Time War Gallifrey, not the War in Heaven one that the Doctor had the Matrix to. And I think there was something said about how the Doctor couldn't access the contents of the Matrix because of the super-compression method he used to get it in there - if he tried to access the Matrix, his head would explode or something like that. :D

    Cyvros on
  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Ok, I finally saw the Christmas Special and I really enjoyed it
    I think had David Morrissey actually turned out to be the next Doctor I would have been ok with it, I enjoyed his performance

    But I have a question about the IDW comic series that's going on right now (a friend was telling me this stuff last night)
    Ok, the Clone Doctor (or Meta-Crisis Doctor if you wanna get technical) is back and he's the villain? He's wearing a black suit and grown a goatee and is trying to steal the Doctor's regenerations?

    One, this makes him pretty much the Valeyard, which sounds more like a fan-wank than anything else, but apparently these are officially sanctioned

    Two, it's a big jump from being a slightly edgier version of the Doctor to being a full-on villain, and I'm not sure I really buy this whole thing

    so what's up with this?

    Grey Ghost on
  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Cyvros wrote: »
    Butler wrote: »
    That's probably not accepted canon though.
    It probably wouldn't be. The War in Heaven was part of the BBC Books Eighth Doctor novels that were running from '97 to 2005.
    Butler wrote: »
    I mean if the Matrix were inside the Doctor's head, surely he would have had something to say about The Master regenerating.
    The new Master came about on the Time War Gallifrey, not the War in Heaven one that the Doctor had the Matrix to. And I think there was something said about how the Doctor couldn't access the contents of the Matrix because of the super-compression method he used to get it in there - if he tried to access the Matrix, his head would explode or something like that. :D

    The matrix is a .zip file from a parallel universe okay got it.

    Butler on
  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Butler wrote: »
    The matrix is a .zip file from a parallel universe okay got it.

    No, no, no.

    The Matrix is a .rar.:P

    Cyvros on
  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Hey guys I know I'm necropostin' like crazy here, but last night was PLANET OF THE DEAD, the first of 4 "goodbye David Tennant" specials

    It was quite silly and lighthearted and fun, but there was the obligatory prediction of doom and gloom at the end of it
    "Your song will end soon. It is returning through the dark... and then, he will knock four times."

    Also there was a neat preview for the next special called THE WATERS OF MARS

    So, did anyone else watch it? Thoughts? Speculation on the next specials?

    Grey Ghost on
  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Hey guys I know I'm necropostin' like crazy here, but last night was PLANET OF THE DEAD, the first of 4 "goodbye David Tennant" specials

    It was quite silly and lighthearted and fun, but there was the obligatory prediction of doom and gloom at the end of it
    "Your song will end soon. It is returning through the dark... and then, he will knock four times."

    Also there was a neat preview for the next special called THE WATERS OF MARS

    So, did anyone else watch it? Thoughts? Speculation on the next specials?

    I just watched this as well!

    This was largely bollocks, but THE WATERS OF MARS looks great.

    Also, ONE YEAR AND STILL HERE!

    FortyTwo on
  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Lady Christina was a pretty cute little thing

    and I have to suspect that the UNIT scientist was a little jab at some of the more obsessive Who fans

    Grey Ghost on
  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I really hope we see more of Malcolm in the next series.

    Lady Christina annoyed me.

    FortyTwo on
  • DMACDMAC Come at me, bro! Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2009
    Lady Christina the Lara Croft rip-off kind of annoyed me too. Malcolm was entertaining. I liked the Doctor's "back at you" point after the last "I love you."

    DMAC on
  • BoredGamerBoredGamer Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Hey guys I know I'm necropostin' like crazy here, but last night was PLANET OF THE DEAD, the first of 4 "goodbye David Tennant" specials

    It was quite silly and lighthearted and fun, but there was the obligatory prediction of doom and gloom at the end of it
    "Your song will end soon. It is returning through the dark... and then, he will knock four times."

    Also there was a neat preview for the next special called THE WATERS OF MARS

    So, did anyone else watch it? Thoughts? Speculation on the next specials?

    I think that it is hinting that
    The master is going to return. Most of the people I watched it with are thinking the same thing.

    BoredGamer on
  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    BoredGamer wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Hey guys I know I'm necropostin' like crazy here, but last night was PLANET OF THE DEAD, the first of 4 "goodbye David Tennant" specials

    It was quite silly and lighthearted and fun, but there was the obligatory prediction of doom and gloom at the end of it
    "Your song will end soon. It is returning through the dark... and then, he will knock four times."

    Also there was a neat preview for the next special called THE WATERS OF MARS

    So, did anyone else watch it? Thoughts? Speculation on the next specials?

    I think that it is hinting that
    The master is going to return. Most of the people I watched it with are thinking the same thing.

    Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of
    When she said the bit about knocking four times, the first thing I thought of was that drumbeat the Master was always hearing, and it was a four-beat thing

    Grey Ghost on
  • BoredGamerBoredGamer Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    BoredGamer wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Hey guys I know I'm necropostin' like crazy here, but last night was PLANET OF THE DEAD, the first of 4 "goodbye David Tennant" specials

    It was quite silly and lighthearted and fun, but there was the obligatory prediction of doom and gloom at the end of it
    "Your song will end soon. It is returning through the dark... and then, he will knock four times."

    Also there was a neat preview for the next special called THE WATERS OF MARS

    So, did anyone else watch it? Thoughts? Speculation on the next specials?

    I think that it is hinting that
    The master is going to return. Most of the people I watched it with are thinking the same thing.

    Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of
    When she said the bit about knocking four times, the first thing I thought of was that drumbeat the Master was always hearing, and it was a four-beat thing


    Yeah me too. It's quite obvious though, which makes me think they are doing some sort of bluff.

    BoredGamer on
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