Doctor Who 30x04: The Sontaran Strategem
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Heh, Daleks scared the crap out of me as a kid. I used to watch Who cuddled up with my mum, with a cushion in my lap to hide my face when I needed to!
True story... my parents took me to a Dr Who exhibition once when I was very young. I was walking around oooing and ahhhing at the stuff... and then we went into a room and I was confronted with about four real live Daleks that turned around and wheeled over towards us.
I SCREAMED. I damn near crapped my pants right then and there.
True story... my parents took me to a Dr Who exhibition once when I was very young. I was walking around oooing and ahhhing at the stuff... and then we went into a room and I was confronted with about four real live Daleks that turned around and wheeled over towards us.
I SCREAMED. I damn near crapped my pants right then and there.
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The Daleks never bothered me that much.
On the other hand, I used to be absolutely terrified of the opening credits.
On the other hand, I used to be absolutely terrified of the opening credits.
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Re: Doctor Who 30x04: The Sontaran Strategem
The programme never really scared me but the Blackpool exhibition did, it was just the entrance into a very dark corridor with the theme music playing loudly, somehow it was really frightening.
I think my Aunt who took me was much more put out though, at she was at the time well under 60 and the man taking the money on the door said 'Pensioner, is it?' - she wasn't amused!
I think my Aunt who took me was much more put out though, at she was at the time well under 60 and the man taking the money on the door said 'Pensioner, is it?' - she wasn't amused!
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Yeah they were. Though 100 trillion years into the future they seemed down right stone aged. Even if say humanity started over 1000 times.Rochey wrote:I wouldn't hold the Toclafane invasion against them. Those guys were pretty damn uber.
How many Minbari does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
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It was the end of the time, I'm betting they had used up most of the universe's resources by that point.Monroe wrote:Yeah they were. Though 100 trillion years into the future they seemed down right stone aged. Even if say humanity started over 1000 times.Rochey wrote:I wouldn't hold the Toclafane invasion against them. Those guys were pretty damn uber.
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Well if I remember right at 100 Trillion AD proton decay is beginning ? So yeah that'd be right. What a scary prospect that would be. Depending on which theory the universe would continue going for some time longer but I suppose eventually even Time could decay.ChakatBlackstar wrote:It was the end of the time, I'm betting they had used up most of the universe's resources by that point.Monroe wrote:Yeah they were. Though 100 trillion years into the future they seemed down right stone aged. Even if say humanity started over 1000 times.Rochey wrote:I wouldn't hold the Toclafane invasion against them. Those guys were pretty damn uber.
How many Minbari does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
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Re: Doctor Who 30x04: The Sontaran Strategem
Have you reached the end of Season 3 yet? That's where all this stuff becomes important.
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Yeah I've been doing a marathon. I'm on episode 11 of season 4 now
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Ah - that's a good one that is. Not the best of the new series, but good.Monroe wrote:Yeah I've been doing a marathon. I'm on episode 11 of season 4 now
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Yeah that episode rocked loved seeing the what if world.Captain Seafort wrote:Ah - that's a good one that is. Not the best of the new series, but good.Monroe wrote:Yeah I've been doing a marathon. I'm on episode 11 of season 4 now
How many Minbari does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
None. They always surrender right before they finish the job and never tell you why.
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None. They always surrender right before they finish the job and never tell you why.
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How do you feel about Donna so far?Monroe wrote:Yeah that episode rocked loved seeing the what if world.Captain Seafort wrote:Ah - that's a good one that is. Not the best of the new series, but good.Monroe wrote:Yeah I've been doing a marathon. I'm on episode 11 of season 4 now
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Re: Doctor Who 30x04: The Sontaran Strategem
Well I finished the series today, started on B5 btw. And I've got to say I still think Donna was the worse out of the four companions I saw. I mean I never really met Sarah Jane but those three episodes she was in she did much better than Donna. I thought they should have killed her, amnesia was a cheap cough out.Nutso wrote:How do you feel about Donna so far?
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Absolutely - in the last two in particular, she was the only one whose reaction to the Daleks and Davros seemed genuine fear, rather than boredom. Of course, the backstory that she was there at the begining helped with the Davros aspect.Monroe wrote:Well I finished the series today, started on B5 btw. And I've got to say I still think Donna was the worse out of the four companions I saw. I mean I never really met Sarah Jane but those three episodes she was in she did much better than Donna.
Indeed - until the "Doctor-Donna" nonsense started I was sure they were setting her up for another Chameleon Arch-esque reveal. Destroying Donna's human personality, hence "killing" her, and bringing Romana back to solve the pepperpot problem would have made a lot more sense.I thought they should have killed her, amnesia was a cheap cough out.
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