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Quick thought: it turns iself off -- have you checked whether there isn't something in your computer that overheats? E.g. due to a broken fan, changed air flow due to a moved cable / newly added hardware item, hardware malfunction...? Overheating parts (esp. CPUs) often slow down before completely shutting themselves off...

Putting the fear of the authorities in people? If you read their messages where no one sees you do it, people will not be afraid. If you do it in view of everyone else, people will be scared.

/me looks but cannot find it...

Interesting. If I read it correctly, there is nothing in it that would prevent him from becoming president again for a third, fourth, or even tenth time, if he sets it up correctly... Run for VP, then, when your P has won the race and has been sworn in, have him die. If the president dies, the VP automatically becomes President, without elections, and thus without the famous limitations. Do it two, three times, and use the time to press through an amendment that makes it legal for you to run for President again. After all, anyone opposing your wishes is a terrorist, right? Another thing that alway strikes me as odd is that everyone always talks only about CO2, while the Kyoto protocol and agreement cover much more. It's all kinds of greenhouse gasses, and there is one that is even more effective and in higher productoin than carbon dioxide. That's methane. Cutting down on methane production would not even be that hard to do, as it can be used to produce (gasp!) fuel again, e.g. for cars... Of course, that would make people more independent from oil and the oil companies, so we cannot have that either. B) *grmblsmrf* Is there any way to have a subscript in MbCode? neither ... nor ... seem to work...

Hear, hear! Hippo birdie from me, too :-)

Doesn't Wheel also crossover with The Two Doctors? I think I remember something like that, though The two Doctors has continuity problems of its own...

Very nice. I am looking forward to it. Though, I would have expected them to know the difference between a tuba and a trombone... They sounded really odd mixing that up.

Hmm... I thought he was a tad hyperactive, at a level that is bound to get old fast. Though we still have a chance that it's only the Casino Royal-style indigestion...

It was both -- it was mostly intended as a short skit to promote the Children in Need action. But it takes off right where season 27 ended, and the end seems to be right before the Christmas special. At least that's when the Doctor and Billie want to visit her mom.

Yup, Sevilla, as the attempt to go to New Orleans fell through. And Barcelona, that was the last line in the 27th season...

??? The mind boggles. A station dedicated to Science Fiction, but with a policy of no space travel shows? Isn't that a tad like saying "We want High Fantasy, but without magic and dragons"? Or "We want detective stories, but without crimes"? Someone needs a close encounter with reality, I think...

In "The End of the World", the Doctor says that if other Timelords had survived, he would know it. So, unless Fred escapes from eSpace, I am afraid we're out of luck with regards to female Time Lords...

I found this on A Brief History of Time and Space (Travel) If not, what will he do? Be the evil twin? ;)

Unfortunately,. it seems to be a mis-labeling, and the seller has already ended the auction due to that. :( It would have been too nice for words...

The Highlanders contains one of the few references by the Doctor himself to the 'Doctor Who' monniker: when asked for his name, he gives it as "Doctor von Wer", which is German for "Doctor of Who", the 'of' being that of nobility, as in "Prince of Wales".

The War machines was very much a product of its time. People nowadays consider it boring as they are used more to the videoclip-like bang-bang-bang cutting, and different pacing. Were this to be filmed today, there probably would be more cross-cuts, even if the material used were the same. BTW, I always wondered how far the Savages and Elders were a take on H.H. Wells' Morlok and Eloi, seeing that I can find no official comment on it...

Well, IANAL, YMMV and all that jazz, but the way I understand it, it works like this: Depending on the original contracts the BBC had with the writers, artists and so on, it's most likely that the copyright still rests with the BBC and / or authors of the stories. I refer to the author's forewords for hte New zealandish novelizations of Shada and Resurrection of the Daleks, in which it is stated explicitly that 1) Eric Saward had vetoed all 'official' novelizations, one of them after reading only one chapter 2) Douglas Adams was asked to but refused to write (or authorize, IIUC) novelizations to three of his stories. Similarly, even if it is taped from the TV during the initial broadcast (like the reconstructions), the copyright would still rest with the BBC, and it might be a hard case to claim "They destroyed the tapes, so they relinquished the copyrights", as there are cases where one dept. of the BBC thought another still held a copy, while the latter destroyed theirs because the former dept. should still have it...

Somehow, I doubt it. In TPOTW, they make it quite clear that the 'new Daleks' are created by a cloning/mutating technique, and that they use the game show fatalities for this...

You saw what was, in my opinion, the worst Dr Who episode ever made. :stare: Well, it was probably the eopisode in the series that needed most of a backstory -- I can understand how someone who hasn't seen Aliens of London / Worrld War III would be confused. However, when you do have that background, I think you'll find it a very psychological episode. not much in flashy effects, but looking very deep into the questions of 'can you deliver someone into a death sentence', 'how serious do you take responsibility for your own actions' etc. Personally, while it had a lot in the 'oooh' effects department, I didn't care too much for The end of the World. I thought that one was mostly fluff...

As to the scariness -- if they were afraid of getting blasted for being too scary, they would have toned down "The Empty Child". That was definitely the most unsettling episode. The "scared Doctor" in ep. 6: That brought a smile to my face when I saw it the second time around. It almost looks as if CE watched Remembrance of the Daleks (Sylvester McCoy): the way he scrambles at the door trying to get out looks a lot like Sylvester scrambling at the door at the end of pt 1, when the Dalek floats up the stairs to get the Doctor.

According to "A Brief History of Time (Travel)", there were two different video tape editions and one on DVD. The first video tape edition (1985) contained the episodic version as originally broadcast (i.e., the version broadcast outside the UK, as The Five Doctors was broadcast in one piece in the UK). The second video tape edition (1995) contained some retouched scenes, this seems to also be the version that was finally pressed onto the DVDs.

Assuming Jack didn't mess with the prearrange coordinates, they were blasted to where the Dalek fleet had been. So they are probally floating around out there. Without a reception station at the other end? They'll probably just exist as a probabilitgy wave (of the Heisenberg type) until someone manages to pick them up...