Antilles Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 [move]+++ ALERT - WARNING - THERE WILL BE SPOILERS IN THIS THREAD - IF YOU HAVE SEEN THE EPISODE PLEASE KEEP OBVIOUS SPOILERS HIDDEN BY USE OF THE SPOILER TAB - THANK YOU. ALERT ENDS! +++[/move] :Antilles: This is the Official discussion thread for Episode 3 of the 2008 Doctor Who. 'Constructive' criticism is welcome. [glow=white,2,300]This Episode will air at an earler (than last week) time than usual time of 6:20pm (GMT) [/glow] Synopsis: The Doctor and Donna land on an ice planet called the Ood-Sphere, and the Doctor discovers what drove the Ood to become a servant race. Topic locked until after airing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 This was quite easy to figure out the main story.....one bit that did interest me was at the end when the ood said "even you song ends doctor Wasnt as good as last weeks but was still enjoyable :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 The Ood are not a powerful enemy, at all, but I think what makes these episodes exciting is the mystery behind what's making them insane. I wasn't too sure what it might have been, but I was glad it kept me guessing. Overall I liked it, but it did have its poorer moments. Donna was also slightly more annoying in this episode, but still bareable. And yes, several little "hints" in this episode. Again we hear about those bees! And also, what Ulysses said above about what the Ood said to the Doctor in those final few minutes - very exciting. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QUEENSPOCK Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 i know the his song must end was quite scary and the bees i did notice that but had forgotten it anyhow it was an ok ep it wasn't a bad ep but it wasn't the best dr who ep i enjoyed it donna was ok she is quite funny but like i can see why tfmf found her annoying can't wait for the next ep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 hmm, yes, the doctor's song must end? Could I read Tennant's last season in this? Another doctor next year? If so, they're starting to run out of lives for the doctor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dBLOOD Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 I only care about watching Rose again, for me she was the only sidekick with balls! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 I only care about watching Rose again, for me she was the only sidekick with balls! :D Rose had balls? :o eeeeeewww O_O :cyclops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 hmm, yes, the doctor's song must end? Could I read Tennant's last season in this? Another doctor next year? If so, they're starting to run out of lives for the doctor... I think they have binned the limited number of lives thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USWhoFan Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 I liked the episode and seeing some background of the Ood, but I wasn't really into the whole 3 brain thing, one in the head, hand and a hole. Weird. :thinking: Another doctor next year? If so, they're starting to run out of lives for the doctor... No worries, when the Doctor looked into the Eye of Harmony in the 1996 movie his regenerations were reset inadvertently by the Master. :thinking: I only care about watching Rose again, for me she was the only sidekick with balls! :D That's not why I like watching Rose. :P ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QUEENSPOCK Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 and heres me thinking you all were acually watching it for the story but no its the girls how typical :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 You sure about those lives? Mind you I'm a Dr. Who n00b, but I've seen the movie some time ago, didn't they say he had only 13 lives? I checked on wiki before posting, there's also a reference about him having only 13 lives, I only skimmed it though, so maybe there's also a reference about the limited number being 'corrected'. I'd appreciate it, if any of you could point me to a respectable trustworthy source. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USWhoFan Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 13 is right. (1 + 12 regenerations) I was just making wild speculation and using the Eye of Harmony as my tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 A hint at Tennant's exit, eh? I'd rather Donna exits... into some form of crushing device... that tragically killed Catherine Tate in real life. Still, she's not really saying a huge amount in this episode either... and we dodged contemporary Earth (read, London) again. Shocking. The guy becoming Ood felt so contrived. It was almost as if someone went "oh, we've got a few extra minutes and some special effects money to blow!" Overall, a fairly middle of the road episode... We've yet to see any real fear factor though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dBLOOD Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 its the girls how typical :P thinking in stereotypes... how typical... As I said, I like her character, not her boobs... She had balls, she did when she had to what she had to... I am watching it for the story, only for the story, for nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maybrick Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 13 is right. (1 + 12 regenerations) From everything I've heard, the regeneration limit isn't natural but was an agreed upon limit set by the Time Lords. But the Time Lords are dead, so who's going to enforce the law on the Doctor when the time comes? Anyways, I still don't think the transformation from Troughton to Pertwee was a true regeneration since it was forced by the Time Lords and not because he was on death's door. It shouldn't count. As far as I'm concerned, Tennant is playing the Ninth Doctor, not the Tenth, so there's at least one extra regeneration they can feasibly stretch it to (if they want). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GorunNova Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 For the Troughton to Pertwee one, I think it DOES count. There are suggestions later in the series that the Time Lords made use of him for various dirty deeds before wiping his memory of it, tweaking his brain to forget time/space mechanics, and regenerate... so there's no telling how long he went in his second form. Even ignoring that, forcing a regeneration wouldn't be much of a punishment if it didn't count. ^^' Anyways, didn't Rassilon set the regeneration limit so as to try and prevent the stagnation that eventually happened anyways? (i.e. unlike the Sisterhood...) I wonder if Rassilon is even canon in the new series anymore? ^^' This wasn't so bad an episode. What is it about creatures with tentacle-mouths that associates them with brains? Brains all around! ^^ (Illithid for tea, anyone?) As for the Ood... the outer brain doesn't make all that much sense. On a harsh, winter planet, you'd think that evolving a mostly unprotected exterior brain would be a rather... unproductive adaption. "Oh, yeah! It's freezing and cold on this planet, so why don't we take something as vulnerable as brain tissue and externalize it so it gets exposed to all that harsh cold and wind! That's going to improve our survival rate, right?" Of course, that's scientific nitpicking. ^^' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 A friend of mine wrote an article for a fansite about the idiocy of a creature with an external brain... and a giant master brain under the ice. Or possibly how evolution was just having a laugh... it seems fairly idiotic than any race could develop like they could naturally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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