Doctor Who/Torchwood

[Foetus In Fetu]

I missed it too, and I didn't even get alcohol. And I missed the repeat too.  

[Foetus In Fetu]

omg. That was shockingly win.  

[Smigg-the-Miserable]

I agree. And I'm curious to see just where they're going with this evolution thing. At a rough guess I'd say that the rest of the cult will probably turn on Sec eventually for his perversion of the species. That or Sec will end up like the Dalek from episode six or the 9th Doctor series.  

[Foetus In Fetu]

I thought they were already part human, though. Didn't the Emperor say in like series one that he had to recreate the Dalek race using human DNA? I'm just sayin'.

This is just a guess, but I reckon Sec'll be EXTERMINATE!ed next episode, but'll tie into whatever's gonna happen in the finale.  

[Smigg-the-Miserable]

I had been thinking that. All I can think of, and this is really going out on a limb, is that maybe in terms of the Dalek's chronology this is actually before the whole business from the end of series one. Actually no, scrap that, it's silly.  

[Shadow of an Illusion]

I don't think it was a co-incidence that Dr Who said something about Daleks only caring about the destruction of the human race so soon after Sec going on about the Daleks being almost extrinct, being envious of what humans were able to build and sacrificing himself for the good of the cult.
I doubt we'll find out that the Daleks hobbies including rescuing kittens and long walks on the beach, but we've never had a reason to symphasise with them before.  

[Foetus In Fetu]

Yeah - it's almost like they're being given personality. They keep coming back to this idea of Dalek/human hybrids. They did it in Dalek, with that one commiting suicide because it couldn't bear itself, and in the season one finale with the mention of them hating their own skin because it's part human, and then with the Cult of Skaro who had to think like humans and even have names, and now this. Weird.  

[Shadow of an Illusion]

42 was very similar to The Impossible Planet in the last series  

[ficklefiend]

Shadow of an Illusion

42 was very similar to The Impossible Planet in the last series

I wasn't too impressed with 42. It felt very much like a filler. Unfortunately I didn't get much of the dialogue apart from the basics, because I watched it from behind the bar. stressed  

[Shadow of an Illusion]

ficklefiend

Shadow of an Illusion

42 was very similar to The Impossible Planet in the last series

I wasn't too impressed with 42. It felt very much like a filler. Unfortunately I didn't get much of the dialogue apart from the basics, because I watched it from behind the bar. stressed

It was quite an emotianal one, although very similar to The Impossible Planet. I think the only bit of importance to the series was the bit at the end where it showed that Martha's mum was trying to find out information for someone against the doctor.  

[ficklefiend]

Yeah I realise I missed more of it than I thought when I went to look for a trailer for the next one, I think I'll need to catch the next repeat.

The next one looks gooood.  

[Foetus In Fetu]

re: 42.

That female captain character annoyed the crap out of me. Aside from being a cliché, I just couldn't care less about her sodding husband.  

[Smigg-the-Miserable]

I have to agree with you on that one. She did get damn irritating, and didn't seem to possess anything like the air of authority one would expect from a captain.  

[Shadow of an Illusion]

I'd agree too.


The last one was pretty confusing. I only got a chance to watch it last night (been having to video it since I keep being made to work Saturday nights.) so was there anything explaining the start of it in 42 or is it just meant to be confusing? I can't remember  

[[Finrod]]

Shadow,

There wasn't any runover from the previous week. It basically threw us into the middle of the Doctor and Martha running for their lives from an unnamed enemy, escaping but being tracked (inescapably due to the Doctor's unique nature as the last Timelord), and the Doctor desperately using a device to "become human" in order to hide.

Martha retains her memories, but the Doctor's are hidden in the watch (opening it would revert him to being a Timelord).