Caliane
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Ah right. fair point. Suppose, the whole trees putting out fire thing, had me thinking backwards there.
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It's one of those daft inconsistencies with the English language. Incombustible means not combustible but inflammable means it's flammable. No logic at all.
That said, it didn't detract from your write-up. I haven't seen the episode yet but you nicely summed up how I'll probably feel at the end of it.
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i said it about the moon episode and the same applies here. They're trying to push social commentary in the guise of scifi. The whole 'do nothing' thing is the point... We as humans are always trying to fix things that could fix itself if left alone.
That said, was this a great episode? No it was meh, but one theme of this season is Clara's disenchantment with the doctor. His look changed, his personality changed. She's been pushed to do and think for herself. And when she needs a hero she sees that Danny Pink, a normal human, can do amazing things. All that coupled with the preview for the finale appears that Missy will turn her against the doctor.
I still think a twist will be Clara is a time lord as is Missy. Clara will be killed and regenerate into a new recurring bad guy like the Master... But being the impossible girl and surviving the doctor's time stream she knows EVERYTHING about him. Now after typing all that, that seems impossible too because she dies in a lot of those streams.
Oh well tl:dr there has been a theme for this season.
That said, was this a great episode? No it was meh, but one theme of this season is Clara's disenchantment with the doctor. His look changed, his personality changed. She's been pushed to do and think for herself. And when she needs a hero she sees that Danny Pink, a normal human, can do amazing things. All that coupled with the preview for the finale appears that Missy will turn her against the doctor.
I still think a twist will be Clara is a time lord as is Missy. Clara will be killed and regenerate into a new recurring bad guy like the Master... But being the impossible girl and surviving the doctor's time stream she knows EVERYTHING about him. Now after typing all that, that seems impossible too because she dies in a lot of those streams.
Oh well tl:dr there has been a theme for this season.
Caliane
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I think the interesting thing, would be if it was simply an asteroid, instead of a solar flare.
The "airbag" comparison would have made ALOT more sense.
Asteroid enters Earths atmosphere, that DOES ignite the bubble of oxygen, which explodes deflecting the asteroid off in some other direction. Silly nonsense in terms of real science? sure. but follows logic.
How about the trees choose not to absorb the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and instead of producing oxygen they allow the CO2 to build up sufficiently to negate the flare? Maybe some trees die in the process. They do love that whole, "They sacrificed themselves for you when you didn't deserve their help!" angle (Star Whale).
Caliane
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heck I would have accepted, magic fairies/trees produce a stronger magnetic field for the Earth, because "reasons".
Thats part of the joke I suppose. didn't question the 1 day old trees, as evidenced by their lack of rings. which is obviously nonsense itself.
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Had that thought also, but then thought they wouldn't be so stupid as to repeat the river song / amy pond plot.
Would they...?
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i havent seen anything crazy from Missy, calculating? yes. mysterious and probably evil? yep. but so far she doesnt come across as insane. i think clara is either clara or a separate entity altogether, ya know cuz didnt she have a different mom and she was totally from space in that asylum of the daleks/souffle girl episode? i dont care enough to rewatch the episode, but no doubt better whovians like jait, qhue or even chris will be better able to clarify that.
my guess is missy is an old DW villain, she is in a cyberman vessel which is porting "dead" earth people and other aliens there for processing into cybermen. this is called "the promised land" "heaven" or whatever else these other aliens are duped into looking for. clara will reveal her story and danny pink will possibly die to save her.
my guess is missy is an old DW villain, she is in a cyberman vessel which is porting "dead" earth people and other aliens there for processing into cybermen. this is called "the promised land" "heaven" or whatever else these other aliens are duped into looking for. clara will reveal her story and danny pink will possibly die to save her.
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seems more likely. I had the thought missy-clara as well. but, yeah, doesn't feel right. the "clara doesn't exist" is Clara fucking with the logic circuts of the cyberman. the preview said something about rewriting history. So, history was rewritten, Clara is not supposed to exist anymore.. but does, thanks to tardis, or something. So a cyberman confronts her, and "target:clara oswald Identified" or something. with her going, nope not me. clara doesn't exist.
I'm still not sure if dalek clara is going to come back. If that plot was dropped with the end of time stuff, or is another bad wolf, which will keep coming back again and again.
Heaven being the cyberman mainframe/matrix seems very likely atm to me.
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For all we know, Missy is Clara who splintered off and is hidden by a FOB watch; I'm wondering if Missy is collecting all the Doctor's Clara fragments? And she needs all the pieces of Clara to become 'whole' again to regenerate. I dunno, this entire season is a hogwash at this point.
Well, I finally watched the episode last night. Really not a fan of children-based episodes. I get that they're trying to engage as many demographics as possible but you know nothing really menacing is going to happen (in a pre-watershed show) when you have a bunch of kids pottering around on a safari. And, once again, we're faced with a planet-shattering event that I really didn't care about. I agree with the other poster who said he missed the small corners of the world episodes. An alien incursion on a space station or a monster threatening a remote lighthouse. They actually used to terrify me as a kid, especially the latter one.
This series, despite a new Doctor, has been really very beige. I sincerely hope the viewing figures reflect it and that BBC finally acknowledge Moffat is out of his depth and find another lead before he damages the show further.
This series, despite a new Doctor, has been really very beige. I sincerely hope the viewing figures reflect it and that BBC finally acknowledge Moffat is out of his depth and find another lead before he damages the show further.
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I caught some re-runs of matt smith episodes yesterday, and realized the things I liked about his run that are missing. The happy payoff type moment. The 'doctor saved the day' moments aren't as dramatic. The ending of Aslyum of the Daleks was a great example, with the Daleks yelling out 'Doctor.. who?' and how he's enjoying it.
We don't have anything even remotely like that right now, so we don't get the same sense of fun in the episodes. I think they went a little too far into the 'darkness' motiff and lost the fun aspects of the show. If we can't get the fun parts back because of how they want Capaldi to do the doctor, then at the very least, he should be more of a badass then. Telling people what they are going to do, or forcing them to do because he cares. Instead he's very apathetic towards everything.
We don't have anything even remotely like that right now, so we don't get the same sense of fun in the episodes. I think they went a little too far into the 'darkness' motiff and lost the fun aspects of the show. If we can't get the fun parts back because of how they want Capaldi to do the doctor, then at the very least, he should be more of a badass then. Telling people what they are going to do, or forcing them to do because he cares. Instead he's very apathetic towards everything.
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Not true. Both times he had to stop hoomans from killing something, and then everything was fine.