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carlwaring 31-05-2011 20:51

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 35247724)
I need to watch the end of that episode again, there was a leap or two that didn't compute

Such as?
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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 35248819)
I watched it again, I assume it'll be explained in a future episode.

What will?

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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35248786)
What was the point of the redesign then?

Dunno. Guess he had to use them at least once. It was Matt's first series after all :)

BenMcr 31-05-2011 20:55

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
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Originally Posted by carlwaring (Post 35248905)
Dunno. Guess he had to use them at least once. It was Matt's first series after all :)

Another example of the change everything to do with the RTD years

Pierre 31-05-2011 21:15

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
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Originally Posted by carlwaring (Post 35248905)
Such as?

How the Dr knew Amy was a facsimile

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What will?
please see above


I can see that you're one of those really annoying people. I may have to use my ignore button

BenMcr 31-05-2011 21:26

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 35248946)
How the Dr knew Amy was a facsimile

Because he already knew of 'The Flesh' and what it was. The reason he went there is to find out whether you could mistake one for Human.

Which is why he allowed The Flesh to copy him in the first place and then swapped with 'The Flesh Doctor', to see if Amy would treat the The Flesh version the same as him if she though it was him - as they had been doing with Amy

Pierre 31-05-2011 22:06

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35248957)
Because he already knew of 'The Flesh' and what it was. The reason he went there is to find out whether you could mistake one for Human.

Which is why he allowed The Flesh to copy him in the first place and then swapped with 'The Flesh Doctor', to see if Amy would treat the The Flesh version the same as him if she though it was him - as they had been doing with Amy

But that still doesn't explain how he knew.

I like to think I'm not particularly slow, in fact I take pride in being able follow complicated plot lines.

I even understood Donnie Darko.

I don't think the end of that episode was sufficiently easy to follow, for me anyway. But what do I know, I still thought Rory was an Auton.

For me, there's not enough craft in the story telling at the moment.

carlwaring 31-05-2011 23:08

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 35248946)
How the Dr knew Amy was a facsimile

Well yeah. That's one thing. I thought there were more :)

BenMcr 31-05-2011 23:51

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 35249022)
But that still doesn't explain how he knew.

Can agree with that. Would have been better to have the last two episodes right after the season opening, and then the end of the episode triggered by something else.

Would have tracked a bit better. We know the Doctor knows about The Flesh and that he knows something is wrong with Amy etc

Damien 01-06-2011 09:58

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
Should we read into Rory backing away from Amy at the Doctor's Insistence? It seemed quite odd, you would have expected him to offer more resistance. Does it mean he trusts the Doctor without question or was it simply a narrative convenience?

Stephen 01-06-2011 10:15

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 35248946)
How the Dr knew Amy was a facsimile

Simply the Doctor is a genius and knew straight after running the scan on Amy that something wasn't right :)

As he knew about the Flesh he wanted to go check it out. That's why he planned on dropping Amy and Rory off so he could go investigate.

Stuart 01-06-2011 10:39

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
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Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 35249364)
Simply the Doctor is a genius and knew straight after running the scan on Amy that something wasn't right :)

Which would be why they made a point of showing the pregnancy scan being inconclusive in several episodes..

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As he knew about the Flesh he wanted to go check it out. That's why he planned on dropping Amy and Rory off so he could go investigate.
Indeed.. The team (under Steven Moffat) seem to be very good at introducing little, apparently insignificant, details into stories that only become significant when you've seen later episodes.

Stephen 01-06-2011 11:18

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35248743)

They aren't really going to be gone for that long.

Moffat tweeted yesterday and responded simply by saying they are taking a rest for this series. Yet again the press have totally exagerated the story and made it bigger than it needed to be.

Pierre 01-06-2011 11:22

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
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Originally Posted by Stuart (Post 35249373)
Indeed.. The team (under Steven Moffat) seem to be very good at introducing little, apparently insignificant, details into stories that only become significant when you've seen later episodes.

There's subtlety and there's subtlety.

I'm all for putting in clues and nuggets of information throughout a story arc, bad wolf and all that.

And fair enough for having a go, I just think it was done poorly.

IMO, it was either written badly or delivered badly.

For things such as this the big reveal should come at the end with a:

"I knew there was something going on, so that's it" - moment for the viewer.

Not - "WTF just happened there, I don't get it" Then have to watch the scene several times again to get a part understanding.

The story shouldn't have to rely on
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Simply the Doctor is a genius
and for the viewer to faithfully just accept whatever happens.

Obviously Amy has been gone for at least 7-8 months.

Who's taken her, where has she gone, for what purpose.

I know that will all no doubt be explained, but there should have been an incident that has happened in a previous episode that facilitated her abduction, and that at the moment the doctor revealed this Amy to be a copy, the audience could go " I bet she was taken in that episode when..........."

They should even have thrown a curve so you thought you knew when she had been taken but it turned out to be some other time.

If you follow me.

The end of that last episode just seemed rushed and just didn't do it for me.

carlwaring 01-06-2011 11:25

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
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Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 35249394)
Moffat tweeted yesterday and responded simply by saying they are taking a rest for this series. Yet again the press have totally exagerated the story and made it bigger than it needed to be.

Now there's a shock; not :rolleyes:

Stephen 01-06-2011 11:25

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She was taken at the start of the series by the silents. It was fairly obvious really. It was not too subtle at all.

As soon as Amy told the doc she was pregnant then later in the episode said she wasn't, that is when he ran the scan and knew something was not right with her.

carlwaring 01-06-2011 11:26

Re: Doctor Who : Season 6
 
I should have spotted that :(
:bigcry:


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