Doctor Who s08

[Aractus]

I am in the process of downloading the special, ...

And yet they wonder why piracy is so rampant. I too downloaded it - although to be fair, I did watch the ABC broadcast too - however the ABC gave us shitty SD with channel logo and I can download it in HD or 3D without channel logo - as I wanted to see it in 3D I downloaded it in HD3D.

Here's a comparison ... here's 2D:



And here's the same screenshot in 3D:



So much more depth, even with such a crude example. If they're not going to broadcast it in at least the quality that we can download it on torrent sites, then they should expect the show to be pirated IMHO.

Just like when the series starts up again next year (well plus the Christmas special) I'll continue to download it in HD instead of watching ABC's shitty SD broadcast.

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Go die you filthy casual! You are no true Whovian!
It was the bestest thing ever!!!!

Pfft. Here's some of the flaws in the episode (spoilers ahead):

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"We're looking for a string of numerals from around 1550" - There's no way to date the string of numerals - a. not enough time for radiocarbon dating, b. it's etched into the building anyway so radiocarbon dating would be moot, and c. you can't date by palaeography because it's not written by somebody contemporary of 1550, and while it is written in English, there's nothing to distinguish it as from that period.

The doctors use their sonic screwdriver to push a dalek through the glass of the painting, which is ridiculous.

The doctor then makes everyone forget whether they're human or zygon - meaning by default they think they're human, and as humans they wanted to detonate the nuke, so why did they stop the countdown?

If an entire planet disappears from the middle of the dalek's battle grounds, how on earth are they going to kill each other in crossfire? As if the daleks - a. would not notice and b. would be firing in such density into the planet that it would destroy themselves (this point is completely disproven anyway by the fact that the doctor goes to an abandoned shack somewhere in the desert on Galifray and there is NO dalek lasers raining down anywhere to be seen).

So with that in mind, how come they don't disappear the planet and then detonate the WMD?

If the calculations would take "hundreds of years", then if you had a bank of "hundreds" of computers (as commonly seen in servers all around the world) it would take 1 year, and if you had 365x those "hundreds" - so say approximately 200,000 computers then you could do the calculation in just 1 day. If you had 4.8 million you could calculate it in one hour and if you had 288 million computers you could do the calculation in one minute. Are we really meant to believe that none of this is possible on Galifray - that they don't have banks and banks of servers, etc?

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That's some of the errors, I don't believe they were the only ones but that's all I can remember right now.