RE: Doctor Who season eight
October 21, 2014 at 10:26 pm
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2014 at 10:33 pm by Aractus.)
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Doctor Who season eight
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 RE: Doctor Who season eight
October 21, 2014 at 11:05 pm
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2014 at 11:07 pm by Cyberman.)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (October 22, 2014 at 1:49 am)Aractus Wrote: Yes, but the story was effective at the time. Changing the outcome four years later doesn't change that in my opinion. Nor does it change the fact that he betrayed his own people and lead to their total annihilation all in pursuit of his scientific ideal. Indeed, but that wasn't really the point I was addressing. I was merely saying that this was a character whose impact was sadly undermined by being resurrected needlessly, let alone repeatedly; and I note that I'm not the only nor the first one to say that. Compare for example with Sutekh, who even today stands among the all-time giants despite - or because - only appearing once. Granted, his legacy to the series as a whole isn't as important, but then he was never defined in that way.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
Bad Wolf
Compulsive procrastinator  Religious Views: Agnostic atheist, anti-theist, whovian, misanthrope?
If they don't explain how the master escaped the timelords in the next episode, I'm going to be pissed.
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House “Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom "If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech 
When they revealed who Missy was, I completely bought out of the episode. It could have been so many things, any number of Time Lords/Ladies, and yet they decided to bring back the most boring one. That's not a slight on the classic Masters, just the John Simm one and where we left off with him. There really wasn't anywhere else to take that, and I just know we're not going to get any explanation about what happened to him after last time.
Regarding the Cybermen... why is it that they need the skeletons, again? Why take the useless part of the body and use that exclusively? Why not just build them robotic and upload the consciousness there? It's not like there's anything particularly unique about human skeletons that they need. 
I have been enjoying the show without nitpicking at it.
 Especially since I never got around to watching past season two of the original.
"What a little moonlight can do." ~ Billie Holiday
Hopefully I'll be getting some season 8 today or tomorrow.
Haven't seen any yet. Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???" |
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