Introducing my new blog, Dalek God, which is about my spin on Daleks from the Doctor Who series on the BBC.
Hopefully I won't run into any copyright troubles with the BBC.
Showing posts with label Doctor Who. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doctor Who. Show all posts
20130611
Redheads are Fixed Points in Time (Doctor Who)
Donna Noble
First appeared when the Tardis beamed her aboard due to being of the same kind of particles that the Tardis emits. This was due to some kind of invasion by an alien race.
At her last appearance, Donna was left in the Tardis when the Daleks invaded the earth after rebuffing the Cybermen's offer of alliance. The Tenth Doctor's hand then was activated by his regeneration energy to form the human version of the Doctor using Donna's DNA as the template.
First appeared when the Tenth Doctor regenerated into the Eleventh. Because the Eleventh Doctor complained about not being ginger, the Tardis aimed for Amelia Pond's house because of the cracks on her bedroom wall.
Last appearance was when both she and Rory Williams, her husband, were transported to late 1940s Manhattan by the cherub form of the weeping angels. Due to the time anomaly, the Doctor cannot fly the Tardis back to that point in time. Only Melody Pond's time vortex manipulator can gain her access to the time period.
20130522
Nobody not Even Hollywood Could Afford to Build a Tardis (Doctor Who)
IMO they can't afford to support the R&D to make a Tardis.
Only Gallifreyans could afford it, because not only do they have two hearts, their Time Lord economics implies time manipulation to afford the technology, which has to be REALLY EXPENSIVE!!
THINK ABOUT IT!
If a Tardis is big on the inside, then you know Tardis spacetime physics requires more than tachyons, especially since a Tardis is big on the inside due to the tesseract effect.
Those kinds of violations of spacetime physics requires a lot of energy i.e. of a black hole. You can't make that kind of star with a Higgs cyclotron. You'd need more power than what's currently available on Earth! Indeed, the math for this has yet to be invented.
Since Hollywood employs people with basically a BA degree rather than a BSc, they don't think R&D to make a Tardis is worth it as it entails an economy bigger than the American one.
Plus, it also means no electricity for you and I. This explains why Rassilon and his crew wore robes. They lived on Gallifrey where control over spacetime also means a nice climate and other advanced technology.
Nobody wants that mainly because Time Agent technology in criminal hands could threaten fixed points in time like time cops' family histories.
Ergo, we'll never build a time machine because nobody's done the math, and the costs involved would bankrupt nations.
Plus, what's to stop the black hole from eating the Earth???
Only Gallifreyans could afford it, because not only do they have two hearts, their Time Lord economics implies time manipulation to afford the technology, which has to be REALLY EXPENSIVE!!
THINK ABOUT IT!
If a Tardis is big on the inside, then you know Tardis spacetime physics requires more than tachyons, especially since a Tardis is big on the inside due to the tesseract effect.
Those kinds of violations of spacetime physics requires a lot of energy i.e. of a black hole. You can't make that kind of star with a Higgs cyclotron. You'd need more power than what's currently available on Earth! Indeed, the math for this has yet to be invented.
Since Hollywood employs people with basically a BA degree rather than a BSc, they don't think R&D to make a Tardis is worth it as it entails an economy bigger than the American one.
Plus, it also means no electricity for you and I. This explains why Rassilon and his crew wore robes. They lived on Gallifrey where control over spacetime also means a nice climate and other advanced technology.
Nobody wants that mainly because Time Agent technology in criminal hands could threaten fixed points in time like time cops' family histories.
Ergo, we'll never build a time machine because nobody's done the math, and the costs involved would bankrupt nations.
Plus, what's to stop the black hole from eating the Earth???
20130516
Diary Entry 20110516.1836 The OAPFiles Series 1 Episode 3: The Beast Below Review
For Amy Pond's first trip on the Tardis, the Doctor takes her to visit the starship UK, which turns out to be driven by compassion.
Yes, that's right: a star whale did it for the kids.
Overall the episode was solid. Both Gillan and Smith handle landing in the whale's mouth well.
Why am I spoiling it for Episode 2 of Series 5? The whole point of the episode is to show that compassion tends to motivate the "monsters" in this case.
This part gets lost on the Doctor Who fans a lot. So this episode is actually one of the best of Series Five. 10/10 from me.
Even so, the crack shows up again...
Yes, that's right: a star whale did it for the kids.
Overall the episode was solid. Both Gillan and Smith handle landing in the whale's mouth well.
Why am I spoiling it for Episode 2 of Series 5? The whole point of the episode is to show that compassion tends to motivate the "monsters" in this case.
This part gets lost on the Doctor Who fans a lot. So this episode is actually one of the best of Series Five. 10/10 from me.
Even so, the crack shows up again...
20130505
Diary 20130505.1118H OAPFiles Series 1 Episode 2: Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour
Due to spoilers throughout this post, I'm going to provide snippets of Series 4 to explain this episode.
Doctor Who is regenerating after receiving a fatal dose of radiation. This is the result of dealing with the Time Lords in the Series 4 finale. The regeneration which leads to the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor occurs as a result of the Daleks inducing a partial regeneration which leads to the Tardis creating a second Tenth Doctor from his hand (originally lost having a sword fight with an alien species at the start of Series 3) and Donna.
The partial regeneration was necessary as Series 4's cliff hangers involve a Dalek invasion. I'm not certain why 26 planets have to be hidden, but in quest of domination of the universe, Daleks are willing to do anything, even when the Doctor, with help of a lot of friends, barely manage.
At the end of the Ninth Doctor's run in Series 1, we had Rose Tyler given omniscience in the form of the time vortex by the Tardis to defeat the Daleks.
End of Series 2, Rose is replaced by Donna Noble and the theme of companion on the eve of her wedding first starts. This is short hand in Doctor Who for companions important to the Doctor (Donna Noble & Amy Pond).
The fact that River Song's chronology with the Doctor is backwards implies that she is very important.
At the end of Series 4, I was expecting the final farewells the Tenth Doctor did, but couldn't find it. (I'll note now that I'm referring to the synopses rather than the videos since they help me properly assimilate each episode. By providing the set and setting, I can watch the episode and know what comes next, which reduces viewing anxiety about what's going to happen. This anxiety then makes me bored with the episode, and thus I get a spotty view of it.
I'm still bothered by not reading of the Tenth Doctor's final farewells, as the "End of Time" was a two-part Christmas and New Years show to resolve the earlier episodes about the Master.
The fact that "End of Time" is not a regular episode is why it doesn't appear in the Series 4 synopses. Mystery solved!
So the Doctor's regenerating from cell death due to radiation poisoning. "End of Times" ends. Then fans await Series 5's start with "The Eleventh Hour", three months later.
First, the Eleventh Doctor is formed after special effects show "regeneration energy".
After he's fully formed, he takes an inventory of his parts - legs, teeth, and hair but "Still not ginger!". Then he discovers that the Tardis has been damaged by his regeneration and is careening about London. At some point, he's holding onto her and barely makes it over the Big Ben.
Then he crash lands with the Tardis on its side, and has to escape it briefly. He meets a 7 year old Amelia Pond, and is restored to health with custard and fish sticks. Then he is shown a crack in her bedroom, and briefly leaves with promise to return in "five minutes." When he returns, he gets knocked unconscious by an adult Amy Pond. Then he also meets Rory Williams, her boyfriend. It turns out that Prison Zero has escaped due to the crack, and the Atraxi want to destroy the world if he's not found. At the conclusion of the episode, the world is saved from the Atraxi after the Doctor scares them off. They were intent on leaving just like that once they had Prisoner Zero returned but the Doctor thought it best to prevent them from returning.
Please note the wedding dress at the end of the episode. It is a sign that both Rory Williams and Amy Pond are important to the Doctor.
Doctor Who is regenerating after receiving a fatal dose of radiation. This is the result of dealing with the Time Lords in the Series 4 finale. The regeneration which leads to the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor occurs as a result of the Daleks inducing a partial regeneration which leads to the Tardis creating a second Tenth Doctor from his hand (originally lost having a sword fight with an alien species at the start of Series 3) and Donna.
The partial regeneration was necessary as Series 4's cliff hangers involve a Dalek invasion. I'm not certain why 26 planets have to be hidden, but in quest of domination of the universe, Daleks are willing to do anything, even when the Doctor, with help of a lot of friends, barely manage.
At the end of the Ninth Doctor's run in Series 1, we had Rose Tyler given omniscience in the form of the time vortex by the Tardis to defeat the Daleks.
End of Series 2, Rose is replaced by Donna Noble and the theme of companion on the eve of her wedding first starts. This is short hand in Doctor Who for companions important to the Doctor (Donna Noble & Amy Pond).
The fact that River Song's chronology with the Doctor is backwards implies that she is very important.
At the end of Series 4, I was expecting the final farewells the Tenth Doctor did, but couldn't find it. (I'll note now that I'm referring to the synopses rather than the videos since they help me properly assimilate each episode. By providing the set and setting, I can watch the episode and know what comes next, which reduces viewing anxiety about what's going to happen. This anxiety then makes me bored with the episode, and thus I get a spotty view of it.
I'm still bothered by not reading of the Tenth Doctor's final farewells, as the "End of Time" was a two-part Christmas and New Years show to resolve the earlier episodes about the Master.
The fact that "End of Time" is not a regular episode is why it doesn't appear in the Series 4 synopses. Mystery solved!
So the Doctor's regenerating from cell death due to radiation poisoning. "End of Times" ends. Then fans await Series 5's start with "The Eleventh Hour", three months later.
First, the Eleventh Doctor is formed after special effects show "regeneration energy".
After he's fully formed, he takes an inventory of his parts - legs, teeth, and hair but "Still not ginger!". Then he discovers that the Tardis has been damaged by his regeneration and is careening about London. At some point, he's holding onto her and barely makes it over the Big Ben.
Then he crash lands with the Tardis on its side, and has to escape it briefly. He meets a 7 year old Amelia Pond, and is restored to health with custard and fish sticks. Then he is shown a crack in her bedroom, and briefly leaves with promise to return in "five minutes." When he returns, he gets knocked unconscious by an adult Amy Pond. Then he also meets Rory Williams, her boyfriend. It turns out that Prison Zero has escaped due to the crack, and the Atraxi want to destroy the world if he's not found. At the conclusion of the episode, the world is saved from the Atraxi after the Doctor scares them off. They were intent on leaving just like that once they had Prisoner Zero returned but the Doctor thought it best to prevent them from returning.
Please note the wedding dress at the end of the episode. It is a sign that both Rory Williams and Amy Pond are important to the Doctor.
20130428
Diary 20130428 1645H: The OAPFILES Series 1 Episode 1
This is related to Doctor Who through the following lame joke that may only appeal to fellow Whovians, whenever you get it:
"Help! Silence has fallen and it can't get up!"
Obviously then it must be plenty old in its age, as most members of the Silence tend to be taller than I am, and bristling with energy.
Elderly members of these creatures, assisted by human members of the Silence, tend to lose their energy when underwater. Yet they appear not to drown.
It's unknown if they are related to the cracks in walls of the bedroom of Amelia Pond, who was captured as an adult by the shawdowy organization.
No, wait! That was the theme of Series 5 of Doctor Who.
As well, three years ago, Series 5 was on my shopping list when HMV closed its downtown Vancouver location. However, HMV is still popular in tony South Surrey, BC.
In the OAPFiles, I'll just peruse my sometimes foggy recollections of Doctor Who's 11th regeneration where some unnamed soothsayer in Pompeii goes unnoticed by the Doctor in his 10th regeneration. Or, did she?
If the soothsayer was turning into a Pyroville, then it's possible that she could have survived Vesuvius, though not as a human.
OK, there is no relationship whatsoever between the psychic cult member rendered psychic by inhaling fumes that are morphing her body into a Pyroville, one of a rock-based humanoid people from the planet Pyrovillia who convert humans into their own kind near volcanoes.
After reading about how Gillan and Freema_Agyeman go their roles, I could understand the reason for recycling actors who played small roles on Doctor Who: secrecy.
OK that's it for the first OAPFiles. Next time, I'm going to complain about something else in a very short blog about Doctor Who.
Reference:
Karen Gillan as Soothsayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcEIZ8YpviY
Soothsayer (The Fires of Pompeii: tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Soothsayer_(The_Fires_of_Pompeii
"Help! Silence has fallen and it can't get up!"
Obviously then it must be plenty old in its age, as most members of the Silence tend to be taller than I am, and bristling with energy.
Elderly members of these creatures, assisted by human members of the Silence, tend to lose their energy when underwater. Yet they appear not to drown.
It's unknown if they are related to the cracks in walls of the bedroom of Amelia Pond, who was captured as an adult by the shawdowy organization.
No, wait! That was the theme of Series 5 of Doctor Who.
As well, three years ago, Series 5 was on my shopping list when HMV closed its downtown Vancouver location. However, HMV is still popular in tony South Surrey, BC.
In the OAPFiles, I'll just peruse my sometimes foggy recollections of Doctor Who's 11th regeneration where some unnamed soothsayer in Pompeii goes unnoticed by the Doctor in his 10th regeneration. Or, did she?
If the soothsayer was turning into a Pyroville, then it's possible that she could have survived Vesuvius, though not as a human.
OK, there is no relationship whatsoever between the psychic cult member rendered psychic by inhaling fumes that are morphing her body into a Pyroville, one of a rock-based humanoid people from the planet Pyrovillia who convert humans into their own kind near volcanoes.
After reading about how Gillan and Freema_Agyeman go their roles, I could understand the reason for recycling actors who played small roles on Doctor Who: secrecy.
OK that's it for the first OAPFiles. Next time, I'm going to complain about something else in a very short blog about Doctor Who.
Reference:
Karen Gillan as Soothsayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcEIZ8YpviY
Soothsayer (The Fires of Pompeii: tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Soothsayer_(The_Fires_of_Pompeii
20130422
Diary Entry: 20130422 0408H: Insomnia
Insomnia
...
Detective Thomas Knight has been in London for some time. One wonders if he is protecting the young lady Enid Blyton or bent on romancing her. All I know is, my grandmother loved the elder Lady Blyton's books when she grew up in the countryside.
Since I had a lot of respect for dear old Nan, her books are still old fashioned. Apart from that, it doesn't hurt a young child's mind. "But at my age, the old fashioned bits seem a bit stuffy," I said to the Doctor.
"Don't be mentioning your opinions to Miss Blyton, Clara."
"Afraid it'll give her writer's cramp or something."
"Well, if you must know," he replied, "she's working on her first novel."
"So, why is an American detective, that Knight fellow, protecting her?"
"Protecting?" scoffed the Doctor. "Who told you that?"
"I'm afraid I did," said Enid Blyton. "If you think my first book is stuffy just by meeting me, then I wonder if it'd be a seller too."
"Fixed point in time!" hiss the Doctor, but I don't really believe that. I mean, as long as Miss Blyton thinks Mr Knight is protecting her, then let her think that.
"Knight's not the fixed point in time."
Well, I'm fixing for some time with the great detective Thomas Knight, just so Nan gets to read Enid Blyton's books for children.
I'm absolutely sure that insomnia has kept me up being vexed about him so I put this note in me diary for keeps.
...
...
Detective Thomas Knight has been in London for some time. One wonders if he is protecting the young lady Enid Blyton or bent on romancing her. All I know is, my grandmother loved the elder Lady Blyton's books when she grew up in the countryside.
Since I had a lot of respect for dear old Nan, her books are still old fashioned. Apart from that, it doesn't hurt a young child's mind. "But at my age, the old fashioned bits seem a bit stuffy," I said to the Doctor.
"Don't be mentioning your opinions to Miss Blyton, Clara."
"Afraid it'll give her writer's cramp or something."
"Well, if you must know," he replied, "she's working on her first novel."
"So, why is an American detective, that Knight fellow, protecting her?"
"Protecting?" scoffed the Doctor. "Who told you that?"
"I'm afraid I did," said Enid Blyton. "If you think my first book is stuffy just by meeting me, then I wonder if it'd be a seller too."
"Fixed point in time!" hiss the Doctor, but I don't really believe that. I mean, as long as Miss Blyton thinks Mr Knight is protecting her, then let her think that.
"Knight's not the fixed point in time."
Well, I'm fixing for some time with the great detective Thomas Knight, just so Nan gets to read Enid Blyton's books for children.
I'm absolutely sure that insomnia has kept me up being vexed about him so I put this note in me diary for keeps.
...
20111123
It's Amazing The 11th Doctor and the Ponds Lasted So Long...
It's the fact the Doctor met her as a 6 yr old, and she fed him fish sticks and custard.
He said he'd be back in 5 minutes, but 12 years went by. Then two more.
They both discussed this until it nearly drove them mad.
When he first takes her away in the Tardis, she's in her nightie. Two years later, she's dressed and ready. She then shows him her wedding dress.
At this point in Series 5, Dr Who Plays matchmaker between Amy and Rory Williams. Both characters die only to come back with Rory as Auton and Amy being restored to life by the Pandorica.
He also let Rory Williams and Amy conceive Melody Pond aka River Song in the Tardis, which resulted in Timelord DNA getting mixed with Melody's.
At the end of Series 6, the universe thinks the Doctor is dead.
Well, I hope the Christmas special sets up Series 7.
Update: Series 7 is coming along excellent. Last I heard the Ponds are no longer companions of the Doctor. Let's hope the Christmas Special endears us to the next companion.
He said he'd be back in 5 minutes, but 12 years went by. Then two more.
They both discussed this until it nearly drove them mad.
When he first takes her away in the Tardis, she's in her nightie. Two years later, she's dressed and ready. She then shows him her wedding dress.
At this point in Series 5, Dr Who Plays matchmaker between Amy and Rory Williams. Both characters die only to come back with Rory as Auton and Amy being restored to life by the Pandorica.
He also let Rory Williams and Amy conceive Melody Pond aka River Song in the Tardis, which resulted in Timelord DNA getting mixed with Melody's.
At the end of Series 6, the universe thinks the Doctor is dead.
Well, I hope the Christmas special sets up Series 7.
Update: Series 7 is coming along excellent. Last I heard the Ponds are no longer companions of the Doctor. Let's hope the Christmas Special endears us to the next companion.
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