... I think part of the problem is that fans can make anything convoluted and crap sounding if they put their mind to it. You can, indeed, as the EDAs found,...
... Meh. The lead in could do with some work. Also reminds me how much End of the World made me want Jabe to be the new companion instead of Rose. Zog...
Really rather minor spoilers for "Dalek", although the thread might well progress in a more spoilery direction... D A L E K D A L E K D A L E K D A L E K D A L...
... And the point being, what? That they edited the narrator's "Ford had found that human beings were prone to state the obvious" bit to set up Arthur's...
Todd Green wrote:
> --- In Jade_Pagoda@yahoogroups.com, "Lance Parkin" > <lance@l...> wrote:
> > >>Jokes have both a set up and a pay off. For a joke to...
... None of these are really working for me. I suspect it's because, no matter how flip or ponderous you make the dialogue, the scene is fundamentally not ...
... Whereas I think this would miss the point in a different way; the relevance of Looming isn't the specific details of how baby Gallifreyans are made or the...
... Um, no, isn't the looming about how the Time Lord's rejection of superstition has made their society stagnant? The whole Pythia thing is on one level an...
... creations ... AIUI, the books can use anything that's been created for the books. I'm not sure if that translates into the TV series being able to use ...
... Good point. It has both those levels. But the point is it's not just about being different from humans. It's much deeper than that -- on several levels, as...
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... I think this is confusing "what Time's Crucible is about" or "what Lungbarrow is about" with "what the Looms are about". Both those two stories explore...
... I'm not at all up to speed on the new tv series, so please take that into account when I ask (1) what is magic, (2) how is the Doctor a magician (and (3)...
... I think the Doctor brings order *through* chaos. Chaos is there to take out the disfunctional order. It's that he understands something his people seem to...
... I can buy that, but the thing is none of the dialogue you wrote about Looming (or Zog's/Lance's for that matter) is half as effective as the image of the...
... From: "Dave Hoskin" <miracleman@...> ... not ... I ... contractions ... tastefully ... I think I should point out that I fundamentally agree with...
... Um, I think you're being confused about what I'm talking about. If I were to want to bring the Looms in, I wouldn't start with a story where Galifrey has...
... to be ... This is all quite a good fist of things, but this is the tip of a rather large glacier - The Time Lord lifecycle is fine in itself, and a...
... From: Jade_Pagoda@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Jade_Pagoda@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nevfountain2000 Sent: 02 May 2005 13:42 To: Jade_Pagoda@yahoogroups.com...
... I don't think there is anything in the film that someone who hasn't seen the film wouldn't already know about. Not since the plot was first leaked over 20...
... to the ... was, in ... presented ... caused by ... reason ... No the *opinion* in this specific case was that the *Doctor's* origins as outlined in the...
... Please - everyone stop saying that. Can't someone tell me that a film I've been waiting for for longer than I have for Who to come back is actually worth...
... =-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Well the guy on PBS here in the states liked it. But I'm not holding out hope M -- No trees were harmed in the...
... film I've ... actually ... see it ... It's not monumentally bad, Stuart. Just as all the other mediums have been a reinterpretation of Hitch-Hiker, so too...