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{snip} They were Bristol accents rather than Brummie. Sounded accurate to me, but I imagine that they just cast Bristol actors.
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:smack: Brummie = Birmingham, not Bristol. Oy vey and my apologies.
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I think the Doctor called them “The Boneless”. {snip}
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Thanks! Rewatched it and dang me if I didn’t mishear the name first time. :o
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They started flattening people before the Doctor came. He came during the middle of an invasion.
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Ok, I see what you mean. I thought you were talking about when the Boneless started rising out of the floors and coming off the walls. However, before the Doctor showed up, the Boneless were taking people to examine, not attack them. I think of it as akin to the explorer-naturalists of the 19[sup]th[/sup] century taking samples of “new” animals they found and dissecting them.
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{snip} It looks from [Mathieson’s] blog that he successfully pitched Flatline, and they liked it so much they offered him the Mummy one as well. Given the fan reaction to these two episodes, I hope he can do some next year - he “gets it”.
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Fellow Whovians, we need to let Steven Moffat know we like Mathieson’s scripts. People who have been arguing about other scripts in previous threads all seem to be in agreement about this episode being a keeper.
LOVED this one. But now I’m really sorry Jenna Coleman is leaving at the end of the season (well, at the Christmas ep, anyway), because TPTB are giving her so much agency. She’s become the most active and, er, … protagonisty, companion since Donna. Last season she seemed like, well, just eye-candy. And another of Moffatt’s “the-companion-is-the-most-important-girl-in-the-universe” arcs. But this season, she’s really been given stuff to get her teeth into.
I don’t see any text (well, I can’t make out any text) that identifies the image as specifically an advert for Doctor Who. It could be that the TARDIS and whoever is/are standing next to it are trapped in the photo.
@Slow Moving Vehicle: The BBC has yet to confirm that. FWIW, true or not, it’s spoilery for upcoming episodes, so please remember to use the spoiler tags when posting to these “no unaired spoilers” type of threads. Some folks don’t mind being spoilered, but others will appreciate not learning stuff ahead of time. Thanks!
Actually it’s David Tennant, from the end of “The Christmas Invasion” (unless there’s also a Matt Smith episode where he said that. I pretty much have most of the Tennant episodes memorized, but I’ve only seen most of the Smith ones once so I’m not as famliar with the lines).
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Actually it’s David Tennant, from the end of “The Christmas Invasion” (unless there’s also a Matt Smith episode where he said that. {snip}
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By the ancient rites of combat, I forbid you to scavenge here for the rest of time. And when you go back to the stars and tell others of this planet, when you tell them of its riches, its people, its potential, when you talk of the Earth, then make sure that you tell them this…it is defended! — Tenth Doctor to the defeated Sycorax leader, “The Christmas Invasion”
Eleventh Doctor: [To Rory & Amy] Leaving is good. Never coming back is better. [To Atraxi] C’MOOOOONNN, then! The Doctor will see you now! [The Atraxi scan the Doctor] Atraxi: You are not of this world. Eleventh Doctor: No, but I’ve put a lot of work into it. [compares a few ties] I dunno. What do you think? Atraxi: Is this world important? Eleventh Doctor: Important? What’s that mean, important? Six billion people live here. Is that important? Here’s a better question. Is this world a threat to the Atraxi? Well c’mon, you’re monitoring the whole planet. Is this world a threat? [The Atraxi scan the history of the Earth] Atraxi: No. Eleventh Doctor: Are the peoples of this world guilty of any crimes, by the laws of the Atraxi? Atraxi: No. Eleventh Doctor: Okay! One more, just one. Is this world protected? Because you’re not the first lot to have come here, oh, there have been so many. And what you’ve got to ask is, [softly] what happened to them? [The Atraxi’s scanning shows images of all of the Doctor’s nemeses, followed by images of all ten previous incarnations of the Doctor, before the Eleventh Doctor steps through the hologram] Eleventh Doctor: Hello. I’m the Doctor. Basically…run.
****— “The Eleventh Hour”
source: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/DoctorWho
The Boneless. Love it; one of my favourite folk tale motifs, though a little obscure.
Here is the account of a policeman who (allegedly) encountered one of these things, a story collected by Ruth Tongue and passed to Katherine Briggs.
“He told her it was darksome over above Putsham Rise and the tide was in far below – he could hear it plain down two hill fields, and then his lamp lit up a white Summat across the road. It weren’t fog. It were alive – kind of wooly like a cloud or a wet sheep – and it slid up and all all over him on his bike, and was gone rolling and bowling and stretching out and in up the Perry Farm Road. It was so sudden he didn’t fall off – but he says it was like a wet heavy blanket and so terrible cold and smelled stale.”
–From An Encyclopedia of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures by Katherine Briggs
Did anyone catch the A113 number on the subway train? That’s the first time I’ve noticed that easter egg in a non-Pixar movie. Perhaps an alum was involved in these effects?
Really? I though that had been confirmed before this season even began. My mistake. Apologies to all. But if it’s not true, that makes me verra verra happy.
