# {New Dr Who Season, UK pace} \[edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2011, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347 "2011-04-22T12:42:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/441 "2011-05-20T16:24:13Z")
Phone booth smaller than a TARDIS with inward opening door: [http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/\_n-njTteDnPw/R1SM7NOjqiI/AAAAAAAAByE/c8s91uxRd7U/s400/phonebooth.jpg&imgrefurl=http://2164th.blogspot.com/2007/12/phone-booths-pass-into-history.html&usg=\_\_eqgXWujVR7CCevfiihd2slu3j10=&h=386&w=300&sz=27&hl=en&start=8&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=zidERge-lSIZ\_M:&tbnh=123&tbnw=96&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dphone%2Bbooth%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1003%26bih%3D630%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&ei=FZXWTf6nHMKugQfGsqS8Bw](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n-njTteDnPw/R1SM7NOjqiI/AAAAAAAAByE/c8s91uxRd7U/s400/phonebooth.jpg&imgrefurl=http://2164th.blogspot.com/2007/12/phone-booths-pass-into-history.html&usg=__eqgXWujVR7CCevfiihd2slu3j10=&h=386&w=300&sz=27&hl=en&start=8&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=zidERge-lSIZ_M:&tbnh=123&tbnw=96&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dphone%2Bbooth%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1003%26bih%3D630%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&ei=FZXWTf6nHMKugQfGsqS8Bw) The point is not whether police call boxes had doors that opened inward or outward, it was responding to the remark that said “of course the door should open outward - nothing that small would have an inward opening door, it’s too small.” Here’s something smaller that did have an inward opening door. Argument refuted. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/442 "2011-05-20T22:50:13Z")
For the Rory fans: [OMG They Killed Rory!](http://www.redbubble.com/people/zerobriant/art/7186582-omg-they-killed-rory-posters) ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/443 "2011-05-21T01:51:11Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > For the Rory fans: [OMG They Killed Rory!](http://www.redbubble.com/people/zerobriant/art/7186582-omg-they-killed-rory-posters) Hah! I knew the internet would come through! ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/444 "2011-05-21T02:52:01Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > For the Rory fans: [OMG They Killed Rory!](http://www.redbubble.com/people/zerobriant/art/7186582-omg-they-killed-rory-posters) Ha! Wow I hadn’t actually realized until seeing that just how many times Rory has already been killed! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/445 "2011-05-21T15:13:29Z")
Could somebody summarise the deaths of Rory for me? I think I’m missing a few… (One, at least: what’s that second line in the poster about? I assume the first is Rory being eradicated from history by the crack?) ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/446 "2011-05-21T16:40:36Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > Could somebody summarise the deaths of Rory for me? I think I’m missing a few… (One, at least: what’s that second line in the poster about? I assume the first is Rory being eradicated from history by the crack?) The first one is from “Amy’s Choice”, when the old lady with the thing in her mouth vaporized him. The second one is the bitter lizard lady, followed by badass Mark Shepherd, singing hologram doctor thing, and House. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/447 "2011-05-21T17:07:03Z")
Oh dear, I have no memory. Thanks for the reminder! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/448 "2011-05-21T20:12:57Z")
And they left out the big one - the crack of nonexistence that led to Centurion Rory, the Plasticene Warrior/bodyguard. And technically the explosion of the TARDIS that reset Rory to a real boy. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/449 "2011-05-21T21:07:39Z")
From tonight’s episode: > [@](#): > > Jennifer: I thought I was going to die. > Rory: Welcome to my world. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/450 "2011-05-22T01:59:58Z")
But, oddly enough, he _didn’t_ die this episode, not even once. Though he better be careful about leaping at and tackling women with elaborate, killing cattle-prods if he wants to continue living. He seems like such a quiet guy, but he’s got some RAR! PROTECT! in him. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/451 "2011-05-22T02:15:22Z")
Two weeks until we find out what happens?? :mad: ☹ I’m liking Rory more and more. It would be so easy for him to just be the third wheel, but so far everyone’s doing a good job of making sure his character holds his own - he’s an integral part of the group, not just Amy’s husband along for laffs and occasional plot devices. I definitely got the feeling this was his episode; the Doctor and Amy kind of remained in the background. What was it the Doctor said about the cockerel? ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/452 "2011-05-22T02:33:54Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > Two weeks until we find out what happens?? :mad: ☹ Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/453 "2011-05-22T02:46:36Z")
BBC America won’t show the next episode for two weeks. I guess it’s because it’s Memorial day weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/454 "2011-05-22T02:50:02Z")
Wait, the Brits get it a week before we do? Being a Colonial sucks sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/455 "2011-05-22T02:52:18Z")
Not sure if I liked this episode. Felt like large chunks of early scenes were edited out, and the plot structure was haphazard. Maybe the second part will fill in the blanks and redeem it. ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/456 "2011-05-22T03:13:22Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > Wait, the Brits get it a week before we do? Being a Colonial sucks sometimes. That’s OK. You get the entire rest of TV before we do. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/457 "2011-05-22T03:30:00Z")
Clone Doctor kind of looks like [Odo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odo_%28Star_Trek%29) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/458 "2011-05-22T06:44:33Z")
I’m getting tired already of the silly “season arc”. I groaned out loud when eyepatch lady stuck her head into this episode. I much rather have a straight forward Doctor Who adventure without wondering if this is some drug induced hallucination. At least no Silents showed up. Hopefully they are all back on earth and not in space. Interesting story. Is slavery ok when you can clone your own workers and recycle them back into the soup if they get injured? These are great stories that Doctor Who can explore. The factory thought it had a good thing going until the storm made the clones actually living and intelligent. I’m not sure it was moral even when the clones were drones. I’m not sure what to expect from Clone Doctor. If he’s true to his true origins then he’ll be working hard to get the clones to stop the war. I’d be very disappointed if Clone Doctor leads the charge to kill off the humans. Can’t imagine the point of a Dusty Springfield song. I love her records, but why in the heck would some alien race in the future know about her? ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/459 "2011-05-22T07:10:38Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Can’t imagine the point of a Dusty Springfield song. I love her records, but why in the heck would some alien race in the future know about her? Because they weren’t aliens, they were humans. On Earth. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/460 "2011-05-22T07:28:52Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > Because they weren’t aliens, they were humans. On Earth. Yeah, and it was only the 22nd Century, just a hundred or so years in the future. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347.md?page=24)