View Poll Results: Rate The Impossible Astronaut
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10: Astronomical!
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9: Astounding!
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8: Astonishing!
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7: Amazing
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6: Acceptable
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5: Alright
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4: Alright-ish
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3: About watchable
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2: Appalling
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1: Abysmal!
0 0%
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24th Apr 2011, 10:11 PM #51
He's essential to the story cos:
1. In the next episode, the plot about The Silence and their obsession with picking the Apollo Mission will be revealed cos the 1969 landing is imperative for what they want to accomplish.
2. Nixon was President at the time, and what better way to get access to things about the country than through the highest officials?
3. Also, Canton is important to the plot, and Canton was being asked back to work for The CIA.
So, yeah, Nixon needed to show up in the story. He also does more in the next episode... SPOILERS
Oh, and if you noticed at the end, the very end, the production was a joint effort by BBC and BBC America- and what better way to include the American audience then to start the season off with a story set in America during one of the most iconic events in American history?
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24th Apr 2011, 10:12 PM #52
Sorry, but that's rubbish. It is not a cold-blooded act, it is an emotional, heat-of-the-moment act. She shoots at the thing that she has already seen murder her friend. It shot the Doctor three times, in what appeared far more cold blooded circumstances from where she was. The thing she tried to shoot had apparently had a conversation with the Doctor, then just casually shot him twice, watched him start to regenerate, and then shot him again. OK, it didn't have a weapon pointed at her head at the time she shot it, but does it look like she actually thinks about what she is doing in that scene?
OK, I'll concede that it does indeed appear, on a very superficial, images only level, that a pregnant woman shoots at a child (I still stand by the point that we don't see the child hit, so we can't say Amy shot her), but I really think that using the term 'cold blood' massively overstates the situation. 'Cold blood' conjurs images of her picking up the gun, walking slowly towards the thing and carefully aiming to shoot it in the head, which is most definitely not what we saw.
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24th Apr 2011, 10:13 PM #53“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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24th Apr 2011, 10:15 PM #54
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24th Apr 2011, 10:17 PM #55
It's the article I've been waiting for all day...
New Doctor Who episode billed as scariest yet sees ratings FALL by 1.5m (And Britain's Got Talent is also on the slide)
My sky has felled/fallened.
DOOOMED!
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24th Apr 2011, 10:23 PM #56
I'm not sure it does really, the whole point, entirely, of the cliffhanger, is to show (as has been built up throughout the whole episode) that Amy is trying to prevent the older Doctor from being killed. It's the whole point of the cliffhanger that she's misread the situation, and the Doctor is suitably horrified with her actions.
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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24th Apr 2011, 10:35 PM #57“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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24th Apr 2011, 10:41 PM #58
This is my favourite bit...
Originally Posted by Daily Mail
Genius!
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24th Apr 2011, 10:45 PM #59
Yep, I completely couldn't understand that sentence either!
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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25th Apr 2011, 12:15 AM #60
Sorry, I'm not getting that at all. I was interpreting the bouts of nausea they both had as a reaction to seeing a Silent and then having their memories altered ? Coz that's when both of them have their little bouts of feeling sick.
I'm not even convinced that Amy's pregnant - she's got a post hypnotic suggestion to 'tell the Doctor' something important, but no memory of what it is - couldn't it be that she's just filling in a gap by telling him something ?
New random thought / annoyance
- the TARDIS lands silently and invisibly in the oval office, but blows papers etc around when it takes off - why didn't that happen when it landed (like every other time in New Hoo ?)Bazinga !
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25th Apr 2011, 1:32 AM #61
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25th Apr 2011, 2:50 AM #62
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Sontarans used to scare the crap out of me when I was a kid, I wouldn't be worried about the astronaut being shot, when the alien destroyed Joy in the rest room that would terrify anyone under 10. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, infact it's probably beneficial, youngsters experiencing real fear but without risk. Anyway just had another thought, could River Song be Rose Tyler ? River was introduced under RTD's reign, has his long term plan for her been altered by Moffat ?? River did go on about her being "a young impressionable girl" with the Dr just dropping in on her. River HAS to be somebody we already know about because if she wasn't then there'd be no surprise.
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25th Apr 2011, 7:41 AM #63River HAS to be somebody we already know about because if she wasn't then there'd be no surprise
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25th Apr 2011, 9:17 AM #64
I just read something in this thread that BLEW MY MIND.
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25th Apr 2011, 9:53 AM #65
If River's going to be "someone", then surely the big surprise would be if she were Amy's daughter?
And regarding the astronaut-Doctor-Amy shooting thing: one thing you all seem to be forgetting is that the astronaut that shoots the Doctor does so in 2011. The astronaut that Amy shoots at is in 1969.
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25th Apr 2011, 10:03 AM #66
There's more than 1 spacesuit though.
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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25th Apr 2011, 10:23 AM #67
I thought it was very good, 8/10, although that rating may change once I've seen episode 2. The big shock for me was the control room from 'The Lodger' found underground by River and Rory! The apparent death of the Doctor was nothing new after last series.
Great peformances from the regulars plus Stuart Milligan (Nixon). Also Mark Sheppard (young Canton) and his dad W. Morgan Sheppard (old Canton). How many of you spotted that neat bit of casting?
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25th Apr 2011, 2:42 PM #68
No, not quite. Amy doesn't feel sick the first time she sees a Silent in the desert, and she feels sick again just before she tells the Doctor she's pregnant, and she hasn't just seen a Silent when that happens. Added to that, you don't see Rory feeling sick, or the lady in the toilet.
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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25th Apr 2011, 4:23 PM #69
Quite enjoyed it, but will have to wait for part 2 to see whether it was a great part one or just a setup for a second-rate second part!
One Day, I shall come back, Yes, I shall come back,
Until them, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties, Just go forward in all your beliefs,
and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine!
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25th Apr 2011, 7:34 PM #70
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25th Apr 2011, 7:51 PM #71
Thinking about it, I very much doubt that she's Amy's daughter. Moffat must have had some sort of idea who she is when he did 'Silence in the Library'.
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25th Apr 2011, 9:03 PM #72Close embrace
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New random thought / annoyance
- the TARDIS lands silently and invisibly in the oval office, but blows papers etc around when it takes off - why didn't that happen when it landed (like every other time in New Hoo ?)
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25th Apr 2011, 9:53 PM #73
Even the stealth business was pointless. The Doctor is surprised he has landed in the oval office, but that 'let's take it slow' gag would have worked even if everyone outside was staring at him. So where was he expecting to land that required stealth which he then busts by opening the door and stepping out anyway? Can't he just land in a cupboard as he has on so many other occasions?
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25th Apr 2011, 10:17 PM #74Close embrace
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Even the stealth business was pointless. The Doctor is surprised he has landed in the oval office, but that 'let's take it slow' gag would have worked even if everyone outside was staring at him. So where was he expecting to land that required stealth which he then busts by opening the door and stepping out anyway? Can't he just land in a cupboard as he has on so many other occasions?
I suspect he assumed the TARDIS had centred on Canton somewhere open, then people would see a man walking down the street, as opposed to materialising in the Oval Office.
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I've watched the episode again and think even the 909 year old Doctor isn't completely unsuspecting. There was a look on the Doctor's face when Rory went below to join the others whcih seemed to give something away. And in the White House while studying the maps, he says he's following another lead.
It just sort of evokes memories of the Seventh Doctor manipulating those around him.
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26th Apr 2011, 5:51 AM #75
Moffat has admitted that at the time of SitL, she was indeed intended to be "the Doctor's Wife", but as a one-off character in a single story. He had to have a radical rethink when the character returned as a semi-regular, and now all bets are off as to who she really is.
Tune in on Saturday for a clue.
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