View Poll Results: Did The Fires of Pompeii raise the temperature for you?
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10/10 - Goodness gracious Great Balls Of Fire!
6 15.38% -
9/10 - Burn Baby Burn! Burn that mother down!
7 17.95% -
8/10 - Burning Up
11 28.21% -
7/10 - Light My Fire!
7 17.95% -
6/10 - Fire In The Sky
3 7.69% -
5/10 - Smoke on the Water
0 0% -
4/10 - Life Got Cold
0 0% -
3/10 - Baby, It's Cold Outside
3 7.69% -
2/10 - Ice Ice Baby!
0 0% -
1/10 - Cold... as.... Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!
2 5.13%
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10th Apr 2008, 5:53 AM #1wibbly-wobbly,timey-wimey
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Volcano Day!!!!
i'll jump the gun & put up the thread to discuss the pompey ep
btw anyone else laugh out loud when the ep trailer said " volcano day" no? just me & wifey then? i'll shut up...
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10th Apr 2008, 8:15 AM #2
Don't we need the main discussion thread for each story to be a poll?
Si.
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10th Apr 2008, 8:31 AM #3
Happy Volcano day for Saturday everyone. I wonder how many Volcano Day cards I'll get!
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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10th Apr 2008, 9:12 AM #4
I never get anything for Volcano Day - not even so much as a lump of pumice stone.
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10th Apr 2008, 9:43 AM #5
I always get a hot coal but it's usually from my Mum.
Si.
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10th Apr 2008, 11:06 AM #6Wayne Guest
I'm gigging on Volcano day. It's the Sunday repeat for me this week.
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10th Apr 2008, 11:34 AM #7WhiteCrow Guest
I just hope the Doctor manages to get through the prologue - something which is very hard to do in Pompei ...
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10th Apr 2008, 6:15 PM #8
well from the trailer this certainly looks like being a HOT episode..
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10th Apr 2008, 9:13 PM #9
Due to a bit of bad scheduling on my part (I actually forgot Doctor Who would be on, good grief!) Little Miss has got a pre-birthday sleepover Saturday evening, from 7 onwards. So there'll probably be a lot of excitable arrivals during Volcano Day!
Thank goodness for BBCi Player!
But that aside, a Merry Volcano Day to you all at home.
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10th Apr 2008, 11:10 PM #10Pip Madeley Guest
Rate & Discuss 4.2: The Fires of Pompeii
Psychic powers and stone beasts run riot in old Pompeii, but can Donna dare the Doctor to change established history?
As usual, don't vote until you've seen the episode!
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10th Apr 2008, 11:20 PM #11Wayne Guest
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11th Apr 2008, 3:26 AM #12wibbly-wobbly,timey-wimey
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11th Apr 2008, 7:57 AM #13No BBC3 then Andrew? There's a repeat on Sunday & Friday
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11th Apr 2008, 8:18 AM #14
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11th Apr 2008, 10:09 AM #15
I'll be using mine as well. I'm working back shift for the next two Saturdays...
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11th Apr 2008, 10:43 AM #16
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11th Apr 2008, 1:57 PM #17
It's the iPlayer for me too, hopefully late on Saturday night, as I'm working through the first showing and all the repeats, and I don't have a video anymore!
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12th Apr 2008, 7:45 PM #18
Excellent stuff! Far superior to last weeks. I've given it 8/10 but to be honest I can't actually see how they could have made it better. Probably deserved a 9 & might get upgraded at the end of the series.
The sets were superb & the effects faultless (on first viewing anyway). This is Doctor Who working well & definitely one to watch again.
P.S. I didn't see Mel or 7th Doctor, they must have been on the other side of city.
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12th Apr 2008, 7:54 PM #19
It's Volcano day
WOW!!!! That was HOT
I'm giving that a 10 for sheer, breathless enjoyment, I'd defy ANYBODY to find any criticism in that one. It had the right balance of comedy and seriousness I thought. I felt Donna's pain about the survival of the townsfolk, and the Doctor not able to do anything, and her heartfelt pleading for him to save someone, anyone. I am willing to admit I was wrong about the casting of Tate, if she brings this kind of pathos to the part of Donna then I'll be glad to see it, she was great, and I think this episode was all about Donna, on her first proper trip in the TARDIS, and seeing the Doctor's dilemma.
I loved the Celtic jokes too, nice to see a rise taken out of the Welsh, there's lovely.
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12th Apr 2008, 7:54 PM #20wibbly-wobbly,timey-wimey
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8/10 i'm spartacus , i'm spartacus...
tonight's special guest star ( drum roll please ) the balrog!!!
& phil davies who . in quadrophenia played a character called .....chalkie!!!
some nice freaky bits as well
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12th Apr 2008, 8:07 PM #21Captain Tancredi Guest
Actually I thought the Spartacus joke was the one line that didn't work- his revolt was BC rather than AD, so it's a bit like walking into the Ministry of Defence and introducing yourself to the receptionist as Napoleon Bonaparte.
But apart from that- pretty much faultless. If anybody had told me a year ago that they'd revisit one of the themes of 'The Aztecs' with Catherine Tate in Barbara's role- and that she'd carry it off so well- well, I'd have thought they'd been breathing in the vapours.
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12th Apr 2008, 8:08 PM #22Pip Madeley Guest
Well it's gone down well here at HaRpi Towers - I can't believe Tim missed the absolutely sublime connection to The Romans!
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12th Apr 2008, 8:18 PM #23
Oh, and I did guess that the new 'house gods' at the end would be the TARDIS & crew as soon as it was mentioned before it was revealed.
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12th Apr 2008, 8:30 PM #24
Historical episodes have generally been amongst my favourites in Doctor Who, at least until the New Series began. Unquiet Dead, Tooth and Claw and Shakespeare Code had a lot to commend them, but they never really hit the highlights I expected of them. Fires of Pompeii managed to do it on every level.
Every aspect of the production worked for me. The sideways nod to 'The Romans' was nicely added in. Catherine Tate was in stellar form, brining great believability to her character's response to the situation. There were some good comedy moments that polished the story, and worked as an excellent counterpoint to the dramatic empathy laden scenes. Although not visually excellent, the Pyroviles are the first New Series monster I'm hoping will return to the show in the future. I adored the closing scene with the Doctor, Donna and the TARDIS becoming the house gods of the family.
There was some great perfomances in this episode fromt he guest cast, and a few lines of dialogue that were very intriguing, especially the bit with Donna having 'Something on her back'. I'm curious to know what that means.
10/10 for me.
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12th Apr 2008, 8:32 PM #25
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And another reference to a lost home planet...
Full marks for this one.
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