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%
Results 101 to 118 of 118
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15th Apr 2008, 10:31 PM #101
Doesn't he deny responsibility for starting a fire in Rome ?
Bazinga !
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15th Apr 2008, 10:44 PM #102
Isn't that all part of the same spiel? "I've been to Rome before, and before you ask that fire was nothing to do with me..."
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15th Apr 2008, 11:08 PM #103Pip Madeley Guest
I'll make it clear
Reference 1: The Doctor mentions the aforementioned fire...
DONNA: "You've been here before then?"
DOCTOR: "Mmm, ages ago. Before you ask, that fire had nothing to do with me... well, a little bit..."
CAECILIUS: Atella my love, have you seen that clasp? The beetle one..."
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16th Apr 2008, 1:18 AM #104
Yup. The moments when the family run to their stations to stop things falling over with the rumblings from the mountain are lifted straight from Mary Poppins, in which the family has to do that every hour because the mad admiral Boom a few doors down fires a whacking great cannon on the hour.
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16th Apr 2008, 2:08 AM #105
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16th Apr 2008, 2:43 AM #106
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16th Apr 2008, 7:44 AM #107
I missed the beetle reference entirely, thanks Pip.
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16th Apr 2008, 8:29 AM #108
I quite enjoyed this one. Very well produced, well acted, scary and heatbreaking, but did they really need to go to Rome to film it? I really can't see what they got out of their holiday!
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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16th Apr 2008, 8:32 AM #109
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16th Apr 2008, 12:41 PM #110
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16th Apr 2008, 1:47 PM #111
I agree with Jason. This was money well spent, unlike the little trip to New York last year. That they managed to do all they needed in 2 days was really impressive too.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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16th Apr 2008, 11:07 PM #112
It was probably cheaper to go there than build a new set.
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16th Apr 2008, 11:50 PM #113Pip Madeley Guest
Well, quite. They got a reduced rate too.
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17th Apr 2008, 1:55 AM #114
There was some bumf in the Radio Times about them having special permission to film there. Presumably the same kind of "special permission" granted to anyone else who hires the set to film something on. Otherwise known as "permission".
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18th Apr 2008, 6:12 PM #115
Just a nod to Si Hunts review of this episode over at Vervoid which I think is absolutely spot on (and a good read!)
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24th Aug 2009, 12:41 PM #116
Anyone interested in the historical nature of the episode might be interested to learn that today is the 1930'th anniversary of the eruption.
On August 24, 79 Mount Vesuvius literally blew its top, spewing tons of molten ash, pumice and sulphuric gas miles into the atmosphere. Thousands died, including one of Rome’s greatest scientists.
The eruption buried the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. Though the eruption came without warning, it lasted more than a week and did not kill all at once. Many people escaped, and many who could have evacuated the threatened cities stayed behind for one motive or another.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2...pompeii-pliny/A "firestorm" of poisonous vapors and molten debris engulfed the surrounding area suffocating the inhabitants of the neighboring Roman resort cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. Tons of falling debris filled the streets until nothing remained to be seen of the once thriving communities. The cities remained buried and undiscovered for almost 1700 years until excavation began in 1748. These excavations continue today and provide insight into life during the Roman Empire.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pompeii.htmAssume you're going to Win
Always have an Edge
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21st Mar 2013, 9:01 AM #117
A few years later....
I was very disappointed with my re-watch of this. I remembered it as a classic, but there's some truly stinking dialogue that drags it down. Even Peter Capaldi struggles. 'Vulcan is angry, it's so... Vulcanic....' he says as his city is destroyed, but it's OK because he's inventing the word 'Volcano'. I found that rather naff. Also his response to the Celtic sounds of the TARDIS translation of Latin were appalling. 'There's Lovely' etc. Not funny AND surely anachronistic?
The redeeming feature is Donna imploring the Doctor to save 'Someone'. That bit was great. And the Pyroville monsters look superb. Sadly however, the bit where the escape capsule is thrown clear of the volcano by the explosion is... utter bollocks. They'd be dead.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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21st Mar 2013, 2:45 PM #118
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He can't help sounding Scottish, but in general it does sound odd when a given actor in any production is speaking in one accent for no obvious reason while everyone else is speaking in another.
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