View Poll Results: Rate The Impossible Astronaut
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10: Astronomical!
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9: Astounding!
8 26.67% -
8: Astonishing!
11 36.67% -
7: Amazing
6 20.00% -
6: Acceptable
1 3.33% -
5: Alright
0 0% -
4: Alright-ish
0 0% -
3: About watchable
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2: Appalling
1 3.33% -
1: Abysmal!
0 0%
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26th Apr 2011, 8:09 PM #76RicePudding/FishCustard
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An episode with plenty of humour (too many examples to mention) and chills (particularly the toilet scene) and some rather dark turns (the Future Doctor's death scene and the cliffhanger being the most shocking in my mind). Several questions came to my mind after watching this episode such as: why are the Silence and the Lodger TARDIS there, why was the little girl inside the space suit, who was inside the space suit at the lake and why did the astronaut kill the Future Doctor? I'm looking forward to finding out next week (and in future episodes of this series if need be). Excellent performances from all the main players (especially the 'my life in your hands, Amelia Pond' scene) and Canton and Nixon as well. This was a very different and interesting take on a Doctor Who series opener, and given the quality of this episode, I am immensely looking forward to the conclusion of this story as well as all the other episodes in this series (though I'm not sure how I'm going to be when the mid-series gap comes around). Matt Smith's era is going from strength to strength for me. 10/10 from me!
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26th Apr 2011, 9:03 PM #77
I'm guessing this will be the easiest question to answer....because the future Doctor told it to. To fulfill what he'd been told happens by Amy/Rory/River after they'd seen it. Wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey, Moffat's done that one before.
Or maybe not.
why are the Silence and the Lodger TARDIS there
I can't recall too much discussion about the Lodger ship at the time, but one thing which I've been pondering since the weekend is just how significant it might be that it has four control banks/panels.“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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26th Apr 2011, 9:33 PM #78
You're being a bit self-contradictory here. On the one hand you're saying children take things in on an image-based basis rather than a plot-based basis. But the two exapmples you give (a child chooting a man dead, and a pregnant woman shooting a child) are both ones that you need to be following the plot for to even "see". Amy isn't obviously physically pregnant any more than the space suit obviously contained a child when it shot the Doctor. And in any case, I don't really see how being pregnant makes the fact that Amy shot at a child any more shocking or less "appropriate" (whatever that means in this context).
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27th Apr 2011, 5:39 AM #79
Hence "If, as you contend"...
And no, it doesn't really make a lot of difference that she's pregnant. How about: "an adult, shooting a child"?
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27th Apr 2011, 6:18 PM #80
I don't really like the whole argument to be honest, because if you start ranking different sorts of people shooting other sorts of people into order of appropriateness then you end up implying that some forms of shooting aren't all that bad. It's a fictitious drama, so looked at in that light I think anyone shooting anyone else is fair game in terms of taste, as it's more about why they do it, what the consequences are etc (and whether you see the intestines spilling out pre-watershed of course).
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28th Apr 2011, 9:04 AM #81
The production team are generally very good with guns. It's so rare in Doctor Who for the companions or the Doctor to shoot anyone. It's made out to be a big thing in The End of Time when the Doctor is about to shoot the Master, or Rassilon, or whatever.
I don't think the scene at the end of The Impossible Astronaut was casual, or misplayed, in the way that guns on TV often are.
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28th Apr 2011, 10:29 AM #82
I agree abut the dedication also - they should have included Nick too. (When Only Fools and Horses came back in 2001 for Sleepless in Peckham, they dedicated the episode to Buster Merryfield and Kenneth MacDonald. Surely, The Impossible Astronaut could have been dedicated to Sladen and Courtney.)
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28th Apr 2011, 12:45 PM #83
I really enjoyed this episode.
New Series season openers are usually light-hearted fun but this got straight on with dishing out the drama.
I thought the alien thingy was bloody scary even to me, it must have frightened all the kids watching out of their skins!
Matt Smith is just sublime as the Doctor. I think I've got over my 'he's too young' issue now beceuse he's so amazing in the role, just brilliant.
Roll on Saturday.
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28th Apr 2011, 1:49 PM #84
Me too. I think the way they kind of moved and peered at people was creepy too!
I also really enjoyed this episode. I've said it before but I so much prefer the two parters. I love the cliffhanger - for what seems like a long time, you actually got a good cliffhanger and you could hear the scream of the end titles crashing in like in the old days. Too many of the new series ones either have strange cliff-hangers or the title music kind of whimpers in.
Bravo for 'new who' that reminds me of 'old who'.
Also as always, top marks for Matt Smith who is simply brilliant!
"It's a Police Box; can't you read?"
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1st May 2011, 10:41 AM #85
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dark dark dark,,, brilliant
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1st May 2011, 10:40 PM #86Close embrace
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This has been posted on DS. Who is standing next to the hut?
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?for...0119h42m24.png
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2nd May 2011, 10:00 AM #87
A props man?
Si.
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2nd May 2011, 10:01 AM #88
Perhaps it's not a person, but a "thing" (something to do with the hut itself), or maybe it's just a member of the production personnel hiding unsuccessfully (like the guy behind the car in the beach scene in Doomsday). Either way, I really don't think it's anything important!
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26th Sep 2018, 7:26 PM #89
American politician names are weird. "I have to consult Senator Goldwater" sounds like something Nixon would say when he needs to take a pee.
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2nd Oct 2018, 3:39 PM #90
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And when the Bible warned us of the Last Trump, we never thought to take him so literally, or so soon!
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