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Two things from watching again.

Harriet Jones. Martha Jones. Ianto Jones. Jesus Christ get some new names writers :)

The intial sub-wave signal is the Master's Drums! :wub:

This is last week - Why didn't Donna remember giving the keys to Rose in the first episode?

New spec! Regarding the Death of Tardis

The Tardis does die, and the Doctor starts traveling with Project Indigo, hence why there's no companions in the specials next year...Indigo is a one person backpack

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Yeah, so how did he follow that signal to where the Earth was, if no other signal could make it there? Why could the signal lead them to the Cascade and no further? Wh were the bees important when he would've got contacted by the stronger signal anyway?

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I really, really enjoyed that. Where the hell is the new Confidential on iPlayer, BBC? Grrr.

I also think it's funny everyone's going on about Tennant being in the Christmas Special, but it's also common knowledge (and revealed in the old Confidential still doing the rounds on iPlayer *sigh*) that Billie Piper lied to journos regarding whether she'd be back in Doctor Who. Don't be surprised if Tennant was also doing the same thing.

If they don't regenerate him into a new actor playing the Doctor next week, they'll be doing a dis-service to Doctor Who tradition. Unless RTD knows he's off soon and doesn't care.

Also I'm going to avoid looking at a single newspaper next week - they're bound to ruin the surprise.

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Yeah, so how did he follow that signal to where the Earth was, if no other signal could make it there? Why could the signal lead them to the Cascade and no further? Wh were the bees important when he would've got contacted by the stronger signal anyway?

He follows the Tandoka Trail to where it had gone (The Medusa Casc), I think the idea was the Transmat been had been on the same frequenies as the Bees would use. He hadn't followed the Bees, he'd followed the beam's trail.

Because the beam had, someone, also taken them 1 second out of time with the rest of the universe.

The phone signal led the TARDIS to be one second out of time (seemingly damaging it/working very hard) in the process. We don't know if that Phone signal would have reached the Doctor if he hadn't already been very close spatially and temporally.

I really, really enjoyed that. Where the hell is the new Confidential on iPlayer, BBC? Grrr.

According the Doctor Who website they don't know, but the Iplayer team are fixing it.

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He follows the Tandoka Trail to where it had gone (The Medusa Casc), I think the idea was the Transmat been had been on the same frequenies as the Bees would use. He hadn't followed the Bees, he'd followed the beam's trail.

Because the beam had, someone, also taken them 1 second out of time with the rest of the universe.

Ah ok, that makes more sense. How the beam escapes from being one second out of time I'm still not sure, but it makes more sense.

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Ah ok, that makes more sense. How the beam escapes from being one second out of time I'm still not sure, but it makes more sense.

Transmat beam that took them their - no idea. Super Dalek Tech.

Phone signal? It got fired into a rift in Space time :wub:

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That was a good setup for the two-parter, I think. Not as good as the other seasons, but the payoff in the finale will make a big difference to how well I remember it. I'm kind of tired of the whole "BUT X IS IMPOSSIBLE" "HA HA HA IT HAPPENED ANYWAY" thing. It takes the impact out of

the regeneration cliffhanger as I'm sure they'll just dream up some non-reason for him to not-really-actually-regenerate

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That said I was equally bored by the time they spent discussing whatever treknobabble would solve the problem of

contacting the Doctor

, so maybe I can't be satisfied either way. It'd be nice if the plot device was at least something which had appeared earlier in the season.

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I really, really enjoyed that. Where the hell is the new Confidential on iPlayer, BBC? Grrr.

I also think it's funny everyone's going on about Tennant being in the Christmas Special, but it's also common knowledge (and revealed in the old Confidential still doing the rounds on iPlayer *sigh*) that Billie Piper lied to journos regarding whether she'd be back in Doctor Who. Don't be surprised if Tennant was also doing the same thing.

Yes, but people have seen pictures of him filming it.

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Ovenights gave The Stolen Earth 7.40 million, which will equate to somwhere between 7.80 million and 8.00 million when the official figures come out in about two weeks time.

I needs context! Is that good or bad? :wub:

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The first time through, I was disappointed.

The second time through, I thought it was ace.

The CG is fucking awful, though. Sub-Season One stuff in places. :wub:

The drums in the Shadow Proclamation... is Donna going to turn out to be a timelord?

The Doctor's hand was lingered on waaaaay too long in the first shot of the first scene in the Tardis. Waaaaaaay too long. "LOOK, THIS WILL BE A PLOT POINT" long. It's going to be the resurrection cop-out, I'm sure of it. But I hope it happens anyway. I like Tennant. I don't want him to go.

Some very atmospheric music this week, but also some "sound mix is really shit" bombastic stuff that bore no relation to the scenes it was playing under. Murray Gold is strange. Sometimes it feels like a temp track.

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The Doctor's hand was lingerted on waaaaay too long in the first shot of the first scene in the Tardis. Waaaaaaay too long. "LOOK, THIS WILL BE A PLOT POINT" long. It's going to be the resurrection cop-out, I'm sure of it. But I hope it happens anyway. I like Tennant. I don't want him to go.

It has lingered a bit in some of the other episodes too...

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Lawrence Miles did say one true thing this week:

Moments later, we get another all-too-obvious Russell T. Davies technique: the casual mention of something that's likely to be important next year, in this case the Mr Copper Foundation. It sticks out a mile, just like the mention of Mr Saxon in "The Runaway Bride". I'd ask who Mr Copper is, but I'm past caring.

He's right. It was a bit of a sledgehammer.

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