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 Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 4:58 am
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:49 am
Jettrick Takuha Jettrick will probably of hated it, but thats his opinion. I dig the new season now-it's Rooby-babes I blame for all the negativity these days ninja Well I'd better keep my mouth shut then. It was TERRIBLE!Can anyone do me a favour? Does anyone have the exact quotes of the Doctor explaining how the machine turned Lazarus into a giant CGI scorpion? And why he needed to absorb 'life energy' from people? Please? I'd be very grateful to read them again.
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 11:38 am
I loved this episode! I thought the CGI was brilliant, and the monster was actually quite scary. My sister (aged 8 ) was silent, for once! The plot was interesting, and it had morals.
A good episode all round.
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 11:58 am
Roobarb Jettrick Takuha Jettrick will probably of hated it, but thats his opinion. I dig the new season now-it's Rooby-babes I blame for all the negativity these days ninja Well I'd better keep my mouth shut then. It was TERRIBLE!Can anyone do me a favour? Does anyone have the exact quotes of the Doctor explaining how the machine turned Lazarus into a giant CGI scorpion? And why he needed to absorb 'life energy' from people? Please? I'd be very grateful to read them again. Well, not the exact quotes, but the Doctor mentioned that the regeneration process went wrong and caused dormant genes in the human genetic structure to reactivate and made his body unstable. Which... is actually not that far-fetched. Humans only use about 2-3 percent of their genetic material to form our body. The rest is just junk that was left over from the evolutionary process, inert, practically useless and only serves to turn on once and a while to cause birth defects ( Human tails, hair in the wrong places, oddly shaped irises, etc). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudogenehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_DNA
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 12:32 pm
I actually liked it. Amusing. Funny. Serious. And all in the right places, too.
The polarity thing made me laugh. biggrin
And the preview for the rest of the series made me beam with joy.
JAAAAAACK~
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 12:49 pm
The preview was made of awesome.
Jack! John Simm!
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Hairy Priest Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 1:23 pm
This whole 'dormant gene' business is kind of rubbish, although I can almost suspend my disbelief about it. At least they didn't say anything as patently ridiculous as in that ST:TNG episode where everyone started 'devolving' into animals because their 'introns were becoming active'.
Then again, when some guy keeps turning back and forth between a human and some big honkin' scorpion monster, it's a major violation of the law of conservation of mass...
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 1:32 pm
Hairy Priest This whole 'dormant gene' business is kind of rubbish, although I can almost suspend my disbelief about it. At least they didn't say anything as patently ridiculous as in that ST:TNG episode where everyone started 'devolving' into animals because their 'introns were becoming active'. Then again, when some guy keeps turning back and forth between a human and some big honkin' scorpion monster, it's a major violation of the law of conservation of mass... I dunno, maybe that why he constantly needs to feed. razz
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 1:36 pm
That's not how genes work! It's JUST NOT HOW GENES WORK!
*cries into biology textbook*
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 1:46 pm
hence why its called science FICTION. not science fact. xd
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 1:52 pm
I know. And I happily accept most mangling of natural laws cos that's why I love the show... but for some reason this episode (and the last one too) just really, really, REALLY grated on my nerves!
I think it's because they actually get the Doctor to explain the 'science'. If he'd said "Well I dunno what happened to him... weird huh?" I'd have happily accepted it. But his explanation was SO BAD!!
Anyway, science fiction was started by people who loved science and wanted to imagine its future... is that such a terrible thing, to stick to science a bit?
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:04 pm
You got a point there. The one thing I always liked about Doctor Who was how they always dodged the Techno Babble.
My two favorite examples:
When Grace enters the TARDIS for the first time and she thinks she figured out why its bigger on the inside than the outside, spouting off something about entering another dimension. And Eight rolls his eyes and says something along the lines of, "Um, yeah. Sure..."
My other favorite is the exchange between Mickey and Nine when Nine is repairing the console.
Mickey: What are you doing?
Nine: Look, if I were to explain ANYTHING about how my (To be frank) MARVELOUS time-machine works, would you be able to even remotely understand?
Mickey: Um, no.
Nine: Then SHUT IT!
I loved Nine. xd
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 5:49 pm
Back in TWO WEEKS?! AAAHGGHH. As for the episode, I was glad we got some tension between characters. Martha's family needs a little more interest, and Martha and the Doctor sorting things out between them about their awkward excuse making bull. I really hope they stop with the 'omg she's just a replacement'
I like the doctor for the science >>
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 11:17 pm
Episode wasn't entirely bad. Good dialouge. Could've dealt with out the Scorpion King there, but theres gotta be a villan. A wee bit disturbed at the idea that we've got the potential for THAT in our genetics tho lol.
The preview, just oh god. So many things in it made me both happilly giggle, and sigh and hold my head, all at once.
Totally excited about Saxon though. Really excited actually.
I can't wait for the Jack eps.
I'm off to go troll my journal freinds list for any torchwood filming sitings, cuz I'm totally lame like that.
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 12:45 am
I did enjoy this episode very much. The reference to Pertwee was fantastic, was laughing like a loon and had to explain to my husband. xd
However, when they first showed the giant mutant scorpion, all I could think was 'oh my, it's The Relic all over', if anyone else saw that film. Complete with giant mutant human creature, sucking energy instead of brain matter okay, with a host of posh party go-ers trapped inside with it. rolleyes My only complaint. Really. lol
Am I a bad person if I really don't want mister Saxon to somehow be the master?? eek I always loved the master, but the movie kinda killed him for me, and I'd much rather something less obvious and predictable. We've had plenty of baddies revisited from the original series, let's let this one lay and come up with something new...please? 3nodding ...sadly they seem to be pointing that way.
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