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James
Registered: 07/21/05
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| What an awesome episode! Scared the pants off me! |
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Kwekubo
Registered: 04/19/06
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 03:09 PM EDT |
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Out of all the Doctor Who I've seen (the new series, Silver Nemesis, The Five Doctors and the webcasts), this is definitely the best and the most compelling. What will the second half be like  |
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Archie
Registered: 05/11/06
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 03:39 PM EDT |
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Aarghh!! My video player cut out for no apparent reason during the first minute of the show so I missed all of it!
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Abersoch
Registered: 11/27/05
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 03:45 PM EDT |
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Very good episode. I did wonder if they could sustain the momentum (especially with some of the doom-naysayers in the press harking on about ratings) but this was excellent. Haven't a clue where it's going to go next and the "next week...." bit didn't give away too many clues either.
Kind of reminded me of Doom....the computer game that is, not the movie (that was just wank).
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timeflight
Registered: 04/13/06
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 05:30 PM EDT |
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| Bloody hell, that was brilliant - better than daleks and cybermen - that was like the best of the 70s. My 6-year-old was screaming!!! |
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mpe
Registered: 04/10/06
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 06:07 PM EDT |
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[Quote by: Abersoch] Very good episode. I did wonder if they could sustain the momentum (especially with some of the doom-naysayers in the press harking on about ratings) but this was excellent. Haven't a clue where it's going to go next and the "next week...." bit didn't give away too many clues either.
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Nor does the Tardisode. There's very much an element of "How are they going to get out of this?" |
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Doctor Slug
Registered: 05/20/06
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 06:21 PM EDT |
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Wow what a gr8 episode of Doctor Who AND GASP!!!!! its not set on EARTH lol at last i hope they keep this up as it is fresh and not set on boring old Earth which has been getting bit dull of late all these Earth episodes 
This episode kept you guessing and is in my opinion one of the best episodes of the new doctor who's if part 2 lives up to how part 1 went it beats the knuts and bolts of the cybermen and almost plungers the dalaks not quite but deff on par with dalaks for fun factor. |
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daveac
Registered: 04/12/06
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 07:54 PM EDT |
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| [Quote by: James] What an awesome episode! Scared the pants off me! |
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Absolutely great - and off Earth at last!
Glad it's a two parter - it deserves the extra time.
Cheers, daveac |
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Abersoch
Registered: 11/27/05
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 08:02 PM EDT |
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| [Quote by: daveac] Glad it's a two parter - it deserves the extra time. |
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On that note, I thought they crammed an awful lot into the one episode so far. The storyline seems to be pretty complex and deep and there is obviously much to be revealed but the pacing didn't seem at all rushed. |
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daveac
Registered: 04/12/06
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 08:11 PM EDT |
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[Quote by: Abersoch] | [Quote by: daveac] Glad it's a two parter - it deserves the extra time. |
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On that note, I thought they crammed an awful lot into the one episode so far. The storyline seems to be pretty complex and deep and there is obviously much to be revealed but the pacing didn't seem at all rushed. |
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Totally off topic:-
Abersoch - looking at your icon - and this being the start of the 2006 World Cup (soccer to our American friends) reminded me - I was a student and working in the pub the 'St Tud's' at Abersoch during the 1966 World Cup.
The place was in an uproar when we beat the German's in the final.
Also stayed on the Warren caravan park many times.
I take it your 'Abersoch' name does have connections with the place.
Cheers, daveac |
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Abersoch
Registered: 11/27/05
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 08:34 PM EDT |
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| It does indeed. I used to holiday in a cottage very close to the White House hotel, on the road into the village. |
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Delete!
Registered: 05/01/06
Posts: 59
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 09:19 PM EDT |
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WoW
Now thats why I have a season ticket to watch Doctor Who, because imho this seems to have the makings of a classic episode - everything that could have gone wrong went wrong BIG time and there is still a great big box of things marked 'things that possibly could go wrong' and they all seem to be popping out the box at a ever increasing rate. Plus there ain't no Tardis for a convenient get out clause and the fear factor dial is hard into the red and the supporting cast of character acting is absolutely first class... edge of the seat stuff and next week cannot be soon enough.
And... well maybe even more than Abersoch I am wondering who in the production team is the big id software fan. Back in 'Rise of the Cybermen' and 'Age of Steel' anybody who played through Quake 4 should have noticed the distinct simularity between the machine and the view you have of that machine that turns human beings into Cybermen because you see more or less the same machine and view of that machine in Quake 4 when your in game character is turned into a Strogg - a part man and part machine hybrid with no emotions.
The reworked version of DooM looked so much like 'Impossible Planet' I only wish id had let RTD and the BBC do the film based around the game because something like 'Impossible Planet' would have kicked the living snot out of that excuse for a film that Hollywood spawned - a base on a planet doing a archaelogical dig - check thats in DooM - expanded metal walkways and corridors that are dark and dingy and covered in rust - check thats in DooM - weird and gharish heiroglyphics and manic grafitti daubed on the walls - check thats in DooM - something horrible and ghastly and satanic that scares the life out of you and everyonelse - check cause thats definatly in DooM... I wonder when and if the Flying Tomato monsters will turn up... well I don't know about you but I'm packing my BFG for next weeks episode 
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Doctor Whoovie
Registered: 04/26/06
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 10:18 PM EDT |
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I would agree that this was a really good episode, alien meets Doom.
One small fly in the ointment. If I remember my astrophysics, physics and relativity correctly,
it is perfectly possible to be in orbit round a black hole. This is just a celestial obect with a very large
gravitational field (so that the speed of light is less than escape velocity). Moreover I seem to
remember that it is technically possible to be in a safe, stable orbit even within the
event horizon (this is just the point where light cannot come back from) the gravitational effects
can still be relatively low at the event horizon, it is much nearer the body of the black hole where
you will be crushed/ ripped apart etc.
A geostationary orbit is one where one revolution round the planet/sun/black hole takes the same time
as the main body takes to turn once on its axis. The distance at which this occurs depends upon a) how far
away from the mass you are, b) the mass and it's gravitational pull c) how fast the object is spinning.
d) whether the velocity you need to travel at to stay in orbit exceeds the speed of light.
The likelyhood of being in geostationary orbit around a black hole depends upon how fast it is rotating
and the strength of its gravitational field. However unless you are inside the event horizon you will never
know since you cannot see or detect the black hole surface to know if you are in geostationary orbit.
Since most galaxies, including our own, are believed to have black holes at their centres,
we should be glad that they can be orbited. In fact it is believed that galaxies which do not have
black holes at their centers are much less stable than those which do.
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shoggoth
Registered: 05/31/06
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 10:22 PM EDT |
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Brilliant! One of the best yet. No doubt. A little bit of Alien, a little bit of Event Horizon, with a lot of the classic series feel thrown in.
I'm thinking I only took time to breathe about 4 times during the entire hour. My inner child is going to be having nightmares for days to come. |
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The Doctor to Sgt. Benton (The Daemons)
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tarashnat
Registered: 08/17/05
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| Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 11:34 PM EDT |
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This episode has got to be the best effort of series two so far. The story's pacing is frentic, but we do get a few breathers along the way.
Geostationary orbit is in reference to the Earth (geo is Greek for earth). I believe that the location of the black hole at the center of our galaxy is betrayed by the orbits of stars around it. It's been a while since I read the articles on those topics. Now, since a black hole is theoretically a point, then it has no surface, unless you refer to the Schwarzschild radius (the event horizon) as its surface. The term geostationary is inappropriate here.
But that doesn't detract from this story. I can't wait for part two...
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