Doctor Who - Discussion Thread II

Why was Skaro suddenly back in the last episode when it was supposed to have been destroyed in that war? Also, the idea that deleting the Doctor from the Dalek information banks would make them all forget him is stupid, as the Daleks have individual personalities and therefore memories, so all of them in that 'parliament' would know exactly who he was. Very disappointing, yet, even though I didn't enjoy it or any of the last series, I know I'm going to keep watching in the asinine hope that it will get better.


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I hope not - don't give Moffat any ideas!

I agree that it's best to leave companions in the past - the only returns I've liked have been Martha (because it shows she got over the unrequited love thing and showed what her character could have been in the first without that silly plotline) and Sarah Jane (because Sarah Jane is just awesome in general [RIP Lis Sladen ] )

If you're talking about the time war, it was Gallifrey that was destroyed.

In the last episode how did Rory and the Doctor hear Oswin's human voice if she was a Darlek an imagining it!
I like Russell T Davies better than Moffet, he was a much better writer.

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Moffat wrote the two Sherlock series so he is a much better writer than Davies. The last series and a bit have been just awful though, so I think maybe he should take a break and let a different writer take over the series.

The Sherlocks were pretty damn good. Tbh I think the whole new doctor series has been too much of a lesson in how well pacifism works because there's always a conveniently placed door to open with ones screwdriver. And how in the absence of god little people are gonna come back through time in a robot and getcha! Although obviously the doctor wouldn't condone something like that. If I were him Id've gone forward in time to prevent them being in my show.

Out of scifi shows i'd say Farscape was closest to my liking in this respect. Pickard did too much pondering moral dilemmas and Janeway was a total wimp. Kirk wasn't so bad.

Anyone else love how fear is the path to the dark side when its the light side that gets the afterlife?

In the last episode how did Rory and the Doctor hear Oswin's human voice if she was a Darlek an imagining it!

Some sort of confused output from the Dalek's speech circuit?

Moffat wrote the two Sherlock series so he is a much better writer than Davies. The last series and a bit have been just awful though, so I think maybe he should take a break and let a different writer take over the series


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Some sort of confused output from the Dalek's speech circuit?

But when she was confused and saying how she was human, it was still the Darlek voice in the real life.
Maybe it's just me because no one else seems to have a problem with it, but i didn't think the twist really made sense.

I never thought about this until you mentioned it. I'd imagine with all the power that Oswin had over the Dalek systems, as she was transferring her voice over a circuit she will have had the power to mask her voice however she liked, completely unaware that she's doing that as it's a subconscious effort to mask herself from the truth of being a Dalek.

Then when the Doctor meets her face-to-face, there's no system to send her voice across, so she can't do any masking business.

Perhaps, although that still doesn't quite make sense. The whole thing was supposed to be subconscious - Oswin doesn't know she's a Dalek - so how/why would she programme the systems to mask or alter her voice?