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kingandyOh, a few quick notes re this week's Doctor Who ...
Still, it was all good fun and I quite liked the musical number. Loved those wings...
[1] Or "Using human cellular matter and protein chains as raw material from which to grow new Daleks"
- Part of me hopes they will take this opportunity to tie all the Dalek survival into one big lump. Currently there are three distinct instances of Daleks surviving the Great Distaster From Which No Dalek Could Possibly Have Escaped, which is somewhat stretching the bounds of credibility. From 1930s New York, it would be quite easy for (a) one gold Dalek to end up, broken and confused, in Van Statten's museum in 2012, and (b) the others to escape, hide in subspace, decide one of them is the Emperor and start converting humans into Daleks[1] to build up their empire (in their Long Game). I half-suspected the human-to-Dalek conversion process was what the Great Experiment was going to be ... it's still not out of the question for Dalek Sec to become the Emperor, he does have that big throbbing brain after all.
- I still don't see the advantage of leaving behind your impervious flying battle-suit with built-in ray-guns, even if you do get "imagination".
- Why wasn't it called "The Daleks Take Manhatten!"?
Still, it was all good fun and I quite liked the musical number. Loved those wings...
[1] Or "Using human cellular matter and protein chains as raw material from which to grow new Daleks"
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Date: 2007-04-23 09:30 am (UTC)They weren't shy about letting on the Daleks were in the episode - just like Army of Ghosts, when they were happy to plaster Cybermen all over the publicity because the big end-of-episode reveal was the contents of the Sphere. They even cut that out of preview screenings and review tapes. (And then somebody had the good idea of sending the previously-unseen black Dalek to some TV awards or other, which rather gave it away. Apparently RTD was mortified. But I digress.) Of course, that rather falls down because this episode's Big Reveal was in fact on the front cover of the Radiotimes. Luckily I don't typically see a Radiotimes cover, so it was a complete surprise to me.
Incidentally, I would like at this point to register my suspicions regarding that word. They really are using it quite a lot, and my mind has started to wonder if there's going to be any connection with the season's rumoured returning character...
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Date: 2007-04-23 10:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-23 10:57 am (UTC)Goatee beard, eh? Hum...
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Date: 2007-04-23 12:08 pm (UTC)I get Radio Times, the only thing it left you to guess was who was going to get eaten. I also hate it when they leave them in mortal peril and then show the trailer for next week where everybody is plainly fine.....
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Date: 2007-04-23 12:28 pm (UTC)I've heard a few theories about anagrams of the name.
The most popular seems to be that "Mister Saxon" is an anagram of "Master no. six".
It has also been pointed out, however, that "Saxon" rearranges less obtusely to "Axons"...
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Date: 2007-04-23 01:04 pm (UTC)But not Paul's theory :P
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Date: 2007-04-23 01:36 pm (UTC)Although I hope we're all wrong, I really like hearing people guesses.