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[kingandy]

Oh, a few quick notes re this week's Doctor Who ...

• 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"

Comments

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

There has been a new character cast for this new season. The guy out of Life on Mars. He's been fairly close about who/what he's playing, but he does have a rather smashing goatee beard now.

[kingandy]

I think it's fairly solidly confirmed that he'll be playing the mysterious "Mr Saxon", who's been mentioned a few times on-screen (notably he was credited as giving the order to fire on the spider lady in the Runaway Bride, is apparently outspoken on the existence of extra-terrestrials and is standing for some manner of election) but is otherwise unknown. Naturally, speculation abounds.

Goatee beard, eh? Hum...

[anne-l-davies.livejournal.com]

Now, Paul's got a rather interesting theory about things yet to come in this season. I won't reveal them here, on the off-chance that he's correct.

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.....

[kingandy]

"Paul's got a rather interesting theory"

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"...

[anne-l-davies.livejournal.com]

True.

But not Paul's theory :P

[myki.livejournal.com]

I need to know. I cannot wait. No, not at all.

Although I hope we're all wrong, I really like hearing people guesses.