Also, I can't help looking at Barrington and thinking "oh my god, it's Blackadder played straight." #peoplewholooklikerowanatkinson Wow, he does look like Rowan, doesn't he? Myself, I keep on thinking Monty Python when I look at him because I remember the actor from several of their projects, including Life of Brian.
James Robert McCrimmon is going to fuck your shit up with a stick and dramatic music. *points to icon* Don't mess with the stick.
"Jamie, I wonder whether perhaps I can pick this lock." "Aye, with a tuning fork?" Pat. Your face. Ahh, I love this joke. Previous serials' references FTW. And Pat's face FTW too, obviously.
And now we've got a hypno-monocle. Also, impressive that they're using actual German for some of their dialogue here. This and the scene with the French dude later on (plus that bit in Underwater Menace where Polly tried to communicate with the Atlanteans) makes me think the TARDIS' translation circuits were on the blink at this point.
Huh. I think that's the first time we've actually heard someone's
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...Zoe how does draping Jamie in grenades help you at all I don't understand your plan. She dressed him up like that to get even after he made that sexist joke.
I'm just going to assume the War Chief was on his last life or he got hit so badly he couldn't regenerate. Either way, ouch. Well, for those who believe the War Chief is the Master, he regenerated after his body was removed. Took him a while if that's the case, though.
Sooooo, why exactly do the Time Lords need this misty swamp maze curtain thing in their trial building? Because it's pretty. :P
Because Bernard Horsfall later on played Chancellor Goth in Deadly Assassin, a lot of fans like to think he's also Goth in this one. Likewise, Clyde Pollitt (the Time Lord with the whiny-sounding voice who takes pity on Jamie and Zoe) was also a Chancellor in The Three Doctors, and it's been more or less confirmed by Terrance Dicks and Barry Letts that it's the same character. Can't say anything about the third Time Lord
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Agh, it's been over a year since I've seen The Moonbase so I honestly didn't remember that bit until you reminded me. Yes, that was an interesting touch
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After reading this week's review of Underwater Menace at Classical Gallifrey, I remembered they also had the whole Team TARDIS's thoughts as VO in that one. My memory is just as fuzzy, it seems.
I've read that David was also in Enemy of the World, but since it was a tiny cameo in that one and the episode in question was deleted, Moor has become the only case of the two Throughtons in the same episode in existence.
Peter played one of the excise officers, Costa. I'm yet to watch Nightmare of Eden, but I've read the novelization recently and for some reason I kept picturing Costa looking like the French guy in this one.
I should point out that in my personal canon Zoe managed to regain her memories and joined the Torchwood of her time, where she bosses Jack around and keeps him on his toes. As long as I keep on repeating this to myself, I can ignore Short Trips or anything Big Finish has given me about her future, really.
I recall seeing Peter Angelides describing that story somewhere as his attempt to write an Alan Bennett monologue. And the whole purpose of an Alan Bennett monologue is that the person talking eventually comes out with an awful revelation. So the downer ending is pretty much dictated by the form of the story.
Having said that, my head canon is more along the lines of "lalala I can't hear you, it implies in the novelisation of The Mind Robber that Zoe remembered her adventures, so there."
Wow, he does look like Rowan, doesn't he? Myself, I keep on thinking Monty Python when I look at him because I remember the actor from several of their projects, including Life of Brian.
James Robert McCrimmon is going to fuck your shit up with a stick and dramatic music.
*points to icon* Don't mess with the stick.
"Jamie, I wonder whether perhaps I can pick this lock."
"Aye, with a tuning fork?"
Pat. Your face.
Ahh, I love this joke. Previous serials' references FTW.
And Pat's face FTW too, obviously.
And now we've got a hypno-monocle. Also, impressive that they're using actual German for some of their dialogue here.
This and the scene with the French dude later on (plus that bit in Underwater Menace where Polly tried to communicate with the Atlanteans) makes me think the TARDIS' translation circuits were on the blink at this point.
Huh. I think that's the first time we've actually heard someone's ( ... )
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...Zoe how does draping Jamie in grenades help you at all I don't understand your plan.
She dressed him up like that to get even after he made that sexist joke.
I'm just going to assume the War Chief was on his last life or he got hit so badly he couldn't regenerate. Either way, ouch.
Well, for those who believe the War Chief is the Master, he regenerated after his body was removed. Took him a while if that's the case, though.
Sooooo, why exactly do the Time Lords need this misty swamp maze curtain thing in their trial building?
Because it's pretty. :P
Because Bernard Horsfall later on played Chancellor Goth in Deadly Assassin, a lot of fans like to think he's also Goth in this one. Likewise, Clyde Pollitt (the Time Lord with the whiny-sounding voice who takes pity on Jamie and Zoe) was also a Chancellor in The Three Doctors, and it's been more or less confirmed by Terrance Dicks and Barry Letts that it's the same character. Can't say anything about the third Time Lord ( ... )
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I've read that David was also in Enemy of the World, but since it was a tiny cameo in that one and the episode in question was deleted, Moor has become the only case of the two Throughtons in the same episode in existence.
Peter played one of the excise officers, Costa. I'm yet to watch Nightmare of Eden, but I've read the novelization recently and for some reason I kept picturing Costa looking like the French guy in this one.
I should point out that in my personal canon Zoe managed to regain her memories and joined the Torchwood of her time, where she bosses Jack around and keeps him on his toes. As long as I keep on repeating this to myself, I can ignore Short Trips or anything Big Finish has given me about her future, really.
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I recall seeing Peter Angelides describing that story somewhere as his attempt to write an Alan Bennett monologue. And the whole purpose of an Alan Bennett monologue is that the person talking eventually comes out with an awful revelation. So the downer ending is pretty much dictated by the form of the story.
Having said that, my head canon is more along the lines of "lalala I can't hear you, it implies in the novelisation of The Mind Robber that Zoe remembered her adventures, so there."
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So...Zoe is Valen? It makes so much sense!
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(Given my icon, I was strongly tempted to reply simply:No.
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Yeah... Zoe is awesome. And this is why I don't read tie-in stuff - I can imagine that awesome things will eventually come her way.
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