Yes, and any ep where the doctor wears sunglasses automatically wins in my book. Also where he's nekkid with barely a towel to save his modesty, and then he deliberately covers up his nipples after being called out on trying to save the day with an electric toothbrush. :D
Heee! It was wonderfully chaotic. I love that they allowed him not to be perfectly on top of everything that was happening. Because even after all those years of experience, he's only a human timelord.
Someone mentioned it might be "Captain Troy Hanson of International Rescue" which is apparently a shout-out to Thunderbirds? I dunno. crazy brits. ;)
I can't think of anything else it would be in the Pandorica. I think somehow the Doctor gets trapped inside it in the past; there is a time loop or something so that between either the finale and the christmas special, or the penultimate and ultimate episodes here, the Doctor spends a few hundred years trapped inside the Pandorica, trying to figure out how to stop the loop happening again. Also having to deal with a blown-up TARDIS, if the chunk he pulled out of the crack earlier is any indication.
I'm glad I'm not the only one getting tired of perception filters.
Since I've really avoided all spoilers for the ending, this is the first I've had any inkling what the Pandorica is. If it is the Doctor inside it, it would have to be a future version of him, right? Or is it going to be like Angel getting sent to Hell for three hundred years and coming back a couple weeks later. Either way, next week's ending is guaranteed to be a frustrating cliff-hanger.
Yes, the perception filters are popping up all over the place; it's like the new lazy explanation on top of the sonic screwdriver. There was one around the door in The Eleventh Hour, there was mention of it in Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone (low-level perception filter or maybe we're just thick), the vampire ep had kind of the same idea of perception filters in the cloaking device that Rosanna and Federico used, I keep thinking there was something else too but at any rate, yeah, enough with the perception filters. It's lazy writing.
I too thought it was lazy writing at first, but I think it's gone beyond that to thematic arc--it fits in with all the eyes, images, disguises, appearances, dreams, etc.
Hi and welcome :) I suppose there is a bit of a theme going on, with the eyes and the perception filters and stuff; but I just wish there was a less generic term.
Douglas Adams would have loved perception filters, he being the inventor of the SEP field (Somebody Else's Problem), that basically does the same thing. I think the SEP field was how the Immortal creature who decided to go about insulting every known creature in the universe (in alphabetical order) landed his spaceship on a football pitch with no one noticing? I may be glomming together a few things there... ;)
One day later... he must have had cash and the earpiece in his pockets, right?
I love calapine's suggestion that he called up the Brigadier and demanded his back pay, but took the two thousand pounds happily because that sounded like a lot to him.
And if he didn't have the earpiece in his pocket, I bet he cobbled it together out of random bits of broken electronics. :)
heh, now I want to see a scene where Eleven and the Brig are having a high-class kind of stuffy catching-up conversation, but Eleven is ever-so-slightly mucking it up. Can you imagine if he started out that convo with a kiss-kiss? :D
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I can't think of anything else it would be in the Pandorica. I think somehow the Doctor gets trapped inside it in the past; there is a time loop or something so that between either the finale and the christmas special, or the penultimate and ultimate episodes here, the Doctor spends a few hundred years trapped inside the Pandorica, trying to figure out how to stop the loop happening again. Also having to deal with a blown-up TARDIS, if the chunk he pulled out of the crack earlier is any indication.
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Since I've really avoided all spoilers for the ending, this is the first I've had any inkling what the Pandorica is. If it is the Doctor inside it, it would have to be a future version of him, right? Or is it going to be like Angel getting sent to Hell for three hundred years and coming back a couple weeks later. Either way, next week's ending is guaranteed to be a frustrating cliff-hanger.
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I too thought it was lazy writing at first, but I think it's gone beyond that to thematic arc--it fits in with all the eyes, images, disguises, appearances, dreams, etc.
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Douglas Adams would have loved perception filters, he being the inventor of the SEP field (Somebody Else's Problem), that basically does the same thing. I think the SEP field was how the Immortal creature who decided to go about insulting every known creature in the universe (in alphabetical order) landed his spaceship on a football pitch with no one noticing? I may be glomming together a few things there... ;)
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I love calapine's suggestion that he called up the Brigadier and demanded his back pay, but took the two thousand pounds happily because that sounded like a lot to him.
And if he didn't have the earpiece in his pocket, I bet he cobbled it together out of random bits of broken electronics. :)
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heh, now I want to see a scene where Eleven and the Brig are having a high-class kind of stuffy catching-up conversation, but Eleven is ever-so-slightly mucking it up. Can you imagine if he started out that convo with a kiss-kiss? :D
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