Doctor Who: Episode 11: The Lodger [Spoilers... Obviously]

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Who's attempting to build a TaRDiS?

No, he's already got one.
[sub]I swear that joke never gets old. [/sub]

 

[FleaJr]

the Abzorbaloff was a contest winner

Wasn't the Absorbaloff Peter Kay?

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

the Abzorbaloff was a contest winner

Wasn't the Absorbaloff Peter Kay?

Sorry, the designer of the Absorbaloff. Should have made that clear.

 

[PoliceBox63]

Still doesn't make them not look ridiculously blue peter

Well, there's been a number of Blue Peter/Who crossovers.(Especially as both are/were filmed at Wood Lane)
The Toclafane child was a BP watcher, the Abzorbaloff was a contest winner, the "Design a Tardis Console", Faction Paradox's attack on the Blue Peter garden, BP building a Slitheen ship when it crashed into Big Ben, Invasion of the Bane in Sarah Jane Adventures, Ace wore a BP badge...

You misunderstand me. I'm Irish and I just took blue peter coz it's a children's show. I'm not that familiar with it. What i was saying was they're so brightly coloured and chunky they don't look like they could actually exist in real life. They're like something out of In the Night Garden you know?

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

They're like something out of In the Night Garden you know?

Brrrrrrrrr...do you know anything scarier than THAT programme? Have you seen the power it has over kiddiwinks?

 

[Disaster Button]

From the first colour episodes, up until Revelation of the Daleks (which introduced white Daleks), they were all drab colours like grey, black, silver and gunmetal blue, with the exception that there were one or two gold ones in Planet of the Daleks.

There was also the original Emperor Dalek, Gold with a spherical head (which was actually Davros) and Moffat has already said that the new Daleks are a tip-of-the-plunger to the old enhanced Daleks of the films.

Still doesn't make them not look ridiculously blue peter

I can overlook the new Daleks' colour scheme simply because of their new voices. They're so.. throbbing.

Ya the daleks need to be spiced up every so often bcoz for my generation which i'm presuming is you lot who's first doctor was eccleston or tennant we don't have the same feeling that those old men do

Yep, my first Doctor was Eccelston, although I have seen a few of the older episodes and I'm also totally fine with a Dalek makeover now and then, as long as they don't show up all the damn time.

...Speaking of which,

Spoiler

the Supreme, Eternal and Drone Power Rangers Daleks

will appear in the finale orgy.

 

[X123Lewis123X]

Did anyone else see the Van Gogh camo on the fridge?

Yeah, I noticed that too. I thought it was a nice touch.

i notcied aswell i thought it cool

 

[MarsProbe]

I enjoyed the episode, definitely gave me a good laugh. Especially the Doctors insane contraption he had constructed in his room, liked all the little details, such as each paddle/broom/random object spinning around had a watch dangling off the end.

Someone may have mentioned this as I didn't read all the pages of this post (lazy), but did anyone notice the occassional focus on paintings in this episode, which may or may not have been coincidental. There was of course the Van Gogh flier stuck to the poster, but also there was a painting hanging in the Doctors room that looked like it was meant to be a representation of the crack in time. Plus, when Craig and Sophie were talking in the hallway, putting that portrait right in the middle of the shot can't have been a pure coincidence.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, and they're just fooling around.

As for the scheduling, I had originally planned to watch England floundering around on a football pitch first and catch Doctor Who on iplayer later, but when it became apparent, the match wasn't going to start anytime soon, instead over an hour being mainly devoted to that Adrian Chiles squirming in his chair begging someone, anyone to tell him that England would win the game. Enough already.

 

[PoliceBox63]

From the first colour episodes, up until Revelation of the Daleks (which introduced white Daleks), they were all drab colours like grey, black, silver and gunmetal blue, with the exception that there were one or two gold ones in Planet of the Daleks.

There was also the original Emperor Dalek, Gold with a spherical head (which was actually Davros) and Moffat has already said that the new Daleks are a tip-of-the-plunger to the old enhanced Daleks of the films.

Still doesn't make them not look ridiculously blue peter

I can overlook the new Daleks' colour scheme simply because of their new voices. They're so.. throbbing.

Ya the daleks need to be spiced up every so often bcoz for my generation which i'm presuming is you lot who's first doctor was eccleston or tennant we don't have the same feeling that those old men do

Yep, my first Doctor was Eccelston, although I have seen a few of the older episodes and I'm also totally fine with a Dalek makeover now and then, as long as they don't show up all the damn time.

...Speaking of which, the Supreme, Eternal and Drone Power Rangers Daleks will appear in the finale orgy.

Speaking of which spoiler boxes please

 

[Disaster Button]

From the first colour episodes, up until Revelation of the Daleks (which introduced white Daleks), they were all drab colours like grey, black, silver and gunmetal blue, with the exception that there were one or two gold ones in Planet of the Daleks.

There was also the original Emperor Dalek, Gold with a spherical head (which was actually Davros) and Moffat has already said that the new Daleks are a tip-of-the-plunger to the old enhanced Daleks of the films.

Still doesn't make them not look ridiculously blue peter

I can overlook the new Daleks' colour scheme simply because of their new voices. They're so.. throbbing.

Ya the daleks need to be spiced up every so often bcoz for my generation which i'm presuming is you lot who's first doctor was eccleston or tennant we don't have the same feeling that those old men do

Yep, my first Doctor was Eccelston, although I have seen a few of the older episodes and I'm also totally fine with a Dalek makeover now and then, as long as they don't show up all the damn time.

...Speaking of which, the Supreme, Eternal and Drone Power Rangers Daleks will appear in the finale orgy.

Speaking of which spoiler boxes please

Oh dammit, you're right. My bad.

 

[Drop_D-Bombshell]

Spoiler: spoilers ZOMG

Nice to see the Doctor actually trying human life

While not my favourite, it was still good

Spoiler: Even MOAR spoilz

Finally, the cracks are finally gonna be explained properly

 

[PoliceBox63]

My first ep was tennant xmas special when my brother-in-law was visiting and we all watched it as a family. I loved it and soon bought series1 on dvd before tennant's series started

 

[Disaster Button]

I enjoyed the episode, definitely gave me a good laugh. Especially the Doctors insane contraption he had constructed in his room, liked all the little details, such as each paddle/broom/random object spinning around had a watch dangling off the end.

Someone may have mentioned this as I didn't read all the pages of this post (lazy), but did anyone notice the occassional focus on paintings in this episode, which may or may not have been coincidental. There was of course the Van Gogh flier stuck to the poster, but also there was a painting hanging in the Doctors room that looked like it was meant to be a representation of the crack in time. Plus, when Craig and Sophie were talking in the hallway, putting that portrait right in the middle of the shot can't have been a pure coincidence.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, and they're just fooling around.

As for the scheduling, I had originally planned to watch England floundering around on a football pitch first and catch Doctor Who on iplayer later, but when it became apparent, the match wasn't going to start anytime soon, instead over an hour being mainly devoted to that Adrian Chiles squirming in his chair begging someone, anyone to tell him that England would win the game. Enough already.

No you're certainly not other thinking it.

Spoiler: not a major spoiler but..

The Doctor will recieve a warning from Van Gogh in the form of a painting, so that's probably why they scattered all of those hints around the episode.

 

[TimeLord]

i hope they ditch the whole mighty morphing power daleks thing.

You realise the Daleks were originally about 4 different colours in the original movies, so this is nothing new

Indeed not

Spoiler: Big pic of the 1965 Daleks

Exactly what I was talking about!

Original movies? Ha!

The Daleks first appeared in TV episodes with William Hartnell as the Doctor. They were filmed in black and white. The props were all silver with sky blue trim. From the first colour episodes, up until Revelation of the Daleks (which introduced white Daleks), they were all drab colours like grey, black, silver and gunmetal blue, with the exception that there were one or two gold ones in Planet of the Daleks.

The Peter Cushing movies are generally not regarded as canon.

But personally I couldn't care less what colour they are, as long as they stop being rubbish.

[small]And no, that wasn't all off the top of my head; I fact-checked at http://www.dalek6388.co.uk/ and Wikipedia.

In the future, facts will be obsolete. We will all be linked into the Wikipedia hive mind.[/small]

I didn't necessarily mean the first, second etc etc movies. But the 1965 movie is still an "Original Movie"

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Did anyone else see the Van Gogh cameo on the fridge?

Yeye.
Did anyone notice that in the van goph episode, the church door has a lightswitch on it. And a laminated sign. :L
Thoughts on the Lodger: it was goood. I was amazed that Corden actually managed to act. ACT. :O Although the sequence with the Doctor playing football was quite cheesy.
I'm more interested in next weeks episode. It will either be awesome or a huge letdown.

 

[Disaster Button]

Did anyone else see the Van Gogh cameo on the fridge?

Yeye.
Did anyone notice that in the van goph episode, the church door has a lightswitch on it. And a laminated sign. :L
Thoughts on the Lodger: it was goood. I was amazed that Corden actually managed to act. ACT. :O Although the sequence with the Doctor playing football was quite cheesy.
I'm more interested in next weeks episode. It will either be awesome or a huge letdown.

Hmm. That could be an accident or it could be something I was talking about earlier, the lightswitchy bit I mean.

Not only was Rory's badge issued in 1990, the cars in that episode were from 1990 and 2005+

That might not mean a lot but the clock at the end of Flesh and Stone changed from 11:59 AM to 12:00PM of the next day. At first I thought it changed to 12:00AM midnight, but it doesn't. It skipped an entire day. And there was that line in an episode about Leadworth being the 'Village that time forgot.'

 

[Josh123914]

In the finale I'm expecting the following to happen=
1.rory is alive and ther's an awkward scene where the doctor introduces amy to rory(cause of th mind wipe)
2.Pandorica is obviously opened accidentally by the doctor(or river song)
3.river song ALMOST kills the doctor because, to be honest river song wont know him if she kills him
4.All the monsters from the past 5 years attack, The daleks(evil wheely bin/power ranger rip-offs that they are)kick some serious ass,probably killing the weeping angels or sontorans single handedly, leading to a sort of daleks vs united alliance of evil(yay more power rangers references)thing happening and

What was it?

There's also his ID badge that said he got his Nurses Training on 30th November 1990?
Curiouser and curiouser.

if that conspiracy theory is true then a huge paradox is probably created, making the universe say,Ok, fuck this, and then explodes in that part of itself, meaning nothing that Russel T Davies did on the show existed and we can just get on with the show.
P.S
Oh yeah and the doctor is probably gonna die in it somehow but someone(probably rory)just somehow take his place.
Not only was his badge issued in 1990, the cars in that episode were from 1990 and 2005+

 

[Xearo_Disaster]

Was that wannabe TARDIS actually explained at all, or was it just me missing something huge?

 

[PoliceBox63]

Did anyone else see the Van Gogh cameo on the fridge?

Yeye.
Did anyone notice that in the van goph episode, the church door has a lightswitch on it. And a laminated sign. :L
Thoughts on the Lodger: it was goood. I was amazed that Corden actually managed to act. ACT. :O Although the sequence with the Doctor playing football was quite cheesy.
I'm more interested in next weeks episode. It will either be awesome or a huge letdown.

I thought the football sequence was good but i dont watch football so maybe ye saw it in a different light. It was like "omg the doctor can do anything"

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

OMG what if the cracks

Spoiler

lead to the void and all the daleks and cybers who were sucked in in series 2 finale come out

:O :O :O

Cant be, the cyber in the trailer didn't have the cybus industries logo on their chests from the parallel universe.

oh pish! no but really i didn't notice that i have to watch the next time again

Yeah, it's a stylized cyber head now

oh f**k that's the job! :O thank f**k i hated the remake cybermen

But they still use the new bodies

I fail to see how the head is any different. If you're talking about the one in this trailer here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3berYXUrSnw

It's just got part of the headpiece missing I swear.