Amph Doctor Who Discussion (Russell T. Davies returns)

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I have your old sig stuck in my head, but want to change it to "they are not songs, they're cues or STRAX. But it just doesn't work.

 

Well, once the new laptop my brother bought earlier this week is ready-for-use, I can actually make use of online streaming for programs (beyond YouTube) once again.

 

Still ghastly.

 

The more I hear it, the more I like it. The 'screeching' is now my favourite bit!

 

I actually really like the new theme tune, much more than I like the visuals. But it still needs the middle 8.

 

After watching Deep Breath about three times, I now really love the theme (and everything else about the episode).

 

The screeching would work were it

A) in tune
B) not wobbling about all over the place after holding a long note

 

It's deliberately disconcerting, then. Look I dunno, it works when I hear it. Plus, you know... wobbly. Wibbly wobbly.

Don't know without checking, but I guess it's the work of Murray Gold?

 

It is Mr Gold, yes.

But at least you acknowledge it's disconcerting. It's meant to be ethereal, not disconcerting. It sounds 'off', which has never been the case before, and IMO shouldn't be the case for what is probably the most iconic theme of all time.

 

It's meant to be ethereal? Hmm. I should think it could be anything it likes, at least within the confines of the genre. Disconcerting seems as valid as ethereal, certainly.

 

Everton, I do not think you understand musical STRAX! As well as hibbybit.

 

Maybe it's meant as a clue that something might be 'off' with this new Doctor? Maybe?

 

There is nothing off with this Doctor. He's Peter Capaldi.

 

You don't stream it either. That's ghastly.

I just got new surround speakers myself. Old ones blew out right before Deep Breath. I will be excited to rewatch it now that I can actually hear it all properly, but not sure I want to hear the new theme better We shall see.

 

The reason as-to-why I didn't do that, why we're getting a new laptop to begin with, is that our current one is too fried... it doesn't handle prolonged video playing well, etc. Streaming -which has effected more this year concerning the Dodgers, but that's a whole different thing - just isn't a viable option. The new one is currently with a more tech-savvy member of the family, one whose installing many top-shelf programs on it for free... we're picking it up on Sunday.



Thus, with episode 3 of series 8, streaming will be a viable option for me... if I'm awake at that time, though, or otherwise at-home (as the live stream via BBC occurs what, between 9am-12pm PST?).

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-hair-complaints-sufferers-rare-disorder.html

 

Not that I don't have sympathy for people with the disorder, but if that line of 'argument' is adhered to the show ought to ensure it never has any scenes high atop a building or mountain for fear of upsetting those who suffer from vertigo. Or never shows a messy room in case people with OCD are upset. Or never shows anyone drinking for fear of setting a recovering alcoholic back.

 

I'm not sure if I agree that Strax has made other Sontarans look bad.

The others we see are "on the job", actively engaged in a war, invasion, or putting all their energies into survival / getting spacecraft so they can get the heck off the planet.

Strax is pretty much the only Sontaran that I can recall seeing with time on his hands, so he has the opportunity to have to try to deal with boys and girls at a level of more than just "the enemy"; time to talk and engage with people...

Actually, you know, I think Strax is the first subordinate Sontaran I can recall with a speaking roll. All the others have been Field Marshalls, Commanders, officers basically. In the Sontaran Stratagem, anyone less than a senior officer kept their helmet on, and didn't say anything. They marched, shot, fell over, that's it.

True, Strax is a Commander, but compared to the Doctor and Vastra, he is not in charge: "Sir, I appear to have been run over by a cab!"

For me, in the back of my mind, regardless of the story the show is spinning, I have a strong feeling that Strax was killed at Demon's Run, but that tiny minisode clip when we see the Doctor head and shoulders above a group of marching Sontarans was him getting another clone body; maybe transfer memories across somehow. Ask Vastra and Jenny to maintain the idea that Strax had only fainted when the Headless Monk stabbed him in the back.

Fainted, my ****.

 

You should have kept the line "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read"

 

I decided that, in the grand scheme of things, it's not. But thanks for the blatant disregard of my edit.

 

Any time

 

Klingons would not have a sulk because two warring sides would not let them "join in".