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I've always loved this score. I saw this movie on my 9th birthday, and I was so blown away by the main title even then that I asked if I could spend my birthday money on the record. That record has been a treasured possession ever since. I also had the pop-up storybook, but I don't think that survived as well... Anyway, the music still blows me away in places. The Intrada CD is fantastic. I don't find it to be overly long or repetitive (unlike some Barry scores, the dreary Hanover Street for example). The closing section of the score is gorgeous (Into the Hole). The sound quality is excellent. I would highly recommend this release to anyone, but especially if you saw this movie on your 9th birthday.

Since when has the Doctor had a regular life? Everywhere he lands he has a whopping great adventure and saves people/species. Wycket, good points about the Doctor's aging. I could live with the Master aging the Doctor to his "real" age, ie over 700 years. As if all those years plus the extra hundred were suddenly heaped onto the 10th body. Yeah, that works I guess.

We do know a little about how timelords age. The first Doctor aged gracefully for 500 years or so, gradually becoming the silver-haired William Hartnell by the time we meet him in "An Unearthly Child". We know Timelords begin life as babies, then grow into children like humans (we saw the Doctor's crib in "A Good Man Goes To War", and then see The Master as a child looking into the abyss in "Last of the Timelords"). Once they become adults I think we're supposed to believe that they stop aging like humans and instead age very slowly, each regeneration having the ability to reach over 500 years old before dying of old-age and regenerating into the next. However, there's an anomaly here. In The Sound of Drums, the Master artificially ages David Tennent's Doctor by 100 years, making Tennent appear extremely ancient and wrinkly. However, the first Doctor was about 500 throughout his tenure and didn't look all that ancient, so I'm not sure about that. Conversely, Matt Smith's Doctor looks no different after he's aged 200 years, when surely he should have started looking grey and Hartnell-esque. It's all very confusing and contradictory. I just find fault with The Wedding of River Song for essentially jumping the shark about 5 times in the same episode. The Doctor gets married!!! The Doctor ages 200 years!!! The Doctor's death becomes a focal point of the entire universe, and without his death the universe ends!!! This is all sooo bleeding over the top that it's a bit stupid, isn't it? The original series managed to tell good, solid sci-fi tales without having to resort to such ridiculously OTT plot points and revelations. Much as I hate to say it, Moffatt really seems to have forgotten that complexity is NOT a substitute for sophistication. Please PLEASE can we get back to good, solid stories next year, and stop filling each episode with new tanks of sharks to jump?

That gives me hope. When I did my student teaching back in 1997 I played Yoda's Theme to a class of 14/15-year-olds to introduce a class on orchestral colour or something like that. When I mentioned that it was Yoda's theme not one member of the class knew who Yoda was! I was absolutely floored by that! It may seem unbelieveable now, what with the current generation of kids having grown up with the prequels, but I bet that many of the kids who were born after 2005 won't have that much interest in Star Wars as they grow up.

I agree. Although that might have seemed a little disproportionate given the short 6-episode span of this half-season, in the long run it might have been a lot more fitting. I for one could have used a little more breathing room, and a little more dialogue explaining the rationale behind certain characters' bizarre actions. The wedding in particular.

The Troll Hunter. Essentially Blair Witch Project with trolls. A lot of fun, and surprisingly exciting in some places. I love the huge homage to the story of the 3 Billygoats Gruff. Recommended if you don't mind a bit of daft fun for 40 minutes.

No one else have any comments on this episode? I'm dying to see what everyone thought of it.

By the time the originals are made available the Star Wars bubble will have burst and no one will care anymore. Right now the viewers being denied these films are people who were swept up by the original trilogy in the 70s/80s, and people who were introduced to the saga through the prequels. A couple of generations down the road people will be a lot less interested in Star Wars. It will still be a classic, but it will only be enjoyed by fans of old movies, and people like us who "were there". The prints released will therefore have less money and effort put into them, and will be of poor quality. Look at the quality of most public domain DVD releases! Besides, most of us won't even still be alive by then... And on that happy note...

I just think that the TARDIS exploding at the end of season 5 is made to seem unimportant by this season's ignoring of it. It's either important or it isn't. If it is supposed to be important (and the climactic episodes of season 5 make it out to be VERY important) then it should have been on the Doctor's mind a lot more in season 6. In fact it should have been his raison d'etre. Instead I think it's mentioned once in a throwaway line in season 6. The trouble is, that by practically ignoring that point throughout season 6 the viewers have pretty much forgotten about it by now. Or they just don't care. And why should they? If the show itself isn't making it out to be important, why should viewers make the effort to remember it at all? Fans of the show are therefore probably getting a little worried that it will never be addressed, and if it is addressed the general public will have moved so far beyond that storyline they won't even remember it. If the Moff plans on completing the whole TARDIS exploding storyline next year then he really should have kept it alive in the minds of the viewers throughout this season. Include it in the plot of at least one story, and mention it in a few more. Otherwise it's a bit much to expect everyone to suddenly think it's no longer important (or worse, to let everyone forget all about it!) when it was such a huge deal influencing the events of season 5. Besides, how can anyone really be expected to forget Amy's crack?

SPOILERS!!!!!!! (Obviously) The Wedding of River Song... Whaaat? I'm VERY confused. 1) It's never explained why the Doctor on the beach is 200 years older. 2) It's never explained why he suddenly decided to marry River. Are they now married? What the hell's that all about? 3) We STILL don't know what caused the TARDIS to explode at the end of season 5. In fact it wasn't ever even mentioned this season. Has that particular plotline just been left to die. I mean it was a pretty big part of season 5! Without explaining that season 5 kind of makes no sense. This season finale was a HUGE amount of fun. I loved every minute, except for the pointless wedding scene which kind of pissed me off. BUT, it just left waaay to many questions not even remotely answered. In fact it left so many unanswered questions that it made season 6 extremely unsatisfying overall, despite a few terrific episodes. Don't get me wrong, I still think this show is the most entertaining thing on TV by a long shot. BUT, did it have to be such a muddled mess this year?

Let's all go back and pick up a few extra copies to hawk for a hundred bucks on Ebay the second this sells out...

Silver Nemesis NEVER counts Anyone who ever complained about the OTT bombast of RTD season-finale episodes and the equally bombastic music scores for said episodes needs to check out Silver Nemesis to find out the true, terrible meaning of OTT, misplaced bombast!

Nice! Nothing for me yet.

Paypal crashed halfway through my order twice, and I had to go back to Lalaland and start again, taking care to change the number of copies back to 1 each time! (Otherwise I'd have ended up with 3 copies!) Oh well, it seems to have gone through this time. Let's hope I don't get charged three times. I'm really looking forward to this release!

Ordered.

It's a great image, but I think it defines this season specifically, not the 11th Doctor in general. Strangely, I think the Fez defines the 11th Doctor more than the stetson, even though he only wore it once before it got blasted into atoms.

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Twinings English Breakfast for me. That stuff is the instant cure for all life's woes. No matter how bad your day is, a piping hot cup of Twinings English Breakfast puts things to right. If you have any Bourbon biscuits then your recovery will be complete.

Agreed!

I don't think the Doctor is supposed to have aged much more than 50 years since the Hartnell years. Most of the time the continuity of overlapping companions prohibits the possibility of him going off on his own for great amounts of time. He's alone briefly between Sarah leaving and Leela arriving (after the events of The Deadly Assassin). Other than that, the only time he could have gone swanning off by himself for any great amount of time is the huge gap between Survival and Rose (the only adventure of which we see being The TV Movie). During this huge gap he parts company with Ace. Then, after his regeneration in the TV movie he presumably enjoys a full life as the 8th Doctor, culminating perhaps in the great Time War with the Daleks. Fans seem to think it could have been during the closing moments of the Time War that the 8th Doctor receives his fatal injuries that cause him to regenerate into the 9th Doctor. The start of Rose is a little contradictory. On the one hand the Doctor checks out his "new" ears in the mirror or Rose's mum's house, implying that he only recently regenerated. However, we then see multiple pictures of the 9th Doctor throughout various points in the history of mankind, JFK assassination, Titanic, Indian reservation etc. Once Rose starts traveling with him he doesn't have time for these historical visits so they must have taken place before he comes to contemporary Earth to sort out the Nestene invasion. Or maybe I'm over-thinking all this and should just have a nice cup of tea. Yes. That's probably best.

I'm sure that if the final episode is going to have an extended running time, it will be announced on http://www.doctorwhonews.net/ sometime early next week. You're right about the importance of this last episode. I'm a little nervous that it has so many questions to answer that it won't flow dramatically. Or worse, it'll flow beautifully but leave too many annoyingly persistent questions hanging for yet another season... Still, my reservations about season 6 have generally been softened by the last three superb episodes. Closing Time in particular is up there with the most entertaining episodes since the show's return in 2005.

This is very true. SO, the Doctor only knows he will die "tomorrow". He doesn't know that when it happens he will physically be 200 years older. Only River, Amy and Rory know that. Therefore When the "current" Doctor goes to his place of death "tomorrow", he won't die, but will see his future self get shot. Those 200 years have yet to occur. This is very complicated and I really don't know how the Moff is going to get out of it. Unless it has something to do with the Flesh Doctor, which certainly seems possible. Hmm.

SPOILERS (OBVIOUSLY) SO DON'T READ UNLESS YOU'VE ALREADY SEEN CLOSING TIME Ok, so I have a little confusion. Loved Closing Time, absolute highlight of the season. However, it was revealed in the first episode of the season (The Impossible Astronaut) that the Doctor who was "killed" on the beach was 200 years older than the "current" Doctor; the Doctor who shows up in the diner and stays with Amy and Rory for the remainder of the season. In other words, the Doctor who got killed was from the future of his own timeline. In closing Time the Doctor says "I'm old. I die tomorrow" or words to that effect. Therefore we can assume that the Doctor in Closing Time is apparently 200 years older than the Doctor who has just said goodbye to Amy and Rory at the end of The God Complex. So the big question: Are we really to assume that 200 years has passed in between The God Complex and Closing Time??? If so, what was the Doctor doing all that time and why didn't we get to see any of it??? That is MORE than frustrating. Since An Unearthly Child back in 1963 we have followed the Doctor through his life in pretty much the same timeline, across a period of roughly 50 years. It's a little jarring for us to accept that he has just spent 200 years alone between episodes, and he hasn't visibly aged a day! What do you all think?

Thanks. I'll make sure I'm on my break and sitting in front of a computer at that time.