tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post2095716593097104845..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Doctor Who #903: Dinosaurs on a SpaceshipSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-36358660392487534122014-08-13T16:21:22.811-03:002014-08-13T16:21:22.811-03:00I'll strike it off the list then.I'll strike it off the list then.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-61801902726648188522014-08-13T16:06:24.943-03:002014-08-13T16:06:24.943-03:00Parts with Brian are good, but the rest...
Well, ...Parts with Brian are good, but the rest...<br /><br />Well, Nefertiti did disappear from history, apparently, so that's one less problem...<br /><br />...Which only leaves about a million.Andrew Gilbertsonhttp://www.nolinecinemas.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-52142818423127736162014-05-13T12:32:10.689-03:002014-05-13T12:32:10.689-03:00If the character had had any depth, it might have ...If the character had had any depth, it might have been forgivable.<br /><br />But yes, DoaS obviously had its roots in SoaP, and probably started as a title/brief.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-86334807254790446492014-05-13T12:16:16.796-03:002014-05-13T12:16:16.796-03:00I feel that this episode was conceived of from it&...I feel that this episode was conceived of from it's title and went on from there. Seriously, doesn't "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" sound an awful lot like "Snakes on a Plane" blown up to the nth degree?<br /><br />You'd think that, as a historian watching DOCTOR WHO, I'd be often pulling my hair out -- but luckily I was a sci-fi fan first. Somehow, however, THIS episode and it's use of "Nefertiti" (even moreso than any errors in the historicals) was the one that made me want to throw something through the television. I had a hard time paying attention to anything else in the episode.Briannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-39209236071556653172014-05-13T10:16:46.575-03:002014-05-13T10:16:46.575-03:00Yeah, there are probably like 16 British comedians...Yeah, there are probably like 16 British comedians / comediennes who keep collaborating and recollaborating on projects; if you tried to diagram it it all becomes a big loop.<br /><br />I keep trying to find you a link to "Asbo Zaprudder the Magic Baby Seal", but alas it is nowhere to be found. Asbo Zaprudder gives texting advice to a lovelorn guy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-67110798686619915802014-05-13T10:06:17.389-03:002014-05-13T10:06:17.389-03:00Well I'm not British, but I'm not entirely...Well I'm not British, but I'm not entirely surprised the robots are played by some well-known (in the UK) double act. Doing voices doesn't "waste" you as much as playing a bit part does though, because we still haven't seen your face.<br /><br />As for the Prisoner Zero lady, she's also memorably in Hot Fuzz and in Broadchurch.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-40063608318601949852014-05-13T10:01:03.588-03:002014-05-13T10:01:03.588-03:00You might like this one too:
https://www.youtube....You might like this one too:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFuMpYTyRjw<br /><br />Again, keep an eye open for Prisoner Zero.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-67848105607358350232014-05-13T09:45:30.398-03:002014-05-13T09:45:30.398-03:00You were complaining about a poorly-used Bill Bail...You were complaining about a poorly-used Bill Bailey in the Madge Arwell episode; I was wondering if you would comment on how much more poorly David Mitchell and Robert Webb were used in this one. Yep, Mitchell and Webb were the two robots. You might know them from the series "Peep Show", the movie "Magicians", or about half a million other British projects. The two are joined at the hip.<br /><br />Here's a good intro to Mitchell and Webb:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWuFa_YnXfo<br /><br />Also, keep an eye open for Prisoner Zero (the hospital lady version). Olivia Colman is in the Mitchell / Webb orbit quite a bit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-42135975164885051992014-05-13T08:54:22.284-03:002014-05-13T08:54:22.284-03:00The Silurians ARE very fractious, and this was a s...The Silurians ARE very fractious, and this was a strictly scientific mission (ship has no defenses we know of) to save the culture and biology while everyone else went underground. Perhaps it was always meant to loop back around the solar system and didn't have warp technology of some kind. Silurians are very bad at timing things after all.<br /><br />Or, let's go crazy, and some Silurians did spin their own empire off. We call them Draconians.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-30885298498292753462014-05-13T06:21:31.317-03:002014-05-13T06:21:31.317-03:00The main problem I have with this is that if Silur...The main problem I have with this is that if Silurians had space ships, when you look at the time lines, why didn't they just conquer the galaxy?<br /><br />They're clearly militant enough (or factions within them are), some would have just left the Earth if they had the technology to do so, and comparing the timelines- the Kaleds and Thals are still kicking lumps out of each other (if they've even got that far yet), Mondas is still hurtling through space producing nothing threatening...<br /><br />Silurians with space ships would have grown into an interstellar civilisation which due to being millennia ahead of everyone else technologically speaking, would still be dominating Mutters Spiral. Especially as the foretold disaster that caused their hibernation was strictly Earth based. They wouldn't just be an alien race that only turns up when another group of them wakes up on Earth. That is, at the very least the galaxy would be full of technologically super-advanced colonies of Silurians if the have space ships like this.CiBnoreply@blogger.com