Doctor Who special: "Time Crash" (spoilers)

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Doctor Who special: "Time Crash" (spoilers)

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Yes, it's another Children In Need Doctor Who special, coming up in the next hour on BBC1. Right now Maid Marian's tits are doing a sketch, which is the next best thing I suppose.

I wonder if it'll follow on from the last cliffhanger.
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And Lo, The Spice Girls Still Cannot Sing.

Ah well, atleast we have DW, Buzzcocks and QI to enjoy....
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They appear to have a severe wattage issue.
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Just caught the end of it, it seemed okay, youtube here I come...
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Ok for a short episode but not great

Made Davidson's doctor look thick taking ages to figure out that he was talking to himself and seemed rather more beligerent than he normally was.

Only time I can think of that a doctor remembers a multi-doctor story from his other selves perspective.

I liked the line that davidson was his favourite doctor because hes mine
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Moffat wrote it, so that's a guarantee for quality. Cute nuggets:

-Celery!
-The Tardis' interior has a desktop theme. The current one is "Coral" and apparently, the "Leopard" one sucks :lol:
-And the ship had to be rebuilt after LotTL. Unsurprisingly.

It was a bit too short, but what was there was really funny and the tribute to the Fifth Doctor was heartfelt. Very good for a charity special.
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Made Davidson's doctor look thick taking ages to figure out that he was talking to himself and seemed rather more beligerent than he normally was.
To be fair, he was trying really hard not to blast a hole the size of Belgium in the space-time continuum. That would preoccupy him a bit.

And he knew about LINDA! How cool is that?
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Did anyone hear the cheesy late 70s early 80s synthesiser music in the background? 8)
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DocHorror wrote:Just caught the end of it, it seemed okay, youtube here I come...
Its now up on the BBC website, along with a DW:C thing as well
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Dartzap wrote:
DocHorror wrote:Just caught the end of it, it seemed okay, youtube here I come...
Its now up on the BBC website, along with a DW:C thing as well
The BBC one isn't working, but I found it on youtube anyway. Rather enjoyable, be alas could have been a bit longer.
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DocHorror wrote:
Dartzap wrote:
DocHorror wrote:Just caught the end of it, it seemed okay, youtube here I come...
Its now up on the BBC website, along with a DW:C thing as well
The BBC one isn't working, but I found it on youtube anyway. Rather enjoyable, be alas could have been a bit longer.
....Your still on the Emerald Isle, arn't you? That would be why.... :)

Yeah, could have been slightly longer, but it was very short and sweet. Very enjoyable indeed.
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Dartzap wrote:
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Dartzap wrote: Its now up on the BBC website, along with a DW:C thing as well
The BBC one isn't working, but I found it on youtube anyway. Rather enjoyable, be alas could have been a bit longer.
....Your still on the Emerald Isle, arn't you? That would be why.... :)

Yeah, could have been slightly longer, but it was very short and sweet. Very enjoyable indeed.
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I humbly apologize since I am a lowly Canadian and gets all DW shows a year after everyone else but can someone describe what the hell you guys are talking about?
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Least it shows a little more of what kookiness was going on with the TARDIS before it, y'know, rammed the RMS Titanic.
Enigma wrote:I humbly apologize since I am a lowly Canadian and gets all DW shows a year after everyone else but can someone describe what the hell you guys are talking about?
The Children In Need special for charity.
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Where does Time Crash fit in? Is it fluff for the charity or is it part of the DW canon?
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It happens just before the Titanic rams into the TARDIS at the end of Last of the Time Lords.

It helps to explain how that happened as well, just a little.
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Parallax wrote:It happens just before the Titanic rams into the TARDIS at the end of Last of the Time Lords.

It helps to explain how that happened as well, just a little.
Where can I find it in Youtube? All I get are bits and pieces of crap.
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Enigma wrote:Where does Time Crash fit in? Is it fluff for the charity or is it part of the DW canon?
DW canon is a fluid concept, but the last CiN special was part of it. You don't need to see the specials to follow the regular episodes as nothing really happens in them.
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What was the lasr CIN special, anyway?
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andrewgpaul wrote:What was the lasr CIN special, anyway?
Fairly large orchestra playing all of the DW music? :D

And uh, the one before that was our first real scene with Tennant as the Doc after his regeneration.
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To be honest I thought the first children in need special (the post regeneration one) was much better and more vital plot wise than this one.

The first one reintroduced the key concepts of regeneration and gave time for rose (and the audience) to get the idea that the new doctor was not the same as the previous doctor but was the same person.
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This one...

...had the cloister bell. :lol:
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Bedlam wrote:To be honest I thought the first children in need special (the post regeneration one) was much better and more vital plot wise than this one.

The first one reintroduced the key concepts of regeneration and gave time for rose (and the audience) to get the idea that the new doctor was not the same as the previous doctor but was the same person.
The first Children in Need Special was slightly more "straight" than this year's, with more footage from "The Parting of the Ways" and the recently arrived Tenth Doctor saying a throw away line about the newly ressurrected Jack rebuilding a Dalek wrecked future Earth. The cloister bell was sounded as well (I wonder if we get to see in a TARDIS-centric future episode?).

After seeing "Time Crash" I'm wishing for a whole episode set within the weird confines of the TARDIS' chambers and passage ways to be made.
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I to would love to see an episode based solely in the Tardis
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Bedlam wrote:I to would love to see an episode based solely in the Tardis
It would cool that deep within the TARDIS' bowls the "desktop" has not be changed to coral, so the architecture of the rooms and corridors would be unchanged since the 60s, 70s, and 80s, with the old school technology, architecture, and furniture melding in with the 00s TARDIS architecture (think that TOS-era Feddie starship from Enterprise or DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations").

Maybe we could bring back the Family of Blood, with Doctor releasing all of them, trying to rehabilitating them, and the Doctor making up for being so cruel to them the first time round...
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