Doctor Who S30E11 "Turn Left" (Spoilers)

Post by **NecronLord** » 2008-06-25 05:01pm

Daleks like to say that. They've liked to say it a lot since 1964. They seem to enjoy shouting 'exterminate' at their enemies.

Whatever gets them through the day...

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2008-06-25 05:08pm

True, but if you listen in the background, it sounds to me like the Dalek is getting bored and starts putting inflection in different places to kill the monotony.

I wouldn't be surprised if the transmission continues if he starts putting on funny accents or reading the football results.

"Bolton Wanderers, Nil, Barnsley Two. Manchester United against Arsenal - RESULT IS LATE! RESULT IS LATE!"

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-06-25 05:11pm

Any chance of these trailers popping up on Youtube? For some reason the BBC doesn't want me to see them even though I get the channel and, thus, all the other televised trailers.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2008-06-25 05:13pm

Bounty wrote:Any chance of these trailers popping up on Youtube? For some reason the BBC doesn't want me to see them even though I get the channel and, thus, all the other televised trailers.

They're already there, just do a search on youtube for the name of the trailer from the BBC website and they'll show up - I'd give you a link but there are many copies available. And they have a plan.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-06-25 05:17pm

El Moose Monstero wrote:
Bounty wrote:Any chance of these trailers popping up on Youtube? For some reason the BBC doesn't want me to see them even though I get the channel and, thus, all the other televised trailers.
They're already there, just do a search on youtube for the name of the trailer from the BBC website and they'll show up - I'd give you a link but there are many copies available. And they have a plan.

Really? Cause I'm not getting much with either the episode name or the trailer titles

Post by **NecronLord** » 2008-06-25 05:21pm

El Moose Monstero wrote:True, but if you listen in the background, it sounds to me like the Dalek is getting bored and starts putting inflection in different places to kill the monotony.

Maybe it's a punishment. "Dalek 238382, you have not been producing evil schemes and inventions at the required rate. During our next attack, you will man the radio..."

*Eyestalk droops*

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2008-06-25 05:22pm

Exterminate!

You know who!

- the one from the end of last week

Spoilers, obviously.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-06-25 05:24pm

Gracias.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2008-06-25 05:32pm

I wonder why they didn't bring back Terry Molloy. It would've been great to keep the same voice at least.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-06-25 05:34pm

Ghetto edit: wow, that Exterminate trailer is... well, Jack's bit was good, but Sarah Jane crying? Goosebump moment.

Of course, it'd have worked a lot better if they hadn't done any Dalek episodes after S1...

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-06-25 06:19pm

Why are you spoilering things that are obvious from the trailer at the end of the episode? Are there really functional human beings who don't know that Daleks are in the finale and the story is 'get the family together and kill Davros'? I find that very difficult to believe.

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2008-06-25 06:37pm

Stark wrote:Why are you spoilering things that are obvious from the trailer at the end of the episode? Are there really functional human beings who don't know that Daleks are in the finale and the story is 'get the family together and kill Davros'? I find that very difficult to believe.

Umm.. Yes. Some people do actually avoid spoilers you know.

And:
Oh god. Get the family together and kill Davros? I didn't know that actually. I had hoped the trailer's appearances of UNIT, Torchwood and Sarah Jane, where the entirety of their appearances. i.e: mildly amusing/dramatic cameos to set the tone.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-06-25 09:10pm

Dude, it's nothing that isn't clear from the trailer at the end of the damn episode. That's only a 'spoiler' if you're retarded or never watch trailers; if you're reading these threads and don't want spoilers you may be reading the wrong thread. To be quite honest, the idea of shrinking a single word in a sentence to make it 'spoiler free' is ridiculous, especially when everyone already knows Davros is in the finale.

And if the episode doesn't split the Doctor off from the huge fanservice circlejerk and let them be the saviours of Earth, I'll be quite surprised. Possibly even impressed, especially if shooting Davros with a scifi gun tragically involves the deaths of Donna and Martha. Tragic. Eventually, they may have grown to become actual human beings!

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2008-06-26 12:42am

you know what would impress me?

if someone actually kills one of the massive horde of advancing daleks. I'm getting tired of them advancing foreward using their uber-wank shields to stop everything that's thrown at them. It makes sense in "Dalek" where there was only one, but when there are hundreds or thousands of the buggers?

I haven't watched any of old who, so can someone tell me if there was ever a time when daleks could be brought down by concentrated firepower?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-06-26 01:39am

Since the writers hate guns so much, it seems unlikely we'll see any realistic response, just more 'dudes with small arms shooting ineffectively' scenes. I mean, these are the people who, in order to show a stronger military response, showed British Army troops shooting a Stinger at Cybermen!

In the older series, Daleks were nowhere near as tough. A charge against the casing or a 60s-era recoilless rifle were enough to consistently blow them to smithereens (and perhaps even jonesereens).

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2008-06-26 01:43am

Stark wrote: In the older series, Daleks were nowhere near as tough. A charge against the casing or a 60s-era recoilless rifle were enough to consistently blow them to smithereens (and perhaps even jonesereens).

didn't somebody kill one with a baseball bat once?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-06-26 01:47am

An enhanced magic baseball bat modified by Time Lord science was able to damage a Dalek; it was still sending distress calls when Ace fled, so it wasn't destroyed (it lost it's eyestalk very easily, but it's gun was active enough to destroy her anachronistic ghetto blaster).

Post by **NecronLord** » 2008-06-26 02:02am

Really old daleks could be beaten by being pushed over. They were, however, completely different, much cruder models.

And frankly, modern guns shouldn't do anything, and modern larger scale weapons should be pretty much paralysed by being dependant on electrics. I suppose you might have a reasonable chance if you got an older tank with minimum electrics to be jammed, but then you'd still have to get the drop on the daleks...

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-06-26 02:04am

NecronLord wrote:Really old daleks could be beaten by being pushed over. They were, however, completely different, much cruder models.

The REALLY old ones could just be taken apart by hand and climbed into and driven like a golf cart.

Those luddites!

Post by **NecronLord** » 2008-06-26 02:06am

Stark wrote:
NecronLord wrote:Really old daleks could be beaten by being pushed over. They were, however, completely different, much cruder models.
The REALLY old ones could just be taken apart by hand and climbed into and driven like a golf cart. Those luddites!

Ffft. Ian Chesterton isn't a luddite! And to be fair to 'em, they cut the power by pushing it onto a cloak (!) first.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-06-26 02:09am

A foam cloak that was half empty space! It was more 'space doily' than cloak, no matter what those Thals said.

But I mean the Daleks; they stayed behind on Skaro after the proper Daleks left post-Genesis to rule the universe, and they were ridiculously primitive even compared to the Genesis Daleks. Backwards fundamentalist Daleks I call them.

Shame the episode didn't have the glass Dalek guy, though.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2008-06-26 02:21pm

Funny new clip was just on The One Show Donna's granddad shoots a Dalek in the eye stalk with a paint gun...the paint evaporates on its shield and it screeches: "My vision is NOT impaired!

Post by **NecronLord** » 2008-06-26 02:32pm

Dartzap wrote:Funny new clip was just on The One Show Donna's granddad shoots a Dalek in the eye stalk with a paint gun...the paint evaporates on its shield and it screeches: "My vision is NOT impaired!

Awesome.

God that guy's great.

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2008-06-26 06:12pm

Well, he's fought the Daleks before.

Stark's relentless doomsaying aside, I'm looking forward to this.

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2008-06-26 06:20pm

Huh. I fail at links, apparently.

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