[TV] Doctor Who

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Not that I am a fan of the sonic screwdriver disarming Siluarian weapons, but...

Silurian weapon might just have a weak spot...

 

[Felon]

Yes, it could very well be that some weapons are more vulnerable to "sonicking" than others, but my preference would be not to to open that door in the first place (metaphorically speaking). Rather, have the Doctor--and, by extension, the writer--get out of a jam by thinking of something clever rather than something easy like "he zaps all their guns with the sonic screwdriver".

 

[Pseudonym]

Seems odd that the Silurian warrior was killed by two shots from a taser. I kept expecting either her to be bluffing or for some sort of handwavium to occur to bring her back to life.

 

[Herschel]

Yeah, the Sonic Screwdriver didn't bother me a wole lot, but the Warrior going down to two Tazer bursts I thought was a bit weak. The ending was also a precursor rather than an actual..."ending" of someone's story methinks. Especially not looking at spoilers but the last episode is named "The Big Bang".

 

[Morrus]

Seems odd that the Silurian warrior was killed by two shots from a taser. I kept expecting either her to be bluffing or for some sort of handwavium to occur to bring her back to life.

That didn't bother me. Silurians have a different physiology to humans; maybe tasers are especially dangerous to them. They might be more resistance against some other things.

Perhaps they have Resistance 10 poison and Vulnerability 10 lightning.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Seems odd that the Silurian warrior was killed by two shots from a taser.

I never thought it was only two. I'd gotten the impression that there had been a whole lot of shocks other than the two that we saw.

 

[MarkB]

I liked today's episode a lot. Was glad for the space-crack theme taking a back seat, thought Tony Curran as Vincent was excellent, nice cameo by Bill Nighy, and it seems that at least one writer has as much dislike for the "sonic screwdriver as magic wand" trope as some of the posters here.

 

[Pseudonym]

it seems that at least one writer has as much dislike for the "sonic screwdriver as magic wand" trope as some of the posters here.

They hung a lampshade on that one, but it was nice to see.

I though this episode was great, especially the last ~10 minutes or so. Interesting the few little callbacks to the last episode.

Overall on of the best of the newest Doctor.

 

[Herschel]

Good episode. I was almost expecting the crack in the museum but glad it didn't go that way. Next week is the last "regular" episode of teh season already, then the two part finale.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Excellent episode, indeed. With my favorite Doctor Who type of bittersweetness at the end.

Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad?
Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.