h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

>Then I can find out in what context "Are you my mummy?" caused such hilarity.<

Yes I'm wondering that too and I *did* watch it. I must have popped out of the room for that crucial second.

Who did say it and in what context?

*SLIGHT SPOILER WARNING*

The UNIT fellas and the Doctor go out into the gas, wearing gas masks. The Doctor says "Are you my mummy?", referencing the episode in the first season with the scary boy in a 'gas mask' who went around saying this.
For what it's worth, the UNIT leader's response is "Could you please be serious?!" or something along those lines.

Oh, passed me by that one then.

Actually to be fair, I only vaguely recall that one, I might have missed chunks of it so it's perhaps not surprising I didn't get it.

If you missed Saturday's episode, you'll be wanting to go here ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00b563l.shtml?src=ip_mp

>Quibblewise ... I noticed that when the Sontaran troops started marching around they are of different heights. Would you expect that with a clone race?

Has it ever been established that they're all clones of the same single Sontaran or that cloning is their way of reproducing? I'd assumed the latter since they clearly don't all look the same.

Think I read that it's their way of reproducing. Dunno where it started though. They may be clones of one original or a genetically engineered race. Not sure. But think it's definately a reproduction thing.

The "Are you my mummy?" bit was funny. If you haven't seen it, watch it.

>> Has it ever been established that they're all clones of the same single Sontaran or that cloning is their way of reproducing? I'd assumed the latter since they clearly don't all look the same. <<

In the first part, didn't the say "you all look the same to me" to chief Sontaran, who riposted with "funny, that's what we say about you"?

RF

"Quibblewise ... I noticed that when the Sontaran troops started marching around they are of different heights. Would you expect that with a clone race?"

Yes, you would. Genetic clones would still show environmental variation.

Although, I'm not sure how large a part 'real' science plays in a series where scary stone men inhabit quantum time and muck about with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

B

Well that's the joy of scui-fi. real science can be an influence, but it's not real and you can let it go.

Are you my mummy

It was reference to The emptychild

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/2005/emptychild.shtml

Was quite a scary episode in a way.

Actually they are clones in more ways than one. The actress who plays Martha was interviewed last week and said there are only actually around 10 Sultanas and the rest are computer generated copies. I am not greatly overkeen on her as Martha in Who, however she seemed a really pleasant, unasuming person in real life in the interview.

yeah she does seem really qwuite down to earth in interviews I've seen too.

I was just thinking (I know, dangerous) as I went to work. People on different fora seem to think that all the clone worlds, whatever are the key to the big series finale.

What if they're not? What if we all missed the clue? Like with last series' The Shakespeare Code, I think an important plot point was revealed in the historical episode. TSC had the whole "words = power" bit, thus explaining how millions of people shouting "Doctor" healed The Doctor.

I think that Fires of Pompeii had another clue. "What if Pompeii wasn't a fixed moment in history? What if I killed them?" Meaning that theoretically, the Doc could've saved the people of Pompeii. Well, what if sacrificing the Time Lords to win the war wasn't a fixed moment? What if the Doctor killed them? Maybe he just can't cross his own timeline to save them. Or maybe he can - maybe he crosses his timeline, meets his daughter and it all starts to make sense?

I'm probably wrong, but it's a theory nonetheless.

I'm still hung up on the soothsayer saying 'there is something on your back'.

Gif

"Like with last series' The Shakespeare Code, I think an important plot point was revealed in the historical episode. TSC had the whole "words = power" bit, thus explaining how millions of people shouting "Doctor" healed The Doctor."

Have the producers actually stated that this was part of the storyarc for the season? Or is it just interpretation on the part of viewers?

btw, has anyone found any websites for the new Season, like the Torchwood House website from a couple of years ago?

Gif

I've never read anything from the producers. I just look at what's on the TV.

I don't think the Shadow Proclamation would have a website.

Maybe a W*k*pedia page, though...