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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 14, 2005
Megelon? A character from what is almost universally acknowledged as the worst story ever? No way... but wait! What colour in the Borad? That's right, he's blue! And he has blue andriods working for him! Maybe we've been so busy concentrating on Bad Wolf we've missed the real clue. 
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Whisky Posted Jun 14, 2005
Jimster's post in the other thread got me thinking about something...
Anyone else notice the simliarity between the design of the interior of the Dalek vessel and the interior of the Tardis (specifically in the first shot of Rose onboard)...
And if they're designed by the same person - where does that lead us?
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Jun 14, 2005
So with all these names being mentioned, i takeit we are assuming that RTD's quote about it not being a supervillain was disinformation?
(I *do* so hope RTD never gets a job as a government Press Officer!)
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 14, 2005
The curved design for the Dalek ship is based on established dalek style, right back to the first Dalek story. The curved arches in the Tardis are new though. I suppose it's possible that Timelord actions accidently created the Daleks- the reason they swore of interference with other races in the first plcae was a cock-up with a race where they accidently accelerated their development until they nearly destroyed themselves.
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coelacanth Posted Jun 14, 2005
What about the boyfriend? He was in Fathers Day too, as a little boy. Is he more than he seems? 
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Whisky Posted Jun 14, 2005
It's not just the curves though - the colour scheme is virtually identical too.
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Jun 14, 2005
Looking at the pictures on the website I fail to see any similarities, apart from the colour scheme, between the TARDIS and the Dalek ship.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 14, 2005
Whisky has a point. And bearing in mind what Jimster has said in the other thread about the biggest clue being a design point, it's enough to make me wonder.
Dunno whether you'd class Omega as a supervillian or not, though. He WAS very powerful, but he was also very dead when we last saw him (not that ever stopped the prune in a wheelchair).
And I'll be honest, I'd rather it was the paraplegic prune than Mickey or Adam. That would just be too, too anally retentive in the same way that the continuity police wrecked any chance Enterprise had of being any fun.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 14, 2005
Yeah, but Omega was very dead last time too, and the only explanation we got was the line 'No! He lives!" from his tame Timelord.
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Smij - Formerly Jimster Posted Jun 14, 2005
The colour schemes throughout the series reflect this - the Time War seems to be connected to fire, so the Tardis, the Dalek ship, the Gelth (in their true form) are shown in fiery bronze colours. And both the Tardis and the Daleks are machines grown around organic material.
I don't think we've been thinking about this bad Wolf reference the right way. And I swear I don't know what it is. But I don't think Bad Wolf is a person or a thing. And I agree that we've already been told what it means but didn't understand it then. I'm begining to think that the biggest clue isn't in the episode 'Bad Wolf' but in a flashback they chose not to show us.
To quote the Troughton Cybermen: 'Clever... clever...'
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 14, 2005
Omega has appearwed more than once? ,erm>
Refresh my memory, KA.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 14, 2005
The Dalek ship also has a roundel type effect going on.
A flash back they didn't show us? Well, that's got to be either the bomb Jack sits on, or the 'It's the classic Bad Wolf scenario' line from End of the World. I figured that wasn't included because it wasn't very clear, but could 'Bad Wolf' be the name for the time war? Like 'The War of Jenkins' Ear'? In which case, is the phrase poppig up everywhere becasue the Time War isn't actually over, even though the Doctor thinks it is? Is he still fighting it without realising it? Is all his meddling making teh Time War worse?
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 14, 2005
BS- The Three Doctors and The Arc of Infinity, the one set in Amsterdam. Which wasn't very good.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 14, 2005
So not very good I'd forgotten it altogether. 
And still don't remember it now you've mentioned it.
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Whisky Posted Jun 14, 2005
could you possibly be a little _more_ cryptic Jimster
Has anyone got the foggiest what he's talking about 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 14, 2005
Fifth Doctor, set and filmed in Amsterdam, Nyssa and Tegan, Colin Baker appears as Maxil, the Commander of the Guard on Gallifrey, Michael Gough plays the traitor.
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Jun 14, 2005
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So, we're expected to be mind-readers then
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 14, 2005
Well, he's sparked a few ideas in my head...
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