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

She's the daughter of Mythter Electronics...

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The laptop that porn boy was using and that the Doctor commandeered had the name 'Myth' as the logo on its cover - only with Myth written with a greek 'psi' replacing the 'y'. Can't remember what to do to show funny chars on here.

Was on a couple of the hospital monitors as well, apparently.
It could be nothing as mention was made in confidential about some company they made up to use for Who (vague memory, can't remember context or name, might be Myth, might not).

Fanboy sites are well getting into it with some even suggesting spotting the symbol 'phi' in trailers for other eps and suggesting it might be a geek joke - psi-phi I think they may be getting carried away with themselves !

oh I had to repeat this one on the MΨTH thingy:

from: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1239436
comment #14:

Right I've solved it.

M, Ψ, T, H, - all Greek letters.

M= mu
Ψ=psi
T=tau
H=eta

mupsitaueta - an anagram of which is.....


"I'm up a statue" ..... It's the weeping angels I tell ya!

I think 'Myth' is avoid advertising Mac, Dell etc.

I have heard Eastenders has made up sauce labels etc to stop on screen advertising.

I thought they'd just recently re-allowed product placement on TV to help stop all the channels going bust. I'm sure we spotted a loaf of Warbuton's bread in Corrie** for example
Maybe the BBC is exempt but I thought not from what I read.

In short - why bother with all that if they don't have to?



**Yes, the soapy other half insists on watching it and life is too short to expend emotional energy avoiding it. Trust me I tried.

Ah, the Beeb is indeed still banned from it as an (understandable) exception.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8252901.stm

Please move along from my pointless conversation with myself

Indeed. Back to pointless conversations with other people.

indeed, so much more fun.

There were complaints about close-ups of characters' mobile 'phones (to show text messages or someone calling &c.) in Eastenders because all the mobiles were the same (RL) brand.

'Myth' as a nod to the 'Mythmakers' documentary video series maybe?

Quick question - which was the book with a WWII aircraft that the author had intended the symbol to bend round to look like a Target book, but it didn't? I've been desperately trying to think of it.

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Why even put a brand on the laptop? If you're going to change it, why not just cover up the existing one?

Regarding the episode itself, I thought it was very good. A lot of Moffat stuff mixed with post-RTD 'Who' tropes (including the entire Earth being under threat from a very visible menace, something I wish they'd drop) but it all worked very well and showed the new showrunner can do it and, potentially, can do it much better than his predecessor.

On the first viewing, I thought Matt Smith was trying for an impression of Tennant too much but on the second I felt that more of a distinct take on the Doctor was there than I'd originally noticed.

Has anyone else mentioned that the Doctor-Amy relationship was probably Moffat's nod towards the show's hiatus? A wee girl has a Doctor she idolises in childhood but he goes away, promising to come back, and then only comes back when she's grown up and he has to persuade her to get interested in time-travelling men in boxes again so he can take her away from her mundane life. It struck me as an obvious reference to the show's return in 2005.

From what I just read, that little girl thing is actually how The Doctor met Sally Sparrow in the original Blink short story. Shame she never became a companion. I like it though, along with Girl In The Fireplace and River Song, it shows the impracticalities of time travel.
I thought it was a good episode, though I didn´t need another manic doctor. As mentioned before, nice that there was no big spectacle. The wedding dress worried me though, I don´t want nurseboy to turn into a new Mickey.

>>Btw, did anyone else wince at him using the "timey-wimey" line? It sounded like him trying to borrow some of Tennant's popularity by borrowing a catch-phrase. <<

Having re-watched the episode; I think I can explain that.


I think they were trying to suggest that the regeneration was incomplete, he was in some small ways still David Tennant, there were a couple of other momentary instances (I can't think of them off the top of my head) which reminded me of that link, like Matt was mimicing David acting as the Doctor, but they lessened as the episode progressed and Matt's Dr sort of asserted himself.


Does that make sense?

I have already said that 'timey-wimey is a Peter Davison Dr line not a Tennant one.

I thought they stole it from Blackadder.

Yes you have, but what Clive says still stands, that's what I thought of Matt's Doctor's evolution through the episode anyway. It started off being quite mock-DT, but not necessarily in a bad way, and by the end was a new guy. Nicely done as well I thought.

Ack, (haven't used that smiley yet, quite a fun one)