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Yeah, I've been pretty confused for a few posts now...

:(

Hmmm... looks like there's a TV box set of the first series of The Sweeney hitting the States in June. I may have to check it out.

[The Sweeney]

Ignorant US resident here, what exactly is The Sweeney?

I assume a 70s cop show?

But if the crime was never committed, then Mia wasn't kidnapped, and Sam wouldn't have been out of his car being distraught when he was hit by the other car.

TIME PARADOX!

So ultimately the Sam's situation ends up being the third option. Sam is completely Mad.

Just got done watching... gotta say my interpretation is that when the test card girl turns the TV off at the end it mark's Sam's death from jumping off the roof in really real 2007.


Personally I would have preferred my original theory were Sam was both back in time in 1973 and in a coma in 2007. In fact when Morgan was talking about how young 12 year old Sam had gone into a "waking coma" after his parents had been killed I thought it was going to loop around make that possible. Where this Sam Williams guy, upon being hit by a car in 1973 swaps minds with Sam Tyler in 2007, with the Accident at 12 years old being the event that linked them together in the first place. So Williams is the one in the coma and Tyler is the man running around 1973.

But that didn't happen, but I think I'm satisfied with how it ended, though I think they brushed Morgan under the rug and the team forgave Sam a bit quick at the end.

Comics on portable digital media is inevitable. The trick is to have a device that can display comics in such a way that's as satisfying as print comics.

And Nikoia Dante Tzar Wars Book 2 is hitting this wendsday in the US. No sign of Invasion! TP however.

In the US and Yes to Case Files 7 and Time Killer. No to Storming Heaven and Caballistics Inc Vol.2. It's fairly concerning as Heaven and Cabs solicited before CF7 and Time Killer. I sure hope we get them soon.

Just to put a pseudo science technobabel spin on what the deal with the whole "words have power" thing of this episode...

Remember, the Doctor said it wasn't magic, but a form of psionics. with Telepathy, telekineses, and clairvoyance. Objects like the voodoo doll and the kettle were merely focuses for the psionic abilities of the witches. But the power was really the minds of the aliens themselves, and the way they shaped that power was though words. Not necessarily the words themselves, but the emotion behind the words.

So where the Doctor compares human number science to splitting the atom, you could have the same kind of end result with the right emotional combination in a user of psionics.


So yeah... pseudo science telepathics is what the episode techobabel boils down too.

I don't think realistic science has any place in Doctor Who. It's a show about the adventure, not the technobabel. But then I love retro style pseudoscience like new Who dishes out regularly. It doesn't have to make sense in our world, just in the Doctors.

less to do with RTD's odd compulsion to show inter-racial relationships in a negative light.

Wait, what? How on earth are you getting that from Doctor Who?  

Now, what is TV Burp?

I don't think Paul likes new Who very much.

Actually I can't wait for Gridlock. I don't mind the Year 5 Billion setting/subplot. Hopefully we'll see the Face of Bo and see if he finally gives the Doctor his message.