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If I still bought print media of any sort, I wouldn't care a shit about the opinion of the pond life that works in WH Smith round here.

If they paid for a ticket and weren't doing anything that warranted being kicked out, then no, it isn't.

Advance warning: when typing this out, it sounded chatty and friendly, rather than obnoxious and preachy, but I realise it could be read either way. Please try to imagine the former tone. Also, I'll go into much more detail than is strictly necessary just to make sure I've explained everything (and partly because I fucking love writing about this stuff).

Ok then

 

Curse of the Black Spot

 

The ghost women/mermaid/alien doctor thing takes all the people off the boat once they get cut, we then find out she is in fact a Doctor and is attempting to heal people, but how did they get sick?

She wasn't programmed to deal with human sickness, so she reacted overzealously to every tiny injury the crew received to be on the safe side.

In addition everyone seems to be on life support and cannot leave but Rory can as long as Amy brings him back by performing CPR, so he is now cured? The illness just vanished?

They can't leave because the Siren/doctor thing won't let them be taken away. They're not actually that ill, she's just anaesthetised them because she can't work out exactly how ill they are, and the ones that were actually ill were able to be cured by advanced alien technology once she'd had them there for a while. Rory, on the other hand, was drowning before she rescued him, so needed to be revived. The CPR stuff was stupid and not how CPR works at all, and as a former St John's Ambulance cadet it really bothered me, but the only problem was that he'd been briefly underwater and possibly inhaled a bit of water, so hollywood-style miracle CPR was able to fix that. Not an entirely watertight turn of events, but not entirely illogical.

Then we see at the end when the space ship takes off all the crew are up and moving about again, so have they now been cured as well? and if so why not let them go back to there own ship?

As above - most of them just had a cut on the finger and were being over-cared for because the siren didn't know what else to do. The kid with the cough must have had something that was easily cured. That is a little bit inconsistent, I'll grant, but not way out there in terms of believability.

EDIT: Stuff about this below with Vamp's point. I forgot some stuff.

The Doctors Wife

 

The Doc and friends arrive on a scrap yard planet where he meets a woman who claims to be the Tardis, exactly how did the Tardis end up in the form of a woman??

Yeah, give this one another and make sure nobody talks over anything, because that's explained pretty clearly. House, the living planet thing, had to drain the Tardis Matrix (basically the soul of the Tardis) so he could eat it. In his lengthy existence at the edge of the universe, he'd developed some technology capable of sucking the souls out of Tardises and placing it in a living receptacle so it had somewhere to go.

and what was with all the voices of Timelords the Doctor heard

That was a Time Lord messaging service (voice messages in little cubes, previously seen in a Patrick Troughton episode from 1969) - they were distress calls from the Time Lords whose Tardises House had previously drained and eaten. They'd all died there.

then they go and build a new Tardis in like a few minutes

I took that it took them a few hours or so. If your point was "why didn't the other Time Lords trapped there do that", then it's one of the entire show's key points that the Doctor is a maverick outside-the-box-thinker even among his own species.

and the woman disolves back to the Tardis which was always there anyway.

House filled up the now-empty Tardis with his own consciousness and decided to go for broke and try to get back to the main part of the universe. Idris was a human who couldn't physically exist for too long with a Tardis' soul inside her, and she died (for the second time - her original human soul died before the opening credits). As she died, the Tardis recognised its own soul being inside it, and managed to re-absorb it, ousting House's consciousness and killing it. The image of her projected afterwards where she says goodbye (or, indeed, hello) to the Doctor is just the Tardis' soul attempting to talk to the Doctor one last time - because the Tardis alive, and it has feelings, and loves the Doctor, and wants to talk to him. The projected image is nothing new, either - the Tardis has done that a bunch of times since the revival (and possibly before - evidence of that is very welcome if anyone knows of any).

I am not slating the show, I have enjoyed all 4 episodes so far but these things bugged me, maybe I missed it when it was all explained in the episode,

Didn't come across like you were. Everyone misses stuff on TV now and again, especially when...

Matt Smith's Doctor does tend to explain stuff super fast sometimes.

Yep. You really have to listen hard sometimes. I usually watch it on my own so I catch everything, and so my family doesn't disown me when I squeal with glee at the bits I really like.

Also does anyone else find River Song slightly annoying?

From time to time, but mostly I love the interactions between her and the Doctor, and I think from a conceptual standpoint, she's one of the most interesting DW characters there's ever been.

I hope I've cleared up the stuff that was bugging you. If it happens again, I'll have a go at explaining it, because I love series 6, but I totally see how people could miss things like that. I did so myself on a couple of episodes, and they only properly made sense when I re-watched them (Let's Kill Hitler was a big one for that, because it was fucking non-stop twists and turns, and I was watching it with three other noisy people).

EDIT: Oh god more stuff

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I'll tell you what really fucks me off about 'The Black Spot', and that's how they completely shit on the ending in 'A Good Man Goes to War'. The boy will die if he leaves the ship, so he's wired in and he gets to have adventures with his pirate dad who can fly it around for the already bollocky (but acceptable given the style of the show) reason for space ships being like sailing ships. And then suddenly the kid appears, no longer wired into the ship's console, and seemingly able to leave the ship and wander about. If you're bringing back past characters it's as a nce moment for the long term viewers, which is cutesy and nice but then to shit on the original point just seems stupid.

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D'you know, I hadn't thought of that before (as evidenced by the fact that I forgot he couldn't leave the ship in my explanation above), and I agree. I loved that moment where they popped up in AGMGTW, but you're totally right. The only explanation I could venture is that he'd been on the ship long enough and had been cured, or that the Sontaran nurse (another brilliant idea) had cured him somehow. But you're right, that was a tad sloppy.

Where's the cheapest place to get a CM Punk t-shirt from?

Have a poke around on Ebay. My missus got me the Best in the World one (real deal, 100% official) for Christmas from a guy in China a bit cheaper than WWE were selling it for. That guy's vanished now but there might be others around.

I watched them fairly recently. Go into detail at will! We're in a Doctor Who thread on a wrestling forum, there's no point shying away from nitpicking and obsessiveness at this point.

Slight spoiler (its not really spoiling much but some people gett prissy)

 

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So according to the Guardian preview, all are standalone and all take place within quite a while of each other. Seems The Doctor really did leave Amy and Rory at the end of 'The God Complex', so he must seemingly need them at different points. Its stuff like this that makes Moff's stuff far more interesting than RTDs. He just loves mucking about with the show.

 

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This sounds great! I'll admit that I was a little apprehensive about the switch from

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a big over-riding story arc

 

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but this sounds like it's going to be genuinely interesting and exciting. And you're right, that's what, for me, makes

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Moffat's era so much fun - there's so much more reason for everything that happens. It's not perfect, but it's so much more to my tastes, and so much more interesting than random adventures leading up to the Daleks being resurrected with a tenuous explanation at the start of the finale and destroyed forever with absolutely no way of coming back at the end.

 

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EDIT: That Monopoly board is fucking beautiful. Typical Who fan, I found at least 3 things to complain about from one glance, but I'll silence the cynic for now and just say that the Gallifreyan script background on the Chance spaces is gorgeous. When I own a house I'm gonna cover it in wallpaper like that. Inside and out.

I see your poster, Sev, and I raise you the trailer and what appears to be the entire film.

There have been niggling things that seemed like they were just thrown in for the sake of snappy dialogue, but I think he's tied up all the important stuff. Of course, it could be that I'm being more forgiving of him because I've enjoyed the show a lot more since he took over (although I maintain RTD's arbitrary nonsense bits were much worse than Moffat's). His episodes were always my favourites of previous series and I love the direction he's taken it in. Some people were the same with RTD and Tennant. That's what's great about the show, though - it changes, and everybody who likes it gets a run that they really love

I've only heard adults complain about it. Kids seemed to follow it fine, and I loved the fact that there was so much set up for later. There are answers (and more questions, but they're good ones) coming up. Stick with it, it's very rewarding.

Amazing thread. I would love to see a write up on the Dragongate Japan belts. They are all great looking titles.

Ooh yeah, I second this. With the keys and everything. Could be a really cool writeup.

It's Richard E. Grant. Slightly underwhelmed, but still interested.

Shatner. Gotta be.

Probably none that you'd be able to find decent pictures of, if there are. Checking Wiki, it looks like the title histories are all pretty tenuous. The ones that were defended on WOS are almost certainly all defunct.

I can't recall seeing one in all the years I've been here.

What's the story behind that match then?

 

I think it was something about Davey Richards telling Zebra Kid he'd call the match as he had been wrestling 5 (im not sure on the number) years and was therefore the veteran and would lead Zebra through the match. Also making it clear he wasn't happy wrestling someone who was on weekend release from prison.

It was even better than that. Before that even started, he was actually introducing himself by walking up to people and going "Davey Richards, five years". That, and everything that followed, say to me that he's obviously had his own ideas about how to conduct himself in the business for a long time. I don't know if someone put that in his head early on or if he developed that attitude on his own, but the guy just seems to approach pro wrestling as if it's a totally different thing from what most people think it is.

See, that's what I liked. You knew big stuff was coming and that you'd be rewarded for the time you put in. That's how I prefer it, but I won't dislike it this way.

As for the "fall of the Eleventh" stuff, I think it absolutely means Smith's exit, and I think Moffat wants it to be obvious. He's not been shy about leaving big things dangling so everybody's waiting to find out what they mean ("The Pandorica will open", "silence will fall", THE QUESTION). Either way, I can't wait. Whenever Smith goes, it should be massive, because he's been easily the best since the revival and one of the best of all.

I'll be devastated when he goes. I really hope they make as big a deal of it as they did with Tennant so I get a shitload of advance warning.

Great! I hope "Autumn" is a decoy then.

EDIT: FFS, Triple X Wrestling is the 25th as well

Ace! Where'd you hear that? Their acoustic sets usually have some good stuff in them, and two sets means room for more old stuff. Maybe even Elf Tower New Mexico, which was their only song I didn't hear at the Neverender gigs.

Dragging my missus along too. She's not a massive fan, but I've seen Kasabian and Noel Gallagher with her, so she owes me.

Exactly! As if his dickhead opinion on why it was okay was ever going to change anybody's mind.

Stealing money then Paypalling it back when everyone calls you a thieving dick = REBEL~~~

The Billy Gunn from the late 90s/early 00s and the one we saw on Raw 1000 just seems like a different person from the one I stood next to in a toilet in Eastleigh. Don't know what happened but he turned up looking great. Totally reinvigorated.

That's what I'd heard too, but "Autumn" seems to suggest otherwise.