pap64 wrote:OK, Scaps, I am bad with remembering episode titles, so bear with me...
Hehe, I'm not always good with titles either (even some episodes of "Friends" I get wrong even though they're all "The One With...". I used to refer to "The One With Frank Jr." as "The One With The List" because that's where the laminated five-celebrities-you-can-sleep-with-and-your-partner-can't-complain list came from, when in actuality "The One With The List" is where Ross makes a list of reasons why he should/shouldn't be with Rachel or Julie. But I call that one "The One With Mockolate" because of Monica's struggles at making something good with mockolate). But for "Doctor Who" it's fairly easy to remember/memorize, at least for me.
pap64 wrote:"The Long Game" is the one in which the characters are stuck in parodies of TV shows and if they lose they die? If so yeah, it wasn't anything special.
Actually, that's "Bad Wolf" and "Parting of the Ways", the first season finale. "The Long Game" is the unofficial second part of "Dalek", as it has the Doctor, Rose, and new companion Adam arriving on Satellite Five, the mighty Jagrafess, Simon Pegg as the Editor, etc. It did nothing more than set up the backstory for "Bad Wolf"/"Parting of the Ways" and to expel Adam's character from the TARDIS.
pap64 wrote:"The girl in the fireplace": That's the one with the girl the doctor meets when she's a girl, and comes to protect her at adulthood from those mannequins, right? If so, yeah it was a lovely episode and gave fans a pairing to never forget
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Yep, it's that one! I swear, I've seen that episode more times than any other and always tear up at the end. Both this one and season four's "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" deal with women who meet the Doctor at various stages of their life, very much like Audrey Niffeneger's
The Time Traveler's Wife (a girl meets her future husband when she's 6 and he's 32, meets him intermittantly for the next several years, then meets him "for real" when she's 20 and he's 28 ). And along with "Blink", they're Moffat scripts too!
pap64 wrote:"School Reunion": Is that the one where the Doctor meets one of his old companions along with the robot dog?
Yep! Sarah Jane Smith and K-9 (Mark III). Funnily enough, in the classic series, the Doctor never was seen with K-9 Mark III (only Mark I and Mark II), as he was sent to Sarah Jane for Christmas (in "K-9 and Company"). It was this story that eventually brought about "The Sarah Jane Adventures", the delightful spin-off where Sarah Jane (sans K-9, unfortunately) has various alien encounters on Earth with a few kids (one of them being
her adopted son Luke, a "human archetype" created by the Bane). The first season was recently released on DVD (and has the great "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?").
pap64 wrote:Like I said, I missed season 2 completely, save for the Christmas episode and a couple of episodes.
When you get the chance, you must watch it all. Especially the 4-episode run I mentioned. Easily the best 4-episode run in the entire four seasons (with the best 5-episode run being all of Captain Jack's episodes in the first season, even "Boom Town", though I don't think netty thinks that highly of it anymore?)
pap64 wrote:"Human Nature": Hmm...Is this the one that first introduces The Master? The one where he's building a rocket in order to save humanity, but then reveals what happens to them?
That's "Utopia".
"Human Nature" is...
The one you described in white like this, where the Doctor is a human named John Smith and all his memories are stored in the fob watch. The second part is "The Family of Blood", which has one of the most poignant final scenes you'll ever watch in the series.
pap64 wrote:I missed like the first 5 episodes or so, but saw the entire Master story arc.
Aw, so you missed out on "The Shakespeare Code" and "Gridlock"! And you missed the obligatory Dalek story ("Daleks in Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks"), but you're not missing much.
pap64 wrote:In one of the earlier episodes we learn that when he uses a watch he can forget who he really was, for years even. We learn this in an episode in which the Doctor forgets who he really is and starts a new life as a teacher in a boarding school. Martha then tries to convince him who he really is. Later on when the Doctor recovers his memories
"Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood".
pap64 wrote:they find both Jack and a human camp lead by a friendly doctor. His plan is to save humanity by sending them on a rocket to another planet.
Near the end of the episode he realizes who he is, and we are told that he is really the Master,
"Utopia"
pap64 wrote:and that the whole plan was evil.
It wasn't. When he was Yana he was a good man.
pap64 wrote:He then changes forms and turns into a cheeky politician in hopes of winning and enslaving humanity.
Then, when the Doctor confronts him, he is defeated and the Master turns him into an old person. Later on, he becomes even older. So old that he shrinks and is kept in a cage, watching as the Master's plans unfold.
We then learn that the orbs that invade Earth are really the people that were in the Master's rocket, and have turned evil, with no life of empathy and mercy left.
This sends Martha on a worldwide quest to find a way to restore the Doctor, defeat the Master and save Earth. She manages to be successful and the third season ends with things coming back to normal.
"The Sound of Drums" and "Last of the Time Lords".
pap64 wrote:I also remember the episode which dealt with completely new characters, and the Doctor is sending them warnings about evil statues through video. Which episode was that again. I thought it was very, very cool.
That's Steve Moffat's excellent "Blink", which is best watched in the dark (if you're not a child, as it can give you nightmares).
albert
Or perhaps it could be like "Little Girl Lost" in which they discuss the why-for of the character's creation, as well as a general interview with its portrayer.
