Doctor Who Children in Need 2009
- Nov. 20th, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Hahaha! Gotta love what they can do when it ain't part of the 'proper' series. Shagging Good Queen Bess indeed - no wonder she was so annoyed! I thought the locking the TARDIS joke was a bit over-played, though.
Odds on we're going to see quite a bit more of what's been happening on the Ood-Sphere during the episode itself, as I doubt all that effort with sets and special effects would have been gone to just for the preview clip.
Looking forward to it!
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Odds on we're going to see quite a bit more of what's been happening on the Ood-Sphere during the episode itself, as I doubt all that effort with sets and special effects would have been gone to just for the preview clip.
Looking forward to it!
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Either way, it's also just occurred to me how clever it is that even though the Queen Elizabeth stuff fairly obviously is just a light-hearted throwaway (with a particular nod to those fans who'll always be annoyed about the unresolved plot thread in The Shakespeare Code), it still also constitutes a darker reference to his new-found willingness to change history at the same time. He didn't say he could now explain that she'd never really been a virgin all along - he said "not any more". It's a pretty awesome set of resonances and references for just a few lines of comic dialogue.