Planet of the Dead

[neadods]

Fun. Not brilliant - the storyline was too A to B to C for that - but fun. There were a couple of things I really adored: The Doctor having an oyster card. "We have to call UNIT." (Not so much on how UNIT itself was portrayed. I rather hope that once a showrunner without a personal stake in UNIT's replacement comes onboard, it will be more like old school UNIT.) "I didn't just salute." Malcom the squeeing scientist. And I literally LOLed at "I'll just step into this police box and arrest myself."

I see they're already dropping regeneration anvils.

And heh. Something I postulated in Operation Awesome is now canon.

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Did he? I wasn't paying that close attention. Still, he might have a card. It's the sort of thing he'd pick up and squee about and then forget.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

well, we didn't see the side he "showed" to the machine. I just assumed it was the psychic paper because it was that leather holder that always has the psychic paper in it. It could have been a Oyster card. It would fit in the same kind of holder

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Yeah I got the impression it was the psychic paper too... And I don't think Oyster cards work through plastic - I think you actually have to put it on the reader so the reader can access the data chip.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Huh. Here the travel cards work like that - touch it to a plate and you're good.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I must admit, I've only used an Oyster card on one occasion since they introduced them, since I go to London so rarely - and I automatically took it out of the card holder I had it in, so I'm just guessing.

But given Rose used the PP on a "card reader" device in AoG/Doomsday, I wouldn't be surprised if it was the PP Ten was using, not an Oyster card.

[radiantbaby.livejournal.com]

And I don't think Oyster cards work through plastic

Actually that bit bothered me, just like when Rose used the psychic paper in 'Doomsday' to get in the room with the void ship -- how in the world does psychic paper even work on machines? It's not like they are cognizant to interpret the paper, you know?

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

It's Uncle Rusty's MagikSkience!! *rolls eyes*

[neadods.livejournal.com]

how in the world does psychic paper even work on machines? It's not like they are cognizant to interpret the paper,

That's my problem with it. The paper doesn't display what you want it to display, it shows what the other person expects to see, and (as we know from Empty Child) you have to have your mind right, or it's going to show what you're thinking instead.