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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jan 9, 2020 10:25:38 GMT
It is 1903 and on the edge of Niagara Falls, something is wrong at Nikola Tesla’s generator plant, where someone – or something – is sabotaging the maverick inventor’s work. Has Tesla really received a message from Mars? And where does his great rival Thomas Edison fit into these events? The Doctor and her companions Yaz, Ryan and Graham must join forces with one of history’s greatest minds to save both him and planet Earth.
Written by Nina Metivier
Directed by Nida Manzoor
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jan 9, 2020 10:25:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 20:45:23 GMT
Trailer for this episode.
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 12, 2020 23:13:56 GMT
I like this pattern of Who getting guys who were really quite big on US TV 10-20 years ago, that's kinda fun. Last year we had Chris Noth in Arachnids and here we've got Goran as Tesla. Goran was famously the guy who was brought on board to replace George Clooney in ER. I like that the casting net gets thrown a little wider these days.
Edison, for all his genius, was a bully and a thief who used organised criminals against people working in similiar fields to his own. Famously the reason some of the early film pioneers moved away from New York - the centre of US filmmaking in the early 20th century - was to escape Edison's thugs who were destroying sets and threatening workers who weren't willing to work on Edison's projects. They moved to a rather obscure orange grove part of California and Hollywood was born! I wonder if that's the Edison we'll get here.
If I were guessing, it will be and "the fam" will be ignorant of Tesla outside of the car name and they'll learn about his genius and vision that his innovations should be benefiting all, not just sold for the profits Edison chased. We'll see next week. The Tesla-Edison story is, like Rosa and the Indian Partition, so interesting it really doesn't need aliens.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jan 13, 2020 0:18:02 GMT
If I were guessing, it will be and "the fam" will be ignorant of Tesla outside of the car name and they'll learn about his genius and vision that his innovations should be benefiting all, not just sold for the profits Edison chased. We'll see next week. The Tesla-Edison story is, like Rosa and the Indian Partition, so interesting it really doesn't need aliens. No, but if it means we get to see Tesla use his 'ray guns' or even that arc cannon thing he built on the maybe-maybe not Racnoss in the climax, I'm certainly not going to be unhappy. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2020 0:26:22 GMT
If I were guessing, it will be and "the fam" will be ignorant of Tesla outside of the car name and they'll learn about his genius and vision that his innovations should be benefiting all, not just sold for the profits Edison chased. We'll see next week. The Tesla-Edison story is, like Rosa and the Indian Partition, so interesting it really doesn't need aliens. No, but if it means we get to see Tesla use his 'ray guns' or even that arc cannon thing he built on the maybe-maybe not Racnoss in the climax, I'm certainly not going to be unhappy. Maybe he'll have his teleport/cloning machine like in The Prestige lol |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jan 13, 2020 12:20:35 GMT
Maybe we'll get a Bowie reference
"Weren't that the guy David Bowie played?"
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 13, 2020 12:25:22 GMT
Maybe we'll get a Bowie reference "Weren't that the guy David Bowie played?" I really can't imagine of these companions as movie buffs for some reason. Maybe Graham but even then, old school more than Chris Nolan. "Tesla? Like Elon Musk's cars?" is about as much as I expect them to know but they'll all know Edison, and the whole family will learn why we should all know Tesla more as we go.  |
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Post by shutupbanks on Jan 13, 2020 15:24:50 GMT
Maybe we'll get a Bowie reference "Weren't that the guy David Bowie played?" I really can't imagine of these companions as movie buffs for some reason. Maybe Graham but even then, old school more than Chris Nolan. "Tesla? Like Elon Musk's cars?" is about as much as I expect them to know but they'll all know Edison, and the whole family will learn why we should all know Tesla more as we go. Nah, I reckon Ryan has spent enough time online that he will have a ridiculously encyclopaedic knowledge of all the terrible things that happened to Tesla in his lifetime (not basing this on my own experience of having sons Ryan’s age AT ALL, no guv). |
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jan 13, 2020 20:57:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2020 21:14:56 GMT
New trailer
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Post by mark687 on Jan 14, 2020 13:16:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2020 15:00:10 GMT
The title of this story seems like it needs to be introduced by Henry Gordon Jago, doing his curtain raiser duties.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 18:22:27 GMT
Graham looks great!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2020 18:06:05 GMT
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jan 19, 2020 20:03:34 GMT
After 3 weeks of 'yep, good enough', this is the first gem of the series. Funny, tense, exciting and thought-provoking, Metivier makes one hell of a debut, and Manzoor is easily the best director thus far this series. Dare I say, probably next best to Childs for best director of Chibbs' era thus far, and I can't wait to see how she handles the Judoon next time.
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Post by scriptortempore on Jan 19, 2020 20:03:48 GMT
I will type up more nuanced thoughts up in a bit probably, but I really did not like that at all!
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Post by ollychops on Jan 19, 2020 20:05:47 GMT
Well that was a helluva lot better than last week’s episode!
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Post by christmastrenzalore on Jan 19, 2020 20:06:53 GMT
That was wonderful.
Cool aliens.
Great Tesla, and rival Edison.
Only problem, and I don't even really consider it a problem since I laughed so hard, was how adorably incompetent and uncoordinated the scorpions were.
Yaz tried to stop them by over-turning some bread. I'm litterally cracking up as I type this.
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Post by sherlock on Jan 19, 2020 20:15:05 GMT
A solid episode all round. Some nice parallels drawn between the Doctor and Tesla, a fairly simple yet effective threat and decent exploration of Tesla and Edison.
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