Who 3.3

[ffutures]

OK, fun episode overall, a bit silly in places. Anyone else think they "borrowed" a few ideas from Judge Dredd and The Fifth Element?

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[booster17.livejournal.com]

In the Confidential, RTD actually name-checked Max Normal from Judge Dredd as the inspiration for the pinstriped guy in the last cab.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Damn, I missed the programme. But doubtless they'll show it another time.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

I noticed in the credits that the Doctor Who Confidential episodes are narrated by Tony Head. I never would have recognized the voice otherwise. He doesn't sound like Giles at all.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Very much yes on the borrowing of ideas from Judge Dredd. The whole pre-credit sequence was lifted from a Dredd story.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Any idea which one? The fairly old ones about wreckers?

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Sort of, vaguely. There was one with, I am certain, a man and woman dressed in just that style of old fashioned american clothing, whose hover car died, and they drifted down through the fog onto the ground level of the city, where they were promptly set upon by wreckers, banging and clashing outside the vehicle, as they tried desperately to get help from the Judges. And by the time Dredd got there, they had practically nothing left.

It was the clothing that really triggered my memory of a Dredd story. But it has been many many years.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

I think that he came up with a lot of the story while stuck in traffic.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

One thing that bugged me a bit about this episode was the "eight minutes of air." A car that size, with three people in it, would take more like two hours before the CO2 level got too high. They had the same problem with the hospital on the moon in the first episode. It ran out of air much too quickly (unless the force field was leaking.)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It always bugs me that chgaracters know this stuff in any but the vaguest sense of "we'll run out of air some time soon."

[suewilson.livejournal.com]

I can justify it in this case cos it could well be included on the driving test - like stopping distances - its a thing you learn by rote without actually understanding it.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Maybe so - but the hospital was just silly.

[suewilson.livejournal.com]

I dont know - haven't you every played the "how much air is there trapped in this building" game when you've been really really bored?
Or it might have been a standard question at the staff room christmas party amongst the Anesthetists...
But it does seem a little unlikley.