Who -- WTF???????????????

[ffutures]

OK, I can just about accept most things in this last episode, if I switch most of my brain off but I cannot believe that Martha married Mickey. Shurely shome mishtake!

Comments

[i_kender]

I had a problem with the crappy world radar that only works if the object being sought doesn't turn off all the lights. WTF?

I liked David Tennant, and I liked his send off (even if he did get a bit stroppy and weepy at some points - sigh) but I could've done with some horrible radiation sickness scars. Ah well.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Presumably a homage to Run Silent, Run Deep.

[pilot-moondog.livejournal.com]

Or possibly the film of Wing Commander, where they do the same thing. In that, though, it can be forgiven by the captain of the carrier Tiger Claw commanding "raise shields" whereupon there is a clang as two halves of the ship come together to protect the flight deck. Also, for extra irony, Jurgen Prochnow is involved in the scene where the crew stays very, very quiet to avoid being noticed by enemy sensors in vacum.

As far as Who is concerned.

I found that myself and the friend I was watching it with where deconstructing the episode & spotting the sources stuff had been nicked from while it was running. Not a good sign.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

A radar that can pick up anything at 100,000 miles is pretty damn good. Radar detection falls off at an inverse quad with distance, not just an inverse square, like regular radio. (The outgoing signal strength drops at an inverse square, and then the return echo also drops off at an inverse square coming back.) Unless you've got something else going for you, to tell you exactly where to aim a very powerful radar beam, you aren't going to see anything at that range.