Dickety means 20... the Kaiser gave back the word.
Warren and Steven are back to heap unrestrained praise (or, in Steven's case, somewhat reserved praise) on "The Family of Blood", the concluding episode of the two-part Doctor Who saga that began with last week's Human Nature", which in itself began from the Paul Cornell novel of the same name some time before. We also discuss next week's "Blink," and the inevitable finale to the season, which is sure to be a masterly set of episodes (heh). (feed,web,direct download)
Dickety means 20... the Kaiser gave back the word.
An increase from 100 to 300 is 200% (a 100% increase is a result of 200, a 200% increase is a result of 300). 300 is 300% of 100.
There's your math. =P
And for what it's worth, the rating on OG for Family of Blood is at 4.749120433 with 3695 votes. That should pretty much settle it at the 4.75 mark.
Oh, and a third way to look at the math is 300 is 300% of 100 (which is 100%), so 300%-100% means 300 is 200% larger than 100. Pick your poison. =)
About the punishments...
Father was tied in unbreakable chains and kicked down a hole of in determinate depth, supposedly entombed until he wastes away.
Mother got sent to the event horizon of a black hole, as you get closer to the event horizon, time slows, until it get to the point of almost stopping, which in essence would make he exist forever.
Daughter was somehow stuck in a dimension where she is in everyones reflection, so he can always keep an eye on her.
Son was frozen in time (we don't know how) to exist forever watching of the fields as a scarecrow.
The Doctor was just doing Tomb of Rassilon justice for those that seek to live forever. Something that I remember all the Doctors thought was a brilliant idea at the time. Just goes to show how dark all the doctors really are, and really all time lords.
Especially Doctor #1, who laughed at the notion of Borusa being imprisoned forever.
That bastard. We should have seen it from the start.
Seems that the CBC has been playing musical chairs, and can't quite decide what to do with "The Runaway Bride".
Originally, it was scheduled for 8 p.m. on Monday, June 11th--the usual Who timeslot. But now it seems to have been relegated to the graveyard timeslot of midnight on Monday, June 18th.
I don't know if I could even be paid to watch that drivel again (at least not before the S3 box set comes out this fall). I formally vote that episode be stricken from the official canon of the series... except the Gallifrey line. That can stay.
Jean-Paul is correct -- at least barring a schedule change from the CBC.
The Runaway Bride is now airing AFTER Smith and Jones... 3 hours after. The schedule for June 11 @ 8pm currently shows the movie "Signs" -- http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/schedule/dailySchedule.jsp?network=CBC%20Television&genre=&startDate=2007/06/11&startTime=00:00&endTime=24:00
I've grabbed Blink, only in XviD so far... all I've watched thus far is the trailer for Utopia, and it looks pretty meh. Hopefully Utopia's not Boomtown meh for a story so late in the season... or Love & Monsters meh.
Blink, on the other hand, will hopefully be quite spiffy.
Not bad...I like the low-tech feel, and the lack of almost any special effects. I will expostulate further on Monday in audio form! :)
As Doctor Lite episodes go, Blink was very enjoyable. I'm not sure it's a 5, nor am I sure it's the best of the season (as Mike said last night it was). Last I looked its weighted OG score was about 4.6, which would place it as 5th best overall from the new series as OG rankings go, which might be overstating its worth.
Nevertheless, it's at least a solid 4... it might even be worth a 5. I'll see where my mouse points when I go to vote on it.
Okay, after some thought, I've rated it a 5 and I'm going to place it as 2nd best of the season behind Human Nature.
With 3349 votes, Blink is carrying a weighted score of 4.607 on OG, so 4.61, which solidly ranks it as 5th best on OG behind Doomsday and ahead of Army of Ghosts.
Suffice it to be said the latter part of the season is definitely kicking the snot out of the crap we had in the early part.
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