Talk:The Doctor Dances

message: Should we have an article about Nancy, as she is a main character in the two-parter. Sorry, though, I can't do it --Jawr256 19:02, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
:She's still a minor character, unless she becomes a companion or something, so no. --khaosworks 19:06, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
:It would go the way of Doctor Constantine — listed for VFD. Tim! (talk) 08:30, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Nancy

message: I don't normally insert editorial comments here, but I just wanted to note that Steven Moffat turned in an absolutely corking two-parter that stands up to the best Who has ever done. It was a tough call for me whether to show the Doctor triumphantly crying, "Everybody lives! Just this once!" for the article screencap, but I thought that would be too much of a spoiler right at the head of it. --khaosworks 10:30, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
:bit ironic given its the middle of the blitz. GraemeLeggett 14:59, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Gushing

message: I thought the "communicate through anything with a speaker" was called OmCom (as in "omni-communiation", or some such).  Anyone got the DVD to check?  (I know the DVD subtitles aren't entirely accurate, but they might help.) —Josiah Rowe 14:16, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: OmComm sounds right, actually. Should have caught that. --khaosworks (talk � contribs) 14:30, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess when the script book comes out we'll know the spelling for sure. —Josiah Rowe 14:52, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

text: He was still using it to communicate, though. In any case, Jamie's powers weren't limited to talking through radios. He was also telekinetic, and super-strong. --khaosworks (talk � contribs) 17:52, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

text: (Edit conflict)- True, but he didn't say only something with a speaker grille could be used. Alternatively, it could only speak through a something with a grille- typewriters don't speak. --Sean Jelly Baby? 17:58, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

text: And that's what's in The Shooting Scripts too.  Confirmed. —Josiah Rowe 17:56, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  OnCom or OmCom? 

message: As requested, I can confirm that the "Dance's" mistake is present only on the "vanilla" release.  At least, it's not on my R1 or R2 Series One box sets either. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 18:03, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  DVD typo 

message: Can Castrovalva or The Celestial Toymaker really be considered "nobody dies" episodes?  All the residents of Castrovalva were certainly destroyed, does the fact that they weren't "real" people mean they didn't die?  Given they certainly had free will, I'd call that dying.  The Toymaker's minions were people he had trapped formerly and certainly died when his world was destroyed. --Suttkus 21:16, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's why the note says "technically", I thought. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 22:44, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My bad.  I should have read more carefully. --Suttkus 14:58, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Having just gotten to see School Reunion I fieel that it needs to be said that, while individual viewers might debate whether the destruction of Jack's computer casts doubt on the "everybody lives" nature of this story, there are numerous examples in the history of the show that the Doctor considers artificial life of importance and worth consideration. Along with his reactions to K9 Mark III's sacrifice tonight I am reminded of the Doctor's sentiments to K9's I and II travails, to Kamelion's pleas for destruction and, in particular, the way the Doctor treats the andoids in both The Robots of Death and The Androids of Tara. Now I know that there have been numerous androids and computers that the Doctor has destroyed AND I know that the scriptwriters may simply have missed the fact that the destruction of Jack's ship might constitute a death in this episode. However, I like to think that, perhaps in a future book or radio story (of debatable canonicity), that the Dootor finds a way to go back and rescue Jack's Chula ship then truly everybody will have lived. MarnetteD | Talk 03:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nobody Dies 

message: Another example of the "Everybody Dies" type episode is the 5th Doctor's "Warriors of the Deep", in which nearly all the humans and all of the Silurians and Sea Devils die. The Doctor's comment at the end of the story, 'There should have been another way', pretty much sums this up.
D. R. Hucke
:Yep. The reason why the others aren't mentioned is because the note is primarily for examples of "Everybody lives". --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 10:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Everybody Dies 

message: The S2 episode The Girl in the Fireplace also has a reference to the Doctor dancing/not being able to dance (and a banana mentioned with it).
Jackiespeel 16:30, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. The Girl in the Fireplace is mentioned in relation to bananas in note 6. Added a brief line about the repeat of "dancing". --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 22:38, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The Girl in the Fireplace

message: "The world doesn't end if the Doctor dances" because it sounds like he *has* to.
Lunakeet 18:04, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bit of an awkward quote 

message: I suspect that this ISN'T the American actor Luke Perry (a la "Friends"), so the hyperlink on the name should either be removed or redirected.
(BTW, "suspect" is used ironically here.)
:)
98.229.237.2 (talk) 07:32, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for catching that.  It's been redirected. DonQuixote (talk) 15:57, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Luke Perry? 

message: I don't know where else to put this or how (newbie, advice appreciated), but...
Rose, Jack and the Doctor play the tape of Dr Constantine trying to treat Jamie. But there were no tape recorders in Britain in 1941. Tape recording was developed by the Germans in WW2 and not available to the Allies until after the liberation of Luxembourg. A professional like Dr Constantine would have used a transcription disk of some type.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_tape_sound_recording
Jeffm23 (talk) 06:57, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Just put it down to the Doctor Who universe being different from ours.  We didn't have nanobots running around during WWII either. DonQuixote (talk) 15:09, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That is now mentioned in the Production section. -- Beardo (talk) 22:48, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
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message: There's no such thing as "being credited as companion". Defining a companion as such is original research. Sources say that Jack is a companion, and that's what wikipedia goes by. DonQuixote (talk) 11:03, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That's your interpretation of the credits and constitutes original research. As per companion, a quick search results in . Also, read Jack Harkness#Characterisation DonQuixote (talk) 12:39, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

text: Wilfred Mott was a separate character before they made him a recurring character (after Howard Attfield's death) and then made him a companion in The End of Time. If you read Jack's character creation, they clearly mapped out his role in series 1 during production. They're nothing alike in terms of creation and development (i.e. MOS:REALWORLD). DonQuixote (talk) 13:03, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jack as a companion