Doctor Who Christmas Special Part 1

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Quite possibly, just a bit odd in my mind to the huge sendoff if he was just regenerating. He also kept pointing out that he was 90x years old, which is all his iterations and not just tennant so i think the idea is he was definately meant to die properly, but didn't.

I didn't realise Moffet did all those episodes, in which case I think (and hope) the new series will be much darker (like those episodes) as they are normally the best.

As for the woman with the timelords that someone mentioned, I made the assumption that it was his mother?
 
Broken Hope said:
and how the Dr she met in the library isn't the one she met?
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Where does it say that? It just says she's from his future, she never says anything in the episode about it being a different regeneration, when she's trying to work out when in his timeline it is and starts naming events that they've done together, surely she wouldn't be doing that if it was a body she'd never seen?
 
randal24 said:
Yep, she was caked in slap, the gap in her front teeth has widened and her hair/eyebrows looked like they'd be put on by a gorilla with a twitch.

Still would though.
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She's always looked like that, just people seem to remember her through rose tinted glasses.

There's also the fact that she first starred along side Christopher Eccleston who would make anyone look good :p
 
Amp34 said:
Quite possibly, just a bit odd in my mind to the huge sendoff if he was just regenerating. He also kept pointing out that he was 90x years old, which is all his iterations and not just tennant so i think the idea is he was definately meant to die properly, but didn't.

I didn't realise Moffet did all those episodes, in which case I think (and hope) the new series will be much darker (like those episodes) as they are normally the best.

As for the woman with the timelords that someone mentioned, I made the assumption that it was his mother?
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I thought that was the woman that got 'killed' at the beginning. Perhaps that was his mother.
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
Yep, 12 is the limit but the Doctor has had a 13th regeneration according to a previous episode arc called "Trial of a Timelord" but something went weird with it.
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And I only knew this as the DVD was on special offer somewhere (honest!) but 12 is the limit as in The Deadly Assassin, the Master is on his 12th regeneration and looks like Mr Potato Head gone off a bit!

Thought the last 20 mins or so of the recent story meant more than the Master storyline... thought it was a bit naff! Nice planet-effect though!

Not as bad as the flying bus one though!
 
You know actually, despite what everybody is saying about him... i quite liked the new doctor, from what we saw of him. Kinda get the impression of 'traditional English gentlemen'. Really needs to get an assistant though, and some better writing. I'd like to see more of the sort of alien worlds that you used to, like where Jack was.
 
Superewza said:
You know actually, despite what everybody is saying about him... i quite liked the new doctor, from what we saw of him. Kinda get the impression of 'traditional English gentlemen'. Really needs to get an assistant though, and some better writing. I'd like to see more of the sort of alien worlds that you used to, like where Jack was.
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Thats the entire point of doctor who imo, seeing those alien worlds. With all of time and space at the writers disposal. I get a bit sick of seeing earth (i.e. wales) so often.

As for the new doctor, the guys been on the show for like a minute and said a few words so we can't tell how good he's going to be from that, im looking forward to the new season myself :). The first impression i got from seeing Matt Smith in the season 5 trailer was a very swashbuckler feel.
 
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Superewza said:
You know actually, despite what everybody is saying about him... i quite liked the new doctor, from what we saw of him. Kinda get the impression of 'traditional English gentlemen'. Really needs to get an assistant though, and some better writing. I'd like to see more of the sort of alien worlds that you used to, like where Jack was.
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He does have an assistant though, that cute redhead in the trailer :D
 
another weak russell t davis episode as usual - he sets them up well, and then the story just falls apart. he writes it like its a kids show with stupid plots - the new writer should be a lot better.
 
Somebody asked about the identity of the Woman timelord that was helping Wilf(Bernard Cribbins) & the Doctor I'm not sure but when the doctor and Wilf are speaking for the last time wilf asks "Who was that woman who helped us anyway?" and at that point the Doctor went quiet and looked up at Donna hinting that it was her... or so I believe.

But have most have said it was a disappointing couple of episodes it seems to me they were concentrating more on the final days of The doctor than the actual story as most of the emotional conversations and scenes were longer than any plot or action scenes. Also while I liked tennants Doctor tbh I prefered eccleston's
 
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I enjoyed it, but more in anticipation of the new doctor helmed by Moffat than Davies' usual writing style that pervaded through this episode. I can't help but feel that the time lords were underused, and the way they were sent back was far too easy (and if it was that easy, why had it not been done earlier?)

Looking forward to the next series with much anticipation.
 
Am i right in thinking that the next series will be written by someone other than this one?

or only part of it?
 
Tefal said:
Am i right in thinking that the next series will be written by someone other than this one?

or only part of it?
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Steven Moffat who wrote The Girl In The Fireplace, Blink, The Empty Child and Silence in The Library (plus their second parts) has taken over from Russell T Davies, he will also be writing I think 6 episodes.
 
Capn' $qu!ff said:
Somebody asked about the identity of the Woman timelord that was helping Wilf(Bernard Cribbins) & the Doctor I'm not sure but when the doctor and Wilf are speaking for the last time wilf asks "Who was that woman who helped us anyway?" and at that point the Doctor went quiet and looked up at Donna hinting that it was her... or so I believe.
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I think if there's one thing I've learned about Doctor Who so far, it's that it would never be as interesting or complicated as that.

I read somewhere else that it could be his wife, and that he was looking at Donna as a new wife and missing his own. Sounds plausible to me.
 
z0mbi3 said:
I think if there's one thing I've learned about Doctor Who so far, it's that it would never be as interesting or complicated as that.

I read somewhere else that it could be his wife, and that he was looking at Donna as a new wife and missing his own. Sounds plausible to me.
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If this was the case it doesn't explain how she knew:

A. About Wilfs former life as a soldier

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B. How the doctor would be able to survive as she would cease to be after the link was closed!
 
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