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arknor said:
then your easily scared , dont watch hostel etc
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Or easily immersed (not necessarily a bad thing).

Sometimes you just have to switch off and role with it to enjoy it for what it is :).

@ the mention of Hostel. Films like Ringu, the Grudge and Alien are scary. Episodes like Blink are scary. Films like Hostel are just 'shocking', but not scary.
 
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Broken Hope said:
It was pretty obviously a link to River Song and the Forest of the Dead episode where she died.
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Nice work!

Broken Hope said:
As for the people who dislike most of the new episodes, are you actually Dr Who fans or just Sci Fi fans trying something new?
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I think the haters are either sci-fi fans jumping in the middle and being very confused as to why so many rave about the show.

Or it's long time fans back from the episodes in the 70's. This re-vamp is a completely different animal so it would be hard to throw away what you've grown to love and accept.

Would be nice to see how many haters have started watching since the Eccelston era.
 
Aod said:
I loved that episode. i've always known that the TARDISs' soul was quirky and mental and a perfect fit for the Doctor himself.

Neil Gaiman, already an author i respect very highly, has been elevated in my esteem :D
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Aye, it's pretty much confirmed what the fans, and the Doctor knew for decades but was never said as fact - that the TARDIS (at least this one), actually is aware in a very real sense, and not just a slightly faulty machine.
And it does it whilst also leaving open the question of how/why it's the case with his unit - the doctors comment about keeping an 11 dimension thing shouldn't work begs the question of why and what.

It also explains a lot about how the Doctor was able to steal the TARDIS given the security features, and why even when it was at it's temperamental best and taking the Doctor anywhere but where he wanted to go, it would still work safely and even properly when it had to.
It might even explain why, now there aren't any more timelords (that are known of), and that Gallifrey is gone the Tardis seems to be working better than ever, including the camouflage circuit that has pretty much been dead since the word go - what if the Tardis has been deliberately hiding it's abilities for all these years (700), to avoid being seen as a real threat to the Timelords, after all a rogue timelord with a faulty, unreliable Tardis is much less of a threat than one with a fully functional one, let alone one that has more capabilities than it was ever meant to have.

It's not a "scary scary" episode, but pretty dark (the patchwork people made by killing people including timelords), the way the House* was willing to wipe someone's mind (effectively killing them) to achieve it's ends.


*interesting name - the Doctor and his brothers/sisters/family lived in The House on Gallifrey in some of the books.
 
I did enjoy the last episode, a lot better than the one the week before with the siren which annoyed me quite a bit, hoping for a dalek episode to come up soon, havent seen them in a while.
 
Good episode enjoyed it.

My theory is that Amy is two people occupying the the same time/space but from different dimensions just like the pirate ship/spaceship. One is pregnant and the other isn't which is why the Tardis can't make it's mind up when analysing her.

My 2nd theory is that Amy's daughter is actually River Song and also that it is her in the Astronaut suit who kills the doctor in the future and hence she is imprisoned for killing "the best man she had ever known". I mean, that can only mean the Doctor surely when she said that?
 
This episode was bloody brilliant, really enjoyed the whole thing from the patchwork people to the great escape plan at the end. I love the way that Gaiman plays with expectations, turning them on their head.

Shamikebab said:
Im amazed by people saying it's a kids show now considering the papers have been complaining that it's aimed too much at adults this series.

The scene in the orphanage in the first two? Darkest Doctor Who has ever been. And the scene with Rory and Amy in the corridor's of the Tardis creeped me out.
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I did wonder how they managed to get away with it since, nominally, Doctor Who is a kids tv program, especially in the second episode where both Rory and Amy were shot and the Doctor being shot, twice, in the first. Not that I'm complaining or anything, everything so far has been fantastic.
 
Greebo said:
My 2nd theory is that Amy's daughter is actually River Song and also that it is her in the Astronaut suit who kills the doctor in the future and hence she is imprisoned for killing "the best man she had ever known". I mean, that can only mean the Doctor surely when she said that?
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My oh my. You might be on to something there. You could also tie up some other stuff. For instance, Rory's paranoia that Amy wants the Doctor and not him. In a different dimension, Amy actually gets with the Doctor and has a baby. That could make Riversong the Doctors daughter, not wife...(are they ever shown to be romantically inclined, or is it just implied they have a close relationship?) Which is why she knows everything about him including his name. Riversong has said when she first met the Doctor, he knew everything about her, and it is implied she is as smart as a Time Lord. What if thats because she was his child, and 'he knew her' means he could relate to her being a young time lord growing up. Ie, the timelord girl we see in the first episode. Eventually in this series, they find that girl and the Doctor 'adopts' her. Also, the timing when Riversong dies in the library is when the Doctor doesn't know her at all. What if that was a deliberately ploy by the Doctor because he couldn't bare to knowingly watch his daughter die, so instead witnesses the death of somebody he has barely met.

Dun dun daaaaaaa.

Ie he has a baby with (alternative dimension) amy, he then travels all time and space with her as she grows up, but cannot cope with watching her die so instead she dies before he has ever met her. He then comes to terms with her death over the course of her life :)

Series Super Title : The Doctors Lament

Sounds VERY moffat to me.
 
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BunnyKillBot said:
My oh my. You might be on to something there. You could also tie up some other stuff. For instance, Rory's paranoia that Amy wants the Doctor and not him. In a different dimension, Amy actually gets with the Doctor and has a baby. That could make Riversong the Doctors daughter, not wife...(are they ever shown to be romantically inclined, or is it just implied they have a close relationship?) Which is why she knows everything about him including his name. Riversong has said when she first met the Doctor, he knew everything about her, and it is implied she is as smart as a Time Lord. What if thats because she was his child, and 'he knew her' means he could relate to her being a young time lord growing up. Ie, the timelord girl we see in the first episode. Eventually in this series, they find that girl and the Doctor 'adopts' her. Also, the timing when Riversong dies in the library is when the Doctor doesn't know her at all. What if that was a deliberately ploy by the Doctor because he couldn't bare to knowingly watch his daughter die, so instead witnesses the death of somebody he has barely met.

Dun dun daaaaaaa.

Ie he has a baby with (alternative dimension) amy, he then travels all time and space with her as she grows up, but cannot cope with watching her die so instead she dies before he has ever met her. He then comes to terms with her death over the course of her life :)

Series Super Title : The Doctors Lament

Sounds VERY moffat to me.
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They snogged in the episode with the "astranought girl" right at the end rmember, and she says "why are you acting like we havent done this before?" and he says "beacuse we havent" now if thats his daughter then i dont like the idea of what they are promoting on this show... :D
 
Blue Cypher said:
They snogged in the episode with the "astranought girl" right at the end rmember, and she says "why are you acting like we havent done this before?" and he says "beacuse we havent" now if thats his daughter then i dont like the idea of what they are promoting on this show... :D
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Blast my noobish memory! Indeed.

Ok, so maaaaaaybe not the Doctors 'daughter', but he could still come across the lass and grow to love her as she grows up (like in the christmas special episode). But then we walk into older man younger girl issues.... ok i am just going to back away slowly from this one!
 
XPE said:
I agree, I said it before in this thread that while I really like matt smith as the doctor he just doesn’t have that ability to be really as menacing as other have been
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yeah, he's got the funny/wacky/quirky side of The Doctor down perfectly, but he doesn't do "menacing" very well.

Tennant was much better at being dramatic and serious.
 
i dont think it is a spoiler but to keep people happy is a possible spoiler










after watching this weeks show, i dont think the little girl we saw at the end of E2 was a timelord, but am thinking it may be another tardis matrix traped in a body, not sure which tardis it is, the Dr's or the one that the silence's had but am leaning towards the one the silence's had
 
It is very peculiar to see two TARDIS sets being recycled this season, both in a completely separate manner. Or is it separate!

1. 'the lodger' TARDIS used by the silence
2. Tennant's control room in the archive

I also want to know how the silence are going to reappear, there's no way we've seen the last of them.
 
My own theory is that its the current doctor in the spacesuit who kills his future self. How else would he know how to kill a timelord dead? After all future doctor says he knows who is in the spacesuit, well he would do if he remembers doing it as his younger self. I think its a trap for the silence so they really do think the doctor is dead.

Now the girls that started to regenerate, well who could that be? And who is her new incarnation? Its been confirmed that little amiela pond is back in future episodes.

I think River is amy and rorys daugter.

Other interesting things i picked up on this episode is the doctor said that when a timelord regenerates he/she can also change sex. It would be quite amusing if River is a future doctor lol.

And the timelord distress cubes. Did anyone else think one of them sounded like paul mcgann.
 
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