Doctor Who - Spoilers!

[pixletwin]

Well I'd hope she's not a Time Lord... otherwise she has dangly bits. But really Pix, what makes one a Time Lord/Lady vs just Gallifreyen? Going to the Academy? Do all Gallifreyens regenerate or just Time Lords? How is that controlled? See these are things I think were never answered nor will they be.

Yeah they were answered. Going to the academy and looking into the eye of harmony as well as the ability to regenerate makes one a timelord. (Please see security dudes in classic galifreyen episodes. They don't regenerate. They die.) The ability to regenerate was bestowed (or revoked) by the High Council and is a distinguishing characteristic of one who has attained the title of Time Lord. All these things are deduced watching the show.

 

[bcm77]

bring back Jenny two time lords together traveling will be sweet!

With the exception of Amy and Ida Scott from the "Impossible Planet/Satan Pit" I think all the female characters in Nu-Who have been horrible and Jenny is up there with Donna and River as the worst. Like any other RTD creation she needs to stay gone.

 

[N2k-swb]

nah jenny could develop a lot more, she did only have 45 minutes to become something from nothing and we have seen so far 45 mins hasn't been enough to write a decent paced story so Jenny didnt stand a chance. I'd like a father/daughter story dynamic maybe one day, its not a necessity or anything just something i'd like to see. actually however Jenny would now look older than the Doctor does currently so that could look just a tiny bit strange haha

 

[bcm77]

I learnt all I needed to know about Jenny during the "Next Time" bit the week before that episode aired.

She was nothing more than RTD's attempt at a Buffy style character who was likely only created at Tennant's request as a favor to his other half.

 

[William Shatners Toupee]

from Bleeding Cool.com https://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/05/30/ten-thoughts-about-doctor-who-cold-blood/

Ha ha ha! I thought the same thing!

 

[bcm77]

The crack will be sealed by the sonic screwdriver in the last 5 minutes of episode 13 whilst simultaneously bringing back Rory from the dead.

 

[N2k-swb]

while i hope your wrong about the ending i do have to agree from previous evidence however i stand by the fact Rory with still be flatlined BUT might come back to Amy's memory with the docs help.

 

[d_jedi1]

Yeah they were answered. Going to the academy and looking into the eye of harmony as well as the ability to regenerate makes one a timelord. (Please see security dudes in classic galifreyen episodes. They don't regenerate. They die.) The ability to regenerate was bestowed (or revoked) by the High Council and is a distinguishing characteristic of one who has attained the title of Time Lord. All these things are deduced watching the show.

while I cannot canonically disagree with the ability to regenerate being bestowed, I can say that the security guys may not have because of HOW they were killed. The Staser would kill a timelord stone dead if it was on the kill setting with NO chance of regeneration.
https://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Staser
https://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Castellan
that said, the who wiki tends to agree that they were not timelords and merely gallifreyan
https://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Chancellery_Guard

 

[bcm77]

while i hope your wrong about the ending i do have to agree from previous evidence however i stand by the fact Rory with still be flatlined BUT might come back to Amy's memory with the docs help.

I hope I'm wrong too because if I am it'll finally convince me Moffat isn't going to settle for just being RTD version 2.0 but I'm not sure I can be bothered to sit through River Song's smugness and another overblown attempt at an "epic" finale as chances are it'll be as useless as the previous ones.

 

[Kabukiman]

I feel like to opposite to everyone, i hated last weeks and loved this weeks more to do with Rory and the final scene more than the rest of the show i guess.

That's almost exactly how I feel as well. Well, replace "hated" with "felt it was meh" and we're in agreement.

This week was just absolutely fantastic. The narration was a bit heavy handed but everything else was brilliant.

This episode had me yelling at the TV and elicited emotions I haven't felt watching a show since "Doomsday"

A+ from me. However, now comes the "where do we go from here?" bit. I hope The Doctor doesn't get emo on us. At the same time, he needs to mourn. And so do I.

 

[N2k-swb]

i think this doc is a little less emotional than before, he wasnt exactly uber-bothered when he had lost Elliot plus when Rory died the first time he kind of just went with the flow. There are flashes of sorrow but only breifly before he is off doing something else.

 

[pixletwin]

Besides the narrative (which I felt was really out of place and unneeded) I thought it was a great story.

 

[Karma]

https://forbiddenplanet.com/53478-d...ory-of-the-daleks-forbidden-planet-exclusive/

 

[bcm77]

One thing that bothered me was why the Doctor ended up labeling the kids Mum ( I forget her name ) as the worst of humanity for killing the generic lizard creature.

Considering how many things the Doctor has killed over the years in a bid to preserve peace criticising a human for offing one nasty that clearly had it coming seemed a bit hypocritical.

 

[Darth Caedus]

https://forbiddenplanet.com/53478-d...ory-of-the-daleks-forbidden-planet-exclusive/

Pretty sweet poster

 

[theshape6]

https://forbiddenplanet.com/53478-d...ory-of-the-daleks-forbidden-planet-exclusive/

any idea is these are in stock in glasgow's forbidden planet?

I don't see Rory coming back, If he did though would Amy remember him again?

And I don't wanna see much of River again, sadly we need to

 

[bcm77]

I don't see Rory coming back, If he did though would Amy remember him again?

And I don't wanna see much of River again, sadly we need to

Moffat has given himself a handy "get out of jail" card with the whole "time can be rewritten" thing.

So Rory could quite easily be restored to his status prior to the clash with the lizards and if there was any justice River could have her original death erased so that she gets a new one where the Doctor finally gets sick of her ordering him around and he ends up throwing her into deep space.

 

[Darth Caedus]

Was there a new episode that aired this past weekend??? I'm getting a bunch of weird titles online for episodes

 

[bcm77]

Was there a new episode that aired this past weekend??? I'm getting a bunch of weird titles online for episodes

"Cold Blood" was the title.

 

[N2k-swb]

I had a massive Who-dvd fest this weekend and some things i noticed was, River in the library episodes seemed much less annoying than she was in the Angels episodes. She still had more of a wish that the doctor would know who she was and a little heartbroken when he didnt, this time around she became an arrogant bossy wench. The two episodes with the family of blood were supposed to be award nominated but i thought they were ruined by the Doctors total disregard for Martha in the last few scenes, he offered Joan a fresh start as if to just drop Martha home despite her caring for him for 3 months, out of all the companions Martha seemed to waste an awful amount of time in reality caring for the doctor. And without seeming like a hypocryte but i have somewhat dismissed multi-doctor storys but i watched the 5 doctors all the way through last night and i thought it was brilliant, i enjoyed it much better than the three doctors. Why was Tom not featured throughout the story though? seemed strange not knowing the backstory that the most popular Doctor was on screen for about 3 minutes. And lastly although i am not a fan of Cathrine Tate in the slightest i do think she had some brilliant moments during the 4th series where her acting made me forget how much i cant stand her!