12 years ago
Tue May 17 2011, 07:13am
Episode 4 - The Doctors Wife
The best episode yet! The TARDIS personified! What more could we ask for?!
This episode proves that the TARDIS is indeed alive, which the Doctor has been telling us all along.
We finally get to see more of the TARDIS interior, and it turns out to be corridors! (This seems to be small nod to the original series where they were forever running down endless corridors)
We knew that the Doctor had stolen the TARDIS, but what we didn't know is that the TARDIS also stole the Doctor
Doctor: You didn't always take me where I wanted to go
TARDIS/Idris: No, but I always took you where you needed to go
It has been rumoured for years that the TARDIS took the Doctor to where he was needed the most, and now we finally have confirmation!
It was nice to see the Ecclestone/Tennant era control room again, though it seems it has now been jettisoned. I suspect that the TARDIS will recreate it again at some point. I was hoping for the classic era control room, but the fan designed one that the Doctor and TARDIS built was close enough.
lol! The TARDIS thinks Rory is pretty.
Apparently the TARDIS's last words were 'The only water in the forest is the River'
This has to be about River Song. It's another cryptic message
It was nice to see the Ood again. This was only because the episode couldn't afford the new creature that Neil Gaiman wanted.
On the spacesuit
You could very well be right Min. I'm just basing my theory on what I thought I saw
On Amy
In a recent interview, Karen Gillan said the following:
"...There was a theme through the last series with the crack, but Amy's got an even stronger theme running through this series, with a few revelations on the way. But there's one huge one that'll change everything.
...So this theme running through the series, it's specifically about Amy, and what happens to her and what we find out about her"
Ok, it doesn't tell us much, but it shows that we're on right track in focussing on Amy I guess
Biting's excellent! It's like kissing, only there's a winner.
Gold.
I agree that this was the best episode so far.
Totally agree, ep 4 was the best episode all season, possibly including last season too! Bring on more Gaiman, I say! And I really liked Matt Smith's Doctor - finally! - in this episode. He was like, perfect mix of command and havong no idea, the conversations with the TARDIS were executed perfectly, and he was just so truthfully sad near the end. The final scene where he was fixing things was very moving too. Loved it, and finally believed he was the Doctor.Â
So THAT'S why 9th/10th control room kept showing up! Sad that it's gone now but was great to see it again!
Back to the ending...did anyone else tear up? It was so sad/beautifully written - how she just wanted to say Hello. SO sad!
Re the water/river clue. I was wondering. Could River Song be the TARDIS? Maybe? That's why she says she's the Doctor's wife, and also maybe be why her book of spoilers is shaped like the blue box.Â
This sort of fits for the little girl too. In the human body the TARDIS seemed to have regenerative energy, just like the one that could be Amy's daughter. The little girl seemed to be able to do things a regular Time Lord couldn't - make phones ring for one. Could the TARDIS for some reason have been hidden or trapped in a child's body, then protected in the spacesuit, to protect her at a time when the TARDIS ship is destroyed? and when she regenerates, she'll turn into River?
Yeah long shot that it's this connected, but I think in the end there's merit to the TARDIS being Song.
On Episode 4
Interesting theory Min, though I can't beleive that River is a TARDIS. Saying that, apparently there have been two instances of TARDISes beign grown from women, but these were in the audio adventures which aren't always considered cannon.
The TARDIS uses rift energy.
The exact mechanism that makes regeneration possible is not stated in the television series, but it is generally assumed in the spin-off media that the ability to regenerate may be linked to what is known as the "Rassilon Imprimatur", the symbiotic nuclei of a Time Lord that bonds him or her to a TARDIS, and allows his or her body to withstand the molecular stresses of time travel (The Two Doctors, 1985).
This could mean that a Time Lord (or Lady) uses the same energy that powers a TARDIS to regenerate. This would explain why both forms of energy look the same
12 years ago
Sat May 21 2011, 05:52pm
I watched episode 3 last night, and I didn't think it was as good.
I don't know what it was, but it was just kind 'oh, here's some story, ok, here's a one word fix and done! Let's go home.' I mean, I liked the premise of the siren being like the doctor in Star Trek Voyager (only less salient), a holographic medic who was just trying to save people. And I kind of liked that Amy had to perform CPR in order to get Rory back because the siren didn't know how to fix things, just had machines that could keep them alive. But I didn't quite get how the kid could get up and walk around on the ship afterwards, wasn't he going to die of Typhoid?
The woman in the hatch is interesting, I like your theory DO that she's a midwife and Amy's actually in labour (perhaps why the TARDIS is confused about if she's pregnant or not - if the baby's on its way out are you actually pregnant? At which point do you become no longer pregnant?). But I don't really want to write the whole series off as being in her head! Also it's a pretty major cop-out, "she was dreaming!" is almost the worst ending in the book. Of course, I'd expect Doctor Who to do a different spin on it, but still.
Does anyone remember what the woman said the first time she appeared? This time she said something like "You're doing fine", I wonder if she was talking about the actual situation Amy was in, her pregnancy (maybe she is a midwife and that's her check up?) or something entirely different....
EDIT: And, just for good measure, some more on the spacesuit! Spoilers for ep 1&2:
So, I was rereading what we'd all said, and I noticed DO mention that Amy saw a Silent on the cliff but then forgot about him. Surely she's seen the moon landing, how come she didn't want to kill him? Or is this a timey wimey / she's a time traveller / the doctor hadn't done it in 1969 yet so we didn't have an alternate 1985 where Biff's rich-I mean...
On Episode 4 I think it was a nice episode. Aunty reminded me of Tinka from the Vicar of Dibley. :P
Did anyone notice when they were still in the old control room the Tardis/Idris/Sexy asks for water and then like DO said her last words were 'the only water in the forest is the River'. So maybe the Tardis will need River in the future.
On the eye-patch lady and Amy ... The first time she appeared she said something along the lines of 'I think she's just dreaming' but she said it to someone beside her not to Amy.
What if Amy's really a doppelganger, so basically they stuffed her mind in a replica of her body while her real body is pregnant? That could explain the mid-wife/eyepatch lady theory, and that way the Tardis wouldn't know if she's pregnant because she wouldn't be physically but mentally might. I don't know it seems kind of outlandish though.
12 years ago
Sun May 22 2011, 06:58pm
So, episode 4!
Pretty good! Loved the TARDIS personified, particularly when she was telling the Doctor who she was (and made the sound!). Calling herself Sexy was cool too, and the argument about "You never take me where I want to go" was good.
YAY for Neil Gaiman! Confidential this week was pretty boring though, it was basically fangirling about Neil Gaiman being there.
Loved the TARDIS calling Rory the pretty one!!
I actually didn't think of River when he said the thing about the water being the river. D'oh! But I don't think she's the TARDIS, I think that's been done now.
It was interesting that the Doctor said that the guy with the snake tattoo had been a woman a few times, definitely opens it up for him to regenerate into a woman in the future! (And for the River-is-the-Doctor theories)
I loved the line about how the Doctor always pushes the door open, totally reckon that was thrown in because fans must complain that real Police box doors open out :P
I haven't seen much of the old series, but I liked the corridor throw back to it. The corridors going in other directions was interesting too. Loved the bit about Amy and Rory not wanting bunk beds!
EDIT in response to Tonks, still spoilers for ep 4:
Mmm, interesting take that the TARDIS will need River, I like that theory! She did keep saying she was thirsty, and then saying that River is the only place there's water indicates maybe she's still thirsty... Wonder what she needs her for though! Definitely my favourite theory so far!
12 years ago
Tue May 24 2011, 02:05am
Episode 5 - The Creeping Flesh
Not a bad episode, but it felt like a fill-in so that certain plot points for the story arc could be shown.
However, it was nice to see Rory get more to do.
The woman in the hatch is back again! Though she didnt say anything this time. If you watched the episode till the end she is named Madame Kovarian in the credits
So, we now have a duplicate Doctor again! Will he be a friend or foe I wonder? Guess we'll have to wait until next week. However, I wonder if the duplicate Doctor is the one who dies in the future? It would be an easy way out of the Doctor being killed. However, as it is an easy way out it may not be the chosen option for just that reason. SM (and RTD before him) didn't like giving the viewer the easy way out.
Future episodes (Do not read if you don't want to know what happens):
Episode 7 - A Good Man Goes to War
Want to find the most dangerous place in the universe? Easy. Harm a hair on Amy’s head and just wait. But as the last of the Time Lords and the Lone Centurion blaze across galaxies to save the woman in both their lives, history is unfolding. In her cell, in Stormcage, River Song knows the time has come at last. She has a secret, and this is the day she tells it.
The battle of Demons Run has begun. And the Doctor’s darkest hour is now.
From the Series 6 Part 1 Box Set: "And waiting for them, at the end of all this, is the battle of Demon’s Run, and the Doctor’s darkest hour. Can even the truth about River Song save the Time Lord’s soul?" Sounds like River may possibly save the Doctor from himself.
This episode (and the next) apparently has an actress playing Madame Kovarian (the woman from the hatch)
This episode is the last before the mid-season break
Episode 8 - No title yet
The 2nd part of the sixth series starts off right away with an historical story about The Doctor and his companions traveling back in time to the 1940-ish Nazi Germany. It also apparently contains Amy's doppleganger, and childhood friend of Rory and Amy's called Mel. There will also be some flashback scenes to when they were young (Caitlin Blackwood will be back as young Amy).
Episode 9 - Possibly titled 'What are little boys made of?'
This episode is written by Mark Gatiss.
Gatiss has this to say (from DWM #431]:
The story takes place in a tower block and focuses on a little boy named George, " who is frightened of everything. He has a nervous cough and a nervous blink, and he’s frightened of clowns, old toys, enclosed spaces, open spaces, vans… and paraticularly of something being in the cupboard in his bedroom. And the Doctor turns up and tells him that he’s right! [comment: "Monsters are real," perhaps?] I can’t tell you anything more … except that the monsters are the creepiest things ever."
Actor Daniel Mays plays the father in this episode.
Episode 10 - The Green Anchor
Not much is known about this episode. The following is from Outpost Gallifrey:
We ‘re fairly certain about three things, however:
1. The title of the story is The Green Anchor. Normally we find out bits about the story, and then learn the title. As far as we know, this story could be about the Doctor and Rory going off to have a pint at a pub called The Green Anchor, and they play euchre and darts all night! Maybe, maybe not.
2. The writer is Tom MacRae. Tom has written for Doctor Who before, in the RTD era when he wrote a Cyberman two-parter: Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel. It was the story that reintroduced the Cyberman back into the Doctor Who universe (series 2). Is this story about Cybermen? Possibly not.
3. A reliable source gives us a hint about the story line: the episode contains "the Handbots" and a "time glass." There’s a "red waterfall."
One theory is that Rory and Amy are captured by the Cybermen, and taken aboard their ship. One possible plot line in the story maybe have something to do with the Cybermen trying to "upgrade" Rory into a new cyber-body. This may or may not happen, but there is a new toy being released soon that shows Rory on the Cyber-Conversion track (on the packaging) being prepared for what looks like a cyber-lobotomy, so who knows. [of course, this could all be silly speculation, but this toy connection has happened before]. And this Cybermen stuff could end up in a different episode altogether (like episode 12).
Episode 11 - The God Complex
More from Outpost Gallifrey
The story is written by Toby Whithouse, who wrote last series’ Vampires of Venice, and another Doctor Who story called School Reunion, written a few years ago for the Tenth Doctor. (He also is quite famous for writing and showrunning the series Being Human.)
David Walliams is the main guest star, and he plays an alien creature known a Gibbis. He is an mole-like alien. The Sun (yes, that paragon of truthiness) says he will be cast as a Cowardly Alien who will look like Mole from Wind in the Willows. And he will be wearing some kind of prosthetics. And this episode is supposed to be quite scary.
What’s a Gibbis? Well, here’s a definition:
(v.) to make no sense (n.) a person with no sense and speaks with combined gibberish and rambling (adj.) to describe someone who is either making no sense or full of ¤¤¤¤.
It’s a story that’s based on a script that Toby wrote for series 5 in which the Doctor was lost in a labyrinth, but was eventually shelved because it was too similar to elements of another story. (DWM, Companions Special #1) He wrote Vampires in Venice instead for series 5.
Now looks like the labyrinth story is coming back, as the God Complex. Except instead of a labyrinth, which was too expensive to recreate, there is this very peculiar hotel. Most of this story is set in one location and will be one of the more nightmarish episodes.
Steven Moffat said in DWM #432: ‘The Doctor and Amy are trapped in a hotel and the geography keeps shifting.’ Behind the hotel room doors are ‘nightmares’. Literally. Toby Whithouse says in DWM, "[the hotel is] full of ventriloquists’ dummies and balloons and things." Some of the nightmares are strange, some are more universal. "The nightmares are about failure, or defeat, or loss." (Sounds wonderfully dark, perhaps a bit like Amy’s Choice.) He also thinks it’s the best of the 3 scripts he’s written for the show. Toby goes on to say that the "rooms" in this episode are presented in a similar manner to episode 1 of Being Human (series 3); with that show’s Purgatory scenes, everyone’s Purgatory is different. Of course, in Doctor Who we are not talking about Purgatory here, but nightmares. To explain it further, he mentioned: "one person could walk into a room of balloons and wouldn’t be terrified, but for another, it could completely freak them out."
Episode 12 - No title yet
This being the penultimate episode of the series, who else to bring back to star in this important episode but Craig Owens, the Doctor’s hapless landlord and flatmate from last year’s popular "Lodger" episode.
Craig is back. and from the looks of it he’s now married to his lovely Sophie and they have a baby, a sweet boy named Alphie, who seems to be in the center of all kinds of trouble.
Episode 13 - No title yet
Steven Moffat mentions in DWM #433 that Episodes 12 and 13 are separate, distinct stories. "Episodes 12 and 13 are linked in certain ways, so it’s not like one completely ignores the other."
This entire series has been cleverly crafted, and according to this interview from the Radio Times with Steven Moffat:
The Silence, the unseen enemy who blew up his TARDIS last year, have laid deeper plans and set the deadliest trap of all – one that has been ticking away in the Doctor’s life for longer than anyone knows.â€
Newlyweds Amy and Rory are caught up in a century-spanning scheme, and somewhere out there, in a storm-lashed prison, River Song is getting ready to tell the Doctor something that will change his life for ever.
"By Lake Silencio, on the Plain of Sighs, a story will begin and end. A good man is going to die [and] an impossible life will begin. “Our heroes will set out on the long road to the deadliest secret in the universe, and when it stares you in the face, you might just discover you’ve known about it all along.â€
Wow a lot of info there ~:D Makes me want some more Dr Who ;)
Just asking out there, has the BBC confirmed when part 2 is going to air? I know it's meant to be
September-ish sometime then :(
Argh the River story will be split in three :( I really can't wait to find out the truth behind the spoilers :D And I love Craig <3 As a father! Times have changed ;) Wonder if the Doctor still has his keys? XD
Ok, just watched episode four. All i'm going to say is that it was an amazing episode, and ws really touching. Can't wait to see what happens next.
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12 years ago
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On Amy's actions in episode 1 and what Cat-Eyes said
Cat-Eyes wrote:
So, I was rereading what we'd all said, and I noticed DO mention that Amy saw a Silent on the cliff but then forgot about him. Surely she's seen the moon landing, how come she didn't want to kill him? Or is this a timey wimey / she's a time traveller / the doctor hadn't done it in 1969 yet so we didn't have an alternate 1985 where Biff's rich-I mean...
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I think it is wibbly wobbly timey wimey, but I also think that wibbly wobbly timey wimey has a perfectly reasonable explanation within our understanding of physics. That is, multiple dimensions of time. Its kind of difficult to conceptualize, but if we try to think of chronological time as a spatial dimension instead, we can think of it as happening all at once. So when you move through the second dimension of time, perpendicular to the first, the entire universe throughout time changes with that movement.
If we think of the episode with Big Bang 2, the doctor jumped forward in time to when Amy was released from the box and Earth still existed pretty much whole and immediately started collapsing rapidly. That doesn't make much sense. Planet exists perfectly fine for 2000 years and then entire chunks of history disappear within minutes? I don't buy that. But if we add in another dimension of time, the universe would be collapsing in the second dimension and thus collapsing at an equal rate across all chronological time coordinates. This allows the doctor to jump forward 2000 years in regular time and still have everything pretty normal.
I probably shouldn't go into any more physics than that...suffice to say, there would still be issues and problems and things that didn't fit, but this would fix most of the paradoxes. (It would also explain how you could build a paradox machine like in the Tennant episodes, it would be something forcing you to move through the second dimension allowing paradoxes within timelines to exist).
Anyway, this explains why Amy didn't attack the Silent initially because she hadn't yet entered the coordinates in the second time dimension in which the footage.
On Amy and the kid in the space suit
So. The Silent are using the kid for some unknown purpose. The kid is possibly Amy's. The words "Silence will fall" could mean the downfall of the silence (I think someone else mentioned that before?). The dude that said that blew the TARDIS up the night before Amy's Wedding.
12 years ago
Wed May 25 2011, 09:23am
Have you just posted the same thing twice?
Anyway to comment on the wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff
Ray Bradbury postuled in his story 'A Sound of Thunder' that changes in time happen in waves (some scientists are now following this train of thought too)
Basically think of the concentric rings generated in a body of water when a stone is dropped into it. These ripples spread out, one after the other. Apparently the same effect could be seen with time. One small change in the past could lead to a small change in the future, which would then grow as each 'ripple' passes through that time.
Not sure if I have explained that as well as I think I have. If not, i'll try and post something clearer.
Murasakii - No news on when the second half is to be broadcast yet. As soon as I find out i'll post it here
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12 years ago
Wed May 25 2011, 01:59pm
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Sorry, seems I did. Don't know how that happened though, it didn't look like that on my laptop ~:| :-/
I deleted the double for you Sian :)
Thanks for the explanations DO and Sian! I get what you're saying, but then again since every show that has time travel in it decides to have a different set of rules it's rather difficult to decide which ones to follow! :P And I don't think I've seen the Big Bang 2, I really should go back and watch the episodes I missed...
I've seen that movie Dak-eyes, i know wwhat you're on about. Makes sense to me, Its kinda like the butterfly effect.
12 years ago
Sun May 29 2011, 09:03pm
Am totally "WHUT?!" after episode 6 But REALLY good guessing above, Tonks!
I've just spent the last couple of hours hunting through this season's episodes trying to determine when exactly Amy was taken and switched for doppel-ganger Amy. And all I can figure is, it was last season. It HAD to be. The first time that Amy's left entirely alone, she sees the woman behind the hatch (it's when they're in the orphanage in episode 2 this season). Through that door is the little girl's room, and where Amy's taken by the Silents. So, I would have said that's when she was swapped for Ganger-Amy, if only she hadn't have seen the woman behind the hatch before she went in there (the woman looks through and says something like 'no, I think she's just dreaming').
Also - the Gangers displayed a similar sort of sickness that Amy displays in the first and second episode - where she suddenly cramps / doubles over, or wants to go throw up. Ganger-Jen does the same thing and ends up coughing up bits of Flesh, so potentially it's when Amy's Ganger is getting used to the body?
But WHEN did they take her, if before then?
And why does the Doctor know of it? How did he know all along she wasn't real Amy? Why did he feel the need to disintegrate her? :-/ SO CONFUSED! :P
Edit: Okay, went back to The Eleventh Hour...and when the Doctor first meets Amy, when she's little, and he goes to investigate the crack in the wall, you can hear the rattle noise that the Silents make in that scene, several times.
Edit 2: ok some random thoughts - 1/ in ep1, the Silents in the bathroom tells Amy she has to tell the Doctor what he must know. So...is that why she tells him she's pregnant? Because the Silents made her using their will/hypnosis thing? Why did they need him to know this?
Next thing:
"The only water in the forrest is the river..."
A pond is a body of water, so does this TARDIS wisdom involve Amy as much as River Song?
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12 years ago
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Ooo so many spoiler things to catch up on which I don't have time for tonight but Min gotta say (probably spoiler from Ep 4 onwards for those of you playing at home):
LOVE the identified link re. a body of water Amy Pond/River Song <-- that can't just be coincidence can it!!
Also, speaking of water, maybe water also refers to the fact that Amy's water broke and now she is giving birth?!?!
Ahah... yeah no I think it may be time for me to go to sleep :$
Episode 5, The Creeping Flesh: saw it last night on ABC and enjoyed it. I thought this was a return to the sort of story we saw back in the 70s. Well, I say "we" saw, but I wasn't allowed to watch them until I was a bit older and the ABC repeated them in the 80s. But anyway, my point is that this seems more the sort of story that I can imagine for Tom Baker or Jon Pertwee.
(I love the new series, but sometimes I get a bit sick of the Doctor as magical superhero waving his magic screwdriver to fix every problem.)
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12 years ago
Mon May 30 2011, 02:18am
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I know! I love how much they're going back to the old stuff with this Doctor. Matt Smith has much more in common with the old doctors than either Tennant or Eccleston. (I saw the noughtiess repeats, I wasn't born in the 80s :P ). And I was absolutely squiing in Episode 4 when We got to actually see inside the Tardis beyond the control room and even in Smith's first season they at least mentioned the library and the swimming pool. If the cloister bell comes into the story, or if we get an Alien companion (hey, I'd even settle for one of those flesh things), it would absolutely make my day/week/year.
I find it depressing how many people don't even care about the old ones. I was at a friends party last night and there were a number of people there who were attempting to make me feel bad for not having watched as religiously lately as I used to do, and then I found out that I was the only person in the room who'd watched so much as a single episode of the old ones. I mean, that's just sad.
Ooh, and, on the doctor dying and stuff from episode 4:
I want a second opinion on this, because leading up to this series, there was a lot of talk of how the producers were going to try to find a way to make the Doctor keep living past the regular 13 incarnations. Seeing the doctor die kind of made it look like this might not happen, but heres the thing. The Tardis redecorates, so far as I'm aware, only when the Doctor regenerates. So here's the deal, if the Tardis has stored thirty different control rooms, then doesn't that mean that the Doctor has to have thirty regenerations? Therefore the doctor has to live somehow?
12 years ago
Mon May 30 2011, 03:34am
First off - on TARDIS control rooms for Sian
Your theory is good, however there are a few minor points against it.
1/ Time Lords (and Ladys) are allowed 12 regenerations, meaning 13 lives. However this has been broken a number of times in Classic Who. The Master has got new regeneration cycles by stealing the lives of others. He was also given a new regeneration cycle by the Time Lords for helping the Doctor, so the precedent is already set.
2/ The TARDIS interior space is fluid, and can be jettisoned or recreated at the will of the Doctor (and apparently the TARDIS). For many years in classic Who we had one control room. This was with Doctors 1-4. Then in the 4th Doctor era the control room became wood and brass for a short time, before reverting back to an updated form of the classic look for doctors 5-7. Then in the Doctor Who Movie, we had a new grander control room, and then a different one for Doctors 9 & 10 and new one for 11.
Hope that explains things
On Episode 6 - The Almost People
I will just say one thing first! I was right! I said Amy was in some birthing chamber, and the eye-patch lady kept looking through a hatch at her.
I didn't see Amy as a 'ganger' though. Well, I can't predict everything ;-)
Min: Accoriding to the Confidential episode, the real Amy hasn't been with us at all this season, so we've had the flesh creation since we first saw her on screen this season.
I loved the bit when the flesh Doctor was trying to stabilise, and said 'Jo, reverse the polarity of the neutron flow' from the 3rd Doctors era, and we heard the 4th Doctors voice saying 'Would you like a jelly baby'.
The Doctor mentions Cybermats and Cybermen. Why? Though apparently they turn up in the last episodes.
It's interesting that the Doc's have switched places. We should see what boots the Doc is wearing when he gets killed.
Flesh Doc: 'My Death Arrives'
Real Doc: 'But this one we're not invited to'
I still think it is the flesh Doctor that gets killed.
Below is what Christopher Ecclestone said after being asked if he would participate in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversay
"No. Never bathe in the same river twice"
Seems pretty certain then...
Awww, that's sad Christopher Eccleston doesn't want to be a part of it. When is the 50th anniversary?
I really should watch some classic Who. I saw a couple of very early episodes (still in black and white) when they were rerunning them on channel 2 a few years ago, but not very many. Mind you, I didn't actually start watching the new series until DT and Martha, but I went back and hired out (we had some free movie vouchers) the Christopher Eccleston series and some of the first DT ones, but I haven't seen all the Rose episodes. And then there were a few I missed on TV before I was mega in to it...
Want to watch episode 5, but also need to write these essays!
On the TARDIS control rooms (ep 4)
Does anyone remember how many the Doctor said he'd seen when the TARDIS told him how many she had? And he doesn't die for another 200 years, that's a lot of redecorating time :P But I do think there will be some work around for him not dying. And also some work around to get more than 13 regenerations. Since the Time Lords were able to grant the Master another one for helping the Doctor, does that mean it was actually administered, so without them there's no one to stop you at 13, perhaps?
A random theory for who's in the spacesuit that I just thought of (eps 1&2)
I wonder if it's a future Doctor who somehow got doubled so now there's a paradox, and the spare had to die... Ok, bit far fetched, but it could happen...
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12 years ago
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Just watched episode 4 again, and apparently he 'changed the desktop' ~a dozen times thus far.
The 50th Anniversary should be 23rd November 2013
nnnnnn:
Yep, he had to eject a quarter of the mass of the TARDIS to escape Event One (the Big Bang) in the story Castrovalva.
On the Master and regenerations:
nnnnn: Some events that happened in the DW Movie, even though seen on screen, are not considered cannon by fans, such as the Doctor being half-human. However, The Master has been able to take over another beings bodies before to prolong his life (including the father of the 4th/5th Doctor companion, Nyssa), and repair his Time Lord DNA, which is what helps their regenerations. The form The Master took in the Movie is known as a 'morphant', and contains the Time Lord 'essence' for want of a better explanation. It has been mention in passing in the classic series, but never seen.
Cat-Eyes: Your theory is a good one, and has been postulated on other forums as well. It's possible that the Time Lords limit the DNA of their people to 12 regenerations, and can change this as it suits them (like giving The Master new regenerations). Now they no longer exist, it is possible that there is no longer a limit on the Doctors Time Lord DNA