Where in this thread does it say “positive comments only,” and how would we know if the show is good or not until we watch it? :rolleyes:
The 50th Anniversary show was excellent and I was hoping Moffatt would have been able to follow that with a stellar ending for Matt Smith. Unfortunately he went back to his typical tricks of tiresome confusing plot lines.
Speaking of, does anyone else think it’s interesting that the Doctor used all that regen energy to lay waste to the Daleks? I hadn’t remembered it being quite that useful as an offensive weapon before.
Which makes me wonder if the Time Lords didn’t pull a “Master” on him, and give him a new full set of regens, as opposed to just a “ok, here’s one extra.”
I do like that they ended up keeping the 13-is-the-limit, and the Doctor’s explanation that “even though I’ve been calling myself the 11th, Ten’s “extra” wasn’t extra, and the War Doctor does count in the numbering” was a decent way to do that. I’ve been really worried they would do something stupid (like that throwaway line on the SJChronicles) and this made me feel a lot better. Granted, they still circumvented it, but at least they acknowledged it as a concept.
I think the word “reset” was mentioned, and that was why it was taking a bit longer than usual.
I guess at one point 11 says something about “a new cycle” so the going assumption I’m seeing on the net is that he has another 13 regens now.
edit: If a photo of Matt and Karen wearing each other’s wigs doesn’t come to light soon, then this whole special has been a waste, in my opinion.
Do you know which board you are talking about? Without negative comments it might as well shut down. 
It usually wrecks the Tardis.
Do we have event the faintest idea when the next season of Doctor Who may air?
There were a lot of callbacks to previous story lines, and some of the loose ends were tied up nicely. The Doctor growing old defending Trenzalore was a nice touch. It’s good that he regenerated with a smile on his face, and didn’t get whiny like Tennant’s Doctor.
The bit at the end with young Matt Smith could have been skipped though, and replaced with some different way for Matt Smith to say his goodbyes to both Clara and the audience. It might have been better if Clara had just found the new doctor in the Tardis instead.
Yeah, I felt pretty strongly that if they really wanted to have the doctor have a moment with Amy, then Clara should have missed the regen. As it was, they set up a scene with Clara and the Doctor only to wrench it back to Amy and leave Clara confusedly flittering on the outside.
Autumn 2014. It’s supposedly going to be one block, so no split thank goodness.
Does anyone feel an urge to assemble a list of the plotlines this episode ties up/refers back to? I’ve not religiously followed the series so, whilst I was ok with the references to the Silence, I think there was a lot I missed.
I thought they made a mistake by not acknowledging River Song. I know how important my wife is to me. I can’t imagine not having her by my side for support in my last years.
At least have a picture of river in the Doctor’s home. Steven has always mishandled that relationship. He teases there this special relationship but doesn’t ever show it.
Despite Lasciel and Baron’s quite true rebuttals, I still can’t help but feel that there’s something vaguely River Songish about Tasha because I think you’re right, ace. It does seem wrong to have River so completely absent if she’s really what they say she is.
The plot gap that troubled me: the Doctor lived in Christmas for three hundred years, a town enclosed by an honesty field, and not once in all that time did any person (say, an innocent child) ask him his name.
At least the iDaleks have been retired; I’m hoping there was a pogrom. As for the episode itself, I thought it did a reasonably good job of wrapping up the loose story ends that were never going to be resolved completely satisfactorily. Moffat has a terrible habit as a writer of propelling his story by setting up supposedly portentous and epic plot-lines with no clear idea of where they’re heading or how to resolve them; and a worse one of writing characters whose only purpose is to be part of that portentousness: seriously, did Clara even have a life beyond being a story propulsion mechanism? As a character, she’s always been a complete cipher.
I’m a little worried about that reset. The new Doctor asked Clara if she knew how to start the Tardis.
I hope this *reset *doesn’t leave us with a brand new Doctor that doesn’t have the others memories.
“The Doctor”
I was trying to figure out what the hell they ate, and how after that long they weren’t all ‘kid with the banjo on the porch’ from the small gene pool.
Regeneration has always had heavy side effects from disorientation to unconsciousness to amnesia. One doctor had to be reminded that he even was the doctor.
didn’t they say in a previous episode that the current (Smith) doctor had been in that form for hundreds of years? he’d come along and pickup Clara for an adventure now and then, but they made it seem like he’d been in that form for a long time. Yet he didn’t age one day! He’s stuck at Christmas for a similar amount of time, and he aged to an old man. Seems like a little bit of a plot hole. I know Christmas can be anxiety generating and stressful for some, but still!! har har de har har
and kudos to the time lords for broadcasting a “is the coast clear” to every moment and time at once, invoking fear in all who received it. Was that really the best way to go? How about calling that phone he needed to cross-connect into the control panel. And did he ever do it??
All in all, an enjoyable episode, despite the long winded soliloquies about memories n such. Wife was yelling at the screen to “get on with it!”. I had to reminder her is was Christmas, and to extend a little suspension-of-sappiness-belief, but she didn’t buy it…
I missed the explanation of the 2 minutes of daylight. (I suspect that it was cheaper - the set didn’t have to be too polished for HD)