Well, in Day of the Doctors, the War Doctor did, when Smith/Tennant kept pointing their sonics at the Queen copy, ask them “What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet at them?”
Rosa parks passed away 13 years ago today.
War Games, where Patrick Troughton is demonstrating his bona fides as an alien time traveller by remotely unscrewing and rescrewing the butt of a soldier’s pistol.
Matt Smith’s Doctor (Eleven) also used it as a screwdriver on the TARDIS counsel at one point - can’t remember which episodes, but it caused some comment in the on-line chatter about the show.
My wife bought our daughter one of these shirts (in children’s size, of course). It’s rather nice.
River might be my favorite companion on NuWho. But I agree that she could have been insufferable, had she been played by an actor less talented than Alex Kingston. I occasionally go to YouTube and watch her “When you’re in love with the Doctor” scene from " The Husbands Of River Song", just to enjoy the interplay between her and Peter Capaldi; two brilliant actors, practicing their craft.
Spiders are icky, giant spiders and I want to see roughnecks deploying with power armor and calling in orbital fire support with nuclear warshots. Humane and dignified end is not what I am gonna give an insect or arachnid.
Interesting timingfor the episode.
Interesting. Moral of story: Giant Spiders aren’t the monsters, the real monster is [sub] an excruciatingly thinly veiled version of[/sub] Trump. I wonder if he will recur as needed.
It did feel strange to find myself thinking, you know, the Trump stand-in is right. Violence is the answer in this situation.
Letting the giant spiders starve or suffocate is more humane than shooting them… why, exactly? :dubious:
You’ll have to ask the Doctor that one; her views on what’s humane don’t hold up to close scrutiny. For me personally, I’m live and let live for small, non-poisonous spiders, but once they get bigger than a beagle, they need to be exterminated in the quickest way possible.
Was the American broadcast edited to pieces or something? There wasn’t actually any resolution to the story. They lure the spiders into the panic room and then [del]Trump[/del]JLR shoots the big one (which was the right decision btw!) and then the next scene they’re back at home. So the spiders are still in the panic room? The Doctor’s plan was to just leave them there until they all starved to death or cannibalized each other? That’s better than a quick shot to the head why? And [del]Trump[/del]JLR is fine with having a panic room full of giant man-eating spiders to worry about?
It wasn’t the best episode. There was no alien hand waving about how the spiders got so big (instead using a very 1980’s "toxic waste acting on scientific experiments!), the end was so morally grey that I’m wondering if the point is specifically to show that the Doctor’s morality is stupid. The Trump stand in was much more heavy handed than the very well done Rosa Parks situation last episode.
The spiders looked OK.
Actually I found that quite a refreshing change from the usual “the Doctor averts yet another alien invasion”.
Three things:
- HOLY CRAP GIANT SPIDERS;
- An excellent and entertaining turn from Chris Noth as Not-Trump, and I suspect we’ll at least be hearing from him again if not actively seeing him; and
- Yeah, another “Guns are bad, but gruesome mass death is fine” episode (see also: exploding gas fields).
He appeared to be having a whale of a time. didn’t he?
I’m enjoying the smaller scale of this. It’s a nice change of pace from the Moffat overload.
I think the major problem I had with this one was the disconnect of the “solution” at the end. Was there really no other solution than to let the mother spider asphyxiate and all the others starve, whilst apologising to them? It’s a sci fi show, could she not have lured the spiders to be tardis and taken them off to some spidery paradise? The spiders were victims in this ep, and the doctor did nothing to help them.
I’ll confess that a teensy part of me wanted him to say “Oh my God, it killed Kevin! You bastard!” 
A crappy episode after one of the best in years.
Oh damn, me too.