Yes, but that’s what they’re jeopardizing by showing some random prisoner with a vortex manipulator—if it’s hard to come by, it shouldn’t show up in just anyone’s hands (or on anyone’s wrist, as the case may be). Hence, my hoping that he’ll turn out to not be just anyone.
Of course they did. I am an idiot. :smack:
For some of us, violence/force is only justified when someone is an actual threat to life and limb. Prior to the DNA bombs going off, Tim Shaw was a threat and his detonating the bombs made it clear he intended to kill. Once the bombs went off, though, he was incapacitated and therefore no longer a threat - therefore, violence was no longer justified against him. Tim Shaw wasn’t killing anyone anymore when he was kicked off that crane.
Or so I interpreted it - but then, that happens to be my own moral code so it’s easy for me to read that into the situation.
Only when you don’t look at them - they’re Weeping Goalposts.
Calling it a “screwdriver” is a bit like calling the pocket computers people have that send messages, play music, cruise the internet, answer questions, navigate, and so forth “phones”. Whether you call them “mobiles” or “cells” they aren’t really “telephones” anymore, even if they can still perform that function among the many, many other functions they have.
So it’s probably a historical remnant - the Time Lords (or maybe just the Doctor) kept adding new functions to what was originally a sort of screwdriver. Just like we kept adding more functions to telephones.
Thirteen uses the sonic as a kind of tricorder, she has a little screen she analyses with some of its uses. Eleven did the same with his, though Matt Smith improvised that as the model screwdriver he has doesn’t contain a screen.
All other Doctors just used it as an unlocking tool, though for a very loose interpretation of “unlock”.
Right, it did, which is why there were no people of mixed race… oh wait.
But seriously, those laws seemed to only apply to getting married, there was certainly plenty of cross-racial intercourse (voluntary and not) going on for centuries.
^ This.
In real life Mr. Parks was a light-skinned man of mixed descent who, in that era, was still put in the “black” category.
Or maybe it was a sort of prison gang tattoo that was trendy in Krasko’s century of origin? Or century of incarceration?
Also, IIRC River wasn’t exactly a typical prisoner. Didn’t the prison know that she was actually innocent?
Hmm. Now I’m pondering the comic potential of River running into the current Doctor. Might be worth a one-off just for that.
“It could open any door in the universe, except when it couldn’t.” --Tom Baker
My memory may be faulty, but the one thing I cannot recall ever seeing the Doctor do with the sonic screwdriver, is drive a screw.
Alex Kingston has said that she wants to return for at least one episode with Thirteen. She’s also noted that River has had several husbands, and at least one wife.
I would enjoy an episode with Kate Stewart (the Brigadier’s daughter) and Thirteen.
I like an occasional return of a prior character episode. The trick is not to overdo them.
I remember one episode of Classic Who where we saw a screw unscrewing itself, but I don’t recall which.
“Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, ‘Ooh, this could be a little more sonic’?”
-Captain Jack Harkness
Yeah that would be a funny episode
Jodie, guns bad mmkaY
Kate, five rounds rapid and sorted
Next weeks preview seems very, very familiar. I’d swear that exact scene was done by Tennant or maybe Matt Smith.
The Doctor dropping off a new assistant and obviously will be lonely. Even the dinner offer seems familiar.
It was the end of one of the Christmas episodes.
Gods, no. I’d be happy never seeing River Song again. She was insufferable.
She had her moments, but that character wore thin with overuse.
River Song’s best moments were the two episodes where she first appeared and the Christmas special that was her last appearance. The parts in-between… meh.