# Doctor Who Series 10 ongoing discussion (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543 "2017-04-16T03:38:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/181 "2017-05-28T14:23:59Z")
I just watched in on On Demand…and it cut off just as hit the combination to the door was dialed and he stepped through the airlock! What happened? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/182 "2017-05-28T15:36:15Z")
The room blows up behind him and the monks tell him to enjoy his eyes to see their world. More or less. Not thrilled when the best part of an episode is that they brought pie. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/183 "2017-05-28T15:47:07Z")
The whole contamination protocol with the lab was very confusing to me. Aren’t the Tardis itself, Nardole, Nardole’s clothes and skin, the Doctor’s clothes and skin (even if HE is immune) and the lab tech’s contamination suit all contaminated now, just from being inside the lab while the microbes were loose? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/184 "2017-05-28T15:56:39Z")
Did Nordole live? If he did, then I would assume that the Tardis automatically acts as a decontamination chamber when necessary. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/185 "2017-05-28T16:11:07Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I just watched in on On Demand…and it cut off just as hit the combination to the door was dialed and he stepped through the airlock! What happened? > [@DSeid](#): > > The room blows up behind him and the monks tell him to enjoy his eyes to see their world. More or less. IS it just me or has every episode so far ended very abruptly? Maybe it’s just because BBCA isn’t playing the credits and just going into Class. I’m also having the issue of On Demand cutting off the last couple seconds. So, was this all part of the aliens plan to begin with? Since consent had to be done out of love, not fear. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/186 "2017-05-28T16:21:19Z")
Earlier in the episode they demonstrated that the TARDIS can materialise around a person. And it is much, much bigger on the inside. So grab lab tech hop back in TARDIS, materialise TARDIS around whole lab so that lab is inside the star in the heart of the TARDIS. Do the same thing with the alien pyramid. Roll end credits. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/187 "2017-05-28T16:50:32Z")
I had actually thought that they were going to with the germ getting out of containment \*by way of \*the Doctor sending Nardole back in and parking it somewhere “safe” nearby. What they _did_ do was so many kinds of stupid (again without offsetting positives). Yeah he has to blow up everything and what kind of bacterial research facility would have an automated protocol to vent to the outside? I’m assuming Nardole lives because only his lungs were bought cheap. He’s mostly machine I think. Yes, to thinking that this was how the monks saw this going down. Yes, to them ending abruptly. I think they are trying to get people to stay on into Class. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/188 "2017-05-28T19:50:23Z")
Tangent on Class: I ounloadedda the entire easonsa on an orrenta, and after 1.5 episodes, uttered the Eight Deadly Words (“I don’t care about any of these people”) and dumped the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/189 "2017-05-28T20:33:14Z")
Well, that sucked. Sucked, and looked cheap. Did I mention sucked? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/190 "2017-05-29T00:55:48Z")
I’m pretty sure the Tardis has contained and ejected contagion before. Wonder why it didn’t this time. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/191 "2017-05-29T06:28:53Z")
What the heck is going on in Moffat’s warped head this season? That’s the question we came up with after watching this week… ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/192 "2017-05-29T07:53:14Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > What the heck is going on in Moffat’s warped head this season? That’s the question we came up with after watching this week… That one almost felt like a last “fuck you”. Enjoying this season? Be a shame if anyone MOFFATED IT UP! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/193 "2017-05-29T08:44:37Z")
You’d think that beings capable of modeling every single molecule on Earth wouldn’t be forced to rely on security cams. After all, in order to model it, they had to observe it fist, and I doubt they used CCTV for _that_. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/194 "2017-05-29T10:47:15Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > You’d think that beings capable of modeling every single molecule on Earth wouldn’t be forced to rely on security cams. After all, in order to model it, they had to observe it fist, and I doubt they used CCTV for _that_. Why didn’t they just turn all the cameras back on? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/195 "2017-05-29T13:49:31Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Earlier in the episode they demonstrated that the TARDIS can materialise around a person. And it is much, much bigger on the inside. So grab lab tech hop back in TARDIS, materialise TARDIS around whole lab so that lab is inside the star in the heart of the TARDIS. Do the same thing with the alien pyramid. Roll end credits. It’s bigger on the inside, but has a fixed size on the outside - so it can only materialize around something smaller than it’s outside dimension. > [@Penfeather](#): > > Why didn’t they just turn all the cameras back on? Because they if they were only monitoring one, they didn’t know the others were turned off. And in spite of the defenses above, I’d give this episode a 4 or 5 out of 10 at best. ---
**Author:** ![zwede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ac91a4/32.png) [@zwede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zwede)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/196 "2017-05-29T14:53:56Z")
He’s on a friggin’ smart phone talking to Bill. Use facetime/skype/whatever, put Bill on speaker and point the phone at the lock. Bill tells him “first dial down a bit. Bit more. Got it. Second dial up…”. How hard is that? And the worlds military leaders falling over themselves to surrender the planet? Just… no. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/197 "2017-05-29T15:16:52Z")
> [@zwede](#): > > He’s on a friggin’ smart phone talking to Bill. Use facetime/skype/whatever, put Bill on speaker and point the phone at the lock. Bill tells him “first dial down a bit. Bit more. Got it. Second dial up…”. How hard is that? Even easier would be to snap a picture of it, then show that picture to the nice lady standing just inches away from him on the other side of the glass. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/198 "2017-05-29T16:02:08Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Even easier would be to snap a picture of it, then show that picture to the nice lady standing just inches away from him on the other side of the glass. And he would be able to see which button to push to take the picture how? My smarty phone doesn’t have a button to push around the edge for pictures. Just off/on and volume. It’s a touchy screen. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/199 "2017-05-29T16:23:01Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > And he would be able to see which button to push to take the picture how? My smarty phone doesn’t have a button to push around the edge for pictures. Just off/on and volume. It’s a touchy screen. He transferred ‘all the world’s top-secret documents’ with just a wave of the sonic at a few screens without seeing what he was doing; surely, he might have been able to figure out the camera. (I don’t remember exactly, though: did the Doctor use a smartphone, or his sonic glasses?) ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543/200 "2017-05-30T15:43:41Z")
The whole lab scenario seems like sloppy writing. Besides the already mentioned absurdities (biohazard lab vents to the outside automatically, Doctor and Nardole already contaminated, etc), how would a misplaced decimal point result in a bacterium that eats all living things? That’s got to be the least creative end-of-the-world scenario I’ve ever seen in fiction. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-series-10-ongoing-discussion-open-spoilers/784543.md?page=11)