One more complaint…
When the Doctor shows up wearing a cowboy hat, he’s in America, and we’re left to presume it’s because he’s in America. But then in the last couple shows, he gets handed the hat from Collin in the UK before going on his last round of adventures. That makes no sense. The point of the hat was it was American.
Also, Apollo spacesuit helmets do not open with the face open to the world. The visor lifts, but the inner clear screen is sealed.
The hat was a going-to-America gift from Craig. 'Cause we’re known for our cowboys, sort of thing.
I don’t think this can be surmised. The Doctor knowing specific circumstances are required for him to say his name does not mean they have already arisen.
As what he told River at the wedding wasn’t his name, we have no solid evidence to prove that was what River said to the Doctor a milion episodes ago.
The thing I’m interested in is WHY does the Doctor, have this restriction. Other Timelords have been able to reveal their name just fine.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, if we know his name then it kind of defeats the purpose of Doctor Who.
If he says, “My name is Zaxtar.” Then it becomes:
A: “Why is the show called Doctor Who?”
B: “Because we don’t know his name.”
A: “Yes we do, it’s Zaxtar.”
Now, if there is an episode where he says his name, but we never hear it and no-one who hears it repeats it, then I guess I’m full of it. 
That’s really cleared a lot of things up.
But then this muddied it all again.
Craig. And he gave The Doctor the hat when The Doctor told him he was going to America.
Well, it’s not really an Apollo spacesuit. It just looks like one. It has life support systems which mean the occupant doesn’t need to eat, and it is able to control the wearer’s actions.
Classic Who had a great privilege. Whenever the writer or director said, “and then this happens,” the producer wouldn’t say, “No! we can’t afford that!” but rather, “what the hell, give me another pint.”
**CorneaGenii **and Irishman, just remember the key to enjoying Doctor Who, is three words: “Look! Monsters! Run!”
I have another phrase that helps when dealing with continuity questions:
“Why? Doctor Who, that’s why.”
For instance:
“Why are there three Atlantises?”
“Doctor Who, that’s why.”
“Continuity - schmontinuity. Get me another pint.”
But how are astronauts supposed to lift their visor and report: “Houston…the air here…it’s normal…I can breathe!” I’m sure NASA would never overlook such a dramatic-license design flaw.
My favorite makeup/costume from Classic Who: Web Planet. 
If you watch the episode with 10 in the library, at the point where River knocks the Doctor down and handcuffs him to the wall, and then is going to sacrifice herself to save him, that is when he tells us that she told him his name, and makes the comment about there only being one time he would, he could, tell his name. He’s not talking to anyone else but River. Lying at that point serves no perpose, as she’d just say “No I didn’t, you silly.” Clearly she learned his name at some point and whispered it to him to get his attention and trust. We still don’t know what the circumstances he mentioned are, or why he has restrictions, but we do know she told him his own name.
Right, He was in Britain and got the cowboy hat, rather than, say, the Doctor coming to America, and finding a cowboy hat in an American store, and acquiring the cowboy hat because “cowboy hats are cool”. Actually, probably not a store, since he doesn’t tend to buy things, but somehow come across it in America.
Getting the hat in the UK is stupid. Get the hat in America, then it’s a souvenir from his trip.
Yes, it’s a modified Apollo suit, so of course they modified it to allow the helmet to open. Easy fanwank.
I just see too many Apollo suit replicas that do that. Of course it’s not a real Apollo suit, the stuntman wouldn’t have been able to walk in it.
Good lord - that’s, like, the special effects of the first season of Red Dwarf crossed with an episode of the Bugaloos
Well, in their defense, it was 1965. I give them props for attempting a story with no humanoid aliens but yeah, it was pretty bad. Summer stock theater bad.
Don’t be dissin The Bugaloos, I had a crush on Joy when I was seven.
Hey, I liked the Bugaloos, too - but let’s face it, there’s a reason it only lasted one season.
I don’t find it so. I find it inconsequential. I really - no matter how hard I try - find it impossible to care where he got the hat.
Yeah, really, this was a case of someone really looking for something truly ridiculous to complain about.
-Joe
I think that the Curse of Peladon might give “Web Planet” a run for it’s money. The “curse” in question is no doubt the awful wigs that all the Peladon planet natives were forced to wear. This serial is also infamous for the alien known as Alpha Centauri, otherwise known as the Big Green Penis.
They appear to have time travel, since they took River back to the 21st Century. I assume they took the space suit from the 21st Century to the 51st, and stuck River in it there before returning her, rather then using a 3000 year old suit.
As you say below, they wanted to use a Time Lord, or the closest they could get. As they discover by scanning her at Demon’s Run, she does appear to have some kind of Time Lord powers.
Actually, I would think she does have some of those kind of Time Lord attributes. Her relationship with time and the Doctor does seem different than anyone else we’ve encountered. And they’re not only trying to kill the Doctor, they’re trying to create a fixed point in time, so that it always has to happen. Presumably that’s why they want someone timey-wimey rather than just any old schmoe.
I think so. While she was being raised in the orphanage by the Silence.
Must never be asked… but apparently they’re referring to it never being asked at a specific time and place, on the Fields Of Wotsit at The Fall Of The Eleventh. Because if it’s asked there, it can’t be refused to be answered. It’s not that it can never be asked, or never be answered, but for some reason the Silenece are hell bent on it not happening there and then.
The Silence that will fall is meant to be the Doctor’s silence. Nothing about the universe ceasing. Their aim is to keep the Doctor from answering that question on the Fields Of Flibbertyjibbit. (Apparently, although I’m still not sure why everything went silent at the end of The vampires Of Venice.)
My questions…
Why did the Tesselecta act so naturally like the Doctor, when every other time it acted like a robot. It couldn’t be that he was driving it, he was sitting in the eye.
Why did they get married again?
How did the River from the crash of the Byzantium (which is an adventure that happened in the old universe, before it was rebooted in the Big Bang, and featuring an Amy that never existed - our Amy’s first trip in the TARDIS was on her wedding night, even though she regained the memories of the other universe’s Amy) get over into the Universe v 2.0? Are there 2 different Amys running around the Universe now? Does that mean there are 2 Doctors as well?
Hey, look! Monsters!!