It’s pretty silly to assume someone’s going to remain anonymous when he makes enemies of entire universe-spanning species (Daleks, Cybermen), repeatedly prevents genocides of another (Humanity), committed genocide against several (Daleks (or so he thought), Time Lords) including working with two major government-sponsored organizations (UNIT, Torchwood*), and encountering world leaders on a regular basis (Various Queens Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, Hitler, Churchill, Harriet Jones, Howard Saxon*). Spanning over 1000 years, even by his own subjective timeline.
A man like that is going to make a LOT of enemies, and a LOT of friends, all of whom are going to talk about him, a LOT. Hell, when one of those friends is an immortal time and space traveller (Jack Harkness)…he’s enough to get him talked up in a LOT of places.
I’m pretty sure the ganger Doctor won’t be killed at the lake: as others have said, it’s too obvious, plus we’ve seen that the gangers dissolve into white goo when they die.
It seems to me that a piece of alien kit that can mimic a person perfectly might be a good tool to fake your own death. River also said something in The Impossible Astronaut to the effect that the body had to be completely destroyed, as even part of a Time Lord’s body would be immensely powerful and dangerous. Good way of getting rid of the evidence.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Tesselecta isn’t mentioned again until the last fifteen minutes of the last episode, when it will be revealed that it’s stored in the broom cupboard of the Tardis!
It’s only your fault for giving up too soon if you don’t know where the polar bears came from. They might not have answered everything, but that one was answered years before the show ended. :dubious:
They were brought to the island as research animals by the Dharma Initiative
Even after the TARDIS “fixes” them so that they’re real? Remember, at the end of The Almost People, he tells the remaining gangers “You’re real now”. I don’t think he’s just referring to their not having to concentrate on keeping their shape. It seemed a bit more than that.
The ganger Doctor, though, was never “fixed”, and while I know there are some arguments about whether or not it was clearly shown, I do think he was dissolved at the end of that episode.
Yes, a loophole was left that there may be some technology to bring the ganger Doctor back, but I just don’t see him being resurrected simply to be sacrificed again.
Sorry, the Tesselecta faking the Doctor’s death is now my official pet theory, and I’m sticking to it!
Not to be a spoilsport, but there was clearly ‘regeneration energy’ emanating from the dying Doctor; I’m not sure the tesselecta could fake that (though of course, it would only take a line of technobabble to make it able to).
Sad that it was not broadcasted when originally made.
After seeing that great clip, one also needs to see the intro that had to be broadcasted when the producers told Craig that they did not have the rights to use the song:
The producers of the show really deserved to have their nuts twisted by the sonic screwdriver.
I don’t know, I thought Rory was kind of useless this episode. If there’s ever a time to break out your bad-ass Roman-fu, it’s when your wife is being attacked by giant creepyface dolls. Yeah, all he was holding was a mop, but you can’t tell me a proper Roman couldn’t do some serious damage with that thing if he wanted.
Yep. The Doctor is, according to himself, not a good man at all: “Good men don’t need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.” And, to get really, really nitpicky, the Doctor is not a man at all - he’s a Time Lord.
Agreed. He’s becoming the master of the muttered aside"…we’re dead. Again."
I loved this episode. For me it’s classic, scary Doctor Who. Those walking Dolls were just sick. If that doesn’t send some little kids running to their mothers nothing will.
I thought they did a good job building suspense. At first the Doctor thinks it’s just a scared child with an over active imagination. His reaction when he realizes somethings in the cabinet was spot on. I liked the interaction between the dad and the Doctor.
So far, I liked this one so much more than anything else they’ve done this season. It’s so nice having a proper, stand alone episode of Doctor Who.
