# Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways \[open spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-the-parting-of-the-ways-open-spoilers/360169 "2006-06-10T05:17:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Happy\_Clam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@Happy\_Clam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Clam)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-the-parting-of-the-ways-open-spoilers/360169/101 "2006-06-17T23:43:00Z")
Dammit **NoClueBoy** , I’m trying to work up a good, unreasoning, irrational rage against US viewers, the sort of mood in which I can randomly spam threads with Doctor-Who Spoilers, and you spoilt it by being understanding and reasonable! Humph. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-the-parting-of-the-ways-open-spoilers/360169/102 "2006-06-18T00:02:51Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Clam] Dammit **NoClueBoy** , I’m trying to work up a good, unreasoning, irrational rage against US viewers, the sort of mood in which I can randomly spam threads with Doctor-Who Spoilers, and you spoilt it by being understanding and reasonable! Humph. [/QUOTE] Well, that’s the thing about living in the US—we don’t feel that we have to do _anything_ to accomodate the rest of the world. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-the-parting-of-the-ways-open-spoilers/360169/103 "2006-06-18T00:25:00Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Clam] How do you think we felt to learn about the death of Buffy, [/QUOTE] Man, you guys really are behind the [times.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059982/) ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-the-parting-of-the-ways-open-spoilers/360169/104 "2006-06-18T01:03:02Z")
Re the end-of-next-series “spoiler”: Am I the only person here who reads the BBC news site? Because they “spoiled” this about 3 seconds after it was announced. I nearly started a thread about it. Does anyone seriously believe it could be kept secret from any reasonably alert US fan for a whole 'nother year? If so, how? BBC story [here](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5082668.stm), for the daring. Yes, contains spoilers! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-the-parting-of-the-ways-open-spoilers/360169/105 "2006-06-18T01:08:40Z")
[QUOTE=ryobserver] Re the end-of-next-series “spoiler”: Am I the only person here who reads the BBC news site? Because they “spoiled” this about 3 seconds after it was announced. I nearly started a thread about it. Does anyone seriously believe it could be kept secret from any reasonably alert US fan for a whole 'nother year? If so, how? BBC story [here](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5082668.stm), for the daring. Yes, contains spoilers! [/QUOTE] Yes, I do not read the BBC Dr. Who sites or entertainment sites. In fact the only time I read the BBC sites is for World News to get a perspective I cannot get from sites like CNN. I think I could have avoided such spoilers. I managed to be surprise by the Doctor regenerating in this last 1st season episode. On the other hand, this is not the end of the world or a huge surprise. So I think I will be able to recover with a little help. 😉 Jim ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-the-parting-of-the-ways-open-spoilers/360169/106 "2006-06-18T01:16:07Z")
Re “Bad wolf”: [QUOTE=Lightnin’] Wouldn’t something like “Rose, break open the Tardis and have a telepathic conversation with it” have worked better? Granted, it wouldn’t have seemed so ominous throughout the earlier shows in the season. [/QUOTE] But if her cosmic Post-it Notes were clear, others could read them too. Like the Daleks. Or the Doctor, who would probably have tried to prevent such an act, judging by his horror when he realized what she’d done. (Granted, the Doctor probably didn’t think anyone _could_ break into the Tardis console. He couldn’t very well anticipate that one of his companions would have a mother who knew a guy who owned a kind of a tow truck. (What exactly was that vehicle, anyway?) And that companion would be willing to use a tow truck on the Tardis, and it would actually work. That surprised even me; I was waiting for the brute-force approach to fail and the Tardis, being telepathic and all, to open up anyway because Rose asked it the right way, or cried on it, or something.) Anyway, “Bad Wolf” was a code name Rose made up. She couldn’t make it too clear, any more than the D-Day planners could call the plan “Invasion Normandy” instead of “Overlord”. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-the-parting-of-the-ways-open-spoilers/360169/107 "2006-06-18T22:18:20Z")
[QUOTE=Rayne Man] It does say “open spoilers” at the top of this thread . 🙂 [/QUOTE] Meaning open spoilers ABOUT THE EPISODE. I was pretty ticked about that spoiler, too. Talk about fucking rude. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-the-parting-of-the-ways-open-spoilers/360169/108 "2006-06-18T22:20:20Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] Meaning open spoilers ABOUT THE EPISODE. I was pretty ticked about that spoiler, too. Talk about fucking rude. [/QUOTE] The news has been in all the papers over here. So no big secret. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-the-parting-of-the-ways-open-spoilers/360169/109 "2006-06-19T16:20:53Z")
[QUOTE=Rayne Man] The news has been in all the papers over here. So no big secret. [/QUOTE] Many of us are not over there so it _is_ a big secret. Or as **NCB** put it: [What you posted is a spoiler that we USA Whovians wouldn’t see for a year!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7496750&postcount=88) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-the-parting-of-the-ways-open-spoilers/360169/110 "2006-06-19T16:25:43Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] Many of us are not over there so it _is_ a big secret. [/QUOTE] Chill out. We just won’t bail 'em out of the next World War. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-the-parting-of-the-ways-open-spoilers/360169.md?page=5)