# {New Dr Who Season, UK pace} \[edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2011, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347 "2011-04-22T12:42:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![mcott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@mcott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcott)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/241 "2011-05-05T05:32:03Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > They’ve killed off Rory twice already, the second time removing completely from history so that he never even existed. If they kill him off again, it’ll be more tiresome than wiping out the Daleks. I think they’ll do something else. Heh. Let me just say from watching the two most recent episodes, that Stepen Moffit is a bad man. From reading the “Brilliant Book”, he’s also quite amusing. Deleted sections from the “Stonehenge Speech”: _ **Sontar-ha! Sontar-hoo! They’re bald and they’re butch and there’s never any girls. Listen fellas, your mother and I know, it’s fine. Sontar-whee!** _ I agree, though, the “Good Man Goes to War” title sounds bad. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/242 "2011-05-05T07:44:05Z")
Watching this after catching up on a couple of the Slenderman stories was a terrible, terrible idea. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/243 "2011-05-05T16:14:15Z")
> [@howye](#): > > Ohh - At the end of that episode, the Doctor sees the Dream Lord reflected back at him in the Tardis console. That story is not finished. > > I pointed out to my wife last night as we were rewatching the most recent episode, the little girl in the spacesuit helmet looked a LOT like the people in the episode where River was introduced. The lighting of the face was almost exactly the same. > > She then pointed out the name of the that episode - “Silence in the Library.” An episode where a little girl also featured very prominently. Yeah, I wonder if there’s a big connection with that - a spaceman who eats people? Sounds a lot like a certain “Hey! Who turned out the lights?” spaceman Dave. Plus Amy’s hand implant was very like the brainwave recorders used in that episode, that were transmitting Miss Evangeline after her death. So when eye-patch lady said Amy was just dreaming.. I wonder if she’s in the world that the little girl in the library lives in? With CAL, where River’s data ghost, Miss Evangeline etc all survive? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/244 "2011-05-05T16:51:16Z")
Re: A good man hours to war The Doctor isn’t a man… Just pointing out the obvious not-obvious. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/245 "2011-05-05T16:58:22Z")
One other thing I picked up on a re watching that I’m not sure everyone worked out… The Silence HQ is clearly the same setup as the ship from the soccer episode (don’t remember the title). So, the ship is sitting there, abandoned, using a girl’s voice to lure in new operators. Why was it sitting there abandoned on 2010? Because its crew got wiped the fuck out in 1969! -joe ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/246 "2011-05-05T17:13:05Z")
Are you sure it was abandoned? How would we know if The Silents were watching it? ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/247 "2011-05-05T18:23:56Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > She could be Donna’s daughter. She looked into the heart of the Tardis. Or Rose’s and the human Doctor? She became the Tardis (sort of, right?) in Bad Wolf, and he’s the human version of a Time Lord. Yes, they’re a parallel universe, but when has that ever stopped them? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/248 "2011-05-05T18:43:44Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Are you sure it was abandoned? How would we know if The Silents were watching it? It’s been a while, but wasn’t it luring in people to operate it? If the Silence was there, presumably it wouldn’t have been doing that, cuz it would have had operators. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/249 "2011-05-07T00:00:39Z")
It occurs to me that the future Doctors TARDIS is still in Utah somewhere. I wonder if they are going to address it somewhere in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/250 "2011-05-07T00:38:25Z")
> [@Qwisp](#): > > It occurs to me that the future Doctors TARDIS is still in Utah somewhere. I wonder if they are going to address it somewhere in the future. Maybe. However, The Doctor (11 + 200 years) KNEW he was going there to die - he made that pretty clear. He’ll have made allowances for the TARDIS somehow - whether it’s sending it to River or leaving it to die like Nine did. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/251 "2011-05-08T00:58:11Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > He was at the helm last year as well and there was still a Dalek episode. :smack: yeah, I forgot. New Daleks and all to boot. I not overly concerned about seeing the newer Cybermen again either. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/252 "2011-05-08T01:08:39Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > :smack: yeah, I forgot. New Daleks and all to boot. > > I not overly concerned about seeing the newer Cybermen again either. How do you feel about the Ood? Because next week’s trailer showed something distinctly Oodish. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/253 "2011-05-08T01:21:59Z")
Not a bad “monster of the week” episode. A little too much flummery and wacky from the Doctor early on, but Amy’s sword fight with the deeply reluctant pirates was a classic sequence 😃 and FFS stop trying to kill Rory! Overall, a bit of a meh episode, but some intriguing foreshadowing/call-backs thrown in. The next time trailer on the other hand… Neil Gaiman’s episode :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/254 "2011-05-08T02:13:15Z")
I was disappointed at the ending. The siren really an overly aggressive holographic doctor. Everybody safe and sound. Father and son reunited. The whole pirate crew reformed. It was like a happy Hollywood ending. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/255 "2011-05-08T02:23:07Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > I was disappointed at the ending. > The siren really an overly aggressive holographic doctor. > Everybody safe and sound. > Father and son reunited. The whole pirate crew reformed. > It was like a happy Hollywood ending. I rather liked it - it reminded me of the end of “The Doctor Dances,” which was the moment that really won me over with Doctor Who in general. Most of the elements you mentioned are present there too - the alien monster as a dedicated but misguided healer, everybody who’d been ‘infected’ safe and sound at the end, a parent and child reunited, a sinister character apparently somewhat reformed. (the doctor from the british sanitarium?) They even both had a fakeout at the end where it really seemed like a fan favorite character would be the only one to die. (Captain Jack/ Rory.) ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/256 "2011-05-08T02:27:19Z")
True. There are a lot of similarities. But I liked that one a lot better for some reason. Oh hey, if anybody is in to spoilers, here’s a link I found while looking for them. [http://www.aerospaceguide.net/doctorwho/2011.html](http://www.aerospaceguide.net/doctorwho/2011.html) ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/257 "2011-05-08T02:56:06Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > How do you feel about the Ood? Because next week’s trailer showed something distinctly Oodish. I, for one, freaking love the Ood. Go, Ood! I just hope it’s a free Ood and they don’t go back in time to when the Ood were still enslaved. Looks like we may find out more about Little Miss Time Lady next week, too. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/258 "2011-05-08T03:40:50Z")
Leaving a 17th century pirate in charge of an alien spaceship makes little sense either. No telling what weapons that ship had. A medical hologram that mistakes a scratch for something serious. 😕 Bizarre. I bet The Doctor on Voyager knows the difference in a scratch and something important like that kids TB. > [@Nobody](#): > > I was disappointed at the ending. > The siren really an overly aggressive holographic doctor. > Everybody safe and sound. > Father and son reunited. The whole pirate crew reformed. > It was like a happy Hollywood ending. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/259 "2011-05-08T05:31:07Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Leaving a 17th century pirate in charge of an alien spaceship makes little sense either. No telling what weapons that ship had. The first encounter with an asteroid field. “Hey, what are those rocks…” ((((((BOOM)))))) ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dr-who-season-uk-pace-edited-title/579347/260 "2011-05-08T05:51:06Z")
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