Did anyone else wonder how the boogers survived when the alien was a skeleton?
And I think Amy is related to the little girl in some way, even if it is as a “host” mother. The Silence specifically told her that “We do you honor. You will bring the Silence.”
So first, they needed a human female to carry the baby (cue Flying Saucer abduction stories with medical experiments), and then they needed something humans would recognize as not inimical to keep the child alive once delivered.
Of course, that leaves the fact that the Silence already existed and didn’t need to be “brought” as a rather large loose end. Plus, where did they come from originally? They obviously arrived after the lizard dudes went into hibernation.
I also wondered about the alien boogers and missing pirate. I have no answers for you. Perhaps alien boogers maintain their … viscosity even after leaving the alien’s nose?
BBCamerica mostly runs the shows uncut–with commercials added per our quaint Yank customs. If they do edits, the longer version can be seen On Demand–part of most cable packages. Matt Smith’s first year is on view through this October; the first episode, as aired, was missing:
But every bit is available On Demand!
For some of the “specials” in Tennant’s last year, the full length will occasionally make the regular schedule; at other times, a slightly trimmed version is shown.
BBCamerica has been doing a better job than Syfy did…
I’m just thinking along the lines that maybe Amy is having her memories reviewed and edited. The pirate just plain vanishing could have been due to the editing. Kind of like Deja Vu in the Matrix.
Yeah, I got that upon reading the thread, but as I was watching it, I just assumed.
I remember when they were showing that sitcom about high school kids (Inbetweeners? was that the name?) the OnDemand versions often had less editing than the aired version, but there was still a good deal of editing done. I don’t know if anything was removed outright, but lots of swears being edited out and stuff. Just less than on the actual broadcast.
Wow! Somehow Neil Gaiman managed to drain all the awesome out of last week’s episode and absorb it into this one. Obviously Neil Gaiman is a Time Lord. Or possibly a TARDIS.
There’s only one word to describe this episode: Sexy
When I did my First Aid Course it was explained to us that our legal position had now changed, as we had now been educated in First Aid if we screwed up we could be sued for negligence and were no longer protected by Good Samaritan laws.
I note that the TARDIS energy - when she’s first dropped into the body, and when she activates the cobbled-together console - is the same as regeneration energy…
Such as when the little girl apparently regenerates. Which gives us yet another potential theory about her.
On the evils of spoilers - that little interchange between House and the Doctor could really have been so much cooler if somebody hadn’t gone “Oh, that’s so cool, let’s put it in the season trailer.” So we all watched the trailer, and saw it, and said “Oh, those lines are so cool, I wonder what they mean.”
And in this episode, when House started to say his line, it was like, “Oh, yeah. This is where the cool bit happens.”
Fear me. I’ve killed hundreds of Time Lords.
Fear me! I’ve killed them all.
OK, that was a very good episode that edged on greatness. I loved it.
[spoiler] The actress that played the Tardis was so very good.
I was hoping that the older control room would be a more classic one. It would have been fun to see an old old one.
And, once again, Oh my God! They killed Rory! You bastards!
And I loved loved LOVED that they made the Tardis a character and gave her a voice. What a cool concept - all this time the Doctor thought he stole her, and it turns out they stole each other. Also loved seeing Nine’s/Ten’s control room again.
Please tell me Neil Gaiman is up for writing more episodes?
Neil Gaiman is very gifted and a genius at science fiction.
I am bothered a bit at [spoiler]seeing impotent and powerless Timelords & Tardis so easily defeated by the creature House. This thing had created a Tardis graveyard. The great and powerful Timelords were literally turned into body parts.
A Brilliant story. But does this diminish Doctor Who? There’s something unsettling that such a race of exalted beings have feet of clay. [/spoiler]
Loved seeing the 1970’s corridors again. Brought back a lot of great memories. I hope they keep those sets.
They’ve always had feet of clay. Big ones. Like the old gods, they’re humans writ large, smarter and more experienced because of their life spans, and with access to one hell of a technology, but their feet (and probably right up to their hips) were clay.
Gracious, what an episode. I hope they can have Neil back at some point!
