The Doctor regularly calls his species “Time Lord”, so unless he’s *amazingly *classist, that has to cover Gallifreyan janitors too.
I have a feeling most Time Lords don’t take a fancy name like “The Doctor” or “The Master”. After all, some of the most famous have a regular (well, maybe regular for Gallifrey) name like “Rassilon” or “Romana”.
Well, technically it was “Romanadvoratrelundar”.
I agree - but you could have had some of the companions it there - Susan - the Doctors Granddaughter - or Leela - she stayed on Gallefrey… I am aware of the age limitation - but something would have been better - A nod to the classic…
I really loved the 5ish doctors - it was fantastic.
Glad to hear I wasn’t the only one, mate.
It also solved the riddle of the “protest” outside the BBC six months or so ago. Nobody was sure if Davison/McCoy/Baker were serious or joking or what at the time.
Being honest, I think John Hurt was under-utilised. For all we’ve heard of the bad-assness of this Doctor, the “War Doctor” no less, all we have seen him do is look ragged, shoot some words into a wall and make an extremely tough decision. I kind of expected more from him, something that gives meaning to why the woman in the minisode hated McGann’s Doctor, hell his species, so much.
Instead I was left wanting.
Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed it but it could have been much, much better.
Like everything with Doctor Who continuity, it’s somewhat complicated, but from what I read on the Doctor Who wiki, there’s indeed a difference between Gallifreyans and Time Lords, with the latter being considered variously the elite ruling class of Gallifrey, a separate species alltogether (thanks to the intervention of Rassilon), or simply Gallifreyans with a TARDIS.
I have no idea what, if any, of this still applies after the reboot, though.
I thought that, at least in NuWho, timelords were gallifreyans who looked into that abyss thingie as children.
Well, the episode took place on the last day of the Time War. Judging from the minisode, there had been quite a few years of it prior to 8’s regeneration into War, with concomitant atrocities and massive collateral damage by both sides, apparently. If the very blurry reflection of the form of the new regeneration at the end of the minisode shows a young War Doctor, then he’s gone through 40 or 50 years, at least, of Time War since then. I think the point was that his bad-assery was both in the past and that he was TIRED, physically, mentally and emotionally, of it all. I found Hurt’s weariness with the war (and the universe, apparently) to be very effective in drawing a contrast between that regeneration and 10 and 11 (11 and 12?). He considered them to be children, squabbling and playing and being smartasses when there was deadly serious stuff to be done (like genociding two galactic species). I hate to say it, because I love all the Doctors, but Hurt was plainly one of the greatest actors to play any part in any series of Who (with possibly some serious competition from Sir Derek Jacobi).
We went to the movie theater viewing last night and really enjoyed ourselves. I drove a car full of kids, four teens and two younger. (In fact, my nine year old got to do her very first cosplay last night. She dressed as Rose Tyler in a Union Jack shirt, denim jacket and cool boots. She had a great time telling people who she was.)
John Hurt was amazing. We loved the story. While it was short, I was actually glad it wasn’t longer. I felt like the story was tidy without dragging things out with filler nonsense.
And yes, I half expected Angels under the sheets. It was a Moffat episode after all. 
You know, that’s an interesting thought. If you covered an Angel with a sheet, would it still be time-stopped? Or would the sheet interrupt the whole “looking at them” thing? Could this be some kind of Angel workaround?
I loved the episode. Some more insight into the Time War would have been nice but there’s more Doctor to come so whatever.
My only complaint was The Moment taking on the form of Rose. She said she took the form as it was in his mind yet the Doctor had not met Rose yet. So unless The Moment can see all of the Doctors and their minds it didn’t make sense.
I know they wanted to bring Rose back but they could have had her being 10s’ companion and then we could have had some 11 and Rose interaction which I think could have been fun.
That’s what I was assuming until the suckerheads came out. I was thinking Unit had caught some angels and were storing them in their top secret vault and that having the sheet over them kept them in statue form by not being able to see.
She had some line about "I took this form from your past…or maybe your future. I can never keep those two straight.
It was a bit dumb.
It was kind of implied in the episode where the Tardis becomes a woman that the consciousnesses of timelord tech have problems understanding the ways that regular beings experience time and make mistakes like that.
Well, two things. One: the Doctor had to be willing to annihilate everybody, and to do it (even if it was, eventually, only the first time through), in order to have the time to calculate how to stuff them into a pocket universe. So he legitimately experienced the tragedy. Two: if the Time Lords are still corrupt or are dangerously defensive, the Doctor now has the ongoing dilemma of wanting to bring them back and wanting to keep them away.
He may even end up finding them and then having to fight to keep them from coming back on their own. There’s still plenty of grit to be had in future scripts, if there’s the will to use it.
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Depends entirely on the thread count of the sheet.
Beneath 150-thread muslin: the angels are quantum-locked. Beneath 1500-thread Egyptian cotton: they are READY TO POUNCE!
Agreed - he’s the Jimmy Carter of the Doctors (for Brits, Jimmy Carter’s reputation as President was horrible, but he’s earned high praise and respect for his work since leaving office).
Not that Davison was a bad Doctor - he was a fave of mine - but the mini web episode he did with Tennant, and then this; I’m getting a whole new respect for Five. But I remember his mawky humor as Tristan Farnon on All Creatures Great And Small.
Oh Gawd - I just outed myself as a Old Guy, didn’t I?