Doctor Who

[Nick R]

It's "for the man who has everything" all over again.

You're not the only one to spot that...

https://twitter.com/leahmoore/status/549323348766109698

[Guest]

Well that explains why it was such a good underlying concept.

[Made of Ghosts]

Because the 'hole in the head' theory was all part of the dream.

So what did the dream crabs do to kill people? Anything? Why the urgency to wake up?

And how come the four books didn't contain the same words - because they were dreamt by separate people - but they spelt out sentences when put together? When a similar thing happened in Clara's dream it was the Doctor sending her messages, but the others were sleeping alone.

This is actually the same problem I had with Inception, it didn't quite all fit together the more I thought about it. I try not to poke at plot holes too much but a story like this needs clear rules/stakes and I found them a bit muddled, even with the Doc expositing stuff every other line.

[Fury4k]

None of the other people existed I think. At least at the end the doctor said something or other that suggested he was being targeted and Clara was targeted because of her relationship with him. Whatever the head crabs were and whatever they were doing I don't think any of the dream world explanations were completely accurate. I think once again the answers are mostly that it doesn't matter.

[Sprite Machine]

Hmm... well, that was almost good. But nah.

[NEG]

A wizard did it.

[Beitel]

And how come the four books didn't contain the same words - because they were dreamt by separate people - but they spelt out sentences when put together? When a similar thing happened in Clara's dream it was the Doctor sending her messages, but the others were sleeping alone.

That's just how dreams work: our memories have gone to shit a bit and trying to read something (or look at a clock for time) isn't really possible. It's a trick used by lucid dreamers to check whether they are dreaming or not. Moffat did stole the "time goes progressively slower with dreams within dreams" stuff from Inception, but that is also based on the weird way time works in dreams. Just like that film it isn't actually like how dreams work, but close enough ultimately to be one of Moffat's clearer plots. The only plot hole was maybe the lack of holes in people's heads, but that can be explained by saying that the whole thing probably just lasted a couple of minutes in reality.

[WibbleWorldGiddy]

Doctor Puppet is back in a Christmas episode

[Guest]

None of the other people existed I think. At least at the end the doctor said something or other that suggested he was being targeted and Clara was targeted because of her relationship with him. Whatever the head crabs were and whatever they were doing I don't think any of the dream world explanations were completely accurate. I think once again the answers are mostly that it doesn't matter.

They did. He said the others were collateral damage so they did exist. They could have done an amazing episode reuniting people from the doctors past but...well...they didn't.

[Nick R]

Doctor Who pictures + Futurama captions.

This and this are the best ones.

[Dimahoo]

How weird that you posted that yesterday when i only just watched the chrimbo episode last night.

[Nick R]

[HarMGM]

That is quite good. The Rain trailer the same guy posted before series 8 was also quite good. Even managed to attract the attention of Moffat and Capaldi. Capaldi mentioned it in the World Tour Doc that aired a month ago.

[NEG]

Can't help miss Doctor Who starting in April, albeit knowing the latter half of the year is certainly better suited.

We need Who all year long.

[El Pibe]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/31138618

Dr Who Lego

[Nick R]

Oh, this is just cruel:

[Mogster]

I know right? The only Doctor Who was Peter Cushing.

[davidcotton]

Congratulations to Big Finish on getting the license renewed for another 5 years. If you need a who fix between now and when the series comes back on the telly why not give them a try?

[Nick R]

Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of a remarkable event. Yes: on 26th March 2005, the Burping Bin was broadcast to our screens for the very first time.

And no-one here bothered to mark the occasion!

(But strangely, all the post-broadcast discussion at the start of this thread is dated 28th March 2005... )

[cassidy]

Well in my opinion the past 10 yrs of Who have been fucking awesome. Cos its better than no who. 2013 alone with the BBC keeling secret McGanns appearance was fucking magical telly.

[davidcotton]

Oh, this is just cruel:

I know right? The only Doctor Who was Peter Cushing.

Both wrong, it was Nick Briggs

[MDY]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/38990615-a32e-41b5-9765-137ecd727f86

On her first day on set Maisie Williams said, “I'm so excited to be working on Doctor Who as it’s such a big and important part of British Culture. I can’t wait to meet the cast and crew and start filming, especially as we’ll be shooting not too far from my home town.”

Steven Moffat, lead writer and Executive Producer, added, “We’re thrilled to have Maisie Williams joining us on Doctor Who. It’s not possible to say too much about who or what she’s playing, but she is going to challenge the Doctor in very unexpected ways. This time he might just be out of his depth, and we know Maisie is going to give him exactly the right sort of hell.”

[Meh]

She'll play a shitty alien in a shitty episode. Calling it now.

[Fury4k]

Reads to me like she'll be his granddaughter or something.

[Harsin]

Moffat can only write two female voices, so take your pick which she ends up with.

[Delargey]

I bet she will be "fiesty".

[Space Renegade Ulala]

I was going to say 'why would she be Susan?' but I suppose when you've got a time machine, etc. Still, it'd be weird if she had regenerated into another kid. Most likely she's just some random waif they bump into.

[Fury4k]

Yeah I didn't think to much about the specifics. But with all the attempts to get back to the shows roots it kind of makes sense to me that they would go for a character with the essence at least of her.

[Sidewaysbob]

She'll be a young River Song ..

[Death's Head]

Re: The above discussion: "Who's your favourite companion"