DOCTOR WHO Spoiler Thread

[filkertom]

"The Doctor's Wife" is like nothing I might've expected. What a freakin' delight. And, having never seen her before, I hereby elevate Suranne Jones to my Fantasy Harem.

Have at it.

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

She was also the woman playing the Mona Lisa in an episode of the Sarah Jane Adventures. She's quite different here!

[smparadox.livejournal.com]

I was stoked as soon as I heard the voice of House, stoked for the line from the teasers for the season.

"Fear me - I've killed hundreds of Timelords."

"Fear me - I killed them all."

But I agree with you - big time Fantasy Harem material!

[ladysmith.livejournal.com]

Just went on here.

[ladysmith.livejournal.com]

Oh, me... that was wondrous.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

I haven't been happy with this season so far and the episode title made me really uneasy but oh, this was glorious!

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

This is my new favourite episode of "re-launched" (post-2005) Doctor Who, and pretty high in my list of all-time favourites.

Plus it also added/confirmed two interesting things to Doctor Who canon:

1. Cross-gender regenerations are possible.


2. The TARDIS is a conscious being.

[fiawol.livejournal.com]

It had the "feel" of a Neil Gaiman story, hopefully he didn't have to change too much of his initial concept to "fit" into Moffat's current vision of the direction he wants to go with Dr. Who. Definitely worth watching again and again!

[rrcgoose.livejournal.com]

Episodes like this are why I keep watching Doctor Who. Neil Gaiman did an absolutely brilliant job with this one!

Steve-

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAA-MEN!

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

It was brilliant. Neil has proven himself to be a true Doctor Who fan with a true Doctor Who adventure.
She talks as fast as the Doctor does. Those minds Are Huge.
And 11 in steampunk, goggles and tool belt. That is going to be fun for the costumers. ;)

[shadowofsummer.livejournal.com]

She used to be on Coronation Street, the long-running English soap opera. I was expecting acid-tongued Karen McDonald, being loud and brash and angry. Instead, quite pleasantly, she seems to have done a fantastic job of channelling Helena Bonham-Carter.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

You can tell Neil grew up loving the show. This episode had a wonderful "old timey" feel to it, just wonderful.

I really hope Neil gets to write for the show again.

And LOVED Michael Sheen as the voice of "House"

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

personally? _I_ loved how "sexy" :) was all muddled in reference points.

and it brings whole new shades of meaning to the exchange between Rose & Sarah Jane in "School reunion"!

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

My first thought: River Song is going to be so jealous of the TARDIS now :-)

I missed the opening credits so missed the episode title and that it was written by Neil Gaiman. Give it to Mr Gaiman to turn the TARDIS into an active character in the episode. So tell me again, who stole who in this relationship??

My only question is: why did the contructed console only have a floor and two walls? Did I miss a line of dialog that explained this? The floor makes sence, but not having only two walls instead of four.

Lonely, abandoned Rory was scary. As it should have been. Well done!!

[inamac.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's ever been established that a Tardis console has to be in an enclosed structure - it's been mentioned that Tardises have manifested as sentry boxes and bathtubs (I think the latter in this very episode).

So many Old canon references, and so much new/confirmed canon.

I may be in love with Neil Gaiman all over again.

Damn.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Well, they need at least two walls, a floor and ceiling to act as shields, witness the direction of flight though the vortex was such that they went walls first. As to why only that... that is all they had time to build at a guess.

[sidebernie.livejournal.com]

At several points during the episode I found myself saying, "Oh, poor River." How could she compete?

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

Loved it. TARDIS lore would not have worked as well earlier in the revised series. Now we got to listen to what the TARDIS had to say. Okay, I'm going to have to watch it again with subtitles to get it all.
Horray for Neil Gaiman to write this, and wait an additional year to get it produced.
I will have to wonder how new series only fans will be reacting to it.

[roane.livejournal.com]

I suppose technically I'm a "new series only fan"--I didn't start watching Doctor Who at all until 7 or 8 months ago and blew through the first 5 seasons before season 6 started. I have gone back and watched a few episodes of the original series--have tried to get a feel for each of the Doctors, at least. (Perhaps not surprisingly, Five is my favorite 'original' Doctor so far.)

All that said: Last night's episode was BRILLIANT.

[jenrose]

Suranne was fantastic playing opposite David Tennant in Single Father.

What a pleasing ep! With actual.... CANON. Like he actually bothered to look up how TARDISes are supposed to work.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Hmm... one point, probably not important but still... Ok House's planet, or ex-body is littered with wrecked TARDIS's, right? It also lies at the end of The Rift, which I gather is the same Rift that runs right though the universe, and Cardiff naturally. It's bottom of the drainhole in the universe.

It's also collapsing/collapsed. the doctor implies that it would reach a point of heat-death, absolute zero, in 3 hours after House departed. So spatial collapse wouldn't be that far behind. [it's what universes do when they die].

Ergo, all those bits would be vomited back though the rift, landing who-knows-where throughout time and space... and there was that 'rift manipulator' and chunk of suspiciously TARDIS-like coral on captain Jack's desk in Torchwood.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

A rift not necessarily the same rift as the Cardiff rift.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Except that it, the Cardiff rift and so on, are referred to as 'the rift'... singular, with modifiers like "The rift, in the Syrian major sector".

Leads me to think that there is only one rift, snaking through space and time, through which things fall and end up elsewhere/elsewhen which the end point or lowest point in some senses, is the bubble universe.

Who knows, we may get canon confirmation of this as the series progresses.

[roane.livejournal.com]

I have to say, my favorite line--it both made me laugh and said SO much about Idris/the TARDIS--was, "I like biting. It's like kissing, but there's a winner."

[http://users.livejournal.com/__kat__/]

STOP KILLING RORY!! Please?

Awesome episode. But seriously, I love Rory and I really hate watching him die.

[batyatoon]

AGREED. Any one of the fake deaths we've seen = amazing, heartrending, &c. All of them = Oh Come On Now.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I said it elsewhere but it's worth repeating: Rory is the Kenny of DW. I just hope Arthur Darvill is having fun chewing the scenery (it looks like fun, at least).

[batyatoon]

*serene* The TARDIS agrees with me about Rory being pretty, apparently.

[arakasi1.livejournal.com]

You have to feel sorry for Stephen Thompson. Imagine being told "We want you to write an episode of Doctor Who. We will have to sandwich your episode between a Stephen Moffet two part season opener and Neil Gaiman's first episode. That won't be a problem, will it?"

[sdelmonte]

I am in the minority here, but when it comes to Gaiman, I usually am. I liked it, but didn't really buy the premise, thought the scenes with Rory and Amy fleeing in the TARDIS were pointless, and didn't care much for the Gaiman moments. That said, the acting was really good, and GNeil really does seem to get the characters. But his vision of the show is not mine.

[antinomic.livejournal.com]

A blue police call box is Sexy? Who knew? Who, indeed.