DOCTOR WHO Spoiler Thread

[filkertom]

Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey....

Comments

[rrcgoose.livejournal.com]

Well, now that we've completely broken down the Doctor...

Of course, I'm sure there will be much speculation of what the Doctor saw behind his door. I suspect that it's a room full of past companions, though if specifically one it would of course be Rose.

Steve-

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

Hey! Haven't we been in that hotel? One con or another? But I'm thinking Galt House.

[kosaginolegion.livejournal.com]

I'm almost wondering if the Doctor's enemies are behind the last two episodes. How better to make it easier to kill someone than to make them less likely to fight back?

Also, I suspect that the thing behind his door was himself.

[celisnebula.livejournal.com]

*Sighs* I don't know which to me is sadder - that he forced them out or if, had he let them stay, their being with them could've potentially destroyed them. We really haven't seen the after affects of what a person goes through when they're done with the Doctor... except for Sarah Jane. And that was just a sad sort of comment, the life unfulfilled afterwards.

[shadowofsummer.livejournal.com]

I assumed it would be the Doctor himself behind the door. If I had to guess at a single incarnation, I'd pick the Eighth, what with him being the one that ended the Time War by killing his entire species and all.

[shadowofsummer.livejournal.com]

I figured the same thing about the Doctor's personal Room 101. I don't see it being anyone but himself.

[shadowofsummer.livejournal.com]

It reminded me of the movie 'Cube', except if every room had been someone's Room 101...

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones, myself.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

We haven't seen in detail, though we've had some pretty effective glimpses, from the flashes when Ten is visiting his companions (Mickey and Martha fighting the Sontarans!) to the guest shot of Jo Grant on The Sarah Jane Adventures. My impression is that nobody comes away unchanged, and that in many if not most cases, for the better. (I'd like to think that's part of the point of the series.)

I know that, given a chance, I wouldn't hesitate even a split instant in saying "yes".

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Much better than The Girl Who Waited. Lots of fun concepts, a direct reference to Old Who, and a holodeck.

Like everyone else, I think the Doctor's Room 11 probably contained himself, though I wouldn't be surprised if it contained ghosts of all the Time Lords he'd ever known and saw destroyed (by his own hand).

Getting Amy and Rory out of the TARDIS sets us up for a return to the desert, where we started the season, in a couple of episodes, no?

[celisnebula.livejournal.com]

True for the older companions. I was thinking more of Rose and Donna - I don't Donna's come off the better at all. And Rose... there's potential there, but she spent a lot of time (until ten 2) trying to get back to him.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Donna is the Mother of All Exceptions to what I said. Her fate is perhaps the most unkind of any character, anywhere, any time, any genre. And worse: she doesn't and cannot know it.

Rose, while exiled from our universe, at least winds up with Ten!Clone. And both her parents, effectively reconciled. Not to mention how effective a force for good she seems to have become in her own right. It took a couple of years of pain, but I'd say it worked out for her.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

This was actually the first episode of Doctor Who that I've seen. It was really good but the problem arises that I'm not usually home when it's on. I was thinking about looking for episodes online but downloading them presents the problem of disk space.

I'll figure something out but I will watch the earlier seasons somehow.

I'm not really sure what the Doctor saw behind his door but it was his subdued reaction that I thought was really interesting.

[ann-totusek.livejournal.com]

She'll never stop waiting...

[fiawol.livejournal.com]

It actually made me laugh out loud that the Doctor's "personal" room was #11! :-)

[jenrose]

Apples. What? The Doctor is suddenly eating apples. Even though they're awful.

This, more than anything, makes me scratch my head and go "hmmm."

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

My theory is, given the sound of the cloister bell, would be just an empty TARDIS, slowly dying... after all, what happens to her when/if the Doctor dies.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

"For an ancient being, drenched in blood, trapped in a never-ending maze, death would come as a kind of gift.... wasn't talking about myself, not really!"

The Doctors words, spoken as the Minotaur lay dying. Foreshadowing much.

[roane.livejournal.com]

There have been lots of little bits like this over the last few episodes. Something is up.

[roane.livejournal.com]

Every time we get a glimpse of the Doctor's self-loathing, it breaks my heart. And this half-season seems to be all about his self-loathing.

[roane.livejournal.com]

I actually thought he was translating the Minotaur's words, right down to the "wasn't talking about myself".

[shadowofsummer.livejournal.com]

I think Donna's fate may be rivalled by the First Doctor locking Susan out of the TARDIS, in the middle of a post-apocalyptic London, entirely on the basis of 'oh, well she and this guy she just met seem to really like each other.' Made worse by the fact that she's his granddaughter, and that he doesn't seem to give her much thought after that.

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

*cough*fleshdoctor*cough*

I would be not at all surprised if The Doctor on the beach was actually the fleshy one and the person in the space suit was the real doctor.

[maiac.livejournal.com]

I said "Hmmm" at the end of the previous episode when the Doctor walked up to Amy and Rory where they sat on the wall and said [paraphrasing], "Here you are, in the flesh."

[maiac.livejournal.com]

Would someone please tell the scriptwriters that there are other emotions they can evoke in the audience besides fear and grief? Please? I'm getting really tired of this great show degenerating into hurt/comfort fanfic, only without the comfort.