DOCTOR WHO: CLOSING TIME Spoiler Thread

[filkertom]

You don't have to go home but you can't... stay... here....

Comments

[roane.livejournal.com]

I love Craig more than I can adequately express. Which means I was pretty predisposed to love this episode. :)

[rrcgoose.livejournal.com]

Craig is very fun, and I could see him having been a good full-time companion. The play between him and the Doctor being 'partners' was very silly.

But, after a few weeks of good episodes I feel this one fell a bit flat. It seemed that they just needed a way to set up the story for next week, and the rest of the plot came secondary.

I still have no clue how they're going to get the Doctor out of this one...

Steve-

[rrcgoose.livejournal.com]

Oh, and of course, who couldn't love Stormageddon?

Steve-

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

heh... yay Stormy! But yeah, it did feel a bit ... forced, but I'm still chafing a little from the last two.

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

It felt like fun. I liked it. Hope the story arc stuff comes together well next week.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I liked the set-up for why the Doctor was there: he visiting past companions to say a final good-bye. Sounds like there could have been a lot of stories like that we had not seen. Especially since 200 years of the Doctor's lifetime has now passed. Then again, we don't know much time passed for the Doctor between leaving Amy and Rory after Melody was kidnapped and when they rejoined travelling with the Doctor.

The Doctor just can not turn away from a problem. That part did not feel forced. But some of that did feel forced, like getting the stetson at the end.

Well, we now know who was in the astronaut suit. But we all figured that storyline was not over yet. It is even money that the flesh will be used to get out of this.

I bet on we do NOT get an answer to how the Doctor gets out of this one at the end of next week's episode, and the Xmas special is just a story set sometime during this season (maybe one of the stories hinted at but not shown).

[voiceofkiki.livejournal.com]

I'd be much more invested in the story if it wasn't for the fact that we already know that Matt, Karen, and Arthur are all signed on for series 7. So it's really just "wonder how they'll explain it" for me now.

I want to have a child just so I can name it Stormaggedon now. This is possibly the best evidence I have for why no one should allow me to have a child.

Also, rewatched The Almost People and A Good Man Goes to War today (showing them to my father). The cybermats are mentioned in the former, and talking to babies in the latter. There are so many things like that this season. I think Moff is better at those touches than RTD was, and RTD was known for it. Good stuff.

[maiac.livejournal.com]

I think this episode is going to prove to be more important than just a "one-off" change of pace from the story arc. Craig is easy to underestimate; but he shares the Doctor's memories, and quite forcefully reminded the Doctor of the good he's done.

"Stormageddon" made me laugh and laugh.

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure where to go with all this. It all seems too pat and too predictable. The Moff *snicker* is often times not so straightforward.

For instance River's suit could get caught on a rock or pipe and someone in another suit could kill The Doctor.

I was absolutely thrilled with the changes in Craig and the fact that hearing Stormy was what helped him overcome the cyber conversion process. Anybody who doesn't think that would work or doesn't understand that scene has most likely never been a parent. ;-) (And yes Stormageddon was awesome!)

And count me among the people wondering how the heck Moff is going to write himself out of this one. (I can think of at least one way using Fleshy Doctor and a teleporter to swap bodies at a precise moment in time.) But who know? The fixed point in time may not be as fixed as we believe. The records from the justice ship may be wrong and that was where The Doctor got his info from. So The Doctor may think that's where he dies but it may not be correct.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Yeah...this episode played like a filler or set up for next week, with a bit of plot tacked on to hold it together.

[muddlewait.livejournal.com]

I think it'd be funny if Moff found a way to mostly reset all of reality again.

If he did that at the end of every season he produced, as much as I don't like seat-of-your-pants plotting, I'd have to respect the statement that made.