Doctor Who - Discussion Thread II

Don't get why it had to be a goddamn minotaur (you could very tenuously link it to the whole 'hotel as maze of fears' theme, I suppose), but **** it.

Imo, generally this season has been weak. It started of great but recent episodes show it becoming weaker and weaker.
I mean, it's a great storyline they've got with River being Amy&Rory's child but the actors seem to lack chemistry when doing a scene with all three of them. However, if it's only two of them in one scene then the chemistry isn't as bad
And the whole "Doctor dies" thing seems so awkward because they don't seem to have been building up to it. I mean fine, River comes, River goes like she has always done but I figured they would do something a bit more because this season has so much potential as they've built a family around her.
I just hope the last two episodes change my mind.

Imo, generally this season has been weak. It started of great but recent episodes show it becoming weaker and weaker.
I mean, it's a great storyline they've got with River being Amy&Rory's child but the actors seem to lack chemistry when doing a scene with all three of them. However, if it's only two of them in one scene then the chemistry isn't as bad
And the whole "Doctor dies" thing seems so awkward because they don't seem to have been building up to it. I mean fine, River comes, River goes like she has always done but I figured they would do something a bit more because this season has so much potential as they've built a family around her.
I just hope the last two episodes change my mind.

Apologies if the following have already been speculated upon - I've been away for the weekend:

- I think my previous theory about there being more than one Doctor here is pretty well supported (if I may say so myself ), although they both seem to have the same timeline. I'll explain: the Doctor had blue bow-tie on in this episode, but in the next episode he had his long coat again. I'm fairly sure this isn't just a random costume change because it's happened too many times now. But, as I said, their timelines and past events seem to be congruent - in Let's Kill Hitler, both Doctors were dying and in yesterday's episode, both Doctors seem to be without Amy/Rory (the Doctor goes away on his own at the end and there is no sign of Amy/Rory in next week's episode with the long-coated Doctor).

I did get the impression today that there were two Doctor's running around that hotel - the switch from the Doctor sitting at the table with the first possessed guy (the gambler) to the Doctor picking him up on that chair lift thingy seemed too sudden (guess it could have been poor cinematography) and there was a clip with the Doctor running around the hotel, and he appeared twice running in opposite directions (although I suppose the hotel rooms do change so that might be the reason). Either way, I got the sense there was more to today's episode than meets the eye.

Also, I got the impression that the squished nose I-like-to-be-defeated guy is more important than we think. I was expecting all through the episode for him to turn out to be the bad guy.

Sorry but this picture has actually made me go into meltdown!!
Its a spoiler about the final episode so I'll spoiler tag it

Why has it made you go into meltdown? It doesn't really have anything we don't already know. Unless i'm missing something

Just a random thought; do you think there's any relevance to River Song being a 'Doctor'?

Yes but not in the way that a person might immediately think.

If I had to theorise, I would say it's a name given during marriage.

Cryptic...

It would be far to obvious if she actually married the Doctor though. I would be SO dissapointed if she did.

Minor spoiler about the age of the Doctor in the next episode...





The above might answer your question.

Ok. Thanks for sharing that. I'm even more confused now then, because the Doctor in the long coat is 200 years old but so is the one in the short tweed jacket (because he's wearing the tweed one when he dies in Utah).

Judging by the outdated and irrelevant episode description, I wouldn't put too much attention on the cast which is probably a sum of all the main characters in the new series.

Exciting stuff.

Closing Time Teasers



Closing Time spoiler info about ending. Not a huge spoiler. Well...



Fourteen teasers for the finale, from both Closing Time and The Wedding of River Song (yes, I called it the episode because the title is not a spoiler)