3 weeks till new Who!

Herschel · May 12, 2013

I liked the episode though I'm really looking forward to next week. I'm now wishing I'd pre-ordered Series 7 on DVD as apparently some went out early. Moffat is promising to release a Matt and David video after the episode if spoilers don't show up online.

MarkB · May 13, 2013

I enjoyed the episode, and I like the new Cyberman design (though the glowing chest plate is a little too "Iron Man").

RangerWickett said:
Fun episode. Some people hated on it, . . . and it is a bit depressing that

multiple people died just so the Doctor could rescue two kids; they could have just blown up the planet at the beginning, right? If the Emperor had just done his job and activated the bomb, everyone (except the kids) would have been teleported to safety.

That stuff didn't bother me as much as right at the very beginning. The Doctor suspects that something is wrong, maybe very wrong, and the Cybermen may be involved. He can (a) take the kids home and then return a few seconds later, or (b) send the kids to sleep in the TARDIS. Instead he has them kip down not ten feet away from where he first spotted signs of trouble.

Plane Sailing · May 13, 2013

MarkB said:
That stuff didn't bother me as much as right at the very beginning. The Doctor suspects that something is wrong, maybe very wrong, and the Cybermen may be involved. He can (a) take the kids home and then return a few seconds later, or (b) send the kids to sleep in the TARDIS. Instead he has them kip down not ten feet away from where he first spotted signs of trouble.

That bothered me too - it was such an astonishingly stupid thing to do that I can't believe that neither the Doctor nor Clara batted an eyelid about it.

Plane Sailing · May 19, 2013

No discussion about the doctors name yet? Well, I'll wait for others to start it...

Dannyalcatraz · May 19, 2013

I'm not sure which is more dangerous: having 2 kids sleeping in a room on a planet he suspects may have problems (when there are perfectly healthy adults running around the planet, unscathed...or leaving 2 kids alone, unsupervised, on the TARDIS.

MerricB · May 19, 2013

Nice ending to The Name of the Doctor.

Cheers!

Aeolius · May 19, 2013

agreed. My brain....ummmm.... Hurts

Richards · May 19, 2013

I think that was an awesome explanation for Clara, "The Impossible Girl." All in all, a very enjoyable episode - probably my favorite of the half-season.

Johnathan

Guest 85555 · May 19, 2013

Bedrockgames said:
excellent. If she turns out not to be CAL, I will write a blog entry entitled Morrus was Right and I was Wrong on the Bedrock Blog.

Yes, this made me nervous about offering the wager, but I suspect he is just trying to throw us off the scent.

Here you go Morrus (if you haven't seen the finale don't follow the link): http://thebedrockblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/morrus-was-right-and-i-was-wrong.html

Eridanis · May 19, 2013

Yeah, the explanation for Clara was pretty sensible; far less hand-wavey than I'd expected. This finale felt a lot more organic (and IMO moving) that "The Wedding of River Song" last year. Very good episode, and it wrapped up what I thought was a very good run this Spring.

I'd even go as far as to say that Season 7 in toto was the best season of NewWho. Some genuinely excellent episodes (Asylum, Angels Take Manhattan, Hide, JttCotT, and this one) and only two that I have no real desire to see again (Town Called Mercy, Rings of Akhaten). All very watchable, with none being terrible stinkers in my mind.

And Bedrockgames, you were incorrect, but definitely in the right neighborhood. Certainly closer than my thinking, which was that the Bad Wolf had something to do with it.