The official 2015 Doctor Who (with spoilers for aired episodes only) thread

[delericho]

Huh. Of all the plot points from the McGann spell, that was one I really didn't expect them to dig up again.

Plus, it was awfully lucky that room 12 didn't reset...

 

[Morrus]

Holy moley, looks like there's going to be a major climate change in Doctor Who!

I loved that. It was awesome. Although...

The Doctor's dead now. They need to rename the show. That's just a clone of him. If he claims to be 2000 years old (or 2 billion?) he's telling a big porkey - as of now he's about 6 hours old.

 

[MarkB]

Very good, intense, unexpected episode, and a great performance by Capaldi, essentially carrying an entire episode on his own.

He was sounding very Tom Baker in this episode, especially in his narrrative voice.

 

[Morrus]

It's a game changer. Gallifrey is back, and put him in a billion-year trial to extract a confession about the hybrid from him?

What sort of hybrid is he? He stated that the Dalek hybrid idea is ludicrous - Daleks would not accept that.

I really hope they're not revisiting that weak-ass half-human idea from the TV movie.

 

[trappedslider]

The Doctor's last line is "The hybrid [...] is me." Or is it "The hybrid [...] is Me" ?

 

[Guest 85555]

The Doctor's last line is "The hybrid [...] is me." Or is it "The hybrid [...] is Me" ?

I completely missed that. Interesting.

 

[Guest 85555]

e. Although...

The Doctor's dead now. They need to rename the show. That's just a clone of him. If he claims to be 2000 years old (or 2 billion?) he's telling a big porkey - as of now he's about 6 hours old.

I think he was saying that is how teleported work--they are like 3D printers. So the moment he teleporters there, it wasn't the original. But whether it constitutes a new doctor or not, that is venturing into some tricky territory.

 

[Morrus]

The Doctor's last line is "The hybrid [...] is me." Or is it "The hybrid [...] is Me" ?

Oh...

That didn't occur to me. Good thinking. Though if he ran away from Gallifrey because of some hybrid-related secret, Me wasn't around until much later.

 

[MarkB]

I think he was saying that is how teleported work--they are like 3D printers. So the moment he teleporters there, it wasn't the original. But whether it constitutes a new doctor or not, that is venturing into some tricky territory.

Yeah - like, if he'd had another power source available, could he have cloned up a load of extra Doctors?

It's kind-of hard to tell how literally to take the whole confession-wheel experience. I think it literally happened from the Doctor's perspective, but whether it took place out in normal reality or was all part of some self-contained pocket universe is less clear. Is the Doctor now billions of years into the future, or did that time only pass within the confines of the device?

 

[Morrus]

Yeah - like, if he'd had another power source available, could he have cloned up a load of extra Doctors?

It's kind-of hard to tell how literally to take the whole confession-wheel experience. I think it literally happened from the Doctor's perspective, but whether it took place out in normal reality or was all part of some self-contained pocket universe is less clear. Is the Doctor now billions of years into the future, or did that time only pass within the confines of the device?

He's frequently billions of years in the future! Time traveller, y'know!