Doctor Who: Season 6 Spoiler Thread

I couldn't agree more - some echoes of how they played it with Charles Dickens in The Unquiet Dead , made all the more poignant by the mental illness angle. And surely the "if you've been affected..." must be a first for Doctor Who? Unless I missed the one that started "if you've been affected by the revelation that Daleks can climb stairs now, call..."

David

But then again, was there such a number pre-2005?

No but for the run of 'Nu-Who' it's a first all the same.

That was an excellent episode yesterday, one of the best of the series, so far!

I think it was vastly improved by having that awful assistant playing a minor role, as she was locked in the TARDIS. I hope she falls into 'the crack' in the series finale and gets erased from history!

She's back next year from what I've heard. Anyway, very nice episode, seemed a bit abrupt to start - could have given us 30 seconds of badinage in the TARDIS before Amy went vworping off - but made up for it later very nicely. I am getting a bit tired of perception filters though - at least they refrained from using that to explain the invisible monster last week.

Was the "upstairs" set the one based on the winner of the competition they ran for kids to design a console room?

Not too show about the "ultimate showdown" stylee of next week's ep... Daleks! Cybermen! Sontarans! Small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri!

David

Really starting to hate Daleks now, particularly in every finale, so not hugely looking forward to next week though it still looks good.

This week's episode was really fantastic though - clever story (IMO) and funny.

I personally believe next week's episode looks great, which would be fabulous considering the quality of Yesterday's episode. In reference the the TARDIS console room design competition, I believe it features/ed in Episode 11, whenever that was/is.

EDIT: That was Episode 11, so I believe it was.

I wasn't really looking forward to the episode with Corden in it, I've never really understood his appeal. After watching it, this week's was definitely one of my favourites of the series so far, Matt Smith's style of acting came into its own.
For me earlier worries about the eleventh doctor are now long gone. This series is both technically and creatively in a different league.

My sister still isn't keen on Matt.

I think he's ok & Amy too, but it's got be obvious now she features in a big way in the final episodes surely?

She's found the ring, which I suspect has been protected from outside events in a similar way to what the 2nd Doctor's recorder was in 'The Three Doctors' from 1972/73.

(Briefly the recorder fell inside the TARDIS console. When the Tardis(& it's occupants!) were transported to Omega's anti matter world & were 'converted' to exist in the anti matter world, the recorder wasn't & used to destroy Omega, but check out detailed Classic WHO episode guides or the video or the DVD or the Novelisation of the story(if you can find a copy in a secondhand bookshop!))

So what did people think of episode 12?

I've noticed that this series the pre-titles scene(s) have got longer than under RTD, this episode it was over 7 minutes in before the titles. The use of the Daleks, Cybermen, and other 'enemies' is interesting, as it wasn't a predictable scenario, and I personally didn't know what was going to happen. Compared to previous (recent) series this penultimate episode featured the Doctor in fewer scenes, which is presumably how they managed not to have a (noticeable) 'Doctor-lite' episode.

I liked it a lot. I still don't think any episode in the series has topped The Eleventh Hour though, which is a bit disappointing (not because it wasn't good - it was). I thought it was a great cliffhanger, though I hope we don't have to see the whole of reality threatened at the end of every single series from now on.

But are we finally going to find out what Amy is supposed to remember the Doctor telling her when she was 7?* And why does the duck pond have no ducks?

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David

I don't think she was meant to remember anything imparticular at that point. It was just to see if the crack had made her start to forget.

As for your dream comment, who says it was a dream...