PriorMarcus posted:

You weren't blind to it, it was non existent.

The_Doctor posted:

lines posted:

WERE BBAK BABEY

ok as a trans person I thought some things were handled a bit clumsily but clearly in a way designed to upset internet chuds so uh, fine, and also, it's rusty, he knows writers who use subtext and they're all cowards, and furthermore

WERE BBAK BABEY

lines posted:

Love that we literally got this.

lines posted:

So... does anyone have ANY guesses as to what the next episode is actually about?

Fil5000 posted:

When will those idiot suits at the beeb finally give us the doctor we deserve - Brian Blessed hosting his unhinged Have I Got News For You episode

Harlock posted:

If we get just like 30 seconds of Eccelston on screen again in the RTD2 era, it will all have been worth it.

DavidCameronsPig posted:

Problem with her first half-season is that it wasn’t with Capaldi, and her and Smith as a pairing just became sorta obnoxious.

Confusedslight posted:

Fine I'll rewatch star beast again.

Jerusalem posted:

Hey that's the Machine-Person from Metropolis in the background I think!?!

Jerusalem posted:

While I hated the Timeless Child as a concept, I'm glad that some kind of acknowledgement of half the universe being wiped out by the Flux actually got mentioned!

Jerusalem posted:

Bless that poor dead alien captain, saving an entire universe who would never, ever know what they had done.

They're talking about Horseoglyphs on Unleashed

Mr Beens posted:

That was great.
Although now hearing the credits theme for a second time and not having to digest so much, who the gently caress thought that having that "clackity clack" over the top and nearly drowning out the main music was a good idea?

Edward Mass posted:

While this was a good episode, I feel like none of these 60th Anniversary episodes really feel like a 60th Anniversary episode, and just feel like episodes you could have any Doctor and companion in.

Mr Beens posted:

I appreciate the references to the previous seasons, RTD didn't have to. But I hope he doesn't feel the need to spend too much time or energy justifying and "fixing" it over just doing his own thing.

Jerusalem posted:

One of my big regrets is that we never got an RTD episode written while Moffat was the showrunner, I would have loved to have seen that dynamic. Closest we got was RTD writing 11 in Sarah Jane Adventures, which was a lot of fun but not quite the same thing.

The_Doctor posted:

He's hinted heavily on instagram that he may.

Jerusalem posted:

So that's that. Gallifrey got wiped out anyway. Oh well. Remember all this billions of children in particular that the Doctor lamented dying in the Time War only to discover they'd saved them all? Yeah, apparently they all died anyway. Horribly. With worse yet to come in reveals made at the end of this season. Ugh.

Jerusalem posted:

If you take the word of noted liar The Master as the truth, due to him using the infallible Matrix (proven fallible in its own first appearance, due to sabotage by.... The Master!) to prove it, then the Doctor was some kid found on a deserted planet next to a portal to another universe by a contemporary of Rassilon and Omega who adopted her, then discovered she could regenerate when she died and proceeded to vivisect her for years until she figured out how to pass on the ability to regenerate to the Time Lords at the top of Gallifreyan society. Then the Time Lord version of the even worse CIA than the Celestial Intervention Agency from Pertwee's era put the Doctor to work for some reason doing various war crimes or wetwork for them, including capturing the Sugar Skull Gang and something something something Time is a living entity apparently this bit I gotta admit I haven't got a clue about until eventually one incarnation disguised herself as a human in 21st Century Earth until she met Jodie Whittaker and was restored to full awareness again and went back on the run. At some point she got caught and mind-wiped again and became Hartnell (you know, the actual FIRST Doctor. The one who was actually called the Doctor for the first time by Ian and Barbara, the one who got the TARDIS stuck as a police box in the first place, the one that every other instance of the show looking back over past lives showed to be the FIRST Doctor?) who then took off into hiding and this time the Time Lords just.... didn't do anything about it until Troughton summoned them in The War Games?

Anyway the vivisectionist was in charge of the Super CIA and hiding outside of the Universe all through the Time War etc, built the Flux and used it to wipe out half the universe to power her space station to go into the other universe the Doctor originally came from, but then it turned out the Sugar Skull Gang could just.... teleport outside of the Universe as well and killed her unceremoniously making her entire thing a complete waste of time, then kidnapped the Doctor leaving the universe still half destroyed. Then Time was a real thing that.... killed the Sugar Skull Gang? And they were happy about it? And told the Doctor it hated her and then... just hosed off? And the Doctor never mentioned the Flux again after making the next Flux wave go inside the Passenger Robot, literally dumped the locket with her memories of past lives into a trash can, then had three last random stories, got bodyswapped briefly with The Master then regenerated back into Tennant.