Doctor Who Series 6 part 2 - the ganger thread

[RustyBear]

Old thread's getting full, so here's a nice new acid-resistant one...

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Snapes would we be able to take DS 1 through it in a pushchair?

I don't seem to recall there being stairs etc - although as all my DCs are now (very) mobile, I don't tend to think about these things. there might be a few steps? best to phone Olympia to double check I think - they're very friendly!

Just remembered something from an earlier episode - The Girl in the Fireplace with David Tennant and Madame la Pompadour - at one point she enters his mind and says something along the lines of

Doctor - Doctor Who? It's more than just a name isn't it?

Could this relate to why "Doctor Who?" is the first question?

The exhibition has two parts - the "story" part, which where you're ushered through to follow the filmed plot, and where there are no photos and no buggys, and then the exhibition bit where you can dawdle at your leisure take all the photos in the world, and I think you can get your buggy back again.

And The Girl in the Fireplace was, of course, written by Stephen Moffat...

Thanks Anyone/Snapes.

I wish I could get some sort of timey-wimey tardis or wristwatch then I'd have time to work my way through the box set (Eccleston/Tennant) and then this series, looking for clues - DD1 is going through them at the moment, she's 18 and has time to do that kind of stuff. Jealous, moi?

Someone further up said they missed a whole section in the exhibition - is that easy to do? I sort of thought you'd be herded through in an Ikea type way, following a pre-set route? Or were they perhaps referring to the museum bit, is that in separate rooms? I am determined to make the most of our day out - I'm leaving the 3 year old with my mum, while she would be fine and is not easily scared (she laughs at most scary bits or says they are yucky) I know she would lose patience as DD1 and i scrutinise all the props etc and take loads of photos...

Re buggies, I'm sure I saw somewhere on the Experience website that there was a buggy park and you got it back for the exhibition after the interactive bit

I got confused today - when the Christmas special comes along, where in his time line will the Doctor be? (Unless they duck it by making it completely free-standing and without Rory, Amy and Melody).

You see, if the Doctor who escaped the tesselecta was the Doctor who emerged from the loo - he then went forward in a time line that takes forward to the point in which he goes back to enter the tesselecta. Or did he break out at some point? All I can think of is his solo departure from Demon's Run.

< wails: it's no making sense at the moment >

what were the ages of the two doctors in the astronaut episode?

I think you have the Doctor in the Tesselector going on to do the Christmas special and i think this fits perfectly OK timewise. in the astronaut episode, this makes the doctor we saw killed a future one. I assume at this point, the current doctor was staying out of the way (warned via a message from himself maybe?) to appear later and then carry on through the timeline until the point he is in the tesselector.

Or it's just timey wimey magic.

I wonder what was in the doctors room in tgc?

Why does Rory keep dying? Even madame K made refrence to it so it probably is relevent.

What did happen to the ganger doctor?

Who was Lorna Bucket from agmgtw? When did she meet the doctor who told her to run and why couldn't he remember her despite saying he rembers everyone he meets?

So many questions unanswered. I liked the last episode but like I feared it left so many loose ends the only question it did answer was how the doctor got out out of dying (which was a good and unexpected twist in fairness)

She did whisper his name, because Ten said so when he was handcuffed and River was connecting herself to the computer. He also said there was only one time when he would tell anyone his name, but he didn't actually say it was on marriage. There have been hints in interviews, but I don't think it's been confirmed in the actual programme that it was, has it? So Moffat may still have something else up his sleeve. But if it was on marriage, it could have happened on any of the nights the Doctor spoke of, either with Ten or Eleven.

I haven't rewatched old episodes, but I wondered if Lorna Bucket was from that forest where the crack appeared, wasn't there a lot of running in that?

What hope is there for being able to follow any of this in future now that Confidential has been axed?

am miffed at confidential being axed.

started River-song fan art. haven't painted in ages, so is feeling a bit weird... and am looking for River Song Wig for attending future DW related conventions etc. Am finally dipping my toe in cos-play...I like it - is like getting free reign with the dressing-up box!

Not bothered about confidential, it's got a bit samey. I would like then to do a special every so often, on a character like they did Arivers time line.

Okay, nothing to do with this series, but just a question. When did the Doctor manage to fix his TARDIS? Did he find some dodgy back-galaxy garage, or similar? Because long ago the TARDIS was broken, and the Doctor had no control over where it went (I have some vague idea that Gallifrey actually controlled it).

Jee - don't know the whole answer but the TARDIS said in TDW that "she" controls where it goes taking him at times to where he needs to go rather than where he wants to go. But at times the Dr has repaired the TARDIS and the TARDIS has repaired itself too.

Sorry Jeee

The bit of the TARDIS which was completely broken was its chameleon arch - the device that let it blend in with its surroundings. That is why it is always a police box.

We have seen other TARDISes - the Master had one which looked like a statue that would have been at home on Easter Island (on display at DWE).

It was the chameleon circuit which changes the TARDIS's appearance; the chameleon arch was the headphone-like equipment which allowed the Doctor to become human in Human Nature/Family of Blood.

Thanks rustybear - something was niggling whilst I typed that I'd not got it quite right!