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TheAngelshavetheOod · 30/09/2012 13:13

Hope no one else hasn't started one

cakebot River got to 1938 but the TARDIS couldn't. She said that it was because the vortex manipulator could sneak through

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teejwood · 06/04/2013 20:38

Ohhhh SDTG - good point - maybe the Tardis wouldn't translate for her because she doesn't like her?

EllenJanesthickerknickers · 06/04/2013 20:38

My DS3 (10) called that a continuity error! Maybe some of the writers aren't as obsessed as the rest of us. Hmm

ThreeBeeOneGee · 06/04/2013 20:41

Nice music, but I was a little underwhelmed by the plot.

teejwood · 06/04/2013 20:50

An old timeless god sucking the life and experiences and stories out of the young? Is that what we're supposed to take away from that one?Hmmmmm.

ShipwreckedAndComatose · 06/04/2013 20:50

I wondered about the translation too.

GlaikitHasHerFizzBack · 06/04/2013 20:54

Didn't the doctor give her a key last week? Was that not for the tardis? I don't know why I only know who?? Or was I dreaming?

GlaikitHasHerFizzBack · 06/04/2013 20:55

So many questions there! Blush

2blessed2bstressed · 06/04/2013 21:51

Wasn't too in love with this episode, although it did remind me of bits of Bladerunner. When the Dr was telling the face in the sun about all his memories it was just like Rutger Hauers character when he was dying, talking about all the things he had seen, and then when they landed back outside Clara's house, the Dr actually said "jiggety jig, home again" which is what the scientisty little bloke says when he comes home to his toys in Blade Runner!

YoullNeedATray · 06/04/2013 22:13

At least we can stop wondering about the leaf. Rather sweet, though stalkerish, about how he was watching over the key moments in her life.

NoHank · 06/04/2013 22:55

Did she say she got the book when she was 9 or do I just think that because it starts at age 9 on the front page

Because in her story she says she lost when she is about 6 and we see her mum tucking her in bed holding the book. Probably nothing but I've been trying to pay extra attention!

Also I wonder if her fear of being lost will come to mean anything

louisianablue2000 · 06/04/2013 22:58
  1. Why didn't the Tardis translate for her?
  2. Why didn't the Tardis let her in?
  3. I think her Mum died the day the first episode of NuWho was broadcast, it was March 2005 but can't remember the exact date on her gravestone.
GreenShadow · 06/04/2013 23:10

She died on the 5th March. Louisiana. Wasn't that too early for the first episode (assuming it was the traditional Easter start) ?

louisianablue2000 · 06/04/2013 23:25

Oh, the first episode of NuWho was broadcast on 23 March, but a rough cut was leaked on the internet on 5 March. Am I spending too much time trailing round fansites? I think maybe I am.

Davros · 07/04/2013 06:26

The big face in the sun was like the huge gingerbread man in shrek when he falls into the milk. It was all a bit SJA which is fine but DW should be a league up. At least there was some time and space in it.! I thought the Tardis just translated for The Doctor and companion but, if you think back to Pompeii it's more complicated than that. All seems very derivative of previous episodes but I'm sure that's deliberate. U fortunately don't like DS or Clara, slight drawback

Davros · 07/04/2013 06:27

I mean MS

DalekInAFestiveJumper · 07/04/2013 07:00

March 5th is supposedly the date the events of 'Rose' took place. In 'Aliens of London' there's a poster that says she's been missing since the 6th.

Fiderer · 07/04/2013 09:55

I enjoyed it esp the first 20 mins or so. But think the plot went v weak after they zoomed off on a moped. The vampire & the Vigil (?) were OK but the pumpkin god was daft.

Really like JC, she's surprised me tbh. Must admit was always a bit sniffy about MS but last week and this I thought he's really grown into the role and he was v v good.

As was that little girl. And the market scene - must have blown a good part of the budget on the aliens, must also have been loads of fun to design and play.

Spuderoonerism · 07/04/2013 10:14

The little girl is Aled Jones' daughter I think...she was also in Shrek in the West End at one point.

This was one of the decidedly 'meh' episodes for me; the plot got strange but in a dull way like they sometimes do.

EllenJanesthickerknickers · 07/04/2013 12:00

The book used to be her mother's, when she was holding it in the graveyard it had her mother's maiden name written on the page getting wet, age 11. Can't remember her name now, but it was definitely the same first name as her mum.

AaDB · 07/04/2013 12:26

I like your theories Glaikit.

There is something wrong with Clara's timey wimey / continuum and that is why the TARDIS doesn't like her. The TARDIS can transport its occupants to any point in time and any place in the universe. Clara is reappearing and reborn and eveloving rather than travelling. hmmm....

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 07/04/2013 14:01

I did enjoy the singing, a lot.

twilight3 · 07/04/2013 16:52

who is the bloke standing with 16 year old Clara in front of her mother's grave?
Is the year her parents met significant? (they make sure they give two shots of the magazine cover saying in big letters "summer 1981"), or am I just trying to see something in everything?

And finally.... am I right in thinking that by killing that soul eating god, they have now left an entire solar system of seven planets without a sun??? They seemed to gloss over that quite quickly...

marjproops · 07/04/2013 19:45

bloke was her dad with white powder paint in his hair in an attempt to age him?!?

the little girls Aleds daughter? wow. sings- we're walking to the tardis......

wibblyjelly · 07/04/2013 19:54

Not sure if I misheard, but didn't the Dr say he had been to the planet once before with his grand daughter? Is this something to do with Clara? Maybe she is part time lord or something?

iklboo · 07/04/2013 20:00

William Hartnell's doctor travelled with his granddaughter.

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