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

Rusty Thanks for that. Have you read The Angel's Kiss?

No, actually I only found out about it on that link! It's not the same story, apparently, though there are references. Presumably Moffat didn't want to give too much away, even to the person writing the story!

Ooh ta rusty

Anyone see the Tom Baker style scarf hanging up near the door in the family house?

No, missed that! Liked the book by Amy and that from the cover it looked like a girl on an adventure.

Loved it loved it loved it. Saturday evenings are fab once more.

Off to watch it again.

I just watched it again and missed the scarf.

So what do we know about the fiftieth celebrations? Do I need to book tickets for anything?

Yes, yes! I saw the scarf!

I found Celia Imrie reverting to a child really disturbing at the end and I loved the use of the Dr's base unit to enter the shard.

I missed the scarf too dammit. I quite enjoyed last night's episode, but I didn't think it was an all-time great - and I really don't like the new TARDIS interior - it all looks a bit too sleek and efficient, and part of the TARDIS schtick is that it isn't always particularly efficient, so that is a contradiction for me.

I loved the fact that all the people working in the, presumably super-secret, baddie's hideout had all put their locations on their Twitter/FB/Bebo statuses!

Roll on next week.

at FB. "Hands up if you're on FB/MySpace/Bebo and hands down if you didn't put where you worked" - no hands down

Do people still use MySpace and Bebo? You don't hear/read much about them these days.

Yes, I loved that too! the way she found where the evil base was located was very cool!

I actually liked the simplicity of the episode, as said up thread, very like the old days

I liked the social network thing too! And the guy trying to fix the toilet that had been taken.

There's a selection of e books for the anniversary , 1 a month for each Dr.

SPOILERS.......if you havent seen entertainment news, tennant and Piper will be in a one-off episode with 11.

so.....Rose may well be the lady in the shop after all and im thinkingtennant will be the cloned doctor whos come with Rose from the parralell universe?!?

to be aired in November.

Ramble alert. It made sense to me that Clara was able to do all the computery stuff because it seemed like she had traits from her previous existences. The doctor commented on the nanny / governess link and in the episode where she was a dalek she was able to take down all there systems and delete the doctor from their memories so she must have been really computer savvy then too.

I was thinking that this was where she got the computer savvy from and the daleks were a future version ( although the dalek mind could have given her that too)

Squeee - good to see everyone again!

Sooo... cuddled up with poorly dcs to watch Bells last night and the verdict was: DC1 - really quite good; DC2 - all right; me - enjoyable enough but not earth (rather than Shard!) shattering.

I didn't mind the echoes of episodes past - actually quite liked them. And loved the little nods to Amy, the Doctor Who exhibition at Earl's Court, Nina and the scarf. Liked the fact everyone in a top secret baddie organisation had listed their workplace on FB/MS/Bebo/Twitter. Also quite like the new credits and how they nod to Old Who.

BUT - I have a slight problem with Moffat (whose writing, in general, I love) because he flags up the big bad/main hook right at the start and then the denouement/payoff doesn't always follow through. So I want to like the battle with the Great Intelligence but these preliminary skirmishes end up a little Scooby Doo - he could have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for that pesky Doctor and his sidekick! But he'll be back....to be defeated again in the next round by that pesky Doctor and his sidekick [buhmm]

I prefer RTD in that respect: the lead up to Bad Wolf, Torchwood and Saxon was so much more subtle until the episode where all was revealed and then it hit you between the eyes.

Like many, I really want to know the identity of the lady in the shop. It's highly likely to be River and I love River so that's all good - but it also reminded me of another Moffat character who worked in a used book/video shop, who might end up in a mobile shop. Yes, whovians, might it be the return of Sally bloody Sparrow?? [buwink]

BTW - Rusty thanks for the link on Chapter 11!

Oodsigma of course, the Dalek episode would be the future so yes other way round.

teejwood I thought Sally Sparrow too but couldn't remember her name - just knew it was something to do with birds. I was thinking maybe the shop had progressed from dvd's to computers maybe.

I'm the type that needs things spelling out to me. Subtle is too subtle to me. It's why I lurk on these threads so I can see what I missed otherwise I'd never get half the references!

With you there nohank!

Just straying off topic onto Anniversary episode. I was hoping Captain Jack might make an appearance but he has confirmed he isn't part of it. I love Captain Jack!

north i think there is a lot of disinformation about the 50th, so Barrowman may or may not be there! Apparently Sophia Myles was dropping hints and then denying them on twitter, too...

DT & BP are confirmed, we expect MS & JS will be there, but apart from that who knows

Wo is js?

sorry - typo as hugging poorly dd- meant Jenna-Louise Coleman!

I remember the 20th anniversary (or 25th??)

Lots of past episodes on BBC 2 which I watched in the little black and white telly in the spare room! And a special episode starring all the Drs still living except Tom Baker, who couldn't/wouldn't be in it so they used a shot of him boating down a river with Romana (blonde one) trap in some sort of vortex thingy.

And I got a companions special edition Dr Who magazine that listed them all and what their back stories were. It was marvellous!! (Wish I still had it!, along with my wetabix 'kings and queens' poster, they were very important items in my childhood!)

Ah ha! Yes that makes sense! I was going a bit !

the Five Doctors :)
I used to know the entire script verbatim.