backontrack
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We realise that, but...
I wonder if they have killed the character off to make a point about actors going to ITV (Jenna Coleman is lined up to play Queen Victoria). Even so, if they do want to bring Clara back, there's always the matrix slice...
Clara wasn't a full time companion - had a job and everything. Easy enough for unit to pick her up on a Friday night and take her to the tower then wipe her memory.
The actress was going to leave last Christmas and indeed it was written as her final trip - the bit where she was old was to be the end.
First human companion from the 20th century to die permanently while travelling. Rory and Amy died after a long happily ever after life. River wasn't from the 20th century (and death doesn't seem to have stopped her). Donna was memory wiped. Martha married Micky. Rose went off to the alternate universe with TenB. Adric wasn't human, Peri married Brian Blessed, Ian and Barbera got married, and many of the others were mentioned doing good things (Ace runs a charity, Tegan campaigns for aboriginal rights etc), and of course Sarah Jane Smith's story goes on, forever.
A possible plot mistake with Clara's death, she was talking earlier in the episode about buying time, then when she discovers she's going to die they are in the room with a stasis pod thingy. I thought the doctor would at any moment have a brainwave and shove Clara in the stasis pod to buy time to find a way to save her life.
The Raven/Shade could get her through whatever barriers that the Doctor could throw up using time, so that would not really have worked. Listening to the episode again, the Cloister Bell gently sounded at the beginning - seems Sexy knew about what was to happen
Who's 'Sexy'?
Who's 'Sexy'?
The Doctor's pet name for the Tardis.
It could clearly get through any barrier, but if it went into the stasis pod wouldn't it get frozen in time too? And the countdown tattoo on Clara's neck should also be frozen if she was in stasis.The Raven/Shade could get her through whatever barriers that the Doctor could throw up using time
It could clearly get through any barrier, but if it went into the stasis pod wouldn't it get frozen in time too? And the countdown tattoo on Clara's neck should also be frozen if she was in stasis.
As for the latest episode, I'm confused. The robot corpse thingy seemed to know if the doctor was telling the truth, and he confirms the hybrid Time-Lord/Dalek exists, but later he says it is himself and he isn't half-dalek. One of those must be a lie. Maybe all will become clear on Saturday.
She's not Captain Jack. I seem to recall in the episode when she was a highwayman the Doctor said something about her not being industructable, she just doesn't age and heals injuries quickly.if Ashildr herself could be persuaded to take it - since she is basically unkillable, presumably no harm would come to her - she'd 'die' and then come back to life.
Yes, that is probably the most odd thing about that scene. The Doctor is supposed to be really inteligent and normally comes up with ideas.All these probably could be explained away without too much difficulty, but the fact that none of them occurred to the Doctor to at least ask Ashildr about seems odd.
Good question.where was the dial?
And, the rooms resetting doesn't seem to reset the Veil's knowledge, otherwise the Doctor could just keep reusing the same confession and never run out of confessions. Unless it is the fact this specific copy of the doctor has never confessed these items it still stops the Veil.3. The plot hinges on the Doctor making exactly the same decisions every time the events were re-run. That requires making certain assumptions about the Universe which arguably are not consistent with most understandings of quantum mechanics. And besides, since some of the visual cues the Doctor sees change over time (the stars, for example) that should slightly modify his thinking.
I thought that was explained in the episode. He said he needs something to burn to produce the energy, and I think the thing he burns is himself, which is why his hand disappears after writing in the sand.Where did the energy used to keep creating new copies of the Doctor come from?
I thought that was explained in the episode. He said he needs something to burn to produce the energy, and I think the thing he burns is himself, which is why his hand disappears after writing in the sand.
But the 'himself' that he burned originally got all its energy from the previous round of the Doctor burning himself, and during that time he's been running around, using up energy etc. So somewhere some energy must be getting added for free. (Or another way of looking at it: All those skulls are presumably part of the remains of the older versions of the Doctor. So they weren't there the first time round. Where did the energy to create them come from? I think the sand is also intended to be the burnt remains of the previous Doctors - in which case the same question applies to that.)
And, the rooms resetting doesn't seem to reset the Veil's knowledge, otherwise the Doctor could just keep reusing the same confession and never run out of confessions. Unless it is the fact this specific copy of the doctor has never confessed these items it still stops the Veil.
or what he did in the broom cupboard at the timelord christmas party ...(
Who's 'Sexy'?
The Doctor's pet name for the Tardis.
Given that a skull is say 5kg, and the doctor lived for say 2 days (we saw him eating for example), and the whole thing was 4 billion years, you'd need abaout 200*4billion = 800 billion, call it 1E12 skulls, or 1E13kg of matter. Lets say that the entire environment is somehow a small slice of space captured using timelord tardis technology to store a planet in a confession dial -- a bit like Hermoinie's magic bag. You'd need to capture a small asteroid and put it inside the dial. Eros, for example, is 6E15kg, so 600 times more mass than you'd need to create that many skulls, which would be more than enough to power any artificial gravity, atmospheric scrubbers, etc.
That ignores being powered by exotic energy from time vortexes and other timey wimey hand waving. There are approximatly half a million known asteroids, let along trans-neptune objects, in our solar system alone.
We saw how many skulls there were after 7000 years, after 250,000 times longer the skulls should dwarf the castle, unless of course the core of the planet was being replaced by skulls.
Of course this is another example of the bootstrap paradox (there were no skulls the first time he went through).
Good ep though, in a series that maybe hasn't been that good, might have to rewatch it though, they could repeat it on Friday & Sunday nights like they used to
His Grand-daughterWe don't know what he did, but there is a reason he legged it with Susan
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