The Doctor's worst enemies, The Daleks, The Cybermen, The Angels and The Silence, return, as the doctor's eleventh life comes to a close, and his twelfth life begins.The Doctor's worst enemies, The Daleks, The Cybermen, The Angels and The Silence, return, as the doctor's eleventh life comes to a close, and his twelfth life begins.The Doctor's worst enemies, The Daleks, The Cybermen, The Angels and The Silence, return, as the doctor's eleventh life comes to a close, and his twelfth life begins.
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Did you know
- TriviaThis is the 800th individual episode since the original Doctor Who (1963) started.
- GoofsWhen a man comes into the tower to tell The Doctor about the arrival of the Daleks, he replies saying: "It's okay Barnable, don't worry. I have got a plan". However, when the man leaves, The Doctor secretly tells Clara: "I haven't got a plan, but people love it when I say that". Since he was still inside the "truth field" that covered the entire town, he shouldn't be capable of lying at all.
- Quotes
Clara: Doctor!
The Doctor: Hello.
Clara: You're young again. You're okay... You didn't even change your face.
The Doctor: Ha! It's started, I can't stop it now, this is just the reset, a whole new regeneration cycle, ooh. Taking a bit longer, just breaking it in. It all just disappears, doesn't it? Everything you are, gone in a moment; like breath on a mirror. Any moment now, he's a comin'.
Clara: Who's comin'?
The Doctor: The Doctor.
Clara: You, you are The Doctor.
The Doctor: Yup, and I always will be. But times change, and so must I... Amelia.
Clara: Who is Amelia?
The Doctor: The first face this face saw. We all change, when you think about it, we're all different people; all through our lives, and that's okay, that's good, you've gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this, not one day, I swear. I will always remember when The Doctor was me.
Amy Pond: Raggedy Man... Goodnight.
Clara: No, no...
The Doctor: Hey...
Clara: Please don't change...
- ConnectionsFeatured in Blue Peter: The 12th Doctor (2014)
To borrow an agricultural phrase this episode is an attempt to shovel ten pounds of you-know-what into a five-pound bag. Sometimes that works in spite of itself, and in the 50th anniversary show I feel it does.
Smith grew on me, both as an actor and in the Doctor's characterization. When he was good, he was very, VERY good, but as many others observe he at times was only as good as what was handed to (or, more likely, thrown at) him. I'll pay him the same compliment I'd paid Christopher Eccleston: I'd like to see more of his work.
And perhaps more so than any other Doctor the chemistry between him and his Companions was palpable. I'm fine with making him more human if it furthers both character development and the arc, which I'll also admit appears heavily laden in Moffat's multiverse.
Finally, and said not so much as a die-hard Whovian but as someone who fortuitously has observed each and every Doctor at work and at play, I truly cannot guess what will happen next. I'm convinced that too is part of the arc, be it Moffat's or someone else's. Let's find out.
- johcafra
- Dec 25, 2013
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- Lydstep Flats, Lydstep Crescent, Cardiff, Wales, UK(Exterior of Clara's flat)
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- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
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