Bumblemus watches Doctor Who now. Doctor Who is cool.

[Brendocon]

Cold War was so-so. Good cast, but could have done better with the concept.

Ice Warrior's rubber hands were more hilarious than fear-inspiring. Wobbly props in lieu of wobbly sets.

They've revealed the title for the season finale today. This could end up being so many levels of bollocksed-up.

[spiderfrommars]

It might be my favourite of this year. Either way easily my fave Mark Gattis story.

Even with the updates the Ice Warrior does look like a plodding B movie monster... but I think they got away with it by filming it lovingly and having it take down a lot of Ruskies. I thought David Warner's performance was lovely.

It's also fun lately playing the "which of these actors has been in both Game of Thrones AND Doctor Who" game.

Re: name of the finale, Moffat's always said he likes "slutty" titles. Doesn't mean it'll do what it says on the tin. I'm sure it'll be a ride though!

[spiderfrommars]

I have just one word to say after watching The Crimson Horror...

GALVATRON!

[Brendocon]

Good episode, and a great cameo in the last scene, as you say.

[spiderfrommars]

Yeah, really liked it. And Hide... some freaky/scary stuff in that one.

Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS was a little bit dull, which is a bit surprising, with a name like that.

[snarl]

I didn't even see that purple ****. I think I was too distracted by Clara.

I ****** love her.

[Shanti418]

Quite the tour de force from Smith this past week, with the good/bad Doctor thing. Am I missing something, or are we still largely in the dark on Clara? My sense of her now is the same as it was at the beginning of this .5 season: she's an impossible girl who has died and come back at different points in time. So what/why/how?

[Brendocon]

Next episode is where we find out, apparently.

The fields of Trenzalore, where no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer... it's not just the name of the Doctor that's being asked.

[spiderfrommars]

Is this the first time a 21st Century season episode 12 hasn't had a cliffhanger?

[Metal Vendetta]

I'm John Hurt now, being John Hurt is cool.

HAAARRRTTTNNEEELLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!11!1!!111

[spiderfrommars]

I was hoping the Doctor's name would be Dave.

[bumblemusprime]

Is this the first time a 21st Century season episode 12 hasn't had a cliffhanger?

That wasn't a cliffhanger?

I'm still bugged that Clara isn't the regenerated Doctor's Daughter. It's a crap episode, yes, but it means there's technically another Time Lord-y person out there!

[Brendocon]

Is this the first time a 21st Century season episode 12 hasn't had a cliffhanger?

That wasn't a cliffhanger?

Depends which episode 12 he's talking about.

If he's including The Snowmen, then episode 12 is The Crimson Horror, which ends with Galvatron and "I was in Victorian Yorkshire" which is definitely a bit of a cliffhanger.

But if he isn't, then he's talking about Nightmare in Silver and to be honest I can't even remember how that ended.

BUT DO NOT DESPAIR ABOUT THE SEASON BEING OVER! Recapture all the fun of the program with this scarily accurate random episode generator:

http://toys.usvsth3m.com/drwho/#

[bumblemusprime]

Heh. Click through it enough times and you'll get the phrase "David Tennant realizes he no longer recognizes the show he loved."

[spiderfrommars]

Just two more episodes for the Eleventh http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22741493

[bumblemusprime]

No more Matt Smith? My favorite Doctor evahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

On the plus side: it looks like River Song is really, really, actually gone. I was not terribly excited to see her again.

My favorite theory on Galvatron:

"This is Moffat scrambling the soufflé eggs again. "Transformer Galvatron" is an obvious anagram for "Vagrant forlorn Master." "

[Brendocon]

With just the 17 days to go before we get a spectacular yet unsatisfying answer to the question "what the hell is going on", can I just put in a pre-emptive theory that John Hurt is playing a young(er) Billy Hartnell?*

THANKS LADS. #ladz #bantz #badtheories #hashtagwanker

[unless that's what the Emvee was yelling about earlier in the thread and it's been obvious to everybody but me and I'm just catching up in which case sorry thank you please sorry yes sorry]

[bumblemusprime]

Maybe it's a Warlock and the Magus-type thing; Hurt is some evil or PTSD or pants-pooping element he's purged from his soul.

[Bumblebot]

Maybe it's a Warlock and the Magus-type thing; Hurt is some evil or PTSD or pants-pooping element he's purged from his soul.

You mean like the Valeyard? Unlikely, given how the Doctor spoke to him.

Then again, given that the Great Intelligence was rewriting the Doctor's history, and Clara & the Doctor did some subsequent rewriting of their own, it's possible that he's some element of the Doctor that didn't even exist prior their actions.

[Brendocon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z6FMCqYrBo

Hurt is the TimeWar Doctor between McGann and Ecclescake? Je ne pas anything.

[Bumblebot]

Night of the Doctor. Brief but meaningful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U3jrS-uhuo

[Professor Smooth]

Night of the Doctor. Brief but meaningful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U3jrS-uhuo

Oh...wow!

[Brendocon]

Yay and stuff.

And stops them having to redo the numbers on every piece of promotional material from the past eight years.

[Professor Smooth]

Quick question. Does a regeneration not count if he doesn't call himself "the Doctor"? Seem like kind of a cheat?

[Brendocon]

A regeneration is a regeneration.

But it means that Cakebastard is still "The Ninth Doctor" and so on and so forth.

Technically I still reckon that metacrisis hand bollocks should count as a full regeneration, but assuming it doesn't, this makes Capaldi incarnation 13, but still the 12th Doctor.

WE SHALL SEE.

[Bumblebot]

I think a Time Lord is allocated 12 regenerations upon becoming a Time Lord. Possibly through some sort of operation they undergo during the investiture ceremony?

However, a Time Lord isn't necessarily limited to 13 incarnations. An on-screen example of this would be during the Five Doctors, where the Master is offered another set of lives if he helps the Doctor(s).

Also, the Doctor has done several things during the new series which could reset his remaining regenerations to a higher number: e.g. inhaling the Time Vortex, receiving Melody Pond/River Song's remaining regenerations after having his own inhibited by her. And who knows how being turned into a human and back again affected him?

And, I'm pretty sure the script writers will stick a few more things in to keep that final regeneration at bay.

Also, yeah, the hand thing should count. At least as a partial regeneration, anyway. Would like to see the final regeneration, where there's not enough energy left to do a full job and he ends up dessicated like the late '70s Master.

[bumblemusprime]

That was great.

[spiderfrommars]

*SPOILERS FOR NIGHT OF THE DOCTOR*


Unfortunately the BBC iPlayer picture was of McGann, which kind of spoilt the surprise for me.

Even so, when I saw said picture I made such a weird sound that my girlfriend thought Lou Reed had died again or something.

Moffat has made fans' Christmases all come at once by FINALLY giving McGann his regeneration. I bet YouTubers are reediting their regeneration compilations as I type.

But if we don't get a Hurt/Eccles regeneration scene in the anniversary special, then we're back at square one.

[Best First]

Yeah that was a pretty poor move on the iplayer front. Why they didn't have the ship heading towards the planet instead is beyong me.

Still - briefly awesome and McGann was great.

[Bumblebot]

Weird. For me the iPlayer picture was always Clare Higgins and a few of the other Sisters in the cave in the background.