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[pogo]

From a few years ago but not seen this myself before; another and rather more original rock interpretation of the theme:

[Cloudane]

That's more like it. Much better than just the noisiest most ear-bleedy guitar noise slapped on top of the existing theme!

[RiK]

From a few years ago but not seen this myself before; another and rather more original rock interpretation of the theme:

Ahh I've come across those guys before, they've done some interesting sessions at Wincraft (Steve Winwood's studio), engineered by George Schilling. One of my chums fixes all their old synths and collaborates in Sundae Club with George..

[Istar]

One or two minor niggles, but...

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Snapped sonic sunglasses in first minute
Maisie Williams
Tennant
Timey-wimey
Immortal companion/adversary storyline setup

9/10.

[Governmentyard]

Didn't mind it. Capaldi is very good indeed, isn't he?

[Mayhem]

It was a bit confused, wasn't sure what it was trying to do at times, and the sodding music was too loud and drowning out the words sometimes. And electric eels don't exist anywhere near Scandinavia (unless they managed to bring some back from travels across the Atlantic). But I enjoyed it, and yes, I was able to see what was going to happen before the Doctor mentioned the H word. +1 for the cameo from Tennant's era. So the "old man" line we saw said by Maisie Williams prior to the series beginning is from a later episode then?

Not sure why the Mire wouldn't just have nuked the village after returning to the ship and destroying the "recording", mind you...

[Harlequin]

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Not sure why the Mire wouldn't just have nuked the village after returning to the ship and destroying the "recording", mind you...

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They were led to believe that a superior technical force was nearby which would not take kindly to Clara and the Doctor being harmed.

[Mayhem]

Oh right, when Clara said it I thought she was talking about the Doctor...

[Jonesey]

I noticed on my amp last night that the episode was being broadcast in Dolby Digital 2.0. Has this always been the case or is Aunty holding out on us? I hope my Onkyo isn't on the fritz...

[Governmentyard]

There's been some sort of change, because until this season I've had to watch it in SD. BBC1 HD generally has perfect sound but a couple of shows, including Who up till this year, have had glitched audio. That seems to have been resolved so something's different.

As for the making the kid immortal business, we've done this to (ahem) death already. Captain Jack. The Doctor was absolutely vociferously against it, as I recall.

[Istar]

Captain Jack isn't actually immortal though, as we discovered at the end of 'Last of the Time Lords'.

[Baggypants]

Brilliant, Loved it.

[Harlequin]

Is nobody bothering with spoilers this week?

Captain Jack is a fixed point in time, in an individual a temporal paradox the existence of which should not be possible (which is why the Tardis cannot bear his presence). His connection to the Face of Boe is speculative and circumstantial.

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Ashildr is now "functionally immortal" "barring accidents". It sounds to me that the repair kit should be less effective than Jack's being protected by time itself.

Also, the Doctor did not personally create Jack's status. Davros suggested that the Doctor fled Gallifrey because of his part in the coming of a prophesied hybrid creature, "two great warrior races forced together to create a warrior greater than either," (although Davros assumed the races to be Time Lords and Daleks). It seems the Doctor acted in anger and did not remember this until after the event.

This could all be a huge red herring, of course. I would not expect something raised in the opening story to be resolved before the finale. I still get the sense, however, that Ashildr has a part to play with the Doctor long past the next episode.

[KlaxonCow]

Is nobody bothering with spoilers this week?

We've never really worked out a consistent spoiler policy for this thread yet, have we?

[Governmentyard]

I quite like the common sense approach of not reading the thread until you've seen the episode.