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[Mayhem]

Big spoilers for next week (last episode)...

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I DID say BIG spoilers, you silly people...!

[Ollie]

What's that from, the Radio Times? I'd be pretty pissed off if I was trying to avoid spoilers and turned the page of a listings mag to be confronted with that much spoilerage. Even the picture above the listing, which you could hardly help seeing, is a pretty big spoiler.

[Jonesey]

'kinnell..

[Governmentyard]

I couldn't hear a fucking word of that.

I know there's budgetary restrictions but one actor running down a CGI corridor for an hour? Piss off. The underlying conceit of him punching through a block of pulledoutofmyarsium to get to Gallifrey is good but when he just looks like he's in a rather mediocre iteration of Silent Hill, the dialogue is all. So let's drench it in Murray Gold's tiresome effluent more than ever, shall we?

There's a lot riding on next week. Think I'm out that night, though.

[anon76235]

'kinnell..

Mental innit chief

[Mayhem]

Yeah, I was having a few issues hearing some of the dialogue too, although it wasn't necessarily due to the music being too loud, but not enough ooomph to the words to punch through.

So basically the plot was a very, VERY much longer version of what happened to Captain Jack that one time if you watched Torchwood... ouch! Except the Doctor doesn't really remember any of it... hooray for small mercies. But as soon as he mentioned the rooms resetting, I twigged what the skull and "bird" were...

[Ollie]

Triangle, wasn't it?

[F-ZeroOne]

I really, really liked it. Took me several seconds too long to work out the significance of a certain number...

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But... did The Doctor intend his Confession Dial as a prison for The Mast... Missy, or for himself?

[Cloudane]

Well that was... mostly a conceit for its director. Dat end and preview though O______O
Is he going to regenerate? I thought Capaldi was in this for the foreseeable? Though I think it was Moffat who said that, and we all know he's a bigger liar than the Doctor himself. I want him to stick around though.
And is he like billions of years old now, or does the time loop negate that

[Mayhem]

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But... did The Doctor intend his Confession Dial as a prison for The Mast... Missy, or for himself?

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Good question, that was the one thing bothering me, as to why a prison was inside a confession dial. Unless it was, like you say, and why the Doctor gave it to Missy.

I wonder if the technology used to recreate the Doctor every time is how the Timelords brought the Master back? If the information was in the computer...

[merman]

Clever. A bit Groundhog Day, a bit Dark Souls.

[F-ZeroOne]

Of course, still proves that sci-fi writers have bugger-all sense of scale, but I can accept it as an effective dramatic convention.

[Istar]

Well, that's just reset the bar.

Well written, well scored, well acted. Clever, innovative, emotional - it grabbed me in the first 20 seconds and did not let go until the credits rolled.

So many things to like. No points where I felt there were plot-holes, deus ex escapes, jarring kid-targeted schmaltz or exposition. The story stood on its' own two feet, and said "Keep up or be left behind".

I had genuine chills, definitely heard Hartnell and Baker, saw Pertwee and Eccleston, chuckled, blubbed, said "ooooh", and, at the end, sat forward convulsively when I saw where he had travelled to.

Seriously, seriously impressed. It's almost like Moffat has been saying all season "Sorry about last year", and this was the coup de grace, the point at which he said to the writing staff "This one has to be a perfect 10, people. No compromises".

10/10.

[gribbles]

^^^^ This

[F-ZeroOne]

Yes, I thought he was channeling Baker a couple of times; in fact I'd go further and say that he was possessed...

As a visual thing, I loved the... erm... seafloor as well.