Don't forget, Dr Who kill Hitler is on tonight

[Mikey]

BBC America ... I think 9:00 EST

[palitoy]

Stocking up the bar as we speak!

[Nostalgiabuff]

wouldn't miss it

[wolfie]

Just watched it, if you have a university degree you may just be able to follow what is happening.

[Mikey]

I said it before and i'll say it again --- I'm really sick and tired of River

Tonights episode was just another part of a continuing story arc that will never end until Moffat is gone.

How I long for stand-alone episodes

[palitoy]

loved it!

[Bionic Joe]

another great episode :yeah:

[bleit1701]

I liked it but I usually need a couple viewings to catch it all. They talk so fast and with their accents it's easy to miss something.

[emeraldknight47]

I thought it was a freaking fantastic episode! Now, if only they can find a way to have Matt Smith's Doctor meet David Tennant's Doctor in The Library when he first meets River Song!!! That would be the ultimate in WHO coolness!

To quote River---SPOILERS BELOW!!!















I am glad that they cleared up that the little girl in the alley in "Day of the Moon" was indeed Melody and that she is/was a Timelord (or at least a Timelord/Human hybrid)

I'm now wondering if she's also the same little girl in the spacesuit who actually DOES kill the Doctor in "The Impossible Astronaut" and that's why she gets imprisoned.

I'm a little bummed that River used up all her remaining regenerations [if she did] in saving The Doctor. I would've been interested to see whom else she could've regenerated into....

Overall, good, good episode!

[jwyblejr]

They had all of those cameos in the TARDIS why couldn't they have included Sarah Jane? Boo on the writers for not thinking of that.

[emeraldknight47]

They had all of those cameos in the TARDIS why couldn't they have included Sarah Jane? Boo on the writers for not thinking of that.

I'm sure the thought crossed their minds. Likely something came up that simply prevented it from happening....

[Gorn Captain]

So they had the ultimate confrontation: The Doctor vs Hitler, and it's resolved in a couple of minutes by putting Adolf in a closet, where he obediently stays for the next 40 minutes, never to be seen again in the story?
Hmmm....

On the up side: I really like Smith's interpretation of the Doctor now (it took a while), and he has a groovy new coat. I want one!

[raider5gt]

The Doctor vs Hitler, and it's resolved in a couple of minutes by putting Adolf in a closet, where he obediently stays for the next 40 minutes, never to be seen again in the story?

Yeah i really didn't get that bit of the episode :juggleyes_y:

Overall i thought it was a good episode though and with the cameo's in the Tardis,it was a shame we didn't see Sarah Jane or some of the other companions of the Dr.

[Mikey]

And ... the Doctor dies AGAIN

Moffat really loves having his starring cast die over and over and over on almost every episode :smiley1:

[palitoy]

The Doctor putting on the tux while he was dying was inspired.

[emeraldknight47]

And ... the Doctor dies AGAIN

Moffat really loves having his starring cast die over and over and over on almost every episode :smiley1:

I think The Doctor "dying" in this episode was an important component to moving River's story along because it helped "deprogram" her as well as limited her regenerations. So, essentially, she is now on her "last" life....

[Thor]

So River's giving up her regenerations explain the Doctor's being able to live past the 13 life limit. They did say the Doctor is immortal now right?

[Nostalgiabuff]

they did say he is immortal but I don't think this was why. I think they just changed that bit of the cannon for the character.
i thought the whole Hitler thing was pointless since it served no purpose and went nowhere. great episode otherwise

[emeraldknight47]

I actually LIKED the Hitler bit and was glad they approached it as they did. I mean, to someone like The Doctor, Hitler would be penny-ante compared to say, the Daleks or The Master. Now to Rory and Amy, of course, he's the devil incarnate and I liked the fact that Rory got to slug him and shove him in a pantry. It kind of let's you see that, despite that fact that he was a maniacal, homicidal dictator who hated both children and dogs, he was still only human and could be taken out with a good right cross. Besides, perhaps there was more to them going to Nazi Germany than meets the eye. This IS Doctor Who, after all....

[bobws]

A good episode, i wish they would go back further than the current run when they showed companions as well, that is such a waste. My nephew Justin told me there was gonna be 3 cameos from past companions, that was a let down if that's all we get.

Hey Mikey, Justin also found out , that supposedly next year no story arcs! but moffat may be lying.

[ctc]

>i wish they would go back further than the current run when they showed companions as well

It'd be cool to see what they've been up to; but a lot of the actors are either really old, or dead now. It was cool seeing the Brigadier on Sarah Jane. I've always wanted to see what happened to Susan. Presumably she's a Time Lord too. Did she die in the war? And Romana.... who's been trapped in N-space if I recall, and could have avoided the war completely. (And may not have been aware of it.)

Don C.

[palitoy]

Romana's dead. She was president of Galifrey at one point, so i assumed she returned.

I always thought the woman who hides her face from the tenth Doctor was her.

[MEMEGO]

All in all a good episode, which in my option wraps up about 4 or 5 years of dangeling subplots and sets up new ones, which I think we wont know the answers to, untill the 50th anniversary, of course, I could be wrong.

What ya all think? I want ta know.

[magyar1964]

Romana's dead. She was president of Galifrey at one point, so i assumed she returned.

Romana was President in a webcast series ( Shada ) - the question is, is that cannon? It was an Eigth Doctor story but based on the Fourth Doctor unaired story.
If not then with all the breaching between universes with Daleks, Cybermen, Rose and Donna she could have found a way back from N-space. I remember that in one of the web series ( Scream of the Shalka ) the Doctor was a different person and I don't think that regeneration is cannon.


I always thought the woman who hides her face from the tenth Doctor was her.

I wish they had revealed who that woman was.

[jwyblejr]

Wikipedia has it that all The Time Lords are dead. Romana,Susan,everyone. Of course,you have to take what they say with a grain of salt.

[Gorn Captain]

You realize that they have changed history by putting Hitler in a closet?
They'll find the dried-up remains of the dictator a couple of years later, and WWII will never have been the same...

I can see Churchill saying "Now why didn't I think of that? The old 'put-him-in-the-closet' trick...."

[emeraldknight47]

Or, the whole face of the war COULD change when Hitler "comes out of the closet..."

:grin: :grin: :grin:

[jwyblejr]

I kind of wish they had let him say "You can't rewrite history,not one line."

[Surfsup]

Maybe it was down to the dicky stomach I had at the time, but I didn't think it was that good. Not a patch on the previous episode and didn't live up the promise of it either.

[emeraldknight47]

I loved the episode and thought Alex Kingston knocked it outta the ballpark with her post regeneration scene! I loved the boggled looks on the faces of Amy and Rory and even The Doctor to an extent!