Strax: Say "ah."
Clara: Ahhh.
Strax: You didn't move your lips.
Clara: You're looking at my eye.
Strax: Oh. Oh yes, there we are. Easy mistake.
The Doctor: Look at the eyebrows! These are attack eyebrows. You could take bottle tops off with these!
Barney: They are mighty eyebrows indeed, sir.
The Doctor: They're cross. They're crosser than the rest of my face. They're independently cross. They probably want to cede from the rest of my face and take up their own independent state of eyebrows.
Madame Vastra: Spontaneous combustion.
Jenny: Is that like love at first sight?
Madame Vastra: A little. It is a theory that human beings can with little or no inducement simply explode.
Jenny: You don't need to flirt with me, we're already married.
Madame Vastra: It's scientific nonsense, of course.
Jenny: Marriage?
Madame Vastra: Hush.
Clara: "Egomaniac, needy, game-player"?
The Doctor: This could be a trap.
Clara: That was me?
The Doctor: Never mind that.
Clara: Yes, I am minding that!
The Doctor: Clara.
Clara: You were talking about me?
The Doctor: Clara, what is happening right now in this restaurant to you and me is more important than your egomania.
Clara: Nothing is more important than my egomania!
The Doctor: Right, you actually said that.
Clara: You never mention that again!
The Doctor: Uhh, no sausages. And there's no pictures. Do you have a children's menu? Any specials?
Waiter: Liver.
The Doctor: I don't mind liver.
Waiter: Spleen. Brain stem. Eyes.
Clara: Umm, is there a lot of demand for those?
The Doctor: I don't think that's what on the menu. I think we are on the menu.
The Doctor: Hello, hello, rubbish robots from the dawn of time, thank you for all the gratuitous information.
The Doctor: This is your power source, feeble thought it is. I can use it to blow this whole room if I see one thing that I don't like. And that includes karaoke and mime, so take no chances.
The Doctor: So tell me, what do you think of the view?
Half-Face Man: It is beautiful.
The Doctor: No, it isn't. It's just far away. Everything looks too small. I prefer it down there. Everything is huge. Everything is so important. Every detail, every moment, every life clung to.
Half-Face Man: I am not dead.
The Doctor: You are a broom. Question--you take a broom, you replace the handle, and then later you replace the brush and you do that over and over again. Is it still the same broom? Answer--no, of course it isn't. But you can still sweep the floor. Which is not strictly relevant, skip that last part.
The Doctor: This... is over. Are you capable of admitting that?
Half-Face Man: Do you have it in you to murder me?
The Doctor: Those people down there, they're never small to me. Don't make assumptions about how far I will go to protect them, because I've already come a very long way. And unlike you, I don't expect to reach the promised land.
Clara: I don't think I know who the Doctor is anymore.
Madame Vastra: It would seem, my dear, you're very wrong about that. Clara... give him hell. He'll always need it.
Clara: You've redecorated.
The Doctor: Yes.
Clara: I don't like it.
The Doctor: I'm not entirely convinced myself. I think there should be more round things on the walls. I used to have a lot of round things, I wonder where I put them.
The Doctor: I'm the Doctor. I've lived for over two thousand years, and not all of them were good. I've made many mistakes, and it's about time that I did something about that.
The Doctor: You can't see me, can you? You--you look at me, you can't see me. Do you have any idea what that's like? I'm not on the phone, I'm right here. Standing in front of you. Please, just... just see me.
The Doctor: I--I don't think that I'm a hugging person now.
Clara: I'm not sure you get a vote.
The Doctor: Whatever you say.
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17 December 2014
10 December 2014
Quotes from "Deep Breath" Part 1
(as a dinosaur walks through London)
Inspector Gregson: Madame Vastra, thank God. I'll wager you've not seen anything like this before.
Madame Vastra: Well... not since I was a little girl.
Inspector Gregson: It's just laid an egg.
Madame Vastra: It dropped a blue box marked "Police" out of its mouth. Your grasp of biology troubles me.
Jenny: So it's him, then, the Doctor?
Madame Vastra: A giant dinosaur from the distant past has just vomited a blue box from outer space--this is not a day for jumping to conclusions.
The Doctor: Who invented this room?
Clara: Doctor, please, you have to lie down.
The Doctor: Doesn't make any sense, look, it's only got a bed there. Why is there only a bed in it?
Clara: Because it's a bedroom. It's for sleeping.
The Doctor: Okay, what do you do when you're awake?
Jenny: You leave the room.
The Doctor: So you've got a whole room for not being awake in. But what's the point, you're just missing the room? And don't look in that mirror. It's absolutely furious.
Madame Vastra: I'm having difficulty sleeping.
The Doctor: Oh? Oh, well, I--I wouldn't bother with that. I never bother with sleeping, I just do standy-up catnaps.
Madame Vastra: Oh, really? How interesting. And--and when do you do those?
The Doctor: Well, generally whenever anyone starts talking. I like to skip ahead to my bit, it saves time.
Madame Vastra: I love monkeys, they're so funny.
Jenny: Oh, I see. So people are monkeys now, are they?
Madame Vastra: No, dear. People are apes. Men are monkeys.
The Doctor: I am alone. The world which shook at my feet, and the trees, and the sky, have gone, and I am alone now. Alone.
Clara: Are you translating?
The Doctor: The wind bites now, and the world is grey, and I am alone here. Can't see me. Doesn't see me. Can't see me.
Clara: Who can't see it? I think all of London can see it.
Strax: May I take your coat?
Clara: Not wearing a coat.
Strax: What's all that?
Clara: Clothes.
Strax: May I take your clothes?
Clara: Probably not.
Strax: Are you wearing a hat?
Clara: It's hair!
Strax: Oh, I think it's a hat, would you like me to check?
Madame Vastra: But he is the Doctor. He has walked this universe for centuries untold. He has seen stars fall to dust. You might as well flirt with a mountain range.
Madame Vastra: Jenny and I are married, yet for appearance's sake, we maintain a pretense, in public, that she is my maid.
Jenny: Doesn't exactly explain why I'm pouring tea in private.
Madame Vastra: Hush now.
Jenny: Good pretense, isn't it?
Clara: The Doctor. What's he doing here?
Madame Vastra: There is trouble. Where else would he be?
The Doctor: No, no, shut up! What do you all have for brains--pudding? Look at you. Why can't I meet a decent species? Planet of the pudding-brains!
Clara: You got the TARDIS, then?
Strax: Military tactics. The Doctor is still missing, but he will always come looking for his box. By bringing it here, he will be lured from the dangers of London to this place of safety, and we will melt him with acid.
Clara: Okay, that last part?
Strax: And we will not melt him with acid. Old habits.
Jenny: Meanwhile, Madam Vastra is slightly occupied by the Conk-Singleton forgery case, and is having the Camberwell child-poisoner for dinner.
Clara: For dinner?
Jenny: After she's finished interrogating him. Probably best to stay out the larder. It'll get a bit noisy in there later.
Inspector Gregson: Madame Vastra, thank God. I'll wager you've not seen anything like this before.
Madame Vastra: Well... not since I was a little girl.
Inspector Gregson: It's just laid an egg.
Madame Vastra: It dropped a blue box marked "Police" out of its mouth. Your grasp of biology troubles me.
Jenny: So it's him, then, the Doctor?
Madame Vastra: A giant dinosaur from the distant past has just vomited a blue box from outer space--this is not a day for jumping to conclusions.
The Doctor: Who invented this room?
Clara: Doctor, please, you have to lie down.
The Doctor: Doesn't make any sense, look, it's only got a bed there. Why is there only a bed in it?
Clara: Because it's a bedroom. It's for sleeping.
The Doctor: Okay, what do you do when you're awake?
Jenny: You leave the room.
The Doctor: So you've got a whole room for not being awake in. But what's the point, you're just missing the room? And don't look in that mirror. It's absolutely furious.
Madame Vastra: I'm having difficulty sleeping.
The Doctor: Oh? Oh, well, I--I wouldn't bother with that. I never bother with sleeping, I just do standy-up catnaps.
Madame Vastra: Oh, really? How interesting. And--and when do you do those?
The Doctor: Well, generally whenever anyone starts talking. I like to skip ahead to my bit, it saves time.
Madame Vastra: I love monkeys, they're so funny.
Jenny: Oh, I see. So people are monkeys now, are they?
Madame Vastra: No, dear. People are apes. Men are monkeys.
The Doctor: I am alone. The world which shook at my feet, and the trees, and the sky, have gone, and I am alone now. Alone.
Clara: Are you translating?
The Doctor: The wind bites now, and the world is grey, and I am alone here. Can't see me. Doesn't see me. Can't see me.
Clara: Who can't see it? I think all of London can see it.
Strax: May I take your coat?
Clara: Not wearing a coat.
Strax: What's all that?
Clara: Clothes.
Strax: May I take your clothes?
Clara: Probably not.
Strax: Are you wearing a hat?
Clara: It's hair!
Strax: Oh, I think it's a hat, would you like me to check?
Madame Vastra: But he is the Doctor. He has walked this universe for centuries untold. He has seen stars fall to dust. You might as well flirt with a mountain range.
Madame Vastra: Jenny and I are married, yet for appearance's sake, we maintain a pretense, in public, that she is my maid.
Jenny: Doesn't exactly explain why I'm pouring tea in private.
Madame Vastra: Hush now.
Jenny: Good pretense, isn't it?
Clara: The Doctor. What's he doing here?
Madame Vastra: There is trouble. Where else would he be?
The Doctor: No, no, shut up! What do you all have for brains--pudding? Look at you. Why can't I meet a decent species? Planet of the pudding-brains!
Clara: You got the TARDIS, then?
Strax: Military tactics. The Doctor is still missing, but he will always come looking for his box. By bringing it here, he will be lured from the dangers of London to this place of safety, and we will melt him with acid.
Clara: Okay, that last part?
Strax: And we will not melt him with acid. Old habits.
Jenny: Meanwhile, Madam Vastra is slightly occupied by the Conk-Singleton forgery case, and is having the Camberwell child-poisoner for dinner.
Clara: For dinner?
Jenny: After she's finished interrogating him. Probably best to stay out the larder. It'll get a bit noisy in there later.
12 March 2014
Quotes from "The Name of the Doctor"
Clara: Doctor? Doctor?
The First Doctor: Yes, what is it? What do you want?
Clara: Sorry, but you're about to make a very big mistake. I don't know where I am. It's like I'm breaking into a million pieces and there's only one thing I remember. I have to save the Doctor. He's always looks different. I always know it's him. Sometimes I think I'm everywhere at once, running to save him. Just to save him. Doctor. But he never hears me. Almost never. I blew into this world on a leaf. I'm still blowing. I don't think I'll ever land. I'm Clara Oswald, the Impossible Girl. I was born to save the Doctor.
Clarence: Do you hear the Whisper Men? The Whisper Men are near. If you hear the Whisper Men, then turn away your ear. Do not hear the Whisper Men, whatever else you do. For once you've heard the Whisper Men, they'll stop... and look at you.
Vastra: Strax! Good of you to join us.
Strax: It'd better be important. I was in the middle of destroying some very pleasant primitives.
Clara: Clara Oswald.
River Song: Professor River Song. The Doctor might have mentioned me?
Clara: Oh, yeah. Yeah, of course he has. Professor Song. Sorry, it's just that I never realized you were a woman.
Strax: Well, neither did I.
Clara: So, how do we get down there? Jump?
The Doctor: Don't be silly. We fall.
Whisper Men: This man must fall as all man must, the fate of all is always dust.
Dr Simeon: Welcome to the final resting place of the cruel tyrant. Of the slaughterer of the ten billion, and the vessel of the final darkness. Welcome... to the tomb of the Doctor.
Jenny Flint: Bloodsoaked?
Madame Vastra: The Doctor has been many things, but never bloodsoaked.
Dr Simeon: Tell that to the leader of the Sycorax. Or Solomon the traitor. Or the Cybermen, or the Daleks. The Doctor lives his life in darker hues, day after day, and he will have other names before the end. The Storm. The Beast. The Valeyard.
Strax: Spread out, boy, combat formation. They are unarmed.
Jenny: So are we!
Strax: Do not divulge our military secrets!
Clara: I don't know where I am. I just know I'm running. Sometimes it's like I've lived a thousand lives in a thousand places. I'm born, I live, I die. And always there's the Doctor. Always I'm running to save the Doctor. Again and again and again. And he hardly ever hears me. But I've always been there. Right from the very beginning. The day he started running.
River: It's hard to leave when you haven't said goodbye.
The Doctor: Then tell me because I don't know. How do I say it?
River: There's only one way I would accept. If you ever loved me, say it like you're going to come back.
The Doctor: See you around, Professor River Song.
River: Until the next time... Doctor.
The Doctor: Don't wait up.
Clara: I don't know where I am. I don't know where I am or where I'm been. I was born to save the Doctor, but the Doctor is safe now. I'm the Impossible Girl and my story is done.
The Doctor: You're my Impossible Girl. I'm sending you something. Not from my past, from yours. Look up. Look. This is you, Clara. Everything you were or will be. Take it. You blew into the world on this leaf. Hold tight. It will take you home.
Clara: I never saw that one. I saw all of you. Eleven faces, all of them you. You're the Eleventh Doctor.
The Doctor: I said he was me. I never said he was the Doctor.
Clara: I don't understand.
The Doctor: My name, my real name. That is not the point. The name I chose is "the Doctor." The name you choose, it's like... like a promise you make. He's the one who broke the promise. Clara! He is my secret.
The Unknown Doctor: What I did, I did without choice.
The Doctor: I know.
The Unknown Doctor: In the name of peace and sanity.
The Doctor: But not in the name of the Doctor.
The First Doctor: Yes, what is it? What do you want?
Clara: Sorry, but you're about to make a very big mistake. I don't know where I am. It's like I'm breaking into a million pieces and there's only one thing I remember. I have to save the Doctor. He's always looks different. I always know it's him. Sometimes I think I'm everywhere at once, running to save him. Just to save him. Doctor. But he never hears me. Almost never. I blew into this world on a leaf. I'm still blowing. I don't think I'll ever land. I'm Clara Oswald, the Impossible Girl. I was born to save the Doctor.
Clarence: Do you hear the Whisper Men? The Whisper Men are near. If you hear the Whisper Men, then turn away your ear. Do not hear the Whisper Men, whatever else you do. For once you've heard the Whisper Men, they'll stop... and look at you.
Vastra: Strax! Good of you to join us.
Strax: It'd better be important. I was in the middle of destroying some very pleasant primitives.
Clara: Clara Oswald.
River Song: Professor River Song. The Doctor might have mentioned me?
Clara: Oh, yeah. Yeah, of course he has. Professor Song. Sorry, it's just that I never realized you were a woman.
Strax: Well, neither did I.
Clara: So, how do we get down there? Jump?
The Doctor: Don't be silly. We fall.
Whisper Men: This man must fall as all man must, the fate of all is always dust.
Dr Simeon: Welcome to the final resting place of the cruel tyrant. Of the slaughterer of the ten billion, and the vessel of the final darkness. Welcome... to the tomb of the Doctor.
Jenny Flint: Bloodsoaked?
Madame Vastra: The Doctor has been many things, but never bloodsoaked.
Dr Simeon: Tell that to the leader of the Sycorax. Or Solomon the traitor. Or the Cybermen, or the Daleks. The Doctor lives his life in darker hues, day after day, and he will have other names before the end. The Storm. The Beast. The Valeyard.
Strax: Spread out, boy, combat formation. They are unarmed.
Jenny: So are we!
Strax: Do not divulge our military secrets!
Clara: I don't know where I am. I just know I'm running. Sometimes it's like I've lived a thousand lives in a thousand places. I'm born, I live, I die. And always there's the Doctor. Always I'm running to save the Doctor. Again and again and again. And he hardly ever hears me. But I've always been there. Right from the very beginning. The day he started running.
River: It's hard to leave when you haven't said goodbye.
The Doctor: Then tell me because I don't know. How do I say it?
River: There's only one way I would accept. If you ever loved me, say it like you're going to come back.
The Doctor: See you around, Professor River Song.
River: Until the next time... Doctor.
The Doctor: Don't wait up.
Clara: I don't know where I am. I don't know where I am or where I'm been. I was born to save the Doctor, but the Doctor is safe now. I'm the Impossible Girl and my story is done.
The Doctor: You're my Impossible Girl. I'm sending you something. Not from my past, from yours. Look up. Look. This is you, Clara. Everything you were or will be. Take it. You blew into the world on this leaf. Hold tight. It will take you home.
Clara: I never saw that one. I saw all of you. Eleven faces, all of them you. You're the Eleventh Doctor.
The Doctor: I said he was me. I never said he was the Doctor.
Clara: I don't understand.
The Doctor: My name, my real name. That is not the point. The name I chose is "the Doctor." The name you choose, it's like... like a promise you make. He's the one who broke the promise. Clara! He is my secret.
The Unknown Doctor: What I did, I did without choice.
The Doctor: I know.
The Unknown Doctor: In the name of peace and sanity.
The Doctor: But not in the name of the Doctor.
26 February 2014
Quotes from "The Crimson Horror"
Madame Vastra: According to my research, Sweetville's proprietor holds recruitment trials for her little community. She's only interested in the fittest and the most beautiful.
Strax: You may rely on me, ma'am.
Madame Vastra: I was in fact speaking to Jenny.
Strax: Jenny? If this weak and fleshy boy is to represent us, I strongly advise the issuing of scissor grenades, limbo vapor, and triple-blast brain splitters.
Madame Vastra: What for?
Strax: Just generally. Remember, we are going... to the North.
Madame Vastra: If our stratagem succeeds, Jenny will infiltrate deep into the black heart of this curious place.
Strax: And how will she locate the Doctor?
Madame Vastra: To find him she needs only ignore all keep out signs, go through every locked door, and run towards any form of danger that presents itself.
Strax: Business as usual, then?
Madame Vastra: Business as usual.
Madame Vastra: I wonder how Jenny is getting on.
Strax: If she hasn’t made contact by nightfall, I suggest a massive frontal attack on the factory, Madam. Casualties can be kept to perhaps as little as eighty percent.
Madame Vastra: I think there might be subtler ways of proceeding, Strax.
Strax: Suit yourself.
The Doctor: Just when you think your favorite lock-picking Victorian chambermaid will never turn up. Jenny! (he kisses her, she slaps him) You have no idea how good that feels.
The Doctor: Ooh, I once spent helluva long time trying to get a gobby Australian to Heathrow Airport.
Clara: What for?
The Doctor: Search me.
Strax: Horse! You have failed in your mission! We are lost with no sign of Sweetville. Do you have any final words before your summary execution? (the horse snorts) The usual story! Fourth one this week… and I’m not even hungry.
The Doctor: Oh, great, great. Attack of the supermodels.
Madame Vastra: Strax, you’re overexcited. Have you been eating those jelly sherbet fancies again?
Strax: No...
Madame Vastra: Go outside and wait for me until I call for you.
Strax: But Madam...
Madame Vastra: Go!
Strax: I’m gonna go play with my grenades.
The Doctor: Ooh, The Repulsive Red Leech! Now on balance I think I prefer The Crimson Horror.
Clara: A chimney that doesn’t blow smoke.
The Doctor: Clever clocks.
Clara: Miss me?
The Doctor: Yeah, lots.
Mrs Gillyflower: Oh, ho ho ho. You do seem to keep turning up like a bad penny, young man.
The Doctor: Force of habit.
The Doctor: I’m the Doctor, you’re nuts, and I’m gonna stop you.
Mrs Gillyflower: I'm afraid Mr. Sweet and I cannot allow that.
The Doctor: Ah, yes. Would it be impolite to ask why you and Mr. Sweet are petrifying your workforce with diluted prehistoric leech venom?
The Doctor: Mrs. Gillyflower, you have no idea what you’re dealing with. In the wrong hands that venom could wipe out all life on this planet.
Mrs. Gillyflower: Do you know what these are? The wrong hands!
The Doctor: Hang on, hang on. I’ve got a sonic screwdriver.
Clara: Yeah? I’ve got a chair!
The Doctor: Yeah. That worked.
The Doctor: You’re the boss.
Clara: Am I?
The Doctor: No. No, get in.
Clara: No, that’s just someone who looks like me.
Angie: And that’s someone who looks like your boyfriend.
Artie: Is he an alien?
Angie: Why would he be an alien?
Artie: The chin!
Angie: And the time travel?
Strax: You may rely on me, ma'am.
Madame Vastra: I was in fact speaking to Jenny.
Strax: Jenny? If this weak and fleshy boy is to represent us, I strongly advise the issuing of scissor grenades, limbo vapor, and triple-blast brain splitters.
Madame Vastra: What for?
Strax: Just generally. Remember, we are going... to the North.
Madame Vastra: If our stratagem succeeds, Jenny will infiltrate deep into the black heart of this curious place.
Strax: And how will she locate the Doctor?
Madame Vastra: To find him she needs only ignore all keep out signs, go through every locked door, and run towards any form of danger that presents itself.
Strax: Business as usual, then?
Madame Vastra: Business as usual.
Madame Vastra: I wonder how Jenny is getting on.
Strax: If she hasn’t made contact by nightfall, I suggest a massive frontal attack on the factory, Madam. Casualties can be kept to perhaps as little as eighty percent.
Madame Vastra: I think there might be subtler ways of proceeding, Strax.
Strax: Suit yourself.
The Doctor: Just when you think your favorite lock-picking Victorian chambermaid will never turn up. Jenny! (he kisses her, she slaps him) You have no idea how good that feels.
The Doctor: Ooh, I once spent helluva long time trying to get a gobby Australian to Heathrow Airport.
Clara: What for?
The Doctor: Search me.
Strax: Horse! You have failed in your mission! We are lost with no sign of Sweetville. Do you have any final words before your summary execution? (the horse snorts) The usual story! Fourth one this week… and I’m not even hungry.
The Doctor: Oh, great, great. Attack of the supermodels.
Madame Vastra: Strax, you’re overexcited. Have you been eating those jelly sherbet fancies again?
Strax: No...
Madame Vastra: Go outside and wait for me until I call for you.
Strax: But Madam...
Madame Vastra: Go!
Strax: I’m gonna go play with my grenades.
The Doctor: Ooh, The Repulsive Red Leech! Now on balance I think I prefer The Crimson Horror.
Clara: A chimney that doesn’t blow smoke.
The Doctor: Clever clocks.
Clara: Miss me?
The Doctor: Yeah, lots.
Mrs Gillyflower: Oh, ho ho ho. You do seem to keep turning up like a bad penny, young man.
The Doctor: Force of habit.
The Doctor: I’m the Doctor, you’re nuts, and I’m gonna stop you.
Mrs Gillyflower: I'm afraid Mr. Sweet and I cannot allow that.
The Doctor: Ah, yes. Would it be impolite to ask why you and Mr. Sweet are petrifying your workforce with diluted prehistoric leech venom?
The Doctor: Mrs. Gillyflower, you have no idea what you’re dealing with. In the wrong hands that venom could wipe out all life on this planet.
Mrs. Gillyflower: Do you know what these are? The wrong hands!
The Doctor: Hang on, hang on. I’ve got a sonic screwdriver.
Clara: Yeah? I’ve got a chair!
The Doctor: Yeah. That worked.
The Doctor: You’re the boss.
Clara: Am I?
The Doctor: No. No, get in.
Clara: No, that’s just someone who looks like me.
Angie: And that’s someone who looks like your boyfriend.
Artie: Is he an alien?
Angie: Why would he be an alien?
Artie: The chin!
Angie: And the time travel?
20 May 2013
Series 7 Episode 13: The Name of the Doctor
Summary (Spoilers):
Madam Vastra, Jenny, Strax, Clara and River have a conference call in a dream room. Vastra tells them about the coordinates where the Doctor's greatest secret is hidden and also mentions Trenzalore. Meanwhile someone is in Madam Vastra's house and kills Jenny and River wakes her and Strax up. They find themselves surrounded by Whisper Men, who take them away. More appear in the dream room together with the Great Intelligence. When Clara wakes up, she tells the Doctor what has happened and that he can only save his friends when he goes to Trenzalore. The Doctor explains to her that this is the only place where he shouldn't go but does it nonetheless because he wants to save Vastra, Jenny and Strax. They land on a graveyard and make their way to the Tardis where they hope to find the others. When Whisper Men attack them, they find a hidden tunnel with the help of River and get into the Tardis where Clara remembers things about her dying twice, which she shouldn't remember. The Doctor and Clara are able to find Vastra, Jenny and Strax and the Great Intelligence tries to force the Doctor to open the doors of the Tardis by saying his name. Although the Whisper Men torture his friends he doesn't say his name but River does. Inside the control room the Great Intelligence steps into the Doctor's timeline and kills him in all his incarnations and all the good the Doctor has done, all the lifes he has saved, is lost. Only Clara knows how to save him, because she has done it before and so she steps into the Doctor's timeline as well to safe his life. When everything is back to normal the Doctor tries to figure out how he can save her and the ghost of River tries to stop him from entering his own timeline. She is surprised that he is able to see her but then she tells him that she's only still there because he hasn't said goodbye. River gives him hope that he can still save Clara and so he steps into his timeline to bring her back.
Wow, this really was a great finale and we got some answers to questions but at the same time there is a whole bunch of new questions for us, too. We finally know how Clara can have so many incarnations and deaths and I think Steven Moffat found a great solution here. It's only because she wanted to save the Doctor from dying and therefore she gave herself up to save him. The way they showed her in the Doctor's timeline with the different costumes was great. It was also brilliant that they managed to fit in former incarnations of the Doctor which must have been quite some post-production work. We still don't know the name of the Doctor though but I wasn't really expecting that Steven Moffat would give this secret away. I really enjoyed to see River again and we haven't seen this version of her since "The Forest of the Dead". Her scene with the Doctor was lovely and heartbreaking and I really hope we will see her again. I honestly hadn't expected an ending like this and I want to know how this is resolved but unfortunately we still have to wait until November to find out.
I really enjoyed the finale of the seventh series but I think I have to watch it again to catch all the little details I haven't seen in the first go. Well, I have enough time until November I guess.
Madam Vastra, Jenny, Strax, Clara and River have a conference call in a dream room. Vastra tells them about the coordinates where the Doctor's greatest secret is hidden and also mentions Trenzalore. Meanwhile someone is in Madam Vastra's house and kills Jenny and River wakes her and Strax up. They find themselves surrounded by Whisper Men, who take them away. More appear in the dream room together with the Great Intelligence. When Clara wakes up, she tells the Doctor what has happened and that he can only save his friends when he goes to Trenzalore. The Doctor explains to her that this is the only place where he shouldn't go but does it nonetheless because he wants to save Vastra, Jenny and Strax. They land on a graveyard and make their way to the Tardis where they hope to find the others. When Whisper Men attack them, they find a hidden tunnel with the help of River and get into the Tardis where Clara remembers things about her dying twice, which she shouldn't remember. The Doctor and Clara are able to find Vastra, Jenny and Strax and the Great Intelligence tries to force the Doctor to open the doors of the Tardis by saying his name. Although the Whisper Men torture his friends he doesn't say his name but River does. Inside the control room the Great Intelligence steps into the Doctor's timeline and kills him in all his incarnations and all the good the Doctor has done, all the lifes he has saved, is lost. Only Clara knows how to save him, because she has done it before and so she steps into the Doctor's timeline as well to safe his life. When everything is back to normal the Doctor tries to figure out how he can save her and the ghost of River tries to stop him from entering his own timeline. She is surprised that he is able to see her but then she tells him that she's only still there because he hasn't said goodbye. River gives him hope that he can still save Clara and so he steps into his timeline to bring her back.
Wow, this really was a great finale and we got some answers to questions but at the same time there is a whole bunch of new questions for us, too. We finally know how Clara can have so many incarnations and deaths and I think Steven Moffat found a great solution here. It's only because she wanted to save the Doctor from dying and therefore she gave herself up to save him. The way they showed her in the Doctor's timeline with the different costumes was great. It was also brilliant that they managed to fit in former incarnations of the Doctor which must have been quite some post-production work. We still don't know the name of the Doctor though but I wasn't really expecting that Steven Moffat would give this secret away. I really enjoyed to see River again and we haven't seen this version of her since "The Forest of the Dead". Her scene with the Doctor was lovely and heartbreaking and I really hope we will see her again. I honestly hadn't expected an ending like this and I want to know how this is resolved but unfortunately we still have to wait until November to find out.
I really enjoyed the finale of the seventh series but I think I have to watch it again to catch all the little details I haven't seen in the first go. Well, I have enough time until November I guess.
06 May 2013
Series 7 Episode 11: The Crimson Horror
Summary:
Madam Vastra and Jenny are visited by a man who tells them of his dead brother. The last image the man saw before he died was the face of the Doctor. Together with Strax they travel north to York and try to find out what happens in Sweetville and where the Doctor is. Jenny infiltrates Sweetville but before she is registered she slips away into the factory. When she is there, she finds out that it's not a factory and follows some of Mrs Gillyflower's people who carry a red fluid in a bottle. Meanwhile Madam Vastra visits the morgue and recognises the fluid that coats the dead people's bodies. It's a deadly poison from the time when the Silurians still ruled the Earth. Jenny has found the Doctor and she is able to revive him. While they search for Clara, the Doctor tells Jenny how he and his companion ended up in Mrs Gillyflower's village. They find Clara and can revive her as well when they are attacked but with the help of Madam Vastra and Strax they are able to get away. Together they soon find out that Mrs Gillyflower wants to kill humanity but when they try to stop her, she uses her daughter as a shield and escapes. Will the Doctor be able to stop the rocket and save humanity?
This was a bit of a Doctor and companion light episode but I really liked it. It's always good to see Madam Vastra, Jenny and Strax again. I especially like the funny remarks of the Sontaran and he always brings a smile onto my face. I think we will see more of the trio at the end of this series. The leech symbiont was a bit disgusting in my eyes but it made a really good story. It was a great idea that this creature could be nearly as old as Madam Vastra and that it's maybe not an alien but something that developed on Earth. I don't know why the Doctor always lands somewhere where he didn't want to go but that doesn't matter to him when he finds an adventures there. The story of Ada was a sad storyline because her mother used her to test the venom of the leech creature. It is good that she now has a perspective to got her own way. The end of this episode was really crazy when the kids confront Clara with the pictures they have found of her on the internet. I really didn't expect this and it was a nice twist at the end. We will see what happens with all of them in the next episode.
Madam Vastra and Jenny are visited by a man who tells them of his dead brother. The last image the man saw before he died was the face of the Doctor. Together with Strax they travel north to York and try to find out what happens in Sweetville and where the Doctor is. Jenny infiltrates Sweetville but before she is registered she slips away into the factory. When she is there, she finds out that it's not a factory and follows some of Mrs Gillyflower's people who carry a red fluid in a bottle. Meanwhile Madam Vastra visits the morgue and recognises the fluid that coats the dead people's bodies. It's a deadly poison from the time when the Silurians still ruled the Earth. Jenny has found the Doctor and she is able to revive him. While they search for Clara, the Doctor tells Jenny how he and his companion ended up in Mrs Gillyflower's village. They find Clara and can revive her as well when they are attacked but with the help of Madam Vastra and Strax they are able to get away. Together they soon find out that Mrs Gillyflower wants to kill humanity but when they try to stop her, she uses her daughter as a shield and escapes. Will the Doctor be able to stop the rocket and save humanity?
This was a bit of a Doctor and companion light episode but I really liked it. It's always good to see Madam Vastra, Jenny and Strax again. I especially like the funny remarks of the Sontaran and he always brings a smile onto my face. I think we will see more of the trio at the end of this series. The leech symbiont was a bit disgusting in my eyes but it made a really good story. It was a great idea that this creature could be nearly as old as Madam Vastra and that it's maybe not an alien but something that developed on Earth. I don't know why the Doctor always lands somewhere where he didn't want to go but that doesn't matter to him when he finds an adventures there. The story of Ada was a sad storyline because her mother used her to test the venom of the leech creature. It is good that she now has a perspective to got her own way. The end of this episode was really crazy when the kids confront Clara with the pictures they have found of her on the internet. I really didn't expect this and it was a nice twist at the end. We will see what happens with all of them in the next episode.
26 December 2012
Christmas Special: The Snowmen
Summary:
Clara works as a waitress in a pub and when she goes out a snowman appears suddenly. The Doctor walks past but he isn't very interested in the snowman. Somehow Clara is really fascinated by him and follows the Doctor's coach. They encounter the snowmen again but when Clara envisions them melting, they really do. The Doctor tries to erase her memory of the events but he isn't able to do so, so he just puts her in his coach and Strax should bring her home. Clara still follows him and there she sees the Tardis on a cloud. The next morning she returns to her duties as a governess but something strange happens on the grounds of Captain Lattimer's house. There is a pond that is still frozen where the old governess died. Clara tries to find the Doctor again but Jenny finds her first and brings her to Madame Vastra where she has to answer some question why the Doctor should help her. It seems that Clara has found the exact right word and soon the Doctor is back in the game. The old governess appears again as an ice woman who is wanted by Dr Simeon. Can the Doctor save the world from ice people and more important, can he save Clara?
I think this really was a great Christmas Special. It gave me some of the Christmas feelings with the snow and everything that I miss in reality. Yes, I know the snow was an alien life form but it looked pretty nonetheless. Vastra, Jenny and Strax are a brilliant trio and it's just great to see them all together. Strax is just funny in an unintentional way and he often makes you smile. We've met Clara before as a Dalek but after this Christmas Special it's still not clear who she really is. I think this puzzle is also the reason why the Doctor starts to travel again after the loss of the Ponds. Vastra, Jenny and Strax tried their best to keep him company but he needed Clara to get him out of his Scrooge mood. The Snowmen are really terrifying and maybe we will see them again in the future because the Doctor hasn't really defeated them in the end. The Great Intelligence is still out there somewhere and it probably wasn't the last time we have encountered it. Well, you can argue about the new design of the Tardis as well. I don't know what to think about it right now because it looks so totally different than before but I guess I'll get used to it. It has a kind of modern touch to it now and some parts look a bit futuristic. I'm really looking forward to the rest of series 7 and I want to know what the mystery behind Clara is.
You can watch the episode online here.
Clara works as a waitress in a pub and when she goes out a snowman appears suddenly. The Doctor walks past but he isn't very interested in the snowman. Somehow Clara is really fascinated by him and follows the Doctor's coach. They encounter the snowmen again but when Clara envisions them melting, they really do. The Doctor tries to erase her memory of the events but he isn't able to do so, so he just puts her in his coach and Strax should bring her home. Clara still follows him and there she sees the Tardis on a cloud. The next morning she returns to her duties as a governess but something strange happens on the grounds of Captain Lattimer's house. There is a pond that is still frozen where the old governess died. Clara tries to find the Doctor again but Jenny finds her first and brings her to Madame Vastra where she has to answer some question why the Doctor should help her. It seems that Clara has found the exact right word and soon the Doctor is back in the game. The old governess appears again as an ice woman who is wanted by Dr Simeon. Can the Doctor save the world from ice people and more important, can he save Clara?
I think this really was a great Christmas Special. It gave me some of the Christmas feelings with the snow and everything that I miss in reality. Yes, I know the snow was an alien life form but it looked pretty nonetheless. Vastra, Jenny and Strax are a brilliant trio and it's just great to see them all together. Strax is just funny in an unintentional way and he often makes you smile. We've met Clara before as a Dalek but after this Christmas Special it's still not clear who she really is. I think this puzzle is also the reason why the Doctor starts to travel again after the loss of the Ponds. Vastra, Jenny and Strax tried their best to keep him company but he needed Clara to get him out of his Scrooge mood. The Snowmen are really terrifying and maybe we will see them again in the future because the Doctor hasn't really defeated them in the end. The Great Intelligence is still out there somewhere and it probably wasn't the last time we have encountered it. Well, you can argue about the new design of the Tardis as well. I don't know what to think about it right now because it looks so totally different than before but I guess I'll get used to it. It has a kind of modern touch to it now and some parts look a bit futuristic. I'm really looking forward to the rest of series 7 and I want to know what the mystery behind Clara is.
You can watch the episode online here.
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