November 23rd, 2013
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What Did You Think of The Day of the Doctor?
What Did You Think of The Day of the Doctor?
The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure in this 50th anniversary special.
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London’s National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor’s own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.
Day of The Doctor DVD and Blu-rays
All of reality is at stake as the Doctor’s own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.
Day of the Doctor Starring Matt Smith, David Tennant, Jenna Coleman with Billie Piper and John Hurt.
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Darren
November 24th, 2013 - 1:01pmPlease help. How did they get back to earth? I thought they were stuck in the Drs time stream on Trenzalore?
Why did the bomb appear as Rose Tyler to reassure the Dr (John Hurt) when he would not have met her before? Would it not have been more reassuring for her to appear as an earlier companion he had met?
Why is David Tenant’s Dr banging on about destroying the time lords when in the 2009 TV Story the End of Time he relocks them up in time to stop the time war. Unless that happened after this, but then Matt Smith would remember that anyway. But as all 13 Doctors were in on the final act wouldn’t they all know what they have done anyway? Why make a big fuss of the 50th Anniversary and then only really use the last two Dr’s and a made up Dr. Surely they could have used Mcgann’s Dr instead of Hurt’s it would have made as more sense of “the lost years”. And taking the use of The fantastic Tom Baker as an anniversary indulgence why did they have the wit to use the other Doctors in an equally imaginative way. Yours confused and slightly disappointed.
Harold Saxon
November 24th, 2013 - 12:29pmIt was brilliant from the word go!from the quirky start to surprise at the end,the 75 minutes went fast.
JustCurious
November 24th, 2013 - 12:26pmAnd since Capaldi (12th!) would know they succeeded, the other future doctors would not be needed. Steven Moffat was saying how he hopes dw hits a hundre…
JustCurious
November 24th, 2013 - 12:22pm1)AGE
3) Nope, halfway/war doctor/ …
4) I’m thinking it’s a future doctor
who rules
November 24th, 2013 - 12:22pmok, night of the doctor. the doctor is dead when he arrives on karn, the sisterhood bring him back to life for a short period, then give him the elixier to trigger a controlled regeneration, so yes, hurt is the 9th doctor. however, the next doctor (ecceleston) refers to himself as the ninth doctor, chosing to forget “the war doctor” so eccleston is 9th doctor, ninth regeration, tennant tenth doctor/tenth regeneration and so on. In case you are wondering, i just checked night of the doctor with the subtitles on and yes it is stated that the doctor is dead! this won’t clear this up as it can be changed by an writer who wishes! oh, if capaldi is the 13th and last doctor, how about at the end of his run, he saves gallifrey and the time lords give him a new regeneration cycle in gratitude? just a thought…
JustCurious
November 24th, 2013 - 12:19pmAnd now we know that it was not destroyed, but only the eleventh will remember that.
And it was not the fourth, but a future doctor
JustCurious
November 24th, 2013 - 12:13pmExcept he doesn’t know that. Noone remembers that he never was he war doctor, except the eleventh.
Anonymous
November 24th, 2013 - 12:05pmYeah…that’s what I gathered….a post regeneration cycle Doctor…maybe he can only change into past incarnations and live out the rest of their natural lives…who knows but Moffat is a genius.
47
November 24th, 2013 - 12:05pmI went to the cinema to see it, and thoroughly enjoyed it. My own personal preferences is weight, gravity and drama, as portrayed in Night Of The Doctor, and not been big in appreciation for the Moffat/Smith era as this has too often been substituted for comedy, childish tantrums and clowning about. So, I went with no expectations, for good and certainly not for ill. I enjoyed the story, the part everyone played in it and how the character acting bounced off each other to provide the contrasts; a great ensemble piece. Overall, yeah, good stuff, and to repeat myself cos I can’t be bothered to use a different superlative whilst drinking tea, I enjoyed it, very much.
Anonymous
November 24th, 2013 - 12:02pmDaryl….did you watch it?
JustCurious
November 24th, 2013 - 11:57amI think he was, but not the fourth. The doctor “revisited” old faces, so he might be a post-12th doctor
WFK DVD Collector 13
November 24th, 2013 - 11:51amWhen Tom Baker appeared I just screamed! Although I don’t think that he was playing the doctor…. That would make no sense.
Daryl
November 24th, 2013 - 11:50amAlso who was John Hurt?????
Daryl
November 24th, 2013 - 11:49amIf they moved Gallifray so all the Dalek ships destroyed each then surley the Daleks already on Gallifray it’s self would have been OK?
alex
November 24th, 2013 - 11:41amI watched Dr who in the cinema in Southampton. The crowd cheered when the old title sequence started! When Tom turned up they went wild! Really worth seeing in the cinema. I couldn’t see that well because sombody wore a fez infront 🙁
Obsie
November 24th, 2013 - 11:38amZygons are duplicitous and lie. They can change their minds as often as their shape.
Robert
November 24th, 2013 - 11:10amI am lost
doc fan
November 24th, 2013 - 11:09am1)AGE????
doc fan
November 24th, 2013 - 11:07amBrilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!Brilliant!
By the way who noticed the 12th doctor cos I did?
THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR!!!
Dalek Smith
November 24th, 2013 - 11:00amperhaps they agreed to give the zygons a vortex manipulator so they could go back to the 70s, build a robot nessie and get beaten by the 4th doctor. Just a guess
Tim M
November 24th, 2013 - 10:51amI greatly enjoyed the episode and thought John Hurt was excellent. But I came away feeling it could have and should have been better. Great to see the Zygons again, but I’ve had enough of duplicates. Moffat seems obsessed by them!
Surely we could have had the older Doctors in it! Just put them in a story where each of their incarnations have been taken out of their time stream by some enemy wishing to have all the secrets on Gallifrey and the Time Lords. Because then each incarnation has been on this ship for many years they hence look older. So it’s for the later Doctors to rescue them and return them each to their rightful place in time. Hence all those Doctor’s are never aware that they were taken form their time streams as they are returned from where they left. That would have been my sort of 50th anniversary story idea anyway!
whoniversal
November 24th, 2013 - 10:48amThis could also explain earlier comments about Hurt being the 9th and 10,11 & 12 not existing in Capaldi’s time line.
If you look at the end credits Hurt is number at 9.
I had been trying to figure out why the order was like that in the credits, it wasn’t appearance order or alphabetical.
Jonny Scoones
November 24th, 2013 - 10:46amI agree, I needed closure on the zygons story, what treaty did they come to, any one got an idea?
DALEKSKITTLES
November 24th, 2013 - 10:40amYet in 2005 a dalek survived a fall from space to earth!? But now they get pushed over and blow up?
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
November 24th, 2013 - 10:39amI have to agree with Videogamemad00. I’ll re watch but after the show I was not too keen.
whoniversal
November 24th, 2013 - 10:28amBrilliant.
It filled a lot of loopholes and answered a lot of questions for me; and I’ve watched it from 1963 when I was 9.
Did any one else freeze-frame the very end of John Hurt’s re-gen?
I’m sure it started to morph into Peter Capaldi. And there’s no reason why it shouldn’t!!!
cyberman2
November 24th, 2013 - 10:25amWell*
cyberman2
November 24th, 2013 - 10:24amPs I said hurt had a tardis interior which was different to tennants and someone said I was wrong we’ll looks like you were wrong
the astroanut of death
November 24th, 2013 - 10:18ambravo moffat.bravo
cyberman2
November 24th, 2013 - 10:16amSo what did I think of it *shows flashback of me at the cinema with my jaw dropped and screaming* IT. WAS. BRILLIANT!!!!