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What Did You Think Of The Impossible Astronaut?
What Did You Think Of The Impossible Astronaut?
Screenshots from The Impossible Astronaut have been added to the gallery Here.
Now that the first episode of Series 6 has aired, what did you think of The Impossible Astronaut? Cast your vote in the panel below.
Andrew Hall
April 23rd, 2011 - 11:57pmToo much timey wimey nonsense. Too confusing, some nice elements but for JOE PUBLIC and most of us fans not very straight forward. Certainly not the best season opener, tho the Silence are very good.
Rooners
April 24th, 2011 - 1:59amIt is a show about time travel 😉
Andrew Hall
April 24th, 2011 - 3:20amYeah i know that,ive been a fan for many many years but Moffat goes way too far with the timey wimey claptrap such as the Big Bang rubbish season finale last year. I would love a season of unconnected stories for a change! Saying that, i have just rewatched it on BBC I-Player and it works better after a second viewing.
Scott
April 23rd, 2011 - 11:50pmThat was an amazing episode what a start to series 6 like the Silence they are a very creepy and scary monster.
jerrypop
April 23rd, 2011 - 11:27pmthis was a really good episode i think the silence looks like a really great monster and also great filming it in 1969 and in america, but the only probally i find confussing is the astronaut, why is it a little girl?when the little girl is ment to been scared of the astronaut and with the doctor regenerating i think the 11th doctors great i reckon hes more of a time traveller than use to be.
and i really wanna know who river is and why somthing bads goin to happen to her????????
CG
April 23rd, 2011 - 11:55pmWell the bad thing that is going to happen to her was explained in The Impossible Astronaut. In the episode where she said she fears the time when the Doctor meets her and he does not know her. She thinks that is the time she will die. That was a nod to the two parter in series 4, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead.
Derek Disley
April 23rd, 2011 - 11:16pmThis is without doub’t the best episode i’ve seen since the dalek story in season 4 and the Tennant regeneration story, daleks my number 1, or will this story take over, we’ll see next episode.
I think the silence have started this series and i think they will most likely finish the series in a 2 part season finale.
Todays episode posed quite a few interesting questions to be answered as the series progresses, and i doub’t if we will get all the answers this year.
the biggest qusetion of all is… if the present Doctor died on that beach then is this the Doctors final regeneration… ‘ i doub’t it ‘ but it will be interesting to see how Stephen Moffat sorts that one out, especially as the story line confirmed that it was the Doctor who died.
Keep up the good work guys, and by the way… Matt Smith is fantastic, Matt Smith is the Doctor.
luke mayweather
April 23rd, 2011 - 10:56pmmatt smith is rubissih really all the actors and him look yiu could have had david morissy douglas henshell and they pick that turd
jerrypop
April 23rd, 2011 - 11:33pmlook in the mirror mate
STEPHEN KELLEHER
April 23rd, 2011 - 10:39pmI THINK THIS EPISODE WILL UPSET MANY YOUNG FANS IT BREAKS ALL THE RULES. AN EGO TRIP FOR STEPHEN MOFFIT IT TURNS OUT THE SERIES WAS NOT SAFE IN HIS HANDS.
Doctor Who Star 100
April 25th, 2011 - 8:51pmi’m 11 by the way this was brill
DoctorWho fan 2011
April 23rd, 2011 - 10:10pmthe inappropriate messages
wos great it wos good it wos cool
KORSAIR
April 23rd, 2011 - 9:56pmI’m not quite sure how to take this episode, it had it’s funny moments but I’ll need to give it a second veiwing later.
Doctor J
April 23rd, 2011 - 9:48pmWhat a brilliant way to kick of Series 6 the Silence were fantastic I can’t wait for Day of the Moon I hope that the Silence are seen more in future DW episodes
YoureSoVain
April 23rd, 2011 - 9:20pmyer a good start to the new series,,, we should have known that Amy was having a baby with the Doctor say that he could see that she had put weight on… HaHa Ha
With the killing of the Doctor i, think that it’s River which is Y she could not kill herslef after the deth of the Doctor in the “Ep” which would also make it river who is the gril in the suit…
And am liking the sound of her being Amy’s daughter but i just con’t see it…
just WHO is RIVER SONG!!!!
Doctor Who Star 100
April 25th, 2011 - 8:49pmwe will find out in ep 7 who she is!
drwhomad6500
April 23rd, 2011 - 9:03pmIt was a very good start to the series! I am looking forward to the next episode to see what happens. I had two favourite bits from this episode, the one where the Doctor says that his special straw makes his drink fizzier and where Rory sees all of The Silence and then turns around and says, nope, nothing there.
booboo
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:46pmI dont think the Silents were as scary in this as the Doctor Who Adventures mask
TARDIS
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:32pmdid any one notice the new titleds
1. the actors names are a bit different
2.the BBC logo is under the dw logo
3. the dw logo has changed a bit like the light at the top
kescasper
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:40pmThe episode wasn’t well written and was convoluted from the start. There was a section about 40 minutes in where the doctor was taken off the screen and forgotten.If he was looking for the cause he wasn’t looking very hard. He became a secondary not a lead character in his own drama. He wasn’t given enough exciting scenes to make this episode a good start to the new series. If he is the doctor what was he suposed to be doing. Not a lot really. Lazy writing. 3 out of ten. the special effects was where the entertainment showed and not with the doctor.
Rich
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:16pmAwesome episode, loved that the doctor asked for the help of his younger self, and loved the silence, great idea to have them forget as soon as they look away, very menacing. And it left so many questions about amy’s baby and who river really is… who knows, maybe river is amy’s daughter?
simon w
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:21pmthat was what a friend and i was talking about just after it finished that eather she’s amy or her daughter we will find out.Ow iv just had a thought u know in silence in the library where the Doctor first meet river and she wispers in his ear somthing we all thought she sayed im your wife, But what if she actualy sayed to him that she was his daughter. now thats somthing to think about
Doctorwho4eva
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:23pmagree completely, my best scenes were:
1) The doctor having the whole regeneration sequence. Very Awesome.
2) The Cliff-hanger, Just who IS that Little girl?
TARDIS
April 23rd, 2011 - 9:21pm@simon w but they kissed in the trailer
simon w
April 23rd, 2011 - 10:11pmsorry i ment to say that when she whispered to him that she was Amy’s daughter not the Doctor’s
CG
April 23rd, 2011 - 11:59pm@Simon W what River whispered in the Doctor’s ear was his true name. It was established in Silence in the Library that that is what she said to him. Setting up the idea that she knows a lot about the Doctor and how much trust he had put in her sometime in the future by telling her his real name.
simon w
April 24th, 2011 - 12:10pm@CG sorry my mind was running at a very very fast rate last night thinking and trying to make sence off a lot off things from all the past episode’s. I know that she sayed his real name thats why he trusted her. I somting hate it when my mind runns like that. once again im sorry
simon w
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:00pmit was nice to see the tribute to Elisabeth Sladen in the begining for this episode, 1 off the best episodes. Still figering out most off it. I think the little girl in the spacesuit might be amy’s child and I thinkk that River might be a future version of Amy. Keep up the very good work
Not Really That Important
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:05pmon the new trailer for ep 2, what are the things Rory Amy have on there necks, like green things
simon w
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:17pmI think its a black marker pen u see then with black lines on there bodys its to let them know how many times they have seen the creatures I think any we will see next week looks good
That guy you’ve seen, but don’t know
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:17pmI think the green things are to make them see the silence without forgetting them. Thats my theory.
Not Really That Important
April 25th, 2011 - 10:07amThats what they are, ‘cos on the BBC website it has 2 new Scenes from Day Of The Moon
jason
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:59pmI can’t wait for part 2
BAXI
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:58pmBooboo, do you know of any figure news for this episode?
booboo
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:01pmnothing at all sorry
BAXI
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:07pmOk, thanks anyway booboo
TARDIS
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:46pmi liked that they put it in memory of liz
crazy guy
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:31pmthis was so awsome. although amy didnt look pregnent and the tardis console wich was in the lodger is in- best episode of doctor who ever
TARDIS
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:44pmmabey its just a reuse of set
2doctors2000
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:00pmoh and maybe she only like 2 weeks so she wont be fat lol
The 14th Doctor
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:28pmI could understand it and it was very good. As long as yhou really pay attention you can understand the story
Fox Mulder
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:20pmTruly EPIC It was prety good
shea07irl
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:17pmi was so scared, i need more underpants
shea07irl
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:16pmscary,
shea07irl
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:16pmit was realy confusing, really
roo slitheen
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:04pmthe doctor was going to die after all. it was awsome when he got SHOT DEAD!!!!!!!
TARDIS
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:43pmso tha means that its the end and all the other eps are just flashbacks as the roumor said :0
jerrypop
April 23rd, 2011 - 11:36pmyes but he could of died in series five when he got shot by the dalek but he lived anyway its been told hes carrying on till 2013 on the 50th aniversery
DW Fan
April 25th, 2011 - 3:20amI think that the Doctor did die when he was shot in the Impossible Astronaut. The reason the Doctor survived the Dalek death beam in “The Big Bang” is because Time Lords are more durable than human and the Dalek was weakened. The Doctor also reversed time and rebooted the universe. In the Impossible Astronaut, the Doctor was shot before he fully regenerated. His past self could still continue travelling for the series as he is 200 years younger than when he was shot. Time could also be rewritten or unwritten so the Doctor getting shot might/could never have happened. There are tons of other possibilities as well. I think he does die and his past version will continue travelling for the duration of the show. This idea is flawed in that he would not be able to regenerate. Skilled Time Lords also have partial control over their regenerations so the Doctor may be able to turn back into his eleventh form if he ever will regenerate into his twelfth for.
Anything is possible in Doctor Who. I have always wanted to see a darker storyline so I am looking forward to the rest of this season.
Geronimo!
Not Really That Important
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:03pmat the begining of the episode, adele could be heard.
NotADalek
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:02pmI have to say, I hated the episode. It was just way too confusing. I was able to understand The Big Bang but this was just a step too far. It was just all over the place, and at the end, the girl as the astronaut, that just completely confused the heck out of me. Sorry if I sounded like a critic that completely hated Doctor Who during that long post, but that’s just what I think of that episode.
DoctorWhoDW-in memory of Liz Sladen-WE LOVE YOU
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:07pmi found this alot easier to folow than the Pandorica Opens! adn when you think about it the impossible astronaut,,,, a little girl as an astronaut that is IMPOSSIBLE
2doctors2000
April 23rd, 2011 - 8:02pmye i think it wicked but how could she be scared of the astronaut if it herself
chloe hickson
April 24th, 2011 - 8:00ami didn’t get that episode, why did the asternart shoot the doctor?
TorchwoodGuy05
April 24th, 2011 - 9:15amIt didn’t. Amy shot the astronaut because she thought she could prevent the Doctor’s death in the future.
TorchwoodGuy05
April 24th, 2011 - 9:16amSorry, thought you meant at the end.
rory the roman
April 24th, 2011 - 7:37pmit wasnt that bad but i thought if the scene with the doctorn getting shot could be cut out and the secret there hiding from the doctor is that amy is pregnet it would almost make alot of sence
NotADalek
April 30th, 2011 - 5:54pmat DoctorWhoDW, you have a point. Hopefully Day of the Moon will sort things out tonight.
Ronan
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:02pmIt wasn’t as scary as I imagined, but it was very good. Really, it was too over rated before it was actually broadcasted, and but the cast just said it was frightning to make people want to watch it. 7/10
DW Fan
April 25th, 2011 - 3:05amI believe that the next episode will be scarier
Joe
April 23rd, 2011 - 6:59pmVERY AWESOME! lots of wibbly wobbly timy wimy buisness… Silence were very scary!
doctorwhoforever
April 23rd, 2011 - 6:56pmIt was quite scary and at first I didn’t understand it. I got the epsiode in the end. Very Entertaining!