May 18th, 2013
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What Did You Think of The Name of The Doctor?
What Did You Think of The Name of The Doctor?
Clara receives a letter summoning her to a mysterious meeting, where she is given a message for the Doctor.
The meaning is uncertain, but when an enemy strikes the Time Lord is left with no choice but to travel to the one place in time and space he should never go – into a deadly trap that threatens to unravel his past, present and future.
Now that the final episode of series 7b has aired in the UK what did you think? Was it the best episode ever or just average.
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poobar73
May 20th, 2013 - 6:35pmI loved it. It showed why Matt Smith is my 2nd frav
Doctor 🙂
THE NEW 12th is Benedict Cumberbatch
May 20th, 2013 - 6:34pmI believe that the doctor should have regenerated into someone else. Like, Benedict Cumberbatch for instance. My personal favorite doctor was David Tennant, but with him gone, I now expect better people to replace him like Matt Smith did. At the end of the episode, “The Name of the Doctor,” I was confused with John Hurt. Normally, when the doctor turns into someone new he will regenerate into someone else. But in this episode, he did not regenerate into someone else, but if he does, he should be Benedict Cumberbatch. With him as the 12th doctor, people will like him more because Cumberbatch has been in Star Trek: Into Darkness, which I saw yesterday, and he was oustanding in that movie. Which could also mean he can be brilliant as the new doctor!
Benedict Cumberbatch must be the 12th
Jane
May 20th, 2013 - 6:24pmCould John Hurt be Rivers DR,the one who gives her her own sonic screwdriver?
Anonymous
May 20th, 2013 - 6:09pmDoes it mean she made him in reference to when she killed him in Berlin then brought him back to life by using up all her regenerations ?
Anonymous
May 20th, 2013 - 6:06pmHow
jamie x
May 20th, 2013 - 5:48pmin the magazine it says 12 though
jamie x
May 20th, 2013 - 5:46pmit means just what it says “she made the docter”
Me
May 20th, 2013 - 5:03pmOk I am fairly new to all this but, could someone tell me what River meant by saying “she made him” when talking to Clara
Skaroman
May 20th, 2013 - 4:29pmWhat if there was an incarnation of the doctor before William Hartnell’s doctor?
If he broke the secret, then the doctor would not want to remember him. Not a ‘true doctor’, and would not deserve to be one of his incarnations.
Just a theory that might work…
eveyns
May 20th, 2013 - 3:28pmDon’t worry Karl,I think we have been had for mugs by the BBC advertising board. I’m not sure they told us his name; unless he is actually called John Heard which I find
extremely hard to believe – or would they?
The Moffat Paradox
May 20th, 2013 - 2:41pmAnd with what can be done with special effects now cost effectively with CGI there just isn’t an excuse. We want to see something on an epic scale that doesn’t try to get too clever and blows us away.
Why do writers who claim to be “fans” of these things seem to have a talent for wasting them once they get their “creative” hands on it compared to the people who did it originally ?
karl
May 20th, 2013 - 2:02pmi feel like i’ve been sold the kings-new-clothes. the whole idea for the entire 50 years has been – Doctor Who? to be given an entire series and the 50th aniversary episode on the subject of who is dr who, when they cannot answer that question. seems to have missed the point of dr who. dr who is not about who he is, as, what he does. take away the “what he does” and chase after “who is dr who” is navel gazzzing… when i would have liked a sci-fi adventure for the 50th. not asking the same question that’s been asked for 50 years in a soap opera style pretend sci-fi. and as for rplacing the docs sonic screwdriver with a “magic green wand” is a joke. not really sci-fi for me these days – is more like a time travelling wizard and zero science – fiction or otherwise…
rant over, sad really… i miss the sci-fi adventures, we’ve been lumbered with timey wimey wizardy…
Japhet
May 20th, 2013 - 1:08pmHas all the past doctors went by, are there was no David Tennant or did I just not spot him? :s
daryl
May 20th, 2013 - 12:17pmThe Doctor:
Doctor- mean healer or wise man. The man who saves lives.
The Doctor is all of this as we know but what if Hurt’s Doctor was not this?
Kovarian
May 20th, 2013 - 11:10amI meant 2014 – 2017
Kovarian
May 20th, 2013 - 11:09amMy theory: in the 50th special, Matt dies and somehow he has not enough power to regenerate.
But John Hurt will survive and turns to the “good side” and he plays the doctor for 2 or 3 seasons 2014!!!
MaxP
May 20th, 2013 - 3:45amwasn’t it 9th & 10th? Have to check
MaxP
May 20th, 2013 - 3:44amyes good question. There’ll be lots of holes like this if you poke too much. Or maybe Matt Smith is destined to be the last doctor. It’s his Tardis that’s there at Trenzalore after all.
hxcmike
May 20th, 2013 - 3:37amI was kinda bummed that He’s supposed to be the 9th. I really wanted him to be the Valeyard. I did love that he got an honorable mention that also secured the canon that Valeyard is a future form (sort of) of the Doctor. it would be nice to see the return of previous dark versions of the doctor such as the Valeyard, or the Dream Master, and now we have the Cyber Planner and a new dark 9th doctor to boot!
Krista
May 20th, 2013 - 3:28amHe can’t be before Hartnell. Eleven specifically says that John Hurt’s Doctor is “the one who broke the promise”… therefore he would have to be called the Doctor first in order to have broken it. Sorry.
MaxP
May 20th, 2013 - 3:04amSounds excellent. I love the idea of dark deeds being done, so dark they’re not mentioned ever. Very promising potential for stories. Also I can’t help but think, Man, John Hurt would have been such a great Doctor back in the old days. (that is as a more ‘normal’ doctor, not a bad one). He’d have been fantastic!
Harold Saxon
May 20th, 2013 - 2:27amEXCEPTIONAL,IT WAS GREAT,a tense and dramatic end to the season,lots of exciting bits,some very clever bits with former doctors,all good fun.
Obsie
May 20th, 2013 - 12:49amWell spotted ,I’d forgotten about that. It would explain a lot of things, facing his destiny or fears, so he decides to try and blank them out; until now. Let’s see what November brings.
TeddyChester
May 19th, 2013 - 11:32pm… some good points, agree with the confusion about how did Clara stop the great intelligence in the time stream… if someone could answer that, that would be great. This series has been head and shoulders better than the last, Cold War, my favourite. Looking forward to the 50th Special and the next series.
Anonymous
May 19th, 2013 - 11:08pmInterestingly…
In the Sarah Jane Adventures, The Doctor (the 11th) says he can regenerate 507 times
Anonymous
May 19th, 2013 - 10:56pmWow… good catch. Hadn’t thought of that.
Bendik Risting
May 19th, 2013 - 10:48pmActually maybe not, since the Doctor can meet River before this happened, you know, Wibbley Wobbley spacey wamey…..
Madeline
May 19th, 2013 - 10:41pmThe previous comment was in response to the comment by “frank e” by the way! 🙂
Madeline
May 19th, 2013 - 10:39pmNo. I don’t think we’ve seen the conditions of the prophecy met yet. It was not “the fall of the 11th” (the Doctor did not regenerate or almost regenerate or anything of the sort), and there was nothing we saw in the situation to indicate that “no creature [could] speak falsely or fail to answer.” Moffat always seems to be very clear and precise with what he does, so I don’t think we’ve seen the point at which whatever it is the Silence was trying to avoid is supposed to have occurred.
(I hope I’m not wrong, because if I am, then Moffat is very sloppy indeed! But at this point I don’t think that’s the case. I think he’s got it all planned out to a T. I hope I’m right!)
Madeline
May 19th, 2013 - 10:34pmOne reason I really like the idea that Hurt is the “man” before he was the Doctor is that I think it has been hinted (I don’t know by whom) that the Doctor is much older and more important than we know, and this makes a lot of sense. Think about this: how is it that the Doctor’s real name is the oldest secret in the Universe? Does that lead you to believe that he is just another Timelord who was born one day, long into the Timelord history? It leads me to believe that he is much, much more than that. Maybe he is The Other, I don’t know, but he’s someone very important. It makes you think that he may be central to the creation of the Universe in some way.
Let me find the exact words… “The First Question, the oldest question in the Universe, that must never be answered.” This whole thing is supposed to be centered around his real name. And in the prequel Clara talks about finding out how he began, so it just really leads me to believe that we are going to find out about his origins and his true identity. (And none of this has anything to do with the Time War(!) which is something in the recent past.)
The origins of the Doctor (the “person” and the title) is something I want to know more about, so I really hope SM and I are on the same page! 🙂