It’s the Doctor as a shop clerk! With his partner Craig and son Stormageddon in tow! They’re Cybermen! Even Cybermats!
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It is so sad I cried when the doctor got his hat and the tardis blue envilopes!I think he is going to his death.
Posted by ham sandwich on 09/25 at 11:22 AM
This episode was awesome - yes, it was light, but there’s nothing wrong with that! Besides, we know big bad things are coming.
Are we to assume he’s spent about 200 years going and saying goodbye to people?
Posted by Koshka on 09/25 at 11:56 AM
I dont know if you will understand what I will trie to say and I´m not sure if this is the right post to wright this but I think that the “THE SILENCE WILL FALL” is somehow related to the wedding of river. Lets assume she merries the doctor and when the question “do you accept Melody Pond to be youre wife?” he just stays quiet! :p its a silly idea but it just come out of my head after seeing the trailer to The Wedding of River Song and hearing that its HIS sillence that will fall!!
Posted by Miguel on 09/25 at 12:41 PM
Great first 35 minutes. Craig should have died. No more overly sentimental happy endings.
Posted by Soldeed on 09/26 at 04:44 AM
I don’t agree that Craig should have died. I would have preferred it if Night Terrors’ ending went south instead. Closing Time is a comedy, and the ending works to the tone. Whereas with Night Terrors it the oversentimentality kills mood of the piece.
I think it was a bad idea to have two stories in the last six stories that had a climax dependent on a father’s love for a child. That was just plain sloppy planning.
Posted by Graeme on 09/26 at 05:13 AM
Loved the episode. Silly and fun. I must say I was a little suprised at the end when it was revealed who is in the space suit that shoots the Doctor. I say “suprised” because who it turns out to be was the most obvious, the first guess that entered my mind back at the first episode of this series. But then again, perhaps Moffat will throw in a curve ball next week. Can’t Wait!
Posted by Doug Grandy on 09/26 at 06:28 AM
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Posted by Eric on 09/26 at 09:20 AM
Liked this a lot. Not quite as much as I wanted to, since I adored The Lodger and this wasn’t quite up to that - but I still enjoyed it immensely.
Agree with Graeme that the resolution wasn’t the best, seeing that we’d had the same basic idea two weeks ago. However the great comedy lines throughout made up for it. Love Craig and the interaction between him and the Doctor…hope this isn’t the last we see of him.
And let’s hope next week lives up to the hype!
Posted by Julie on 09/26 at 11:31 AM
So what happens next week? Any ideas?
I think the doctor that gets killed will turn out to be doppelganger and then the real doctor will be working from behind the scenes to beat the bad guys that tried to kill him. Then again can a ganger hold it’s shape after it’s killed? Matbe the newer ones.
Posted by Dragnet on 09/26 at 02:13 PM
Amelia Pond, “The Girl who got tired of Waiting”?? What kind of story was that? Rory hangs on for centuries, waiting for and protecting Amy, who was trapped in Pandora’s box, with no one coming to rescue him for thousands of years, and Amy can’t go 20 years without throwing a hissy fit, hating the Dr, and forgetting Rory? It was just made worse by the ridiculous reference in this current episode, which didn’t fit at all.
And I’m sick of River Song. That story line has been blown way out of proportion. Why not bring back Donna or Ramona, or someone more of a match for the Dr? River Song has never made any sense, and this writer insists upon making Amelia Pond and River Song the central figures, eclipsing the history of the Dr and his companions. Amelia is spoiled, immature and hadn’t shown any development or maturity in her character. Rory just either was killed in each episode, or lives forever to protect the childish woman who can’t seem to value anything other than her own experiences. And River Song isn’t a sympathetic character nor believable, because there is no attempt to connect her to her parents in small nuanced ways, so that the viewer may be persuaded to believe that those three are related.
It looks like even though Amy & Rory are gone, we’re going to be subjected to un-ending “sightings” of those two.
PLEASE don’t make so many twisted story lines which aren’t making any sense, and don’t keep the continuity of the story.
We watched every episode of Dr. Who, from the very first over the last couple of years, and the last two seasons overall have been tremendously disappointing for lack of story content and continuity.
Posted by SLO on 09/26 at 04:34 PM
After watching it twice, I was hoping to really have it figured out, but there are still so many questions to be answered, more than are possible to wrap up next week I think.
Are so many stories this half season about a parent’s love for their children leading to something? They do sort of glaringly point to the fact that Amy and Rory or the Doctor still didn’t save the baby Melody yet, and they all seem to have forgotten about that big promise.
I’m fine with all the questions hanging on, (Are there some from last season still left?) as long as the Doctor doesn’t just save himself after he saves himself, like the Pandorica issue. Well, bring on the finale, whatever happens!
Posted by stan m.d. on 09/26 at 06:30 PM
From what I can see this is going to be the end of the series all together. Can that even be true? I just can’t imagine not watching the Dr. on one of his many adventures. Does series finale mean the same thing in the UK as season finale means in the US?
Posted by amylou on 09/27 at 07:01 PM
Amylou, in the UK they refer to what we in North America call ‘seasons’, as ‘series’. As in the first series, the second series and so on.
So never fear, he’ll be back!
Posted by Julie on 09/28 at 02:16 AM
Thank Goodness! I was having a small moment of dread there for a minute. This series is truly amazing! I can’t wait to see the wedding and to see any adventures with River. I know some people don’t care for her but I think that she will make a perfect companion for the Dr. since she is a time lord as well (at least sort of since she gave him all her regenerations).
Posted by amylou on 09/28 at 02:31 AM
One thing that really stands out for me about this episode is how scary the Cybermen were. Really. I’ve never particularly cared for them as villains. Even though the Daleks get made fun of for not being able to climb stairs there is something very alien about them that makes them unnerving. The Cybermen’s humanoid quality never bothered me as much.
In this one, though, I found the Cybermen seriously disturbing—and in a good way.
Posted by Christopher on 09/28 at 05:07 AM
Dragnet: i was thinking the EXACT same thing since they aired that epsiode with the gangers.
Posted by stephanie on 09/28 at 08:19 AM
It would be awsome if he was a ganger or if he did the same thing as the pandorica where he saves himself, but if he does that would mess up time lines because his death is a fixed point in time and last time he messed with a fixed point someone ended up killing themselves and he majorly changed people futures.
Posted by ham sandwich on 09/28 at 10:33 AM
This was one of my lesser eps for the season, though I did love some of the humour! No, you can’t just call him ‘not mom’!
Unfortunately, a couple of the casual viewers in my office couln’t bring themselves to finish the episode :( I tried pointing out that the end is actually plot important, but no luck. Hate that great.
And yes, bonehead should have died. Complete the Doctor’s arc as a killer of friends.
Posted by Andrew on 09/29 at 05:25 PM
Loved Craig & little “Stormageddon”! I suspect lots of kids will now be scared to enter the changing rooms in clothing stores. & chalk one up for us Luddites out there—best way to deal with a Cybermat? Wallop with a frying pan. Or just step on it! I think I really liked this episode because it was more or less a simpler story, without any confusing River Song stuff going on. It was also a wonderful affirmation of the power of love, with Craig coming back from being cyberized because he knew his son needed him. Like the stories you read about mothers lifting up cars if their child gets trapped underneath one; afterwards they can’t replicate the feat. Blowing Cybermen up with love isn’t sappy, it’s COOL.
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