I loved this episode soo much! my favorite quotes were probable "Fear me, I killed them all", the boxes will make you angry scene and the whole exchange in the junkyard between the TARDIS and the Doctor. I've always loved the characters that are either on level with the Doctor or know more than him, because it's an interaction we don't see often.I loved seeing the darker side of the Doctor in this season.
does anybody else feel that rory is almost like captain jack? I'm thinking this because of the fact that they both die all the time and their girlfiends (if you count rose being jack's girlfriend at the time) bring them bck to life the first time. add river's flirtatious attitude to rory's 'immortality' and I say you get pretty close to jack
I watched this episode while I was in the middle of re-reading Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard book. And I realized that there were so many similarities between the relation ship of Bod and Scarlett and that of the Doctor and Amy. The way that the girl meets the guy as a little girl, he's dismissed as an imaginary friend, only to come back years later. Also, the girls both have a Scottish accent, and I've always imagined Scarlett with red hair, but that might be just because her name is Scarlett
I also really love how they're expanding Rory's character, he's gone from being the comic relief guy to being a real person. Not only does he have 2000 years of memories he's trying to keep locked up, but (now that we're getting a sense for his personality) he has this huge heart and seems to care for everyone.
I was ok with River and was willing to let the writers take us where they wish, but after this episode, I almost wish that the TARDIS was the Doctor's love interest.
I loved this episode so much. It was super trippy and creative (the whole season so far has been rather trippy, but not like this). I loved getting to see more of the TARDIS and also getting to know the TARDIS.
As soon as I saw it I was like "IT'S DAVID'S TARDIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I loved how after Tardis went back into the Tardis and the Doctor was fixing her (bunkbed scene) and he's like, "So, where should we take the kids this time?" loved that... =)
I would argue that the doctor does sleep, like in the last season where they had to choose between the reality and the dream... surely the doctor must sleep or he wouldn't have been able to be part of that and it would have just been Amy and Rory?
hello, i am actualy commenting on your reaction vid to thr inpossible astranaut (pardon the spelling) you know how you mentione River and Amy felt sick around the same time.. i personaly think that they have some kind of mad connection.. i no u dont like River.. haha however they may be the same person or lets role will river being amys daughter... Oh and eye patch lady anoys me.. theres so many ways you can go with this season.
My mum said that within 30 seconds, it was obvious to her that Neil Gaiman had written the episode. :-)
And I always wonder about the mundane like where/when do they sleep? When do they go to the bathroom? I brought it up once, and my friend was just like, "Why would they show that?" It's like, I just wanted to know, okay?
I really liked this episode, but i wish that Rory would stop getting killed off and then coming back to life! I mean either kill him or dont! It's really annoying to keep doing both!!
I'm not sure if this counts, but in "The Last Dodo" a Doctor Who Book, which I love, the Doctor says he doesn't sleep, he compares it to being like a turtle. Again, I'm not sure if this counts, but from the episode, it looked like Amy and Rory were going to bed while the Doctor tinkered with the TARDIS, if you excuse the expression.
In the cometary of the first two episodes, Matt said something to the effect of: The doctor could stand three months of not sleeping or eating, but he still grew a beard.
you know how you feel about River? That's pretty much how I feel about Rory. I REALLY want to like him, but I don't. I think Arthur Darvill is a great actor but I find Rory to be annoying and obnoxious most of the time.
As soon as i read the title, 'The Doctor's Wife', my heart sunk because I, and all of us, thought that it would be about River perhaps after their 'marriage'. It must be known that I was so happy when the TARDIS appeared. A clever, witty and unpredictable title. Loved it.
I absolutely loved this episode. It was seriously one of my top favorites. I also absolutely love Neil Gaiman's writing, therefore, I may be a bit bias.
Has anyone noticed that the Doctor has stopped offering people second chances? The silence wasn't even asked to leave or stop, He just sent us to kill them all. In this episode he doesn't try and reason with house just lets the Tardis kill him.
Still not a Rory fan, sorry :/ And i personally didn't like seeing other parts of the tardis, I liked the mystery of what else was there, we still kind of have that, but it took away a little bit of the magic of the tardis for me :(
I don't mean to be a critic of a critic (meta?) but your review of this wasn't your best. Picking out your favourite, funny bits and mentioning the 'ideas' of the episode is fine but you completely failed to explicitly talk about Suranne Jones's performance as the Tardis and the relationship she had with Matt Smith, which is the whole key to the episode. Don't take this negatively please!! You ARE great at reviewing but I think you could refine your reviews and improve them. ... sorry... :-S
I loved this episode! The way that the TARDIS was portrayed as a human! She reminded me so much of The Doctor because of the way she acted and spoke! :D One of the best Matt Smith episodes I think!
I always need to remind myself that Rory is older than the Doctor, but in this episode I didn't forget that very much... his eyes were definitely older in this episode.
i absolutely loved this episode and lately Kayley you seem to not like them and then say you do then complain and then say how brill it was. I think your cool and all but your kinda stressing me out
THIS IS WAS MY FAVOURITE EPISODE EVER! I didn't like the other so much, because Stepehn Moffat'sw writing really annoyd me. He makes confusing things happen and people go 'WOO I dont get that so it must have been good' rather than actually explaining how things happen. it frustrates me.
I think the Doctor does sleep. In 'Amy's Choice' the Dream Lord (Though I know he was the Doctor) said that one world was real and the other was a dream, if the Doctor never slept then I'm sure he would have mentioned that :)
@ellacbeemusic then we have a cannon issue ... The Doctor sleeps in "Tomb Of The Cybermen" and twice now he's rested / sleep after a regeneration ..( "Castrovalva " and in "The Christmas Invasion")
@iliveonplanetspace Kinda wish Rory had stayed erased from time...i know that sounds bad. But i enjoyed the episodes better when it was just Amy and the doctor.
One thing, I've wondered about is how do the characters know they are a year older? If you travel in time, how can you tell whether your 356 days older especially coz time is relative?
someone on i09 suggested that the line "The only water in the forest is the river" might also have something to do with amy since her last name is Pond.
do timelords sleep? reminds me of wheni used to play MERP, elves dont sleep in the same way as humans. discussion on this at the tolkienforumcom....
it was never really stated, but i kinda assumed the tardis had a soul, and was sensitive to where the doctor `needed to be` in the multiverse. The bit where she says she stole a timelord was mint)
I always just thought that because they travel in time so much sleep becomes a wasted concept, in so many old episodes as soon as they episode ended the next one would carry strait on from the end.
@reinix well Classic Who was done in seasons and New Who is done in series. There was a season 6, made in 1968. This is SERIES 6, from 2011. Big difference.
@rippledan I'm pretty sure she is calling it a 'Season' because she is American. In the UK, and many other countries I'm sure, we call a run of shows a 'Series'. In, for example the US, they are known as 'Seasons'.
I always wonder when the people in Harry Potter wash. It's only mentioned in Goblet and it confuses the hell out of me. You'd think there would be at least one seen where it said "Harry was on his way back from the shower when he saw..."
@hazzelism Ah! Your right, she did. But I was still bothered by the fact they *NEVER* showerd/bathed/washed up what ever. After every Quiddich match in the mud and rain harry always slumped in to bed. Id never crawl in to bed with that much Mud or sweat on me. But I supose "Harry went and used the toilet" isn't great reading...
I think we should be careful to consider these last two episodes to be "lighter" than the first two. They very well could be full of things that will come up later in the season. Hidden in a "just for fun" episode so that we don't give it as much value until we have to watch them again at the end of the year :)
@Trackerchef Well, this episode did establish that Time Lords can change gender at regeneration. That may be the most significant shift in our perception since Time Ladies were first quietly slipped onto the scene.
He's been seen to sleep multiple times, so it's not much of a mystery. More importantly, the "do you have a room?" question wasn't dodged- Gaiman simply has the discipline to eschew overstatement every once in a whole. The Doctor WAS in "his room." You can see how utterly at home he felt at that moment of pottering in the control room.
I'm sure he has a sleeping quarter too, but that wasn't the point of the moment.
Most of last season I was missing ten, and not just him as the Doctor, but the whole style of the era, as it was the first major change in management I've expirianced first hand since I fell in love with Dr Who. I think my slightly negavite atitude towards that season was shaped by the change. But in the last two episodes of last series and all of this one, I've really fallen in love with Matt's Doctor. He's just adorable.
I do really miss Ten, but I like Eleven's child-like nature. Ten was like a teen- angsty and lovelorn. Eleven reminds me a lot of an eight year old boy, not understanding romantic relationships, having different odd obsessions with "cool" things like accessories and bunk beds.
I also completely agree with you about River. I keep trying so hard to like her, but her character is so forced!
I think this episode was built up so much that it would have been hard for it to really live up to my expectations. That being said, I still really liked the episode.
I liked how this episode focused more on the characters than the action. Yes, there was a plot line and there was action, but it was really a character study, which is something I wish we got more often in Doctor Who episodes.
Their Bunk bed thing reminded me of a bunk bed joke in the show i'm working on right now... "with the bunk beds..." "we don't HAVE to use the top bunk, you know..." (married couple)
In The second doctor's story "Tomb of the Cybermen" he does sleep.. however over the years it's been established cannon that yes he sleeps and needs rest but not as much as we humans do.
I'd really like to see an episode of them doing mundane things in the TARDIS even though i love the plot driven episodes. My mind always wanders to what it is like to actually love in the TARDIS.
I wish people would stop comparing the Doctor's relationship with the TARDIS and River Song. How could the Doctor have a relationship thats even comparable to the TARDIS when he still has no idea who River is? Come on now. Also, my theory is that River is the TARDIS so I have an aversion to comparing the two of them lol
I liked how they brought an Ood back, the part where Amy finds Rory dead and DIE AMY, KILL AMY, HATE AMY was written on the walls, even though it was all in her mind. I loved when the TARDS\Sexy thought Rory ws the pretty one, and I cried when she sad that hello was such a sad word when it ends. I overall loved this episode.
I was taking a sip while you fired off that slavine line, and am now choking uncontrollably. Also loved the old tardis room, was so surprised by it. and love how they doged that whol doctor sleeping thing. I love some unanswered questions, because some thing are so much greater when they arn't explained.
This is my favorite Doctor Who episode. I really love Sexy. I thought she was brilliant. Though I agree with you. I do like that feeling of "WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON?" feeling.
The Doctor said in The Talons of Weng-Chiang 'sleep is for tortoises' and in the Big Finish audio The Dark Flame he says 'sleep is for Chelonians' although you do see him sleeping in stories like The Keys of Marinus, The Chase, The Mind of Evil, The Time Monster, The Androids of Tara, The Leisure Hive and Castrovalva.
I love that the episode makes you feel a loss for something that doesn't really even go away. The Tardis comes into the episode as a human and then that human bit dies off and it feels as though she's actually gone. But, she's really not. Oh, Neil. I also loved the bunk-bed bit.
Lol at the TARDIS thinking Rory was the pretty one :) This episode made me so happy :D But I hope the river in the forest line wasn't about River Song, it's just too predictable. We will be finding out who she is in 3 weeks time and if she is the Doctor's wife and not something really dramatic and unexpected then I'll just be annoyed from all the build-up :(
Totally agree that the first two were the best but they're all good. Am I the only one who thinks human Tardis sounds a lot like River Song... anybody other than me wonder if she's actually Tardis or was somehow revived by the Tardis and has some of its spirit??? She also always seems to know what to do with the Tardis. I don't really like River much either but that would probably make her a bit more likable and explain her behavior...
I feel like the Doctor sleeps when he wants to. Like a kid on Christmas who is just so excited about everything that he can't sleep. I don't know, I just think he does sleep but he'll keep going until he almost passes out.
I loved all the interactions between the Tardis and the Doctor. I very much loved when she was disappearing and the very faint, 'I love you.' So sad, but also so amazing. I loved the whole episode, really.
I really wish we could've seen how House was messing with Rory's head. He's just so much better a character than Amy this season, and I'm tired of watching her mourn when we know Rory isn't really dead.
You have to go back to the Hartnell years if you want to see a bedroom, food and water dispenser. The first 3 stories An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, and The Edge of Distruction can be found on DVD. Love the Doctor's Wife because you get to meet the TARDIS as a person and trying to fuction as a person. Kind of reminded me of the Hitchiker's Guid when a missle became a whale, but far less massive being that the TARDIS's soul was place into a woman's body. Best episode ever.
The Doctor's not a "normal human being," he's not even a human being. Why should he have to follow our restrictions. He has two hearts, and a respiratory bypass system... why does he need to sleep?
I always think about sleep and going to the bathroom too. And showering. They are always so clean and put together (at least, at the beginning of episodes.)
I loved it! I generally like complexity in the things I watch, but in a way I didn't mind the fairly simple storyline... I just loved it... All of it! It was so emotional and adorable!
Pretty much had the same opinion - I would have liked a bit more complexity.
At the same time - maybe simplification would have worked, Amy and Rory's storyline didn't have much point to it - they could have been unconsious really, and I think it detracted a lot from The Doctor/TARDIS stuff.
I really enjoyed The Doctor's wanting to be forgiven...the way Matt Smith said "Don't we all?" was just heartbreaking. The Doctor's relationship with TARDIS/Idris was really interesting to explore, I've always been fascinated since I watched an old episode and they said the TARDIS was alive - just an intriguing concept. Suranne Jones was magnificent in the role too. The final scenes of the Doctor just repairing - wow.
That's the first time the Doctor's sleep has been mentioned in the show!
This was one of my favourite episodes of the show! I also loved the scene with the bunk beds and I think we have seen the doctor sleep before but I can't remember which episode it was from.
I loved this episode soo much! my favorite quotes were probable "Fear me, I killed them all", the boxes will make you angry scene and the whole exchange in the junkyard between the TARDIS and the Doctor. I've always loved the characters that are either on level with the Doctor or know more than him, because it's an interaction we don't see often.I loved seeing the darker side of the Doctor in this season.
clhughes1000 2 months ago
the tardis thinks rory is pretty :)
doctorw2 7 months ago
does anybody else feel that rory is almost like captain jack? I'm thinking this because of the fact that they both die all the time and their girlfiends (if you count rose being jack's girlfriend at the time) bring them bck to life the first time. add river's flirtatious attitude to rory's 'immortality' and I say you get pretty close to jack
PichuandEevee 8 months ago
I watched this episode while I was in the middle of re-reading Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard book. And I realized that there were so many similarities between the relation ship of Bod and Scarlett and that of the Doctor and Amy. The way that the girl meets the guy as a little girl, he's dismissed as an imaginary friend, only to come back years later. Also, the girls both have a Scottish accent, and I've always imagined Scarlett with red hair, but that might be just because her name is Scarlett
EmmyBea 8 months ago
Time Lords don't need sleep. I think that's been mentioned in an episode before.
XxRynethxX 8 months ago
meeehhh why havent you made videos for the newest 2 episodes yet, I'm so excited and I wanna hear your ideas!
kaymac508 9 months ago
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This saturday? Come on, you've missed an episode /:
adamwisdish95 9 months ago
I also really love how they're expanding Rory's character, he's gone from being the comic relief guy to being a real person. Not only does he have 2000 years of memories he's trying to keep locked up, but (now that we're getting a sense for his personality) he has this huge heart and seems to care for everyone.
I was ok with River and was willing to let the writers take us where they wish, but after this episode, I almost wish that the TARDIS was the Doctor's love interest.
Malecha813 9 months ago
I loved this episode so much. It was super trippy and creative (the whole season so far has been rather trippy, but not like this). I loved getting to see more of the TARDIS and also getting to know the TARDIS.
Malecha813 9 months ago
The Doctor doesn't sleep: He waits. *insert picture of Charlie Sheen here*
OllieTheCello 9 months ago
I remember the Doctor sleeping in one of the books.
xCurlGrlx 9 months ago
my favorite line: "Hello Pretty!" !!!!!
singersk8rgirl426 9 months ago
As soon as I saw it I was like "IT'S DAVID'S TARDIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I loved how after Tardis went back into the Tardis and the Doctor was fixing her (bunkbed scene) and he's like, "So, where should we take the kids this time?" loved that... =)
rlpDean 9 months ago
I would argue that the doctor does sleep, like in the last season where they had to choose between the reality and the dream... surely the doctor must sleep or he wouldn't have been able to be part of that and it would have just been Amy and Rory?
charizard8232 9 months ago
cant wait for your review of rebel flesh!
irishmikelley 9 months ago
hello, i am actualy commenting on your reaction vid to thr inpossible astranaut (pardon the spelling) you know how you mentione River and Amy felt sick around the same time.. i personaly think that they have some kind of mad connection.. i no u dont like River.. haha however they may be the same person or lets role will river being amys daughter... Oh and eye patch lady anoys me.. theres so many ways you can go with this season.
TheGrapeFeeling 9 months ago
fave line of all time (or at least in the matt smith era):
doctor: she's a woman, and she's my tardis
amy: did you wish really hard?
(followed by a close second:
doctor: shut up, not like that. . .
idris: hello, i'm sexy
doctor: still shut up)
BriarNeverSay 9 months ago 2
My mum said that within 30 seconds, it was obvious to her that Neil Gaiman had written the episode. :-)
And I always wonder about the mundane like where/when do they sleep? When do they go to the bathroom? I brought it up once, and my friend was just like, "Why would they show that?" It's like, I just wanted to know, okay?
StoryInYourHead 9 months ago
"Biting's excellent! It's like kissing. Only there's a winner".
nerdymechanic 9 months ago 2
I really liked this episode, but i wish that Rory would stop getting killed off and then coming back to life! I mean either kill him or dont! It's really annoying to keep doing both!!
AbbieRoseBuckingham 9 months ago
I'm not sure if this counts, but in "The Last Dodo" a Doctor Who Book, which I love, the Doctor says he doesn't sleep, he compares it to being like a turtle. Again, I'm not sure if this counts, but from the episode, it looked like Amy and Rory were going to bed while the Doctor tinkered with the TARDIS, if you excuse the expression.
torrasaur 9 months ago
"The Doctor's saving the world all the time, surely he needs his beauty sleep!"
I agree! :)
orin12345678 9 months ago
In the cometary of the first two episodes, Matt said something to the effect of: The doctor could stand three months of not sleeping or eating, but he still grew a beard.
Ravenclaw1161 9 months ago
The main control room is HIS room. AMy asks "Do you have a room?" and then we get a long shot of him galavanting around the control room.
That sounds about right, no?
DumbledoreLives7 9 months ago 2
you know how you feel about River? That's pretty much how I feel about Rory. I REALLY want to like him, but I don't. I think Arthur Darvill is a great actor but I find Rory to be annoying and obnoxious most of the time.
ComradeBass 9 months ago
I love these review videos. They show me a different deeper side to the episode, that I never really think about. Thanks! :D
188crazychick 9 months ago
As soon as i read the title, 'The Doctor's Wife', my heart sunk because I, and all of us, thought that it would be about River perhaps after their 'marriage'. It must be known that I was so happy when the TARDIS appeared. A clever, witty and unpredictable title. Loved it.
MyPlasticbag 9 months ago
why does rory have to die in every single episode?
blueskiies0707 9 months ago 6
@blueskiies0707
Because he is Kenny from South Park
Selana 9 months ago 2
Haha, I already call pretty much anything "sexy," kind of like how people used to call everything "beast," it's really pathetic.
sincerelywizard 9 months ago 2
I watched the Lion King today! Elephant graveyard.
I really loved this episode. I loved to see the TARDIS as a living creature and to see her personality.
heyxxmickey 9 months ago
I absolutely loved this episode. It was seriously one of my top favorites. I also absolutely love Neil Gaiman's writing, therefore, I may be a bit bias.
mssarcasim 9 months ago
I thought this was a lot better than the black dot episode.
omegafighters 9 months ago 8
I would consider it a graveyard since TARDIS's are alive and they have souls.
evolvingboard 9 months ago
I think all the actors did a great job, I really enjoyed it! =]
dmt543nerd 9 months ago
Has anyone noticed that the Doctor has stopped offering people second chances? The silence wasn't even asked to leave or stop, He just sent us to kill them all. In this episode he doesn't try and reason with house just lets the Tardis kill him.
DevilzBidin 9 months ago 2
Still not a Rory fan, sorry :/ And i personally didn't like seeing other parts of the tardis, I liked the mystery of what else was there, we still kind of have that, but it took away a little bit of the magic of the tardis for me :(
TheGavascone 9 months ago
River > Idris!TARDIS.
Yep... I said it.
TheLastLoneWolf 9 months ago
I don't mean to be a critic of a critic (meta?) but your review of this wasn't your best. Picking out your favourite, funny bits and mentioning the 'ideas' of the episode is fine but you completely failed to explicitly talk about Suranne Jones's performance as the Tardis and the relationship she had with Matt Smith, which is the whole key to the episode. Don't take this negatively please!! You ARE great at reviewing but I think you could refine your reviews and improve them. ... sorry... :-S
CallsHimselfAWriter 9 months ago
I loved this episode! The way that the TARDIS was portrayed as a human! She reminded me so much of The Doctor because of the way she acted and spoke! :D One of the best Matt Smith episodes I think!
sarahTTatl 9 months ago
I always need to remind myself that Rory is older than the Doctor, but in this episode I didn't forget that very much... his eyes were definitely older in this episode.
Fralmunk 9 months ago 2
I loved this episode. My favourite line was:
"Biting is like kissing, only there's a winner!" -Tardis.
jessiefails 9 months ago 42
i absolutely loved this episode and lately Kayley you seem to not like them and then say you do then complain and then say how brill it was. I think your cool and all but your kinda stressing me out
MoonChild637 9 months ago
You say you like all the Doctors. What have you seen of the ones pre McGann? Sleep? Sleep is for tortoises!
ajivins1 9 months ago
If "The only water in the forest is the river", wheres the Pond at?
HermioneGranger9800 9 months ago 7
Also (last thing), seeing Matt Smith running around the console at the end made me cry in happiness.
I think this episode generally made me realise how much I love The Doctor as a character.
katmanbegins 9 months ago
I've always thought that The Doctor does sleep. Hmmm.
I really liked this episode because it had a lot of development for The Doctor. Also, it was a fest of references that Who fans could pick up on.
katmanbegins 9 months ago
THIS IS WAS MY FAVOURITE EPISODE EVER! I didn't like the other so much, because Stepehn Moffat'sw writing really annoyd me. He makes confusing things happen and people go 'WOO I dont get that so it must have been good' rather than actually explaining how things happen. it frustrates me.
pheebs66 9 months ago
@pheebs66 So true.
ajivins1 9 months ago
You should read Neils short stories like Change and Chivalry from Smoke and Mirrors. SOOOO GOOD!
92ESPN 9 months ago
Why were you swimming at the beginning?
MusicByTheMoon 9 months ago
I think the Doctor does sleep. In 'Amy's Choice' the Dream Lord (Though I know he was the Doctor) said that one world was real and the other was a dream, if the Doctor never slept then I'm sure he would have mentioned that :)
6PointSix 9 months ago
Where does the Dr get money? Where does he do his laundry?
gkntym 9 months ago
@prigg88 I imagine there's some kind of special TARDIS function that works it out for them :)
johiley 9 months ago
Favorite part: I've got MAIL!
Adorable.
SophieRoussePotter 9 months ago 2
The doctor said he didn't sleep in the shakespeare episode with martha! I loved this episode - amy rory = love :)
ellacbeemusic 9 months ago
@ellacbeemusic then we have a cannon issue ... The Doctor sleeps in "Tomb Of The Cybermen" and twice now he's rested / sleep after a regeneration ..( "Castrovalva " and in "The Christmas Invasion")
Pattonfrodo 9 months ago
the doctor said that he has build a tadis before, and we know that its gunny blow to bits at some point? thourght? when did he meen do u think?
hoodiesarah 9 months ago
Neil Gaimain is brilliant. This was a real fan-friendly episode. The more you know the show the more it means.
Al1981X 9 months ago 2
and they killed Rory.
AGAIN!
iliveonplanetspace 9 months ago 46
@iliveonplanetspace why do they keep killing rory?!?! he's AWESOME!!!
forwardslashAWESOME 9 months ago
@iliveonplanetspace Kinda wish Rory had stayed erased from time...i know that sounds bad. But i enjoyed the episodes better when it was just Amy and the doctor.
sunheart123 9 months ago
One thing, I've wondered about is how do the characters know they are a year older? If you travel in time, how can you tell whether your 356 days older especially coz time is relative?
prigg88 9 months ago
someone on i09 suggested that the line "The only water in the forest is the river" might also have something to do with amy since her last name is Pond.
cho474chang 9 months ago
leave your hair alone its very distracting ha
simondoyle1988 9 months ago
do timelords sleep? reminds me of wheni used to play MERP, elves dont sleep in the same way as humans. discussion on this at the tolkienforumcom....
it was never really stated, but i kinda assumed the tardis had a soul, and was sensitive to where the doctor `needed to be` in the multiverse. The bit where she says she stole a timelord was mint)
TheWomblemaster 9 months ago
If all episodes were crazy convoluted Steven Moffat creations i think it would get old, it'd be like watching inception for a whole season.
I really loved this one, much better than curse of the black spot.
zanzanwizard 9 months ago
I always just thought that because they travel in time so much sleep becomes a wasted concept, in so many old episodes as soon as they episode ended the next one would carry strait on from the end.
jackeyramone 9 months ago
*SERIES, not season. There is an importance difference. Please learn it
rippledan 9 months ago 3
@rippledan What /is/ the difference?
reinix 9 months ago
@reinix well Classic Who was done in seasons and New Who is done in series. There was a season 6, made in 1968. This is SERIES 6, from 2011. Big difference.
rippledan 9 months ago
@rippledan I'm pretty sure she is calling it a 'Season' because she is American. In the UK, and many other countries I'm sure, we call a run of shows a 'Series'. In, for example the US, they are known as 'Seasons'.
katmanbegins 9 months ago
I always wonder when the people in Harry Potter wash. It's only mentioned in Goblet and it confuses the hell out of me. You'd think there would be at least one seen where it said "Harry was on his way back from the shower when he saw..."
LloydARoberts199218 9 months ago
@LloydARoberts199218 I was always bugged by that, and the only ever mention of Hogwartz having Toilets was in Chamber of Secrets.
banesgrasp 9 months ago
@banesgrasp Hermione went to cry in the girls' bathroom during Philosopher's Stone! There's 2 mentions of toilets!
hazzelism 9 months ago
@hazzelism Ah! Your right, she did. But I was still bothered by the fact they *NEVER* showerd/bathed/washed up what ever. After every Quiddich match in the mud and rain harry always slumped in to bed. Id never crawl in to bed with that much Mud or sweat on me. But I supose "Harry went and used the toilet" isn't great reading...
banesgrasp 9 months ago
I think we should be careful to consider these last two episodes to be "lighter" than the first two. They very well could be full of things that will come up later in the season. Hidden in a "just for fun" episode so that we don't give it as much value until we have to watch them again at the end of the year :)
Trackerchef 9 months ago
@Trackerchef Well, this episode did establish that Time Lords can change gender at regeneration. That may be the most significant shift in our perception since Time Ladies were first quietly slipped onto the scene.
Flinklehurst 9 months ago
@Flinklehurst I'm pretty sure that that has somehow been established before.
Trackerchef 9 months ago
Matt Smith doesn't need beauty sleep.
panicWonderland 9 months ago
He's been seen to sleep multiple times, so it's not much of a mystery. More importantly, the "do you have a room?" question wasn't dodged- Gaiman simply has the discipline to eschew overstatement every once in a whole. The Doctor WAS in "his room." You can see how utterly at home he felt at that moment of pottering in the control room.
I'm sure he has a sleeping quarter too, but that wasn't the point of the moment.
Flinklehurst 9 months ago
Most of last season I was missing ten, and not just him as the Doctor, but the whole style of the era, as it was the first major change in management I've expirianced first hand since I fell in love with Dr Who. I think my slightly negavite atitude towards that season was shaped by the change. But in the last two episodes of last series and all of this one, I've really fallen in love with Matt's Doctor. He's just adorable.
mushroomshrub 9 months ago
fav line from the episode, "biting is excellent, it's like kissing only there's a winner".
kitkatqueen 9 months ago 3
I do really miss Ten, but I like Eleven's child-like nature. Ten was like a teen- angsty and lovelorn. Eleven reminds me a lot of an eight year old boy, not understanding romantic relationships, having different odd obsessions with "cool" things like accessories and bunk beds.
I also completely agree with you about River. I keep trying so hard to like her, but her character is so forced!
bethanyedwards 9 months ago
I think this was the best written episode this season so far. Not as excilirating as the two parter opener but better written.
vivaladil 9 months ago
I also preferred the first two episodes.
I think this episode was built up so much that it would have been hard for it to really live up to my expectations. That being said, I still really liked the episode.
I liked how this episode focused more on the characters than the action. Yes, there was a plot line and there was action, but it was really a character study, which is something I wish we got more often in Doctor Who episodes.
tallatstarbucks 9 months ago
Their Bunk bed thing reminded me of a bunk bed joke in the show i'm working on right now... "with the bunk beds..." "we don't HAVE to use the top bunk, you know..." (married couple)
almightyshortme 9 months ago
In The second doctor's story "Tomb of the Cybermen" he does sleep.. however over the years it's been established cannon that yes he sleeps and needs rest but not as much as we humans do.
Pattonfrodo 9 months ago
I'd really like to see an episode of them doing mundane things in the TARDIS even though i love the plot driven episodes. My mind always wanders to what it is like to actually love in the TARDIS.
K3LLYRI0T 9 months ago
@K3LLYRI0T live*
K3LLYRI0T 9 months ago
I wish people would stop comparing the Doctor's relationship with the TARDIS and River Song. How could the Doctor have a relationship thats even comparable to the TARDIS when he still has no idea who River is? Come on now. Also, my theory is that River is the TARDIS so I have an aversion to comparing the two of them lol
WoahItsKimber 9 months ago 3
Hey Sexy! I was talking to the TARDIS...>.>
benpat100 9 months ago
I liked how they brought an Ood back, the part where Amy finds Rory dead and DIE AMY, KILL AMY, HATE AMY was written on the walls, even though it was all in her mind. I loved when the TARDS\Sexy thought Rory ws the pretty one, and I cried when she sad that hello was such a sad word when it ends. I overall loved this episode.
PichuandEevee 9 months ago
I'm so sad... You didn't mention the most amazing quote. "Butings excellant! It's like kissing but theres a winner."
iFancyTacos 9 months ago
I was taking a sip while you fired off that slavine line, and am now choking uncontrollably. Also loved the old tardis room, was so surprised by it. and love how they doged that whol doctor sleeping thing. I love some unanswered questions, because some thing are so much greater when they arn't explained.
shortymir 9 months ago
I always wondered that, too! Like, hey, wait, I know we're saving the world and all, but can we take a bathroom break?
KelseyAnnVlogs 9 months ago
This is my favorite Doctor Who episode. I really love Sexy. I thought she was brilliant. Though I agree with you. I do like that feeling of "WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON?" feeling.
JMarulanda123 9 months ago
I thought the UK gets the new episode when we do here in the US, why do the Americans put up a review faster then you?
AAAvlar 9 months ago
one of my favorite lines in this episode was when amy said, "did you wish really hard?" hahaa :] the bunk beds part was super funny too
crazystraws715 9 months ago
I agree, I really love the tangled plot, which is what first attracted me to the Who.
ntcssj 9 months ago
Oh my gosh the bunk bed were the best part =)
TeamTARDIS2015 9 months ago 2
You even liked Unicorn and the Wasp...?
omfed74 9 months ago
@omfed74 :O you didn't like that one? that one is my favourite episode ever, i think it's brilliant ;)
miceandcats 9 months ago
The Doctor said in The Talons of Weng-Chiang 'sleep is for tortoises' and in the Big Finish audio The Dark Flame he says 'sleep is for Chelonians' although you do see him sleeping in stories like The Keys of Marinus, The Chase, The Mind of Evil, The Time Monster, The Androids of Tara, The Leisure Hive and Castrovalva.
TheYoungDoctor 9 months ago
I love that the episode makes you feel a loss for something that doesn't really even go away. The Tardis comes into the episode as a human and then that human bit dies off and it feels as though she's actually gone. But, she's really not. Oh, Neil. I also loved the bunk-bed bit.
XxXTaylorLaineXxX 9 months ago
Yeah Saturday!!!
Sonythebooklover 9 months ago
Yes. He sleeps. It showed him sleep in one of the first episodes.
orbital151 9 months ago
Lol at the TARDIS thinking Rory was the pretty one :) This episode made me so happy :D But I hope the river in the forest line wasn't about River Song, it's just too predictable. We will be finding out who she is in 3 weeks time and if she is the Doctor's wife and not something really dramatic and unexpected then I'll just be annoyed from all the build-up :(
xCurlGrlx 9 months ago
WHY IS IT THAT EVERY TIME I SEE THE SKIP ADD BUTTON AN ADD I WANT TO WATCH COMES UP
piratecheese13 9 months ago
"The only water in the forest is River." Only water? No pond. =/
JordiekinsxxReal 9 months ago 2
now i'm thinking if the Doctor poops! that's going to bother me awhile....
ninaelle2003 9 months ago 3
Totally agree that the first two were the best but they're all good. Am I the only one who thinks human Tardis sounds a lot like River Song... anybody other than me wonder if she's actually Tardis or was somehow revived by the Tardis and has some of its spirit??? She also always seems to know what to do with the Tardis. I don't really like River much either but that would probably make her a bit more likable and explain her behavior...
rosesofsunshine3 9 months ago
i love his relationship with tardis. it's so much more beautiful, and believable, than (i think) his relationship with river.
EllietheSwellie 9 months ago 153
the fact that the tardis thought rory was the pretty one was hilarious.
OMFGrachell1396 9 months ago 161
I feel like the Doctor sleeps when he wants to. Like a kid on Christmas who is just so excited about everything that he can't sleep. I don't know, I just think he does sleep but he'll keep going until he almost passes out.
I loved all the interactions between the Tardis and the Doctor. I very much loved when she was disappearing and the very faint, 'I love you.' So sad, but also so amazing. I loved the whole episode, really.
werewolfluvr119 9 months ago
He fell asleep in the Shakespeare episode.
habojspade 9 months ago 2
"What did you do, wish really hard?'
habojspade 9 months ago
you're gorgeous
UncoProductions 9 months ago
I really wish we could've seen how House was messing with Rory's head. He's just so much better a character than Amy this season, and I'm tired of watching her mourn when we know Rory isn't really dead.
shades2you 9 months ago 3
You have to go back to the Hartnell years if you want to see a bedroom, food and water dispenser. The first 3 stories An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, and The Edge of Distruction can be found on DVD. Love the Doctor's Wife because you get to meet the TARDIS as a person and trying to fuction as a person. Kind of reminded me of the Hitchiker's Guid when a missle became a whale, but far less massive being that the TARDIS's soul was place into a woman's body. Best episode ever.
BADBOYCH 9 months ago
The Doctor's not a "normal human being," he's not even a human being. Why should he have to follow our restrictions. He has two hearts, and a respiratory bypass system... why does he need to sleep?
MATTierial 9 months ago
I think there's gotta be a reason why Rory keeps dying...
usedtomakemesmile 9 months ago
@usedtomakemesmile I think so too, but everyone thinks I am crazy when I mention it.
vicky216n 9 months ago
@vicky216n =) Yay, we can be crazy together!
usedtomakemesmile 9 months ago
I always think about sleep and going to the bathroom too. And showering. They are always so clean and put together (at least, at the beginning of episodes.)
chelseariffic 9 months ago
my favorite quote from this episode has to be "Did you wish really hard?"
naolsonwriter 9 months ago 4
I think that the Doctor sleeps, but probably doesn't need to as often as humans.
dansie714 9 months ago
I entirely agree with you in your reaction xx
Also, now I feel less like a weirdo for not loving this episode as much as others
Issykle 9 months ago
I loved it! I generally like complexity in the things I watch, but in a way I didn't mind the fairly simple storyline... I just loved it... All of it! It was so emotional and adorable!
FantasticBrina 9 months ago
im the same i enjoyed it but i felt like a kids show i miss the complexity
TheDavidWebster 9 months ago
Pretty much had the same opinion - I would have liked a bit more complexity.
At the same time - maybe simplification would have worked, Amy and Rory's storyline didn't have much point to it - they could have been unconsious really, and I think it detracted a lot from The Doctor/TARDIS stuff.
Densoid 9 months ago
I really enjoyed The Doctor's wanting to be forgiven...the way Matt Smith said "Don't we all?" was just heartbreaking. The Doctor's relationship with TARDIS/Idris was really interesting to explore, I've always been fascinated since I watched an old episode and they said the TARDIS was alive - just an intriguing concept. Suranne Jones was magnificent in the role too. The final scenes of the Doctor just repairing - wow.
That's the first time the Doctor's sleep has been mentioned in the show!
oddzag 9 months ago
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Atuchy 9 months ago
@Atuchy also, kayley's awesome :)
Atuchy 9 months ago
6th
nrjnaik 9 months ago
This was one of my favourite episodes of the show! I also loved the scene with the bunk beds and I think we have seen the doctor sleep before but I can't remember which episode it was from.
vmaddict 9 months ago
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glizzie175 9 months ago
BLAHHHH
TheMrdude6969 9 months ago
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TheBlueHue 9 months ago
WAH
McQueen4ever 9 months ago