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Originally posted by lwaves:
And the woman that the Doctor knew. Mother? Wife? Could be anyone at the minute but I hope it's a thread that has been deliberately placed for them to carry on with.

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The Doctor attends a book signing where a writer named Verity Newman (played by Jessica Hynes) has released a book entitled A Journal of Impossible Things, based on the diary from her great-grandmother Joan Redfern. Hynes previously played Joan Redfern in the 2007 Doctor Who story "Human Nature" / "The Family of Blood", in which the Doctor, transformed into a human with no conscious memory of his past adventures, wrote elements of his life as fiction in his Journal of Impossible Things and asserted that his mother's name was Verity. The name "Verity Newman" is based on Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman and the show's first producer, Verity Lambert." A pocket watch featured prominently in the plot of "Human Nature" / "The Family of Blood", and a pocket watch is featured on the cover of Newman's book.

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Originally posted by lwaves:
On another note did anyone catch Timothy Dalton's reference to 'the weeping angels of old' and the two people kneeling behind him with hands covering their eyes? The 'Blink' angels?
And the woman that the Doctor knew. Mother? Wife? Could be anyone at the minute but I hope it's a thread that has been deliberately placed for them to carry on with.

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Then the Doctor who has saved worlds and universes has to finally save just one man.

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If I have one complaint about this episode it's that I thought the ending with previous companions was overlong and a bit contrived for the fans.

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Originally posted by ImNotHere:
One of the better parts of what felt like 40 minutes of plot padded out to 2 hours.

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On another note did anyone catch Timothy Dalton's reference to 'the weeping angels of old' and the two people kneeling behind him with hands covering their eyes? The 'Blink' angels?
And the woman that the Doctor knew. Mother? Wife? Could be anyone at the minute but I hope it's a thread that has been deliberately placed for them to carry on with.

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I thought she was one of the ones covering their eyes - the two people who voted against Dalton's plan.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
...the ending was overlong and soppish, yes, and what about ROSE? If he's gonna go visit everyone...yes, I know he said she'd never see him again, but I'd have enjoyed him peeking in or something...

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Originally posted by Peulsar5:
Has anything been said about the number of times the Doctor can regenerate? It's been established in the past to be 12 times, which means he only has one left. If the show contiues for a long time this could become an issue

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Originally posted by Stegasaurus:
It's so funny to read my countrymen's reaction to the ending of a Doctor. Whenever they see Doctor Who for the first time they just latch onto that Doctor and he becomes their favorite to which there can NEVER be a replacement... lol

I guess I'm so used to the changing of the Doctor since I watched it growing up in Michigan (we always picked up Canadian channels), I just don't get so attached. But I will state that DT's Doctor has been my favorite from the "new" series. Just like my freshly introduced brethren, Tom Baker was my first Doctor, and I still kinda miss him.

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It's so funny to read my countrymen's reaction to the ending of a Doctor. Whenever they see Doctor Who for the first time they just latch onto that Doctor and he becomes their favorite to which there can NEVER be a replacement... lol

I guess I'm so used to the changing of the Doctor since I watched it growing up in Michigan (we always picked up Canadian channels), I just don't get so attached. But I will state that DT's Doctor has been my favorite from the "new" series. Just like my freshly introduced brethren, Tom Baker was my first Doctor, and I still kinda miss him.

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Well, I certainly have not watched all of the Doctors, but I gre up watching Baker and Davidson, liked McGann's TV movie and was very fond of Eccleston's take.

But Tennant was my favorite - and certainly not because he was my first.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Originally posted by Peulsar5:
Has anything been said about the number of times the Doctor can regenerate? It's been established in the past to be 12 times, which means he only has one left. If the show contiues for a long time this could become an issue

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Has anything been said about the number of times the Doctor can regenerate? It's been established in the past to be 12 times, which means he only has one left. If the show contiues for a long time this could become an issue

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Actually he has two regenerations left. The latest regeneration was the 10th time it has happened making Matt Smith the 11th Doctor. This leaves two more to go making thirteen Doctors in total.
I hope they stick to that rule of twelve regenerations. As much as I love Doctor Who that rule is such a part of my Who mythology, having grown up with the earlier Doctors, that it would be a crime to alter it. They should just give it a big finish with maybe a multi-episode, multi-Doctor story like in past times with The Five Doctors.
But if the ratings are still strong....who knows (pun intended).




"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."

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Originally posted by lwaves:
I hope they stick to that rule of twelve regenerations.

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I hope they stick to that rule of twelve regenerations.

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They've already broken that rule:

Back in the Tom Baker era (I think) the Master got to his 12th regeneration and started to go all manky - but He Got Better.

I think he did it by stealing another body - but then he's evil (thunderclap) so that's OK. Maneuvering the Doctor into a position where he is forced to do the same could make for a fun story.

Or perhaps he could die and his "daughter" could take over the family business... They keep on rumbling about having a female Doctor and that could be a less squicky way of doing it.

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Originally posted by Storymark:
They're not going to just stop the show or kill the Doctor because of a rule written before they ever thought the series would last so long.

Like I said above, if the series is still popular enough to continue when they hit that point, that rule will be tossed out or written around in a heartbeat.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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