Doctor Who 7x8 Reaction Early Access!

I am going to try and give my theory on the sonic screwdriver. It works telepathically so it is capable of whatever the Doctor believes, it is kind of like Green Lanterns ring in that regard. The TARDIS specifically gave 11 this sonic, she would have known that he needed to do this with it. It is his connection to the TARDIS....so it is rift with TARDIS juice.

At the end of the day, the answer to 'why this?' is 'because it's in the script.'

Ahh David Warner, I can't believe none of you realised he was the guy who was decapitated by a pane of glass in The Omen :')

I liked this episode more when I saw it the first time and didn't know the overarching story line for season 7. After knowing that, it just feels like filler.

When your show has 50ish years of history like Doctor Who (which never took itself too seriously) I feel like you have to accept that rules are made to be broken. You can file almost everything that doesn't match up under "the Doctor lies", it's timey-whimey, or time can be rewritten. Just accept it and enjoy!

Another Mark Gattis episode... It's probably just me but I've not cared for just about all the Doctor Who episodes that he's written. Though this one wasn't too bad I suppose.

There are many rules to Doctor Who, but most of them follow this rule: "If you stand in the way of a (hopefully) good story, please step aside."

Is full length not up yet or is it just me having issues ?

The most meh ep of S7.

Tobias Menzies always plays such a believable villain. Great actor.

Once both Amy and Rory's name appeared on the headstone their lives in the past became fixed so they had to die and be buried there. Once the Doctor reads the afterword written by Amy it becomes fixed that he can never visit them again because that's how the afterword is written. On top of that the paradox and the angels prevent him from going to 1938 New York. So he can't avert it by going right where they were sent, he can't pick them up later because they have to die in the past, and he can't even visit because it's written that they won't see each other any more.

Ah, trying to figure out the rules of Doctor Who. In my experience, it's become a bit of a fruitless exercise, so I just sit back and enjoy the stories, rather than try to analyze the mechanics too much, they ignore their rules too often. I completely forgot that both Davos and Edmure were in this episode, so a nice surprise, haha.

Eric was right about 'The Angels Take Manhattan'. In that episode, it is suggested that once you know an event in your future that event becomes a fixed point in time. As soon as Rory saw himself die as an old man in 1930s Manhattan his death there became fixed, which is why he was able to create a paradox when he jumped off the roof with Amy (because he died at the wrong point in time). Luckily, the paradox corrected itself (which can happen apparently) but, unfortunately, when he read his name on the grave stone his death in 1930s Manhattan became a fixed point in time again. The reason why the TARDIS couldn't go back to that time period and get Rory back was because they would be rewriting another fixed point in time which would cause another paradox and "tear New York apart". This rule creates a lot of problems for future episodes, most notably in 'Listen' when Clara meets her future great-grandson, Orson Pink. Technically, by the logic applied in 'The Angels Take Manhattan', Orson Pink's existence (and occupation as a time traveller) should have become a fixed point in time... But, we all know that doesn't happen.