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The Deadly Assassin novelization suggests that one reason the Master has run out of regenerations is he has used some to change his appearance as a disguise.

This is the Moff, we know from last season that changes in costume are significant.

In this case, we have two. The 3/4 long tweedy coat, which is featured in a number of publicity stills, and the tux.

The coat, I think indicates that several hundred years have passed for the Doctor between this episode and the previous.

The tux, I think will be explained in future episodes. Hypothesis: he went back to the wedding to check Mel's story (eating fish fingers and custard whilst there to resist the poison.)

In the next epsiode, the Doctor will go back to his normal costume, so Amy and Rory don't twig that a lot of time (with River) has passed for him.

Remember they are travelling in opposite directions in time, so many of the Doctor's encounters with River that have been hinted at should have occurred before this first encounter with the "River" incarnation. And it must be a previous, Melody or Mel, incarnation, who shoots the Doctor in Utah, or someone else entirely.

The data screen on the Tesseract showed this, when it scanned Mel:

Species: Time Lord

Yup, they may be the same people for whom Jack was a "rogue time agent" for. That episode was also written by the Moff.

The question is: "Who is a screenwriter for the new Tintin movie?"

The answer is 42.

Might be a deliberate homage to the late Doug Adams.

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She didn't "want" to kill the Doctor. She was programmed to kill the Doctor. As soon as the program was complete she was free to do whatever she wanted.

Did think Amy was a pit psychotic - she could easily have got the entire 400+ crew of the Tesseract killed. Okay, she was trying to save her daughter, but it's not as if they where evil.

Oh, and it appears to be quite widely known that River Song kills the Doctor. The Doctor makes the comment "I knew it would be you" as if he was being frightfully clever. It wouldn't be frightfully clever if it was something everyone knew. Ergo it isn't River Song who kills the Doctor (although she takes the rap). Who would River be most likely to take the rap for? Her mother.

A later episode is due to return to when Amy and Rory where kids - this may explain how "Mel" was inserted into their timeline. "don't care for weddings"! I don't believe that any more than the Doctor did.

Oh, and it's not clear how much time has past for the Doctor between AGMGTW and LKH. Could be a couple of hundred years.

I see WP as being inspired more by movie heroes than comic books: Indiana Jones, John McClane, James Bond etc. Basically any hero without special powers who just won't die, despite ridiculous levels of punishment he is put through.

Batman dresses as a bat to inspire fear. And some people ARE afraid of bats. More importantly, he needs to be RECOGNISED. Intimidation is a major weapon in his arsenal, that wont work if people don't know who he is..

If you are a stealth based thief, you do not need to intimidate anyone, you certainly don't want to be recognised, and you don't want false ears and a tail that could flop about and trigger alarms.

This is what you take from a cat: claws for climbing, night vision, enhanced audio, agility, camouflage, possibly whiskers.

This is what you leave behind: large ears (not needed for electronically enhanced hearing, gets in the way), tail (if you aren't actually a cat, it hinders balance, not helps).

Which is the problem.

With Heath Ledger's performance loonies have been done so well that anything else will look poor in comparison.

The point of the current cycle of Batman movies is to try and make it look like it could almost happen in the real world. Which was what made Heath's Joker so effective - you could believe such a person could really exist.

I'm sure Batman movies will eventually go back to Batman and Robin style daygo stupidity, but I like a more realistic approach.

I would guess there will be a blurry press photograph showing a silhouette with the goggles up looking like cat ears. Leading the press to dub her Cat Woman. But she will never use the name herself.

I prefer this kind of real world approach. There is no sane reason why she would dress as a cat, and I would rather have a completely sane Selena Kyle. Loonies have been done to death.

Indeed. As first used in Blake's Seven and Dr Who - Key to Time, and further developed in Babylon 5.

Independent episodes with a series long linking story.

What about, if they made it so that if you have Titan+Shield, your shield is your weapon?

Would seem like an opportunity to add in Shield Offence to me.

Amy is actually the daughter of River and the Doctor. Thus she has part timelord DNA to pass on. Which would make her her own grandmother.

Time fractured as a result of paradox overload.


I'm suprised no-one has commented on the logo of the cleric guys yet - based around the last letter of the greek alphabet.

It was clearly between Amy telling the Doc "I'm pregnent" at the end of Ep 1 and her first encounter with Eyepatch in Arkham Asylum.

Most likely immeditely after the end of episode 1. I wouldn't be surprised if a future episode takes place in the 3 months between 1 and 2.

As for who, the whole flesh thing is Silence modus operandi: Get the parasatised organism to develop the technology that you need. They appear to have the time travel technology that would be required, to travel into the future to get the flesh, then back to C1960, perhaps as a result of previously having parasatised Galifrey.

We know how the Doctor is going to survive being killed now, anyway. Always back up your hard drive.

I think it was Matt Smith ("call me Smith" - LOL) doing an impersonation.



Depends if you are 8 or not.

Apart from <Fleshdoc> uploading himself into the sonic screwdriver.

On Rory-the-Auton:

As someone would say:

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You where warned: There is a picture in the Radio times from episode 7, showing Rory in full roman gear with some familar enemies. The caption refers to "the lone centurion".

It's cockney. But it could refer to either husband or farther.