Category Archives: Time Of The Doctor

“Emergency. You’re my boyfriend.”

Posted on June 3, 2015 by etheruk1

In ‘Time Of The Doctor’ Clara accidentally makes the Doctor think she wants him to be her boyfriend. She quickly clarifies that she only wants him to pretend to be her boyfriend for the benefit of her family who are … Continue reading →

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“The time engine isn’t in the flat, the time engine is the flat. Someone’s attempt to build a TARDIS.”

Posted on February 11, 2015 by etheruk1

In ‘The Lodger’ the Doctor discovers a mysterious time machine, using a perception filter to disguise itself as the top floor of a flat. While we don’t learn who owned the time machine in this episode it is suggested in … Continue reading →

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“A box, a cage, a prison. It was built to contain the most feared thing in all the universe.”

Posted on January 14, 2015 by etheruk1

As discussed here ‘The Time Of The Doctor’ reveals that the events of ‘The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang’. The explosion of the TARDIS echoes through time, setting up a situation in which the other races realise that the Doctor is … Continue reading →

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“We saw this planet in the future, remember? All those graves. One of them mine.”

Posted on December 31, 2014 by etheruk1

In ‘The Name Of The Doctor’ the Doctor and Clara journey to the final resting place of the Time Lord and his TARDIS, Trenzalore. In ‘The Time Of The Doctor’ they find themselves in that planet’s past and the Doctor … Continue reading →

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“Number ten once regenerated and kept the same face. I had vanity issues at the time.”

Posted on December 17, 2014 by etheruk1

‘The Time of The Doctor’ confirms that the 10th Doctor’s cheating death in ‘Journey’s End’ does indeed count as a regeneration. At the time the 10th Doctor claimed that once the regeneration energy healed his body he diverted the remaining … Continue reading →

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“Hologram clothes. Projected directly on to your visual cortex.”

Posted on December 10, 2014 by etheruk1

There is plenty comic relief provided in the first few scenes of ‘The Time of The Doctor’ from the Doctor turning up for Clara’s Christmas party nude. While funny the idea of hologram clothes could be a useful addition to … Continue reading →

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“Thank you Handles and well done.”

Posted on December 3, 2014 by etheruk1

We can now add a Cyberman’s head to the list of the companions that the Doctor has travelled with. Introduced in ‘The Time Of Doctor’ Handles spends hundreds of years in the Doctor’s company. The Doctor tells Clara that he … Continue reading →

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“Love from Gallifrey, boys!”

Posted on November 26, 2014 by etheruk1

Sooner or later all Time Lords must face the fact that they are a limited number of regenerations. Eventually they’ll be in their 13th incarnation, the end of the road. The Doctor is lucky enough to get a whole new … Continue reading →

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“I will always remember when the Doctor was me.”

Posted on November 19, 2014 by etheruk1

‘The Time Of The Doctor’ gives us another opportunity to explore what happens during a regeneration, especially as the 11th Doctor talks Clara through the process. How regenerations are presented have also changed drastically since the 7th Doctor’s. Previously the … Continue reading →

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“They will be met with a war which will never end. The Time War will begin anew.”

Posted on November 12, 2014 by etheruk1

Tasha Lem warns the Doctor in ‘The Time Of The Doctor’ that should the Time Lords return then the Time War would be reignited. We have seen how the whole of reality was nearly destroyed during the last Time War. … Continue reading →

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