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imadinosaur Since: Oct, 2011
#96851: Nov 28th 2015 at 1:34:24 PM

From the'next week'section, it looks like we might actually get looms lol.

Anyways that was a pretty great episode. Last week and this week have really redeemed an otherwise pretty meh season imo.

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#96852: Nov 28th 2015 at 2:53:39 PM

Well somebody clearly had budget issues. tongue

Hell of an ending though, it's just everything before that which I had trouble with, I was actually so disconnected that I kept alt tabbing to both here and the polandball subreddit.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#96853: Nov 28th 2015 at 3:00:02 PM

...Wait, budget issues? Really?

...Is it wrong that I've missed the bad effects?

Shiningknight S.E.A captain from Professor Xavier's school for gifted lesbians. Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
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#96854: Nov 28th 2015 at 3:02:27 PM

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the shifting castle looked pretty darn good imho..but yeah this smelt of double banking

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Zarius Since: Nov, 2012
#96855: Nov 28th 2015 at 4:04:23 PM

Doctor Who thrives on low-budget. Always a plus.

Noticed plenty of Sherlock tropes in there.

edited 28th Nov '15 4:04:48 PM by Zarius

BlancaLeona Pos aquí nomás from Mexican jungle Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#96856: Nov 28th 2015 at 4:23:01 PM

Just watched the episode. I felt it dragged on. I kept thinking "when is it going to end?".

Let them light torches and sharpen pitchforks! Their tears give me life.

Where I watched the episode was missing the Next Time trailer. Now I found it. That looks exiting!

edited 28th Nov '15 4:30:52 PM by BlancaLeona

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Whowho Since: May, 2012
#96857: Nov 28th 2015 at 6:15:39 PM

This episode is going to be an iconic one which will go down in history I'm sure.

I was certain of the twist from the point of the dry jacket waiting for him, but the reveal was still very satisfying as I hadn't clinched everything together.

In terms of character, it's a very satisfying display of mourning, and also it is rather brilliant in showing the Doctor having a childish strop.

I honestly don't know how anyone can't think of this as a three parter.

Player2isDead Game Over. Try Again? from Four days in the future. Since: Feb, 2010
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Grahf Since: Jan, 2001
#96859: Nov 28th 2015 at 7:17:10 PM

When I realized that he was punching through the wall of diamond with his goddamn bare hands fractions of millimeter by fractions of millimeter during every one of his lives I lost it.

edited 28th Nov '15 7:18:48 PM by Grahf

Gilphon Since: Oct, 2009
#96860: Nov 28th 2015 at 7:23:58 PM

That ending was... quite something, wasn't it?

But- if the rooms reset, why did the damage the Doctor did to the diamond stick?

Grahf Since: Jan, 2001
#96861: Nov 28th 2015 at 7:26:46 PM

I guess that it must not have been an absolutely perfect reset, or else none of his skulls or dust would be hanging around either.

Wackd Since: May, 2009
#96862: Nov 28th 2015 at 7:27:47 PM

But- if the rooms reset, why did the damage the Doctor did to the diamond stick?
The rooms don't reset, he just thinks they do because the previous incarnation leaves them a certain way.

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Gilphon Since: Oct, 2009
#96863: Nov 28th 2015 at 7:38:06 PM

Sure they do- the flower petals teleport back, the grave gets filled in, the window gets unsmashed, etc.

Wackd Since: May, 2009
#96864: Nov 28th 2015 at 7:39:12 PM

Ah, right. I mean. I know the clothes are there by the fire because the previous 12 leaves them there. So I guess I assumed everything else was reset that way as well.

edited 28th Nov '15 7:39:25 PM by Wackd

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
deathchrist2000 Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#96865: Nov 28th 2015 at 7:44:44 PM

I recall him saying all the rooms reset save for room 12.

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KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
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#96866: Nov 28th 2015 at 7:48:55 PM

Wow.

Okay, that was pretty damn good.

Anyone got a link to the next time trailer?

Edit: NVM, found it on You Tube.

edited 28th Nov '15 7:57:58 PM by KarkatTheDalek

Oh God! Natural light!
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#96867: Nov 28th 2015 at 7:57:35 PM

Well, we may never know how many licks it takes to get to the centre of a tootie pop, but.....evil grin

He still seems unhappy.

Can't imagine why. Not sure what the point of this was, but it was enjoyable, especially near the end.

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TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#96868: Nov 28th 2015 at 8:06:50 PM

Not so much a three-part story as three stories that lead directly to another not-quite-freestanding story.

But then Moffat likes two-part stories that are actually completely different from one to the next.

The Doctor Who Tumblr reblogged a post that was all YOU GUYS ARE NOT READY FOR THE ENDING IT IS SO UNBELIEVABLE and it seemed to be talking more about the Hybrid, but really I think the Bird wasn't nearly as inevitable.

edited 28th Nov '15 8:07:40 PM by TParadox

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deathchrist2000 Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#96869: Nov 28th 2015 at 8:20:59 PM

Well, I mean most 8th Doctor fans saw it coming from a mile away.

We! Are the Crystal Gems!
Whowho Since: May, 2012
#96870: Nov 28th 2015 at 8:24:07 PM

The reveal was very well done, I'd predicted the twist, but not it's purpose, so the subversion of 'this is all going to plan' was very satisfying.

Grahf Since: Jan, 2001
#96871: Nov 28th 2015 at 8:36:35 PM

I find it funny that the fable quoted in the story was one that I'd just read days earlier in the XKCD book. Interesting little coincidence, although of course the fable itself predates either source by ages.

High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain.
It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high
and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak.
When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed.

Quite fitting, wouldn't you say?

edited 28th Nov '15 8:36:43 PM by Grahf

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#96873: Nov 28th 2015 at 8:54:11 PM

Hi people! Never posted in here before! Unless I did and forgot. Whatever.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#96874: Nov 28th 2015 at 9:56:48 PM

Heaven Sent review.

Missed the episode so I haven't read any of it.

I'll be back.

higherbrainpattern Since: Apr, 2012
#96875: Nov 28th 2015 at 11:36:06 PM

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

"How many seconds in eternity?"

My brain is crying. Oh, Doctor. ;_;

TWO BILLION YEARS. Holy shit, I loved this episode very much.


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