roseandherdoctor:

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doctorwho:

Matt Smith from the Doctor Who: The Name of the Doctor Inside Look

who-lligan:

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to. I’ve just been having some 50th Anniversary anxiety.

Feel free to use this gif for your anxiety, too.

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consultingmadhatterwithabox:

How do the Silents/Silence play into all of this? They are both a race and a religious order, both with the mission of preventing the moment on the Fields of Trenzalore when the Doctor would be asked to reveal his name, ie. the events of The Name of the Doctor. So where were they? For a moment…

adthenewt:

areyoumarriedriver:

So you all realise him saying please after the GI asked ‘Doctor who?’ was him saying please to River, because he knew she was there.

Please. Say it so I don’t have to.

And there I was thinking his name was fucking “please”

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doctorwho:

From the Series 6 DVD Box Set: Night and the Doctor

Still in our future?

To quote the SFX review: why does this crack in the TARDIS window seem so ominous?

itgoesdingwhentheresstuff:

Ok Doctor Who peeps! Can you all help me with something? How does this episode fit with the whole “Silence will fall when the question is asked” plot line? And what made the TARDIS explode at the end of season 5? Sometimes I think I need annotations for this show!…

So, here’s what I’ve been able to process so far:  When the Doctor says his name at Trenzalore, the tomb opens and the Great Intelligence gets access to his timeline, thereby reversing all the times he stopped people (ie the Dalek emperor) destroying the universe. Silence must fall in order to save the universe. This does explain the whole  plot to have River kill the Doctor - anything to keep him from getting to Trenzalore. The Silence are good: interesting.

BUT: How would his body have gotten to Trenzalore if he had really died and been burned at Lake Silencio? We know that was a fake death - but wouldn’t this have caused wibbly-wobbly problems for the Silence’s plan?

Also, I am interested in this theory that the prophecy referred to the Doctor’s other trip to Trenzalore - it makes more sense that they’d kill him early to prevent him dying there…but hasn’t the Question now been asked? Ahhhh….my head just went timey wimey.

The cracks in time in season 5 were caused by the TARDIS exploding, which we have been lead to believe was also caused by the Silence. I’m of the opinion - and the TARDIS wiki agrees - that we still don’t really have an explanation for this.

But hey - Moffat just gave us closure on River’s data ghost, something that has been bothering me since 2008, way before we knew that she’d be a recurring character. Not to mention that he is showing every sign of bringing back the Valeyard idea from classic Who. So I’ll try to keep faith :)

And on that note - bed?

In Forest of the Dead, the 10th Doctor tells River “there’s only one way I could tell you, only one time I could.”  We’ve all been assuming it was during some important life event - death, marriage, (sex) - but what if he meant that only the Doctor-that-isn’t-the-Doctor/John Hurt could say his own name? Wouldn’t that also explains why River tells him she’s sorry when she whispers his name?

Ok Doctor Who peeps! Can you all help me with something? How does this episode fit with the whole “Silence will fall when the question is asked” plot line? And what made the TARDIS explode at the end of season 5? Sometimes I think I need annotations for this show! Please?