That's pretty cool. You should use that chart, go back to different episodes and see what the TARDIS has written on the screen. Perhaps we'll find some secret messages?

Twitterfeed says: Lots of people love it & a few think it was the worst episode of Doctor Who they've seen in their whole lives. #FairEnough

— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) May 12, 2013

Cute, he got those two the wrong way around.

That's probably because he was browsing twitter, not OWF.

Good job.
To be honest, I wouldn't mind finding out what happens. I'm not expecting much anyway.

I laughed when I read that on Facebook. Maybe I'll watch the episode tonight.

You can consider spoilers for episodes that haven't aired yet to be ultra super taboo.

Remember your spoiler tags.

He totally does.

It's pretty basic; all the circles are cut from the same size, and I know I made a few mistakes. For anyone that's interested, creator Loren Sherman explains it with more detail and clarity that the image MM posted:

http://www.shermansplanet.com/gallifreyan

Is this actually canonical, or something that this guy made up for his own entertainment? And if the former, has anyone translated the text on the Doctor's cot yet?

It's fan-made.

Ah, gotcha.


I'm actually glad about that. I'd be disappointed if they translated his cot and it turned out to be a recipe for chicken tikka masala.

If it were canon, most of the writing on his cot would just be numbers.

Why's that?

Because that's what the most prominant of the circles on the cotscript look like according to this fan script.

Well, that wasn't really a conclusion.

I found the whole episode to be pretty interesting. We're still left guessing though.

I thought they did a great job implementing the characters into older scenes and vise-versa. Editing can only do so much after all.

At least it was interesting, on a whole I'd say that as the best episode of the year.

I enjoyed the inclusion of previous doctors. When I first heard the thing about The Doctor's forgotten incarnation, I despised the idea, but it seems it's been executed rather well. What with him not truly being "The Doctor" and what have you.

So despite doing everything in their power across time and space to stop the Doctor or River from ever reaching Trenzalore and speaking the Doctor's name, the actual event itself happened to fall on a Sunday or something and the Silence were too busy getting a manicure to bother saving all of existence.

Instead, the ones trying to grab the Doctor before he could reach his tomb were the Whispermen... even though their goal was to get him there in the first place. Then River let the Great Intelligence in because ????. Then there was a sort of portal thing to the Doctor's timeline because ????. Then the Doctor didn't want Clara to save all of existence because ????. Then the Doctor revealed he always could see River because ????.

The the Doctor's secret was revealed: At some point in the future he does something he pregrets. That's it. He already seems to know it, and that it was done for benevolent reasons. That could be interesting. I'm not holding my breath.

This is what Moffat has been leading towards this whole time? This is the epic conclusion to more than three years of story threading and world building?

I honestly can't begin to think how to close this post. I could try something interesting or well-crafted, but if Moffat can't be bothered why the fuck should I? I'll just keep rambling incoherent bullshit and wait for my BAFTAs.

I don't know what the fuck happened, to be honest, and I dont think I care anymore.

Pretty much what Wil said.


My first thought at the end of the episode was that they've got a fantastic actor and an intruiging premise; I'm excited for the next series.

But then, they'd probably bugger it up like all the other intruiging premises in recent years.

Ugh.

The episode was kind of interesting I guess, even if it jumped all over the place and was stupid. I wanted to shoot myself every time there was a forced scene to remind us that the lizard is a lesbian.

Everything Wil said.

Also, if Clara only knows 11 Doctors can we assume that Moffat is going to attempt to kill him off Once and For All?

So I've heard a lot of rumours that Doctor at the end.

He is a in-between incarnation between the 8th and 9th or he could be the actual ninth Doctor making Eccleston the tenth. In other words, he's the doctor that fought in the Time War.

Personally, I don't know what to believe. The Doctor did something awful in any case, so maybe he's been keeping this incarnation a secret for a reason.

I don't remembered the Doctor 'thwarting the intelligence at every oppurtunity', in fact I'm pretty sure I've only heard of it in one episode so I just wonder why he's such an influential and important antagonist.

I couldn't even remember who he was. Just a pisspoor forgettable villain.

Yeah, that was my thought. Seems too obvious, though. And while the Doctor isn't proud of what he did in the Time War, he's never really been so ashamed as to disassociate himself from it.

Twice in the last season and, if memory serves me correctly, twice in the original series run.

I don't recall. Can you refresh my memory?

Google probably could.