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Omg, me too!

I like the way the music changes to foreboding for that.

I saw Katrina flinch when the "Midnight" alien knocked four times. But of course that one arrived through the light.

The Doctor Who Confidential for this episode is entertaining - well, they all are. All because a crane operator didn't lift a container high enough to clear the top of the bus - the other bus, kept in England for interior shots, had to be damaged to make them match.

I remember seeing the trailer for Get Out and being like "woah that's Tea Leaf from Psychoville" which was a great BBC series from two of the guys from The League of Gentlemen and I highly recommend.

They run into Ashildir and Clara and have wacky adventures.

I want one where Lady Christina and River steal stuff from museums together!

That's a lot of Bernards!!!

@@firefly24601 Bernards are a larger measurement than a Malcolm.

denmaroca 2 do you mean the statue? that was a oriental waving cat that’s meant to bring luck not a bunny.

@@ListerDavid Oh, is it?! I've seen the episode lots of times and always thought it was a rabbit! Possibly due to preconceptions surrounding Easter. Also, I'd never heard of an oriental waving cat. Thanks to you (and Wikipedia's Maneki-neko article), I do now! Always nice to extend one's cultural awareness. :)

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yh idk why but i thought it was the monster from the midnight episode

@@olliered9924 Yeah but that one ALREADY knocked four times :) Was funny seeing Katrina flinch at that...beyond the normal flinching in that episode.

I thought I remembered something like that.

It's not often you hear a Tony Orlando and Dawn reference!

:) it's on the "Now and Then" soundtrack

I loved Pitch Black! Awesome sci-fi horror, one of Vin Diesel's earliest movies. Apparently Pitch Black was an inspiration for a lot of the setting of this episode.

I liked him in 'Funny Bones' with Jerry Lewis and Leslie Caron.

Thank you for the suggestion!

You talk about that women playing it perfectly, but what about Tennant?! Tennant has said that he didn't even know what the four knocks meant, when he filmed that scene. You wouldn't have known it from watching his performance though.

@@Mrazmatmahmood Tennant's a legend, I can't call him out in every episode :p

@@Lucifurium Fair point. He's so good in every episode. Even in the rare weaker ones like this episode.

Holy crap, you're right! I would never have been able to binge-catchup Dr Who if it weren't free on Prime. I wonder if the BBC's new budget led them to not renew their contract with Amazon.

It's on UK Netflix and the BBC iPlayer, but presumably you're not in the UK.

What, you can't get it on DVD?

Woah cool how did you get Prime for free?

Stephen Vincent Giles The Sontaran episodes with Donna.

I think in Aliens of London too

P.S. You can always tell it's UNIT in the new series because of their signature red berets and black uniforms. Plus, the UNIT logo, of course. :)

Martha did identify herself as working for UNIT in the series 4 finale as well, right?

The first thing I ever saw him in was Black Mirror so that always feels like his origin to me.

I honestly believe Christina would have been an absolutely horrendous companion, and it was good she was found in this period of his life. Why? Christina is near perfect; she is witty, intelligent, quick, prepared and able for anything. That is precisely the problem. A companion should NOT be so perfect. The Doctor doesn't take the best of mankind in terms of ability but in terms of personality. People like Rose or Donna who aren't looked at as valuable by most people but have that certain something that makes him drawn to them. Yet when we assess Christina on that front...she fails. Her first two scenes establish that she is a thief AND that she will betray her partner the second that it is convenient for her. In addition, she states that her prime motivation is for "adventure." Now, on the surface, this seems very similar to the Doctor, and would make her prime companion material...but not quite. The Doctor's companions aren't meant to want to seek out danger, thrills or adventure in this sense but to simply want to travel the universe for the sake of it, without selfishness. It's a motivation entirely different to the Doctor. The number of parallels between Christina and the Doctor are alarming; thieves, opportunistic, outward looking, natural leaders, egotistical, leaned, cultured and having an implicit dark side. The companion is meant to rival and oppose the Doctor, not mirror him in all these ways. If she had come along, I truly believe she would have gone down as one of the most disastrous companions in all of Who history. (Think Adam times ten.)

I have a soft spot for this episode because it’s the first episode I remember watching when I was younger.