Overdue Doctor Who Review: The Impossible Astronaut/The Day of the Moon 

Shaun Wales or hypothermia - it was snowing if I remember correctly

Same.

same

Yeah I assumed it was starvation, dehydration or the elements.

This is what I came here to say.

One of my favorite off handed lines

Arodr123 -- I kept expecting Nixon to order someone to erase the last 18 minutes, after one of his meetings with the Doctor.

In a discussion about Nixon on a political page, I mentioned that he only recorded everything becuase the Doctor told him to so he would know if the Silence was influencing him. I was very disappointed that no one got it!

Either that or some sort of sickness from being homeless.

Really?

DeathGodRiku Google it.

Good one, mate 😂

I see them the villain is the si-wait what was I doing I'll just press send

What reason did the Silence have for killing her and not Amy?

@@ostsarahb7466 To alert the Doctor to their presence in order to fulfil their plan. It's a manoeuvring tactic, if you like.

Andrew Bowman I hadn’t thought of it that way, thanks :)

Yeah, it would have looked like nothing more than an asspull. The way that they did it may not be as dramatic, but it's far less jarring.

@@scaper8 What probably would have worked best is to have a moment where one was actually threatened. Someone sees one and pulls a gun, very sensibly not taking their eyes off the creepy alien giving it no choice but to kill them.

I think the best option would have been to receive it in the shadows during an investigation by river but we don’t know if it was them doing it or if they were using weapons

Galactic yo yo the Fez is more classic 11

As someone living in the Dallas area of Texas absolutely

I’ll forgive him for that because he only wears a Stetson in 3 episodes of his entire run

Like what they kept doing with rose during Donna's time

A typical dad.... Mine was like that through the whole of the Tennant era.

Why Come? Also yes.

Xenocide, not genocide. And the Doctor has done it often enough in the past.

@@aria5614 *How come

I don’t think they wanted to go to the moon; I think they needed the space tech type suit so that little river could kill the Doctor.

We actually find out the primary motive of the Silence all the way down the line on Time of the Doctor. I love Moffat’s timey-wimey stuff

EraNex97. Me too. I eventually head cannoned that the Silence organization found her again and arranged for her to grow up with Amy. (Perhaps with some more psych conditioning in between). Her England self seemed a lot less innocent than her American personality.

She would have been about 50 years old by that point, if she wasn't recaptured. She could have easily gotten there herself, but that creates completely different problems.... I'm gonna go with Nicolle's headcannon above.

@@andurilcuivie yeah, I figured they found her again, possibly even because of the regeneration, and got the plan back on track

My issue with your point is that they grew simultaneously physically if she was 50 shouldn’t see either be older when she found Amy or she should not have grown at the same rate your comment sparked this observation and if there are any in universe examples where a child of galifrey (no idea on spelling) growing at a similar rate because it would be by my inferences that a timelord would have an exstended childhood and keep the majority of not all regenerations in there 20 -30 human time so wouldn’t the rates of growth be longer. Alternatively Mel may have had a human growth rate while having an extended adult life meaning that she would be an adult 59 years on as we have seen that regeneration doesn’t reduce your outward age to the point of being a child from every instance of regeneration ( that I have seen I’ve never watched classic) and Mel regenerated to look to be a similar age as before so this is confusing me. I would be happy to hear if you have counter evidence but this is what I can infuse from my reading of the above comment and personal knowledge but I may be lacking information and am willing to admit when I am wrong

Mark Sheppard!!!

Nice to see someone from the old homestead.

he has guest starred in hundreds of shows. In Firefly he played a part originally written for Joss Whedon. Also his real life father plays the older version of him.

@@dancingman1983 also he is Crowley (supernatural)

@@bookwermofthefandoms right you are, Moose

I don’t think he was trying to commit genocide as much as he was just trying to chase the Silence off earth. If you knew humans were going to kill you all on sight, you might think about leaving the planet.

Christina S. What do you think immediately follows the declaration “you should kill us all on sight?” I would think it would be a massive number of the Silence then being killed on sight. The Doctor would have to be incredibly naive to think that his actions would simply chase the Silence off without casualties. He gave a mandate to the entire world to murder another species any time they are seen. Sure the survivors might run in the light of that but given how deeply entrenched the Silence were in controlling earth how many of them must have died before they gave it up? Enough that it would constitute a genocide. And the doctor’s reaction when pulling that switch was “yay I won”. The Silence might be the bad guys but that is still a lot of death that is being cavalierly celebrated.

The term for wiping out an alien species is xenocide, not genocide. (Coined by OSC in _Ender's Game.)_ And the Doctor has done it often enough, each time in defense of mankind, except for the Daleks which were in defense of his own kind.

Menachem Salomon But he’s never revelled in it. Eleven framed the Silence xenocide as “Look at how clever I am! This is awesome!” Previous instances have always framed the death of the species as a necessary evil and had some amount of respect. This just felt wrong in Have cavalier he was about the whole thing.

@@quinnsinclair7028 I think the delight is in his cleverness at hoisting the Silence on their own petard, merely broadcasting their own "You should kill us all" message to the world. To be honest, Eleven's tenure is way confusing to me, with his own timeline so scrambled into itself that Is have forgotten most of the details. So I could be wrong about this.

The way I would have done would have been that it wasn't petrol Canton gave, it was just a tank of water, and it wasn't fire which engulfed the Doctor - it was regeneration energy. Given how it's his last incarnation, it wouldn't have been enough for a new body, but enough to heal his wounds. Then there'd be an ongoing mystery in Series 7 - who is the unknown Doctor? Why doesn't he ever talk about him? Also, I'd have River be the companion for Series 7.

Did you watch to the end of the season yet?

spoilers

A man who never would...🤦‍♂️ I guess davros was right in S4, when he said that his "children" are his greatest weapon 😂

Yeah, I think this is implied.

Gregory Marshall I think in the video and comments we’ve all been trying to avoid saying the spoiler in case someone is watching the series for the first time. The question was why did she die, not why did she regenerate.

@@mschrisfrank2420 That makes sense, but I wasn't sure if he didn't know of if just being cryptic and dang, it has been like 10 years so, you know.