I couldn't believe Davros had eyes! I always thought they were empty sockets.
Yeah. Based on the audio "Davros," I was under the impression that Davros' eyes, tongue, taste buds, ears, and just about everything else was burned off when he was caught in a Thal nuclear attack. Granted, Davros is a good enough scientist that he would have been able to clone new eyes for himself long ago. But then, if he's that good, he'd be able to fix a lot of his broken bits and he hasn't.
When the Doctor sent his regeneration energy through the Dalek city, I half expected all of the Dalek casings to open up with healthy, regenerated Kaleds inside. I think that would have been interesting.
I thought I was insane for pointing out Missy's ring is the same one Donna had in the 4th series. Thought there might be some kind of connection.. What if Missy can fix Donna so she remembers and use that against the Doctor?
Google Donna Master Ring and see what happens...
If I turn my google safe search off, will the results be less Who related?
Nothing that interesting. It's mostly a lot of speculation circa 2008 that Donna is really the Master, or at least has some connection to him, because there are some shots where she seems to be wearing a ring that supposedly looks like the Master's ring from his funeral pyre in "Last of the Time Lords." It doesn't really but you know the internet. Here's a lame video on the subject...
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It was ok, it didn't build on the momentum of last week, sort of just stopped and got talky.
What momentum? Last week's episode was just a lot of random scenes of continuity porn: Kate Stewart, Karn, the Shadow Proclamation, Dorium's bar. Then the rest of it was random snake henchman, pointless references to the Doctor's death, and the Doctor playing guitar on top of a tank in the middle ages. And while that's a cool image, it doesn't really have anything to do with the episode. They could have easily condensed this down to a 1-part episode if they just ignored all of the random continuity filler in the first half.
Why did the sewer Daleks attack the other Dalek, but ignore Missy and Clara?
(Don't tell me: you'll explain it later.)
Because the sewer Daleks were trying to seize control of the Dalek's casing. Once they had done that, they might have exterminated Clara & Missy for the hell of it but they weren't the concern at the moment. (Although, this doesn't explain why they didn't make a move towards the Dalek casing once Missy opened it to put Clara inside.)
I thought it was strange that they had partially dead Daleks just rotting in the sewers instead of being recycled as fuel for the organic portions of the current living Daleks. We know from the "Davros" audio that the Kaleds had already resorted to organized cannibalism much earlier during the war.
Also, why is it such a significant plot point that a Dalek can say mercy? This too has already been done, in The Big Bang the Stone Dalek begged River for mercy.
And the Dalek in "Dalek" asked the Doctor to "Have pity!" which is kinda the same thing. So, at the very least, a Dalek selfishly pleading for its life is nothing new.
Also, I grinned at the depiction of different Doctors in the "flashback" sequence. The Fourth sneaking to one pillar, the First emerging to slip to the next with Capaldi finally emerging from that one.
I liked it. And I guess using Capaldi is the cheapest option. Although, one of these days, they should use McGann or Tennant for one of these flashbacks.
Not sure how I feel about "sonic glasses" yet. How are they supposed to work? Can't the TARDIS just make another screwdriver? It did for Eleven.
I think the 11th Doctor got at least a couple new screwdrivers from the TARDIS, one in "The Eleventh Hour" and another copy of it after the first one was pretty well ruined when it was eaten by the flying shark in "A Christmas Carol."
