Not really. There's literally no hiding from it. It can fly through walls and follow its victims through time. Apparently monologues can keep it away, though.
A BIG Spoiler Is Coming
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Apparently so.
I wonder if the regeneration will clear the memory block of Clara.
That would be an easy enough reason to get rid of the memory. Plus, with the 12th Doctor gone, the next Doctor shouldn't have that weird dependency (I don't know what else to call it) on Clara that creates "the hybrid", so blocking The Doctor's memory won't be an necessary. That sounds really stupid, but everything about the "hybrid" was completely idiotic.
Quoted for the truth.
^^^ What he said.
This hybrid stuff was Moffat trying to be clever.
This hybrid stuff was Moffat trying to be clever.
And this series it's all been forgotten hasn't it?
Like most of the major plots from the last few seasons.
I can't wait until Big Finish inevitably retcons the Hybrid into being a fixation that the Celestial Toymaker/Master/Random Villain planted on the Twelfth Doctor and led him on that weird tangent.
Seriously though, a major reason why I dislike Clara is her immense influence on the Doctor's life. Its silly, and very Mary Sue-like of Moffat.
Seriously though, a major reason why I dislike Clara is her immense influence on the Doctor's life. Its silly, and very Mary Sue-like of Moffat.
Not to mention ones from this series. Bill's Mother was being set up as someone important and then... nothing.
But.. But.. The MOON is an EGG!
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Fifteen-ish years ago, when Pocket Books was running the Strange New Worlds Star Trek anthology contest each year, John Ordover, the Pocket Books editor, mentioned that the majority of submissions each year were Voyager, followed by The Next Generation, then then original series, then Deep Space Nine. Someone asked why that was, and Ordover said something perceptive. He could have said, "Oh, it's the series that's currently on the air, so it's the most visible." But he didn't. He said, instead, and I'm paraphrasing from memory here, "Voyager has a lot of loose ends. The other series don't. Writers like to close off loose ends. It's a way of making the story feel important and significant."
When I think of Moffat's Who, I think of that. I've compared Moffat to Voyager's Brannon Braga for a number of years now (beginning with "Day of the Moon"), because both writers throw out a lot of ideas and then do nothing with them, leaving them dangling.
Yesterday afternoon, I saw a link on Twitter to a two-hour long YouTube video about everything that's wrong with Sherlock. I had it running in the background at work while I worked on spreadsheets and editing some text. The critic brought up two really good points that I didn't disagree with -- Moffat is very good at writing first episodes and setting up mysteries to hook the audience (pointing to the first episode of Jekyll and the unaired pilot of Sherlock) but terrible at answering the questions he poses, and Moffat likes to hint at better stories that either take place off-stage or might possibly happen at some point in the future. Then Moffat will either answer his questions with some random idea that's unsupported by anything that came before (see "The Name of the Doctor" and Clara fragmenting herself) or ignore the question entirely and mock the audience for even caring about it in the first place (see the non-answers in "The Empty Hearse").
The Hybrid and Bill's mother are simply manifestations of that. They're ideas to pique the audience's interest, but Moffat either has no interest them or has no idea how to deal with them, so he moves on to other things, leaving the audience flabbergasted, and gets annoyed (or says the answer's there) when he's asked about the things he's left dangling.
That's not a WW1 uniform on the soldier performer with his back to us - could be anywhere from WW2 to the 70s UNIT era. Or a goof, of course.
Yeah...that's definitely much more conclusive.
OK, something I've never understood before. What's with the different TARDIS shapes?
Here's hoping it's awesome. I really want it to be awesome.
Different sets over the years. The smaller one is a replica of the actual Hartnell TARDIS.
