That's kind of weird. Eleven got a new one, why not Twelve?
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It's the same software, no matter the casing and hardware.
The screwdriver is like an iphone. it is basically just software with a casing that only changes every other generation and is always connected and controlled remotely by the iTardis cloud. 
That's how he keeps getting new apps for it, too.
That's how he keeps getting new apps for it, too.
He did go "hands free" for much of his Fifth incarnation, and his Sixth, and at least part of his Seventh. Or he did have a new one, just kept forgetting to carry it in that period.
The main reason for the use of the Sonic Screwdriver and Psychic Paper are to get the Doctor past mundane obstacles like locked doors or guards. Something that doesn't need to block the Doctor anymore if you only have a 45 minute story and no cliffhangers.
The main reason for the use of the Sonic Screwdriver and Psychic Paper are to get the Doctor past mundane obstacles like locked doors or guards. Something that doesn't need to block the Doctor anymore if you only have a 45 minute story and no cliffhangers.
Someone firing off that squareness gun rapidly, could cut that down to 20 minutes.
That's been a major beef with me and the NuWho Doctors; they use their sonics WAY too much (Capaldi hasn't been bad so far, he seems to work things out on the chalkboard beforehand). Its ironic, because the whole point of #5 losing his (and subsequently 6 & 7 going without) was so writers didn't have an "easy way out". But in retrospect #2-#5 seem to use their Sonics very sparingly compared to Eccelston, Tennent and Smith - whose screwdrivers also have more capabilities than the classics ever had
It would seem more a matter of episode length than anything else. RTD specifically put those back in so they things like a lock on a door, or a guard at a gate, wouldn't hamper the Doctor when they usually only have 45 minutes to tell a story. Back in the 80s when JNT got rid of the sonic screwdriver, it was usually four 22 minute episodes that needed three cliffhangers. To get that amount of time in and a cliffhanger, you can't give the Doctor an easy way out tool. But if you only have one 45 minute story with no cliffhangers, you want the Doctor to be able to get out of anything with a tool just to keep the story going. That is can do lots of other things is just a thing. Sometimes it even doesn't work, or isn't needed (the whole talk in Day of the Doctor about programming the sonics to vaporize the door was made moot when Clara just opened the unlocked door. Though the concept was put there to show how the Doctor could save Gallifrey via a very, very long time).
Assuming you could get a hold of one, I hear there is rather nice Banana plantation at the site of the factory which made them.
Jack's missing two years that was all but forgotten about... Young mortal Captain Harkness was travelling with River and the Doctor, where from he "borrowed" her Squareness gun off River who owned the same gun first well upstream the Doctor's continuity, before he dipped back tabula rasa to meet 9 during the blitz with the Timelord's wife's pistol in hand.
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Yeah, the Fifth Doctor's sonic was destroyed in "The Visitation" by an alien. The Sixth Doctor briefly uses a 'sonic lance' in Attack of the Cybermen, which he uses to stab a Cyberman if I remember correctly, then destroy the tombs, and then I don't think it shows up again.
The Seventh builds a new one between the end of the TV series (Survival) and the TV movie, where he uses it to seal the Master's "ashes". The Eighth Doctor actually doesn't use it much either, since it's in the posession of the Master's 'companion' Chang Lee for most of the story, but he gets it back at the end-and it's ben back ever since.
The sonic BTW first appeared in the now mostly lost story Patrick Troughton "Fury from the Deep", although the Doctor had a few other gadgets earlier (such as his ring). It's use became far more widespread during the Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker years, perhaps due in part to the influence of the gadget-laden James Bond series on the Pertwee era.
The Seventh builds a new one between the end of the TV series (Survival) and the TV movie, where he uses it to seal the Master's "ashes". The Eighth Doctor actually doesn't use it much either, since it's in the posession of the Master's 'companion' Chang Lee for most of the story, but he gets it back at the end-and it's ben back ever since.
The sonic BTW first appeared in the now mostly lost story Patrick Troughton "Fury from the Deep", although the Doctor had a few other gadgets earlier (such as his ring). It's use became far more widespread during the Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker years, perhaps due in part to the influence of the gadget-laden James Bond series on the Pertwee era.
In the middle of Listen but I had to pause it to voice my concern: Orson Pink. Please in the name of everything unholy DW writers, don't make him the future relative of Clara!! Because that would mean... No. She and Pinky boy cannot produce spawn!
Second, that's like the worst first date I've ever been witnessed to! And she still went back.
Well that was a really weird episode.
Second, that's like the worst first date I've ever been witnessed to! And she still went back.
Well that was a really weird episode.
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So, are you Team Child or Team Monster with what was under the sheet?
Well if it was a monster, I doubt it would have left just because the Doctor told it to but really, who knows?
Well, he is the guy monsters have nightmares about...
I notice you haven't mentioned the Robin Hood episode that came before Listen. What'd you think of Twelve's fighting skill with a spoon (among other things)?
I notice you haven't mentioned the Robin Hood episode that came before Listen. What'd you think of Twelve's fighting skill with a spoon (among other things)?
Honestly, it seemed like something Eleven would do. In fact I feel like they are still writing stuff for Matt. Which makes sense because, same writers. Just my opinion.
Danny acted way too over the top when he found out the truth. What's his problem? If I was dating someone who time-travelled with an alien in a box, it would blow my mind and I'd immediately ask to join them. Also the Doctor seemed pretty upset with Danny. Watching the two of them argue was kind of painful.
Danny acted way too over the top when he found out the truth. What's his problem? If I was dating someone who time-travelled with an alien in a box, it would blow my mind and I'd immediately ask to join them. Also the Doctor seemed pretty upset with Danny. Watching the two of them argue was kind of painful.
Both men are dealing with some serious PTSD. The Doctor just spent nearly a millennium in a one-man war against every kind of evil army there is, a man who'd fought centuries more in the Great Time War with the mental trauma and baggage left over from that - and he already wasn't a big fan of soldiers to begin with (a certain Brigadier excepted). As for Danny's mental blind spot... well, you'll see eventually.
I never thought about either of them having PTSD. That makes sense.
So I thought I had River's story figured out but I just ended up confusing myself even more. She has been dead all along?
So I thought I had River's story figured out but I just ended up confusing myself even more. She has been dead all along?
Until their is a time that he figures out he has been through all the moments that River has spent with him and there won'T be any more for him now and no amount of time travel will change that. That moment was centuries ago (though most of them obviously offscreen).
Danny has a reason to dislike officers, which he perceives the Doctor to be, who, in his opinion, is grooming Clara as his soldier.
Danny has a reason to dislike officers, which he perceives the Doctor to be, who, in his opinion, is grooming Clara as his soldier.
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