Well, despite that you could hear the sound of Gallifrey burning.
The Time of the Angels mini clip from BBCA(mild spoilers)
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Well, despite that you could hear the sound of Gallifrey burning.
I'm interested in knowing just how that high-heeled shoe ended up hanging there......
Some variation of footprints on the dashboard?
Yep, as did the Rani's. Not sure about the Monk's or the SIDRATs from The War Games, but it's been heard a lot. If I remember correctly, it was also heard in The Three Doctors when the new dematerialisation circuit materialised at the end. It seems to me that either the Doctor's having a laugh or humouring River, or the stabilisers were added by the TARDIS itself. I mean, after 900 years of phone box travel (according to Nine as scripted by Moffat) you'd think that he'd have figured them out or read the TARDIS manual. Love the clip, though.
River's talking bollocks - the sound was already established in the classic series (Underworld, just out on DVD, and some others) as being the relative dimensional stabiliser kicking in. So, the blue switches are probably more like mufflers than brakes.
So, which character "establishes" that?
What would be really interesting if the doctor and river's timelines are in reverse.
In Underworld? The Minyans - the race who the Timeys had portrayed themselves as gods to, and royally fucking things up in the process - and confirmed by the Doctor
Ah, well, the Doctor...
Its just a quote to get some laughs from the younger audience, geez give it a break...NOT STAR TREK, canon is not really important in a show that is about time travel
This is true, but it's an important point that in Star Trek as in much else canon contradicts itself. "Canon" is not a synonym for "consistent." If two things are said and shown on Star Trek or Doctor Who or anything else of the sort, and they contradict one another - well then, they contradict one another. Unless explicitly resolved within the stories themselves, every choice as to whether to privilege one version above the other or accept them both is equally valid.
I rather like the idea that River has figured out a few things that have escaped the Doctor, and depending on how the scene actually plays in the context of the story I'll happily accept her explanation because it's amusing.
River Song is pretty much the only part of Moffat-Who that I do not like, and never cared for. Completely uninteresting to me in the slightest, and I can't even explain why! 
Does anyone else suspect that the "percussive maintenance device" on the console is actually a detachable remote control that he's been using as a hammer by mistake?
No?
Just me, then.
No?
Just me, then.
Or maybe leaving the brake on makes a Tardis more manageable when theres only one pilot?
Blogtor Who has 3 clips from The Time of Angels.
http://blogtorwho.blogspot.com/2010/04/time-of-angels-3-clips.html
Warp drive? uh oh
http://blogtorwho.blogspot.com/2010/04/time-of-angels-3-clips.html
Warp drive? uh oh
I heard someone say, "River Song tells the Doctor he left the TARDIS brake on!" before I actually saw the clip, and I was actually kind of hoping that she meant that he only left the brake on after the TARDIS reconfigured itself, explaining why the TARDIS has repeatedly been late, arriving two years late after a mere trip to the Moon and back in "The Eleventh Hour", and arriving a month later than expected in "Victory of the Daleks"). (the 12-year delay in The Eleventh Hour doesn't count because the engines were actually malfunctioning there).
The clip was still kind of funny, even if it didn't provide the explanation I had hoped.
Oh, this looks great! "Spoilers!"
