Just rewatched a chunk of the episode: After they find the stasis chamber and the Doctor figures out what the runes are, he asks if anyone was actually surprised to find out the translation (dark, sword, forsaken, temple.) The interpreter begins to raise his hand (as though to say "I was surprised") but nobody else…

Haha thanks for the heads up. I actually started Tom Baker's first season once to see how I felt about Classic Who. I watched Robot, Ark in Space, and Genesis of the Daleks before I kinda trailed off. I'm not sure why I didn't make it that far, I'm fascinated by the lore. I think I just got busy and it fell by the…

By the time the Doctor and Clara showed up they had already discovered that the room was safe, they were hanging out there when the Tardis landed. The Doctor just reversed it, put the ghosts in the room so the people have the rest of the base.

To me: He knows whatever is in there is nasty enough to murder as many people as it takes to get what it needs and clever enough to lure more people to the base and get them to look at the runes. And what's more, as we saw earlier in the episode he's fascinated by the ghosts, he's really pulled in by this mystery. And…

The reason the ghosts couldn't leave the room they were eventually trapped in is that it is a faraday cage. The exact nature of the ghosts hasn't been clarified as of yet, but they clearly have some electro-magnetic element to them, which is why the faraday cage stops them and they can only interact with metal objects…

"I'm pretty sure they're going to turn out to be something other than actual souls from the great beyond."

Martha is actually the only companion to "retire" so to speak. She's working for Torchwood or as a mercenary or something in Tennant's regeneration episode when he goes around to save all his friends one last time (which is weird because she was going to be a doctor)

I'm not very familiar with classic who, but from what I know I could see Tom Baker doing the "I want to kiss it to death" bit.

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"It was my fault, I should have known you didn't live in Aberdeen."

I cannot take claim for this, as just about two minutes ago I saw someone post it on reddit… But the interpreter not being on the ship means he hasn't seen the runes and is useless to the ghosts.

This episode reminded so, so much of "The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit" (I don't mean that critically by the way, it's easily my favorite Ten and Rose story.)

Yeah, I'm more or less in the same boat. If I'm flipping through radio stations and catch them on a classic rock station I'll probably stop and listen but I don't have any tracks on my iPod at the moment. That said, if I hadn't discovered them at a very particular moment of my life I probably wouldn't have ever been…

Led Zeppelin is built to be discovered and loved intensely when you're fifteen years old. They're very talented musicians with a carefully curated "cool rock and roll" image and just almost deep enough writing to inspire almost deep thought about it. Basically they have enough substance to grab hold of and know you…

I haven't seen the movie and don't know what he needs the water for, but the water found is so salty that its freezing point is more than 20 degrees Celsius colder than fresh water, and is found in very sparse amounts (seeping from the ground.) If he needs it for drinking water or something similar then it's not…

If the Doctor had killed Davros, a scared child in a war zone, he would not be the Doctor and this would not be Doctor Who.

Definitely something that isn't so large. The big ol' magic wand worked well for Matt Smith but I could see 12 using something that looks much more like the scientific instrument it's purported to be.

I'm very much hoping that is not the direction the show takes. Clara has had enough Moffaty plot mystery thrust upon her, and that's coming from someone who's generally liked Moffat's turn as show runner.

Okay, so I'm feeling really positive about the episode as a whole, but there is one thing I find a tad confusing about the climax… Are we to now believe that any Daleks who survived the sewer Dalek uprising are now in some way extra powerful Dalek / Time Lord hybrids? Or does the show posit that the Daleks will all…

Perhaps it's due to the sloppiness of the climax's writing that I read the scene differently, but I genuinely did believe the Doctor was more or less duped by Davros' dying gambit. I might need to rewatch it for contrary clues though. Anyway the way I interpreted it, the Doctor knew what was happening with the sewer…