So anyone get to see The God Complex yet?

My thoughts on The God Complex:

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I really enjoyed this episode. The emotion and chracters of this show just keep getting better! The scene when he convinces Amy to stop believing in him was very powerful, although not so much as Rory's dilemma at the end of Girl Who Waited.

Also, you could see the Doctor seriously considering his death, so I think this was quite valuable to the season plot.

Thoughts on the Doctor's room: I vote that he saw all the people who have died because of him: his species, past companions, even good people that he may only have known for a few minutes. I truly think he's terrified of facing that. That's part of the reason he keeps running.

About the goodbye at the end .... Bookwyrm, do we know for sure that Karen and Arthur are signed for the whole seventh season? Cuz if they only make a few cameo appearances, this is still a genuine goodbye. If not, then I agree with you. The emotion was rather pointless.

Why do you guys think Rory didn't have a room? Does he not have faith in anything? Or is there literally nothing that scares him anymore? (I find that hard to believe; everyone is scared of something.)

And, speaking of faith, what does the Doctor believe in? When Amy asked him what Timelords pray to, I had a flashback to The Satan Pit. Back then, he believed in Rose more than anything else. Now, though?

What do you guys think?

So anyone get to see The God Complex yet?

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I really wish Rita had survived. I would have minded her being a companion, even if only temporarily. And I thought for sure that Rory's snarky line about notifying the next of kin meant that Rita was going to survive.

Opinions on what was in the Doctor's room? I vote the Valeyard.

I agree about Rita....

What do you guys think?

I think that Rory almost [spoiler=]had a room....when he started talking about next of kin notification...and seemed to stop himself in time when he looked at Amy LOL.....maybe he controlled his thoughts enough so that a room wasn't accidentallly created for him....he and Amy have certainly suffered enough already without them dying again in this episode!

I do not think the Doctor believes in anything or anyone....which just emphasizes his being a sad and lonely character...

The ending goodbye with Rory and Amy would have had more oomph if there had been enough development in the other episodes to lead up to it...plus the fact the episode's true meaning can only be seen in the sum of the parts of this series is a drawback....we know Rory and Amy will pop up again before Series 6 is over.

I miss the plain standalone adventures of Doctors 9 and 10 and episodes when the Doctor just accidentally lands on a planet and the adventure isn't engulfed by the overall series arc. I also still do not like the idea that Rory and Amy never got to raise Melody/River as a baby....and they seem to be weirdly okay with that so it's soured some of this series for me.[/spoiler]

A Doctor Who SF? How did I miss this? I've been absent from NW for far too long! I am a huge Whovian, despite the fact that I'm American. I only started watching the show toward the end of Series 4, but I loved it so much I quickly went back and watched all of the previous episodes to air since the show was rebooted in 05. At first I was the only person who I knew (other than on the internet) who watched the show, but I've been amazed at how many Whovians I've met (or found out were always fans) since then. I may be partly responsible for hooking a few people too.

So far I've really enjoyed Series 6, though I'm quite a bit behind... the last episode I saw was Night Terrors. So I'm avoiding all those spoiler boxes above, ha ha.

Ok, this weekend, I got all caught up with season 6 up to "Let's Kill Hitler" and hopefully this coming weekend my friend will be nice enough to let me go back to her house again and watch the other episodes

I drafted a spoiler post on what I've seen so far of the season, but looking back now lots of it would just be repeating what's already been said, so just a couple (mainly) question and (a few short) comments:

- Impossible Astronaut and Day on the Moon:

I know I had more to say than that, but it got swallowed by a crack, and I'll re-post it when the universe reboots

Valeyard:

Karen and Arthur:

"The God Complex" -

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Ditto many of the comments already made. It seems a little ironic that right after I post a comment to the effect that I want a "happily ever after" for Amy and Rory that the Doctor dumps them off at home. But I'm not sure how that'll play out given their remaining contracts.

Some other thoughts prompted by spoilered comments from starkat and stateofgreen:

I loved The Unicorn and the Wasp! Hilarious and good use of a historical figure in my book. My hope for Series 7 is that now they have most of the stuff wrapped up (hopefully) with Rory and Amy that they now seriously just have to write more historical or one-off adventures before Matt Smith leaves. There's story gold to be mined with him and they aren't taking full advantage of it....

And if they just tried to make next series not have the same huge arc that can only be understood with having all of the episodes together that would be a great load off of my mind. I practically have to draw a chart to understand all of the timelines...

Yeah, I agree with stateofgreen. Much as I love the long story-arch, I miss the fun episodes with known historical figures. The ones with Winston Churchill, Agatha Christie and Van Gogh were great.

They could've done so much with the whole Hitler thing, too! After all, in real life nobody ever found his body .... that's just rife with implications of a meddling Doctor ....

Mmmm ... so Karen and Arthur

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are both signed on for the whole seventh season? That does kinda kill the emotional farewell. The Doctor seemed pretty adamant about saving their lives, though. I wonder how the writers will bring them back without completely invalidating his concern for their safety. I think that'll be either one of those really good or really bad things.

Edit: I almost forgot the reason for this post. I was gonna ask you guys - if they do start doing more historical episodes, what people from the past would you like to see? I think a story with Einstein would be soooo fun. Just think of all the possible one-liners!

I'd love to see the Doctor interact with more authors. H. P. Lovecraft would probably be my top pick. Do a proper scary episode, hint that there's some truth to the things that he wrote about and he found out about them because of the Doctor. That would be awesome.

Authors make great choices - Lovecraft could really be a scary episode.

How about a sci-fi writer like Arthur C. Clarke or Isaac Asimov?

Star Trek: The Next Generation had a guest appearance from physicist Stephen Hawking (and he's appeared on several other TV shows). I'd love to see him talk quantum mechanics with the Doctor.

The Girl Who Waited was quite good but could've been even better with just a little more work. The genesis of the idea was very good, the character drama was powerful but I felt there could've been a bit more story to it. I found the fighting scenes silly and boring. I don't think the close-ups during the fight helped. I have a thing for Amy so I didn't like

The next episode looks creepy. Should be good!

I don't think there's a need to add more historical episodes, they overused them in the classic series. But I would love to see the Doctor meet H.P. Lovecraft (yes, Bookwyrm, that would be a super scary episode) and meeting Isaac Asimov would also be pretty good (good call, Stargazer).

The Girl Who Waited: Wow. What a sweet episode, I loved all the Amy-Rory dialogue ...I agree W4J that

I agree about Rita....... so much for feeling clever

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Wow, I just heard The Doctor will be going to

How appropriate for us, being fans of both!

I just hope they

~Riella

Wow. Really? That sounds amazing. I hope it's true.