I absolutely loved this episode, btw if i have spelling istakes its cause i am wearing fake nails and still a tad tipsy from a wedding. Haha. But i JUST absolutley loved it!! I mean you couldn’t come up with a better way to show a different side to the Doctor! I loved all the little gimics and things like “You’re not my mother!” “You’re not my son!”. And how Suranne Jones, she was amazing at playing the “TARDIS”/Idris. She is just quirky enough to play a quirky ancient machine like te TARDIS. For all you disappointed people, you just gotta watch it again and enjoy it for what it is. If you prefer fan-fiction feel free to read it but leave it to proffesionals when it comes to filming haha. But yeah Matt Smith, Suranne Jones and others were amazing this week. Can’t wait for the plot to thicken!! The whole pregnant thing etc

Absolutely incredible episode. Gaiman more than lived up to the hype of the last 2 years or so, and delivered a unique episode that is intriguing to newcomers and, yes, a love letter for fans. Amazingly, according to a thread on another board, some “fans” were outraged by the episode (I mean really mad). I have no idea why. I got mad but only because some $^#@$@% telemarketer decided to phone me about duct cleaning right at the climax. My response was not censored…

The lineup for the petition to get Gaiman to write more episodes begins on your left!

BEST! EPISODE! EVER!!

It was so much better than Vincent and the Doctor. Plus I thought it was cool how the TARDIS and the Doctor were FINALLY able to talk to each other.

My two favorite quotes were “the only water in the forest is the River” and “Idris: You’re like a nine year old trying to rebuild a motorbike in his bedroom. And you never read the instructions.
The Doctor: I always read the instructions!
Idris: There’s a sign on my front door. You have been walking past it for 700 years. What does it say?
The Doctor: That’s not instructions.
Idris: There’s an instruction at the bottom. What does it say?
The Doctor: “Pull to open”.
Idris: Yes, and what do you do?
The Doctor: I push!” :^D

Also, It was funny when Idris bit the Doctor and when the Doctor told Amy and Rory that they were breathing the Ood!

I did find it funny in parts but I guess I have to watch it again to fully appreciate it. This season just isn’t grabbing me like the previous one did.
Last season was easier for me. I mean who didn’t like the weeping angels or the earth swallowing people whole or even a scary little girl’s voice warning about the beast below….

Well, this was certainly much better than the “Star Trek – The Next Generation” episode, “Emergence” in which the Enterprise became sentient. This was a lot of fun, but I have to watch it again soon as I know I missed a whole lot. Sometimes the dialogue just zooms out of the actors mouths and I just can’t catch it all.

I thought it was a shame though, that we didn’t really get any further glimpses of the TARDIS interior. All we got were corridors, corridors and more corridors. Corridors which all looked exactly the same. Corridors leading this way, corridors leading that way. But none of the corridors seemed to actually lead to any rooms. Then Amy and Rory end up in the 9th/10th Doctor’s control room.

But hold on… Didn’t the 9th/10th Doctor’s control room explode at the conclusion of “End of Time”, leading into the necessity of the TARDIS reconstructing the control room, becoming the 11th Doctor’s control room? Maybe I missed something here.

I’m also lost as to who Uncle and Auntie were and why they had body parts from multiple sources, sort of like the Morbius creature in “Brain of Morbius”. If the origin of House or why it was doing what it was doing was explained, I missed that too.

Idris was a wonderful character though. I also liked the makeshift TARDIS console and the “bubble”. Much like the 3rd Doctor when he removed the console and moved sideways into a parallel Universe.

Hey, there’s that “parallel Universe” theme again. Multiple Universes… Multiple Amys… Hmmmmm. Ah, I dunno.

Have to agree with what someone else said above, the “Fear Me, I’ve killed hundreds of Time Lords” was a terrific line in the series 6 trailer. I, like many others, figured it was going to be spoken by the BIG bad guy of the series. As it was spoken here, it just sort of was said, responded to by the Doctor, then “poof!” over and done with. Plus, right after the Doctor responded with his, “Fear me, I’ve killed them all…”, the Doctor drops that threat and starts (pretending) to give in and tells House that it won.

Again, this was a fun episode, and I’m certain I’ll pick up on more when I have a chance to watch it again.

It’s an episode that I’m going to have to rewatch to get the best out of it, but I have to say a good episode.

Loved the way that Gaiman (and I presume Moffat as showrunner) wrong footed the viewer with the whole Time Lord thing only to find that the friend with a new face was the TARDIS in Idris.

Suranne Jones played the TARDIS/Idris role really well – partly as the Doctor’s “wife”, partly as a scolding mother and near the beginning, partly as a Gollum type character (the whole “Thief. Where’s my thief?”

I liked the way that the story also grew out of the show’s history telling the TARDIS’s side of the story, plus it harked back to the conversation between Rose and Sarah Jane conversation in School Reunion (the one where Rose joked that she felt like saying “Do you two want to be alone?” to the TARDIS and The Doctor).

The whole House using the TARDIS to mess with Amy and Rory’s head was unnerving and I just have the feeling that this is a tee up for something later this series.

A clever episode and one that I’ll rematch to get more out of it.

Congratulations – this episod was indeed awesome! Throughly enjoyed it, agree with some peoples comments that the dialogue in most episodes is very fast and most times struggle to keep up with it, but will watch it back with subtitles
I think the quote ‘the only Water in the forest is river’ may have something to do with the vastranada (no idea how to spell that one lol) from the episode ‘The Library’, where if first met Riversong, and left her and her diary…maybe. And there’s still the question, will if ever see his daughter again!? I had that maybe the time-girl in episode 2 was her, but when she re-generated back to life she remained as Jenny and didn’t transform into someone else.
My money is on River being Amy’s daughter though

the only eipisode im not all that fussed this series so far on was the cures of the black spot last week i didnt hate it it was ok but not the best this eiopsde the doctors wife was a hell of a lot better and i loved every minute of it roll on next week

@patrick
Yes i know it was on doctor who confidential and in a magazine

did n e one else notice the silver eye patch lady in the next time trialer we mite find out more about her in the next sentence she says

I go away for the night and I have to reply to all these posts aimed at me, where to start…..

I may have misunderstood what I percieved to be rudeness when it came to RJW’s comments. The problem with the internet is that you can’t hear tone of voice or comments, so saying that most people don’t need stuff spoon fed to them sounded worse than was intended. I responded in kind, but if it wasn’t meant the way I took it, I have no problems with apologising for being wrong.

E.P, you didn’t offend me, I should elaborate on my point. Neil Gaimon said that his episode would be a love letter to the fans and I took that to mean it was going to be something for both Classic and Revived fans. In my opinion, though clearly I’m wrong by all the feedback, the Tardis being put into a woman’s body and being able to talk to the Doctor for the first time would have been more effective for Classic fans. The reason, I believe, for this is that they’ve obviously watched hours and hours of Doctor Who, seen a possible 11 different Doctors in all and the Tardis being with him all that time and “The Doctor’s Wife” was a chance for those fans to see, after four decades, the Doctor talk to his Tardis.

I’m a revived series fan. I respect the Classic series very much and believe it contributes massively to the Revived series I enjoy, but I can’t easily watch it. So I’ve only known the Doctor and the Tardis for around 6 years, so whilst Classic fans are seeing over 900 years of no verbal contact between the Doctor and his Tardis, through 11 Doctors, I was only seeing it as a fan of 6 years and three Doctors and while it was reasonably cool, it didn’t really have that much impact on me really.

So that’s what I meant. Clearly I’m alone in feeling this, but there we are. Classic fans have watched so many Doctors in his Tardis over so many episodes and so much time, that the opportunity for him finally to talk to the Tardis likely meant a great deal more than to me, who’s only watched since the Series was revived.

You don’t know why I watch Doctor Who because I don’t seem to like any of the episodes, it’s a fair point I suppose from my comments. I don’t think of it that way really, I love the idea of Doctor Who, I like the idea of the Time Lords and Gallifrey, the more than 40 years history of the show, regeneration, the Tardis and the Sonic Screwdriver, but I’m also very much ready to criticise anything I didn’t like about an episode, I’m very much upfront with what I think and that can come across as me actually hating the show I watch, but it’s not really the case………..I just know what I like and what I don’t.

I think in the case of “The Doctor’s Wife”, I probably over-reacted because I was writing straight after I watched the episode. For quite some time, I’d waited for this episode and there were so many aspects and possibilities to everything shown in the trailers and the final episode wasn’t what I had expected and had hoped for, and so disappointment at that did influence my opinion of the episode.

I fully intend to watch the episode again, maybe more than once, to try and appreciate it for what it was and not what it wasn’t in terms of my expectations.

I’d like to apologise for anyone I’ve offended with my opinions as well. I was hesitant to post them, because everyone does seem to love the episode, but since I genuinely had my own opinions and Whoviannet welcomes opinions from those who both did and didn’t enjoy the episode, I thought I’d contribute my views. As I say, I’m just certain when it comes to what I do and don’t like in Doctor Who.

So yeah, sorry.

@JC
u didnt offend me and as for the bit u wrote and i qoute ”clearly im alone in feeling this” ur not i share some of the points u make not every point but more than you would think so ur cool with me

For me the problem with “living, talking” Tardis-Idris” is that it was always obvious for me that she is a sentient ship (it was said in the new series somewhere), that she’s the last of her kind just as the Doctor and that Tardises were grown, and that the Doctor is bonded with her. They’ve said all of that in New Who at some point. So when she “got” a human body and was able to talk – with words – I didn’t think it all that important, ’cause I’ve always known she was alive. Maybe I’ve just mixed it with some fanlore.
But yeah, the actress was great.

@L.
i thought the bit she told the doctor when he said what sort of TARDIS r u u never take me were i want to go and idris aka the TARDIS replyied i dont take u were u want to go i take u were u need to be i think that was beautyful bit of diolog and i little insight into the TARDIS malfunctioning a lot of the time

Yeah, but it wasn’t all that surprising to me. Kinda obvious, really, if you think for a moment about what it means that Tardis is sentient. At least in my opinion.
But then again, maybe the show needed such episode, clarifying things.

@L.
it says on the doctor who confidental that they never in the nearly 50 years of the show done an episode about the TARDIS and the doctors relationship with each other and it gave them an excuss to film more of the TARDIS aka the corridors and things

I thought this was a magical episode! It was by far the best episode so far and a far cry from the lamb pirates episode from last week. It was all things who; weird, fun, action packed, emotional and quirky. Neil Gaiman wrote a fantastic script (me would recommend him or mark gatiss for show runner after steven moffat). Loved the idea of the Ood coming back, but could have been used more. Generally a great story behind it- which Who should have- the TARDIS as a live person and the end bit with Idris/The Doctor was beautifully written.

I still feel at the moment that Rory is just a spare part in this series.

So far I have struggled to get into this series- don’t know why- but I am not feeling the excitement as I previously have. Last night’s episode brought me in as a fan again. Furthermore I thought it was a really nice touch noting RTD as creator of the Ood.

My only other issue with this series is Confidential has gone really rubbish. I used to love the story process and the reasons behind certain parts of the story but that seems to have gone in favour of how things are made in great detail or the day in the life of the catering bloke…wow Matt Smith may eat a hash brown..what does that have to do with the show??

karen gillan is fit!

@Calum White
Something we can all agree on.