Rate & Discuss: Closing Time
In the last few days of his life, the Doctor pays a farewell visit to his old friend Craig, and encounters a mystery. People are going missing, a silver rat scuttles in the shadows of a department store, and close by the Cybermen are waiting.
It’s the penultimate episode of Series 6 (already!?) and the Doctor’s time is running out…
In tonight’s episode, there were familiar faces aplenty for the Doctor, as he paid his chum Craig a surprise visit. He soon found himself caught up in another mystery at the hands of the Cybermen, so the pair joined forces to restore harmony to a normal shopping centre.
The clock’s tick-tick-ticking for our Time Lord, but, with people going missing and a strange silver rat scuttling in the shadows, it was business as usual – with a little help from a baby!
So, did Closing Time live up to your expectations? Were you happy to see Craig back with the Doctor? Were the Cybermen used to perfection, or were the metal morons out of place in the story? As always, rate and discuss the episode for all it’s worth in the comments…
@knitMuse
Well, we don’t know precisely when River is put into Stormcage, but we do know that she stays because of a promise she made. Based on the evidence, I would theorize that she turned herself in, as punishment for whatever should happen in the coming finale. If she really does kill him, and TIA was not in an alternate universe or similar, then this would make perfect sense. Of course, it’s unlikely to be that simple, as we have 45 minutes of an episode and the returns of multiple (seemingly) unrelated characters, as well as random pterodactyls flying around a pyramid with an American flag on it…also, in the trailer, the clock never reached 5:03, and the BBC has a summary with the words “it’s been 5:02 for a long time…”
Now I’m just rambling to attempt to prevent my head from exploding as a result of the sheer timey-wimey-ness…
it was a rubbishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh episode i dident think it was dark at all but craigs return was whell writen
Let us hope that it all gets answered on sat
I loved Stormaggedon. Want to see more of him…
@Rosalie
It does seem as though time is out of whack in some way in this one. I had speculated if somehow exploding the TARDIS was an attempt to create a paradox machine — killing her at the same time and location as her conception, and somehow her link to the TARDIS having some sort of effect on that. In the rebooted universe, perhaps this makes her the only person who could actually kill the Doctor, undoing his future. There did seem to be implications in “A Good Man Goes to War” that the Silence were killing him not because of what he had done but because of what he would later do. Or there’s something in that 200 years that we’re not privy to (assuming the 200 years happened at all; the Doctor lies).
I loved River’s bit at the end very much. I kept thinking somehow she wouldn’t be the one in the suit, but now, oh yes she is. And since the spacesuit and Canton Everett Delaware III are what sent them back to 1969 in the first place . . . oh, lord this is getting confusing.
Oh, and what really chilled me at the ending? Not River in the suit, floating in the water. Right before that, when she asks what the Silents are, and Madame Kovarian replies, “Your owners.”
*shivers*
I’m very glad we’re seeing more of them. They’re a very interesting monster.
@Calli Arcale
theres still time for someone to replace her. river as we now know is currently in the spacesuit. if someone were to know what she was up to for example rory he could take her place just before the astronaut rises from the deep
i want amy to come back in doctor who.
and is the doctor going to actually die
so matt smith is leaving NOOOOO :’(
No no no… Relax Nicole.
Matt isn’t going anywhere. He is working on the Christmas special right now and I am sure that they will be working on series 7 soon. With Matt as the doctor! Yay!
Yeah, the one thing I am completely convinced of is that the Doctor will somehow survive this. He has to, or there is no justice in the Universe, and that’s sort of the whole point of Doctor Who, isn’t there? That somewhere out there is a madman with a box who does ridiculous, incredible things and also saves the day and makes the monsters go away. So somehow, some ridiculous way, he’ll survive. We just get to find out how!
@Calli Arcale
That’s the beauty of Moffat’s writing, though…we are all absolutely convinced that the Doctor will survive, but there’s a little bit of our hearts so terrified at the alternative that we check forums on Whoviannet every day…