Rate & Discuss: Kill the Moon
In the near future, the Doctor and Clara find themselves on a space shuttle, making a suicide mission to the Moon. Crash-landing on the lunar surface, they find a mining base full of corpses, vicious spider-like creatures poised to attack, and a terrible dilemma. When Clara turns to the Doctor for help, she gets the shock of her life.
The new series continued tonight as the Doctor boldly went where he’s never been before…
In our latest installment of timey-wimey action, the fear factor was pushed to a whole new level when our heroes found themselves on a space shuttle making a suicide mission to the Moon. But this time it wasn’t the Judoon waiting for the Time Lord on the lunar surface, as the TARDIS team came face to face with corpses, spiders and a terrible dilemma. Standard!
Joining the Doctor and Clara on their lunar adventure was guest star Hermione Norris as Lundvik, but the shock of a lifetime awaited Clara when she turned to the Doctor for help…
Its writer Peter Harness told WhovianNet that the episode would “polarise people to a degree”, but were you left shocked by the Doctor and Clara’s mission to Kill the Moon? Take one small step for Whovian kind and share your thoughts in the comments below…
NOTE: This discussion will NOT be spoiler monitored so please do not read the comments if you haven’t seen Kill the Moon. You have been warned!
I realised in this episode how brilliant Peter Capaldi actually is. Whilst the previous two doctors liked to lay all their emotions out there Capaldi creates mystery, holding something back and you cant help feel at some point his going to explode.
@Steve
No, I’m saying the splitters of her are inserted into the timeline in a way that makes them fit somehow, with no knowledge of this fact but yet being perfectly positioned to rescue the Doctor at each of the points where the Great Intelligence had intervened. It would be like what Rose did. If looking into the heart of the TARDIS could let her turn Jack into an immortal (and I mean, more immortal than the Highlander even, since he can apparently survive being blown into tiny pieces), then surely this could allow Clara to be inserted into the Universe at all the right points to do this. If she wasn’t a native of whatever planet each of the events was happening on, or otherwise had some valid reason to be there, she couldn’t reasonably intervene. So I think there she’s probably a technician at the repair bay. After all, she does seem to wind up in either technical or educational positions.
OOOH! And maybe that’s why she was able to travel back into the Doctor’s childhood! It left a toehold!
So the moon is an egg 2159 miles in diameter.
POOF it hatches and a creature appears WHICH THEN PROCEEDS TO LAY AN EGG 2159 MILES IN DIAMETER.
Moffat, go learn some basic biology.