Good evening, I am a lizardwoman from the dawn of time and this is my wife.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

So th ebest thing about Christmas is Doctor Who is back. And this was the best christmas special since probably the reboot. Wasn't a one off like last years, part of continuity, brand new cool class-warrior companion who hasn't been ruined by Moffat's inability to write women yet, the Sontaran battle-nurse is back (how did that happen) and Richard E Grant going crazy.
And quite a few sly attacks on the Cameron Government which was ace.

Is the Great Intelligence really just Oswin- will she just have a new form every episode- maybe dying every time. That would take balls. This would explain why her death actually stopped it.
Is she the ghost that haunts Europe?
Why doesn't the doctor just get whomever brought the Sontaran back to life to bring her back? Captain Jack?

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

You know, I still can't decide if I actually like the 11th Doctor or not. You'd think after 2 1/2 seasons I'd have an opinion, but nope! Oh well, new companion seems cool, and is hawt, so that's all that matters really.

Although whatever happened to that whole "Silence will fall" plotline from ages ago? Have they just abandoned that or what?

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I like 11 far more than 10 who was just all rage rage rage all the time. Smith is more fun and exciting.
He was totally whistling "Silent Night" at one point- Or is it "Silence Night". I don't know whether that one is still going. More importantly who blew up the tardis back in the pandorica bit. I reckon Moffat's forgotten about all this shit.

[Flarecobra]

Airs in the US East coast in... 2 hours.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Also apparentely most of the script was written by Douglas Adams and has sat in a desk in the BBC for 30 years.

[stefan]

I think you're forgetting the best part, that they finally ditched the ~wacky steampunk bullshit console~ for a camp looking disco console.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Disco is dead. It's been dead for ages. It's time to move on.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Not if you're a Timelord.

[Nique]

Maybe Disco is time locked.

Which is Doctor Who speak for ultra dead but sometimes not.

[Flarecobra]

http://sadpanda.us/images/1313586-N1DGMQM.png

What is old is new again.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

If we legalise gay marriage does that mean disco comes back?
I may have to switch sides you guys.

[rpgdemon]

So, the Great Intelligence is actually something that has been shown on Doctor Who, a timelord-like being from the previous universe, who came to this one but was disembodied or whatever.

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Intelligence

Probably not Souffle-Girl. Funny enough, I was calling her that, way before I knew Matt Smith was.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Nah I knew that and it doesn't really discount anything. THe great intelligence is always trying to find a body and has had multiple forms and things- it fits.

[Nique]

The Doctor is Mal and Amy and Rory's very happy life in the past is his battle of Serenity and he is ANGRY AT THE UNIVERSE?

[POS Industries]

The Doctor is Mal and Amy and Rory's very happy life in the past is his battle of Serenity and he is ANGRY AT THE UNIVERSE?
Pretty much. He's mad that they have an ending that's written in stone, and he hates endings. Finding them is probably about as difficult as spending an afternoon at the NYC Department of Records, but he's the Doctor and he knows that they're going to die sometime and he can't stand knowing that because he's a big baby.

[Nique]

100 years isn't sufficient to move on, I guess?

By the way, holy crap that new intro is fantasticly retro and just all around pretty fun, right?

[Aldurin]

I don't know if I can get into Doctor Who until the next iteration of the Doctor is Jason Statham. I think I'll wait a bit longer to see if England finally gets around to that.

[Nique]

But Christopher Eccleston already did.