Doctor Who, Season Nine

[Aractus]

On the Gallifrey thing: I got the impression that the planet had been placed in the future deliberately so it wouldn't be found, including all the Timelords who knew him. I'd have to watch it again to confirm that.

But he's trapped in the "confession dial" for 4.5 billion years, and we clearly see that time advances since the celestial bodies are moving and Doc says it's "2 billion years" in the future at one point. I disagree that the confession-dial runs in its own timeline.

• The clothes drying by the fire. It transpires that after every reboot, the Doctor goes through the exact set of events over and over again. So where did the fry clothes come from? Did the original iteration of the Doctor go about naked after laying them out to dry? Again, how thoughtful.
  

That didn't bother me, he probably took them off and then found some other clothes somewhere else. But why was Clara's picture 6 thousand years old (the length of time he'd been in the dial)?

• This one really is a biggie. Each iteration, the same sequence of events play out in exactly the same way. The only difference is in room 12, where he progressively buys himself a little more time to tell his story (why doesn't this room reset itself?), which I thought was a nice touch. This means that all the confessions the Doctor makes are the same ones, over and over again. In other words, he's adding no new information that the Timelords don't already know. Maybe it's a feature of the dial, that it's programmed to open only when he gives the information they want? Maybe; but it's indicated at the end that they can hear him through the dial. Again, just one nore rewrite could sew up these things. In fact...
  

Yes I didn't like the fact that everything kept playing out exactly the same. Especially since the picture was aging and would have turned to dust. However, I'm willing to forgive that since it was a very well done episode.

Other than that, I rate this as probably the best of this season (no, I won't submit to the nu-Who convention of calling it "series". It's Season 52, so there.)

Well it's Doctor Who (2005) Series/Season 9. One of my pet peeves, the thread title should really say "Doctor Who (2005), Season Nine" as "Doctor Who, Season Nine" is a different season.