Im pretty sure that in a past season The Doctor said that TARDIS's were grown, so I always assumed that they wer alive in someway. It's great to see it personafied onscreen though, and much acclaim to Gaiman who i s an excellent written Read his novels.. do it. NOW! Sorry for typos. on mobile device.
They are grown and they take thousands of years. The piece of coral he gave Rose and 10.2 just happened to be a part of the existing Tardis at the time. (Deleted scene from Journey's End.) Also, Before a TARDIS was fully functional, it needed to be primed with the biological imprint from the symbiotic nuclei of a Time Lord's cells. Known as the Rassilon Imprimatur, this gave them a symbiotic link to their TARDISes and allowed them to survive the physical stresses of time travel. Without the Imprimatur, molecular disintegration would result — a safeguard against misuse of time travel — even if the TARDIS technology were copied. Once a time machine was properly primed, however, and the imprint stored on a component, it could be used safely by any species.
This series is probably my favourite one so far, Moffat is just brilliant. The reveal of River's identity wasn't exactly very revealing but it was still written very well. Can't believe we have to wait months now!
Sort of. Spoiler There's the bit where River's identity is revealed and the Doctor flashes back to the girl, and I think that's the show all but actually saying that she really is River .
So who was she? And then how did the woman with the eyepatch manage to escape with the baby after the pirates commandeered her ship? I might have to watch the episode over again, it went way too fast.
Sorry haha, I put an invisible thing there before. When you're finding out what the baby is and why they wanted it, the Doctor flashes back to the girl, so it seems as though it's River.
She had a failproof and had a ganger of the baby it's safe to assume Amy was asleep after delivering River so they could have easily swapped out the baby for a ganger. Baby = Melody Pond = River Song. Also, to what Dean said, yes, I assume the little girl is River and if it's still her in the astronaut suit at the beginning of The Impossible Astronaut, then that would be quite the revelation to answering River being in Storm Cage for killing "a very good man, best man [she's] ever known."
[thumb]http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x393/likwidsolutions/Shows/Doctor%20Who/Doctor%20Who%20S6/Remember.jpg[/thumb] Look at the screen on the right.
Is that the Doctor's screwdriver that they're clarifying or is it something else entirely? Confused o.o
It's just a joke about how it's not really just sonic and it has functions other than being a screwdriver.
Oh, haha, yeah I figured as much. I'm itching to see when this Doctor/a new Doctor gets the screwdriver River had!
I've watched this episode two or three times and I like it a lot more now, not that I didn't in the first place. I think the best part of it was having a Sontaran and a Silurian who are developed more as actual individual characters instead of just being generic warrior race people.