Sexy and the Thief

This episode was so incredible that I'm going to plunge right in after the spoiler line.











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There were so many incredible things about this episode, I lack the words to name them all.

1. The Doctor and the TARDIS. He calls her sexy. She calls him her Thief and says she stole him first. Gaiman is writing about a 50 year love affair between a man and his ride, but it's more than that. The TARDIS is a living being with opinions and a life all her own, and seeing her in human form was just about the bestest thing I have ever seen.

And if you thought RIVER was the Doctor's wife, you got another think coming.

2. Corridors! We hadn't seen corridors yet in the revamped series and it was nice to know there are corridors. And the old TARDIS setup from Nine and Ten...it was nice to let us know that the TARDIS keeps all her old consoles buried somewhere. Love to see the one with the wooden paneling and the garish white one again at some point.

3. No Time Lord return, however. Here there are only the voices of the dead.

It is a lovely thing when a show can go so far back to basics like this, because the WHOLE premise of this show in the first place is the alien who stole a time machine and was running away from himself.

His first love is the TARDIS, and always will be. That hasn't changed in fifty years, and I hope we see more of HER in the next few series.

I simply loved this episode to bits and I hope Gaiman writes for the show again someday.

Ta,
Bec