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Re: Danny's bracelet

[writersaurusrex]

I think that was the bracelet that they got from Missy (which she also used to control the Cybermen), which allowed her to teleport out of the plane. Although they didn't really explain where he got the Afghan(?) kid, since he seemed kinda small to be a Cyberman. Hopefully that's something they follow up on, but I don't really see how if Jenna Coleman's leaving the show.

Re: Danny's bracelet

[tabbiewolf]

It did look like the same bracelet, but the Doctor had knowledge of what it did and how it worked, meaning he can make more. Time Lord technology; wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey engineering?

I assumed that when cyberDanny exploded, he got transported back to the Nethersphere where he could find the kid...I'd say the bracelet could have transported Danny there, but I think it was said that it could only work for him once. Which seems kind of counterintuitive since the Master used in a bunch, including in the Nethersphere offices. Hell, the way she disintegrated after the Brigadier "shot" her looked exactly the same as when she used the bracelet...re-use of special effects? Or some "clever" twist and she has another bracelet?

Or I'm misremembering the episode; I should watch it again. I've heard it's better the second or third time.

Again, I have to state: they crammed WAY too much into that episode and it didn't allow you to pay attention to any of it. Maybe that was intentional.

Re: Danny's bracelet

[writersaurusrex]

I thought he said it only had enough energy left for one more trip. So, perhaps with all the stuff Missy had done (and maybe she dipped it in the vortex to let it recharge every so often?) and whatever Danny did after he took off, it was running on empty.

But yeah, the pacing could have been better in both parts of the finale. Easily enough story for another hour.

Re: Danny's bracelet

[stokerbramwell]

The whole thing with the bracelet was really poorly explained (another flaw in Moffat's writing style, really). It WAS the same bracelet as the one Missy was using to control the Cybermen, but the context I picked up was that Danny was sending the kid back from the real afterlife, not the Nethersphere. Clara specifically referred to the Doctor talking about the bracelet being used to cross "dimensional borders" and I'm pretty sure the Gallifreyan Matrix had nothing to do with alternate dimensions and everything to do with simulations. Not to mention if that was a simulation it doesn't explain how the kid got a physical body again. What we have there is, basically, a sci-fi version of an actual afterlife which is now canonical, for better or worse.

[stokerbramwell]

Once again, you and I think very similarly. The anti-soldier bias has bugged me this entire season because it is SO out of left field. I know the Doctor's personality changes a little bit with each regeneration, but that's usually been things like specific quirks, not his core beliefs. For him to have picked up a brand new prejudice out of nowhere is kind of new, and raises some rather disturbing questions about regeneration which I don't think Moffat intended to raise.

And I gasped aloud when I realized that was the Brigardier. I'll forgive almost every other sin this episode committed for that moment when the Doctor saluted him.