This is rather obvious, isn't it?
It must be the monster in the manor. But why/how write it out in English?
The pocket universe is unstable. Where it was cold is where it was touching the real universe.
So if you draw a circle, a two-dimension construct, on the interface of a three (four?) dimensional pocket universe with our universe it suddenly and quite conveniently pops open a portal? A couple lines of dialogue by the Doctor explaining why this happens would have been helpful.
They got caught in the pocket universe.
Well, yes, that's obvious. But how?
Perhaps you should watch the show closer, because the Doctor explains this.
Did the explanation occur during the incessant sound amplified whining of the sonic screwdriver or during the incessant overly amplified sound track? Because I missed it.
She's moving through time, not space, so she would be moving about in the general location of the manor.
OK, fair enough, but that presumes the Tardis can make pinpoint time jumps. When did she gain that ability?
Is it a stretch to say it could be either? Both?
It's likely the Tardis, but again, one little line of dialogue would have been helpful.
Because that's what the monster sounds like.
That's rich!
Has the woman been stranded there for millions of years? No. The monster has probably been stranded as long as she has.
The woman time-traveler has only been stranded for a short while, but we know there is a differential in the pace of time passing between the pocket universe and our universe. So when the Doctor visited many points in time in earth's past, including millions of years, only minutes in the pocket universe had elapsed. However, the monster inside the manor on earth must have endured being stranded for millenia.
Time Lord. It is not a stretch in any way to think he could survive crossing universes.
But we know he is vulnerable to heat, cold, suffocation, bullets, etc. but I'll concede this one.
Yes, I think he would. And, he did.
Wasn't the quote, "if the Tardis is in the pocket universe for a minute or so it will burn her heart out"? So I find it a bit flippant that the Doctor would rescue the monster so it could be reunited with its love. Essentially he is putting his love, the Tardis, at risk for this monster couple.
Maybe, but I'm not understanding why this impacts your enjoyment of the show, if you actually do enjoy the show (I wonder about that).
I do enjoy the show, but I don't like lazy, sloppy scripts. Including this plot point seems to have been done to hammer home the point that the professor and Emma MUST get together because this time-traveling woman is their progeny, so just drop the resistance to expressing your mutual attraction and start copulating already! However, there were plenty of subtle hints that they would end up together, so I felt it was unnecessary.
I don't know. I didn't write the story.
Well, don't you think it's useful to the production of the story to have the title relate to the plot? I mean:
Asylum of the Daleks
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship[!]
The Snowmen
Bells of St. John
Rings of Akhaten
Cold War
all make sense, then there's "Hide". <Tennant voice> "What?, WHAT?"
I'm not sure that knowing the Doctor's name is a good thing.
Wasn't his name revealed in the classic series (third Doc? Monster of Peladon?) in written down form but it was just a mash-up of unpronounceable letters?
While I agree that I'd like to see it run 50 minutes long, some of the questions you listed could have been answered by watching the show more closely in the first place. 5 extra minutes isn't going to fix that.
Some of my complaints could have been addressed with a couple of lines of dialogue. How did the time-traveler and the monsters happen to "collide" with each other and why was one participant shunted off to Earth while the others stuck in the pocket universe? A simple three or four lines of dialogue would have provided the backstory.
What is the deal with references to the number eleven in recent stories? We Bells we had Clara telling a kid that "chapter eleven is the best chapter in the book, you'll cry your eyes out" and in Hide we hear, "whiskey is the eleventh most disgusting thing ever invented?" We are on the eleventh Doctor. Is the references to the number eleven some in-joke among the writers?
