Talk:Oxygen (Doctor Who)

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Overnights[edit]

The episode was watched by 3.57 million overnight, the lowest-viewed story overnight since the series opener "The Pilot"

That reads to imply that The Pilot had an even lower figure, which it didn't.

I believe this is may actually be the lowest overnight figure ever, but can't find hard data on the individual episodes going back to 1963. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidhorman (talk • contribs)

Unless we have a source that says this is the lowest ever, we should not be jumping to that conclusion. --MASEM (t) 02:45, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Continuity again[edit]

Yes, the Doctor has been in space without much of a suit on before and survived (Four to Doomsday). Yes, he's also shown he's quite hardy when it comes to the cold (4th Doctor, 2nd Doctor, yadda yadda). Neither of those episodes is being directly "referenced" by virtue of the event that happened in Oxygen. It's a similar event, not an unambiguous reference to any particular person, event, phrase, etc. in the show's history. Saying this is a reference is exactly the same as saying Clara dangling outside the TARDIS is referring to Eleven doing so--it's not: that's an interpretation on your part. You might as well say him saying "I have two hearts" in the movie is a "reference" to all the other times he's said it. It's not, it's just part of the show's established and evolving definition of the character. In a regeneration episode, we're not going to say "he last regenerated in..." ZarhanFastfire (talk) 05:02, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]