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I think they're just about equal. They're both just as good but in different ways.

The sentience of the TARDIS is sort of implied if you are either a considering person or religious or both. As described in the last episode of the 2005 season, the Heart of the TARDIS is a Space-Time Vortex that contains the whole of Space and Time. To consciously experience what the Heart of the Tardis/The Space Time Vortex experiences is to be simultaneously aware of "everything that is, everything that ever was, and everything that ever will be". No matter where and when your body actually is.

You can just call it the Universe - experienced totally all at once. It is an experience, so is it a point of view? If it is a point of view, it's the same point of view ascribed by humans to God/Brahman/Allah etc. "Everything that is, everything that ever was, and everything that ever will be", experienced all at once.

If it's a point of view, then arguably it's a sentience. But that God-like point of view might not be sentient, or a sentient process, in itself, but merely a (very large) state of being, or a type of experience available to other sentiences. So the Heart of the TARDIS might not necessarily have to be sentient.

Then again, since it contains awareness of all the sentient beings in the Universe, well, that's a lot of a different type of sentience of a sort, which one could think of as being available to tap into like a computer data-base.

In a related way, episode 13 of 2005 tells us the main difference between human beings and timelords.

The most recent episode(s6e5) posits an idea that makes this seem even more likely, the fact thatSpoilersentience can be contagious. The Flesh constantly has the thoughts/feelings/memories of the workers poured into it, and eventually develops the capacity for independent action. The TARDIS is supposedly aware of all sentient life that ever existed or will ever exist at the same time, not too much of a stretch for that constant near-omniscience to have a similar effect. And the scale of awareness could explain why she developed a unique personality colored by the way the doctor treats her as opposed to The Flesh's mimicry of the few beings its aware of.

side note: why the hell isn't BBCA not in HD yet?

Am I the only one that found the newest episode a bit lame? The whole doppelganger thing has been done to death. I'm honestly not particularly interested in watching the conclusion.

What concerns me is the possibility that they can use this to get themselves out of the hole they dug in the first episode. If the doppelganger doctor doesn't die (or another one gets made), then it could easily be one of them that gets killed rather than the real doctor. Frankly, I think that would be a little too easy and I hope it's not the route they take, but I see it as a possibility.

I've tried watching it twice already, and can't stay awake. So yeah, not very good IMO.

Anyone watching the series through BBC America won't get to see the second part till June 4th. Apparently they think that due to Memorial Day no one will want to watch the new Doctor Who episode. Well it's a good thing the decided to have a Doctor Who marathon instead.

Nielson ratings still count it as watching though.

Thanks to the wonders of the internet I was able to give BBC the finger and get me my weekly Dr. fix. The episode was pretty much as bland as I expected it to be given the whole evil twin storyline they had to work with. Nice ending though. They pretty much tied up all the odd bits with Amy and set up the second half of season rather well.

A mini-TARDIS makes the perfect gift.

Or a bowtie. Bowties are cool.

Go to Amazon.com, they have the official remote control Dalek toys being advertised during the show's commercial breaks.

$13 for a freaking keychain? Damn.