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[ofcorsa]

NBTBRV8 said:

Firstly it is good to have the Doctor and Clara back on the screens. I thought the start of the episode was a bit naff, but it got better as it went on. A couple of points:

1)Who placed the newspaper ad? I thought the "see you on the otherside" was very smartly done.

2) Why is Clara having to come to grips with the Doctor's new face, like it is the first time she has been exposed to regeneration? As we learnt in the last episode, she has been guiding all the Doctors across time in the right direction, so the concept shouldn't be hard for her to adjust to.

largely agree with all of this. First half was naff and added nothing to the plot. The whole amnesia thing has been done to death and I was just waiting for that to resolve and then get on with the episode. Once it gathered pace I think it picked up nicely.

[killingjoker]

ajprice said:

An Adventure in Space and Time is on BBC2 now

Now that was really good. Quite moving, and how the actors actually looked like the people they were portraying. Quality.

[vixen1700]

mikees said:

I think Blink was the pinnacle and didn't have much doctor. Beeb need to focus their writing

Absolutely.

I think Capaldi will make a decent enough Doctor, but the writing has to improve an awful lot, that first episode was a dreadful mess.

Wonder if they can ever capture the quality of Blink again.

[stephen300o]

vixen1700 said:

mikees said:

I think Blink was the pinnacle and didn't have much doctor. Beeb need to focus their writing

Absolutely.

I think Capaldi will make a decent enough Doctor, but the writing has to improve an awful lot, that first episode was a dreadful mess.

Wonder if they can ever capture the quality of Blink again.

Just an ingenious baddie, the writing was no better, no worse in fact.

[FourWheelDrift]

vixen1700 said:

Wonder if they can ever capture the quality of Blink again.

Moffatt tried on Saturday, instead of "don't blink" it was "don't breathe".

Didn't have the same impact.

[Silver Smudger]

DevilYellowCV8 said:

trooperiziz said:

I meant more that the layout of the garden was the same layout as the tardis control room.

See what you mean - good spot

The acting and in fact the whole scene reminded me of Gaiman's episode, The Doctor's Wife, but the girl was credited as Missy not Idris and it was a different actress, so I may be way off

As for the rest of it, Doctor played by an actor again, so Clara raised her game too. Plot was a bit waffly, but got tense in all the right places, I thought - Girl in the Fireplace is my all time favourite episode, mostly due to Tennants acting ability, (ability and range that Matt never really showed) so spotted the reference to that pretty early on, but did not really follow how they followed each other.

Overall, not a terrible start. Capaldi shows promise. Looking forward to next week

Edited by Silver Smudger on Monday 25th August 12:11

[andymc]

ash73 said:

Silver Smudger said:

Girl in the Fireplace is my all time favourite episode, mostly due to Tennants acting ability, (ability and range that Matt never really showed) so spotted the reference to that pretty early on, but did not really follow how they followed each other.

The spaceship disguised as a restaurant was the sister ship to the SS Madame de Pompadour. They both had clockwork androids.

One of my favourites too, due in no small part to Sophia Myles.[/quote

yup best doctor and best series

[HD Adam]

Silver Smudger said:

As for the rest of it, Doctor played by an actor again, so Clara raised her game too. Plot was a bit waffly, but got tense in all the right places, I thought - Girl in the Fireplace is my all time favourite episode, mostly due to Tennants acting ability, (ability and range that Matt never really showed) so spotted the reference to that pretty early on, but did not really follow how they followed each other.

Overall, not a terrible start. Capaldi shows promise. Looking forward to next week

Edited by Silver Smudger on Monday 25th August 12:11

My thoughts exactly.

Capaldi played it just the right side of Malcolm Tucker and I'm glad to see a more grown up Doctor again.

Hopefully there'l be less running down corridors holding hands and more "did he or didn't he push him" and "has he just left her there?"

[Sway]

I just hope it doesn't become this Doctor's signature...

Always wondering if he's a bit meaner and darker, yet never actually knowing.

[jdw100]

NBTBRV8 said:

2) Why is Clara having to come to grips with the Doctor's new face, like it is the first time she has been exposed to regeneration? As we learnt in the last episode, she has been guiding all the Doctors across time in the right direction, so the concept shouldn't be hard for her to adjust to.

Now that is a keen observation! Hadn't thought about that until you pointed it out....good insight and question!

[clonmult]

FourWheelDrift said:

vixen1700 said:

Wonder if they can ever capture the quality of Blink again.

Moffatt tried on Saturday, instead of "don't blink" it was "don't breathe".

Didn't have the same impact.

Blink had the whole episode based around the premise. Don't breathe was only one scene. They really weren't trying the same thing at all.

Blink was a stupendously good episode, one of the greatest episodes of any TV show in recent years. Keeping up that "level" would be virtually impossible. And remember that the show has to appeal to all ages ...

[clived]

jdw100 said:

Now that is a keen observation! Hadn't thought about that until you pointed it out....good insight and question!

My interpretation of that story was that the multiple incarnations of "Clara" lived discrete human lives and did not know about the others. It wasn't one person travelling through time, it was the same person born many times.

[jdw100]

clived said:

My interpretation of that story was that the multiple incarnations of "Clara" lived discrete human lives and did not know about the others. It wasn't one person travelling through time, it was the same person born many times.

Interesting as well. I'm clearly not thinking in enough depth!

[clonmult]

Saw this suggestion on another forum - Missy is another timelord, possibly the Rani? Although iirc she never claimed the Doctor as her boyfriend.

[Mutley]

clonmult said:

Saw this suggestion on another forum - Missy is another timelord, possibly the Rani? Although iirc she never claimed the Doctor as her boyfriend.

Interesting thought, and dont forget Jenny (The doctors Daughter) is out there too


Just rewatched on iPlayer, If the garden is representative of the Tardis, could the woman be Idris?

Edited by Mutley on Tuesday 26th August 13:42

[clonmult]

Mutley said:

clonmult said:

Saw this suggestion on another forum - Missy is another timelord, possibly the Rani? Although iirc she never claimed the Doctor as her boyfriend.

Interesting thought, and dont forget Jenny (The doctors Daughter) is out there too

Jenny wouldn't be referring to her father as a boyfriend though, would she?

They're only revealing specific casting on IMDB on release of each episode, so don't know for sure how often Missy appears. But she is in another of the leaked episodes and the finale is titled "Death in heaven".

[Mutley]

clonmult said:

Jenny wouldn't be referring to her father as a boyfriend though, would she?

true - Brain obviously not working fully

[clonmult]

Mutley said:

clonmult said:

Jenny wouldn't be referring to her father as a boyfriend though, would she?

true - Brain obviously not working fully

Although she wasn't really a normal daughter, just a cloned derivative.

And who's to say that those Gallifreans don't have very close family relationships ... I mean, one previous doctor is shacked up with that specific "daughter"

[Alex]

As long as they don't bring River Bloody Song back.

[Halmyre]

clonmult said:

Mutley said:

clonmult said:

Jenny wouldn't be referring to her father as a boyfriend though, would she?

true - Brain obviously not working fully

Although she wasn't really a normal daughter, just a cloned derivative.

And who's to say that those Gallifreans don't have very close family relationships ... I mean, one previous doctor is shacked up with that specific "daughter"

A Redneck Doctor Who? With the Tardis up on bricks and a "YOU'LL TAKE MY SONIC SCREWDRIVER WHEN YOU PRISE IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HAND" sticker. And accosting strangers with "You ain't from around here boy and neither am I" while chomping on Gallifrey Fried Chicken. Yee-haw.