Dr Who… Awesome News If You're A Fan

Dr Who… Awesome News If You're A Fan

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DJRC

23,563 posts

235 months

Friday 12th September 2014
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Whats with the Capaldi love here? It must be entirely down to the Thick of It because he has been unmittigatingly ste as Doc Who so far. Woeful series.

ali_kat

31,988 posts

220 months

Friday 12th September 2014
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He's great as the Doctor, but like McCoy, is being let down by crap scripts frown

Mutley

3,178 posts

258 months

Friday 12th September 2014
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DJRC said:
Whats with the Capaldi love here? It must be entirely down to the Thick of It because he has been unmittigatingly ste as Doc Who so far. Woeful series.
So far 3 eps, 1st was mediocre, 2nd great, 3rd dross. It's not Capaldi, but the stories. I'm willing to see where the series goes before condemning him

gpo746

3,397 posts

129 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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Chim said:
Have tried giving it a couple of Episodes to settle in, just caught up on the third episode though on inlayer, holy titty christ, to say it was God awful would be a huge understatement, a 10 year would have considered it a bit immature. Cappaldi also seems to be really struggling, he just comes across as very uncomfortable and split in the role he is supposed to be adopting and is completely overshadowed by his assistant. We have went from a doctor that was so cowed from violence that he needed therapy every time he stood on an Ant to one that looks on the verge of a complete psychotic breakdown whenever his name is mentioned. There have points when it looked like he was on the cusp of violently raping his assistant.

They really need to up the game here, immature story lines and Doctor that appears to be completely lost as to the character he is supposed to portray is not a promising combination
Probably about where I feel on it
Put simply he is TOO OLD. I'm old too but he seems REALLY OLD
I think he will only do the one series then be gone anyway.
Each to their own but I think an actor in his 30s would do better his name hasn't come up but Joseph McFadden is maybe the sort I think it needs.
The "promised land" arc is difficult to work out I got the Bad Wolf and Torchwood references in earlier series even down to predicting what torchwood would turn out to be. This one is a lot harder to fathom

stephen300o

15,464 posts

227 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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All the old doctors were old. Young Peter Davidson was quite a shock when he materialised. Age is not relevant to the character as the body is just a sack the time lord wears for a while.
This series will find its feet I am sure as the main theme and the mystery lady intertwine in later episodes.

gpo746

3,397 posts

129 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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stephen300o said:
All the old doctors were old. Young Peter Davidson was quite a shock when he materialised. Age is not relevant to the character as the body is just a sack the time lord wears for a while.
This series will find its feet I am sure as the main theme and the mystery lady intertwine in later episodes.
So Missy will start dancing to the theme tune then ?
This one or maybe the KLF one ?

stephen300o

15,464 posts

227 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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gpo746 said:
stephen300o said:
All the old doctors were old. Young Peter Davidson was quite a shock when he materialised. Age is not relevant to the character as the body is just a sack the time lord wears for a while.
This series will find its feet I am sure as the main theme and the mystery lady intertwine in later episodes.
So Missy will start dancing to the theme tune then ?
This one or maybe the KLF one ?
The theme of the episode, rather than tune..

FourWheelDrift

88,375 posts

283 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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ash73 said:
gpo746 said:
Put simply he is TOO OLD. I'm old too but he seems REALLY OLD
Agree, I'm still waiting for him to say "I don't believe it!"... Victor Meldrew style.

zetec

4,465 posts

250 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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Tonight's episode is called Listen, I wonder if it is a series defining episode as one of the trailers for the series had The Doctor sitting on the TARDIS saying, "Listen".

Chim

7,259 posts

176 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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Far better tonight, clever scripting, well thought out and Cappaldi seemed a lot more comfortable in the part

DJRC

23,563 posts

235 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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Best Ep so far, very well done.

FourWheelDrift

88,375 posts

283 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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I thought they couldn't cross their own timeline without consequences, or indeed change it which Clara did by walking into the restaurant after she had just walked out.

K12beano

20,854 posts

274 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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Yeah - and wasn't that bit straight out of Harry Potter (and J K Rowling copied it straight out of something else, but I can't remember what just at the mo......)?

ecsrobin

17,019 posts

164 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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DJRC said:
Best Ep so far, very well done.
Really? I struggled to watch it only looked up when I heard Clara talking...

Langweilig

4,298 posts

210 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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FourWheelDrift said:
I thought they couldn't cross their own timeline without consequences, or indeed change it which Clara did by walking into the restaurant after she had just walked out.
It's that fiddly timey-wimey stuff again.

toppstuff

13,698 posts

246 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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ecsrobin said:
DJRC said:
Best Ep so far, very well done.
Really? I struggled to watch it only looked up when I heard Clara talking...
It was really very good. One of the best Whos in years. Complex, spooky, well written.

It demanded that you pay attention though.

Jenna Coleman was very good. She's maturing into a good actor.

marshalla

15,902 posts

200 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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Far too much "clever" exploration of the Dr. himself, not enough telling of a story which involves the Dr. and the viewer. Fans should not be allowed to write scripts - they always try to prove their cleverness to other fans and forget about the wider audience.

telecat

8,528 posts

240 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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Clara is the "companion" most entwined with the Doctor's Timeline. From the beginning to the end. The Barn was a twist going back to the "Day of the Doctor" and "Name of the Doctor". It was perhaps a bit too clever this early in the series. We know Clara "Knows" all the Doctor's. Establishing her as the Doctors "origin" may be a step too far? And To be honest I do not like the Danny Pink Character. It harks back to "Mickey" too much and that's smacks of repetition. Mickey was a great character that established himself very well in the Who Universe. Pink looks to close to Noel Clarke and the character feels too close as well.

voyds9

8,488 posts

282 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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Do you not get the feeling that Danny Pink is also a time traveller.

MiniMan64

16,862 posts

189 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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telecat said:
Clara is the "companion" most entwined with the Doctor's Timeline. From the beginning to the end. The Barn was a twist going back to the "Day of the Doctor" and "Name of the Doctor". It was perhaps a bit too clever this early in the series. We know Clara "Knows" all the Doctor's. Establishing her as the Doctors "origin" may be a step too far? And To be honest I do not like the Danny Pink Character. It harks back to "Mickey" too much and that's smacks of repetition. Mickey was a great character that established himself very well in the Who Universe. Pink looks to close to Noel Clarke and the character feels too close as well.
They can't really ignore it though, Clara now arguably is one of the most important companions and they kind of need to acknowledge the link she has to him (although technically aren't they all different Clara's that he's "met"?)

Nice twist I suppose and I can warm to the Pink character. I enjoyed it as a whole but I did feel like a lot of it was familiar. Something living in the dark? Forest of the Dead, end of the universe? Utopia. I feel like there was more too, crossing timelines, "enemies" you can't look at, the Angels, the Silence.

The thing that's bothering me now, end of last series, big revelation, the Time Lords are alive and are bestowing new regen-cycles from their hidden pocket universe. The last incarnation dies defending them. Yet, not a mention about that so far. Odd.