Dr Who… Awesome News If You're A Fan

Dr Who… Awesome News If You're A Fan

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Teppic

7,370 posts

258 months

Saturday 8th November 2014
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gpo746 said:
The one I thought was sad was the glasses ex scarf now bow tie girl - but happen a reminder that in the Whouniverse people die from time to time.
Remember that the 50th anniversiary episode has a Zygon version of her kicking around (and Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, for that matter) and we never saw the resolution of that. Maybe it was the Zygon that got zapped?

Tuna

19,930 posts

285 months

Saturday 8th November 2014
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Really enjoyed that. One of the rare season resolutions that actually made sense and didn't involve magical pixies. It tied in threads from the rest of the season without depending on them for some deux ex machina. Missy was mad and the Doctor came out a better man. Could easily have been half as long again to give it time to breathe, but it still worked for us.

Will be sorry to see Clara go, but Capaldi is definitely the Doctor.

KareemK

1,110 posts

120 months

Saturday 8th November 2014
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ali_kat said:
We had that discussion & agree, needs to go back to 1 story per season.
Won't ever happen sadly.

Ratings rule - especially Saturday prime time - and if an audience doesn't like episode 1 of a 4 episode arc they'll not tune in for the next 3 weeks, they'll flick over to X-Factor or something.

This way, if you don't fancy this weeks episode then you can tune in next week when it'll be a different storyline and thus hopefully retain the fan bases loyalty.

SV8Predator

2,102 posts

166 months

Saturday 8th November 2014
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Tuna said:
Will be sorry to see Clara go, but Capaldi is definitely the Doctor.
Agreed, but will be happy to see Clara go.

Imagine if we'd had Capaldi as the Doctor back in 2005 instead of, <cough> Eccleston?


ecsrobin

17,145 posts

166 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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ash73 said:
Michelle Gomez was the highlight for me, the rest was disappointing, it felt laboured and Danny's plight almost made me throw up. Shark jumped.
+1

Can't they move away from earth. The old doctors used to spend a lot more time visiting planets with no enemies. The cyber men just keep popping up every other season or so.

MiniMan64

16,945 posts

191 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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I don't think newWho is ever going to make everyone happy but I thought it was really good

I still reckon Clara and Missy will be back.

voyds9

8,489 posts

284 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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How did a series of memories come back with a body.

Jim the Sunderer

3,239 posts

183 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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Oh great, we're resurrecting asylum seekers now.
It's enough to make you bloomin' sick.

D. Mail.

SpudLink

5,865 posts

193 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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voyds9 said:
How did a series of memories come back with a body.
Missy has been storing human minds and convincing them they are in the afterlife. The doctor reckons she's been travelling back as far as the beginning of human belief in the afterlife, to gather as many minds as possible.
So, any of the people who died and had their minds uploaded to the virtual never sphere would then be downloaded back into Cyberman bodies with all of their memories intact.
I think the stuff in the previous episode about deleting their emotions was to make sure they were more easily in the assimilated into the hive consciousness.
Possibly.

hedgefinder

3,418 posts

171 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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SpudLink said:
Missy has been storing human minds and convincing them they are in the afterlife. The doctor reckons she's been travelling back as far as the beginning of human belief in the afterlife, to gather as many minds as possible.
So, any of the people who died and had their minds uploaded to the virtual never sphere would then be downloaded back into Cyberman bodies with all of their memories intact.
I think the stuff in the previous episode about deleting their emotions was to make sure they were more easily in the assimilated into the hive consciousness.
Possibly.
I am ptty sure that he was talking about the child returning at the end in his original human form, which made absolutely no sense at all given what had previously been discussd in the same episode.
If Itv can come up with a decent sci fi series and put it out at the same time on a saturday night I could easily see Dr.Who being cancelled which quickly, the writing simply isnt good enough for a big budget prime time sci fi series, its like Star Trek being given the In Night Garden scripts..

Butter Face

30,351 posts

161 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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Also, Danny got reincarnated in the morgue (picks up the paper with 'known as Danny Pink' on it, which is a very odd piece of paper anyway) and then managed to get to the Nethersphere to save Clara (with the same piece of paper) and then back to the Graveyard with Clara again.

It was a very odd episode all round tbh. Odd senseless killings too like the brainy glasses girl.

Beefmeister

16,482 posts

231 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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The nethersphere was inside the 3W building, which is where Clara was too. That building was in London, as was (I'm guessing) the graveyard.

But also, jet boots.

davepoth

29,395 posts

200 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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Beefmeister said:
But also, jet boots.
Should be the answer for everything, really.

I'm not certain, but I think we should probably consider last night's episode as number two of three. If anyone can fix all the stuff that's gone wrong, it's Father Christmas.

FourWheelDrift

88,560 posts

285 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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Peter Capaldi made a special video message as the Dr to a young boy to help him over the death of his nan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZuNA8zMeSE



stephen300o

15,464 posts

229 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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An easy fix for such a massive problem, but so has it always been, expecting huge things to be solved by one being.
Disappointingly familiar though, after the planting of interesting seeds.

The Hypno-Toad

12,287 posts

206 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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Best Doctor Who series for ages in my opinion.

Capaldi is excellent, Gomez was totally unhinged and Coleman acted her socks off. Some of the scripts were clearly rushed but all in all, very good. And finally they've turned the effing music down!

I'm there at Christmas.

Nick Grant

5,411 posts

236 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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How apt that someone called Nick Frost is playing Father Christmas.

DJRC

23,563 posts

237 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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I thought the series largely sucked, but was slightly rescued by the last two episodes.

Gomez as Missy was outstanding smile

ali_kat

31,993 posts

222 months

SpudLink

5,865 posts

193 months

Sunday 9th November 2014
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hedgefinder said:
I am ptty sure that he was talking about the child returning at the end in his original human form, which made absolutely no sense at all given what had previously been discussd in the same episode.
I've been scratching my head trying to come up with a plausible sci-fi answer. But I think I'll have to agree with the general view that it's s lazy writing.