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-Kehlog Albran

I'm looking forward to the Xmas episode.....and you can never count out the 'Master', he always seems to come back somehow.

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin

^ Truth. It was really only the first episode that made me think of The Thick Of It. All in all he's done a great job as the doctor.

Can't say what I think of the ending yet...I suspect (or hope) there is more to come. Either way...the christmas episode looks pretty good this year from thetrailers.

Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.

infocat wrote:

Are you bigger on the inside?

that's what they tell me :)

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It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

-Kehlog Albran

Brilliant!

What?

Unnecessary from a story standpoint, but yeah, I guess from a marketing standpoint maybe it was necessary. I just personally didn't feel the need to be sold on the new Doctor. I've been watching the show since McCoy regenerated into McGann (actually before that in reruns, but that was my first contemporaneous regen). I'm used to accepting new Doctors.

Period of instability - when Davison regenerated into Colin Baker, the 6th Doctor attempted to kill his companion and then decided to live a hermit's life. So yeah, that period of instability goes back a long way.

Roland, that was my thought too as far as Missy. I think she could very well be some version of River. The "boyfriend" line was what made me think of that too.

Edited by The Doctor - August 26 2014 at 18:49

I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?

Oooh, Who thread!

I'm reserving judgement on Capaldi, the 'intro' episode is always a 'hey, let's all get used to the new Doctor' festival. I get your point (The Doctor) about the episode being written for a specific group, I certainly got the impression that they were selling the new Doctor but hadn't considered who they were selling him to. Yeah, I think you're spot on with the target audience.

I'm very curious to see where the whole Missy thing goes. I've heard a lot of options but I'm going with some version of River (I could be romanticisizing the teaser). She refers to the Doctor as her boyfriend, River was downloaded into the library and the cyborg could have also been downloaded into something (circumventing the murder versus suicide question at the end). Finally, last year, Matt Smith was asking producers to keep River as 'his' character and to not go any further with her. This could have been Matt Smith randomly talking about River, but I think it was more a reaction to the producers discussing the option of reinventing the River character.

Just my two cents. . . looking forward to the next one.

-------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob-------

I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms.

I actually liked the pacing of the episode, and not really sure what to cut to trim it down 10ish mins. Needless to say I enjoyed it, and while I can't give a full rec for PC after only one episode he seems like he'll fit in nice once he has a chance to develop into his own doctor. I'm glad hes a bit different from Tennent/Smith at any rate.

Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.

Dean wrote:

Aye, Capaldiwho gets the thumbs-up for me too Thumbs Up

Not a bad début episode if a little too long for the story-line (ie it dragged at times). Bet Tenant is pissed that Capaldiwho gets to keep his Scottish accent while Tenantwho had to fake an English one. Wink

Not sure what to make of ~~Mary Poppins~~ Missy:

But I adore Michelle Gomez (Green Wing) so I'm not going to think too hard about who or what she's supposed to be.

They could have made that about 15 minutes shorter and not really have lost anything. But Capaldi gets a Thumbs Up

from me as well.

Did anyone else though get that feeling that at the end that whole thing with Clara accepting the Doctor being all old and gray and stuff, was aimed at the teenage girl fans who had a crush on first Tennant and then Smith? It was almost like they were talking directly to them "please give the old guy a chance, no he won't be like your pretend boyfriend, but it will still be a good show". It was cool to see Matt in a cameo, but c'mon, that seemed a little too much. It would have been better if they had done so that it was more along the lines of "The Doctor's been older before, he'll be older again. If you don't like it p*** off."

Edited by The Doctor - August 24 2014 at 22:31

I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?

New Doctor Thumbs Up

Bigger on the inside.

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