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Posted: February 01 2014 at 04:04
My feelings on the Time of The Dr finale is that it did well to wrap up many unanswered questions and really wrapped up Smith's era well to pave the way for the grand entrance of Peter Capaldi. He looks rather resplendent in his new costume too..
Not sure how he will go in his first season but so glad Coleman remains as she is perhaps the most enigmatic companion since Zoe.
I grew to like the Smith era of Who after a shaky start to his seasons. He was magnificent in the last 3 eps of his final season, and I love how he appeared in Adventures in Space and Time
I have been watching lots of Who lately, saw Planet of Giants today, and yesterday watched day of Dr, Time of Dr and Hide in one sitting.
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Posted: January 01 2014 at 19:37
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It seems most people didn't care for it, but I liked it. I might even go so far as call it my favorite Christmas episode. That said...I do wish it was longer to accommodate all the story more fully. Shame to see Matt go as well...but so it goes in the life of the Doctor.
I liked it as well too. A bit jarring to see Matt Smith suddenly become a very angry-seeming Peter Capaldi with his most intimidating glare.
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Posted: December 28 2013 at 18:14
It seems most people didn't care for it, but I liked it. I might even go so far as call it my favorite Christmas episode. That said...I do wish it was longer to accommodate all the story more fully. Shame to see Matt go as well...but so it goes in the life of the Doctor.
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Posted: December 28 2013 at 17:31
Dean wrote:
infocat wrote:
It wasn't clear to me if he got just one additional regeneration or a whole new set of twelve. I thought it was the latter.
It was pretty clear to me: "Ha! It's started - I can't stop it now, this is just the reset, a whole new regeneration cycle" ... in previous uses of the phrase regeneration cycle that has referred to the 12-regenerations.
So I did hear that! (I don't always trust my memory.)
So are we good for another fifty years of Doctor Who?
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Posted: December 28 2013 at 17:11
infocat wrote:
It wasn't clear to me if he got just one additional regeneration or a whole new set of twelve. I thought it was the latter.
It was pretty clear to me: "Ha! It's started - I can't stop it now, this is just the reset, a whole new regeneration cycle" ... in previous uses of the phrase regeneration cycle that has referred to the 12-regenerations.
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Posted: December 28 2013 at 11:00
It's a children's television programme, not Shakespeare. The shows producers painted themselves into a corner with the 12 regenerations plot device in the mid-70s as part of a story line featuring the Master, as no one at the time expected the series to last this long, it was never seen as a problem. However any solution was always going to be a cop-out no matter what it was.
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Posted: December 28 2013 at 10:35
WARNING - POTENTIAL SPOILERS BELOW! :
Despite a touching final scene, Smith's final episode was quite a mess. Far too many little details and unresolved storylines crammed into too short a running time.
And as for the banished Time Lords in the other dimension sending the Doctor essentially a `bonus' regeneration' through the crack....what a total cop-out!
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Posted: November 29 2013 at 09:09
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot was entertaining and mostly amusing. I liked the Sean Pertwee and Olivia "... I'm usually in everything" Coleman scene, one day the producers will put Sean in an episode.
An Adventure in Space and Time was good, though the characterisations weren't that accurate, nice to see 'Delia Derbyshire' make an appearance.
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Posted: November 29 2013 at 07:46
Anyone seen the other stuff put out for the Anniversary? I really enjoyed the movie "An Adventure in Space and Time" and the short "The Five(ish) Doctor Reboot" - probably enjoyed both more than the Anniversary episode itself.
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Posted: November 28 2013 at 10:31
I wasn't denying she had an alcohol issue. Just the way they portrayed
her as being on her own when she had her partner living with her. She
was still reclusive though of course.
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Posted: November 28 2013 at 09:43
VanderGraafKommandöh wrote:
That was good. I listened to it twice last week. Although was Delia really that excitable by the simplest of things? Although I think it was nervous excitement in reality.
She really did sound like that (except the slurring perhaps), as this Radio Scotland Radio Interview shows:
...It seems like 90% of the dialogue in the radio play comes from this one interview.
VanderGraafKommandöh wrote:
Although that radio play never mentioned that she lived with a guy from 1981 until her death. It made her sound like she was a lonely lady with an alcohol issue.
I suspect the alcohol did contribute to kidney failure that killed her.
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Posted: November 28 2013 at 08:09
That was good. I listened to it twice last week. Although was Delia really that excitable by the simplest of things? Although I think it was nervous excitement in reality.
Although that radio play never mentioned that she lived with a guy from 1981 until her death. It made her sound like she was a lonely lady with an alcohol issue.
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Posted: November 25 2013 at 13:54
Dean wrote:
Logan wrote:
I watched The Day of the Doctor twice on TV yesterday (EDIT: or actually that was the day before), plus lots of
other great Doctor Who stuff. John Hurt was the star of it to my mind,
and I am a big fan of his as well as Doctor Who, so great choice for
me. My main problem with it was that I think they should have done a
two hour special (for me Doctor Who has generally worked best with a
longer format). Was nice to see Tom Baker at the end (I did expect to
see him as he is the most iconic of Doctors, but not exactly sure how that worked with him being the curator -- being much older-looking than when he regenerated, so is he the Doctor? I assume so). I actually like Matt Smith
a lot. I didn't like the Star Wars-like parts that much, and I think
it would have been much cooler if we'd seen lots of Gallifreyans
regenerating during the attack, and that energy release destroying some
Daleks. I knew that Gallifrey would not be destroyed since we knew that it continued to exist from earlier series. I
liked much of the comedy, but I would have rather had more pathos and
rather less bathos. Still, despite having the excellent John Hurt, it
was not my very favourite of the Smith years ( that would be Day of the
Moon/ The Impossible Astronaut).
The Tom Baker scene shows why they couldn't have had any of the older Doctor-actors making guest appearances with the exception of Ecclescake (who I believe refused to play the Doctor again) and McGann (who appeared in the mini-episode that showed his regeneration into Hurt as the War Doctor). The Doctor Who writers are very good at darning plot holes and side-stepping paradoxes so I liked the ambiguity of the curator scene, and I liked how it was subtly played by both Smith and Baker.
On a side note, I'm not sure that all Gallifreyans could regenerate, not all Gallifreyans are Time Lords for example, Rassilon created the TARDIS tech and altered Time Lord cell structure, this does not imply he did it for all Gallifreyans.
Agreed. I also liked the ambiguity of the Tom Baker scene. I don't assume that all Gallifreyans can regenerate either, but seeing a bunch of them (Time Lord, and Time Lady to use that term, Gallifreyans) regenerating would have made for entertaining spectacle. Perhaps the "Lady Time Lords" could have done a Romana in their regenerations for comedic effect. ;)
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Posted: November 25 2013 at 13:40
Logan wrote:
I watched The Day of the Doctor twice on TV yesterday (EDIT: or actually that was the day before), plus lots of
other great Doctor Who stuff. John Hurt was the star of it to my mind,
and I am a big fan of his as well as Doctor Who, so great choice for
me. My main problem with it was that I think they should have done a
two hour special (for me Doctor Who has generally worked best with a
longer format). Was nice to see Tom Baker at the end (I did expect to
see him as he is the most iconic of Doctors, but not exactly sure how that worked with him being the curator -- being much older-looking than when he regenerated, so is he the Doctor? I assume so). I actually like Matt Smith
a lot. I didn't like the Star Wars-like parts that much, and I think
it would have been much cooler if we'd seen lots of Gallifreyans
regenerating during the attack, and that energy release destroying some
Daleks. I knew that Gallifrey would not be destroyed since we knew that it continued to exist from earlier series. I
liked much of the comedy, but I would have rather had more pathos and
rather less bathos. Still, despite having the excellent John Hurt, it
was not my very favourite of the Smith years ( that would be Day of the
Moon/ The Impossible Astronaut).
The Tom Baker scene shows why they couldn't have had any of the older Doctor-actors making guest appearances with the exception of Ecclescake (who I believe refused to play the Doctor again) and McGann (who appeared in the mini-episode that showed his regeneration into Hurt as the War Doctor). The Doctor Who writers are very good at darning plot holes and side-stepping paradoxes so I liked the ambiguity of the curator scene, and I liked how it was subtly played by both Smith and Baker.
On a side note, I'm not sure that all Gallifreyans could regenerate, not all Gallifreyans are Time Lords for example, Rassilon created the TARDIS tech and altered Time Lord cell structure, this does not imply he did it for all Gallifreyans.
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