Doctor Who Series 10

[danny la rouge]

Official: The First Doctor Returns in multi-Doctor Christmas Special | Doctor Who TV

 

[Vintage Paw]

Somebody tell me that it isn't going to be Kris Marshall. What with Trump - and May getting back in...

It had better fucking not be.

And you know... tonight almost had me thinking they've been pulling the long con this series, putting out interviews and answering questions seemingly suggesting it won't be a woman, but, but, but... while a lot of the woman/man banter has been about missy/master, there have been some other little lines in there as well about women in charge, women taking over, and so on. If it is going to be a woman (and if it is, it'll be Olivia Colman), then this has all been rather heavily foreshadowed through this entire season.

But sadly I have little faith in any of those twatbags.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I really enjoyed tonight's episode. The first 10 minutes were shaky, but the rest was solid. Water Woman was a bit out of left field but as cheesy endings to companions go I felt quite satisfied with this one. I may have done a little cry >_>

Mildly irritated that the implication is that the only reason Bill is the first companion in an age not to fall for the Doctor's irresistible wiles is because she's gay, though.

 

[DotCommunist]

I really enjoyed tonight's episode. The first 10 minutes were shaky, but the rest was solid. Water Woman was a bit out of left field but as cheesy endings to companions go I felt quite satisfied with this one. I may have done a little cry >_>

Mildly irritated that the implication is that the only reason Bill is the first companion in an age not to fall for the Doctor's irresistible wiles is because she's gay, though.

and he's too old as well, because otherwise he was bang in there right.

ere have been some other little lines in there as well about women in charge, women taking over, and so on

noticed a few of those throway bits. Its not going to be a woman. They'll crown corbyn as God-Emperor and paint the statue of liberty pink before that happens.

I was a little disappointed by Simms in this, he did his part well enough but I remember his Master being a lot more intense. Not the white-clothes power-up version, the post jackobi version. He was...deeper and more intense. You work with what lines you get I suppose but he wasn't sufficiently evil yet bereft of meaning and in crisis of person for me. And that goatee is no match for Delgado's facial foliage

 

[CNT36]

It had better fucking not be.

And you know... tonight almost had me thinking they've been pulling the long con this series, putting out interviews and answering questions seemingly suggesting it won't be a woman, but, but, but... while a lot of the woman/man banter has been about missy/master, there have been some other little lines in there as well about women in charge, women taking over, and so on. If it is going to be a woman (and if it is, it'll be Olivia Colman), then this has all been rather heavily foreshadowed through this entire season.

But sadly I have little faith in any of those twatbags.

Well the "Master's a woman now maybe she should be nice"arc isn't encouraging. Is there anything in her three years of hanging around that isn't about the Doctor? First off make him her friend then look for him because there friends and lastly get all redemptive because they're friends.

 

[CNT36]

so, best/worst of the season?

I'm still quite taken with the frozen thames one as a belter because of everything about it. Weakest for me was the one with the Romans. Its not that it was bad overall I just...well it wasn't all that. maybe just OK rather than crap

mention in dispatches for the Ice Warriors tho, that was a solid ep

The monks stuff was perhaps the weakest of it all. Comedy pope ffs.

I think it could have started off as three weak stories that got stitched together. The last part isn't written by Moffat. Tut first probably would of ended with the Doctor entering the simulation saying he'd shat all over the bad guys, the second would of ended with the Doctor exiting the lab after saving the day and the third would of played out pretty similarly but without us knowing in advance what Bill had done.

 

[kabbes]

Pretty good episode, I thought. The doctor properly fought off the cyberman rather than "love saves the day" nonsense. And it was a small, personal story without a perfect end rather than an epic world-spanning nonsense. Missy and a Master had some great lines, which they delivered with panache. And it all tied up too. Good way to get rid of Bill and Nardal. I was satisfied, even though it wasn't brilliantly memorable or anything.

 

[Chz]

An overall so-so from me, but factoring in how excruciating most of the series finales are it's not too bad at all.

I still don't understand why Master/Missy were even in it past the first 10 minutes. Another case of introducing something and not having the slightest clue where to go with it in the end. They had some fun lines, but that particular side plot was just so pointless.

The missus: "So why do we see her the way she sees herself, when nobody else does?"
Me: "Because, given the number of lines the character has, it would be really fucking annoying to listen to every single one of them in a sing-songy Cyberman voice."

At least they resisted bringing back Cyber-Brig. I so would have thrown something at the telly. My deepest fear was that in a final "fuck you" to all his detractors, the Grand Moff was going to have the Doctor killed off by having Cyber-Brig jump out from behind the console and bum him to death for a solid 10 minutes.

 

[Limejuice]

My deepest fear was that in a final "fuck you" to all his detractors, the Grand Moff was going to have the Doctor killed off by having Cyber-Brig jump out from behind the console and bum him to death for a solid 10 minutes.

I suppose the pre-watershed scheduling put paid to that option.

 

[DotCommunist]

this made me lol:

The only person who really gets that hope is poor Bill, rescued at the last minute by her space-oil magic love interest (as you do) from the first episode of the season. It’s a bit of a cop-out—the third companion “death but not really” in a row for Moffat’s tenure—but even if it means Bill is now flying around the cosmos with her oil-girlfriend

 

[SpookyFrank]

Bill's ending would have been fine had it not arrived on the heels of Clara's similar-but-way-more-shit ending.

 

[strung out]

Mildly irritated that the implication is that the only reason Bill is the first companion in an age not to fall for the Doctor's irresistible wiles is because she's gay, though.

That line from Bill about preferring girls is better/funnier if you imagine Cyber-Bill saying it in a robot voice.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I still don't understand why Master/Missy were even in it past the first 10 minutes. Another case of introducing something and not having the slightest clue where to go with it in the end. They had some fun lines, but that particular side plot was just so pointless.

To resolve Missy's arc about her turning against her murderous past, why not have her get in a fight with her actual murderous past?

Still not sure what Simm was doing there though, and what if anything his plan was supposed to be.

 

[SpookyFrank]

One interesting bit about Bill's ending though, is that the Doctor doesn't know she isn't dead. I can't remember if the same was true of Clara because I couldn't work out what was going in the final episode of last season with who had forgotten what and frankly I didn't care because everything that was happening was stupid.

 

[CNT36]

One interesting bit about Bill's ending though, is that the Doctor doesn't know she isn't dead. I can't remember if the same was true of Clara because I couldn't work out what was going in the final episode of last season with who had forgotten what and frankly I didn't care because everything that was happening was stupid.

He knows she isn't dead but can't remember her. She can remember him and he can remember the stuff they did and that he was with someone but not what she looks like. Shit.

 

[DotCommunist]

they should be in a spin off series, bill and waterwoman could drop in and spend and hour discussing what a dick the Doctor is with Isildur and clara in their time travelling diner. It could be called waiting for Doctor-Oh or something

 

[Santino]

they should be in a spin off series, bill and waterwoman could drop in and spend and hour discussing what a dick the Doctor is with Isildur and clara in their time travelling diner. It could be called waiting for Doctor-Oh or something

And then Ashildr goes and cuts the First Doctor's throat after feeding him his sons in a pie.

 

[SpookyFrank]

they should be in a spin off series, bill and waterwoman could drop in and spend and hour discussing what a dick the Doctor is with Isildur and clara in their time travelling diner. It could be called waiting for Doctor-Oh or something

They could call it The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Unless that's already a thing.

 

[Balbi]

I do wonder if that 'Is all the future female' .. 'I hope so' between Simm and Capaldi was a clue

 

[ginger_syn]

I hope not

 

[Vintage Paw]

I do wonder if that 'Is all the future female' .. 'I hope so' between Simm and Capaldi was a clue

That was the one that stood out the most to me.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

so, best/worst of the season?

I'm still quite taken with the frozen thames one as a belter because of everything about it. Weakest for me was the one with the Romans. Its not that it was bad overall I just...well it wasn't all that. maybe just OK rather than crap

mention in dispatches for the Ice Warriors tho, that was a solid ep

The monks stuff was perhaps the weakest of it all. Comedy pope ffs.

What was the Romans one?

 

[SpookyFrank]

What was the Romans one?

The one, I suppose, with the Romans?

 

[danny la rouge]

What was the Romans one?

9th Legion. Aberdeenshire. There was a stone circle with a portal to another dimension under it. The Picts had been guarding the gate for generations. The monsters ate light. And Romans.

 

[Vintage Paw]

The Romans episode certainly contained one of the cheesiest story moments in a very long time - the thing with why they make the noise they make.

 

[kabbes]

The Romans episode certainly contained one of the cheesiest story moments in a very long time - the thing with why they make the noise they make.

I like that bit

 

[Vintage Paw]

I groaned. And I like cheesy. But this was the cheesiest of cheese.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

9th Legion. Aberdeenshire. There was a stone circle with a portal to another dimension under it. The Picts had been guarding the gate for generations. The monsters ate light. And Romans.

Oh yeah, I remember. Thanks.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

And what of the death of the master? That seems like a major kill off of a character that has become quite interesting.

 

[Vintage Paw]

They always kill the master. It always looks final. They'll be back. Eventually.