Doctor Who Series 8

[gnoriac]

who knew all she needed was a strong doctor and not a children's entertainer.

which makes me wonder how well the Capaldi is going to go with the younger audiences!

He's gonna make them hide behind the sofa which is what the Doctor's supposed to do.
The effect it had on me 50-odd years ago when the daleks first hit the TV screen.

 

[Cid]

I couldn't see past the (glorious) beard.

Now, if he'd have started raving to the lasers, that would have been different.

Should have had a 'my work here is done' piece to camera.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

What's the Doctor working on? There was all the chalking in the bedroom last week and a blackboard full of equations in the Tardis. Something to do with Gallifrey?

All will be revealed in the final episode of the series in a "oh gosh isn't he clever the clues were there all along" yawnfest

 

[PursuedByBears]

Nice to see Vod, Dolorous Edd and Tyres on a spaceship.

Is Danny PINK soldier BLUE's brother somehow resurrected and dropped back in time and space?

Why is Missy collecting the souls of people who sacrifice themselves to save the Doctor? I don't think she's the Rani anymore but I wonder if she's the Tardis' consciousness.

 

[ginger_syn]

who knew all she needed was a strong doctor and not a children's entertainer.

which makes me wonder how well the Capaldi is going to go with the younger audiences!

my seven year old granddaughter likes him a lot already, she also thinks Clara is much better now. As for tonight episode it was interesting and good, also I know it's a bit out there but maybe Danny is an ex- soldier with some emotional baggage who is now a teacher

 

[DotCommunist]

I
Am
Pleased

 

[DotCommunist]

its good to see the dalek antibodies. Doctor Who without daleks is like WW2 film with no Nazis in it

 

[DotCommunist]

'am I good man' was clunkily coming but I think it works. Thats always been the Docs self-doubt hasn't it. No you are not a good man. ou hold by a fingernail to a percieved notion of justice but you are a genocidal maniac. hth.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Nice to see Vod, Dolorous Edd and Tyres on a spaceship.

Is Danny PINK soldier BLUE's brother somehow resurrected and dropped back in time and space?

Why is Missy collecting the souls of people who sacrifice themselves to save the Doctor? I don't think she's the Rani anymore but I wonder if she's the Tardis' consciousness.

Yes, the colours (THE COLOURS!) must be significant. My guess is that he's a soldier from a future war and something.

 

[8den]

I am the only who who basically saw it as a rehash of Eccels "Dalek"?

 

[danny la rouge]

It occured to me watching this episode: RTD, a Welshman, had the entire series filmed in Cardiff. Now Steven Moffat, a Scotsman, has cast a Scottish Doctor and a Scottish... Big Bad TBC thing.

It's supposed to be the British Broadcasting Corporation, not the Welsh and Scottish Broadcasting Corporation

That's right. I'd forgotten British means English.

 

[danny la rouge]

It was great. Enjoyed it. Capaldi was fantastic.

 

[Lord Camomile]

That's right. I'd forgotten British means English.

It occured to me later that the conspiracy goes even further! Not since Ecclescake have we not had a Scot in the cast, either as Doctor or companion.

I pay my licence fee, I don't have to put up with this anti-English agenda! There's agendas flying all over this damn show

/disgusted of surbibia

Capaldi was fantastic.

While I still thought there were a couple of missteps in the writing, I would defintiely agree on Capaldi - seems to have settled in straight away and has a very different presence to 10 and 11 (for obvious and more subtle reasons).

 

[spanglechick]

i like him - i wasn't 100% sold on the story, but daleks bore me. They've sorted the audibility of his dialogue, thankfully.

so - clara's new boyfriend... a comment on the 'troops to teachers' initiative? I'd rather she didn't need a love life. Once again: the best companion of new who was Donna - and she wasn't romantically involved with anyone. I suppose it gives them an out if she is leaving at xmas. he'll do well in the tardis. Battle experienced. Mirror's the doctor's issues over having to kill.

But... not all female characters need to be in relationships, Moffatt.

However on that point, there were a surprisingly un-moffat number of Bechdel test-passing scenes. (TWO female soldiers. Female soldier AND female big bad).

 

[Lord Camomile]

I suppose it gives them an out if she is leaving at xmas. he'll do well in the tardis. Battle experienced. Mirror's the doctor's issues over having to kill.

Do you mean Danny? You think he's being set up as the new companion? Could be interesting, as one review said they did a pretty good job of establishing him in just one episode.

While browsing the wiki for this episode I found out that Moffat apparently calls Michelle Gomez's character the "Gatekeeper of the Nethersphere". Not sure if that actually adds anything, but there y'go.

 

[spanglechick]

Do you mean Danny? You think he's being set up as the new companion? Could be interesting, as one review said they did a pretty good job of establishing him in just one episode.

While browsing the wiki for this episode I found out that Moffat apparently calls Michelle Gomez's character the "Gatekeeper of the Nethersphere". Not sure if that actually adds anything, but there y'go.

yeah far too much backstory to be an incidental. i'm not sure he'll be a full-on companion, but he'll definitely get tardis time.

 

[Awesome Wells]

You can't spell 'heroic end of season sacrifice' without Danny Pink!

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

that or that last, long, lingering, backwards look. A dalek in love.

 

[Awesome Wells]

needs moar krynoids

 

[Vintage Paw]

Missy's making an army of people to kill the doctor (because she'll make them see he twists people's good will in order to force them to die for him) and at the end he'll call on their power of love and shit to turn on her instead (or at least to stop them turning on him), in large part thanks to Danny Pink, and it'll be all about how soldiers aren't just mindless killing machines but are moral people often co-opted for bad things but ultimately thinking, feeling individuals capable of love. And shit.

It was all there in that ep last night.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Maybe Missy is Susan!

Isn't she a timelord being an unearthly child?

 

[Dr_Herbz]

Season finale spoiler...

 

[Santino]

Two references to philosophers so far - Marcus Aurelius in episode 1 and Aristotle last night. Will keep ears peeled for more.

 

[Belushi]

I've just watched it, pretty good.

I'm beginning to really like Capaldi's Doctor, but I wish he'd either unbutton that top button or buy a bloody tie

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Season finale spoiler...

Spoiler

E2A... It's not a spoiler.

That's excellent

Actually that's flippin genius...fair play to you.

 

[DotCommunist]

Two references to philosophers so far - Marcus Aurelius in episode 1 and Aristotle last night. Will keep ears peeled for more.

next week is marcuse

 

[Awesome Wells]

Disturbing photoshop is disturbing

 

[mwgdrwg]

How did they get out of the Dalek?

 

[Kaka Tim]

good stuff - capaldi coming on nicely. Next weeks looks like the seemingly obligatory 'novelty' episode. Rather have the doctor going back to the real middle ages.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I am the only who who basically saw it as a rehash of Eccels "Dalek"?

Nope, Greebo and I both remarked on that. I may have made a flip remark about how Northern Doctor and Scottish Doctor both seemed to have over-active dalek-angst.