Doctor Who Series 8

[8115]

Some random character who was in one episode in the late 80s (when nobody sensible was watching because it's not Canon) for 2 scenes, in the background, returns?

It was all a dream/ the real Clara is really only shrunk to 1cm and has been sat inside a massive robot replica Clara's eye all season.

 

[danny la rouge]

this is what we did before CGI.

That never happened.

Some people believe that the 5th - 8th Doctors were televised, but they weren't.

 

[DotCommunist]

in completely unrelated but interesting news I've had time to study Sean Pertwees face a bit because he is playing a young Alfred in the pre-batman series 'Gotham'

look at how he has his old mans jaw! uncanny.

 

[Pingu]

It was completely cool. Total win.

And here's why:

/thread.

^this

 

[zoooo]

they *always* looked like that. Honestly - don't look to old who for costumes that look less home made.

Lol, yes. I didn't make a very good argument there did I.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Some random character who was in one episode in the late 80s (when nobody sensible was watching because it's not Canon) for 2 scenes, in the background, returns?

Are you stoned?

 

[SpookyFrank]

in completely unrelated but interesting news I've had time to study Sean Pertwees face a bit because he is playing a young Alfred in the pre-batman series 'Gotham'

look at how he has his old mans jaw! uncanny.

Pertwee Jr reminds me more of his distant relative, Warden Hodges.

 

[SpookyFrank]

It was all a dream/ the real Clara is really only shrunk to 1cm and has been sat inside a massive robot replica Clara's eye all season.

There was a 'miniature Clara' post-it note on Clara's shelves in that last episode

And we never saw Doc and Clara being de-minatuarised after they got out of the dalek

e2a: And what was she freaking out about before Danny Pink got himself ran over?

 

[ruffneck23]

in completely unrelated but interesting news I've had time to study Sean Pertwees face a bit because he is playing a young Alfred in the pre-batman series 'Gotham'

look at how he has his old mans jaw! uncanny.

http://instagram.com/p/u1J6-juOHD/

 

[Vintage Paw]

There was a 'miniature Clara' post-it note on Clara's shelves in that last episode

And we never saw Doc and Clara being de-minatuarised after they got out of the dalek

e2a: And what was she freaking out about before Danny Pink got himself ran over?

I got all WTF? when I saw a post-it with "Jenny" written on it, until I was reminded Vastra's wife is called Jenny. It had me thinking she was his daughter regenerated

I think it was just that at the end of the foresty London episode she said she was going to tell him everything, so I reckon she'd just been making notes, preparing, etc.

 

[danny la rouge]

Are you stoned?

Are you?

 

[danny la rouge]

I think it was just that at the end of the foresty London episode she said she was going to tell him everything, so I reckon she'd just been making notes, preparing, etc.

Yes, very obviously this. She wanted to come clean to Danny.

 

[DotCommunist]

are we sure that 'Make sure the chaotic time travelling doer of good doesn't place you in peril else you are dumped' is a good message for the kids? I mean what about all the times where it was dinner on argleblerg 3 watching the twin moons rise over an ammonia sea?

 

[Lazy Llama]

dinner on argleblerg 3 watching the twin moons rise over an ammonia sea

"I've seen it. It's rubbish."

 

[Chuff]

when i was about 7 I was in the car with my mum and dad driving towards Morden and I saw Sean Pertwee driving Bessy, I got slightly over ventilated and was screaming Dr Who, over and over, by the time my parents looked he had turned down a side road

I never realised Alfie was his son , was talking to the missus last night about the episode with the giant maggots and how she has been phobic ever since.

I think the writing team have struggled to adapt to the new DR's personality and last weeks focus on Clara was a great step and this week was better than i hoped, been generally disappointed with this series but its growing on me and may well once I have bonded with the foul scot take obscene pleasure in re-watching them all

 

[zoooo]

are we sure that 'Make sure the chaotic time travelling doer of good doesn't place you in peril else you are dumped' is a good message for the kids?

Yes, all this unchallenged 'my new boyfriend has forbidden me to spend time with an old friend so I'm going along with it' stuff has been pissing me off for weeks.

 

[DotCommunist]

oh glad its not just me then. I am on team Mr Pink really, but that episode where he made her promise on fear of dumping not to let the doc imperil her was off. He's good looking but the doc has a time and space machine that can go anywhere and anywhen. Going to see the sacking of rome danny BRB M8

 

[Awesome Wells]

Are you?

Sometimes it's hard to tell

 

[Chz]

True, that episode was quite scary.
They just need to look... heavier and more roboty and substantial. They always just look like blokes in a slightly homemade cardboard costume.

I disagree. What made the old ones creepy was the vestiges of humanity in them. Without that, they're just bog-standard robots. I also miss the weird sing-song voices the old ones had. If you ever get the opportunity to get some of the Big Finish plays, I really recommend "Spare Parts" on the origin of the Cybermen.

 

[redsquirrel]

in completely unrelated but interesting news I've had time to study Sean Pertwees face a bit because he is playing a young Alfred in the pre-batman series 'Gotham'

look at how he has his old mans jaw! uncanny.

Fuck, he really does look like him there.

 

[zoooo]

I disagree. What made the old ones creepy was the vestiges of humanity in them. Without that, they're just bog-standard robots. I also miss the weird sing-song voices the old ones had. If you ever get the opportunity to get some of the Big Finish plays, I really recommend "Spare Parts" on the origin of the Cybermen.

Yes, I somehow managed to make two contradictory points there.
I do like the old ones because they're more human and just... terrifyingly odd.
But I don't see them changing the new ones to be more like that, so I'd be happy with them just making them more believable as big heavy robots. The stampy march they do always looks a bit light and camp because there's no substance to them.

 

[billy_bob]

Yes, I somehow managed to make two contradictory points there.
I do like the old ones because they're more human and just... terrifyingly odd.
But I don't see them changing the new ones to be more like that, so I'd be happy with them just making them more believable as big heavy robots. The stampy march they do always looks a bit light and camp because there's no substance to them.

I always thought the cybermen were more scary than the daleks, and no, not just because they could get up the stairs. There's something non-rational and relentless about cybermen which is worse than the melodramatic Evil of the pepperpots.

If you want to talk about camp, I think the Daleks have the edge - gliding about the place, festooned with golden baubles and screeching high-pitched threats at the slightest provocation...

Ever since the reboot, despite plenty of good episodes scattered here and there, I have longed for the programme to give the meta-stories and love interest a rest and spend more time on the suspense and the creepy atmosphere I loved so much in Who of old. So I was primed to be really pissed off with this finale. I have to admit though I thought it mostly worked quite well - maybe because the double episode gives them time to do what I just said. I truly didn't care about who Missy was going to turn out to be (not that we hadn't guessed...) as long as it largely works as a self-contained story.

I thought the dead little kid bit was a misstep though - didn't sit well with the arch attitude of almost everyone else, particularly Addison, to the 'afterlife'.

 

[DotCommunist]

it did follow the true pattern of the victims of capitals wars having literally no voice.


also re cybermen- never liked them, crapper than sontarans.

 

[zoooo]

I am so bored of the love story aspects. When Capaldi started he made a point of saying there'd be no flirting whatsoever between he and the companion and I was so relieved, but all they've done is replace it with Clara and Danny's interminably boring, whiny relationship.

I do actually like Pink, but their relationship drama is painfully dull.

Apart from that downside of the series, I've enjoyed Capaldi a lot.

 

[DotCommunist]

at least in torchwood the relationship stuff was allied to sex scenes.

 

[zoooo]

at least in torchwood the relationship stuff was allied to sex scenes.

Between lots of attractive men.

God, I miss Torchwood.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Between lots of attractive men.

God, I miss Torchwood.

Imagine Danny Pink and the gay Welsh guy whos' name I can't remember

 

[DotCommunist]

I think it hit peak geek homoerotiscism when Captain Jack kissed Spike out of buffy

 

[8den]

Owen Harper? Ugh.

 

[DotCommunist]

which was the one with the rape spray. That was dark