Doctor Who Series 8

[Awesome Wells]

Watching TV properly, on a saturday evening in late August early Autumn and it's now dark outside +10points
Clara Oswald getting to have some relevance and delivering +10 points
Strax +50 points
No Matt Smith +100 points
Matt Smith -75 points.
Malcolm Timelord +105 points
Floating Testicle Balloon -/+ ?points
Daleks next week +1000 points
Weepy Help Me Clara I'm Confused Doctor -30 point
Lesbian Ninja Lizard +20 points
Lesbian Dodgy Accent Ninja Housemaid -15 points
Clocks +20points
Possible Rani Big Bad +20points
Possible Moffat Metaplot -?points

I'd happily watch a spinoff with Jenny, Lizard Lesbian, and Strax - though Jenny's accent is atrocious cor blimey!

Overall, very promising. But the end was shite. FFS why hobble the new guy with Matt Smith. I'm sick of Matt Smith. He was shit.

 

[Lazy Llama]

But the end was shite.

Michelle Gomez can do little wrong in my world.

Ah, I see you added you meant the Matt Smith bit.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Capaldi is not a shit actor. Why does he need to be hobbled out the starting gate by giving over to Smith to reassure us that Capaldi is the new Doctor Who. That's piss poor writing.

And if that woman turns out to be River Song, I will not be pleased!

 

[DotCommunist]

a strong start, some excellent strax.

'my lungs contain oxygen' or 'fan service, here comes the silurian-human lesbian kiss'

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

FFS why hobble the new guy with Matt Smith. I'm sick of Matt Smith. He was shit.

Remember that you are (probably, it's hard to tell sometimes) not a pre-teen who has grown up with a relatively young Doctor. That bit was for a certain segment of the audience.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Perhaps it's post modern commentary on the Katy Manning (Jo grant) posing naked next to a Dalek incident from the seventies.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

And if that woman turns out to be River Song, I will not be pleased!

Missy = Master?

 

[Awesome Wells]

Remember that you are (probably, it's hard to tell sometimes) not a pre-teen who has grown up with a relatively young Doctor. That bit was for a certain segment of the audience.

They must be destroyed.

 

[Quartz]

That was shit.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Missy = Master?

I hope not.
The last time he appeared was bizarre and terrible.
Perhaps his wife, at the end of the episode where he takes ove r the world she picks up his ring.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

They must be destroyed.

Hahaha, we appear to have an actual Dalek on the forums

 

[DotCommunist]

yep, the doctors regenerations are always played chaotic and etc to reflect the internal logic AND to acclimatize viewers too young to have seen a regeneration.

The vieled conversation between sexy silurian and clara was quite good as well.

 

[Awesome Wells]

TBF though, Clara should have taken her clothes off, as Strax asked.

 

[DotCommunist]

In analysis I think capaldi has the intensity down pat, remains to be seen how well he can do the scatterbrained loon bit- this was OK in that regard but he was able to ham it up because post-regeneration fugue. Good decision to set it with strax and co, because a)its funny b) it provides younger viwers with the familiar to ease transition and c) they got to bust out all the beebs vast collection of period gear again.

Good chuckle over the eyebrows secceding. HE'S MAKING REFERENCE TO SCOTS INDY! HE'S POKING THE FOURTH WALL! THAT ONES FOR YOU GROWN UPS!


The story in itself was not great, an enjoyable romp as it were. Repair droids from the 51st century taking the long way home bladdy blah.

Leaving it 'did he fall or was he pushed' keeps the ambiguity of the Doctors relationship to terrible neccesity (the robot jumped imo)

I was really hoping at the start that the T rex was going to take a bite from Big Ben in some strange homage to the classic Chewits adverts

 

[Quartz]

I was really hoping at the start that the T rex was going to take a bite from Big Ben in some strange homage to the classic Chewits adverts

Yes!

The spitting out was a reference to a film, wasn't it?

 

[Lazy Llama]

Moffat said he has no interest in bringing back the Master.

He said that he didn't think Delgado could be bettered. Tend to agree, though The Deadly Assassin is one of my favourite stories.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I'm not seeing the darkness in the deed when it comes to pushing a murdering organ harvesting robot that's happy to torture humans out of a floating testicle. That's not moral ambiguity in my book.

 

[spirals]

I really enjoyed it. Boy child asked his dad to sit next to him and that's the mark of a creepy/good episode in this house

 

[SpookyFrank]

'You must stop worrying about him my boy, by now he’s probably had his throat cut by the violent poor'

 

[SpookyFrank]

Steven Moffat asked everyone at the previews to not mention Matt Smith's appearance.

Probably because he knew it was a load of mawkish shite.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I'm hoping for An Audience With Strax, wherein the Sontaran will throw flesh eating death maggots into an audience of celebrities, sing the Sontaran Clone Anthem, and then spearhead an invasion of Chelsea and Notting Hill.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Probably because he knew it was a load of mawkish shite.

and it was.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm not seeing the darkness in the deed when it comes to pushing a murdering organ harvesting robot that's happy to torture humans out of a floating testicle. That's not moral ambiguity in my book.

It's the Doctor, he agonizes endlessly over the fate of one sentient being, seeks to redeem it.

except when he consigns whole species to genocide like the wyrnn.

He even feels sorry for the daleks sometimes

 

[Awesome Wells]

It's the Doctor, he agonizes endlessly over the fate of one sentient being, seeks to redeem it.

except when he consigns whole species to genocide like the wyrnn.

He even feels sorry for the daleks sometimes

I felt more sad turning off the TV than the death of a killer robot. He wasn't Johnny Five!

I had hoped they might drop the 'lonely god' stuff. It wore very thin with Tennant.

 

[DotCommunist]

I think its obvious that brolly lady in heaven is this seasons Big Bad (wolf). Or an aspect of it.


From the trail it seems next week will be in the budget straining future. Funny how there's never enough of them. It's not going to be the Rani, although if it was that would be quality. But I think like the Meddling Monk and Borusa, these enemies are to be left behind in old who.

He's supposed to be going on the hunt for gallifrey

 

[Greebo]

I think its obvious that brolly lady in heaven is this seasons Big Bad (wolf). Or an aspect of it <snip>

Aspect, schmaspect, she's the heart of the Tardis.

 

[Greebo]

Disliked the new music, the new intro, and the new Tardis decor. The rest of it, not bad.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Aspect, schmaspect, she's the heart of the Tardis.

That's certainly what I thought, and who the Doctor was referring to when asking "who wrote the advert?", etc.

 

[Pingu]

i liked it and my nephew loved it

promises of some darker episodes that will be scary enough but not "make the kid shit himself".

i think i am going to like this new doctor

 

[PursuedByBears]

Was Capaldi playing as Tom Baker crossed with Matt Smith? Not that that's a bad thing.

A very good first episode. Liked the call-back to Capaldi's previous appearance in Doctor Who - "why did I choose this face?" Interesting.

Is Michelle Gomez the Rani then? She's a brilliant actor, I like her a lot. Jenna Coleman had a lot to do in this one, very promising.

9/10.