Doctor Who Series 8

[ginger_syn]

Why couldn't the doctor repair Clara's bracelet? Isn't the whole thing based on Timelord tech?

How did Danny send back the afghan kid? From where?

HOw did he get his emotions back?

Why was the doctor reduced to standing around looking shocked all the time?

Why did nothing remotely threatening actually happen?

As far as he knew it had brought Danny back to Clara so why would he.
The boy was sent back using the bracelet, from the nethersphere. see scene in cafe for how. As to how Danny kept his emotions I suppose that it's because he didn't delet his emotions in the nethersphere and who knows what all those buttons Clara was pushing did. I don't feel that the Doctor spent that much time looking shocked so can't answer that and your last question just makes me feel we watched totally different programs but as we all see the things around us differently because of our experiences and thoughts I can live with it.

 

[DotCommunist]

the nethersphere sounds vaguely dirty to me. Anyone else?

 

[danny la rouge]

the nethersphere sounds vaguely dirty to me. Anyone else?

We all see the things around us differently because of our experiences and thoughts.

 

[Awesome Wells]

As far as he knew it had brought Danny back to Clara so why would he.
The boy was sent back using the bracelet, from the nethersphere. see scene in cafe for how. As to how Danny kept his emotions I suppose that it's because he didn't delet his emotions in the nethersphere and who knows what all those buttons Clara was pushing did. I don't feel that the Doctor spent that much time looking shocked so can't answer that and your last question just makes me feel we watched totally different programs but as we all see the things around us differently because of our experiences and thoughts I can live with it.

Clara could have asked the Dr to fix it to bring Danny back, though how a digital recording of Danny (which is what the Nethersphere was) translates into his actual body was never explained. Nor how he is able to communicate from within to Clara.

Another poor effort from Moffat who simply cannot write stories at all.

 

[belboid]

Clara could have asked the Dr to fix it to bring Danny back, though how a digital recording of Danny (which is what the Nethersphere was) translates into his actual body was never explained. Nor how he is able to communicate from within to Clara.

Another poor effort from Moffat who simply cannot write stories at all.

Fuck off.

 

[belboid]

Some Dr Who stories written by Steven Moffat

The Empty Child" / "The Doctor Dances
The Girl in the Fireplace
Blink
Let's Kill Hitler
Asylum of the Daleks
The Name of the Doctor
The Day of the Doctor
The Time of the Doctor
Deep Breath
Into the Dalek
Listen

Not to mention all his pre-Who stuff, or Sherlock

 

[DotCommunist]

I remember when blink aired and everybody promptly lost their minds with appreciation, me included. Some hailed moffat as a prophet, the ultimate new broom to sweep out RTD's cobwebs. But awesome wells has spoken, so he's obviously shit. Cancer if you disagree.

 

[Santino]

the nethersphere sounds vaguely dirty to me. Anyone else?

It was also the title of Ruddy Yurts' 2002 album with the Assyrian bongo player, Dido Ginger.

 

[mwgdrwg]

I've come to realise that this thread really spoils my enjoyment of the show.

Make use of the ignore function!

I'm not calling anyone out, but I've put 3 people on ignore in my 12 years here....one sick Koppite that is poison in the Everton thread, and two moaners that post in the Doctor Who thread. Makes a world of difference to my enjoyment of this forum.

 

[redsquirrel]

Oh, and I didnt actually think that Danny's valedictory speech was that bad. Just wholly pointless, considering he was talking to a bunch of mindless automatons.

But were they mindless? Surely they all had their inhibitors unactivated which was why they hung around the graveyard rather than going on a killing spree.
And if all the cyberman were mindless why weren't Danny, and the Brigader, mindless too?

 

[DotCommunist]

it was all a set up for capaldi's 'you win' to the mistress. Because we've never had that moral conflict played out before.

 

[belboid]

But were they mindless? Surely they all had their inhibitors unactivated which was why they hung around the graveyard rather than going on a killing spree.
And if all the cyberman were mindless why weren't Danny, and the Brigader, mindless too?

mm, quite possibly. Danny clearly didnt activate his inhibitor, we know that, cos we watched it. The others....I got the impression that while they had no humanity left, they hadn't really learned what it was to be a cyberman yet, and so were in a state of confusion. Altho that doesn't account for the Brigadier

 

[DotCommunist]

lethbridge senior was pure fan service. It has no logical plot explanation

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I reckon either when he was in the Nethersphere he knew something was dodgy and didn't buy into it or when he 'woke' he was just too strong a personality to become a cyberman because he is the FUCKING BRIGADIER!! or as DotCommunist just said it was pure fan service which is enough reason for me !!

 

[Santino]

The whole season was shot through with the Doctor's contempt for soldiers, but then it was not one but two soldiers, Danny and the Brigadier, who saved the day.

 

[ginger_syn]

1/2 a dp there

 

[ginger_syn]

Clara could have asked the Dr to fix it to bring Danny back, though how a digital recording of Danny (which is what the Nethersphere was) translates into his actual body was never explained. Nor how he is able to communicate from within to Clara.

Another poor effort from Moffat who simply cannot write stories at all.

oh dear, never mind then

 

[ginger_syn]

lethbridge senior was pure fan service. It has no logical plot explanation[/QUOTE
there is a precedent though with what's her name from torchwood in doomsday

 

[CNT36]

it was all a set up for capaldi's 'you win' to the mistress. Because we've never had that moral conflict played out before.

Resurrection of the Daleks is reviled and yet did pretty much the same thing better when the Doctor was going to kill Davros.

 

[krtek a houby]

The whole season was shot through with the Doctor's contempt for soldiers, but then it was not one but two soldiers, Danny and the Brigadier, who saved the day.

Not just hate for soldiers but self-loathing. He was the "War Doctor", don't forget...

 

[Wilf]

Some Dr Who stories written by Steven Moffat

The Empty Child" / "The Doctor Dances
The Girl in the Fireplace
Blink
Let's Kill Hitler
Asylum of the Daleks
The Name of the Doctor
The Day of the Doctor
The Time of the Doctor
Deep Breath
Into the Dalek
Listen

Not to mention all his pre-Who stuff, or Sherlock

So, he never reached the heights of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps?

 

[danny la rouge]

Sherlock

Sherlock is shit, to be fair.

But Blink was brilliant, as was the Empty Child.

We do need to get back to that sort of thing, and away from the Dr being the Messiah and/or Superman.

 

[danny la rouge]

lethbridge senior was pure fan service. It has no logical plot explanation

I didn't like it. The portrait was service. I don't like to think of the Brig as a cyberman. I want to remember him as he was. :sobs:

 

[Wilf]

lethbridge senior was pure fan service. It has no logical plot explanation

 

[Vintage Paw]

I despise Moffat for his sexism, racism and arrogance, but I love the stories he's written when they work well. As much as he has proven to me to be a vile individual, I've thoroughly enjoyed this series and he's absolutely upped his game (in a good way) wrt his previous sexism.

 

[danny la rouge]

racism

Anyone see Tomb of the Cybermen on Sunday. Jeepers, the past was a foreign country, wasn't it?

 

[belboid]

racism

??

 

[Vintage Paw]

??

For a start, that China Town episode of Sherlock, good god.

 

[ginger_syn]

For a start, that China Town episode of Sherlock, good god.

I think I need a bigger clue than that as I'm currently baffled by your post.

 

[ruffneck23]