New Series of Dr Who

[DexterTCN]

Urban's a false reality....you're going to have to be more specific.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I was guessing that the Dream Lord was the Valeyard, and I don't think I was entirely wrong. Anyway, faultless.

i wondered if it was The Celestial Toymaker at one point

but yeah it pretty much was an aspect of the valeyard

could be good there was an intresting doctor who book wich surmised that the doctor actually killed himself transitioning himself between colin and sly to do with combatting the valeyard

sly's doctor sorta embraced his darkside a bit more blowing up; skaro and using ace almost as a chess piece

they certianly expanded on it in the books (which was one of the few good aspects to them)

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

As far as i'm concerned they haven't put a foot wrong this season. Very good.

SERIES.
A series of episodes.

Also, you seem to have low standards. I didn't see this weeks, maybe it's repeated today or something, but the others have been pretty weak.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

next weeks Silurian adventure looks interesting especially as it's a two parter


let's hope they don't fuck it up too badly (the new Silurian look a bit plasticky)

 

[Stigmata]

SERIES.
A series of episodes.

Also, you seem to have low standards. I didn't see this weeks, maybe it's repeated today or something, but the others have been pretty weak.

Brian Sewell's got low standards compred to you mate

 

[DexterTCN]

Brian Sewell's got low standards compred to you mate

 

[DotCommunist]

Roundly mocked as a geek for spotting the silurians for next week, suspecting out loud that the baddie might be a reincarnation of the master, or the valeyard (the dangers of watching Who with non geeks). Didn't make the Celestial toymaker connection but halfway through that could have been plausible. The psychic pollen idea was blates stolen from Warren Ellis in Transmetropolitan


Anyway, a solid episode I thought. Not better than starship uk but better than the weeping angels 2 parter. I fucking recognise the Dreamlord ID bloke from something. Must IMDB

 

[mrsfran]

Roundly mocked as a geek for spotting the silurians for next week, suspecting out loud that the baddie might be a reincarnation of the master, or the valeyard (the dangers of watching Who with non geeks). Didn't make the Celestial toymaker connection but halfway through that could have been plausible. The psychic pollen idea was blates stolen from Warren Ellis in Transmetropolitan


Anyway, a solid episode I thought. Not better than starship uk but better than the weeping angels 2 parter. I fucking recognise the Dreamlord ID bloke from something. Must IMDB

City of Ember? That's where I knew him from.

 

[Stigmata]

'Valeyard' was briefly a trending topic in Twitter last night.

 

[DotCommunist]

Possibly. I have only seen half of CofE.

He was like a malevolent Ian Hislop

 

[DotCommunist]

'Valeyard' was briefly a trending topic in Twitter last night.

In a way it could almost have been. The valeyard was described in ToaTL as a 'possible' future incarnation of the doc iirc. What he might become.

 

[cybertect]

He was like a malevolent Ian Hislop

That's exactly what was going through my head.

 

[mrsfran]

Possibly. I have only seen half of CofE.

I had to watch it 3 times, very slowly, for work.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

The psychic pollen idea was blates stolen from Warren Ellis in Transmetropolitan

i think that was a bit of a weak explanation

random alien pollen that just happened to be sitting around?

i'd have posibly done it as a major fuckup of the tardis telepathic link or something at least keeping it to something we know is already there

plus it could have served as an explanation to DW noobs about why they can hear and see stuff in the language of their choice

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Matt Smith is utterly, utterly fantastic as the Doctor. I think he's basically playing himself, judging by interviews and suchlike, but he is so good at playing an eccentric 907-year-old alien. Just little throwaway gestures in every frame.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

he is a bit more old school that tennant and i mean that in a good way

however DT did have a charm and enthusiasm that worked really well and coming after CE he was a real change and a breath of fresh air ... i think MS still hasn't quite got to the level where you can describe what kind of doctor he is... hopefully he will long outlast amy and we will get to know him in his own right rather than as a duo (it's not that i hate amy i just feel the doctor needs more of a stand alone identity and recent series have pushed him more to being a duo even he is firmly the batman to the companions robin)

 

[krtek a houby]

next weeks Silurian adventure looks interesting especially as it's a two parter


let's hope they don't fuck it up too badly (the new Silurian look a bit plasticky)

Got to be better than their last incarnation, mind...

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Enjoyed that - good comedy moments, liked the evil old people and laughed maliciously when the doctor pushed on off the roof ! Toby Jones, another good heavyweight thesp, was excellent as the Dream Lord.

 

[Pingu]

i have to say this series is losing me

it just doenst feel like dr who iykwim

much as i hate to say it its his assistant... shes well hot but ...

 

[fogbat]

Possibly. I have only seen half of CofE.

He was like a malevolent Ian Hislop

So Ian Hislop, then?

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Got to be better than their last incarnation, mind...

they looked shit but at least it was intresting shit

these new ones just look boring and rent a kit alien

and they look more sea devily though that may be intentional as the sea devils left more of an imprestion

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

i have to say this series is losing me

it just doenst feel like dr who iykwim

much as i hate to say it its his assistant... shes well hot but ...

she plays to big a role

it's like i said this show is doctor who not doctor who and amy/rose/donna

 

[DotCommunist]

bollocks, companions always have played big roles at some points the TARDIS was fucking heaving with assistants and thier subplots. Tegan and Nyssa and that prick Adric?

 

[Pingu]

bollocks, companions always have played big roles at some points the TARDIS was fucking heaving with assistants and thier subplots. Tegan and Nyssa and that prick Adric?

they always felt though like they were in the background. this one sometimes feels likes its the doctor who is the sidekick.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

bollocks, companions always have played big roles at some points the TARDIS was fucking heaving with assistants and thier subplots. Tegan and Nyssa and that prick Adric?

yes but because there were so many of them each of their roles is more downplayed

the companion is always less important than the doctor which is why it feels wierd than amy has paractically got a bigger role than the doc

 

[Gromit]

The narative of Dr Who changed way before Amy. All the way back to Chris Ecklescake.

With the orginal Dr Who it was all about the Dr and his adventure and saving the day.

Now its narrated from the point of view of the earthlings and how the Dr comes and changes their lives, whilst saving the day.

Its a better way of telling the story as you get to imagine you are the ordinary person whose life he makes exciting instead of imagining you are the Dr (which you couldn't possibly ever be).

 

[DotCommunist]

they always felt though like they were in the background. this one sometimes feels likes its the doctor who is the sidekick.

yes but because there were so many of them each of their roles is more downplayed

the companion is always less important than the doctor which is why it feels wierd than amy has paractically got a bigger role than the doc

All good points, but outwieghed by this:

Spoiler: stuff

 

[Santino]

All good points, but outwieghed by this:

Spoiler: stuff

Does the sonic screwdriver have an airbrush setting?

 

[nicksonic]

having just watched that i would've said the dream lord was the black guardian.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Didn't he get destroyed at the end of Enlightenment?