Author Topic: Heads up! Dr Who starts Saturday.... (Read 283857 times)

andyoxon · « **Reply #2050 on:** 23 September, 2014, 01:26:12 pm »

I thought the bank episode was pretty good - with a decently 'scary' alien species. Peter Capaldi as the Doctor is excellent, a first class actor who can do the tense moments convincingly, as well as barbed wit, and humour. Just hope the stories keep getting better for him.

mattc · « **Reply #2051 on:** 23 September, 2014, 05:31:55 pm »

I'm clearly not on the same wavelength as YACF DrWho fans! Although Capaldi was very good, I thought this one was pretty dull overall.

It was still very watchable, but very below par.

IMHO!

Si · « **Reply #2052 on:** 24 September, 2014, 07:16:32 pm »

I'm with mattc on that one....just didn't ring my bell, but he is a good doc.

andyoxon · « **Reply #2053 on:** 27 September, 2014, 11:27:53 pm »

That was bit meh - almost 'filler' episode. I reckon most would rather more alien story content & less of 'Clara & Mr Pink'. Let's see what spidey alien does next week.

woollypigs · « **Reply #2054 on:** 05 October, 2014, 11:40:38 pm »

Hmm I think the quiet on this thread shows the true nature of the last episode.

What surprised me was that it was already the 8th episode, I was sure it was only the 5-6th.

Kim · « **Reply #2055 on:** 05 October, 2014, 11:49:51 pm »

Well, if you insist... I watched it on iPlayer at 23:33 last night, pre-warned by the reactions on the twitterwebs. Here are the pertinent IRC logs:

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23:32 * kim attempts to forget everything she knows about physics
23:42 <kim> dammit
23:43 <kim> the gravity i can forgive, but quindar tones...
23:43 * kim tries to forget engineering too
23:44 <Red> ...
23:59 <kim> i think it's about time to forget biology...
23:59 <kim> ...yup.
00:27 <kim> i think doctor who may have jumped the dalek
00:32 <nat> but yes, very little of that made sense, except Clara’s reaction at the end
00:35 <kim> i did like the yo-yo, of course
00:36 <nat> yes, Dark Season was referencing the same thing of course
00:41 <Red> oh, forgot it was on
00:42 <Red> I've just been a bit underwhelmed with it so far
00:42 <Red> Peter Capaldi has so much potential, and they're just not using it
00:43 <nat> I thought his acting at the end was amazing
00:44 <Red> I'm just waiting for them to DO something
00:44 <kim> i thin his acting's been pretty good throughout
00:44 <kim> shame about the stories
00:45 <nat> the episode looked brilliant, I loved what they did with Courtney, the ending was really powerful and justified, but the actual main story was bewilderingly ludicrous
00:45 <Red> yes, it's the stories
00:45 <Red> they just seem so... cbbc
00:45 <kim> i'm quite liking courtney, but in a 35-year-old-who-thinks-year-tens-are-like-that kind of way

...at which point the conversation drifted to 15th century BMX bikes, Dogtanian and the catholic church.

woollypigs · « **Reply #2056 on:** 05 October, 2014, 11:57:03 pm »

Very logical drifting there

Yes the best part was the Yo-Yo.

matthew · « **Reply #2057 on:** 06 October, 2014, 12:00:58 am »

watched it tonight, Dad was all conservation of mass until I said it was a children's program.

Capaldi is a good doc, the radio episodes with sheridan smith are wonderful, it is unfortunate that the plots have had such holes in them.

Steph · « **Reply #2058 on:** 08 October, 2014, 11:41:45 am »

I am trying to remember the title of the old SF story they ripped off (again) for the basis of the tale, in which all of the planets are eggs, and the end of the story has

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Steph · « **Reply #2059 on:** 08 October, 2014, 01:55:48 pm »

I think the story may be "And Lo The Bird" by Nelson Bond.

andyoxon · « **Reply #2060 on:** 11 October, 2014, 10:00:40 pm »

Are you my Mummy? That was better.

Ruthie · « **Reply #2061 on:** 11 October, 2014, 10:03:34 pm »

Was just thinking about The Empty Child this morning. That was top telly that was.

citoyen · « **Reply #2062 on:** 11 October, 2014, 10:21:21 pm »

Quote from: LEE on 22 August, 2014, 10:27:35 am

OK everybody, before you all get worked up on Saturday evening, about plot holes and Scientifically implausible events....

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IT'S FOR KIDS

Well somebody needed to break the news.

Something that's been bothering me for a long time... Why is 8.30 now deemed a suitable time for kids' telly?

Kim · « **Reply #2063 on:** 11 October, 2014, 11:12:52 pm »

It's like it deliberately failed the Bechdel test, and then hung a lampshade on it.

But still less annoying than last week's, and I liked the jelly babies.

Steph · « **Reply #2064 on:** 12 October, 2014, 01:16:09 am »

Quote from: Kim on 11 October, 2014, 11:12:52 pm

It's like it deliberately failed the Bechdel test, and then hung a lampshade on it.

But still less annoying than last week's, and I liked the jelly babies.

The sweeties were indeed a lovely touch.

andyoxon · « **Reply #2065 on:** 12 October, 2014, 05:14:25 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 11 October, 2014, 11:12:52 pm

It's like it deliberately failed the Bechdel test, and then hung a lampshade on it.

But still less annoying than last week's, and I liked the jelly babies.

Doesn't applying tests make for a rather 'analytical' viewing experience...

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #2066 on:** 12 October, 2014, 08:48:35 pm »

Quote from: andyoxon on 11 October, 2014, 10:00:40 pm

Are you my Mummy? That was better.

That made me laugh.

I watched yesterday's and the previous three (in the correct order) today. I stand by what I said before - Peter Capaldi is a great doctor, but the episodes are shit.
They're not holding my attention at all. I didn't even notice any jelly babies.

Kim · « **Reply #2067 on:** 12 October, 2014, 08:49:48 pm »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 October, 2014, 08:48:35 pm

I didn't even notice any jelly babies.

He had them in a cigarette case, for 1930s authenticity

David Martin · « **Reply #2068 on:** 12 October, 2014, 10:01:05 pm »

I liked the 'faux 1920's' where they were singing a Queen song (Don't stop me now?) as if it were a 20's ballad in a nightclub.
Otherwise it was a bit Meh. Why are chief engineers the offspring of diesel engines?

woollypigs · « **Reply #2069 on:** 12 October, 2014, 10:36:12 pm »

Jelly babies was the highlight of the episode.

Was I the only one that was hoping that this was goodbye to the sidekick. But sadly it wasn't to be.

Frak Skinner did a good job, story line a bit better but still lacking, Peter is a good Doc Who.

redshift · « **Reply #2070 on:** 13 October, 2014, 07:41:06 am »

Nobody else spotted the two spoken lines where he was channeling Tom Baker? just my imagination then.

I'm still waiting for his stint as the doctor to get started, and still drifting away from the show.

Steph · « **Reply #2071 on:** 13 October, 2014, 02:09:57 pm »

Well, reading Stephen Baxter's latest there was a very clear nod, where a central character describes a wormholey thing as bigger on the inside than...you know the rest.

They've done the Titanic in space, and now the Orient Express ditto. Seems to show a groping for some originality that isn't there.

I'm with Woolly on this: I am getting tired of the ever-shorter skirts, for one.

mattc · « **Reply #2072 on:** 13 October, 2014, 05:54:32 pm »

dont stop me now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-6fEj17MK4
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I'm a bit surprised by this protest agaionst Claras skirt length. She's a lot less raunchy than many action female characters in this market, and her predecessor showed a LOT more leg.
Her '20s flapper dress looked pretty much bang-on to me.

Although if you're against employing actresses for their looks, you may have a point (though again, this applies to almost every companion, and most modern genre heroines).

woollypigs · « **Reply #2073 on:** 13 October, 2014, 06:06:13 pm »

Quote from: Steph on 13 October, 2014, 02:09:57 pm

I'm with Woolly on this: I am getting tired of the ever-shorter skirts, for one.

I'm not getting tired of the length of the skirts, more the wooden acting - no life, no character - just reading out lines while trying to remember to blink cutely. We need someone who can play up against Peter. This series still need an episode that would make you go - now that was a doctor who episode, me likey, lets watch it again.

mattc · « **Reply #2074 on:** 13 October, 2014, 06:15:21 pm »

Its all about the Doctor. Always has been.
River Song was the only real 'foil' he's had, and they came pretty close to overdoing that!
(Alex Kington is also an unusually strong actor, they'd struggle to find someone else to pull that sort of role off - within the talent budget they appear to have.)

They are sidekicks. That's what theyre for. IMHO anyway!