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Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

I said to myself that was it at the end of the last series. Thing is occasionally it does produce something that's pretty good. Mummy on the Orient Express and Flatline last season were really good but then we had atrocious stuff like Kill the Moon and Forest in the Night.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13386

Interesting piece on historical censorship of Doctor Who across the decades.

http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/bbfc_cuts_dr_who.htm

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

Y'know, I barely remember a thing about the last season. I'm sure I watched it, but none of it has stuck. Not a huge recommendation, that.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Casting news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/en ... ad42c46da3

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Clara's leaving

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5413

Meh. Can't say that will affect my viewing much one way or the other.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

DavPaz wrote:

Y'know, I barely remember a thing about the last season. I'm sure I watched it, but none of it has stuck. Not a huge recommendation, that.

Flatline and Mummy on the Orient Express were great. I remember it all very well. Some of it I wish I didn't.

TheCookie197 · **Joined:** 23rd Sep, 2010 **Posts:** 729

zaphod79 wrote:

Casting news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/en ... ad42c46da3

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Clara's leaving

Yes! Finally!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

Derek The Halls wrote:

DavPaz wrote:

Y'know, I barely remember a thing about the last season. I'm sure I watched it, but none of it has stuck. Not a huge recommendation, that.

Flatline and Mummy on the Orient Express were great. I remember it all very well. Some of it I wish I didn't.

Now I've googled Mummy On... I do remember and it was, of course, excellent.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

So there's a new prologue for the series. Doctor is a bit wacky again but then again Tom Baker was often quite wacky...

Can't embed as it's on google play for £0 which is silly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALRS_-aP8wo

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26105

If Idris Elba isn't the next Bobd he surely NEEDS to be the most badass Doctor evereverever. Come on!!! I'd totally start watching again.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

I thought the latest episode was rather good.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Sep 22, 2015 16:38

Caught it late on Saturday. I am reserving judgement until:

I. I have seen part two
II. I have watched part one whilst sober.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2015 22:51

Derek The Halls wrote:

I thought the latest episode was rather good.

Me too.

I thought Gomez was better than she had been in the previous series. Her obvious disdain for Clara was fabulous.

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2015 21:16

Rewatched it tonight. I really enjoyed it, especially the look on Missy's face during the big reveal.

I am starting to wonder if between the last season and now she teleported to Boston in the 1980s and married a local psychiatrist.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:55

Loved it again. Good start to the series!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

Agreed. Very enjoyable.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2015 22:47

Missy stole the show. It should all be about her. Like a malevolent Mary Poppin2.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

Terrible.

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

I thought it (Part II) was an enjoyable enough romp, but three things did really jar

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Ha! It was the plan to regenerate the Daleks all along so that all the Daleks were regenerated so that they killed each other! Bullshit.
The quite deliberate 'Clara in a Dalek' tease back to her first appearance. Bullshit, unless this is the start of an arc.
Sonic. Fucking. Sunglasses. Which I'd seen coming after Michael Legge tweeted about it but it still fucked me off. Bullshit.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

The last point in particular. But there was so much wrong with the episode. The whole setup of "I knew you'd know that I'd do the thing that you think I would think you would know I would do." was annoying.

"Am I a good man?" No Davros, you went out to murder and harm everyone else in the galaxy.

Missy and her stupid voices are incredibly annoying.

Clara fit in the dalek rather well didn't she?

Also the episode almost completely ignored potential points raised in the first episode. Would have been much more interesting perhaps if the Doctor had created the daleks by abandoning Davros... but maybe not.

The whole episode just felt like a load of running around being silly.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11898

Yeah, I thought it was a bit poor. It didn't make much sense, the ending was nonsense, but I think it was used as a way introduce missy as a different character and increase the potential of that role. If that is the case I will let it off, if not I think it was very poor.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:17

New spinoff series, 'Class', to be set in Coal Hill School and will be on BBC3.

More importantly, the entire thing is being written by Patrick Ness, who is one of the best writers in the world.

So that's good.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:23

Read this earlier and thought of some of you in this thread: https://twitter.com/MartinBelam/status/ ... 8803304448

What drives people to continue being uber-fans of something that they clearly don

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

The hope that it will get better again?

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

Fantastic!

Kern · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2015 23:43

Pundabaya wrote:

Fantastic!

Let's hope part 2 doesn't disappoint.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

Proper Doctor Who. AT LAST! I do hope it doesn't let us down. Thus far I'd say we've had two 8s and a 4 in this series. Not a bad start considering last series started with a 5 went to a 6 then dropped to 2.

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

Last night's was excellent and proper creepy in places. Hope part two keeps the high standard.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11898

What is the point of a cliff hanger if at the end of the credits they have a "and next week..." section?

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:42

I always have to remember to switch over or stop the recording when the credits start to avoid that. Not as bad as the first cliff-hanger in the Ecclestone series where the trailer was placed before the credits.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2015 21:06

Really good. Superb.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2015 22:01

Loved that. Creepy, exciting, and with some very funny lines.

I did a proper LOL to his aside of, "They can only touch metal... oh I didn't realise I had noticed that!"

I didn't watch the trailer for next week...

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I wonder if he is in the box?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

Just watched it. Very good. Classic closed off Who peril drama. It felt a bit like the lines were written for Matt Smith's delivery style.

One thing that I might have missed the explanation for: why could he broadcast from inside the Faraday cage?

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

Sonic sunglasses.

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

That never actually happened, I've decided. Just fuck off that's why.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

http://nerdist.com/new-doctor-who-audio ... ar-doctor/

Quote:

For years, since Doctor Who‘s return in 2005, we’ve been wondering about just how terrible The Last Great Time War actually was. We know it wiped out both the Daleks and the Time Lords, but the Doctor would say precious little else besides that. We caught a glimpse of the last days of it in “The End of Time“, and found out things weren’t exactly what we thought they were (in a great way!) with the 50th Anniversary special, “The Day of the Doctor“, in which we found out the Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) tried to be a conscientious objector but was forced to fully join the fray by becoming the War Doctor (John Hurt). We expected that’s all we’d see of the Time War and that version of the Doctor, but Big Finish Productions have announced a new series of War Doctor audio adventures to continue to saga.

The company, which has been making full cast audio dramas of Doctor Who characters since the late ’90s, has recently obtained the rights to things created in the new series. Previously, they have only been able to make dramas about past adventures starring the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Doctors, with Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor being added a few years ago. They’ve already announced a new series of UNIT adventures starring Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) and Osgood (Ingrid Oliver) and one called The Diary of River Song featuring Alex Kingston.

This four-release set of War Doctor adventures will debut in December and will take us inside his eons-long battle to defeat the Daleks and still be a good man, which eventually led to him using The Moment. To whet your appetite, Big Finish is also releasing a prequel series in November featuring the Eighth Doctor’s time during the Time War.

For people interested in more War Doctor and more Time War, this seems like the best possible way for this to happen, since a whole TV series about it seems unlikely, and was never really seemed plausible in the first place. You can find out more information at Big Finish’s website.

War Doctor - potentially good

Jacqueline Pearce being in it will make it so much better

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

If..

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The Doctor is in the box, it makes sense that the Tardis didn't like being there as at that time there are two Doctors in the same timeline, which is always dodgy, possible paradox fodder there

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

I certainly hope not about that spoilery thing. But that seems horrifyingly plausible now...

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2015 12:45

Kern wrote:

I always have to remember to switch over or stop the recording when the credits start to avoid that. Not as bad as the first cliff-hanger in the Ecclestone series where the trailer was placed before the credits.

I also do this. Infuriatingly, The Walking Dead once put a "next time on TWD" bit over the credits (they put a little box up) so I switched it off, then they put another bit that referred to the current episode after the credits.

Fucktards.

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

That was fucking tense for a 'family show'..

in particular:

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the bit with the deaf crewmember and the dragging axe... like something out of a proper horror flick.

also, yeah,

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the doctor was in the box, but it was quite good at not letting you know for sure until the very last moment.

the only thing that I didn't like was:

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the 'oh yeah, the ghosts, well, we've got five minutes, we'll lock them in a box and let UNIT sort them out' cop-out.

But even so, I thought it was great.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Oct 10, 2015 23:24

I really liked it. Superb.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

I thought part 2 was decidedly a let down.

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Oct 11, 2015 7:52

I really enjoyed that. One of the best for a while. Proper scary stuff. I even liked the monologue at the start. The monster was less effective once he stepped outside however.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Oct 11, 2015 7:53

Kern wrote:

I really enjoyed that. One of the best for a while. Proper scary stuff. I even liked the monologue at the start. The monster was less effective once he stepped outside however.

The monster looked like a man wearing stilts wrapped in a black canvas tent. Was better in shadow.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:25

Derek The Halls wrote:

I thought part 2 was decidedly a let down.

Yes, but you always say that.

Really enjoyed it.

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Called that he was in the box last week, but what I want to know is what was powering the box, given he used the box's power source to blow up the dam!

I also liked the set of the old Scottish/Russian abandoned town. Had a really good old school Who vibe to it.

Loving Capaldi as the Doctor.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2015 19:30

That was a fun one, marred only by the fact that

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VIKINGS DIDN'T WEAR HORNED HATS.

Some nice photography too.

Is Capaldi dressing like Patrick Troughton this year?

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2015 23:06

I haven't seen this week's episode yet.

The previous two parter for me:

Part One - Was okay I suppose. The majority of it was a bit meh, though yer man continues to be an excellent Doctor. The last ten minutes or so were good, though marred slightly by my lack of recollection as to that episode Capaldi was in before. I'm glad they referenced it though, especially as they had in the first episode of his.

Part Two - Much more like it. I thought Maisie Williams was quite poor in the first part, but then in the second she came alive, and it showed that her performance in the first was intentional. She was acting like a child and then subsequently as an adult. It worked really well for me. I also like her as a recurring character along the lines of River Song, but less annoying

Some of the parts of the episode were a bit meh, again, but I thought the main two characters carried it well.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

Halfway through the latest episode and... well I'm on my phone. Dull.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2015 22:09

I didn't really like the Viking one, the Highwayman one was pretty good fun all the way through. This week's wasn't very good fun, though. It just bogged down a lot and I found it hard to care except for the bit with the drone. That was ok

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2015 22:16

I don't like Zygons. They look like everything people think was crap about old Dr Who. I liked the subtle allegory, and

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evil Clara was far more fun and convincing then good Clara.

But this season's clanger was:

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the scene with the soldiers outside the church. Even by UNIT standards, just walking in wasn't a good plan, but that was just a crap coda to a sequence that could have had far more emotional and dramatic impact

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