Be Excellent To Each Other

Pretty forgettable episode for me. Not one I'm eager to rewatch.

The second episode was ace. The girl's wardrobe is bloody crap, tbough. I loved the robots. Robot ribot robot.

The London one was pretty good, apart frim the drenchi g at the end.

Way better so far than with Clara.

It reminds me, ever so slightly, of Ace. I need to watch more of her adventures with the Seventh Doc as the ones I've seen have been very enjoyable (and I think I ever so distantly remember watching some when I was young).

That was really, really good. David Suchet was fantastic.

I knew i recognised him from somewhere!

And i think your first guess was right.

I really liked it.

Great fun. Love a haunted house story, and the casting was superb. The bugs were wonderfully yucky.

Also available with "3D" binaural audio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... nock-knock

Haven't listened to that yet, but can imagine int works well; it sounded grand in 5.1 - the knocking was coming from all over the place.

Haunted House was great.

Spacesuits was meh.

Frozen Thames > Spacesuits > Puddle > Haunted House > Nanobots.

I found spacesuits to be very meh.



Also

I've only just seen your sig! (I think I used to have them off!).

THATS AMAZING :luv: :luv:

I'm quite bored of zombies now, so was relieved when they weren't technically undead but just the remains of the suits' inhabitants. The story was ok, but nothing too great, but I think 13 year old me would have responded more to the deft political points than my current cynical self. I would probably think more of the episode had not the smiley robot killers used the same magic haddock plot so recently. As is customary, I cheered when the sonic screwdriver was destroyed. Also..



I'm annoyed with myself for not leaving the room when the credits came on with no 'next time' trailer as that normally means there's huge spoilers to follow, so I've ruined the next bit for myself by watching it. Careless.

Yeah, that one wasn't so good. Enjoyed Matt Lucas and Dr Who bitching at each other, but otherwise, quite meh. The ending was quite comic book-y with the reveal, so that was probably a plus point.

The plot was okay, but it did have some of the best lines in the series thus far.

So we haven't watched this series, but we turned on the last five minutes as we were watching whatever came on afterwards. Not knowing any of the plot or things that had happened I obviously am not in a position to comment, but the ending dialogue was just... awful.

It was like watching a child's stage play.

- "Look at me!"
- "No, you don't understand, I can't look at anything. I'm still BLIND!"
<Dramatically takes of sunglasses and stares at audience>
<Imagined audience gasp>

That was awesome. I loved it.

You must have been playing an extreme Eurovision drinking game not to remember it!

Quite.

Oh well I remember Eurovision, just not what day Doctor Who was on.

Yeah, I love it when Capaldi decides to start taking bites out of the scenery. Which is pleasingly often.

This! Probably true for all the Doctors. Even if the story's crap the lead generally gets some good lines. I've not yet reached the point I did with Sharpe where anytime Sean Bean wasn't on screen I kind of tuned out.

I thought that, on the whole, that was a cracking episode.

I can very easily understand why other people would hate it though.

Does set up the rest of the series well though.

I had some issues when it got into the explanation but overall pretty good.

Very much this. A great mystery, very many standout moments:

I'm holding judgement on this week's episode until I've seen the next part. Some bits I liked (especially the interplay between the scientists), other bits I wasn't so sure about, but then, I've never been much of a UNIT fanboy.

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I really enjoyed it.

Loving this series. Capaldi is ace, and Matt Lucas is the best he's ever been.

Very much agree. It feels as fresh as the Ecclestone years and as confident as the Tennant/Tate era.

Yes. Very much so.

Ecclestone year

I enjoyed that. Is this the best season so far?

Yes

This.

Peter Capaldi is ultra scary whenever he plays evil. Definitely the highlight of the episode.

Have you folks seen these Dr Who/Mr Men books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/s/ref=nb ... dam+doctor

There are some animations of them as well - let me dig out the Missy / 12 video

Not sure why it is but this season hasn't felt as compelling to me as previous Capaldi seasons.

Weird. I think it's much better.

Mostly because it's more about the Doctor, and not the Clara Show, occasionally featuring the bumbling doctor.

God you are so sexist.

Assistant!

'Empress of Mars'. Pretty unmemorable standard 'Doctor Who', not offensively bad like that moon-is-in-egg atrocity, but not standout either. As a homage to old Who, it might do well with nostalgia glasses on but other than the Ice Warrior's novel technique for folding clothes, it's not one I think I'll return to, even if they did have Enfield muskets.

Well, there was one jaw-dropping brilliant moment:

I agree. Brain candy. Suffered from a lack of Lucas, but monster costumes pleasingly crap.

I enjoyed this week's more than last week's. An enjoyably self-contained story, and I'm sure that watching it on a dark night would make the monster even scarier. I don't really like tentacles. The crows having a sulk was fun, and Nardole was brilliant as usual. Romans are cool and always a welcome addition to anything (see also bears; helicopters; muskets) but I liked how they used young actors to portray them as that felt more in line with the 'just like children' theme and more realistic anyway. Bill's genre-savvyiness was in full flow as she worked out the language translation gubbins, and the whole lip-sync thing was something I hadn't picked up on before.

Might have to rewatch the mini-episode at the end as preparation for the finale.

I thought that was really good too. This series is consistently knocking it out of the park. I hope they keep Nardole around, Lucas has impressed me, his delivery is masterful.

Missy has been great too.

Just caught up on the last two. This series has been a slow burner for me - and I came in half way through. But that was great. Especially the bit about kids, and the crows. Great!

Well, that wasrather good.

I don't think it was very child friendly, mind.

Brilliant. Super, awesome, brilliant.

I find Missy VERY ATTRACTIVE

That would have been superb had they not given the plot twists away last week.

First episode I've properly loved this season.

Fuuuuuuuuck!