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

Also, proper grim and scary.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Jun 25, 2017 22:11

How can there be two??

Firefox · **Joined:** 20th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 261

KovacsC wrote:

How can there be two??

One is older and one is younger, they just happen to be in the same time and place. (Assuming you mean the Master and Missy meeting?)

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

The same way you can have multiple Doctor stories.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jun 26, 2017 12:23

Pundabaya wrote:

The same way you can have multiple Doctor stories.

Usually something's gone very wrong for it to happen though. Usually they can't cross their own timestream.

Then again 9 did it on purpose in Father's Day.

Nik · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1982

Timey-wimey.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Jun 27, 2017 20:59

Just watched it. Superb stuff, and properly scary too.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Jun 27, 2017 22:09

That was awesome.

Very glad I don't watch the 'Coming next week...' sections if it gave any of that away.

Can't wait to see the conclusion. Is the episode next week the last one?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jun 27, 2017 22:29

Curiosity wrote:

That was awesome.

Very glad I don't watch the 'Coming next week...' sections if it gave any of that away.

Can't wait to see the conclusion. Is the episode next week the last one?

No, I think they'll do a xmas special at least

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

It's called The Doctor Falls, so I reckon the Christmas Special will be the next Doctor

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jun 28, 2017 8:29

Curiosity wrote:

Very glad I don't watch the 'Coming next week...' sections if it gave any of that away.

I think I need to stop watching them altogether. I never watch it if it's a cliffhanger, but usually watch the trailer for the next week just to wet the appetite. The big reveal would have been better if we didn't know who was coming back, but that had been talked about in the pre-series publicity. Admittedly, I didn't work out who it was but even knowing it's coming takes a bit of the edge of.

Kern · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2017 19:33

Mindblown. Might need to have a nap, rewatch, then try to put my thoughts into prose. Or at least stay away from the Internet for a bit.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5404

That's worthy of a rewatch, and I'm hugely looking forwards to the Christmas special now

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2017 22:56

Gosh.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2017 23:05

So...

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I'm assuming that David Bradley is playing the first Doctor, and not a new Doctor? And that Capaldi will regenerate in the Xmas episode after some sort of epiphany?

Does that seem right?

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5404

You are right about DB.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

Seems spot on. Great ending. Gripping episode.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Jul 02, 2017 7:38

That was a really great episode.

Will rewatch it later

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jul 03, 2017 8:31

Rewatched it yesterday. So many good things.

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- It took the second viewing to get the 'knock yourself out' gag
- The Master's flirting with Missy was charmingly disgusting
- The mirror reveal for Bill was uncomfortable enough, but the shadow on the wall was even scarier
- Normally not happy about the Doc indulging in mass extermination but given the situation and his warning that they'd changed from wanting to 'help' to attacking on a military footing made sense. Ish.
- Missy laid out like Ophelia. Nice touch.
- Every scene with John Simm in it.
- The end. I was hoping for a surprise introduction to the new doc, but the old one will do (DB was excellent in 'An Adventure in Time and Space'). Only regret is that we'll probably know all about the next doctor (please be Gaywood) long before the actual regeneration
- The Doc's speech about doing the right thing in front of Missy and the Master. Love it when Capaldi gets to do those kinds of things.
- Yeah, I don't care how contrived it was, I liked that Bill got an afterlife with the puddle lady
- Loved the cameos of the ex-companions. Shame 12 never got to meet Jack
- And more.

In short, it was a great end to an excellent series.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Jul 05, 2017 12:05

who will be the next Dr?

I am quite happy for a lady Dr.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jul 05, 2017 12:06

I really liked it. Superb series, best to date

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

At the end of Newsnight last night, they said that Phoebe Waller Bridge (the very funny lady from Fleabag) is a shoe in and she may have accidentally confirmed (by very awkwardly dodging the question and saying she can't talk about it) it in a Vlog. She was already the bookies favourite but before that had vigorously denied it. Which is good news, but also potentially means no more Fleabag, which is not such good news.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Jul 05, 2017 12:33

There's even an article on The Guardian about it.

She would be good, though it would add one more thing to the list of stuff I can't talk to my Dad about.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jul 05, 2017 12:35

It'll be Thomas Voeckler as he's going into TV soon.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Jul 05, 2017 12:51

Just re-watched the last episode. it is better second time round.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Jul 05, 2017 13:29

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

At the end of Newsnight last night, they said that Phoebe Waller Bridge (the very funny lady from Fleabag) is a shoe in and she may have accidentally confirmed (by very awkwardly dodging the question and saying she can't talk about it) it in a Vlog. She was already the bookies favourite but before that had vigorously denied it. Which is good news, but also potentially means no more Fleabag, which is not such good news.

This would be amazing.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

Curiosity wrote:

it would add one more thing to the list of stuff I can't talk to my Dad about.

How so?

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jul 05, 2017 14:29

His dad can only speak Finnish.

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

Lonewolves wrote:

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

At the end of Newsnight last night, they said that Phoebe Waller Bridge (the very funny lady from Fleabag) is a shoe in and she may have accidentally confirmed (by very awkwardly dodging the question and saying she can't talk about it) it in a Vlog. She was already the bookies favourite but before that had vigorously denied it. Which is good news, but also potentially means no more Fleabag, which is not such good news.

This would be amazing.

And now confirmed as not happening by the BBC and her agent.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Jul 05, 2017 18:26

DavPaz wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

it would add one more thing to the list of stuff I can't talk to my Dad about.

How so?

It's political correctness gone mad!

myp · **Posted:** Wed Jul 05, 2017 22:04

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

At the end of Newsnight last night, they said that Phoebe Waller Bridge (the very funny lady from Fleabag) is a shoe in and she may have accidentally confirmed (by very awkwardly dodging the question and saying she can't talk about it) it in a Vlog. She was already the bookies favourite but before that had vigorously denied it. Which is good news, but also potentially means no more Fleabag, which is not such good news.

This would be amazing.

And now confirmed as not happening by the BBC and her agent.

If it's that twat from My Family I might give up on the show. It would be the laziest casting ever.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

They couldn't possibly be going for another white man, could they? After all that shit about how time lords can change sex? "Is the future all girl?" "Let's hope so"

It'd be very disappointing if it's Kris Marshall. He'd be a fine Doctor, but how could he do anything new? His wacky goofy schtick would fall between Tennant and Smith quite nicely. Could he do gravitas? I just don't know.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jul 05, 2017 22:22

That Guardian article mentioned above is worth it for the description of a Kris Marshall portrayal as being "a fake Irish pub of a Doctor".

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

It makes a good point about him being a good choice as companion, but didn't Arthur Darvill cover that ground pretty comprehensively

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jul 05, 2017 22:29

DavPaz wrote:

It makes a good point about him being a good choice as companion, but didn't Arthur Darvill cover that ground pretty comprehensively

Who?

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

They should go with Michelle Gomez.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jul 05, 2017 22:46

I hadn't heard of 'Fleabag' until today. I will have to add it to my list.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

MaliA wrote:

DavPaz wrote:

It makes a good point about him being a good choice as companion, but didn't Arthur Darvill cover that ground pretty comprehensively

Who?

Rory

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3304

Kern wrote:

I hadn't heard of 'Fleabag' until today. I will have to add it to my list.

It's short (as in, not loads of episodes). Gobble it up. Bloody brilliant.

As was that Dr Who. My goodness, excellent and heart-renching, and just enough new hope at the end to leaven the thing.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2017 13:14

Was this one of the only new who series for the companion not to make it?

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

KovacsC wrote:

Was this one of the only new who series for the companion not to make it?

They chicken out of the Adric deaths a lot (although virtually everyone on Torchwood died)

Spoilers if you've not seen the last episode

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So Bill gets to live as a water creature with the pilot after being turned into a Cyberman and dying on the battlefield
Donna loses all her memories but lives a 'normal' life
Clara 'dies' but is brought back from just before she died and goes off to live as long as she wants in a Tardis with 'me' before returning to Gallifrey to 'die'
Amy and Rory get zapped back in time to die of old age (after Rory dies so many times in the series as normal)
River 'dies' the first time we saw her but she could still be around just because of the way her timeline warps

None of them really die in the same way that they did death in the original series (e.g. Adric)

Wikipedia has a list of actual deaths and its really just Adric and the timey wimey stuff with Clara

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion ... octor_Who)

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2017 13:52

That is what I thought I remembered. Thanks

Malc · **Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2017 13:54

zaphod79 wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

Was this one of the only new who series for the companion not to make it?

They chicken out of the Adric deaths a lot (although virtually everyone on Torchwood died)

Spoilers if you've not seen the last episode

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

So Bill gets to live as a water creature with the pilot after being turned into a Cyberman and dying on the battlefield
Donna loses all her memories but lives a 'normal' life
Clara 'dies' but is brought back from just before she died and goes off to live as long as she wants in a Tardis with 'me' before returning to Gallifrey to 'die'
Amy and Rory get zapped back in time to die of old age (after Rory dies so many times in the series as normal)
River 'dies' the first time we saw her but she could still be around just because of the way her timeline warps

None of them really die in the same way that they did death in the original series (e.g. Adric)

Wikipedia has a list of actual deaths and its really just Adric and the timey wimey stuff with Clara

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion ... octor_Who)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_(Doctor_Who)

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

We'll find out who the new Doctor is this Sunday after the tennis

devilman · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2017 0:11

zaphod79 wrote:

We'll find out who the new Doctor is this Sunday after the tennis

Federer would be a bold choice.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

It's Navratilova

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

I think the subtitle of the thread may need updating

https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status ... 0241117185

Meet the Thirteenth Doctor #DoctorWho #Doctor13 pic.twitter.com/txHGz9tJEe
— Doctor Who Official (@bbcdoctorwho) July 16, 2017

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Jul 16, 2017 16:36

All: Still not ginger

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

Good choice - good actress without being a massive 'star' name so no baggage and that.

Loving (laughing at) many of the predictable outraged Twitter comments already.

myp · **Posted:** Sun Jul 16, 2017 17:04

I am delighted beyond belief.

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