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Name Of The Doctor
Just watched the series finale of Doctor Who on BBC I-Player.
It is incredible. Existential drama at its absolute best. And it doesn't look like it was done on a very big budget.
Steven Moffat will get a BAFTA for this if there's any justice.
He won't, of course, 'cause there ain't.
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We have to wait a bit here on the other side of the pond
Those of us here in the U.S. must bide our time until we see the final episode.
There have been a lot of rumors flying about the Doctor this year. Hopefully, Mr. Smith will stick around a lot longer. He reminds me a lot of Tom Baker.
Steven Moffat has done a really good job building the show. We'll miss him if he decides to leave the show. I don't know that anyone else could replace him.
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I'd normally have inserted a link, but I don't know if you can do that with BBC I-Player, especially to people outside the UK. Then there's the fact that this episode really shouldn't be watched in isolation.
Matt Smith will never be my favourite Doctor, but my opinion of him has risen a lot this season. David Tennant was a difficult act to follow, and for a while Matt seemed too eager to imitate him. Part of the problem was Karen Gillen - great actress but totally miscast - and then there were the stories, some of which stretched the viewer's credibility to breaking point.
All this has changed since the introduction of Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara Oswald. Not a great actress, at least not yet, but what a character! For a start, she's a...
Shut up! You promised!
Yeah, but...
You promised!
BBC America Dirctv
If you have Directv episode "The Doctors name airs tonight" FYI
New Doctor Who
episode broadcasts over here across the pond, on BBC America with other episodes leading up to this one.
May Your Light Forever Shine
Watch it sooner.
I downloaded the episode from extratorrent.com well before it aired here in the states. perfect quality with no comercials. gotta love it.
Jessica Marie
Doctor Who Interrupted By Adverts?
Doctor Who interrupted by adverts?
Is there really a country in the world that allows something so uncivilised to happen? If so shame on that nation.
x
nevermind...
What borders on stupidity?
Canada and Mexico.
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Just saw it myself
Aaaand... I'm thinking I need a remedial class in Doctor Who history to get everything I saw.
Good, though. Forboding, but good.
Melanie E.
no!!!!
Now we have to wait until November!!!
Hugs,
Jenna From FL
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I know.
I know. November 23. Darn you cable.
Not just cable... Damn you
Not just cable... Damn you BBC.. :D
Thoroughly enjoyable episode. I just hate those Cliffhangers.
Of course, it explains those other episodes...
All said without spoiling anything. he-he. :D
To be honest, I haven't seen
To be honest, I haven't seen a full episode since the end of the original series, with Sylvester McCoy. I've seen some pieces, and my brother has watched them all, and I'll say that I'm not horribly impressed with what little of what I've seen. Some of the current writers (or at least the people building sets) have taken undue liberties with canon - to me.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
As a fan from...
...the behind the sofa days with William Hartnell, I've watched each generation adapt the story to its needs and mostly enjoyed it. In terms of the science involved, it's always been iffy but then in Quantum Theory, the idea of time is equally questionable - doesn't everything happen in the same moment? So if time doesn't exist, time travel could be difficult. But it's enjoyable hokum.
Now I won't have to reserve Saturday evenings to watch the box so might get some things done.
Angharad
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Three episodes that might persuade bibliophage to reconsider.
Dalek
The Girl In The Fireplace
Turn Left
Part of what bothered me the
Part of what bothered me the most was the reiteration of The Invasion Of Time, where they're going through huge amounts of the Tardis, as explained by my brother (he was watching it on his phone). The problem with that is that the Doctor ejected some enormous percentage of the Tardis in an earlier episode (I don't know if it was Timewyrm or not - that one was the control console, but I can't recall the rest) to escape something by reducing the amount of TARDIS that had to be moved by his power source.
I _hate_ retcons. I don't mind explaining something that already happened, but denying an earlier, or completely changing it, bothers me. For example, we already know there were _three_ Gallifreyans involved in the original power source. There was Rassilon, Omega, and The Other. (There's back story in one of the official Dr. Who magazines from the 80's. It was a canon set of stories, written by the original writers) In the Seventh Doctor series, with the Hand of Omega, he stated straight out that "We had a lot of problems with the prototype". "We"? "I meant they did." Which implies that the Doctor has always had a bit more to do with the Time Lords than even _they_ realised (Being trapped on earth, for example, by the Time Lords)
I'll admit, of the various companions, I preferred Nyssa and Ace - both were smart, and neither required a lot of hand-holding.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Been a fan for 30 years
And Moffat has driven me away from the show. The episodes last fall were some of the worst I have ever seen, making "Robot" with Tom Baker look like cinematic genius. Mr. Moffat in my opinion has no understanding of Doctor Who is supposed to be about, or what the character is. Hopefully he will be fired and someone with some understanding of the show will replace him.
I used to watch 50 years ago, when it first started!
It went through some bad times after a few years. The problem was, the people at the BBC didn't really approve of it. Its popularity dismayed them. They tried to sabotage it.
They buried it for many years. Then it was reborn and lives on just like the Tardis - and the Daleks!
From what I remember, it
From what I remember, it wasn't that they tried to sabatoge it; that was just a side effect.
What happened was the producer left (I think that's the one. The guy in charge of it) and then they got into fights over who was going to continue it - by the time the dust settled, they'd pretty much killed it. Months of infighting for the 'privilege' meant that nobody got it.
I remember that period pretty well. Bastards. If you want to have a civil war, do it outside with real weapons. Backstabbing doesn't belong in the building!
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.