I'm an idiot, yes I meant that.
If message boards existed in the 70s, I'm sure we'd get endless topics about Tom Baker being shit compared to Jon Pertwee, or how Inferno and Pyramids of Mars were terrible episodes.
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Doctor Who Series 2011 |OT| Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Stuff
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I'm an idiot, yes I meant that.
If message boards existed in the 70s, I'm sure we'd get endless topics about Tom Baker being shit compared to Jon Pertwee, or how Inferno and Pyramids of Mars were terrible episodes.
JonathanEx
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As a heads up, BBC Three have been showing some past Christmas specials this week: 'End of Time Part 2' is on now, catch up with the others on the iPlayaaaaa: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=doctor+who&filter=tv
Watched it for five minutes. Was reminded how terrible it was. Skipped to end transformation and left it.
EleventhDoctor
Banned
My daughter got her TARDIS, Amy and Eleventh Doctor action figures tonight and she loves them. We've been playing with them all might, making makeshift Daleks and Cybermen out of cups.
Can't wait for the Christmas special!
Can't wait for the Christmas special!
PhoncipleBone
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I am hyped. Just too busy being tired to post more about it.
JonathanEx
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Have to pretend to socialise with grandparents.
I'm excited for it. My friends aren't looking forward to it, not huge fans of S6 and the Christmas track record. I hold out hope.
I'm excited for it. My friends aren't looking forward to it, not huge fans of S6 and the Christmas track record. I hold out hope.
Shorty11857
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Time for the Christmas special should be good if my little cousin stops asking me to make imaginery food...
PhoncipleBone
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I would say that standard definition is better than no definition.
Android18a
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Hmm. Not bad, I guess.
So was that
So was that
planet the same one the 5th Doctor met his end at in its original form before the industrial stuff happened? Or just the same company doing the planet-killing?
Napoleonthechimp
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It was a nice little self-contained story. There's nothing much more to say about it really.
TabletopTictacs
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My mum and sister liked it more than I did, so make of that what you will.
Did enjoy excessive-mascara Amy, though. Not a bad look for her.
But so much for maybe having a somewhat different formula for the first half of next season...
But who wrote this episode? I'd struggle to reconcile if it was Moffat, as the writing (plot, theme and dialogue) was just broadly average to terrible. Whole Bill Bailey & Crew interlude was cringe worthy.
But so much for maybe having a somewhat different formula for the first half of next season...
But who wrote this episode? I'd struggle to reconcile if it was Moffat, as the writing (plot, theme and dialogue) was just broadly average to terrible. Whole Bill Bailey & Crew interlude was cringe worthy.
jump_button
Banned
Not as good at the last years but still enjoyed it
JonathanEx
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I enjoyed it. I think that's all to be said, as someone else pointed out.
iPlayer link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b018nrhp/Doctor_Who_The_Doctor_the_Widow_and_the_Wardrobe/
iPlayer link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b018nrhp/Doctor_Who_The_Doctor_the_Widow_and_the_Wardrobe/
thechemist
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It was a good special, the ending was nice.
TetraxShards
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It was okay. Wasn't up to Moffat's usual standards IMO. I didn't follow the spoilers before the show or anything, so I was dissapointed Amy and Rory were just barely above a cameo.
frankie_baby
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Inoffensive but fun, lacked the impact of most xmas specials though
tbh, if I was pushed to damn it even more, I'd describe it as all the pointless excess of the RTD era without his particular talent for somehow making that work from time to time, yet with a Doctor who is steadily becoming more and more of a parody of his character, yet overlaid over Moffat's often Gaiman-esque sensibilities of scenario and monster design.
It struck me that Moffat wasn't writing dialogue for the character of The Doctor, as played by Matt Smith, but was instead writing dialogue for Matt Smith, playing The Doctor. I really, really hope you can all understand what I mean by that.
It was also really, really unclever. Deus Ex-y, wibbly-wobbly and pseudo-science-techno-babble to the extreme. A Christmas Carol was clever with its time-travel focused plot.
It struck me that Moffat wasn't writing dialogue for the character of The Doctor, as played by Matt Smith, but was instead writing dialogue for Matt Smith, playing The Doctor. I really, really hope you can all understand what I mean by that.
It was also really, really unclever. Deus Ex-y, wibbly-wobbly and pseudo-science-techno-babble to the extreme. A Christmas Carol was clever with its time-travel focused plot.
I know.
Yeah, you get me
The Elite
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Now you have my brain churning. Was it Androzani?
Fun episode. I thought some of the one-liners from the Doctor were very sharp. "MAGNA CARTA!"
No Doctor Who for so, so long. Someone hold me.
This was Androzani Major, that was Androzani Minor.
King of the Potato People
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It was light-hearted fun, nothing tense nor scary enough for kids but I enjoyed it. 'Mothership' was undeniably cheesy, 'emotions save the day' has been done so much as of late but damn I smiled.
So who, from the beginning didn't guess that the father would be rescued?
Overall it's an appropriate end for Doctor Who '11, good fun that should have been more humaney-wumey.
So who, from the beginning didn't guess that the father would be rescued?
Overall it's an appropriate end for Doctor Who '11, good fun that should have been more humaney-wumey.
They're psychic.
King of the Potato People
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I could mute the volume and still enjoy it. This series of DW has been so visually appealing, from the deserts of Utah, the scrapyard of broken Tardises in the pocket universe, the Portal-style kindness centres, how colourful Demon's Run looked, to the winter forest with spirit bobbles.
For the record:
A Christmas Carol > The Christmas Invasion > The Runaway Bride > The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe > The End of Time Part 1 > The Next Doctor > Voyage of the Damned
ACC was clever, TCI was epic, TRB was funny, it's hard to narrow down the bottom 3 since they're all so poor and feature scenes such as the CyberKing, the Master in drag, and a episode which tried to tug the heart strings that had two fatties falling off a ledge.
For the record:
A Christmas Carol > The Christmas Invasion > The Runaway Bride > The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe > The End of Time Part 1 > The Next Doctor > Voyage of the Damned
ACC was clever, TCI was epic, TRB was funny, it's hard to narrow down the bottom 3 since they're all so poor and feature scenes such as the CyberKing, the Master in drag, and a episode which tried to tug the heart strings that had two fatties falling off a ledge.
While not particularly creative, and lacking any twist, it was safe, charming and surprisingly tidy. There were many great Doctor lines, I liked his "Caretaker" nametag (which I expect will reappear again) and it was nowhere near as cheap looking as other episodes. The best bit however was just the Doctor showing them around his house, the bedroom especially captured just how I'd imagine the Doctor would try and create a kids bedroom.
King of the Potato People
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I wished the shadow piranhas showed up in the forest, just to frighten the little uns when the miners got eaten and their suits covered in darkness.
alysonwheel
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That ranged from meh to kind of awful. The WOMEN CAN HAVE BABIES Y'KNOW stuff was overblown, Bill Bailey was wasted, and the Doctor was a parody of himself. The ending was sweet.
As me and t'other half were musing, it seemed kind of bad taste
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As me and t'other half were musing, it seemed kind of bad taste
to do a Christmas episode set in WW2 where someone thought to have been lost in the war turns out to be fine, considering many of the families watching will have grans and grandads who really did lose people back then
Freyjadour
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Was okay, nothing else to say really. Certainly a step down from A Christmas Carol.
BackwardsSuggestions
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POWER TO WOMEN!
It was alright, I guess... Not great, but I didn't hate it and was enjoyable to watch... Besides, I don't ever remember enjoying a DW special as much as a good regular episode...
So when's the next series? Is it the one they said is coming in the autumn? Cause I'd hate to wait that long :/
So when's the next series? Is it the one they said is coming in the autumn? Cause I'd hate to wait that long :/
JonathanEx
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It'd have left a really bad taste on Christmas to end it with her saving the kids by shouting DADDY'S DEAD.
Oh and it silences the MOFF = SEXIST bullshit some fans whined about in S6.
Subliminal
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Yeah, I didn't really like it. Felt like there were alot of cheap emotional scenes. Last years was alot better.
KibblesBits
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That woman reminds me of the lead from that show with the couple that had all the loud and obnoxious children. Can't recall the name right now.
KibblesBits
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I have a hard time with faces...
And I didn't see her name when the program started so... yeah.
I was serious.
Incendiary
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I liked it. It was nice and light, something good to watch with a happy ending after a very heavy series 6. Had a good message, and I liked the "crying when happy, such a human thing." Not every Doctor Who episode needs to be mind-blowing. Sometimes simple is best.
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