Interesting, they should polish all those off *before* the Eurovision Song Contest, all being well. If nothing else, this split season avoids the annoying gap week they'd have when that came around.
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Doctor Who Series Seven |OT| The Question You've Been Running From All Your Life
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Interesting, they should polish all those off *before* the Eurovision Song Contest, all being well. If nothing else, this split season avoids the annoying gap week they'd have when that came around.
I'd guess from what we've heard so far that the last episode is set in Victorian England again for the most part with these (maybe the "whispermen"?):
as the main villain.
Ironic that they used this because the idea of that moment is so powerful that I see this episode having an effect on people who don't even know much about Who. For example, on tumblr there was a post sometime ago with gifs and an explanation of what's going on in that scene, and a lot of the notes were like "I don't even watch Who but this is amazing".Sorry if these goofy facebook like pics are frowned upon but this was pretty cool I thought.. (was in my G+ feed actually) There was lots of dust in the air during this scene for some reason.. :/
http://5ths-lapel.tumblr.com/post/20903661511/unicorntimelordadamyoung
I'd guess from what we've heard so far that the last episode is set in Victorian England again for the most part with these (maybe the "whispermen"?):
as the main villain.
I think that's probably from the Crimson Horror, potential spoilers here:
http://sciencefiction.com/2012/07/06/doctor-who-episode-finds-old-friends-returning/
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Am guessing the entire opening takes place with Clara drinking Coffee then finishing it after a pretty hefty opening introduction 
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See also Last of the Time Lords, Mass Effect 3.
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I'd guess from what we've heard so far that the last episode is set in Victorian England again for the most part with these (maybe the "whispermen"?):
as the main villain.
Oh hey, look who it is
That was my initial thought as well, but if you look carefully at the gravestone in the background, you can see:
the letters ONG at the end - as in river? She's only in the finale
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I don't see anything. I need a bigger picture.
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That's so close to the edge. Poor workmanship.
Mass Effect 3 yes - but there's a lot more wrong with Last of the Time Lords than just its ending, for me anyway.
That would put 2 episodes with Victorian themes pretty close together though, which seems a bit of an odd choice.
The finale probably jumps around lots of different time periods like The Big Bang and The Wedding of River Song. I suppose the crimson horror is placed so late in the season just to remind viewers about Vastra, Jenny and Strax?
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The thing about Last of the Time Lords that's interesting, I think, is the whole Doctor on the run thing. The Master being the PM gave at least the first part of that this real weight. There's some really great scenes. I love the Master gassing his cabinet, the tense phone call between the Doctor and the Master, and the moment Martha's family is arrested and they're forced to go on the run. It's everything the Doctor is best - anonymous, mysterious - turned on its head. Suddenly he's wanted, and it works really well for that particular story.
The next week starting a full year on in this sadistic, fascist world is great too - there's just two key problems - first, the conclusion, and second the implementation of the TARDIS being turned into a Paradox machine - it's just sort of there, and the reveal carries no weight. Oh, and the barely-characterised but super-clear transformation of his wife from a twisted mirror of Rose to an abuse victim is great. I think there's some great ideas expressed in that story overall - but the two things that resolve it - the Paradox Machine and Jesus Doctor - are really, really bad.
A more realistic reason is probably them just wanting to put a gap between the two Gaitiss episodes so his 'style' doesn't dominate too much.
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Speaking of his style - what is the consensus on Mark Gatiss as a writer? For me his Sherlock and Doctor Who stories are always saliently inferior to other episodes (Night Terrors....so much potential squandered) - Does he keep getting asked back because he's a personal friend of Moffats?
I'm actually looking forward to "Cold War" - the concept is so promising I'm not sure where Gatiss could go wrong with it - but I have a feeling in the pit of my stomach that he'll find a way.
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Pretty much. I find him very hit or miss.
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Matt Smith on the Jonathan Ross show tonight....
Looks like a giant geek fest...
Holy shit, best episode ever.
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Damn. That would be some good casting.
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Wossy has sunk completely into "Bad Pun Dad" mode. What the hell was that at the beginning!
Also, it felt too short. Fuck off Ruth Jones, let the talent talk.
I want Charles Dance, John Hurt and Ian Mckellen in the show as villains - preferably all at the same time.
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McKellen already voices one. We just need the other two in the same episode.
I think Gatiss writes better for Sherlock than for Doctor Who. The Hounds of Baskerville outshine pretty much all his Who episodes. I think this is relative to the amount of episodes churned out by each show, though. He'd have a lot more time writing and refining his Sherlock episodes than his Who episodes - at least, that's what I imagine.
I think his episodes always have great potential and definitely plenty of heart, but something knocks it down a peg or two.
He definitely gets asked back because he's a friend of Moffat, not that this wasn't obvious.
God damn you, I wanted that.
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Haha, man, I swear, The Doctor really is one of the funniest characters on T.V.
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God damn you, I wanted that.
Here are some others.
NP, and here's a bigger version for...avatar reasons.
Yeah, "avatar reasons". That'll work. <_< >_>
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Awesome. Love Who's humour.
Whoot, thanks, now I just have to decide which one I want. I wish we still had rotating avatars, then I could have all 3.
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Doctor Who reference in Ridiculous Fishing.
The Impossible Astronaut, diner scene with River and the Doctor comparing diaries.
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But he didn't write The Hound episode. He wrote Reichenbach Falls.
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Steve Thompson wrote The Reichenbach Fall.
Gatiss wrote The Hounds of Baskerville.
Just wanted to add, I thought it was awesome how Hounds was actually H.O.U.N.D.S.
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sherlock_episodes#section_
According to this Gatiss wrote Hounds and Steve Thompson wrote Reichenbach.
Edit: Beaten like Mark Gatiss in Live Chess.
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Nope you've got it the wrong way around. Gatiss wrote The Great Game & Hound of Baskerville; Steve Thompson wrote Blind Banker & Reichenbach
And for what its worth I thought baskerville was easily the weakest episode in season 2 - it felt more like a bog standard episode of jonathan creek than sherlock.
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Yeah. Realized that after. Derp.
But Baskerville has Russell Tovey so it's automatically awesome...
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You are aware that you have broken my brain, right? Cause you did the same post in both threads? I am tripping out over here.
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Jenna Louise Coleman was just on Craig Ferguson, and was adorable as hell. As expected.
Video should be up on youtube tomorrow sometime.
Video should be up on youtube tomorrow sometime.
Sarcasm? he just wails histrionically in everything, being human, sherlock, doctor who - everything I've seen him in. If he has range he hasn't showcased it so far.
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Must watch!
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