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2015/11/18 04:14:34
Subject: Re:Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
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2015/11/18 04:21:48
Subject: Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
Oooh, that was a goodun! Possibly the best in the series so far.
Major spoilery stuff, DO NOT CLICK unless you've watched it.
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So passes Clara Oswald... and if they ruin that pretty much perfect final scene with some Deus Ex Time Travel cop out, it will be an absolute travesty. Fantastic acting from both Coleman and Capaldi and a side of Murray Gold's score catapults that into the ranks of the best scenes in NuWho.
The only thing that slightly confuses me is that the handing over of the confession dial, the suit rather than the hoodie and the script as a whole seemed to suggest that, as per the theory a page or two back, this took place before the rest of the series from the Doctor's perceptive. And yet he already knows about Ashildr, implying that either it's not or just that the chronology is completely random, with her two previous episodes taking place before this (in Doctor-time). Still, I expect the next two weeks will cover that.
The premise of the alien 'refugee camp' was rather neat, especially with the 'misdirection filter' thing. I'd have liked to have seen a few more flashes of the true aliens under the holograms, but it got the point across. The raven thing was cool too.
2015/11/21 21:17:29
Subject: Re:Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
Maybe a 'previously on' would have been handy then, cause I definitely did not put 2 and 2 together.
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So, presumably no word on the new companion then? I'm guessing we'll have Doctor on his own for the next episode, as advertised. Then probably Doctor+Missy team up, then River Song for Christmas, at which point a new companion will be shown in the last 5 minutes?
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2015/11/21 22:48:29
Subject: Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
I didn't when she started out, partly due to retreading the same sub-plots they had with (insert mid-20s female companions since 2005 here), partly because she was a product of Moffat-esque 'make the companion the plot arc' period. However, with Capaldi I think she's been much better, and I will be sad to see her go (but at the same time, it was done very well, assuming there's no retcon/timey wimey shenanigans to ruin it next week or after).
I was hoping for Ashildr to become the next companion, but I'm pretty sure that's not happening now! Just hopefully not another London-based mid-20s female. Do something different for once!
2015/11/22 12:05:34
Subject: Re:Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
..think we might have at least one more episode with her in maybe, looking at the cover anyway.
Did you note how casual the Dr was about her hanging out -- and nearly falling from -- the Tardis.
.. and when he was looking through the cards, it was Clara he was looking at when he said there's no easy way to tell someone they're going to die.
She still might have splinters or fragments of herself scattered about through time though yes ?
perhaps in a diner or similar ?
Raven seems to tie quite neatly into Norse mythology... Ahildr's idea or fault perhaps ?
Clara's death was almost the opposite of a timelord death too in some ways -- same stance but no massive burst of light, but a crawling darkness instead.
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2015/11/22 21:49:20
Subject: Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
I didn't when she started out, partly due to retreading the same sub-plots they had with (insert mid-20s female companions since 2005 here), partly because she was a product of Moffat-esque 'make the companion the plot arc' period. However, with Capaldi I think she's been much better, and I will be sad to see her go (but at the same time, it was done very well, assuming there's no retcon/timey wimey shenanigans to ruin it next week or after).
I was hoping for Ashildr to become the next companion, but I'm pretty sure that's not happening now! Just hopefully not another London-based mid-20s female. Do something different for once!
The thing I dislike about Clara is the character arc that involves her returning from the grave to save the universe again and again and again, like some of the previous companions in the new era Dr. Who.
That aside, the character herself is okay, but I note my daughter (age 16) hates Clara so much that she actually wanted her to die in a particularly gruesome, painful way, because of the way she is always running off thinking she can handle things by herself, and being useless, and blaming Dr Who when things g wrong.
In this case Clara has tried to handle things herself -- smug, smug smug -- and made a big mistake.
However I think there is a chance she will return from the grave again, and decide to stop being a companion because finally she has realised it is too dangerous.
I like the actress and she has done a really good job, but she can only perform the part as written for her.
I liked Clara after seeing her in person at Comic-Con.
But yes, please don't pick a modern girl from England. You all of space and time to friggin get a companion and its always modern England.
A serious lack of imagination.
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2015/11/22 22:00:25
Subject: Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
Kilkrazy wrote: They've had a bit of variation in the past. One of the early companions was a Jacobite Rebellion era Highlander, complete with kilt.
Leela (I think her name was something like that) was a barbaric girl from the future. I loved her as the companion because her simple way of looking at things often saw things the Doctor over looked.
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2015/11/22 22:23:37
Subject: Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
Kilkrazy wrote: They've had a bit of variation in the past. One of the early companions was a Jacobite Rebellion era Highlander, complete with kilt.
Leela (I think her name was something like that) was a barbaric girl from the future. I loved her as the companion because her simple way of looking at things often saw things the Doctor over looked.
And spent most of the time trying to stab anything that moved. Time Lords, Sontarons, Service Droids...
But yeah, please let's have a companion that is a) not just another Clara/Amy/Rose and b) doesn't exist at the centre of a plot arc.
Personally I'd be fine with the Doctor going solo and switching up supporting cast from episdoe to episode. If they stick with the 2-part as the norm style definitely think they could build up a convincing supporting cast for each story.
2015/11/23 00:02:15
Subject: Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
I was hoping for Jack or Torchwood to show up when they mentioned RetCon.
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2015/11/24 00:46:53
Subject: Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
She wasnt that great in Smiths run. Them being both overly cheerful kinda made it Meh.
but with capaldis cynicism at first, it made her a great contrast. And you can see, capaldi slowly grew nicer.
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2015/11/28 21:06:55
Subject: Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
Wow. What an episode. On its own, perfectly written and not just carried off but hit out of the park by Capaldi. The concept was great, the execution practically flawless.
And the implications... well..
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I guess 8's line about being half human wasn't a joke...)
2015/11/28 21:19:13
Subject: Re:Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
Steve Moffatt has come to believe his own propaganda, and sees himself as the bearer of the great Doctor Who Canon Flame into the future development of the gospel.
This can't be the first time Doctor Who has done a
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Groundhog Day story?
To be honest, I'm getting a bit fed up of it, it seems every popular TV show with a science fictioney / timey wimey / magical bent tries to shoehorn one in nowadays.
2015/11/29 00:37:51
Subject: Re:Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
WTF did they do to piss him off? Were they responsible for the Raven that killed Clara? What do they have to do with it? I thought this was about the Doctor taking revenge.
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2015/11/29 01:41:01
Subject: Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
Very, very good episode, even if it felt pretty dark overall. The only problem I have is that
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Moffat seems intent to rewrite every canonical/previously established part of the Doctor's timeline. Seriously, we've seen him as a child, where Clara helped him conquer his fears, we've seen Clara throughout his entire timeline, and now we're getting the full lifestory of why the Doctor left Gallifrey. Can he not just write for the Doctor in the present?
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2015/11/29 02:01:20
Subject: Re:Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
WTF did they do to piss him off? Were they responsible for the Raven that killed Clara? What do they have to do with it? I thought this was about the Doctor taking revenge.
well technically, he already did that
probably yes, who else would have a tardis lock lying around to trap the doctor.
2015/11/29 04:01:33
Subject: Re:Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
I really liked this episode and I felt the writing was a step up from the rest of the season (maybe because they only had to write for 1 character). The Veil was explained nice and quickly and the mind scenes were great (though the first thing my roommate said was "Oh! Like on Sherlock!").
My only real issues:
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The Doctor is.... the Hybrid and will ruin Gallifrey? What? I think this could turn out worse than the Tesselecta cop out and all that.
He was teleported....into his confession dial?
2015/11/29 10:55:21
Subject: Re:Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
WTF did they do to piss him off? Were they responsible for the Raven that killed Clara? What do they have to do with it? I thought this was about the Doctor taking revenge.
You mean other than have a direct part to play in getting his best friend killed before imprisoning him in his own personal hell for 2 billion years just to force him to save them?
And I have a theory about the whole Hybrid thing. It's only speculation going off the trailer/some previous lines, but if right it's probably a pretty major spoiler, so click at your own risk:
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I think Ashildr is the Doctor's mother. She's in the trailer for last week, the Doctor is presumably half human, and how else would a human be integrated into Gallifreyan culture than by being immortal? It makes sense when you think about it...
2015/11/29 13:57:16
Subject: Re:Doctor Who -- New Series 2016 Week 5 -- Beware spoilers!
In the last David Tennant episode, where the Time Lords tried to come back, the woman who kept telling Wilfred he needed to save the Doctor was confirmed to be his mother by Russell T. Davies. Of course, Moffat might not care about that at all.
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Just hopefully not another London-based mid-20s female. Do something different for once!
