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I like Matt Smith...
Incidentally, i also liked the episode, the twist was a touch predictable after all the foreshadowing but it was a nice episode and well written... more or less.
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Seriously, what's will all the hate in this thread? People keept bashing RTDs episodes and now everyone hates the last two seasons?
I for one loved the mid-season finale. Because, let's face it, the Doctor IS a Bad-Ass. Granted, I've never seen the old show, but the new one is bad-ass all the ime. When Nine flew the Tardis right in the middle of the Dalek fleet head on. When Ten imprisons the Family of Blood. And let's not forget Elevens Stonehenge speach (which, loses quite a bit of impact if you know that they just tricked him, but it was still awesome).
A good man goes to war was sooo great. I nearly pissed himself when they turned all expectations we had about the father around TWICE.
He has lived for hundreds of years. And his name is the last centurion.
That was brilliant! Because even when I was perfectly sure that Amy never could've had something with the Doctor the way they establish her relationship with Rory that one line came so out of nowhere and was turned around again. Never would have thought Rory, I mean fething RORY, could be some damn bad-ass.
Yes, the show is ridicoulus over the top. But there is no other show that can actually pull this off like Doctor Who. Spitfires in Space? Hell Yeah!
The revelation was not what I expected. For a minute I thought River was the Doctor's mother. I'm not sure I'm quite comfortable with this. It puts a big spin on a character a lot of people seemed to hate. But now I'll have to check Silence in the Library again and see how she dies.
Do we know the girl soldier? I don't remember her.
Anung, I didn't dislike the last season (season 5) at all, I loved it. And Tennants last couple of seasons have brilliant moments.
I'm not enjoying this season as much, because I think it's falling into some of the self indulgent traps that the later Tennant seasons did. It won't stop me watching the show, but it will frustrate me (if it continues).
No idea if anyone else clocked it, but those Cybermen do not appear to be the alternate universe onces. They are proper, proper cybermen. Who hopefully no longer say delete when jobbing someone.
Mr Mystery wrote:No idea if anyone else clocked it, but those Cybermen do not appear to be the alternate universe onces. They are proper, proper cybermen. Who hopefully no longer say delete when jobbing someone.
How can you tell? Chestplates were blank.
Doesn't this theory suggest that they should follow the previous Cyberman design? There's no reason the "original" ones would just copy the "new" ones (unless they cared about trying to look not-stupid).
I would just like to point out and remind posters that Dr Who is for kids, the fact that we as adults like it is a plus. Obviously they try to walk a fine line producing a show that kids like and that the parents will sit an watch as well, but it's aimed at kids. So for crying out loud give it a rest when it comes dissecting which Dr was the best one. Stop delving into the storyline of each episode as if it's an episode of Battlestar Galactica, Stagate Universe or Lost. It's for kids and as long as they are still watching it, that is all that matters.
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if we might get, eventually, a new "flesh" body for River, into which they "download" her personality/soul from the massive library planet,and then the Dr. fixes this into being a real/permanent body using Tardis/time energies like he did with the worker doppels.
I am also thinking that the person inside the astronaut suit might well be the Dr. too -- who kills a flesh duplicate of himself -- which he now knows is possible to make, and knows that they watch him die -- because at the time that happens Amy is still a flesh puppet and he wants to convince the clerics and co. that he really, really is dead.
With the Tardis being hidden under/in the lake.
I still wonder a little bit about the Omega type symbol on the soldiers uniform... Omega would indeed, possibly, be able to "hack" into a Tardis wherever it was/is in space and time to enable the flesh Amy to keep functioning.
Perhaps he wants a timelord body to possess or something.
This would perhaps also tie in neatly with the constant little hints and teases about the possibility of there being other time lords left alive somewhere.
Or that could be nothing, dragging up Omega would, perhaps, be a bit too much from the past possibly.
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It would make sense, that the Doctor who got killed in the first episode was a duplicate, but somehow it still seems too easy a solution.
And why would the Doctor kill himself? He clearly enjoyed the company.
...I think the fleash have a very importaint part in this later serise?...
...Just wandering
They'll be used as a dodge...
Dakka Bingo! By Ouze "You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry.
...I think the fleash have a very importaint part in this later serise?...
...Just wandering
They'll be used as a dodge...
What do you mean?Something like a red hearing?
No...
They have already shown the Doctor getting jobbed.
They will clearly want to avoid having to not continue the show so it is likely they will use the gangers as a dodge to avoid having the Doctor killed...
Dakka Bingo! By Ouze "You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry.
Quite a few of Moffat's episodes seem to focus around some group actually going after the Doctor. The united villians with the Pandorica, now the Omega army or whatever they called. They knew what danger the Doctor is and they go after him.
The 10th Doctor usually just stumbled into these things.
I prefer Tennent, but quite a lot of that comes from Smith's story lines being....kinda meh, which is a shame because IMHO hes doing a good job as the Doctor.
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Da Boss wrote:Darkvoid, can you explain why you think the 11th doctor is an idiot? What qualities does he have that annoy you so much?
Well, internet posts do have the annoying habit of coming across harsher than intended.. but to be honest, he just does stupid things and is rather too arrogent for my liking, to briefly name a few things.
Revenent Reiko wrote:He just loves Tennant
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Goliath wrote:
Darkvoidof40k wrote:Also, the 11th is a bit of an idiot.
(I foresee getting flak for that)
The 10th was a very good and very well developed character though, and his story was inexorably tied in with that of the 9th Doctor's brief series.
seriously, can you stop it with the constant Matt Smith hate?
It seems that every post you make is praising Tennant as if he is the messiah, and criticising Smith.
You like Tennant. You wish he hadn't quit. We Get It!
Here we go again.. I told you I foresaw the flak.
I don't hate Matt Smith, I just don't like his episodes much. His character is funny sometimes, but loses the feel of Doctor Who too much. Oh yes, I will continue to exercise my ability to complain about Matt Smith whenever possible.
Revenent Reiko wrote:I prefer Tennent, but quite a lot of that comes from Smith's story lines being....kinda meh, which is a shame because IMHO hes doing a good job as the Doctor.
As an older viewer I feel the 11th Doctor is a return to the original version seen in the first three incarnations, who were often rather irascible and aloof, though fundamentally kind and protective to humans. They also dressed in a more old fashioned style like this one.
Kilkrazy wrote:As an older viewer I feel the 11th Doctor is a return to the original version seen in the first three incarnations, who were often rather irascible and aloof, though fundamentally kind and protective to humans. They also dressed in a more old fashioned style like this one.
You might be onto something here KK, especially considering the odd hints at previous Doctors we've had recently.
Darkvoidof40k wrote:Also, the 11th is a bit of an idiot.
(I foresee getting flak for that)
The 10th was a very good and very well developed character though, and his story was inexorably tied in with that of the 9th Doctor's brief series.
He's not that bad, he's just in the shadow of one of the best Doctors there ever was. I know he's over the top, but can you really say that the 10th wasn't? The entire point of the Doctor is that it's over the top. Some of the writing has been terrible, but that's not Matt's fault anyway. The only thing I don't like is how his voice is so annoying. Seriously, when he gets angry his lips start quivering and he develops a lisp, his voice keeps getting moany and wierd, spit flies everywhere...it's like watching him have a seizure in slow motion.
And...Russel T Davies........Love and Monsters....(rushes to bathroom and vomits profusely)
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if we might get, eventually, a new "flesh" body for River, into which they "download" her personality/soul from the massive library planet,and then the Dr. fixes this into being a real/permanent body using Tardis/time energies like he did with the worker doppels.
I am also thinking that the person inside the astronaut suit might well be the Dr. too -- who kills a flesh duplicate of himself -- which he now knows is possible to make, and knows that they watch him die -- because at the time that happens Amy is still a flesh puppet and he wants to convince the clerics and co. that he really, really is dead.
With the Tardis being hidden under/in the lake.
I still wonder a little bit about the Omega type symbol on the soldiers uniform... Omega would indeed, possibly, be able to "hack" into a Tardis wherever it was/is in space and time to enable the flesh Amy to keep functioning.
Perhaps he wants a timelord body to possess or something.
This would perhaps also tie in neatly with the constant little hints and teases about the possibility of there being other time lords left alive somewhere.
Or that could be nothing, dragging up Omega would, perhaps, be a bit too much from the past possibly.
It puts a big spin on a character a lot of people seemed to hate. But now I'll have to check Silence in the Library again and see how she dies.
