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Honestly? Its like they read my ideas post and stole the best idea...and then did a crappy version of it.... (by this i mean the Doctor becoming jaded with the whole idea, getting sick of constantly doing the same thing - although they took a different tack with it being due to his compassion, which i liked)

it was very rushed IMO (i know they are all short episodes, so there isnt too much they could have done, but still..), not a bad concept, and i like the idea of a cyborg protector throughout history, (but even that has been done with Rory as the Legionaire) .

Overall, not bad, not great, fairly obvious set up for the 19 year old kid to be a companion later on...

Good episode. There wasn't too much going on. Dinosaurs in Space slung stuff at me too quickly and wasted its opportunities. The Wild West episode had a much better rate of exposition.

I didn't like all the stuff with the Doctor threatening people with guns, even if he was a bad guy. Hell, the Doctor couldn't even kill Davros with his own hands when given the opportunity in either the old or new series. And of course, I don't think the Doctor should use guns, he should be cleverer than that.

Even the american TV movie got that one right, when the Doctor steals a gun off a policeman he threatens to shoot himself to force cooperation rather than waving the thing around at other people, like your more usual hero.

I liked it, it had John Crichton in it, it was cool to see him again. Makes me want to re watch Farscape.

Probally my favourite episode of the series so far. Rewatching Asylum I liked it much less then I did originally, the begining was still fantastic though! Dinsours on a spaceship had a really rushed ending but this episode seemed pretty well though out. The ending was good, it made sense, it didn't feel like they were trying to wrap everything up in five minutes.

All in all great episode.

It was alright.

.. Once again there was a flickering or damaged lightbulb... that's happened in every episode so far this season, and in the Pond LIfe mini too....

 reds8n wrote:
It was alright.

.. Once again there was a flickering or damaged lightbulb... that's happened in every episode so far this season, and in the Pond LIfe mini too....

Its a sign from the Weeping Angels!

The Silence made that happen as well.

 reds8n wrote:
It was alright.

.. Once again there was a flickering or damaged lightbulb... that's happened in every episode so far this season, and in the Pond LIfe mini too....

Is it me or the new episodes much more humorous and light hearted. I like it. It reminds of the episodes with the crazy 4th Doctor, who never took anything seriously.

There is a lighter touch on the steering wheel of Lurve.

.. yeah, I can see that I guess.

One supposes this is partially to further go against the more oppressive tone in the arc episodes in the last few seasons, and possibly to make what happens to...... certain people... even more heart breaking when it does happen.

 reds8n wrote:
.. yeah, I can see that I guess.

One supposes this is partially to further go against the more oppressive tone in the arc episodes in the last few seasons, and possibly to make what happens to...... certain people... even more heart breaking when it does happen.

Nah , etxermintate the companions. I'd rather have Nefertiri and the hunter dude back. Of course to Genghis Connie this is heresy...

I liked it, i found it amusing that after we were discussing how old the doctor was he said 1200 in this epicsode

It surprised me by not being all that bad, though the "alien war criminal hiding on Earth" plot device has been old since at least The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

My real critisism, however, would be that the story made very plain the limitations of the 45-minute format, which obliged the writer to just tell rather than show us that Kahler Jex felt sorrow for his actions. Moreover, without time to develop them properly, the Doctor's debates with him compared rather poorly with (for instance) those between Tom Baker's Doctor and Davros in Genesis of the Daleks.

I liked it overall quite well. I particularly liked that it was obviously made in the US with American actors. There are some brits that can do a US accent well but this was fun. I loved Ben Browder in there. No wonder why I saw a video of him a while ago he had this huge cowboy mustache! I thought at the time be must be doing a cowboy thing.

 CDK wrote:
I liked it overall quite well. I particularly liked that it was obviously made in the US with American actors. There are some brits that can do a US accent well but this was fun. I loved Ben Browder in there. No wonder why I saw a video of him a while ago he had this huge cowboy mustache! I thought at the time be must be doing a cowboy thing.

the Wife and GC did not understand why I went goombah when I recognized him.

I really don't like how it feels as if the Ponds have already been written out, and everyone knows it except the writers.

Yeah i got that impression....

Is it just me or are they trying to show off that they no longer have crappy generic actors in the supporting rolls?

All the episodes so far have featured prominant British actors in supporting rolls.

 Testify wrote:
Is it just me or are they trying to show off that they no longer have crappy generic actors in the supporting rolls?

All the episodes so far have featured prominant British actors in supporting rolls.

Or American. But I tune in to watch the Doctor, not the guest stars.

 NecronLord3 wrote:

 Testify wrote:
Is it just me or are they trying to show off that they no longer have crappy generic actors in the supporting rolls?

All the episodes so far have featured prominant British actors in supporting rolls.

Or American. But I tune in to watch the Doctor, not the guest stars.

Dinosaurs...on a SPACESHIP!!!
What are we going to do about the not kestrels?

Love it.

 Frazzled wrote:

 CDK wrote:
I liked it overall quite well. I particularly liked that it was obviously made in the US with American actors. There are some brits that can do a US accent well but this was fun. I loved Ben Browder in there. No wonder why I saw a video of him a while ago he had this huge cowboy mustache! I thought at the time be must be doing a cowboy thing.

the Wife and GC did not understand why I went goombah when I recognized him.

My wife almost knew it before I did! It was great and make me want to watch Farscape and SG1 again.


It's not like they have hugely prominent guest stars I think. But then again I don't know BBC too well so they are not big to me. They've had a few that went on to do big stuff like the girl in the Weeping Angels.

notprop wrote:[Welsh bint] - Wats that Jack?

[Captain Jazzhands] - hmmmm could be from Solaria or errrr maybe? Yes it is, it's from.......OOOOk-lahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain........[turn, tap, heel kick, smile.....Jazzhands]

You mark my words it will happen if there is another series.

That... is actually exactly what I'd like to see in Torchwood. I only watched the show because it's a DW spin-off, but TW Jack is almost a completly different character compared to DC Jack. If we're lucky we get like 1 or 2 funny lines from him per episode and the rest focuses on how terrible his immortality is. Granted, they did some terrifying things with that concept like in Children of Earth but that makes it even weirder when you think about how the character acted in Doctor Who.


Mercy was cool, but I don't think there was a big chance that I wouldn't like the episode. It'll be interesting to see where they're taking the Doctor for the rest of the season. It was weird to see him do what he did in Dinosaurs, but if this is really what they're going for in this season, I can't wait to see how it turns out.

Also, Lt. Mitchel got fething old!

I'm not sure that I liked A Town Called Mercy. Any episode where the Doctor points a gun dies with me at the point.

But don't forget:

First Daleks in Manhatten, fair play, but then another episode in the same place?

Come on now, really? he's got the entirety of time and space at his beck and call.

 Darkvoidof40k wrote:
Come on now, really? he's got the entirety of time and space at his beck and call.

Next thing you know he'll be hanging around in London all the time.

 reds8n wrote:
It was alright.

.. Once again there was a flickering or damaged lightbulb... that's happened in every episode so far this season, and in the Pond LIfe mini too....

'll just leave this here..
http://www.geeknative.com/32210/doct...hts-going-out/

Titles have indeed been getting darker and darker....

Dr. What wrote:I'm not sure that I liked A Town Called Mercy. Any episode where the Doctor points a gun dies with me at the point.

But don't forget:

Spoiler:

Next, the Year of the Slow Invasion. The time the Doctor tried to be a Pond.

And then the Angels take Manhattan and the Ponds bid farewell!

The Doctor is hardly a pacifist, and while he claims a dislike of guns, he's often used them (though prefers explosives).

He has killed so many, he is truly the destroyer of worlds, and those he doesn't kill directly, he encourages his companions to do it.
I mean, just off the top of my head from the new series (let alone the old), he's:
Attempted Genocide on the Silence.
Gone to War with the forces at Demons Run - killing hundreds, if not thousands of men.
Killed a LOT of Weeping Angels.
Destroyed a crapload of Cybermen in the Cyber King (by blowing them up).
Dropped the Sycorax lord off the side of the ship.
Was going to genocide the Daleks and wipe out half of / the entire earth with that radioactive pulse.
Blew up an entire Cyberman Fleet just to make a point.
Created a device to turn Sontaran Atmosphere Nuclear, then took it to their ship. And blew them all up.
Genocided the Rachnos.
Genocided the Daleks at the Medusa Cascade.
Killed the Daleks in manhattan.

OH, AND - Genociding the Time Lords. Twice.
and there's more.

AS WELL AS THAT: He's really quite harsh at times, the two biggest that spring to mind are:
Trapping the Family of Blood in terrible, unending tortures.
Doing that whole thing with the Fish in the Fog, then just leaving the woman to die after taking her remaining days, though originally they were hopingto keep her there till a cure could be found / afforded. (even though he'd probably have had a cure just laying around the Tardis or only needed 5 minutes to get one.)

And to top it all off:

 Ovion wrote:
The Doctor is hardly a pacifist, and while he claims a dislike of guns, he's often used them (though prefers explosives).

The Doctor has indeed been a good deal more unapologetically killy in the new series, though in fairness in many (though conspicuously not all) of your examples he'd been placed in a "kill or be killed" situation, or was acting in the defence of others. I really didn't approve of the notion of the Doctor blowing up the Cybermen just to make a point.

The Resurrection of the Daleks example is a good one, but it's deliberately atypical, and comes from a time in which the series' writers were mucking about with things for shock value (much as I'm inclined to think they were in A Town Called Mercy). Tom Baker's excellent "Do I have the right?" speech in Genesis of the Daleks (which, regrettably, I can't find on YouTube) sums up rather better the core of the character's ethics.

 Ovion wrote:

The Doctor is hardly a pacifist, and while he claims a dislike of guns, he's often used them (though prefers explosives).

However you also have 10's huge "I hate using guns" thing that was an enormous deal for all of his series.