NEW! Dr Who!!

[Deep Sea Isopod]

OMG, next week... the return.....

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

of the Daleks!!!!! My fave evar Dr Who enemy!!!

[Rum]

I thought today's episode was a bit of a throwback to the original set of series. You could see the plot device a mile away. It looked like a case of 'this is what Dr Who episodes should look like', then add baddies with masks, assistants who add a small twist and not too clever special effects. I am very meh at this point.

[CJ]

I thought today's episode was a bit of a throwback to the original set of series. You could see the plot device a mile away. It looked like a case of 'this is what Dr Who episodes should look like', then add baddies with masks, assistants who add a small twist and not too clever special effects. I am very meh at this point.

Recover your inner child Rum

[Rum]

I thought today's episode was a bit of a throwback to the original set of series. You could see the plot device a mile away. It looked like a case of 'this is what Dr Who episodes should look like', then add baddies with masks, assistants who add a small twist and not too clever special effects. I am very meh at this point.

Recover your inner child Rum

My inner child was always pretty astute - even when it was really a child! I want to like it, but compare it to the first of the new Doctors. I was close to tears in a couple of those episodes. They really were special.

However - it is only TV when all is said and done! So sod it..

[Deep Sea Isopod]

I thought tonight's episode was shite, I'm trying to sum up this Will Smith guy.

[GrahamH]

Run, I agree with you.
Stephen Moffat, who wrote The Beast Below, has written some good scripts (Blink, Silence in the library, End of Time), but they are very much on the whimsical fantasy side rather than being coherent SciFi.

[ficklefiend]

This one felt like a what it was - a new team starting up. Seemed to me they were heavy on ideas and low on cash. There was so many story elements in there, but not enough time for them all to be followed through fully!

Enjoyed many bits of this though - the big story arc, the very cool Queen character, seeing the doctor work through a problem, his sheer annoyance at THOSE BLOODY STUPID HUMANS AGAIN ARGH!! Haha. Amy continues to be pouty but fun. Eleven I am already in love with, he came across as very fallible and a bit of a dick here. I don't think I've ever really been annoyed at him before, even when Ten was trying to act like a dick it was because he was conflicted by having to do the right thing. When The Doctor told Amy she was going home there, he was spiteful.

The smilers were a strange choice. They reminded me of Moffat's choice of those info points with faces on them in The Library story, which I didn't think quite pulled off either. I didn't feel they were satisfactorily explained. (Did they put them in charge themselves? Why not just have the "police/winders" control the ship? Why were they in booths if they can walk? etc.. etc.. etc..)


During RTD's time everyone was always talking about "the gay agenda" in Doctor Who. I hereby crown the Moffat era with the "sex and scotland agenda".

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Those "smiler" thing were familier? There's another film with them on.... Vampire Circus mayhaps?

, his sheer annoyance at THOSE BLOODY STUPID HUMANS AGAIN ARGH!! Haha.

Earth humans are the Dr's favourite beings. You'd think as a very intelligent being, he'd prefer some of the other critters he's come up against?

[ficklefiend]

Bit of a slow start to this. Makes me think the Moff is trying to get back to the ambling pace of the old series, but it's just not possible with a 45min format (or 40min as this new series seems to be shaping up to be- short episodes all round, production issues perhaps?) RTD would have condensed the first 10 mins of that into about 10 seconds I'm not sure if for better or worse. They managed to hit a lot of plot points successfully anyway...

Spitfires in space

New Daleks (A LOT of ppl on twitter/forums are moaning their pants off, it amuses me how many who fans are completely averse to change. I don't get it. I immediately thought of the posters for the Dr. Who movies with Peter Cushing, and I like the fact we get some new, strong daleks to use again when needed, and not some rag-tag leftovers again and again)

Karen Gillan's acting (sorry girly. Amy= great character, but Karen so far has been hammy)


From these first three eps I can totally feel this different tone to the whole series. It's got the wierd, alien, not quite there strangeness about it. I have to say I'm totally into that, I like wierd, but at the same time I am worried that people are going to start being turned off from doctor who again. Having a programme celebrate it's own strangeness and just be what the creators want is great, but if you start shutting the middle of the road audience out you don't have a show anymore.

[CJ]

Not too sure about the new Daleks. Bit too Volkswagen Golf for my liking, to curvy, one should feel one should cut yourself if you touched one. But only a minor niggle. What will piss me off is if the assistant turns out to be another 'Wesley Crusher' who continually saves the day. I like Matt though, he's bringing a lot of energy to the character.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

FOr me, the next double-episode will be the make or break. The weeping angels were one of the best creations in the last series and a 2-parter should take any time constraints out of the equation. If this doesn't work, then nothing will. ( Personally, I think it will.)

[Faithfree]

The new series has finally arrived in Oz - on in a bit over half an hour - so I will get to see what everyone's talking about.

[Rum]

Bit of a slow start to this. Makes me think the Moff is trying to get back to the ambling pace of the old series, but it's just not possible with a 45min format (or 40min as this new series seems to be shaping up to be- short episodes all round, production issues perhaps?) RTD would have condensed the first 10 mins of that into about 10 seconds I'm not sure if for better or worse. They managed to hit a lot of plot points successfully anyway...

Spitfires in space

New Daleks (A LOT of ppl on twitter/forums are moaning their pants off, it amuses me how many who fans are completely averse to change. I don't get it. I immediately thought of the posters for the Dr. Who movies with Peter Cushing, and I like the fact we get some new, strong daleks to use again when needed, and not some rag-tag leftovers again and again)

Karen Gillan's acting (sorry girly. Amy= great character, but Karen so far has been hammy)


From these first three eps I can totally feel this different tone to the whole series. It's got the wierd, alien, not quite there strangeness about it. I have to say I'm totally into that, I like wierd, but at the same time I am worried that people are going to start being turned off from doctor who again. Having a programme celebrate it's own strangeness and just be what the creators want is great, but if you start shutting the middle of the road audience out you don't have a show anymore.

Sadly I don't think it works. The direction is clunky and some of the acting a bit suspect. The Winston Churchill/Dalek thing..meh.

I really *want* to like it! I have been a massive fan of the new round of Drs.

[CookieJon]

Sadly I don't think it works. The direction is clunky and some of the acting a bit suspect. The Winston Churchill/Dalek thing..meh.

I really *want* to like it! I have been a massive fan of the new round of Drs.

Are we watching the same programme? I think it's the best it's been in years!

[Rum]

Sadly I don't think it works. The direction is clunky and some of the acting a bit suspect. The Winston Churchill/Dalek thing..meh.

I really *want* to like it! I have been a massive fan of the new round of Drs.

Are we watching the same programme? I think it's the best it's been in years!

Well I actually missed this episode on TV and watched it on Iplayer. Perhaps I should watch the repeat on BBC 3 or wherever.

Like I said - I *want* to like it!