Doctor Who Series 7

[Jonathan Capps]

A brand new Doctor Who thread for the modern man about town.

There were a few series 7 based comments in the old thread here, but frankly we need a new one at this point to avoid that pagination BULLSHIT.

So, that Mark Williams, eh? He’s in Doctor Who, isn’t he?

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[Alex]

According to the official site it seems that they are indeed bringing back the RTD Daleks, suggesting a return to the Dalek civil war idea from the 80s. No great surprise there though as that’s basically what we were presented with in the walk through part of the experience.

[Alex]

I see Chibnall is writting two of the first 6 episodes. Bugger.

[pfm]

Whyyyy bring someone back who’s written some of the most tedious episodes in the show’s history??

[Jo]

I see Chibnall is writting two of the first 6 episodes. Bugger.

Ack! :(

[si]

I’m not a Chibnall fan, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing. I hated his Silurian story – the worst Eleventh Doctor story yet – but I really like 42.

But then again, he did write Cyberwoman, which is the worst episode of anything in the whole 21st Century Whoniverse. :/

[Nick R]

I love this: Collegehumor’s Doctor Who RPG.

Those chiptunes!

[Pete Part Three]

>I really like 42.

Someone has to.

[si]

Saw that Doctor Who RPG last week sometime. Watched it 2 or 3 times in a row, it’s brilliant.

[Bob Loblaw]

To whom it concerns, 3 eps of Doctor Who nominated in its category for the Hugo’s (The Doctor’s Wife, A Good Man Goes To War, The Girl Who Waited). However, Community’s ‘Remedial Chaos Theory’ has also been nominated, and is the clear winner in my eyes.

[si]

Eek, decisions decisions.

[pfm]

‘A Good Man Goes To War’?? Well I suppose they had to include one of Moffat’s…..

I haven’t seen any of Community so I can only say I hope ‘The Doctor’s Wife’ wins. It’s just a shame they couldn’t produce Gaiman’s more extensive version of the episode. They should have saved it for a 90 minute film!!

[UncreativeUserName]

Having not seen the other Nominations, I’d say by a mile the clear winner of those 3 episodes is The Girl Who Waited.

[Kelly M]

All 3 are brilliant episodes, but I’d have to say The Girl Who Waited.

[pfm]

The Girl Who Waited is definitely up there with the best since the show came back. I suppose it works better as a standalone piece than The Doctor’s Wife. I would have had The God Complex in that lineup too.

[UncreativeUserName]

I liked The Doctor’s Wife but while it was interestingly different and certainly head above a lot of that Series, I didn’t get what everyone was on about calling it this incredible best ever episode.

[Connell]

I didn’t like The Girl Who Waited. The concept was great, but after 30 minutes in my opinion it was a lost cause.

[si]

I remember my dad proclaiming The Girl Who Waited his favourite episode ever after the first five minutes. Then I watched The God Complex the following week and thought much the same of that.

[genericnerdyusername]

I love everything and everybody, and that includes you.

[Seb Patrick]

The Girl Who Waited was very good, but it wasn’t in the same league as The Doctor’s Wife.

[Pete Part Three]

Something has gone wrong when the three best episodes of last year weren’t written by Steven Moffat.

[pfm]

Yeah, it’s a shame cause I thought The Eleventh Hour, the Angels 2 parter and The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang were pretty good. Nothing he wrote last year matched them.

[UncreativeUserName]

I just rewatched The Doctor’s Wife and loved it a helluva lot more than I did on first watch, and can definetely see the fuss. There’s some scenes which feel like running around for the sake of it which was my problem, my other being that I wish I could’ve seen the full length version Gaiman had intended. There was so much there to explore.

Haven’t seen Girl Who Waited on my rewatch yet, hopefully that will improve my already high opinion of it.

[Pongo]

One of the new episodes is called Pete. Oops, my mistake: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/18858556

[Jonsmad]

Is it a two parter?

[Ben Paddon]

Not yet.

[Jimboid]

So, coming soon.

Anyone been watching the Pond Life miniseries (well, microseries what with each episode being around 1 minute long)?

It’s quite amusing. It features an Ood on the toilet.

[si]

On Monday, I was a little disappointed with the length (part one was just 54secs), but all four parts so far have been fairly amusing. I think Part 2 was my favourite so far. :)

[HelloMabel]

Just watched the first four of them on Youtube. (The last one hasn’t been released yet, right?)

Cute.

[Alex]

On Monday, I was a little disappointed with the length

*Childish snigger*

[Pecospete666]

They slammed Twitter with about 20 tweets in a row for the new show.

They stole my Vogan stick!

The Bastards!

[Smeg4Brains]

> Just watched the first four of them on Youtube. (The last one hasn’t been released yet, right?)

It is now.

[HelloMabel]

Thanks Jason.

Embarrassingly, I haven’t seen any new Doctor Who series since early Tennant days. My PBS station stopped picking it up after series 2, I believe, and BBC America is just beyond my budget. And I haven’t been bothered to watch it online (that’s the embarrassing part).

This microseries was really nice. It managed to make me care about these incarnations of the Doctor and Companion in 5 short minutes, which must be some kind of record.

[Ben Paddon]

Do yourself a favour, Mabel, and try to watch at least “The Eleventh Hour” before Saturday’s broadcast. A finer 60 minutes of television you will not find.

[Jimboid]

Well, that was rather splendid.

Shame that after all the build-up surrounding old-style Daleks that we didn’t really see much of any.

Otherwise, top banana.

[Pecospete666]

I have 5:44 mins before I get to see it!

[Connell]

I agree that the lack of classic Daleks was a little bit disappointing.. and I also don’t like that the Daleks now have no recollection of the Doctor, what are you playing at?! First half the universe now think he’s dead, and now the Daleks can’t remember him from adam?! Also getting fed up of the amount of times ‘Doctor Who’ is actually being said in the programme.

However, it was interesting to see Jenna turn up so early.. wonder how Moffat is going to sort that one out! I also liked the whole concept of the episode, and kept thinking how good a video game it’d make.

Must admit the Dalek Prime Minister made me cringe… just didn’t sound quite right!

Overall i’d give the episode 7.5 / 10. Was good to see the Daleks as an opener, as oppose to the Davies days of having them in every single close. Didn’t quite fare as well as The Impossible Astronaut IMO.

[Carlito]

I usually really enjoy Doctor Who but – yes, here comes a tired old argument – I’ve found myself becoming less interested with each passing Moffat season. Tuned in for this one and found the first 20 mins grated me so much I kind of switched off mentally for the rest of the episode and allowed myself to become distracted with other things.

I will give it another watch and TRY to pay more attention to the second half so as to have a fair and informed opinion of the episode on the whole but early impressions not so good.

[Ridley]

Since Messrs Seb, Alex and Pete have taken all the good ones on Twitter: “…it’s the Dalek version of Norman Bates.”

Was there a resolution to the Ponds/Doctor’s slow transformation? I seem to have missed it.

Oh, I found the lack of a River Song mention a bit odd.

[Nick R]

I’m not a big fan of Daleks – especially not huge armies of them – but a good episode, even if as an opener it didn’t have quite the impact of The Eleventh Hour or The Impossible Astronaut.

I found it a bit annoying watching Rory try and understand the “eggs/ex” thing, but the call back to it at the end worked well. Good twist, although maybe a bit less surprising for me than it might have been, because quite early on I was reminded of certain sci-fi film that did something similar.

[Pete Part Three]

A bit “so so” for me, redeemed by the ending and the guest-star. The actual reason for the Doctor being there was very feeble and, if it weren’t for the ending, there wouldn’t be much to it. Not a bad episode, but not what you’d expect from a)a season opener b) a Moffat episode c)A Dalek episode.

>Good twist, although maybe a bit less surprising for me than it might have been, because quite early on I was reminded of certain sci-fi film that did something similar.

Ditto.

[si]

Personally, I thought it was amazing. I knew to expect a surprise just after the opening titles, but no way could I have expected that. I’ve got to congratulate the press (and, indeed, the internet) for keeping a lid on that.

[pfm]

> Oh, I found the lack of a River Song mention a bit odd.

Seeing as this was the first Moffat episode since ‘The Eleventh Hour’ not to include her (and obviously there was his Library 2-parter before that), I’d say it was pretty darned refreshing…

Okay…rather than editing what I just typed I’m gonna say I forgot about ‘The Beast Below’. Has anybody else? ;)

[Ridley]

I’d say it was pretty darned refreshing…

But “You have always wanted kids ever since you were a kid.” They have a daughter. Since being robbed of Melody’s childhood was, understandably, a big deal in TWoRS – coupled with the revelation that Kovarian’s lot have taken away from Amy the possibility of any more children (something which was a threat to her marriage) – I’da thunk River’s existence is worth a mention.

[Pecospete666]

” I grow weary of you Matt Smith,time for you to die “

Time for a new Doctor! Not impressed with opening show!
I picked up the Dalek Girl 2 mins into her appearance.
Moffat is good,maybe better shows to come.
I give it 6 out of 10.

[genericnerdyusername]

I really like Matt Smith.

[Ben Paddon]

Oh, do sod off, Pecospete.

[Alex]

Agreed. Smith is easily one of my favourite Doctors and I shall be very sad to see him go.

[Jimboid]

Matt Smith is superb. I sometimes tire of the “lashings of ginger pop! Wizard!” element of his character…but most of the time he’s wonderful.

I think maybe we’ve been spoiled with so many years of brilliant Doctor Who. This was a story with insane Daleks, reanimated corpses with fricking Dalek eye-stalks coming out of their fricking heads, cinematic vistas and wonderful production values overall, sparky tight dialogue, a twist that shifts the position of the series oldest foes, a re-establishing of the bronze bastard Daleks after the negative reaction to the new paradigm, an introduction of a new companion, genuine emotion….

All in 45 minutes.

If you’re a Doctor Who fan you have to be naturally predisposed to forgiving a few flaws…but it seems that people are disappointed in an episode if it doesn’t rank in their top 10 of all time. Maybe that’s because Doctor Who has rarely been this strong.

[si]

Me and my mates enjoyed it.

[MANI506]

I wouldn’t call myself a Doctor Who fan but I really enjoyed that and I’d say it was my favourite Dalek episode of all. I should think there are a few plot holes but I didn’t see the twist coming and I was moved by the Ponds getting back together.

There’s a podcast I like called The Complete Guide To Everything and their last one about Doctor Who had me chortling fatly throughout.

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