Doctor Who — Page 84

towne32 said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Handman said:

In addition to the end credits, we didn’t even get a title sequence!

And one of those four people was Wil Wheaton.

Nobody got a title sequence for the first episode. It was announced a week or two ago that it wouldn’t appear until episode 2.

Indeed. Though BBCA lacked the end credits as well. I later watched the digital version, and the theme (at least over the credits) is quite good. Has a lot in common with the 60s version’s melody (and the full version of it), but with modern heavy drums.

That’s because it is basically the original theme, remixed with modern heavy drums.

Here it is

I found it via the BBC online site and loved it!!

Now is the perfect time to get back into it! You can just skip the parts you missed and continue with this new Doctor, the new showrunner won’t be referencing anything from the Matt Smith/Capaldi years.

Jay said:

Eccleston was my favorite and I think my disappointment at not getting a second series from him tainted my mood for everything that came after.

This for me as well. I don’t think I watched five episodes of Tennant’s first series before I lost interest.

Tennant gets better. I never particularly cared for him with Rose, but he’s great with Donna (Series 4).

If that’s confirmed, then it sounds like a great time to try again.

Well, they haven’t explicitly said as such, but whenever the show gets a whole new creative team, they like to start fresh. It happened when Russell T. Davies left with Tennant, and it’s happening again with Moffat leaving with Capaldi. The show is really pushing the idea of being completely refreshed, even getting rid of Murray Gold, who wrote the music for the show since its revival. It’s safe to say this is an entirely different interpretation of the show. Right now is the perfect time to try again.

Every time I’d just about given up on the show, a great episode would appear and convince me to give it another chance. I can’t think of another show with which I’ve had such a love/hate relationship. I so desperately want to like it.

Oh, definitely. For every five average episodes, there are two damn near incompetent ones, and one that’s absolutely fantastic. And that episode, along with the surprisingly solid concept for the show, is enough to keep you going. The actors who’ve played the Doctor have been so consistently good, that there have been many times where I’d watch an episode just to see more of that performance, regardless of how bad the writing gets. And by the end of Capaldi’s run, it got really bad…

Handman said:

If that’s confirmed, then it sounds like a great time to try again.

Well, they haven’t explicitly said as such, but whenever the show gets a whole new creative team, they like to start fresh. It happened when Russell T. Davies left with Tennant, and it’s happening again with Moffat leaving with Capaldi. The show is really pushing the idea of being completely refreshed, even getting rid of Murray Gold, who wrote the music for the show since its revival. It’s safe to say this is an entirely different interpretation of the show. Right now is the perfect time to try again.

Every time I’d just about given up on the show, a great episode would appear and convince me to give it another chance. I can’t think of another show with which I’ve had such a love/hate relationship. I so desperately want to like it.

Oh, definitely. For every five average episodes, there are two damn near incompetent ones, and one that’s absolutely fantastic. And that episode, along with the surprisingly solid concept for the show, is enough to keep you going. The actors who’ve played the Doctor have been so consistently good, that there have been many times where I’d watch an episode just to see more of that performance, regardless of how bad the writing gets. And by the end of Capaldi’s run, it got really bad…

And how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?

LordZerome1080 said:

Handman said:

If that’s confirmed, then it sounds like a great time to try again.

Well, they haven’t explicitly said as such, but whenever the show gets a whole new creative team, they like to start fresh. It happened when Russell T. Davies left with Tennant, and it’s happening again with Moffat leaving with Capaldi. The show is really pushing the idea of being completely refreshed, even getting rid of Murray Gold, who wrote the music for the show since its revival. It’s safe to say this is an entirely different interpretation of the show. Right now is the perfect time to try again.

Every time I’d just about given up on the show, a great episode would appear and convince me to give it another chance. I can’t think of another show with which I’ve had such a love/hate relationship. I so desperately want to like it.

Oh, definitely. For every five average episodes, there are two damn near incompetent ones, and one that’s absolutely fantastic. And that episode, along with the surprisingly solid concept for the show, is enough to keep you going. The actors who’ve played the Doctor have been so consistently good, that there have been many times where I’d watch an episode just to see more of that performance, regardless of how bad the writing gets. And by the end of Capaldi’s run, it got really bad…

And how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?

What is the purpose of continually using this phrase towards me? If you can’t think critically about the things you love, well… that’s boring.

LordZerome1080 said:

Handman said:

If that’s confirmed, then it sounds like a great time to try again.

Well, they haven’t explicitly said as such, but whenever the show gets a whole new creative team, they like to start fresh. It happened when Russell T. Davies left with Tennant, and it’s happening again with Moffat leaving with Capaldi. The show is really pushing the idea of being completely refreshed, even getting rid of Murray Gold, who wrote the music for the show since its revival. It’s safe to say this is an entirely different interpretation of the show. Right now is the perfect time to try again.

Every time I’d just about given up on the show, a great episode would appear and convince me to give it another chance. I can’t think of another show with which I’ve had such a love/hate relationship. I so desperately want to like it.

Oh, definitely. For every five average episodes, there are two damn near incompetent ones, and one that’s absolutely fantastic. And that episode, along with the surprisingly solid concept for the show, is enough to keep you going. The actors who’ve played the Doctor have been so consistently good, that there have been many times where I’d watch an episode just to see more of that performance, regardless of how bad the writing gets. And by the end of Capaldi’s run, it got really bad…

And how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?

The live sex show was sublime.

For every five average episodes, there are two damn near incompetent ones, and one that’s absolutely fantastic.

So, I’ve just started rewatching Matt Smith episodes, and I forgot how uneven his start was. However, there’s a reason it’s remembered so fondly, because this is the rare season that has three of those absolutely fantastic episodes.

Series 5

Fantastic:
The Eleventh Hour
Vincent and the Doctor
The Lodger

Good:
Amy’s Choice
The Big Bang

Average:
The Time of Angels
Flesh and Stone
The Vampires of Venice
The Hungry Earth
Cold Blood
The Pandorica Opens

Incompetent:
The Beast Below
Victory of the Daleks

Oh, definitely. I really enjoyed World Enough and Time and Oxygen of Capaldi’s final season.

I actually take back what I said about the writing being awful by the end of Capaldi’s run. It gradually got better over time. Outside of that three parter, and the finale being a bit too “Moffat”-y for me, it was a very solid season.

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

What I assume was an otherwise cliffhanger ending was totally ruined by the sudden cutaway to some pumped-up insert, followed by a total lack of clarity that the episode was over. By the time I happened to notice that credits were running in the corner, a lot of time had passed and I assumed I had missed something.

Basically, the episode was great, while the presentation of it by BBCA was pretty awful. When you can’t even tell what you are watching at any given moment - the show, or an ad, or a get-together, and you can’t tell if the people on the screen are BBCA guests or if they are extras in the episode… it’s a mess. I hope it’s not like this every episode.

Agreed. Sticking with amazon for the next episode. The commercials are pretty detrimental anyway. Just wanted to watch the first one live due to the simulcast.

Tbh I think that a one hour episode is a tad much for a Doctor Who episode.

Abraham probably doesn’t like it that way

I am forced to admit. She is better than I thought she’d be in the role. Much better. I was wrong and I am sorry.

I do have a couple of minor complaints about the episode. How could she fall from the sky down into a train without breaking every bone of her body and having to regenerate again?

Near the end of the episode The Doctor talks about having not shopped for women’s clothing for a long time. When would the Doctor have shopped for women’s clothing? This is the first time the Doctor has been female. Don’t tell me about the other selves in the Brain of Morbius. The Time of the Doctor established the number times the Doctor has regenerated. The Doctor has never been a woman until this episode.

The thing about knives. The Doctor needs to learn that knives unlike guns can be used in peaceful ways. Knives are very useful tools at times, that is why we all have them in our kitchen. There is nothing wrong with carrying a knife. Just ask Macgyver.

Btw, I carry a Swiss Army knife.