Doctor Who — Page 51

Okay the last episode was a complete turn around. the Doctor was working out a problem logically and is it just me or does he interact with children better then adults?  When it's a child he seems to soften just a bit and his sternness comes off as him being protective and the way he explains things doesn't seem rude and hateful. Maybe what this Doctor needs is a younger companion who for some reason he can't take back to her home,that would be interesting and new and I think it would play to Capldi's strengths.

Any way this was my favorite episode of the season so far so I am hopeful that the next three will continue to improve.

Oh and after seeing that add I think the week or more that I will have to wait for the next episode is going to kill me.  This must be a big final if they are devoting three episodes to it and I for one could not be happier,I miss the way most seasons of the classic series ended with a big six part story and it's nice to see the show get back to that.  Oh and Cybermen,yes!  It's been too long.

Two episodes, not three. Sorry.

Series 8 is 12 episodes instead of the usual 13. Possibly because A) the running time for a 13th episode is split between the extra time for Deep Breath and the extra time for the 12th episode, and/or B) the Christmas special is only a month and half after the finale, so they didn't have much of a break between filming the series and filming the special.

Of course, episode 12 could end on a cliffhanger that's resolved in the Christmas special, but I don't think that's very likely myself.

Oh that too bad:( 

Still 12 episodes is better then some other British shows get these days so I guess I am okay with that.

See what happens when you try to avoid spoilers?  You have no idea how many episodes are in the season:)

But hey - no spoilers!

I'm still kind of annoyed that the Series 8 box set is coming out before Christmas - assuming Series 9 starts around the same time 8 did, why would you pair this year's Christmas special with the Series 9 box set instead of 8? And don't even get me started on what they did with the 50th Anniversary Special and Time of the Doctor ... I still don't have those on Blu-Ray, and at this rate I don't think I ever will ...

Apparently I'm in the minority for liking our new Master...

I thought it was awesome.  I wondered weeks ago if that was who she was, but didn't expect they actually would go there.  I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be true.

Pretty sure they did it to mess with the minds of those who have been demanding a woman be cast as the next Doctor.  "Well, how about a female Master instead?"  I can totally see them cackling evilly over this idea when they came up with it.  ;)

Of course this begs the question of how the Master managed to escape from Gallifrey (where he presumably ended up the last time we saw him) when it got hidden away in another universe.  My theory at this time is that it has to do with that business on Trenzalore: the signal from the Time Lords wanting to come through may, in fact, have just been him.

Even the Doctor's extended life cycle granted him by the Time Lords may have been the Master's doing.  After all, he is known to have once said, "A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about."  That would sure be an interesting twist . . .

Teaming up with the Cybermen is a very Roger Delgado thing to have done, and the warped notion of 'heaven' seen in this episode was creepifying as all hell.  "Don't cremate me," indeed.  Yikes!

Ryan McAvoy said:

it looks like the actress is going to be a great character/villain, even if it's not really the proper Master character that we know from Delgado and Ainley (Simm wasn't The Master either).

Upon rewatching Dark Water, she already feels more like Delgado's Master to me than either Ainley or Simm ever did. (Beevers on audio still comes closest to Delgado, though.)

I just hope we're done with the stupid "drums" now. And I really hope they secretly shot a Simm>Gomez regeneration scene that we'll see on Saturday.

So far, for me: Delgado > Beevers (audio) > Gomez > Macqueen > Jacobi > Ainley > Beevers (TV) > Roberts > Pratt > Simm

Obviously, that could change next week. And Macqueen could be higher, but I've only heard him in Dark Eyes 2 (haven't gotten to UNIT: Dominion yet).

She'll be back. I hope! One of my favourite incarnations for sure.

I couldn't find a picture of her with the goatee on, can anyone shop it? :P

I thought it was the Cyber-Brigadier. They looked back to where the shot came from and his gun arm was still up.

Yeah, the Master is dead.

Just like he could never have made it out of Gallifrey alive after The End of Time.

Just like he was dead at the end of Last of the Time Lords.

Just like he was dead at the end of the TV movie.

Just like he could never have made it off of the Cheetah Planet before it broke up at the end of Survival.

...I would go on, but this would get very long indeed if I did.

No, the Master/Mistress isn't dead. She'll be back. Hopefully sooner rather than later ... and I really hope Michelle Gomez returns, too! Easily the best Master since Delgado (or at least close to being tied with Big Finish audio's Beevers and Macqueen).

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Whatever became of the "don't cremate me" arc?  It just stopped.  Was it true, or was it an unfortunate side effect of preserving the minds, or was it just part of the Master's distraction?

 I think it was part of the Master's ruse to get people to willingly delete their emotions.

I'm sorry.  Call me a sexist, but I can't accept a female Master.  However I wouldn't be able to accept a male Rani or Romana either.   I just can't agree with turning a male character into a femal character or vise versa.   It changes the character too much.   Also we have seen multiple regenerations of multiple characters in Doctor Who(the Doctor, the Master, Romana,  the President Borusa, Melody Pond/River Song).   Never in the history of the show have we seen a regeneration result in change of gender.  If regeneration can result in such, how come in never happened in all the regenerations we have seen until now.   This smells of political correctness to me.