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Christmas Doctor Who

CaptainWacky

CaptainWacky

I want to smell dark matter
I havaen't seen it yet I can't believe Watto was init omgthe Dcotro die dand regenrated into Natalie Dormer with her breasts and then Clara showedup and said "HELLO DCTOR I HAVE BEEEN EXPECING YOU IN MY BED" and her bed s made out of chimps!?
 
Well they took the cruise liner in space getting hit by asteroids from that one christmas episode, mixed it a bit with the other space cruise liner crashing from that other one, added a bit of giant robot from the other one, then tried to make it all sentimental with the last night of River Song bit.

Like we ever see a woman Moffat creates for the last time.
 
I watched the first half yesterday but had to pause it to go and be sick (for unrelated reasons) and I think I fell asleep. There was some silly robot business that kids probably would have liked. So I watched the end again this morning and it was well acted by Capaldi and Kingston. Because they're close in age they felt like equels wheras Matt Smith's Doctor always felt "younger" than River even though he wasn't. Also I'm PRETTY SURE River in Silence In The Library didn't know that was the day she was going to die or the last day she'd see the Doctor. She said something like "I should have known when you showed up with a different haircut!" but in this one she explicitly knows what's about to happen? At least Kylie wasn't in it.
 
The town at beginning was the Diagon Alley set redressed slightly fwiw.

Not a bad episode on the whole. The robot and head stuff was kind of lame, but yeah, kids would've liked it. I thought the ending made up for it anyway. I've never been much of a River Song fan, but I still fell for the sentimentality.
 
HOOOOOOOO BOY


Steven Moffat quits Doctor Who to be replaced by Chris Chibnall in 2018

Only a Christmas Special this year.

2017 is Steven Moffat's last season.

2018 will be the first season of the new showrunner, CHIS CHIBNALL.


CHRIS

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CHIBNALL
 
The good news that Moffat is going is tempered by this bullshit year of no new Who.

Lets face it, the christmas specials have not been good in a long time.
 
At least we have another 11 months before we have to completely disagree about a new doctor who episode again.
 
I welcome a change of pace and hopefully some less convoluted plots, but Chris Chibnall is an iffy choice. Not a surprising choice, but surely not the best person available.
 
I'm not sure I'll watch class, only watched Sarah Jane when the Doctor was in it.

As for who, I would like to see someone in charge who didn't actually write the episodes himself, who got the best writers for the job, maybe suggested the odd revision or too, to make sure they are all heading in the same direction, but didn't feel the need to stamp his authority over everything.
 
It seems like it is a really hard job to get someone to agree to do. Moffat's supposedly been looking for a replacment for a year or something. Chibnall has run tv shows before and has Doctor Who experience so I can see why it would be a logical choice. Just a shame his Doctor Who experience is "wrote some bad episodes and shat out the first two seasons of Torchwood." BUT the two years should surely give him time to convince Neil Gaiman, Richard Curtis, Paul Cornell, Simon Nye and JK Rowling to write episodes, RIGHT?

Maybe the Peter Jackson episode actually will happen now that they've got a year to work out the shooting schedule!

It was probably time for Moffat to go since, you know, he wanted to go and he's been doing it longer than RTD now (or will have by the end certainly.) His first series, the first Matt Smith series, was the best series since the 2005 revival. After that he was up and down like an inconsistent showrunner, but the "Dotor traped in a castle" (I can't remember episode names) episode last year showed he was still capable of really great writing.

Sarah Jane Adventures was often great!
 
Maybe its an age thing, I like to think of myself as young at heart, but truth be told I am old enough to be most of your dad's.

But even when I was a kid, I never liked shows that had kids as the lead, not grange hill, not the tomorrow people, there is just something about a show with kids in that just puts me off, regardless of quality, hell I'll even admit that I enjoyed the episodes of Sarah Jane that I did watch, but if the Doctor had never guest starred, I would probably have never seen a single episode.
 
I used to have a bit of an issue with kid-led casts when I was one myself. I think part of it was down to jealousy, part of it was that the writing had an adult tone of voice that was at odds with the actors' ages and part of it was that they just weren't very good at acting. Sarah Jane had its share of cringeworthy acting (mostly from the main kid, Luke), but the stories were way better than Doctor Who's at the time. The lower budget probably helped a lot, as it meant that there were relatable problems for the characters to overcome, rather than "the screen is entirely filled with CGI Daleks".
 
I haven't watched the Christmas special yet... mainly because I'm afraid to given the last couple.

I was floored by the series finale "Hell Bent." Good stuff... but everything I'm reading about the Xmas special spells b-o-r-i-n-g.

Or am I wrong and need to take a shot at it?
 
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