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Doctor Who Series 7: There Will Be Daleks

God that was tedious and dull, other than the one moment where it looked like the Doctor would just hand him over to his death, the whole thing just kind of plodded along, and the ending was stupid.

Sure lets take this guy who threatened to kill us all and did kill our sheriff and just make him the new sheriff.
 
I THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD.

Also Amy was MUCH less annoying this week and now I'm sad about her leaving again (Rory only got about four lines though.)
 
Amy looked amazing in this episode. That's the first important fact to highlight.

Um, I did like the overall concept and I thought the "you don't know what to do with me" bit about him being a goody and a baddy was refreshing, but the end might've just been a bit too neat. We've seen this sort of thing a lot in various shows, where the bad guy very conveniently realises the only way to repay for his crimes and end everyones woes is to carry out his own death sentence, so you could see what would happen coming a mile off, with the only question being how they'd squeeze it into the final ten minutes.

Time and time again I wish they'd at least do two part adventures if not full on serials, because the stories could be so much better fleshed out and people's motivations and development would be far more convincing. Next weeks looks like another story that could do with more than 45-50 minutes, as the analysis of what it's like to be a companion had me hooked just from the trailer.

Btw, does anyone know if there's a significance to the murky look of the opening titles this year? It looks like pollution.
 
It seems to get greener every week.

And yeah, this is the best Amy has looked in a while (okay, there's only been three episodes this year.) Maybe it's because they were outdoors?
 
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I guess the combination of very thin dress and the sun backlighting gives us a lot more leg than we are used to seeing.
 
I liked it. Seems this year the show is a lot easier to follow. The timey wimey stuff was confusing last season. I needed a FULL TIME TOMTREK to know what was happening.
 
I HOPE THIS EPISODE WILL BE GOOD.

Because the premise looks interesting.

But "Written by Chris Chibnall".

WHO CAN TELL?

(we can, in like an hour)
 
That was alright. I mean, it could've been better. But it could've been worse.

There were some annoying things that I thought the show had left behind in the RTD era, namely stuff like DRAMTIC CLOSE-UPS OF NEWSREADERS ON TELEVISION to give esposition, pointless celebrity cameos and completely pointless narration (seriously, why was that there?).

Also of course the ending was pretty rushed and I'm pretty sure that if everyone's hearts had actually stopped for that long then they'd all be brain dead by then so restarting their hearts wouldn't really do anything!

Also Karen Gillan's décolletage.
 
I liked it, a lot of it did seem to be setting up next weeks last ever episode with Rory and Amy though, I hope the Doctor doesn't have to tell Brian they are both dead when it was him who encourage them to go with him.

It certainly looked like the pair of them were falling to their deaths, but it could easily be a bit of trailer misdirection.
 
It wasn't terrible, but it was pretty meh. The whole episode is "oh, the Ponds are working up to leaving the Doctor behind" but then Rory's dad says "go with the Doctor!" at the end and they just all smile and run off again. So what was the pont?

It felt like that James Corden episode but at least it didn't have James Corden in it!

Was Amy wearing a wig this week? Is that the key to her looking different (she looked better last week with what I assume was real hair.) OR HAVE I GONE MAD.

GAY REFERENCE.

Lucky the EXTERMINATORS OF THE GALAXY (and how many species have been described as "an old Gallifreyian bedtime story" now?) didn't have better secuity.

SO, next week, this ISN'T a spoiler but it's so obvious that I'm 100% certain it will happen so I'm using spoiler tags anyway...

Statue of Liberty's going to be an Angel, right?
 
I really liked it. I thought it was a lot more consistent than the others so far. It kept my attention throughout, had some really nice character bits amongst the admittedly RTDish massive alien invasion and it set up the Ponds leaving quite well. Yes, the ending appeared to override it all, but I was glad to see the subject covered since next week's looks like it'll be too fast paced for any proper conversation. Ultimately I don't think it'll be that hard to believe that Rory's dad told them to go, so they accepted his advice and then on the very next adventure had an extremely close encounter with death that made them think again. I don't think that totally invalidates what was covered tonight. Instead, this week's episode will fill in the blanks of what will probably have to remain unsaid next week due to time limitations. (Supposing they do choose to leave next week, rather than dying. :()

The shots of newsreaders were ok since they didn't have any British actors doing terrible Americarn accents. And they have to zoom in on the tv so it's only showing Sophie Rayworth's left boob because Ofcom will bitch at them for confusing senile pensioners and Daily Mail readers (ok same difference?) otherwise. They could think there's a REAL cube invasion otherwise!

The ending was really rushed, though. I couldn't tell if it was referencing loads of old stuff, or if we were actually supposed to know what Palpatine was saying. The thing Wacky mentioned about the victims OBVIOUSLY being LONG dead by the time the Doc reversed the polarity added to my confusion.

(Oooh, Merlin advert! Some stuff fell on someone!)
 
Wasn't this slow invasion in the past, sort of? It was like Amy was telling a story of something that had already happened, but then Brian already knew about the Doctor, so that was a bit confusing? I DON'T KNOW. So it had to have happened after the dino episode? FUCK. Maybe it was future Amy telling the story.

I liked it, mostly. It was a little heavy handed about getting us prepared for Amy and Rory leaving the show... maybe they're trying not to freak out the Americans who like characters to stay the same forever. Doctor Who is finally really taking off over here, so they have to baby us a little, IMO!

Next week is the fall finale, so that is weird. The show just came back on! WTF AM I SUPPOSED TO WATCH ON SATURDAYS NOW? :rwmad:
 
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