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Doctor Who Series 9 - September 19th

SJA was really good, so it's definitely too early to tell if this is a good idea or not, but they could at least try doing something a bit different.
 
whisky said:
So there is going to be another spin off show set in coal hill school, even though Clara the only character we care about from that school is leaving.

But who dosnt want a doctor who show full of dreadful acting kids with no Doctor and no companion right?
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It's literally impossible to create new characters that might be interesting, you're right.
 
whisky said:
Utter bullshit, Moffat must go.

A few laughs along the way, but generally, WTF? Davros sets up the Doctor, but the Doctor was setting him up all along, and he realises he has to show Davros mercy after a Dalek is capable of mercy?

Fuck that and fuck Moffat.

Rememberence of teh Daleks was one of the best of the original epides, and they blew up Skarlo for a good reason.

Also, Davros is just a torso, but there is room for the Doctors legs in his chair? Fuck off.
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Maybe the chair is bigger on the inside.
 
I liked that. It was very by-the-numbers, but also very solid, and I like that next week's looks like it will change things up a bit.
 
Boring, and felt padded, this is what you get with a season of two parters, part one is always just set up for part two, and always sets up a cliffhanger that wont be what it seems.

I liked the cards.

Nice of them to also steal wholesale the scene from alien 3 where they try and lead the monster to the smelting room to seal him in, only with a Faraday cage.
 
I thought it was pretty good. I did wonder "why does this need to be a two parter?" towards the end but like Tomtrek said the next part seems to have a different setting.
 
I thought it was pretty good. I was hoping they'd get the coffin thing opened before the first part was over.
 
Or it's Missy in the coffin, because of course it is, and they open it and she just pops up and says, "Ay cunts, me again!" and then nips off with the pastries.
 
I enjoyed it. I read a bad review of it (in the Radio Times, surprisingly) and saw that it was one of those futuristic station bottle episodes they've done a million times, so I had low expectations. But I thought the ghosts or whatevs were really creepy, it was mysterious and the pace was slower, so there was time to actually talk through the situations, rather than running through them, yelling incoherently. There were also quite a few geeky references, which were fun (I picked up on Trek, Starship Troopers and one other I forget now).

The only letdown was some of the acting. I don't know what it is about Who that can bring out the worst acting in people. I'm sure I've seen the scientist with the glasses in other things and he's been fine, but in this he was really amateurish IMO.
 
Mah, the only thing not predictable was I thought loverboy was going to go inside the Faraday cage at the end so he could be with his gf forever.
 
BTW, if ghost Doctor is a hologram projected from the tardis, how come they see it in the future while the tardis is in 1980?
 
More importantly, wasn't the Doctor in the coffin for 150 years? Hope he had something to read.

I thought it was a pretty decent conclusion, though the first half was stronger.
 
I thought it was pretty solid. Nothing too unexepcted but I guess that's better than some random thing that wasn't foreshadowed happening, and some funny lines. I do have issues though...

1) I don't really know what the Fisher King's plan was? Did he fake his own death so he could go to Earth (but the funeral director picked the destination) then make ghosts to send a message to his friends to invade? Why not just tell them to follow his hearse? Or was he really dead but he regenerated somehow and found himself on Earth and the only way off was to send a message with ghosts? That second one would seem to fit better.
2) They did the "here's a cute girl who could be a good companion oh wait she's dead lol" thing AGAIN like with Oswin (and Lynda way back in 'The Parting of the Ways' and probably loads of other times) and it's a pretty cheap way to get you emotionally invested.
 
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