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Doctor Who Series 9 - September 19th

There is precedence for that sort of thing.

You know its weird, for years I wanted an older Doctor, and I love Peter Capaldi in his previous roles, but I think the last episode of his I actually enjoyed was the space orient express one.

I don't really blame him, he is not writing the show, or directing it, or producing it, he is a fan like Tennent before him, and I am sure he is having a lot of fun, but I think Who has lost its way, Moffat has to take the lions share of the blame, but the BBC schedulers have to take theirs too.

Doctor Who should never start that late, it is a kids show that adults watch too, not a show that should have any part of it broadcast after the watershed.

6PM is ideal, 7.30 back when it was on for 30 minutes, fine, but having start after 8, when so many kids have already gone to bed, and on a Saturday, when so many adults are out on the piss, who is meant to be watching this show?
 
The second half was pretty good. They probably could have gotten all of that into one episode, though.
 
I do agree that I miss the days when it started at 6. But Strictly Come Dancing lasts four and a half hours or something and gets fifty million viewers so they probably don't have much of a choice.
 
Oh, I meant to say "Osgood" rather than "Oswin" (thanks for the confusing names, DICTATOR MOFFAT) but I guess what I said could apply to Oswin too, really.
 
Well it didn't entirely suck, but "girl looking a bit sad" has to be the lamest cliffhanger ever.
 
IT WAS GOOD.

I liked how they tied in with Capaldi choosing his own face.

The cliffhanger was quite a beautiful and ominous shot asking "what does it mean that this girl is immortal?" Not "girl is a bit sad." But it didn't really need to be a presented as a cliffhanger. They could have left out the "to be continued" since next week's episode looks like a different story that happens to feature the same character hundreds of years later.
 
I didn't think it was bad per se, just a bit thin. It all felt like set-up for a character who's actual story is next week.
 
Mmm. It was probably written way before they figured out the casting, but it did feel a bit like the plot was just "hey, we got Arya, can you believe we got Arya? Look, here she is! Her character is special because she's played by Maisie Williams". It was only at the end that the character took on properties that really made her significant. The premonitions before that weren't touched on very much.

But I did really like the bit about the Doctor's face and the discussion about immortality. Will be interesting next week to see how things turned out.
 
I liked how the explanation for his face wasn't some big epic "THE REAL SECRET OF THE DOCTOR'S FACE ACTUALLY THE SECRET WASN'T THE REAL SECRET THE REAL SECRET WAS AN UNRELATED SECRET" thing.
 
Eh, don't worry. After a while, she'll meet Captain Jack, they'll fuck like rabbits, and that's how we wended up with the Welsh. Or something.
 
I just remembered Jack was buried underground for two thousand years and he was exactly the same after.

Man, fuck Torchwood.
 
AY WAIT A TICK

How comes Clara couldn't make the Dalek casing say "I am human!" in Series 9, but she totally DID when it was the Oswin Oswald version in the Dalek Asylum? WOT'S ALL THAT THEN
 
So yeah, that was a bit boring.

Thought Swift was John Sessions for a while, wondered how he had stayed so young, wasn't till the end I realised it was Rufus Hound.
 
I thought it was good. I mean the cat villain was SHIT, but Maisie Williams was great. I actually liked Sam Swift and was surprised to find out he was Rufus Hound, who I have hated since the Richard and Judy days (SECRET REFERENCE ONLY FUDDLEMIFf GETS.)

Was the selfie a clue that she's going to show up in Class!? (Probably not since this would have been made before they knew about Class.)
 
I liked the second part much more than the first. I agree the cat alien was kinda bad (I kept thinking of bad Beauty and the Beast costumes), but the main part, which was the loneliness of living forever, was really good.
 
I wonder if anyone making the episode thought of this when they had her speaking in a man's voice at the start.

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I really liked it. I didn't think Maisie Williams was great throughout (the bit where she snuck off to talk to the bad cat in the woods was really cheesy. But I guess it's difficult to act those bits where you're talking mysteriously to yourself), and the bad cat was lame, but I really liked all the exploration of what it means to live forever. And yeah, I've got to admit, Rufus Hound was very good. Which is annoying, because I've hated him since the Richard and Judy days.
 
Eh. While it's always a pleasure to watch Peter Capaldi tear into whatever he's got to work with, and while Maisie Williams is quite the attractive young lady (moreso in this last episode, what with the goth lipstick), this latest serial just didn't thrill me. The "who wants to live forever" motif was done back in 1986 with a lot more panache (and swordplay.)
 
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