Sorted. Thanks :)
Sorted. Thanks :)
nah, I'll take the messiness of that over the paint drying dullness if this season any dayI wonder if the people who think this series was the worst thing ever watched series 7.
I felt a strong authorial voice there. Doctor Who is infested with dad jokes, and being a dad I laughed at that. When I watch that with my adult kids (who never give up chattering at me) I know we'll all laugh at that.
I mean, you know this is a seasonal episode, right? It's event television. Does nobody else remember that time Clara borrowed the TARDIS core to cook her Christmas roast? Oh yeah, Series 5 wiped your minds retroactively, it seems.
It was pointed out that it was because of the cracks in series 5, and not as an in-joke as I thought.
I wonder if the people who think this series was the worst thing ever watched series 7.
A harmless joke about Christmas Dinner is much better to me than a lazy "kids today and their screens!" joke. Just feels like the kind of joke you'd hear Piers Morgan say on Good Morning Britain tbh
Not a fan of Piers Morgan, but as I said in my post I love dialogue. I watched the episode again just now with one of my two adult kids, and when we got to that bit we just looked at one another and giggled.
We don't know that there wasn't a fleet. If you're referring to where the Doctor tricks the Dalek, I don't think she was implying that there wasn't a fleet, just that she didn't take the Dalek to the fleet. It would explain why she was trying to block the signal.If there was no fleet, then why the panic of preventing the dalek from sending the signal?
Series 7 had stories like Town Called Mercy, Power of Three, Hide and Cold War. I often wonder whether the "fans" who post here have actually watched the show.
There's one good episode here.Series 7 had stories like Town Called Mercy, Power of Three, Hide and Cold War. I often wonder whether the "fans" who post here have actually watched the show.
Yeah, I gotta say I really liked this special episode a lot. The first scene with Ryan and his dad might have been a tad longer than needed to fit in a bit more Dalek, but otherwise I thought it was quite fun. I agree, the big problem is that the wait is sadly going to be so long to build any momentum. Would have enjoyed the feeling of going into season 2 off of this.Watching the New Years Day special and I'm so annoyed we have to wait a full year before the next season. I really enjoy this cast and this special. When it this season hits the emotional beats it knocks them out of the park and this episode is no different.
Overall I enjoyed this season a lot. It's been pretty different from the past seasons and 13th is very different at times but I really like her and can't wait to see more of her.
I called itTake it with a big grain of salt but one rumour about the plot is about a Dalek without a shell and it goes to find one in Sheffield.
There's definitely a redesign. The warriors in the trailer are Siberian.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's the Dalek driving the car in the car chase.
Enjoyed it but the internal logic didn't work for me.
If a dalekAlso, why is the Doctor so relieved atrebuilds a dalek shape out of scrap metal, that shape isn't suddenly immune to modern rifle and tank rounds- there's a limit to what a human pawn can make out of common materials in a scrap yard. Not to mention anti-tank rounds? And rocket launchers? It was a plot point that it recovered a standard dalek cannon, but the rest of it?Why does nobody recognise a picture of a dalek in a history book when they've been invading the UK on a regular basis? By this point you'd think 'look for time travelling alien tanks' would be ingrained in the mind of any historian and pasted in the staff handbook of every employee of the MOD., following the fight at GCHQ, having stopped a signal broadcast to a fleet she knows no longer exists?
For that matter, why does the British army not know full well what it is considering the previous stories? And if they only suspected a drone, why are they deploying a tank rather than sharpshooters/signals/IT specialists?
I realise the modern series trades on not having too many references to what has gone before but if you're going to joke about UNiT disappearing in budget cuts and a callcentre offering to redirect calls to the armed forces, it seems a bit odd that any government memory of what UNIT regularly engaged in sizeable battles in London with has disappeared, especially as a Dalek fleet appeared over the city not that many years ago!
I loved the idea of a Recon, special ops dalek out of its shell still being a major threat, that was cool. I think they could have made more of the fact that it still thought of humans in medieval terms rather than a lazy 'quick absorb-the-internet catch-up a-la Ultron'.
Hmm, That was kinda like trying to watch Broadchurch while someone flicks over to Doctor Who during the ad breaks. Timelordchurch
I was just watching Dalek from Series 1 and was just thinking something similar. Rose causes the Dalek to both "regenerate" and change for the better after the Time War, and she does the same for the Doctor over the course of the series. The regeneration into Ten feels very much in response to Rose.Yaz talking about her family in Ghost Monument. The Graham/Grace stuff in Arachnids. Ryan talking about his mum in Tsuranga. It all feels like these sudden hard cuts to 'drama' before switching back to Doctor Who. As you say, its like turning over the channel its so stark. And maybe it's not the worst thing, but it's incredibly inelegant. Like, think back to Rose's arc across Series 1. Rose, Dalek, Father's Day - they all feature emotional beats for her, but also play in to that episode's narrative. And Chibnall doesn't seem to want/be able to do that.
I was just watching Dalek from Series 1 and was just thinking something similar. Rose causes the Dalek to both "regenerate" and change for the better after the Time War, and she does the same for the Doctor over the course of the series. The regeneration into Ten feels very much in response to Rose.
That's what I'd always believed, great to hear it was definitely intended.RTD said in his personal head-canon that he thinks one regeneration can be influenced by the experiences of the last - so specifically he suggested that the Tenth Doctor was a direct response to Rose and even ended up with the accent he did in a subconscious attempt to be attractive/pleasing to her. Moffat raised this theory again in some panel somewhere and furthered it by suggesting that the Twelfth Doctor was Scottish out of a sort of subconscious affinity for Amy. One can extrapolate this further, obviously - Missy was very important to Twelve, so maybe that's why we ended up with the switch for Thirteen, etc.
I've always liked this idea though, especially the suggestion that it's just subconscious and can't be helped.
I still have some complaints though. The supernova that sucked out only the Dalek was kind of unbelievable.
Sure, the way his Doctor was written though, and him being younger for reasons both in and outside of the story, definitely seemed to be in response to Rose though. Tennant himself said this too:I mean, the real reason Tennant spoke in the accent he did and not in his own is RTD didn't want the character to do a "regional tour" with another regional accent after Eccleston, but these fannish explanations from the showrunners are cute, if nothing else.
I think Rose had helped him reform himself. I think Rose had influenced who he became when he regenerated into me. I think her influence was very formative for the Doctor, having come out of this terrible war and all of these extraordinarily awful things that he'd been to and been borne witness to. And that she helped him recover, helped him become the man that he re-found.
RTD said in his personal head-canon that he thinks one regeneration can be influenced by the experiences of the last - so specifically he suggested that the Tenth Doctor was a direct response to Rose and even ended up with the accent he did in a subconscious attempt to be attractive/pleasing to her. Moffat raised this theory again in some panel somewhere and furthered it by suggesting that the Twelfth Doctor was Scottish out of a sort of subconscious affinity for Amy. One can extrapolate this further, obviously - Missy was very important to Twelve, so maybe that's why we ended up with the switch for Thirteen, etc.
I've always liked this idea though, especially the suggestion that it's just subconscious and can't be helped.
Probably notI really enjoyed that episode. The threat of a Dalek was well done.
And now no more Doctor Who until 2020. Maybe another New Years special?
Probably not
I'm still not sure why this wasn't a Christmas episode
I'm more on Chibber's side than most, I feel, but this is my favorite of his for sure. My previous favorite was probably Power of Three."Something something Chibnall" lol
I think this was probably the best Dalek episode since "Dalek", and maybe Chibnall's best episode?