Bacchus;337863 wrote:
Are you all caught up?

I am. Well, except I haven't watched The Snowmen. I'm holding out until Saturday just so I can watch it right before.

So how are we liking the new episodes? I liked the most recent one much more than the first episode with Clara as the new companion. I particularly liked the part where Clara said the TARDIS didn't like her! Just like Jack! She doesn't like things that are impossible. Any theories on who/what Clara is or why she keeps popping up throughout time? I quite like the theory that she has something to do with the Bad Wolf version of Rose. That she might have been one of the things brought back to life and scattered through space and time to warn the Doctor of a Big Bad or help him when others couldn't be there. There have also been images of roses in her episodes and the Rose & Crown pub where Victorian Clara worked. And this image of 10 and 11 meeting for the 50th anniversary got me really excited! November is so far away! 1805

tatertots;341069 wrote:
And this image of 10 and 11 meeting for the 50th anniversary got me really excited! November is so far away!

We have to wait for November?!?!?!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOO! And I'm quite enjoying Clara, however, I do miss Amy way more. The episode tonight for me was dull. I just didn't like it as much as previous ones. But I am curious as to what/who Clara is.

I'm lost and I'm found and I'm hungry like the wolf! If Moffat (or actually Gatiss since he wrote the episode) is just messing with us than this was the meanest joke ever.

Pretty upset with Moffat right now. I think it's time for him to depart the show. I'm just afraid of who might take it over. I just really hope the rumors about the role John Hurt will be playing in the 50th anniversary special are not true.

tatertots;345136 wrote:
Pretty upset with Moffat right now. I think it's time for him to depart the show. I'm just afraid of who might take it over.

As much as every episode of Doctor Who is better than 95% of what is on television, I was really let down during the second part of this season. The finale was rushed. I didn't attach to any of the themes. It felt like it was not fully fleshed out. Yes, there was candy from the past at the very end - but nothing in the moment that made it great. It's actually the first series of Doctor Who where I can't name an episode or set of episodes I loved. They were all fine. Nothing more or less. The Great Intelligence in my opinion was a whiff. Clara's peak was being Oswald. Once her modern incarnation came to bear, she became one dimensional. River's return was listless.

I just really hope the rumors about the role John Hurt will be playing in the 50th anniversary special are not true.

I started googling right after I watched the episode. It looks well set and the rumor is:

Spoiler

He will play a Doctor in between 8 and 9 during the Time War.

Bacchus;345137 wrote:
As much as every episode of Doctor Who is better than 95% of what is on television, I was really let down during the second part of this season. The finale was rushed. I didn't attach to any of the themes. It felt like it was not fully fleshed out. Yes, there was candy from the past at the very end - but nothing in the moment that made it great. It's actually the first series of Doctor Who where I can't name an episode or set of episodes I loved. They were all fine. Nothing more or less. The Great Intelligence in my opinion was a whiff. Clara's peak was being Oswald. Once her modern incarnation came to bear, she became one dimensional. River's return was listless.

Agreed. The Great Intelligence was just kind of there. What was the point of The Whisper Men? They had an awesomely creepy rhyme and I guess they were there so the GI had a body to inhabit but so what? Why was I supposed to fear them? What did they do? And we never really understood why the GI hated the Doctor so much. It got angry at him for ruining his plan in The Snowmen episode but why would it be so upset about all the planets he killed and the downfall of the Cybermen and Daleks at the Doctor's hands? Richard E Grant was great in the part and was sufficiently villainous but the level of anger didn't make sense from what we've seen with the GI before. As for Clara, Moffat had the Doctor focus too much on WHAT she was instead of WHO she was. We never got to know her, so how could we connect when the Doctor called her "my Clara"? Her sacrifice was very similar to Rose's as Bad Wolf but that meant so much more because we understood what traveling with the Doctor meant to Rose, how it changed her life and what he had come to mean to her. For us, Clara is just kind of having an adventure and a break from taking care of the kids now and then but we don't really ever see what the Doctor means to her. Moffat could have at least explored the idea that Clara knew she had to jump in because she already had and it was a part of her future and had her grapple with not really having a choice about it. That would have been interesting and added something to her character. Moffat has officially been confirmed as show runner for the next series so I just hope that he learns how to write as well for the companion as he does for Matt Smith. Also, enough with the crazy mysteries for a series theme. Go back to the Doctor showing us the universe and having adventures. We don't need to see the Doctor die every premier and wait to see how he gets out of it every finale.

I started googling right after I watched the episode. It looks well set and the rumor is:

Spoiler

He will play a Doctor in between 8 and 9 during the Time War.

If Moffat messes with the Doctor Who history as much as this spoiler suggests, I will be so upset. He claims he didn't invite certain characters back for the special because he doesn't want to make it all about "looking back" but he seems perfectly happy with looking back if he gets to mess with the show history and change it to how he likes it.

Spoiler

Maybe having Hurt as a Doctor the others "forgot" about or tried to ignore because he defiled the name of "Doctor" will be a way to work around the limited number of regenerations? Like the Doctor is actually able to wipe out a regeneration and reset? I could kind of live with that. But if the Doctor just pretends like his 30th birthday never happened because it was a ****ty year and everything we have been told is wrong, just so Moffat can have another stupid and confusing mystery, it will be very annoying and upsetting.

tatertots;346326 wrote:
Matt Smith to quit Doctor Who after Christmas special - Telegraph

Awww! This comes as somewhat of a shock. I thought he was in through 2014. Maybe the show needs mixing up...

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Question: A lot of my friends always talk about this show, and it seems like a show I'd like a lot, but with how old it is, is it a show I can just start picking up on or is it something that I should have been watching since the start? Should I even bother?

Psy4potato;384673 wrote:
Question: A lot of my friends always talk about this show, and it seems like a show I'd like a lot, but with how old it is, is it a show I can just start picking up on or is it something that I should have been watching since the start? Should I even bother?

I personally would recommend watching it from the reboot series 1, which started in 2005 with the Ninth Doctor. However, if you are not up for that type of commitment, the next best thing would be to join in on the current Doctor (the Eleventh) and watch his arc from the beginning - which is reboot series 5. Finally, if you just want to go with the flow, there will be a new Doctor next fall and when there is a new Doctor the story for the most part begins anew.

Bacchus;384675 wrote:
I personally would recommend watching it from the reboot series 1, which started in 2005 with the Ninth Doctor. However, if you are not up for that type of commitment, the next best thing would be to join in on the current Doctor (the Eleventh) and watch his arc from the beginning - which is reboot series 5. Finally, if you just want to go with the flow, there will be a new Doctor next fall and when there is a new Doctor the story for the most part begins anew.

Thanks for the info!!

First teaser trailer: http://youtu.be/QYN6ruU672Y

Did anyone watch the new episode of Doctor who?

I really enjoyed it and Jodie fits as the Doctor amazingly.

Also Alan Cummings, Mark Addy, Josh Bowman from Revenge, and Chris Noth from Law and Order will appear in future episodes.

Loved Jodi!

I'll admit I was really big on Peter Capaldi's doctor and found it really refreshing to get back to that childlike wonderment we saw with Matt Smith.