Doctor Who

[HarMGM]

The Thomas Thomas joke was also rather cheeky.

Edit:

Hmmm, the preview from next week makes it seem as if the Cybermen can now turn people into Cybers by way of assimilation alá the Borg. The mechanical parts on the Doctor's face grow in between various shots.

[WibbleWorldGiddy]

I have to admit I didn't recognise Diana Rigg until Jenny revealed her Emma Peel-like catsuit and started to kick butt. Nice reference!

I'm undecided on how I should feel about tonight's episode. The acting was great as always (particularly Diana Rigg's daughter), it looked fantastic, and the basic plot was great, but I was bored for much of the time. The conclusion was logical, but I didn't care about Mrs Gillyflower or Ada sufficiently to feel anything.

The story might have worked better as a two-parter. The extra time could have been used to show the hardship experienced by the townsfolk, and the reason that they found the dream of Sweet Town to be so appealing. It could also have been used to show how Mrs Gillyflower was influenced by the red wotsit and how it the changed her relationship with her daughter over time.

[El Pibe]

I quite liked the

take it back to the Triassic period

Bit

[Not Thread Owner]

Finally realised that Jenny is the girl in Stella. Been proper winding me up has that.

[Flub]

Definitely need a Strax/Jenny/Vastra sitcom. Preferably with a spoof of the Friends title sequence. Someone youtube that baby up please.

[Not Thread Owner]

Surely the BBC are fishing round for a Sarah Jane Adventures replacement? Strax fits the bill.

[sweetdaddyg]

The Thomas Thomas joke was also rather cheeky.

Edit:

Hmmm, the preview from next week makes it seem as if the Cybermen can now turn people into Cybers by way of assimilation alá the Borg. The mechanical parts on the Doctor's face grow in between various shots.

They always did that, just the effects werent up to it

see the colin baker cybermen one for more

[Comrade]

I assume the bit about an Australian and Heathrow was some sort of reference to Old Who?

[HarMGM]

A reference to Tegan to be precise.

[NEG]

Much better episode then last week (the last few minutes with Clara wernt really needed though), but you gotta hate how New Who struggles to 'defeat' a baddy by just holding onto the old hag or something. The Doctor knows the logical conclusion of a character like that (killing her, disabling, etc), but Old Who would have been more likely that he'd actually do more then just 'stand there'.

[Jack]

Horse! You have failed your mission!

[zxcvbnm]

Cracking episode, Gatiss did right! I did think at first we may be in for a Blink type episode with very little of the doctor, and more of Strax & co. I'd love to see this happen in future, they really are one of the best things to happen to doctor who in a long while.

And I'm torn. I can't warm to Clara at all, and she grates on me to be honest, but then she flutters those eye lashes and I'm back in love with her.

[Cthulhu Steev]

I was playing Gravity Rush at the time so might have missed this, but during the staircase climb wasn't the tower they were in the same one with the rocket? I know the Doctor face the wall when it launched, but fngnggggggggggggg. That's almost as bad as destroying a system's sun and celebrating the fact. And a child shit-singing.

Apart from that, it was a fantastic episode. I never watched last week's, and was tempted to give up on this one, but it had such a brilliant classic-Who title I just couldn't.

[Space Renegade Ulala]

I found it delightfully perverse and silly, reaching its apex when the lovely Ada tries to beat her mother to death with her cane, only for the mad old bat to pull out a gun and hold it to her head while cackling madly. I would have loved to been a fly on the wall in the Rigg household when they got to that scene in the script.

"Ooooh, I'm going to enjoy this!"

"Not half as much as I am, mother!"

[c-cat114]

Just watched it. Liked it a lot but we're a way off a classic again felt like a better regeneration of half a dozen episodes (Vampires in Venice, the Victorian Doctor etc).

Last scene was horribly CBBC.

Moffat's had his day for me telling that the episode of Who that has generally worked best is a Dr as Sherlock episode. The flashback had Sherlock (films mainly) written all over it.

[joeplus]

Very enjoyable! I'm not entirely sold on Clara, but what little she had in this episode was pretty great. Her enthusiastic smile and nod after the Doctor admits "chairs are useful..." made me giggle. And any episode with Vastra, Jenny and Strax is a winner in my book - I find a lot of the "funny" bits in the Moffatt era too knowing, but they are gold.

I quite like the idea of those kids getting involved next week, but to go "oh lol we know you're a time-traveller now, here's the preview" was badly rushed. I suppose it's hard to do that well with different writers each week.

[Captain Novaforce]

Caught up on this week and last weeks episode. I enjoyed Straxx and co but they could have made it into a two parter easily with that acting talent.

Unlike the heart of the tardis one. Bloody hell who cast the three guys on the ship?

[Space Gibbon]

I thought this episode was okay, generally an improvement on most of the season, but it was full of plot holes. How come the same venom that she was going to poison the world could also conveniently be used to turn everyone into statue-people? How did she get rocket-building technology?

[Made of Ghosts]

I enjoyed the reveal of the parasite and the utter mentalness of the baddie's plan. Other than that I was kinda bored.

Next week looks great.

[sweetdaddyg]

I dunno, I really don't care for madame vastra, Jenny and the sontaran.

It doesn't gel for me and feels very CBBC as you guys say.

[Retroid]

Well, I know what my new desktop is:

Daww!

[Commander Jameson]

Well, I know what my new desktop is:

Daww!

Now I remember what this reminded me of.

Brundlefly!

[Mogster]

I thought this episode was okay, generally an improvement on most of the season, but it was full of plot holes. How come the same venom that she was going to poison the world could also conveniently be used to turn everyone into statue-people? How did she get rocket-building technology?

It was a weakened form that preserved people, when it worked at least. You've got me on the rocket though.

[Commander Jameson]

Ah. Was the preservation thing and the big glass jars in the houses to protect those "chosen ones" until the red venom had been released and dispersed? Then they would be reanimated?

[Scribblor]

That's what I assumed, yes.

[NEG]

The Doctor sexually assaulted Jenny.

His tumblr which has more on the subject via responses: http://ritchandspace.tumblr.com/

I gave fuck all thought about it myself when I watched, but he is right.

[Captain Novaforce]

He kissed 3 girls that episode. The man slag.

[Retroid]

After being boiled in poison, frozen in pain and locked up by a slightly creepy blind woman for possibly weeks - it's understandable that the doctor might get caught up in the moment a little. To be honest it's the little awkward moments like that - that give him his humanity.

Plus to be fair, if Dr Who was an R-rated series, he would have almost definitely been that blind woman's sex slave.

[NEG]

After being boiled in poison, frozen in pain and locked up by a slightly creepy blind woman for possibly weeks - it's understandable that the doctor might get caught up in the moment a little. To be honest it's the little awkward moments like that - that give him his humanity.

Plus to be fair, if Dr Who was an R-rated series, he would have almost definitely been that blind woman's sex slave.

Not to nitpick at every comment to the contrary ( because I can't be arsed ) but kissing without consent gives him his glimmer of humanity?

blarg

[JohnC]

Are people seriously complaining about someone kissing someone else on the spur of the moment on a TV show without getting explicit consent first? When does that ever happen?