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Barnard

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I think I read too many Doctor Who books as a young man for me to get excited about modern Who. It's as if I know what the Doctor should be thinking, whereas Davies and Moffat don't seem to have a clue.

The books have a ruined me. I hate you Dicks! (Terrance that is!)

But the books are why I enjoyed the scenes with the three Doctors and Capaldis' eyes.

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I was a little disappointed that Tom didn't offer Matt a Jelly Baby.

Exactly my thoughts!

Not sure what I thought about the episode though. As a piece of Saturday entertainment, I did enjoy it. It's just...god I wish Dr Who lived up to the enormous potential it has. It occasionally gets it spot on, but - for me at least - there's just not enough consistency at all...But, I'm another one who comes from the Tom Baker era, and quite honestly I don't think anything could quite live up to my childhood memories really...sigh.

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I thought that was great.

Funnily enough the one thing it's confirmed for me is that I really don't like Matt Smith's Doctor. I'd kind of blamed it on the writing and the direction of the show over the last couple of years but actually when you put him together with the others in a show like this I just can't warm to him at all. I thought Tennant and Hurt were much better. But that's fine, that's personal preference, everyone has their favourite Doctors and all that.

However, I'm prepared to now make a case for Capaldi as Best Doctor Ever purely on the basis of a two-second clip of his eyebrows. Amazing.

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I really enjoyed that, it went some way to fix the annoying "I'm the on coming storm all my people are dead" shite that's bugged me since the series came back. I kinda hoped that now he'd re written history matt smith and Tennant would cease to exist, and John Hurt would become Capalpdi and we would just follow his timeline, on a smaller scale. With at minimum 2 partners, no magic sonic screw drivers and on a long quest to find galifrey, but I guess they have to resolve trenzalor.

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I don't agree regarding Matt Smith, I think he's great, but I do agree that Tennant was terrific. As someone who thought his exit was overdue and overwrought, the self deprecation on display in this episode was extremely welcome.

I'm personally sick of smith, but I suppose this is the good thing about doctor who, he won't be around for much longer :)

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I really enjoyed that, it went some way to fix the annoying "I'm the on coming storm all my people are dead" shite that's bugged me since the series came back. I kinda hoped that now he'd re written history matt smith and Tennant would cease to exist, and John Hurt would become Capalpdi and we would just follow his timeline, on a smaller scale. With at minimum 2 partners, no magic sonic screw drivers and on a long quest to find galifrey, but I guess they have to resolve trenzalor.

I loved the bit when Tennant did his 'oncoming storm' speech to a rabbit... Moffat knew what he was doing there. :)

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1385241306405.gifCan't see this fucker talking about timey wimey.

This fucker is finding Gallifrey or your fucking deed.

Superb I thought. About to watch it again and work out how the BBC are making anymore telly this year. Must have cost a fair bit that episode. Loved the bike ride into the TARDIS in one shot.

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In the Five(ish) Doctors, what did Adric say when all the companions were floating around Moffatt's head in a dream? I've a feeling it was hilarious but I couldn't catch it even on multiple attempts. :(

Loved the special. Loved the jokey acknowledgement of the bits of the new show that are shit - the all-powerful sonic screwdriver, the 'timey wimey' nonsense dialogue, the weird companion infatuations. Although I can't remember what the Zygons were supposed to be up to either... ah well!

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In the Five(ish) Doctors, what did Adric say when all the companions were floating around Moffatt's head in a dream? I've a feeling it was hilarious but I couldn't catch it even on multiple attempts. :(

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The one at the end?

"It's me, isn't it?"

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In the Five(ish) Doctors, what did Adric say when all the companions were floating around Moffatt's head in a dream? I've a feeling it was hilarious but I couldn't catch it even on multiple attempts. :(

"Is it me? Now I'll never know if I was right"

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Well it was hyped so much, I didn't think it could live up to expectations, but not only did it do so, but so much more. Having Tom Baker appear at the end (with the circles!!) was the cherry on the cake cake for me, and like Davros, took me right back to being a child, watching Doctor Who on the portable upstairs in my mum & dads room, then racing round to my mate Jamie's house on my boxer to relive it all. I think I'll be doing the modern equivalent and chatting to him on facebook about it,

How anyone who considers themselves a fan can nitpick about this episode, or be disappointed, is beyond me. It really was a love letter to the fans.

And the five-ish doctors is so good. So many good scenes, and nice little jokes. The t-shirts had me giggling like a loon

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Was out and about this evening, thinking I was missing this. But with no comments about it in my various social feeds - only Strictly Come Dancing stuff - I thought to check the cinema times, to find a screening at 2130. With other matters wrapped up, along I went...

And I was the only one there. Everyone else had caught the earlier screening. The luxury of having a cinema to myself was only slightly dampened by the 3D not working at first (I had to go and get someone to fix it). I enjoyed it. Took a while to get where it was going, and occasionally felt forced, but the energy and Doctor interactions carried it. Glad I saw it on the big screen, glad not to miss out on an event.

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I thought that was just a total mess. I guess I can't complain about the fanwank (pointless Billie appearance, constant metahumour, omg it's the previous doctors, "oh hello Mrs Lethbridge-Stewart I remember your father Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart from the original series, pause for collective fangasm" etc etc) but the plot was typical Moffat ADHD nonsense. There's just no time to get engaged with the plot when people are constantly jumping through wormholes, invoking time paradoxes, turning out to be shapeshifting aliens, wiping each other's memories, turning out not to be shapeshifting aliens, jumping out of Time Paintings and god knows what else. Some of these bits didn't make sense, but the real problem is that they just pile on one after the other with no structure or progression or any way to emotionally engage with what's happening. And the potentially good bits, the moral dilemmas and whatnot, get lost. Moffat is obviously a talented writer but he needs to pick an idea and fucking stick with it.

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