Doctor Who

[Retroguy]

There's no chance of someone from a different time, and you know it.

We're stuck with 'sassy bint' or 'posh smug bint'.

I know It makes me a saaaaaad panda.

[Plissken]

Are there a decent Who podcast out there at all? One that preferably concentrates on the classic series?

Basically Sprite Machines reviews in podcast format ?!

Toby Hadokes Who's Round is supposed to be excellent, and he set himself the target of getting one person connected with every single story.

http://www.bigfinish.com/podcasts/range/toby-hadoke-s-who-s-round

[Bluejam]

Well there we go. All of Smith's run rewatched in time for the weekend.

The Time of the Doctor seems to get better with repeat viewings. I liked it to start with, but today I think I actually enjoyed it more than Day, which by contrast isn't quite as fun on repeats without the surprises. I really, really love the regeneration too.

"Love from Gallifrey, boys!"

Quoted for truth. Watched it earlier this week. Its a very good episode IMO. Love the speech at the end and the whole regeneration.

Apart from the new kidneys line. It really bugs me for some reason!

Cheers for the link Plissken, will have a listen

[Hexx]

And there's episode 5

And there's episode 4

Even people who watched the leaked series opener get a new episode today

[SqueakyG]

What a treat! Black and white episodes covered with huge copyright text, timestamps, and unfinished visual effects! You're experiencing Capaldi's run exactly how it should be experienced...

[Hexx]

Fair comment, but I have no will power and this helps me seem the unspoiled

Brief impression of Ep4

Holy Moly. Ep 4 is going to be divisive.

But Jesus Fuck that was awesome.

[Lorfarius]

I don't think you need to spoiler the fact you think its going to be

awesome

[PopeSmokesDope]

Yep. She could leave before then.

in the boot of my car MWUHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

[Hexx]

I don't think you need to spoiler the fact you think its going to be

awesome

We workprint watches didn't spoiler discussion before, and some people suggested they'd rather it was - trying to lean towards the side of caution.

More thoughts on episode 4 (no plot spoilers!)

30min later and it's still with me - I'm going back to watch scenes again (I'm sure some of the music is temporary, but it's so haunting.

For me it feels like Blink or Midnight - an episode that's wonderfully self contained but clever and affecting. It's the sort of episode you'd show someone who'd never seen Doctor Who...

Some of the storybeats will be unpopular with some - but I think it's brilliant.

More thoughts on show, 12, Clara etc up to episode 5 (no spoilers again!)

12 is amazing. So very different that what came before, but still the same underlying person. It's the biggest change since the show came back - but never feels disconnected. Just different.

I actually think all 5 of these episodes are Ok to good to great (and all with great scenes). There's not really been any cringey scenes (some in Episode 3 come close, but it's deliberating cheesy in a knowing way)...it's a very solid run. Think of a series of episode like The Girl Who Waited or The God Complex. It feels like that sort of level

Clara is excellent now (and I say that as someone who thought she was fairly Meh/Creator's Pet/etc before - the relationship with the Doctor is brilliant. For the first time since Donna there isn't an undertone of attraction or flirtation. I was actually displeased by rumors she might be leaving - I didn't expect that before! There's still a little bit of she's too perfect or needed by the Doctor, but it's toned down - and it's coming across as he needed the right person with him, not he needs Super-Amazing-Clara with him.

Very little sonic screw-drivering!

There's been non of the Moffatisms that grew in frequency over 11s run - most episodes don't feel over stuffed with ideas, there's no lines that have had plots written around them, there's no magic special girls...

Despite my initial impressions of the pilot (which were unspoiled, so I'll repeat were mixed/concerned) I think this run has been the strongest/most consistent in a long time.

[Guest]

I forgot this was on :-(

[whizzo]

Forgot what was on?

[JohnC]

I'm going out on a limb and guessing Doctor Who.

[NEG]

Who?

[whizzo]

Im just confused why forgetting is a problem at this point

[JohnC]

I thought the screwdriver was no longer going to be a "get out of everything" device?

[SeanR]

Always with the

robots/clockwork and the loss of identity that it represents

Already!

[layten]

[SeanR]

Yay!

[Hexx]

Tell ya what, one thing about work prints - quieter, more subdued and less intrusive music!

[Plissken]

That was a nice way of tying things together.

[SeanR]

Is that

the master

?

[Hexx]

I'm guessing you'll have to wait until the finale to find out

[Nimmel]

I thought the story was fairly dull and wasn't really enjoying it that much until they got to the restaurant and Clara and the Doctor got to interact properly for the first time which was excellent.

[cassidy]

Capaldi and Coleman great. The story Meh. The disparity in the direction annoys me. Wheatley can't do fight sequences.

[Sarlaccfood]

Are the lizard girl and her servant married? Because they didn't really mention that.

Enjoyed the ep overall despite the usual duff line or bad idea here and there (the car lock sound on the horse drawn cart), but that's Doctor Who I guess.

Loved the bit where he offered him a drink. Pretty scary from Capaldi and exactly what I was hoping for from his Doctor.

[NecroMorrius]

Music was better in the workprint

[Hello Goaty ♥]

He's going to be a good Doctor Who.

As for the writing..... Could do so much better.

The best bit was when they held up the tray towards the end.

Oh, and I loved the eyebrows ranting!

Piss poor episode overall though.

[Rudi von Starnberg]

I watched the new one out of curiosity. Well, it was certainly an episode of Doctor Who. Capaldi was good when the script wasn't making him tiresomely quirky, although the scene where he berates a tramp was the wrong side of unsettling (and I can't quite believe I just wrote that about Doctor Who). Making jokes about being derivative of previous stories becomes less of a joke and more of an inadequate apology with each iteration; also, the twee fetishisation of the British Empire that so plagues anything Moffat does was on full display. Gross.

Don't think I'll bother in future. I'll manage without.

[Nick R]

New Doctor Who title sequence inspired by viral fan creation

It is perhaps the ultimate validation of Doctor Who fandom: inspiring its showrunner Steven Moffat with an idea which then ends up in the show itself.

That’s exactly what’s happened to Billy Hanshaw, a motion graphics specialist from Leeds. He created his own title sequence for the new series of Doctor Who, complete with Peter Capaldi, a spinning Tardis, intergalactic vistas, and an eye-catching swoop through the gears of a clock. It became a viral hit on YouTube, notching over 700,000 views.

Now Moffat has acknowledged it as inspiring the actual opening credits sequence in the finished series. “Hanshaw created this title sequence, put it up on YouTube. I happened to cross it, and it was the only new title idea I’d seen since 1963,” he told a New York fan event. “We got in touch with him, and said, OK, we’re going to do that one.”

Elsewhere on the US promotional tour, Peter Capaldi said that his admiration of the show stems from very early in his life. “I’ve been watching the show since I was five years old,” he said. “Actors who played Doctor Who – Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker – those were the people I was watching. More than Laurence Olivier.”

Doctor Who returns on 23 August with series opener Deep Breath.

That's pretty cool. Hope the official version is as good

So it turned out to be pretty much identical, except for the last part (from a much briefer shot of Capaldi's face onwards).

[Hello Goaty ♥]

I'll tell you what pissed me off as well, straight into some ludicrous action with Strax and co. They could have started it a bit more formulaic where they greet each other. ( Clara and the doctor that is )

The ending worked. I will give them that!

Oh.. And I'll just say... " do you have a child's menu? "