Doctor Who

[Sprite Machine]

He reminded me a little of the sixth doctor, generally being a bit nasty and horrible to people. Thankfully no strangling.

Pretty good!

Did anyone else expect the

time vortex to swallow Mr. Pink and send him to the far future with no memories?

[Lag]

I thought it was odd that the vortex pulled into it a planet destroying war machine but left the fleshbags alone.

[Mogster]

It was pulling them all in, along with a chair. Clara actually had to hold Danny back.

[Lag]

Come on. Danny just sat there moving his legs, Clara gave him a hug, the Doctor slightly leaned backward, the big, speedy, quadruped robot disappeared. Oh, the chair Danny waved about disappeared into the vortex but none of the other chairs moved. Maybe the field of force involves an inverse-cube law.

[jonamok]

Good fun. But the Clara/Pink relationship doesn't work at all for me. Minimal chemistry*, and his character is just so flat, dull and wishy-washy. Really hope he doesn't become a long-term element.

* English & Maths, I suppose.

[Scribblor]

I detested the design of the robot. I thought it looked incredibly cheap and fake, and it moved as though it was in a He-Man cartoon. Loved everything else.

[Mr Cochese]

Come on. Danny just sat there moving his legs, Clara gave him a hug, the Doctor slightly leaned backward, the big, speedy, quadruped robot disappeared.

Hot.

[NEG]

I loved the crab robot thing myself, cute and would make a wonderful toy.

[Mr Cochese]

If you had kids, obviously.

[NecroMorrius]

Wheelchair robot has to be the most easily dispatched Dr Who enemy ever?

[Mr Cochese]

Not as easy as the giant eye where Doctor Who just blathered on about how terrifying he was for half an episode until the alien fucked off without even stopping to incinerate him with a space laser.

[dismembo]

I thought the robot was pretty decent myself. Full practical model with little guy inside it. There seems to be a definite move to more practical effects work these days, like with The Teller last week and the half man robot from 'Deep Breath'.

[DirkCrisis]

The robot felt a bit Children's Film Foundation (or Sarah Jane Adventures for our younger viewers), but that's what Dr Who is about.

It was good when it blasted the fat bloke into meat chunks like in Gears of War, though.

Edit - Partially related, but I've just seen the episode of Archer where he describes pounds as "Dr Who Money". That was one of the best Archer gags ever.

[womblingfree]

The Clara/Pink relationship is completely flat and seeing his drama school soldier-officer face-off with a decent actor's just embarrassing.

Loved the rest of the episode and Capaldi though.

[Davros sock drawer]

Miles behind you all, but have just caught up on the first two Capaldi episodes. My thoughts:

Capaldi is great. Already the best Nu Who doctor we've had.

Coleman is still shite. She never sells any of the situations she's in. She has virtually the same slightly raised eyebrow expression whether she's angry, or scared, or puzzled, or well, anything really. Get rid.

Can't hear the dialogue. Almost had to turn the subtitles on.

Both of the actual episodes were dreadful, only saved by Capaldi. The first one had some proper Scooby Do shit in it (pretending to be one of the robots), and the Dalek one was full of nonsense hand waving (How did they clean off all that gunk? How did they get out of the Dalek?). Just rubbish really.

So yeah. Capaldi - big thumbs up. Everything else needs to dramatically improve.

[Not Thread Owner]

Why do so many people have trouble hearing the dialogue? The music *never* drowns it out for me. Are you all got a surround mix playing through stereo speakers or something?

[Mr Cochese]

They're watching on Octopus Rift.

[Made of Ghosts]

Completely bored by that one. I don't necessarily mind a monster-light character-heavy episode but there wasn't much interesting going on with the characters, and it wasn't tremendously funny either. And I'm ok with making the Doc a bit more alien and unaware of human customs but at the mo he's coming across as just a bit dim. Why didn't he tell Clara what he was doing? There didn't seem to be any reason behind it, just an excuse for some contrived hilarity.

[Sprite Machine]

I just remembered there was a scene on an alien desert planet right at the start of the episode (that I assumed was some sort of flashforward "how did we end up here" type thing) that actually went absolutely nowhere. What was the point of that?

[Mr Cochese]

It wasn't a flash forward.

[Sprite Machine]

Evidently.

[Sprite Machine]

The fact that they were trapped there seemed more important than it turned out to be. How did they escape?

[NEG]

Sonic Screwdriver

[Gregory Wolfe]

The fact that they were trapped there seemed more important than it turned out to be. How did they escape?

I personally think it will be a thread picked up later.

[Nifta]

It just set up the next gag. (Pink: You never had a suntan this morning. Clara: Tanning salon at lunchtime). Followed by the seaweed gag.

[JPickford]

Aye, and being trapped like that was entirely typical of the sort of scrapes they regularly get into and out of. No need to explain what happened.

[MDY]

A Who themed one from the fantastic Jim'll Paint it..
http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/

Tom Baker has vandalised and is pissing on the new Doctor’s Tardis..

[LyonJacques]

The last episode banged on and on about how the doctor shouldn't prejudge Pink for being a soldier or dismiss him as a P.E. teacher - but in Pink's very first scene (in episode 2) he was introduced teaching P.E. - teaching special soldier themed P.E. - with everyone in specially printed soldier themed P.E. kit. Did he print these himself or did he turn up on his first day and get roped into this? Why didn't have a tantrum and spout his you're all so judgemental 'army soldier! be the best!' bollocks then?

[Mogster]

That was some extracuricular thing he did for the kids, not his regular role.

[LyonJacques]

I know, I just thought it was a bit weird that he actually does teach a fair bit of P.E. and is happy to be defined as Mr Pink soldier man when it suits him..