Doctor Who

[El Pibe]

Thought it was alright and pretty enjoyable. Some good lines from the Doctor.

[HarMGM]

Nope, sorry. Loved that. Im enjoying seeing the meltdowns over it whilst every reviewer I'm seeing keeps praising it.

Doctor Who at both its most ridiculous and finest. First time I've ever seen something from the new show that could claim it was pretty much a modernised version of something out of the Hinhcliffe era of the show.

This along with The Caretaker and Listen is making series 8 one of the best runs in years

[cassidy]

First 15 mins was basically the ark in space done now. Plus Capaldi said when I say run!

[Not Thread Owner]

Doctor who said what now?

Whispering in a show with bad audio. Brilliant.

What bad audio? Have you got hearing problems?

[Flub]

I'm really looking forward to next week

Now that Kill the Moon has aired the BBC have edited the published cast list for Mummy on the Orient Express... IN SPAAACCCEEE. Clara isn't in it. Instead the Doc is taking Danny

[Dimahoo]

You lot are mental.

I can live with the Moon being an egg and i can live with the bad science but surely a monster giving birth to an egg would be more fantastical to see then hatching out of one esp. when its saving the earth. And they missed that because they were talking.

Totally killed the story and wrong on so many levels. Its even wrong on a 4th wall level.

[Lag]

Capaldi's great, the stories are shite, this episode was dreadful. The in media res prologue was a clue to how dreadful it would be.

Looking forward to Frank Skinner's performance.

[Hello Goaty ♥]

You say that though, and yet every new episode so far has been better than Matt Smiths outings. Have to add IMO of course

[Mr Cochese]

I liked how the point was that Doctor Who forced humanity make a moral choice and then overruled them when he didn't get the answer he wanted.

[dismembo]

How did he overrule them?

[footle]

I'm really looking forward to next week

Now that Kill the Moon has aired the BBC have edited the published cast list for Mummy on the Orient Express... IN SPAAACCCEEE. Clara isn't in it. Instead the Doc is taking Danny

One of the fun things about it was the slow dawning realisation Clara has that she's travelling around the universe with a bored lunatic, coming to a boil.

[Sprite Machine]

I really liked the last five minutes. The rest of it annoyed me with bad physics.

WHERE DID ANY OF THE MASS COME FROM?!! WHY COULD WE HEAR THE MOON CRACKING OPEN FROM THE EARTH??!!!

[Sidewaysbob]

Because we could. I thought it was ace.

[Lag]

You say that though, and yet every new episode so far has been better than Matt Smiths outings. Have to add IMO of course

I didn't say the Matt Smith episodes aren't shite.

[Comrade]

You lot are mental.

I can live with the Moon being an egg and i can live with the bad science but surely a monster giving birth to an egg would be more fantastical to see then hatching out of one esp. when its saving the earth. And they missed that because they were talking.

Totally killed the story and wrong on so many levels. Its even wrong on a 4th wall level.

It's because there's no way to show a dragon laying an egg that's bigger than itself that wouldn't look completely ridiculous, and hang a hat on how implausible it was.

[jonamok]

Such utter codswallop. The whole mass of the moon thing. Adding a couple of billon tonnes (never explained how) increases the gravitational pull of the same sized object six-fold? But it's already about a trillion billion tonnes, and now it's a trillion billion and two tonnes? Gravity gain through the roof! Real reason: because it's easier on the budget if it's 1g.

The spiders needing to be single-celled (which later became bacteria, and are clearly complex creatures) seemingly just so we can give the annoying child a domestos gag.

The soup dragon laying an egg larger than itself.

The 4.5 billion year old moon being described repeatedly as 100 million years old. Wtf? Did the writer not have access to google?

Just unnecessarily stupid. I do wonder if the show's story defenders would find anything beyond the pale? Yes, it's mostly for kids and played for laughs, but why patronise and misinform an intelligent audience with this shit?

[dismembo]

Wasn't the increased mass of the moon due to the suddenly growing creature though? It was mentioned by the Doctor that it had remained dormant for millions of years and only started to develop properly relatively recently. The sudden appearance of a new moon sized egg was a little sudden though.

I don't think this is a show where any kind of realistic scientific accuracy is to be expected. It certainly hasn't been for the past fifty years, anyway.

[kensei]

Conservation of energy. How does anything get into the egg to increase the mass, and by that insane amount?

[Guest]

Alien.

[Dimahoo]

Oh i get it. He was carrying another Egg wasn't he. That explains the mass.
You know. You saw it didn't you.

NO YOU DIDN'T. BECAUSE IT GREW IN THE SPACE OF A 1 MINUTE CONVERSATION. THE SAME ONE THEY WERE HAVING WHEN THEY DIDN'T SEE IT COME OUT OF...

...ITS MASSIVE GAPING ALIEN FANNY.

Such opportunity missed. They could have gone to town with the Giger references in that scene alone.

[jonamok]

GigerLiving^TM

[Lorfarius]

So it's like a fart? Tiny, bad and ever expanding which nobody ever wants.

[Lag]

Also the egg is initially a tiny scrunched up carrier bag type structure (not shown) which then unscrunches itself incredibly rapidly over the course of twenty seconds or so until it is moon size, moon weight mass

[Lag]

That's no moon!

[Mr Cochese]

If the Moon is an egg, what the fuck are eggs?

[Mogster]

Moons.

Yeah, that didn't work for me, although I loved the basic concept and it had some good character stuff. The first twenty minutes or so were really creepy too, but then all the egg stuff turns up and everything went stupid. The second egg at the end was the icing on the stupid cake.

[Space Renegade Ulala]

"I can totally accept that this man in the sentient time-travelling telephone box can die and be reborn as someone almost completely different multiple times while waving his magic wand at the race of tentacle monsters in tiny tanks armed with egg-whisks and sink plungers while a bunch of living statues wait for their moment to eat you by sending you back through time where you might meet a potato-head alien clone and his lesbian lizard lady detective boss but the Moon being a giant egg???? Preposterous!"

I wasn't too fond of the episode either but anyone complaining about the science of Doctor Who and the latest episode featuring a particularly outlandish concept is on a hiding to nothing. Shit's always been crazytown, bud.

[kensei]

Yeah but that was just the right size of shit for you to choke on.

[Captain Novaforce]

The moon thing was ridiculous, which is a shame as there was a lot to like. As has been pointed out before they could have done this with an asteroid or a comet, but I think they came up with a title then wrote the story. Ultimately I just tried to ignore that, as tonally it was fine. Had this been a Matt Smith episode they would have had the earth singing the space dragon to sleep or some other bollocks.

[Sprite Machine]

"I can totally accept that this man in the sentient time-travelling telephone box can die and be reborn as someone almost completely different multiple times while waving his magic wand at the race of tentacle monsters in tiny tanks armed with egg-whisks and sink plungers while a bunch of living statues wait for their moment to eat you by sending you back through time where you might meet a potato-head alien clone and his lesbian lizard lady detective boss but the Moon being a giant egg???? Preposterous!"

I wasn't too fond of the episode either but anyone complaining about the science of Doctor Who and the latest episode featuring a particularly outlandish concept is on a hiding to nothing. Shit's always been crazytown, bud.

I can believe that the moon is a giant egg. I can't believe that a creature from said egg is able to immediately lay another egg of the same size and mass (while no-one's looking).