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Nick R

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I really enjoyed that, thought the effects were pretty good too!

Yes, the special effects for the Boneless were excellent, but the budget limitations were apparent in the edits to avoid showing practical effects (such as the smash through the window and the leap from the seeding train). As Phil Sandifer put it: "in typical Doctor Who fashion, shambling zombie bodies possessed by two-dimensional monsters prove terribly effective, but trains are oddly dodgy affairs."

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It was a decent episode, yep. Nice to see more to Clara's character and her understanding of the Doctor.

Just some random thoughts:

It was obvious the second Clara was hesitant about not being exactly on time that she hadn't told Danny she was still travelling with the Doctor. At first, I thought his stern look at the end of the episode was building to a speech about him not wanting her to have to lie to travel with him, which would lay the groundwork for a rift to develop and then provide the basis for Clara's exit (if she's going - I hope she isn't.) Instead, it was the casual way she treated life in the name of 'the greater good', which displeased the Doctor. I thought it was a nice little moment for both of them.

No idea who/what Missy is; the generic blurb for the final episodes of the series suggest that the Doctor's friends and enemies are being manoeuvred around him for some purpose; perhaps those that have given their lives for the sake of the Doctor (directly or indirectly) are being collected so they can have some sort of revenge?

Thought the effects on The Boneless were great and they made a good enemy. Would have been nice for something more of their character to be revealed when they were communicating, but I guess that'll come in future episodes to feature them (which they surely will.)

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I like stories that try to play around with dimensions. I didn't really buy the 2D nature of the aliens - I'd have preferred them to have more but, whatever, It's a rare episode that plays with the Space bit of the TARDIS as in its and our dimensions, other than having the Tardis bigger on the inside. It was intriguing, imaginative and great fun - as I say, the Doctor's hand coming out of the TARDIS doors was great, as were the tools, especially the sledgehammer.

That's what Doctor Who should be about: scary aliens, imagination and fun. This episode has really set a bar that, by the looks of things so far, other episodes will find hard to reach.

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I missed why the Doctor started dying when TARDIS went into siege mode. Did he run out of turnips?

The life support stopped working and he was running out of air. Why the air in such a massive space would run out so quickly I couldn't tell you.

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Hideous Kojima

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The best thing with Peter Capaldi is that you no longer watch an episode and think "why is some young guy pretending to be Doctor Who?" He's all crochety and old and alien and weird, and no longer seems as eager to impress and earn your love as a damp labrador.

I'm gonna get a lot of stick for this but I think Tennant really is my least favourite Doctor. It's not his fault, don't get me wrong, it really is more the writers and their creative direction, but whereas Capaldi seems like the true continuation of classic Who, and Eccleston and Smith had elements, though different, Tennant's version just doesn't fit in at all to me. It's a 'sexing up' of Doctor Who that, at best, made him more of a young and hip Willy Wonka of space and time than the Doctor, and even then only rarely. All the love stories, flirting, innuendo, gay overtones, sympathy overdone to the point of self-parody, it just doesn't go. I recently saw the scene where he's explaining to David Morrissey's "not the Doctor" character in The Next Doctor and Morrissey (not that one) seemed more Doctorish than he did.

I get the impression that the current regime of the show was trying to say that the Doctor being young/hip/whacky was a sort of PTSD over when he thought he blew up Gallifrey, and once he learned he didn't he could regenerate, via Capaldi, into something more "himself" again, which I thought was nice.

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Yeah, I wouldn't go as far as the lunatic who compared DT to a concentration camp guard for not challenging the quality of the scripts he was given (no, really, someone actually did this) but by the end of his run, I was well and truly sick of him and his take on the character whereas I was genuinely sad to see Matt go despite similarly having a terrible set of stories to work with a lot of the time.

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I still like Tennant, and when he was good, he was very good. I also think it's okay for him to be a bit different. None of the Doctor's are entirely like each other, the show is basically forced to continually reinvent itself, and at the time that was a different direction. I like the Doctor not to be too tied down - each incarnation is an aspect of a bigger whole you can't see. Troughton was very different to Hartnell, Pertwee turned him into an action hero, Baker added his unique madness etc

Some of the scripts were shit but so were some of Smith's and so have some of Capaldi's. It took to about halfway through this series for me to warm to Capaldi, whereas I took to Smith right away.

But they all have something to recommend them *

* Except maybe Baker 2

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I'll always love The End of Time as it's the episode that finally got me to give Doctor Who a second chance after having watched Aliens of London/World War Three. It was big, shouty and a whole lot of fun. Looking back on it though, the big companion tour the Doctor takes in it isn't really interesting. For one thing, it's rehashing a lot of series 4 with the Doctor visiting Rose, Donna, Sarah Jane, Jack etc. The second problem comes with the fact that Ten's real goodbye scene plays out quite nicely with Wilf in the radiation chamber scene.

Ten raging against having to sacrifice himself for an older looking mortal. Knowing that he could outlive Wilf in his current dying form, his own ego nearly stopping him form making sacrfice only to make it anyway. 'Cause he's the Doctor and that is what the Doctor does. Right there is all you would ever need to sum up the 10th Doctor. It's there that his own journey really ends. That's why those final scenes feel so infuriating, the moment 'I don't wanna go' comes up, you just look at the radiation chamber scene and wonder at what could have been...

Plus, it would have been great to see Bernard Cribbins mourn David Tennant only to have Matt Smith come out of the radiation chamber and cheer Wilf up and make him a fully fledged companion. Wilfred Mott 4 life!

Tennant was in the best episode though. Blink has yet to be bettered but it's getting close.

I quite like Blink but a) it tends to get overrated and b)Tennant is barely in it!

Now Midnight on the other hand...

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