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Oxxidation posted:Series Six...*steeples fingers*...also owned.
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I see a load of wrong people in here who don't think the Angels two-parter was great.
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Nov 23, 2014 07:15
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I liked Time Of The Doctor more when I rewatched it recently but it really does have too much plot crammed in. You don't need an origin story for the memory-proof Silence monsters! You don't have a dry conversation about all the plot points from the whole prior series over dinner! Why the hell is Tasha Lem not Madam Kovarian? The good bits are really good though, and I love him prancing about shooting Daleks down with regeneration energy despite how dumb that is. I still think it's worse than The End Of Time but not by as much as I used to.
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Nov 26, 2014 07:22
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Hell yeah Tom Baker gets the sex number 
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Nov 29, 2014 05:49
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I loved that, definitely Christmas Carol and the first time I think Moffat's come close to his first series. Did the Moffat thing of tapping into primal fears and actually managed to combine two, with the impossibility of knowing for sure it's a dream (the final scene was unsettlingly ambiguous) and the monsters which kill you if you think about them. Santa just owned every scene he was in, and Clara's fake ending felt sweet and sad and kind of appropriate that the Doctor would miss out on her life like she missed out on his last year. I did like that they got a happy ending though, hopefully Clara will remain entertaining next year and when Jenna Coleman does finally leave she'll hopefully get an ending which isn't super sad and tragic, because it gets wearying when those happen every single time a companion leaves.
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Dec 26, 2014 01:17
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Senor Tron posted:It's worth pointing out that the Doctor isn't intentionally being a jerk. There have been a few scenes this series where he clearly thinks he is acting the same way he always has, and is trying to be helpful, and is obviously confused as to why people are annoyed with him.
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Dec 26, 2014 06:18
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I wish he'd at least get some story arc lessons. His idea of developing a plot over a season is for Missy to show up and wave at the camera every couple of episodes.
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Dec 27, 2014 18:14
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I rewatched it and it did seem a lot more like the actual happy ending was rushed in later. Clara seemed more nostalgic for the Tardis than you'd expect if it had just been a few weeks or months since she was there last, and her not wanting to wake up makes a lot more sense if she's dying of old age anyway. I still like it in its current form as a final dream from Santa to get them back together though.
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Dec 27, 2014 21:37
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The scene with Santa doesn't necessarily take place immediately after the last scene with Clara, they're separated by the beginning of the credits.
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Dec 29, 2014 16:22
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The initial dreamcrab attack took place during the unspecified amount of time covered by the first section of the credits before Santa started knocking on the Tardis door. As for where, it was a place with a volcano.
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Dec 29, 2014 16:37
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When they wake up the dream crabs die. Turkey leg guy died because the zombie dreamcrab clones getting you symbolises your brain giving up and no longer being able to fight back. Edit: Doctor and Clara needing an extra dream to get out kind of makes sense because it was just them at the start of the episode as well. 2house2fly fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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Dec 29, 2014 18:22
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Maybe, and maybe the Doctor and Clara never woke up either. Tangerine on the windowsill at the end!
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Dec 29, 2014 18:53
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Man, remember when Moffat thought that being rushed and terrible and making no sense were bad things in stories?  Beast Below is a bit sloppier than Eleventh Hour plotwise but it pulls together a bunch of emotional bits very effectively I thought. I've rewatched it a bunch of times and it still makes me tear up a bit at the end. I think Moffat's a lot better than Davies at establishing a loving bond between the main characters which isn't romantic, and Beast Below was the first time that really came across.
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Jan 6, 2015 06:01
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He's not really portrayed as being in the right when he says that(this is right after he says that what he's going to do is so bad that he's going to have to pick a different name) so I'm fine with it. Also it's just a pretty messed up situation in general. Also I'll give Moffat this, he starts foreshadowing his poo poo way in advance, intentionally or not. His second episode in charge and he mentions the Doctor's name being something he chose that he might not feel entitled to call himself if he does something horrible enough. Edit: I was going to mention in the other thread as well, but figured it'd be too spoilery, that "basically run" isn't just a cool way to end the first episode but another step towards the finale, where the Doctor gives a big showy speech to all his enemies about how many times he's beaten them, and they agree and lock him away in the universe's most secure prison. 2house2fly fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Jan 6, 2015 06:38
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As far as I remember the first time the old Daleks reappeared was Wedding Of River Song when the Doctor loots the data core or whatever off a broken one.
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Jan 7, 2015 06:58
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CobiWann posted:When my nine year old looks at me and says "eggs don't work that way," the science, even if it's more fiction than fact, is just plain wrong and a drag on the episode. Ideally it would have had a line like "but eggs don't work that w-" "it's not an EGG egg, it's an ALIEN egg" to minimise nerdrage about how eggs work.
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Jan 8, 2015 14:29
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jng2058 posted:And the big problem, as noted by others, is what to do with episodes like "The Pandorica Opens" or "The Bells of St. John" that span multiple timelines? Watch the episode in chunks and hope you remember the 1207 stuff with the Doctor when you get the other half of the conversation from Clara's point of view in 2013? Stuff like this was why I enjoyed watching a chronological edit of Lost. There's an episode where a guy's consciousness is flashing between 2004 and 1996, and in the chronological edit you see his 1996 self figuring out that he'll die if he doesn't stop it and begging someone for help, then it cuts away and you have to wait like 50 episodes to find out what happens.
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Jan 9, 2015 06:53
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ashpanash posted:I loved the before-the-credits reveal in Pandorica. What a mind gently caress. The last ten minutes of that episode are among my favourite bits of the whole show.
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Jan 10, 2015 07:40
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Doctor Who is saved, but at what cost?
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Jan 17, 2015 05:38
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I was kind of surprised to see the references to it in the reviews just because it's a reveal in the final episode, but it's certainly obvious in retrospect. Brings back fond memories of the entire Doctor Who thread on the forum I frequented at the time calling the end of series 6 and then dismissing it as too obvious.
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Jan 18, 2015 06:56
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Oxxidation posted:Like this poo poo. Don't loving do this. Haha, I was just being silly about everyone loving Rory so much and didn't intend it to be a reference to where his story goes at all. I'll edit it away.
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Jan 20, 2015 03:29
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I thought the vampire episode was also a blight originally, but it was better when I rewatched it. Don't know if I can be bothered rewatching the silurian one because it's poor across two whole episodes.
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Jan 20, 2015 05:25
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Sex? How predictable. You're not really into Wookieepedia until you've read their article on pants, or been unsettled by how few entries are in the list of Star Wars stories featuring eyes. Or researched the back story of Unidentified Man With Pig Nose Edit: Beaten! Gas!
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Jan 23, 2015 19:14
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Rewatching Amy's Choice, I just realised it foreshadows the rest of series 5 with Rory dying and the Tardis getting blown up. Not really significant but kind of neat.
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Jan 24, 2015 04:36
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I like Danny and I kind of wish he'd gotten a better story.
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Jan 25, 2015 22:33
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Jerusalem posted:I assume people loved it since it was so great, I was just saying I included it as part of the season as a whole as opposed to its own separate thing like other Christmas Specials have felt like.
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Jan 26, 2015 01:38
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It ends with the implication that Santa is real, just like every Christmas special that features him.
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Jan 26, 2015 05:25
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That reminds me, probably my biggest irritation with Moffat is his habit of skipping decades at a time. The Doctor spent more time dossing around doing nothing at the end of series 6 than he spent with every revival companion combined, and then he spent most of his entire lifespan on Trenzalore making toy trains with hyperdrives. I think he was hanging out being glum for years before meeting Clara too. The story really doesn't need for there to be these vast time skips and I don't understand why he put them in there, considering "a long time passed offscreen" is something that's incredibly difficult to communicate in a satisfying way in a TV show at the best of times. I did like old Matt Smith at the end of Time Of The Doctor though, so maybe it was worth it.
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Jan 27, 2015 07:07
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Rochallor posted:That's not necessarily a dynamic that has to continue, however. And it's pretty general as far as things go. I mean, it generally describes both Series 1 and 8, but the nature of those relationships is totally different. While Moffat did a decent job with Missy and Clara this series, I'm still not confident about the idea of him writing a female Doctor based on the entirety of his previous writing career.
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Jan 29, 2015 14:03
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That review finally justifies the key throwing dream sequence for me. I was annoyed by that initially because it went on for so long but doesn't ever get mentioned again; Moffat being Moffat I was expecting the whole dream patch thing to be setup for something later on but it was just something that happened. It works better in retrospect as a sort of microcosm of the episode- Missy in control the whole time but pretending not to be, winding the Doctor up and seeing what happens. I read an interview with Moffat where he said he was really proud of the line "do you think I care so little for you that betraying me would make any difference?" because it's the perfect way to say "I love you" that Clara and Danny never found. I don't know if I'd call it perfect but I do think it's a very sweet line, especially coming from Capaldi's gruff rear end in a top hat Doctor. It is kind of weird that the whole first episode of the two-parter is spent exploring what turns out to be a bunch of rubbish made up by the villain. But then again, you could say the same thing about The Pandorica Opens and I loved that episode, so I can't really criticise Dark Water for it.
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Jan 31, 2015 06:23
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There's a few "Now he's dead forever" posts and it annoys me because it was clear even at the time that resolving the cracks thing would end up with Rory being brought back somehow. Speaking of, I hadn't watched that bit since it was first on so I was pleasantly surprised by the Doctor saying stuff like "he's still alive in your mind" he was literally trying get her to will him back into existence!
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Jan 31, 2015 22:55
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Oxxidation posted:It really wasn't. Did you also think the series would end with the Tardis exploding and destroying the universe?
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Feb 1, 2015 00:01
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He probably won't see it coming when it actually happens because the actual circumstances are so crazy, so there'll still be the thrill of discovery. The main thing is that nobody spoils the Doctor's reaction 
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Feb 4, 2015 06:25
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I was rolling with it up to the end of A Good Man Goes To War, but then the instant Mels regenerated into River I knew the wheels had fallen off the Moffatmobile.
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Feb 15, 2015 00:34
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That one was annoying because the plot didn't even progress at all. Amy and Rory just mention the Doctor dying, maybe Amy sees Kovarian's face in a wall, on with the episode. Eventually a time-travelling robot full of tiny people had to warp in to actually move the drat plot along. Man I'm looking forward to the other thread getting to series 6.
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Feb 15, 2015 05:22
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docbeard posted:In the end, I'm really pleased by Eleven's overall storyline, how he goes from, essentially, Time Lord Victorious to the sort of person who will sacrifice himself without question or hesitation to defend a small insignificant town in a war he neither can nor should ever win (I really liked Time of the Doctor, you guys, in spite of its flaws). Pleased enough that I'm more-or-less willing to forgive most of the missteps along the way. (gently caress The Doctor, The Widow, and the Dubious Message though.)
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Feb 15, 2015 16:53
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The DoctorWhat lore
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Feb 19, 2015 22:43
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Don't make fun of the guy's blood boils.
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Mar 21, 2015 22:35
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