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KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

Alright show, you better be good. A year of Toxxidox reviews have left me tired out.

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KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

Someone's been playing a bit too much Zelda :haw:

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

Oh wow. Props to the set dressers

e: Ah, poo poo. Why is this show so terrible at technobabble? Even by the standards of technobabble.

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Not a fan of suicide-moons?

I'd buy it if the delivery could sell it.

It can't

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

:golfclap:

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

You know, I really don't like the whole dynamics of UNIT. Narratively speaking. It's too... sexy. James Bond.

Not enough shabby tweed jacket.

Chucat posted:

I'm really hoping that this isn't another series long thing about how "The Doctor is going to die"

Yeah, that too.

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

I think this season has blown its load too soon :allears:

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

Strom Cuzewon posted:

This has gone somewhere very weird.

That's good. Weird is good. This show should be weird.

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

Just getting around to watching it now. The whole sequence with Clara in the Dalek and the voice manipulator seems to have triggered every sperg reflex I have. Especially the bit about shouting "Exterminate!" being how they reload. gently caress you, Moffat, you loving hack. If you dare make that canon I will vivisect you. Uuuuuuuuuuuurrrgh.

Is it weird that, while I enjoyed the previous episode a lot in the heat of the moment, I came away feeling it was pretty bad? And the more I thought about it afterwards the less I liked it? To the point where, a week later, I now despise the whole thing and that's just carried straight through to this one?

MrL_JaKiri posted:

And just like Whedon's Marvel stuff, even the things that were supposedly deeply connected to the continuity were pointless except in the moment. The poo poo about the Dalek/Time Lord Prophecy, for example. After spending all that effort on making the Doctor just a guy having adventures, the last few episodes have doubled down on the "Doctor is the most important and amazing person in the universe" thing again. The nanosecond laser beam teleporter nonsense? When has the Doctor ever done anything like that?

It's not a coincidence that the best episodes of Doctor Who in the last few years have been ones where the Doctor is just a pretty clever man who turns up somewhere where Adventure Is To Be Had, with the only real exception for me being The Doctor's Wife from Moffat's tenure.

(In fact, having a think about it, there are maybe half a dozen stories in total from Doctor Who that have the story about more than just A Pretty Clever Man Who Turns Up Somewhere Adventure Is To Be Had that I really enjoy - Wife, Human Nature, Dalek, Curse of Fenric, Remembrance, Genesis and Logopolis sort of, last two episodes of The War Games)

:agreed:

This show is drunk on itself, and it is poisoning everything good about it.

e: These scenes with the Doctor and Davros together are really, really good though.

KOGAHAZAN!! fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Sep 27, 2015

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

computer parts posted:

What were the ratings for the first episode? I saw the initial ones but not with the digital views factored in.

Like he said, the consolidated ratings aren't out yet.

By the by, I'm amazed Casualty is still going. How many hours of television has that produced now?

e: 964 episodes @ 50 minutes each :catstare:

Not quite up to The Bill figures

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

Hey hey, I'm on time for this week's! :toot:

I quite liked last weeks, so I'm feeling pretty optimistic.

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

More Doctortair and it segues seamlessly into the theme :allears:

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

So are we trialling O'Donnell for Clara replacement? I could go for that.

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

Jerusalem posted:

Over Shona's dead body :mad:

....wait, don't kill Shona! :ohdear:

Well, no reason we can't take both

e: second goddamn plotline in a row playing the "Doctor's going to die" card :argh:

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

Time-travelling TARDIS-calls can be stopped by a Faraday cage, huh?

No, I don't know why that's the part of time-travelling TARDIS-calls I'm fixating on :v:

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

Yup, saw that coming

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

Viking Seven Samurai with Maisie Williams. Oh yes

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

Jerusalem posted:

The 4th Wall Breaking was a little bit much for me, but otherwise that was a thoroughly enjoyable episode and a nice follow-up to the first part.

My thoughts exactly. Felt a little too short, actually.

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KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

Rochallor posted:

Come to think of it, the Russian bit feels like it was cribbed from The Curse of Fenric, which is also where Whithouse took the ending of The God Complex from.

Isn't Whithouse the one that never watched the classic series?

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