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Episode after episode of "the Doctor disses Clara but it's okay because he's an alien and just doesn't get that he's insulting her, ha ha!", and none of it with a fraction of the wit and characterisation of Douglas Adams and Tom Baker's "You're a beautiful woman, probably." So we're now four episodes in (almost five if you count the extended runtime of the first), and I still don't have a handle on who Twelve is. Okay, he's a curmudgeon, but beyond that? After this much time with the previous Doctors their personalities were pretty solidly defined (think of how much Pertwee and Baker had already made the part their own - in terms of screentime, Baker would by now be into 'The Sontaran Experiment'), but Capaldi hasn't been able to stamp his own mark because he's alternating between 'grump' and 'leftover Eleven badinage'. As for the episode itself, meh. "There was no monster. The Doctor was found alive, well and of normal size...."
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This episode had some (mildly) amusing moments, but it's cemented something that's been developing all season: the show's become The Misadventures Of Clara rather than Doctor Who. This week, Clara has a big date with her hunky co-worker, but her wacky time-travelling Matt Smith's stories often had sitcom-esque scenes, sometimes to excess, but this year's gone all-out with it and it's getting tiresome. The Doctor's seemed less like the hero of his own show than the zany comic relief.
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Sep 27, 2014 22:57
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CuddleChunks posted:The grumpy, bickering, fairly rude Doctor is really making me laugh. His utter obliviousness to Clara is a decent source of comedy and fits in decently with the series as a whole. Here's hoping they will focus on telling adventure stories and gadding about the galaxy instead of writing more drivel like this week and the season opener. The Doctor's always been able to drop into human (or whatever) society with no trouble before, so why are they pulling out the Mork & Mindy/Third Rock "BEEP BOOP I am an alien" bag of gags now?
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Sep 28, 2014 08:31
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Random Stranger posted:I think the majority of the people involved thought that they were just going back in time and doing their own thing, not that they were erasing everyone from existence. But it's not really clear who knows what in that story. Funny how advanced Britain's space programme was in the
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Oct 4, 2014 19:30
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The moon doesn't weigh 1.6 billion (1,600,000,000) tons, or whatever the number was they kept bandying about. The moon weighs (approx) 73,459,000,000,000,000,000 tons (73 quintillion), if I'm reading Wolfram Alpha right. Sci-fi writers really don't get how massive planetary bodies are. :sperg: Edit: more spergery; again, if I'm using Wolfram Alpha right and assuming that rock weighs one ton per cubic metre, a 1.6 billion ton moon would only be about a mile in diameter. Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Oct 4, 2014 |
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Oct 4, 2014 22:07
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Dabir posted:Hang on, how the gently caress was the moon getting more massive? Eggs don't get heavier over time, where was all the extra mass coming from? It's funny how Capaldi is clearly a massive Pertwee fan, but his Doctor is so far Three's polar opposite: Pertwee always played the Doctor as a heroic figure of trust and safety for the kids watching ("Who's your friend" was a Radio Times cover!), while Twelve is a massively irresponsible rear end in a top hat who directly endangers (and then abandons) a child to prove a point and doesn't give a poo poo. Post-watershed, at that!
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Oct 4, 2014 22:51
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Gaz-L posted:I think a lot of what people mean is that he's not being presented entirely positively, which I thought was a big complaint about Smith and Tennant, what with the Jesus-Doctor stuff?
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Oct 4, 2014 23:35
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So I guess the moon from 'The Moonbase' and 'The Seeds Of Death' was actually Egg 2.0, then? You'd think Two might have noticed.
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Oct 5, 2014 11:12
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Majorian posted:Okay, but why are you focusing on that anyway, instead of the deconstruction of the Doctor as a character, and his relationship with humanity? Which is the freaking point of the episode.
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Oct 5, 2014 21:13
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RodShaft posted:I felt like Jenna's 180 at the end wasn't earned. Not the fault of the writer. there was some really good bits leading up to it, I just think it was too soon.
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Oct 13, 2014 13:43
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I was on that street leading to St Paul's last weekend (with no idea it was going to feature in the show; I was more stoked about seeing a place called Knightrider Street), and took a couple of photos. Not a red phone box in sight...
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Nov 2, 2014 22:31
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Antti posted:Oh yeah, I definitely expected them to emerge not into London, but from the Master's TARDIS, since I reasoned one place the Nethersphere could fit into easily would be a TARDIS.
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Nov 4, 2014 18:59
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Gaz-L posted:There's a very clear attempt to homage Pertwee's era over the last year or two. The Master being the main villain, the return of UNIT with a Lethbridge-Stewart in charge, Capaldi's overall look and approach. And the original seasons 7 and 8 pretty much WERE pitched at adults. They were going for the 20-somethings that were watching The Avengers and such. TA... OD!(t) was charmingly naive with its ideas that Britain would not only have its own manned space programme, but be landing astronauts on Mars, in 1970's very near future, though. Bless it.
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Nov 6, 2014 15:58
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So we found out what happened to Dodo, anyway: she became a funeral director!
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Nov 8, 2014 23:33
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So which Cyberman was Steve Jobs? After watching Pertwee's first season, it's almost reassuring that UNIT troops are as incompetent as ever. In The Ambassadors Of Twang they're mown down en masse by Cockney street thugs, and here we have a pair of guards standing two feet from the Master completely failing to react as she removes her handcuffs, threatens Osgood, then makes a big show of escaping before disintegrating them. So anyway, Series 8. Three good, five okay and four terrible episodes. Par for the course, but nobody will ever agree which stories were which.
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Nov 9, 2014 13:13
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Lipset and Rock On posted:Yes, I am sperging over the realistic portrayal of public transport in a TV show where an alien travels in time in a blue box.
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Nov 14, 2014 20:05
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Acne Rain posted:How can the moon both be housing a weather control machine and a baby dragon
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Nov 19, 2014 14:43
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