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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by halfwise Sun Nov 24, 2013 12:53 am
Gee BB, I was gonna ask if you Fjordlandians ever go to bed, but I guess at this time of year night is sort of a diluted concept to you folks anyway.
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by Norc Sun Nov 24, 2013 12:57 am
ooh i was looking for thisBluebottle wrote:A link to David Tennant and Matt Smiths Graham Norton apperance for anyone interested.
http://vidbull.com/qxd3awm3ifjf.html
it is waay too late but i am watching a movie on NRK "atonement" benedict is briefly in it, and lots of james mcavoy. and i am home alone so i can go to bed whenever i want to
but i am starting to have a headache and i've drunk too much hot chocolate with whipped cream.. i made it it too strong.
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by halfwise Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:14 am
Ah yes, hot chocolate with whipped cream is the devil's own brew. Remember your limit and drink plenty of water...
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by Bluebottle Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:22 am
Depends on the secret ingredient I guess. 
Though just hot chocolate and whipped cream sounds rather wonderfull as well.
Great thing about saturdays Halfwise is that one can go to bed when one gets tired.
Having the house to yourself sounds rather good.
Glad I could help you with the link. 
Couldn't see Atonement on NRK though, maybe it was on some other channel.
Though just hot chocolate and whipped cream sounds rather wonderfull as well.Great thing about saturdays Halfwise is that one can go to bed when one gets tired.
Having the house to yourself sounds rather good.
Glad I could help you with the link. Couldn't see Atonement on NRK though, maybe it was on some other channel.
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by Norc Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:31 am
it started at midnight, but i think it's limited, u gotta seeit live or pause.. nrk 1
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by halfwise Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:39 am
NRK? You've got your own network, Norc?
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by Pettytyrant101 Sun Nov 24, 2013 9:20 am
If you get a chance to watch 'The Five(ish) Doctors reboot" do.
Its brilliant. Written by Peter Davidson it follows the exploits of five(ish) of the classic Doctors as they try to get themselves into the 50th anniversary episode. Even PJ is funny in it!
( he and Sir Ian both make cameos from TH set- and even take some kicks!- Sylvester- "he keeps us waiting about for days sometimes just incase he gets inspired and needs us. Never happens." or Sir Ian in full Gandalf garb responding to PJ telling him Sylvester has done a runner to try to get into Doctor Who and asking if Ian can do the scene himself- "Actually I think it might be better without him in it." )
Half an hour of Who based comedy gold.
Its brilliant. Written by Peter Davidson it follows the exploits of five(ish) of the classic Doctors as they try to get themselves into the 50th anniversary episode. Even PJ is funny in it!
( he and Sir Ian both make cameos from TH set- and even take some kicks!- Sylvester- "he keeps us waiting about for days sometimes just incase he gets inspired and needs us. Never happens." or Sir Ian in full Gandalf garb responding to PJ telling him Sylvester has done a runner to try to get into Doctor Who and asking if Ian can do the scene himself- "Actually I think it might be better without him in it." )Half an hour of Who based comedy gold.
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by Norc Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:28 am
yes.halfwise wrote:NRK? You've got your own network, Norc?
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by Amarië Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:34 am
Going to watch the anniversary episode on cinema today.
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by Norc Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:43 am
omg! this sounds brilliant!!!!!Pettytyrant101 wrote:If you get a chance to watch 'The Five(ish) Doctors reboot" do.
Its brilliant. Written by Peter Davidson it follows the exploits of five(ish) of the classic Doctors as they try to get themselves into the 50th anniversary episode. Even PJ is funny in it!
Half an hour of Who based comedy gold.
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by Norc Sun Nov 24, 2013 12:14 pm
omg, it was so sweet ^^
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-11-24/peter-davison-colin-baker-and-sylvester-mccoy-unite-for-doctor-who-spoof-the-fiveish-doctors
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-11-24/peter-davison-colin-baker-and-sylvester-mccoy-unite-for-doctor-who-spoof-the-fiveish-doctors
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by Mrs Figg Sun Nov 24, 2013 12:28 pm
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- I have to say last night I didnt want to spoil any ones fun, but today the gloves are off. I hated what Moffat did. He single handedly destroyed the Doctor in what was cringe making mawkish sentimentality. The Doctor, for the sake of a load of cute and laughing kids, decides not to destroy Gallifrey. Thus destroying the Whole meaning of his life, robbed of all his guilt, his deep pain, the anguish of what he had done (in some cheesy, ''oh why didnt I think of that?'', face palm moment)he is now reduced to the jolly jokey hokey Doctor that runs around kissing randy Queens, its as if that is now his future, gone the Dark Timelord, hello the Benny Hill Doctor, he hasnt now anything to fight for, nothing to make him want to right the wrongs he has done. Moffat killed the Doctor, made him banal, made him like any other time travellor just having fun in space. He has lost the whole reason he is there for humanity. The Doctor NEEDS his pain, he NEEDS his guilt to make him who he is. The plot device of 'think of the Gallifrayan children' is cheesy, easy cheap
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by Pettytyrant101 Sun Nov 24, 2013 12:49 pm
The Doctor NEEDS his pain, he NEEDS his guilt to make him who he is. - Figg
He didnt need it for the first 40 years and 8 Doctors and it got by just fine, some might say better.
"If you were that old and that kind, and the very last of your kind, you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry."- Amy to the Doctor- The Beast Below
He didnt need it for the first 40 years and 8 Doctors and it got by just fine, some might say better.
"If you were that old and that kind, and the very last of your kind, you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry."- Amy to the Doctor- The Beast Below
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by Pettytyrant101 Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:10 pm
Ok, pour yourself a few buckies- this isnt going to be short!
My review of day of the Doctor-
My review of day of the Doctor-
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- Where do you even start to write a 50th anniversary episode that has too both look to the past and the shows heritage and shape the direction for the next 50 years? Please long term fans and attract new ones? All at once?
Tricky question, and one no other writer in the history of tv before Steven Moffat has ever had to face.
His solution, was to start where it began, so the first thing to strike the eyes and ears of the viewer on the 23rd of November 2013 was exactly the same thing that struck the eyes and ears of viewers on the 23rd of November 1963- a black and white swirl of light and that theme tune, here in all its original radiophonic workshop glory and a fitting tribute to Delia Derbyshire and melody composer Ron Grainer (who famously after hearing what Delia had done with his simple melody asked- “Did I write that?” to which she modestly replied, “most of it.”)
But perhaps the greatest tribute to the original shows opening is that it does not seem out of place now save for being in black and white.
And that's worth a moments pause, because if you were to take any other popular tv show from the early 1960's and put it on tv now with its original theme tune and opening sequence it would seem horribly dated in every way. This was so far ahead of its time it still sits comfortably alongside modern tv show openings now. And that's quite an accomplishment.
The story properly opens with the shadow of a police man cast across a wall next to a sign reading 'I. Foreman, Scrap Merchant, Trotters Lane.- its a mirror in contemporary times of the opening shots of that first episode and to the location where the 1st Doctor hid away in his TARDIS.
And the nods dont stop there, as the camera pans up and we hear the voice of Clara teaching in a school we see another sign- Coal Hill Secondary school, the school Susan, the Doctor's granddaughter, attended and where two of her teachers, Barabara Wright and Ian Chetserton would come from to become the Doctors first human companions, and there on the sign as the camera pans over it, it reads- 'Chairman of the Governors- I. Chesterton' and below that- 'Headmaster- W. Coburn'- Coburn wrote the first ever Who scripts and came up with the idea of the TARDIS being an ordinary blue police box.
There is a plethora of these references for fans and Moffat throws them in thick and fast from the word go- so far we are only 33 seconds into the episode!
Clara gets a message that the Doctor is waiting for her and is given an address, so taking to a motorbike and heading off down the street on which stood the cafe that Ace and the 7th Doctor frequented in Remembrance of the Daleks she heads out into the countryside and in a nod to the 8th Doctor tv movie rides straight in the front doors of the TARDIS.
Its a beautifully done effect, and even though I am not a fan of 3D it is one of several points where I really wished I was watching in 3D.
Typica; of Moffat whilst he is distracting you with all the pretty visuals and the references he sneaks in that Clara in her experiences in the Doctors Time Line at Tenzelore seems to have gained the ability to open and close the TRADIS doors with a snap of her fingers just as the Doctor does.
Things quickly take a turn for the adventurous when the TARDIS takes off without the engines going- she is being hijacked by a large hook and a military helicopter and with a nod to the 11th Dotctor's first appearance he gets to hang out the TARDIS again as it is flown over London and to the HQ of UNIT, still headed up by Kate Stewart, daughter of the Brigadier from Classic Who, and a lovely way to acknowledge a character that can sadly no longer join us for the celebrations.
UNIT have a problem. And a message for the Doctor from Queen Elizbath the First.
But before the Doctor reads the sealed letter he is invited to see the proof that the message is who it says its from and is taken to a very special art gallery beneath the Tower of London.
There is also some lovely banter too on the way as the Doctor tries to convince Clara that he actually does have a proper job- as Scientfiic Advisor to UNIT, which he took on as the 3rd Doctor.
Arriving at the gallery it contains Time Lord paintings, which aren't actually paintings.
“Time Lord art, its bigger on the inside. A slice of real time, frozen.”
The scene where the Doctor and Clara view the paintings was the second time Id wished I was watching in 3d as the effect is damn impressive even in 2.
One picture in particular troubles the Doctor- and it has two names – 'No more' and 'Gallifrey Falls'- and it depicts the destruction of the second largest city on Gallifrey, Arcadia, at the end of the Time War.
The Doctor reveals to Clara that the picture is the day, the day he did it, the day he killed them all and ended the Time War.
And then we are in the painting and the mayhem of a Dalek attack!
“And in that battle there was a man with more blood on his hands than any other. A man who would commit a crime that would silence the universe. And that man was me.”
Amid the death, the explosions and screaming children we get our first glimpse of the War Doctor, demanding a gun from a soldier- a less Doctorish request is hard to imagine. He then proceeds to shoot the words 'No More' into a wall before every Dalek in the vicinity detects his presence.
And its great to hear some old classic era Dalek war cries again as they all head off screaming “Seek! Locate! Destroy!” before the War Doctor flies his TARDIS straight through the wall and the Daleks.
We then get to see the War Council of Gallifrey- there is no Rassilon, or there might be, as there is a Head honcho in traditional Gallifrey High Office costume but he is not named. So he could be Rassilion, who when revived was presumably given the usual 13 regens.
Either way what is nice abut these scenes is that the High Councils attitude to the Doctor is wonderfully the same as ever, even now as the universe is about to fall-
“He is a dangerous fool.”
“No, he is a madman.”
But the War Doctor has a dark plan, and he has stolen from the top secret vaults on Gallifrey The Moment- the pinnacle of ancient Gallifreyean weapons of mass destruction- the galaxy eater- a weapon so complex and powerful that according to legend it developed its own consciousness.
No one has ever been crazy enough to try using it-which means of course “there is only one person mad enough to even try.”
Cue the war Doctor carrying the weapon to a shack in the deserts of Gallifrey, lamenting what he is about to do.
“Today you leave me no choice, today this war will end. No more. No more.”
Rather typical of the Doctor in any incarnation having got the weapon and decided to use it, he doesn’t actually know how it works- “Why is there never a big red button?”
But in fact he has got it working, in the form of Bad Wolf Rose Tyler.
Anyone expecting to see Rose reunited with the the 10th Doctor in a big romantic lovefest is going to be disappointed as this Rose is really the consciousness of The Moment merged with the parts of Rose that were spread through Time by the TARDIS as Bad Wolf.
Only the War Doctor can see her so a big reunion with 10 is never on the cards.
Rose fans may be annoyed by this but I think its a good decision, given the problems of where in time Rose would be from otherwise, the amount of screen time it would take to explain and fill everything in if they met it would not have brought anything to the story.
And they brought Rose back already when they really should have left it with the tragic ending.
And for me Billie Pipers performance here is infinitely more nuanced and interesting than if she had just been Rose again. Billie Piper has grown immensely as an actor in the years since Who, and she was good to start with, and she really gets to play with this role in her mannerism and delivery of lines, and her scenes with Hurt are all excellent. She more than holds her own in scenes where there are only the two of them in it and where a lesser actor might have been overshadowed.
“Its nothing, its just a wolf.”
After a little bit of teasing that the Doctor walked miles and miles to this shack so the TARDIS couldn't see what he going to do its down to the business of what he is about to do, and why it means he does not deserve to call himself the Doctor any more.
“I have no desire to survive this.”
Having told the consciousness what he plans to do she takes on a rather Ghost of Christmas Future persona, telling the Doctor that living on after doing this will be is punishment.
“How many children on Gallifrey right now?”
“I don't know.”
“One day you will count them. One terrible night.”
The consciousness then opens up windows in time on her future, and suddenly through one them comes a fez!
Back in the UNIT gallery the Doctor opens the letter from Queen Elizabeth the 1st, and tells him she has appointed him curator of the under-gallery, a store of all the stuff too dangerous to let the world know about . And that if anything happens there he must be summoned.
In the undergallery we see another picture- 10 with Elizabeth the 1st and we are back in 1562 where 10 is having a picnic and courting the Queen, asking her marry to him.
She says yes and 10 reveals he knew she wasn’t the real queen but classic shape shifting monsters the Zygons in disguise- unfortunately he is wrong and its his horse that's the Zygon!
“Its a machine that goes ding. Made it myself, it lights up in the presence of shapeshifter DNA. Also can microwave frozen dinners at twenty feet and can download comics from the future. I don't know where to stop.”
What Moffat gives us here is some pure classic Who with a classic Who villain, There is running about in woods, screaming, and eventually the 10th finds himself faced with two Queen Elisabeth's and a machine that goes ding at both of them, much to his annoyance.
But before he can sort out which is which a time rift opens above them and out of it comes a fez.
Back in the under gallery, where the Doctor has spotted a fez in a display, he and Clara are led into another room of Time Lord pictures, this time all the glass frames have been smashed.
“Some day you can just walk by a fez.”
“Never going to happen.”
The Doctor in an almost Sherlockesque series of deductions works out that the pictures have been broken from the inside, and Kate confirms this by showing him images of the pictures before – when they had vague distant figures in them- all now gone. Something has broken out the pictures.
At that moment the time rift opens and the Doctor has a sort of recollection of it (his memory of what happened seems to be getting written as it happens- much like in A Christmas Carol) and taking off his fez realises what happens next and throws it into the time rift and then follows himself.
Taking him to England of the past and his younger self.
One of the most anticipated things about this episode was seeing 10 and 11 together- and they don't disappoint, from 10's dawning realisation of who 11 is to the sonic screwdriver off, to the brainy specs they are an absolute delight together- at turns almost identical and then completely different, and yet they both are utterly convincing in pulling of the difficult task of convincing you they are also the same person.
It really is a delightful to watch as we all hoped it would be.
And then it gets even better.
11 throws his fez back in to see if the time rift goes both ways, but the fez disappears, but then shortly reappears in the hands of the War Doctor as the War Doctor comes through the rift and we have 3 Doctors together.
“Did anyone lose a fez?”
In many ways Hurt has the hardest job here, there is no prior affection or attachment to his previously completely unknown Doctor, and yet he is a perfect third wheel in the performance.
His initial impression of his future selves comes straight out of the mouths of everyone who has complained about Nuwho, and its genius.
“Well who are you boys? Oh of course, you must be his companions. They get younger all the time.”
“You two are really my future selves? Am I having a midlife crisis?”
With a line, a look and an air of disbelieving disdain the War Doctor works fantastically with 10 and 11. There are so many brilliant lines, especially about the modern habit of using the sonics for everything.
“Why are you pointing your screwdrivers like that for? They're scientific instruments not water pistols.”
“What's with the pointing again? They are screwdrivers! What are you going to do assemble a cabinet at them?”
11- Its a timey-wimey thing.”
War Doctor- “Timey-wimey! What?”
10- “I have no idea where he picks that stuff up.”
War Doctor to 11- “Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?”
I could probably just go on quoting the three of them as its all pure Who gold brilliantly delivered.
And it shows a certain confidence to poke so much fun at the shows own quirks.
But back in the plot the Queens guards arrest all three Doctors for bewitching the Queen and take them to the Tower.
Clara and Kate who have been listening in through the time rift head of to Kates office, which happens to be the Tower of London as established in the Power of Three.
Back at the undergallery Kates asthma suffering scientific advisor has worked out where the zygons went- in classic Who style they are hiding under some sheets pretending to be statues.
And they soon emerge to start taking prisoners (they need the originals alive) and taking their place.
Meanwhile at the Tower of London in the Black Archive Kate shows Clara a gift form Captain Jack Harkness- his vortex manipulator- time travel. But they don’t know the activation key.
And worse Kate reveals she is actually a Zygon (in the best zygon transformation scene ever) and they now have access to the Black Archive, but Clara grabs the vortex manipulator and using a code the 11th doctor scratched into the wall of the Tower of London in the past she escapes to find the Doctor, all of them.
Moffat then gives us one of my favour scenes, which is just the three Doctors stuck in the cell trying to come up with an escape plan and working out why they are all together.
Again the interactions and the dialogue are a pure joy.
And the eventual solution they come up with to open the door by running a program in the sonic from the War Doctor right the way through to 11 is genius, only ruined by Clara then opening it and walking in and informing them that it wasn't locked in the first place.
Three versions of the smartest man in the universe, and none of them thought to check the door was actually locked in the first place. That’s just brilliant Moff!
War Doctor- “We might as well get started, help to pass the timey-wimey. Do you have to talk like children? What is it makes you so ashamed of being a grown up?”
The scene in the cell also takes a turn towards the dark however as the subject of the Time War, the day they killed everyone comes back up, with 10 and 11 under the mistaken belief the War Doctor is from immediately after he does the act, not before.
War- “Did you ever count?”
11- “Count what?”
War- “How many children there were on Gallifrey that day?”
This a touching moment and when 11 reveals he does not know how many children, but 10 does as he still remembers tensions arise.
10 to 11- “You forgot! 400 years is that all it takes? How could you forget something like that?”
Rose/interface- “They are you, what you become if you destroy Gallifey. The man who regrets. And the man who forgets.”
Back at UNIT Kate is rescued by her scientific advisor and back in Elizabethan times the Doctors get an insight into the zygon plan- the earth is too primitive, not worth conquering they'd have to do the place up, so they place themselves into the moment in time in the paintings and wait in suspended animation until humans have advanced enough to make the place more hospitable, then they emerge to take over in the future.
And it turns out the Queen is not a zygon as she killed her doppelgänger and took her place. But before she will help she insists on 10 keeping a promise, marrying her, and much kissing ensues.
War- “Is there a lot of this in the future?”
11- “Yeah, it does start to happen.”
All three Doctors then head off in the 10th Doctors TARDIS- “Its his grunge phase, He'll grow out of it.”- which with three of them present glitches between console rooms, giving us parts of the 1st with its 'roundels'
“I loved the round things.”
Before settling on the 11th's console room. And all three head into the future and to the Black Archive.
Meanwhile Kate has confronted her doppelgänger and tells the zygons there is a nuke under the Archive, and she will set it off rather than let the zygons take the world.
But the Archive is TARDIS proffered, and the TARDIS cant land.
Using a bit of time trickery the Doctor gets the Gallifrey Falls painting moved into the archive in the past, and using the Zygon tech they enter the picture and find themselves at the Fall of Arcadia and straight through and out into the future at the Archive, complete with dead Dalek.
Kate refuses to stop the countdown to the nuke so the Doctors use their sonics to wipe everyone's memory of who they are, so no one knows if they are zygon or human- “the perfect condition for negotiations”- and both Kates stop the countdown at 5 seconds not knowing who is blowing who up.
Whilst the two sides negotiate a peace deal Clara takes some time to speak to the War Doctor. And tells him she knows he hasn’t actually done it yet.
“How many worlds do you think his regret has saved?”
Having seen his future selves save the world he decides its time, and tells the otherwise invisible Rose he is ready, and finds himself back in the shack with a big red button. But just as he is about to push it-
Rose- “You know the sound the TARDIS makes? That wheezing, groaning? That sound brings hope wherever it goes.”
War- “Yes, yes I like to think it does.”
Rose- “To everyone who hears it Doctor. Anyone.”
-sound of the TARDIS materializing-
Rose- “However lost. Even you.”
10 and 11 join the War Doctor, prepared to join him in pressing the button and using The Moment.
“You were the Doctor on the day it wasn't possible to get it right.”
But Clara questions their decision, as Rose shows them what is going on at that moment around them on the streets of Arcadia.
11-”And what am I?”
Clara- “Have you really forgotten?”
11- “Maybe, yes.”
Clara- “We've got enough warriors, and any old idiot can be a hero.”
11- “Then what do I do?”
Clara- “What you've always done. Be a Doctor.”
So the 11th comes up with a plan- make the planet disappear, then all the Dalek fire-power would go
straight through the empty space and wipe themselves out- and the planet would be trapped in a moment of time, just like the paintings.
But it will need the Doctor in his TARDIS to pull it off- all of them, all 13!
After the attempt to freeze Gallifrey all three and Clara find themselves back in the gallery with the painting Gallifrey Falls. They don't know if their plan worked or not, but it was better than the alternative.
And neither the War Doctor or 10 will know what they have done when they return to their own time zones- both will live in the belief they destroyed everyone, right up until the time of 11 and these events.
As a final capping bonus to the War Doctor as he returns to his own time in his TARDIS he begins to regenerate into the official 9th Doctor.
Sadly with Ecclestone not returning we only get a glimpse of him before it cuts away.
Back in the gallery 10 confronts 11 about where he is going, and as he wont remember it 11 confides him that he is gong to Trenzelore, to die among millions,setting up 11's final xmas epiosde.
10 leaves and Clara goes back to the TARDIS to leave 11 alone with the painting.
Remember that letter from Queen Elizabeth that said she had made the Doctor the curator?
As 11 sits there musing on becoming a curator a familiar voice calls out- a man who looks like an older version of the 4th Doctor and who claims to be the curator.
He reveals to 11 that the painting doesn’t have two titles, just one, its all one title “Gallifrey Falls No More.”
Its out there somewhere, trapped in a moment of time, and the Doctor has a new aim in life, to find it.
The genius of this Moffat story is what it does for the future of the show.
We have a regen at xmas and a new Doctor- and he is going to be the first Doctor of NuWho not suffering from war guilt at his actions.
Moffat has given Capaldi a clean slate- restored the character to what he was in classic Who without the overburdening guilt or the question mark over his morality in using The Moment.
And he does it in such a way that for the previous Nuwho Doctors their pain and suffering is still real to them, it rewrites not a single line, yet it changes and restores everything about NuWho in one fell swoop.
Its hard for me to complain about this episode given the hugeness of the task, and how much I enjoyed it, even more so second time through without the weight of expectations on it.
But if I had to pick holes the Zygons dont provide enough of a main villain in this, this is excusable as they are not the main villian, thats really the Doctor himself, but the resolution to the zygon invasion is close to being a blink and you miss it affair- its not that it doesn’t make sense, or that it inst a good example of the Doctor solving a crisis with brains and some lateral thinking, its just happens very fast and the story focus is elsewhere on the Doctor's moral dilemma so that it can get lost in the heady mix.
Nor is it as spectacular as some might have expected- this is Who and in-between bursts of impressive special effects its still mainly rooms and corridors and the odd forest here an there.
If you expected from the trailers a gritty war film full of death and dark despair then you will be disappointed (and presumably a first time viewer).
Moffat has pulled off the damn near impossible here- he has produced a good anniversary episode- and if you want to know how good try going back and watching the 3, or 5 Doctors specials (and dont get me started on the one involving the cast of Eastenders).
Is it perfect tv?- that depends I suppose, if you are a long term Who fan then there is more in these 75 minutes to make you squee and give you joy than in whole entire series of lesser programs.
If its your first ever Who its probably going to be a bit confusing and a lot will go right over your head, but it'll still be a hell of a fun ride and should serve the purpose of brining in more fans to the show as there is still nowhere else anything on TV quite as mad and brilliant as the ideas in Who.
Well done Moffat. You did good.
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by Bluebottle Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:27 pm
Does sound like it doesn't it.Norc wrote:yes.halfwise wrote:NRK? You've got your own network, Norc?
(NRK is our public broadcastwer Halfie. Much in the style of the BBC.)
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by Bluebottle Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:30 pm
That looks great.Pettytyrant101 wrote:
Half an hour of Who based comedy gold.
When will the whole thing be available? Wonder if they'll have to drag Tom Bakers Madame Toussaude figure out of storage again.
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Spot the waxwork.
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Norc put up a link n her reply about that to a BBC page you can watch it on.
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by Bluebottle Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:34 pm
Great!
Ah, didn't realise it contained a video.
I see.
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by Norc Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:46 pm
just to remind u guys we can see eccleston's eyes
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by Bluebottle Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:50 pm
Ah, so we actually got five doctors then. Kind of.
I do wonder however how much Eccleston got paid just for that moment.
I do wonder however how much Eccleston got paid just for that moment.
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by Pettytyrant101 Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:53 pm
Yup- I mentioned that in my review. 
It seems to have gone well at the hard to please Gallifrey Base- judging by the polling so far-
10 Fantastic! The absolute pinnacle (excellent/10) 1,537 50.11%
9 They don't get much better than this! (excellent/9) 661 21.55%
8 It's certainly worthy of very high praise! (great/
417 13.60%
7 Well above average, but no masterpiece (very good/7) 220 7.17%
6 Just a cut above average (good/6) 77 2.51%
5 Can't find a better example of average Doctor Who (average/5) 30 0.98%
4 It's below average, but only just! (fair/4) 29 0.95%
3 This one's bad but it's got some good in it, just there. (poor/3) 51 1.66%
2 It's not THE worst, that's something else. But... (awful/2) 15 0.49%
1 I'd rather listen to a tape loop of leaf blower noise (worst/1) 30 0.98%
I wonder if Figg was one of the 30 people who gave it a 1!
It seems to have gone well at the hard to please Gallifrey Base- judging by the polling so far-
10 Fantastic! The absolute pinnacle (excellent/10) 1,537 50.11%
9 They don't get much better than this! (excellent/9) 661 21.55%
8 It's certainly worthy of very high praise! (great/
417 13.60%7 Well above average, but no masterpiece (very good/7) 220 7.17%
6 Just a cut above average (good/6) 77 2.51%
5 Can't find a better example of average Doctor Who (average/5) 30 0.98%
4 It's below average, but only just! (fair/4) 29 0.95%
3 This one's bad but it's got some good in it, just there. (poor/3) 51 1.66%
2 It's not THE worst, that's something else. But... (awful/2) 15 0.49%
1 I'd rather listen to a tape loop of leaf blower noise (worst/1) 30 0.98%
I wonder if Figg was one of the 30 people who gave it a 1!
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Re: Doctor Who [7]
by Mrs Figg Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:53 pm
cheese of epic proportionsPettytyrant101 wrote:The Doctor NEEDS his pain, he NEEDS his guilt to make him who he is. - Figg
He didnt need it for the first 40 years and 8 Doctors and it got by just fine, some might say better.
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