i have a deckchair. it's economic.

Ah congrats, man, that's really great to hear. Well done!

thanks.

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I heard David Tennant was filming ‘the Decoy Bride' down the road from me.

I left the house and asked a member of the crew if David Tennant was about. He told me they were actually part of the crew for ‘the Shadow Line' starring Christopher Eccleston, and that Eccleston would be about later.

Bitch there’s only enough room for one signature here, where’s 10?! The guy directed me to another film crew nearby, and I waited outside David Tennant’s trailer till he was finished for the day.

I then asked him to sign my Dalek, which I just so happen to carry around with me everywhere I go because I am absolutely definitely not a stalker.

I'm operating on a bit of a delay, so I only saw Listen last night. It was absolutely wonderful and definitely be the best episode in years. That's even more remarkable for it being a horror-themed episode, which DW mostly hasn't done well.

Even Clara had slightly more than a second dimension, which is impressive. It still fucking annoys me when companions keep secrets from the Doctor for no fucking good reason, though.

Just wait until the next episode. Possible the shittest DW episode I've ever had the misfortune of watching.

Is that the Robin Hood one? Cause I found that hilarious at times.

Also last nights episode was really good. Really did convince me that Capaldi is already my favorite Doctor.

I think they've all been good. Even Time Heist which was just mid-series slum. I still enjoyed it. Most of the episodes have been great and this series has the tone of one of the great ones like 2 or 4, I can't really explain it, but it's just that rewatchability that 5-7 had none of. Capaldi is great, although sometimes he's a bit of an arsehole for no reason.

I didn't mind time-heist. It's the one with the stupid bloody terminator-spider robot oh lol the companion has a boyfriend episode I was talking about, which I absolutely couldn't stand. Story telling at its worst.

I like Capaldi, but he doesn't feel like the Doctor for me yet. Perhaps I've just gotten too used to 10 and 11's manic energy.

Haven't you watched any episodes from the original 63-89 run?
I disagree with that, too. Usually these earthbound sitcom episodes get on my nerves but I found this one really fun and thought it was a great way to expand on these characters that really needed expanding on.

Don't get me started on that Harry Potter watch and the plot holes it introduces, though...

A fair few as a kid, plus some First Doctor as an adult, yes.

That said, the point that I was failing to express was not that Capaldi has to fit to a certain type, but that a new actor has to make the role his own and redefine what it means to be The Doctor. And that point hasn't hit home for me yet.

The Doctor was a bit of a asshole as most of his incarnations because that's just how he rolled. It's all in good nature of course.

But you're fine with Smith being a Tennant clone his entire run?
He isn't a bad actor, but he was written that way.

That's irrelevant to what I was saying. Go back. Read my post. Comprehend.

You clearly missed my point, then.

Time Heist was the best written episode of the series so far. Fight me.

There are lots of things I don't like about this series, and it mostly just comes down to execution. I love that Moffat's trying exciting new things, but at the end of the day the writing just isn't pulling it together for me.

Take Listen. There were really great things in that episode, but on the whole I just couldn't get into it. The bedroom scene with the thing under the sheet was well done. Everything up until there was running pretty smoothly. But then nothing really happened. They had to tie back into the overarching Danny-Clara story, because the possibly-nonexistent monster was just so boring. I like the idea, but id just didn't execute well. There was no problem. There was no solution. They just kind of did things and talked for 45 minutes of my life.

The last episode definitely was everything I hate about the series so far, though. Here's my revised plot synopsis after watching it this morning -

"Clara struggles to find a balance between her life as a time traveler and her boyfriend, which is only complicated when The Doctor goes undercover at her school. There's a killer robot on the loose, but the bigger question on everyone's mind is what The Doctor will think of Danny."

The robot got 5 minutes of screen time, and was a bland killbot until Danny finally Saved the Day and concluded the real plot, which was about the social interactions of our 3 musketeers.

I really like that Moffat is trying to do more with the show than the "Monster of the Week" format that we're used to, but there's just not enough supporting his ideas to keep me watching at the moment. I'm bored of "The Clara Oswald Saturday Night Drama Show". I'm finding her more irritating than Amy Pond.

Also, on the topic of pacing and episode structure, is anyone else finding that the episodes take far too long to actually unfold the premise into a plot? I enjoyed most of the Robin Hood episode, but the last 10-15 minutes of ROBOTS BUILDING SPACESHIP BUT NOT ENOUGH GOLD SO EXPLOSIONS could have easily been the problem they were overcoming for the entire episode. Instead we had The Doctor quibbling and not really achieving anything for 30 minutes. I'm all for character development, but again it was a situation where the plot was about The Doctor and Robin Hood not being able to get along, and the evil robot menace was secondary.

But I can see why people are enjoying them.

I can't be arsed writing up a long post like that so instead I'll just post this review which I mostly agree with. Except the bit about the child, she was still annoying.

I actually watched this episode, the first Doctor Who I've seen in about 7 years of actively avoiding it. Every character irritated the fuck out of me and I regret staying in the lounge to watch it.

Still better than most of the dross that's on television nowadays though.

I must admit I wanna see more Cybermen. They've always been my favourite enemies and I want to see if this Cyberiad stuff works or not.

The Cyberman have had more character/ species development over the course of the show's run than any other I think. They've slowly become less and less human until they're basically robots which is pretty much what you'd expect if you think about the cyber ethos, 'survive at any cost'.

Me too. Although I'm not very keen on their new design.

The last Cyberman episode (Nightmare in Silver) was great though.

It was quite interesting, I thought it could have done without the children though.

Children in Doctor Who is always a bad thing.
I disagree about the design, I think the new Cybermen are more terrifying than ever. They're basically unstoppable, now.
Well up until the redesign in series 7 all the Cybermen in the modern series are from a parallel universe, they have a different timeline and they don't share much in common with the original Cybermen of this universe.

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The 'wat' was my personal addition.

Really enjoyed tonight's episode, even though objectively it was pretty 'meh'. I think the music in series 8 is a big step up and very reminiscent of the golden years of series 1 and 2.
This episode also made me notice how much Clara has developed as a character. All the way through series 7 she was just a cardboard cutout that could do anything when the plot called for it. While there's been some of that in series 8, she has developed into a pretty well-written character by Moffat's standards. She actually has personality.
I also hope to see Danny again because even though he's only been in a few episodes he's way more interesting than Clara.
Also the next episode looks awesome.

Capaldi is a great doctor, Clara is a terribly written companion. For the first few episodes it seems that she'd just hump the leg of the first male humanoid she saw until eventually she got stuck on Danny's. I also disliked the most recent episode, as I do with every episode, where the main point is to make humans question their humanity, or make the Doctor realise that humans matter. This episode had both.

I greatly enjoy Doctor Who and have watched it since I was a kid, but sometimes rose-tinted glasses aren't enough.

Nah, this episode was pretty good. I was worried there was going to be a "Doctor comes and saves the day by fixing everything!" moment, but instead it just turned out that everything was kind of OK on its own. It's the kind of dissatisfying ending that's making Dr Who a dull drama rather than an exciting sci-fi monster-of-the-week show. I definitely don't like the shift, but I can see why so many people do.

Basically, it got worse as it went on.

This is the first episode I've really loved Capaldi's Doctor, though. It really let him shine out as an actor.

Also who thought it was a good idea to reuse the dumb teenage girl character? I mean, fuck.

She's actually pretty good compared to the last few child characters on the show.

I can't believe people enjoyed last night's ep. I'm I the only one?

It's seriously one of the worst Dr Who episodes I've ever seen. I know Doctor Who is about suspending your disbelief now and then but holy crap.

Nah, it was good.

Care to tell me why? Or i'm I just to take your opinion as fact?

I thought the episode's premise was strong. But it was completely ruined by the end. I mean, Holy crap. What a spectacularly shite end. It was just so ridiculous. Even for Doctor Who. Again. I know a lot of sci-fi is about suspending your disbelief. But the moon is a egg? No that's just fucking stupid. Get out.

Oh and of course the creature is "last of it's species" I'm getting so sick of Doctor who using that crap in every situation possible. It's getting boring.

And what was the whole deal with bringing a little girl with them? She was just annoying and a waste of time. "i'll post these pictures on Tumblr!" lolololololol a timely joke for the kids. ha ha... Fuck off.

Despite all of that. I did liked the setting, the "spiders" were a good monster which did look pretty intimidating and the Doctor just stopping everything and letting everything play out was a nice idea. It's was interesting sure, and was certainly a change. But again, the ending was so bad; It didn't even matter.

I still think it was one of the worst yet. Not THE worst mind. That honor still belongs to Love and Monsters. Closely followed by Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and Fear Her

When you look at your complaint, it maybe takes up the last 5-10% of the episode. By that time I'd already enjoyed myself enough that I still think it can be called a good episode, albeit with a bad ending.

Also, I love how this moon ended up being more bleak and alien than lots of the places we see in Doctor Who.

Perhaps it did. But I didn't really enjoy it when it was building up as well.

Crashpunk knows what's up.

But Love and Monsters had Peter Kay in it!

They probably used the same set as the '69 moon landing instead of some field in Wales.

The moon being an egg is weird, but parallel dimensions with Cybermen and Daleks living in the gaps is totally fine? Okay, then. There was nothing wrong with the ending when you consider some of the stupid shit that's happened in the past.
Yeah, Love and Monsters is nowhere near as bad as everyone makes it out to be, it's just an easy bandwagon to jump on (and CP loves those). It's a pretty damn fine episode.

Except they didn't say that, they suggested it might be a possibility. Did you even watch this episode properly?
Nah mate.

I'm not saying this hasn't been the stupidest thing to have happened in Doctor Who, or in any Sci-fi for that matter. Everything is hypothetical of course. I guess I just dislike that idea of the moon being a fucking egg. I just think it's stupid and not at all interesting. Obviously it's all a matter of opinion so I guess just leave it at that. Also the idea of Parallel dimensions is fricking interesting.

Fuck off with your bandwagon shit. Love and Monsters started out really interesting. Normal, everyday humans getting together searching for the Doctor. That's awesome. But it just gets all messed up towards the end. The whole idea of her being a fucking pavement stone AND SURVIVING just made my head spin. Similar to how the latest episode did.

And yes. Peter Kay was funny. He was probably the best part of that entire ep.

I admit, I didn't put as much effort into watching it then previous eps. But I still watched it. The fact the Doctor suggested it was enough for me. It's like the Doctor thinks everything is the last of it's species because he's either never seen it before or he likes to wildly guess. I just hope they drop that whole idea eventually. Apart from referring to The Doctor of course.

Whatever. All I can say is, some ideas are hit and miss with me. And can really effect my enjoyment of the episode. Not just Doctor Who. Bloody anything.

Lol yeah that was silly.

To be fair the azorbaloff episode was the result of a competition for like...seven year olds so chill.

No, the monster design itself was a winning submission by a nine year old for a Blue Peter competition.
Also, if I remember correctly, the episode was broadcast on my birthday, so yay.

I submitted to that competition actually. My design was basically a Dalek with the head of a slig...yeh.