I think it was very well done. It blends horror and Sci-fi lIke the mid-late 80's episodes did,and I thought it would have sat very well as a classic episode.
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It was crappy and jumped all over the place. The best thing was the inclusion of Jerusalem. Does everyone else agree with how awfully forced Strax, the lizard and that damn girl are?
Looking forward to the cyberman episode. Gaiman is writing, and I have hopes for it to be the strongest in the entire season. |
I'd like to just hear the new cybermen voice, fingers crossed they've changed. I agree about the bloody Sontaran and Silurian though, why put them in? You don't need them and they're such worn out characters. The bloke who kept fainting did make me laugh though.
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The Cybermen voices were inspired by The Invasion, I thought they were pretty good.
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Still prefer the ones from Tomb of the Cybermen and Moonbase the most followed closely by the Wheel in Space ones, spine tingling!
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Yeah, it's too bad the Wheel is lost. I would've loved to see the full story.
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It's not all lost, I have four of the episodes on DVD. I think the audio for all of it still exists.
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They should reanimate the lost episodes using the audio like the did with The Invasion
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That kid named Thomas-Thomas. Lame ass joke of the year, Good job Doctor Who.
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Well...that episode could have been more than it was. Slightly underwhelming but at lest the cybermen look a little different. Shame they're basically robots now though instead of cyborgs.
Also, hah, they weren't really Mondasian, Nepsotic. |
E: They are Mondasian. You can tell because the parallel ones have the C on them. In fact, two of the display Cybermen had that logo. And they were too robotic before, this time no less or more. Maybe a little more. At least the originals were fucking cyborg.
New episode was a let down, though I didn't expect too much anyway. I like the faces of the new Cybermen, reminds me of the classics, but the rest of the design is shitty. The episode was mediocre and I hate those fucking kids. This entire episode was like the fucking Sarah Jane Adventures. Next episode doesn't look too good, looks like another shitty season finale like last years. Also, River Song again? She's overused to shit. |
I just thought the ending was shit because it's the same old shit, 'planet blows up but one ship escapes', also the terrible sub-par acting from those kids, it always sucks when there are children in the show because it means that there's never any real danger. Also...super speed cybermen, bleh.
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The acting was horrendous, but the worst thing about them was the writing. "You're stupid and I hate you!" *Picked up by Cyberman*.
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Not to mention that they kept saying the bomb was going to create an implosion and then...explosion at the end. Also why was that shitty platoon equipped to deal with cybermen when the war ended 1000 years ago? Oh, and the fact that the emperor of the universe was sat in a defunct cybermen waiting for someone to pass-by on a dead planet...
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They're bringing back Richard E. Grant. He was utterly wasted last time.
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Well that was a clusterfuck of shite. Only stuff I enjoyed was the Doctor vs Mr Clever, and only when Clara wasn't there interrupting for no good reason. Next week's villain's are guys with pantyhose over their heads.
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I thought it was an okay episode. But I was expecting more than 'okay' from Neil Gaiman. |
The best part was definitely the Doctor competing with Mr Clever. Rest of it was 'okay' at best.
It was nice to see Warwick Davis in it though. |
That episode checked a lot of the boxes for me. It did lots right that not many other episodes this season have done. Most of the individual bits were crappy, but until the cheap ending the overall episode had a good shape. There was a clear beginning, middle and end. I kept expecting it to suddenly cut off at the good bit, like last weeks episode, but it pushed on through to that ending. I want to say it's the best thing that's happened this season, but I don't want to commit to that.
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That's pretty cool. You should use that chart, go back to different episodes and see what the TARDIS has written on the screen. Perhaps we'll find some secret messages?
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Cute, he got those two the wrong way around.
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That's probably because he was browsing twitter, not OWF.
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Good job.
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I laughed when I read that on Facebook. Maybe I'll watch the episode tonight.
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You can consider spoilers for episodes that haven't aired yet to be ultra super taboo.
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It's pretty basic; all the circles are cut from the same size, and I know I made a few mistakes. For anyone that's interested, creator Loren Sherman explains it with more detail and clarity that the image MM posted:
http://www.shermansplanet.com/gallifreyan |
Is this actually canonical, or something that this guy made up for his own entertainment? And if the former, has anyone translated the text on the Doctor's cot yet?
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It's fan-made.
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Ah, gotcha.
I'm actually glad about that. I'd be disappointed if they translated his cot and it turned out to be a recipe for chicken tikka masala. |
If it were canon, most of the writing on his cot would just be numbers.
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Because that's what the most prominant of the circles on the cotscript look like according to this fan script.
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Well, that wasn't really a conclusion.
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I found the whole episode to be pretty interesting. We're still left guessing though.
I thought they did a great job implementing the characters into older scenes and vise-versa. Editing can only do so much after all. |
At least it was interesting, on a whole I'd say that as the best episode of the year.
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I enjoyed the inclusion of previous doctors. When I first heard the thing about The Doctor's forgotten incarnation, I despised the idea, but it seems it's been executed rather well. What with him not truly being "The Doctor" and what have you.
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