Ahh...

Is it bad my expectations just dropped by 90%?

"BBC3" should have been enough to do that ;)

Hey, there are some great shows on BBC3. Just because I can't think of any good Sci-Fi ones shouldn't mean anything ;)
(Actually, I can't think of any good ones)

Was a good episode. Felt like one that I'd seen a dozen times before but it had a really good atmosphere about it.

Happy to see this season is going to be mostly two-parters. More development which will hopefully mean better stories.

Boo.

It's a classic "base under siege" story. That's possibly my favorite Doctor Who story type, so I quite enjoyed this one. I like the look of next week, too, with half the characters now in the past and half in the "present."

Also, Clara's cue cards for the Doctor were hilarious.

The episode was alright. I'm religiously against two-parters though. In KR, MMPR, or DW. If you're going to do that go back to the two hour episode format of Baker and everyone instead of making me wait a damned week.

Not sure what you mean by "everyone else". Most classic Doctor Who episodes were about 30 minutes long, only some of Colin Baker's were longer and even then they were the same length as the episodes are now.

Nerd :lol

I just hate having to wait an extra week for the end of the episode. I've wanted all damn year, stop making me wait another week. I'm American. I was born without patience.

That was a pretty good episode. Even with the sonic sunglasses :lol
The characters are likeable, and having ghosts as the villains seems pretty apt, given that we've just hit October. And I'm always happy to see a base under seige again.

Classic Doctor Who was always serialized. The average length was four episodes, although six wasn't uncommon. If you think two-parters drive you crazy, though, imagine trying to watch The War Games as it aired; that's a single story split across ten weekly installments.

I like that he only used the sunglasses because he needed a camera. On the whole, I'm very pleased to see so little of the sonic screwdriver this season. It's become such an omnipotent magic wand over the last few years and it's refreshing to see the Doctor getting by without it again.

Imagine watching Trail of a Time Lord- fourteen weekly, serialised episodes, and it still doesn't make any sense at the end of it :p


Agreed. I actually didn't mind them that much this time around. Or maybe I'm just getting complacent in my hatred. Who knows?

I can deal with the sunglasses if they're going to be used in such a limited fashion and for good reasons. Anything over the ridiculous use of the screwdriver now.

#bringbackthescrewdriver

If they stop using it as for literally EVERY problem the Doctor faces, sure.

If not, burn the thing just like they did in the 80s.

https://www.facebook.com/LEGO/photos...type=3&theater

LEGO posted a LEGO Tardis on their Facebook page today. Looks like we'll be seeing a release soon.

Big Finish continues to be the greatest thing to happen to Doctor Who.

Doctor Who: The War Doctor - News - Big Finish

4 War Doctor boxsets AND a 8th Doctor Time War prequel announced.

My body isn't ready.

Agreed. And by that time, I'll be 18, so I can actually buy it! :D

Best thing is these audio drama can be class as cannon

With a few exceptions that don't really fit any more, Big Finish audios are already classed as canon.

Ah right

Well, that was... good. it's probably been the weakest of the series so far, and it's really struggling to play a "You can't change history" line when 50% of Doctor Who relies on the fact that you can, but I digress. Although my hatred for Clara is slowly being re-awakened, and I don't like that. I thought I had grown to love her...

But anyway, good aspects :) The Fisher King is awesomely creepy, and really benefits from being a suit. Cass and Lunn continued to be cool together. The Electric Guitar opening theme. And Peter Capaldi's acting. That just deserves a credit every episode.

Opinions?

Decent-ish episode. Plot was mostly pants but all the time travel logic made it more worthwhile. Didn't care about any of the relationship stuff between the extended cast because none of them were remotely interesting to begin with.

Fisher King looked great, and having Corey Taylor doing the scream was pretty awesome. He's a great guy so its awesome to find out he's a big Who fan.

The whole section of the ghost dragging the axe down the corridor (stupid rant but it bugs me how the ghosts can both walk through walls AND pick up objects :lol) was cool, but I can see people saying that was pushing it a bit.

I really liked the conclusion. I thought it was pretty cool how it went from the base under siege story and became more of a horror mystery for the second part. I also really liked the use of time travel; it's surprisingly rare that we see Doctor Who engaging with multiple time zones like this. All the paradox stuff was really fun, too. The only thing I didn't like was O'Donell dying. I liked her. She was like a less twee Osgood.

Man, this season is just amazing thus far. First we got a nice look into Devros and learning more about him as a character and now we had a kick ass ghost story. That was fantastic. I loved it. This is easily my favorite episode (well episodes) since Listen. I can't wait to see what the rest of the season has in store.

They are all Viking Dudes! (Seriously, just me reminded of the first episode?)

I really liked this episode. The Doctor trying not be become the thing he tries not to be, but it being the only way to save them (possibly). The different vikings, including Lofty. Especially Lofty. The episode really benefits from the TARDIS and Sonic being gone, and the solution at the end is a nice solution.

And the Fires of Pompei callback. Best part of the episode. Easily.

Now that I'm done gushing, anyone else have an opinion?

It was another episode that largely worked as set up, but pulled it off well but also being mostly self-contained. It wasn't too serious, had some fun moments and did some nice character building for the Doctor. Can't ask for much more than that really.

The Capaldi callback was really nice. Not especially groundbreaking, but done in a way that it felt relevant. I liked it.

Very interested to see how next week plays out. I really like the idea of a 2-parter that's actually 2 stories with two different co-writers.

I'm liking how the two-parters this season seem to be set up so that parts one and two are increasingly different. The last two episodes had the same cast and setting but were tonally different, now we have these episodes with one character but very different everything else. I'm guessing we aren't going to be seeing the last of Ashildr, either, given she seems to be this season's arc character.

I liked finally getting the link back to Fires of Pompeii, that was cool. The training stuff with the vikings was all gold, too. Honestly, there were only two things about this episode that didn't work for me. The first was how I kept waiting for the plot twist with Ashildr - I was expecting her to turn out to be Jenny from The Doctor's Daughter and was constantly looking for clues. The second was the villain's Monty Python and the Holy Grail bit. I love that movie and all, but that was just too silly.

Holy shit.

They referenced it!

Blew my mind at that.

I was hoping at the end that it wouldn't be yet another two-parter, but seeing how it's going to be played out differently than your traditional one kind of makes me okay with it.

oh goodie. A two part episode again. ... Yaaaaaaaaay.

That... is horrible.

Not if they continue to be this good.

And really, tonight's episode doesn't even have a cliffhanger. It's just that the next episode picks up on some aspects of this one.

These two don't really act like a two parter, given that we got the resolution to this plot this episode- it's just Ashildr that seems to be carrying over.
And two episodes later on (9 and 10) are unconnected, both being single parters. And I don't mind two parters. They can feel dragged out, but all the ones we've had so far have been plotted pretty damn well.

If it makes you feel any better, Sentai, this season's structure means that Osgood and/or Zygosgood should be in two episodes, not one.