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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 19:23 
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Ben Miller was clearly channeling Alan Rickman. Down to having a death scene that was a homage to Die Hard.


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 Post subject: Re: Doctor Who
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I liked it, and it was nice to have an episode we could watch with little miss 4yo
next week not by the look of it

that said, I also prefer the doctor to be the cleverest man in the room, but I quite like Clara so didn't mind so much
and it was indeed quite silly, but to me that was just the mood of this episode so I was ok with it
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yeah, that was bollocks.


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Bobbyaro wrote:
yeah, that was bollocks.

It served a purpose - also as a vehicle to get the Doctor to admit he'd cheated.

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yeah, that was bollocks.


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Unsure on the ending, but that was MUCH more like it.

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Loved last week's and this week's episodes.

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Really liked it this week. Plot holes galore on the ending though, but that didn't take anything away from it.


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Yes good. Apart from the ending. Though even that the way it was done was fairly clever.

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Just watched it. Felt almost like a good 'Twilight Zone' episode. Loved it.


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I enjoyed this weeks.

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I think I might have convinced a young American fan to dress as Captain Jack Harkness for his Halloween party. Will have to see if he goes through with this.


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I'm kind of surprised at how much I liked today's episode. I think it's my favourite of the series so far. More what I want. The problem with Listen was that while it was very clever and all that, it did rather shoot itself in the foot. I dislike some of these time paradox things, especially in such a context as that episode. And the idea of Clara being responsible for everything ever is a tad annoying. But this week was just a solid adventure story and with a more authoritative Doctor which is good.

When listen was good it was better than this. When it was worse it was far far worse.

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Enjoyed that.

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 Post subject: Re: Doctor Who
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I'm liking this series, I think I only saw the first series of Smith, but oh my Clara is lovely.


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Another good episode. Very impressed by the Doc, Clara, and now Danny.


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I love Capaldi, and :luv: Clara, but am wondering what is going on for the most part. Not sure why The Doctor is not recognising stuff and with the soldier hatred theme. Maybe it's all an arc rather than just being dumb, but it just feels a little 'off'.

Maybe it's all tied up in the 'heaven' thing. This whole series had better not be a dream/matrix!

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Torn on this one. Scary moon spiders: proper nightmare fuel, regardless of how knowingly 'Alien' they are. Complex moral dilemma with the Doc refusing to get involved and wave a sonic screwdriver: refreshing. Giant dragon hatching out of the moon and laying an egg? ???? Taking a 15 year old with you who isn't your granddaughter? Dubious, and not sure the character added much.

EDIT: Oh, and 20:30 feels way too late for 'Doctor Who'.


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Torn on this one. Scary moon spiders: proper nightmare fuel, regardless of how knowingly 'Alien' they are. Complex moral dilemma with the Doc refusing to get involved and wave a sonic screwdriver: refreshing. Giant dragon hatching out of the moon and laying an egg? ???? Taking a 15 year old with you who isn't your granddaughter? Dubious, and not sure the character added much.

EDIT: Oh, and 20:30 feels way too late for 'Doctor Who'.


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I liked most of it, but think that the premise of letting a giant space baby live even though it will probably kill millions of people to be one I would struggle to get on the moral side of.

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I liked most of it, but think that the premise of letting a giant space baby live even though it will probably kill millions of people to be one I would struggle to get on the moral side of.


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So much in that episode which annoyed me. The whole concept of the moon hatching and also the laying an egg the size of it was just nonsense. Unicellular life that was huge didn't make any sense either. Still too much the Clara show too. Nah. Not working for me.

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I did like the line, I will slap you so hard you will regenerate.. :DD

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About the only good thing in it.

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I thought it was pretty rubbish, as well.

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Okay in case people haven't seen it I'm going to spoiler some stuff I had a problem with:

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The moon has gained weight because it's an egg and a creature has grown inside it. A creature cannot be heavier than the contents of the egg from which it is produced without consuming something from outside the egg. PREPOSTEROUS

The spiders are unicellular lifeforms. Unicellular when they are that complex and that large? Bollocks.

The space phoenix thing lays an egg. BIGGER THAN ITSELF. GAHH. STUPIDSTUPIDSTUPID.

Oh and Clara saves the day again. Whoopee!

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Okay in case people haven't seen it I'm going to spoiler some stuff I had a problem with:

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The moon has gained weight because it's an egg and a creature has grown inside it. A creature cannot be heavier than the contents of the egg from which it is produced without consuming something from outside the egg. PREPOSTEROUS

The spiders are unicellular lifeforms. Unicellular when they are that complex and that large? Bollocks.

The space phoenix thing lays an egg. BIGGER THAN ITSELF. GAHH. STUPIDSTUPIDSTUPID.

Oh and Clara saves the day again. Whoopee!

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I thought the moon gained weight because the 'bacteria' were multiplying, but again, where were they getting their resources from if not from the moon. OK, I agree with you.

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Doesn't a chick develop and gain wait from the stuff in the egg? I am sure an egg is lighter than the chick hatched.

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Doesn't a chick develop and gain wait from the stuff in the egg? I am sure an egg is lighter than the chick hatched.


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Yes, but the weight of the chick+egg stays the same, unless the egg "breathes" (I have no idea if real eggs do this, but eggs the size of the moon in space surely can't?)


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A chicken and an egg are in bed. The egg is smoking a cigarette.
'Another problem solved' says the chicken.

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Doesn't a chick develop and gain wait from the stuff in the egg? I am sure an egg is lighter than the chick hatched.


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It's a physical impossibility. Think about it. What source of weight gain could it possibly have? Weight is gained by consuming sustenance which in this case is completely sealed inside the egg shell. There is no way there can be more weight than the egg without external sustenance.

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Doesn't a chick develop and gain wait from the stuff in the egg? I am sure an egg is lighter than the chick hatched.


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It's a physical impossibility. Think about it. What source of weight gain could it possibly have? Weight is gained by consuming sustenance which in this case is completely sealed inside the egg shell. There is no way there can be more weight than the egg without external sustenance.


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No, it's not in any way shape or form impossible. Eggs are porous for starters. Then consider the case of a tree. Where does most of its bulk come from? (Answer: The air). Then: Long growing alien life form with alien rules.


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Maybe it feeds via a wormhole to a different universe, or converts energy into matter like an inverted atomic bomb? Or there's a... Ummm...

No, you're right. It was silly.


Pretty sure we can not use those tags by now. Or do we wait a week. I forget.

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Just caught up with the three weeks I missed on holiday. Detailed review follows.

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Just caught up with the three weeks I missed on holiday. Detailed review follows.

Bank good school shit moon ok until last 15 minutes then shit

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Bank good school shit moon ok until last 15 minutes then shit

You should be a professional.


He would but he's too busy being on holiday all the time.

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Best episode of the series so far I feel. Which was a great surprise.

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Yep, that was pretty good. Getting a bit bored of the heartless stuff and the ridiculous change of heart at the end was crap and made no sense.

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That was probably my favourite too, though Listen was also good.

Love Capaldi.

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I think Listen had a good initial premise but then introduced a time paradox and also completely destroyed its main concept by the end.

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I think Listen had a good initial premise but then introduced a time paradox and also completely destroyed its main concept by the end.


Yeah, I thought could have been amazing had it not kinda wussed out at the end.

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I think Listen had a good initial premise but then introduced a time paradox and also completely destroyed its main concept by the end.


Doesn't the Tardis stop paradoxes? Hence she was used by the Master as a paradox engine.

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I think Listen had a good initial premise but then introduced a time paradox and also completely destroyed its main concept by the end.


Doesn't the Tardis stop paradoxes? Hence she was used by the Master as a paradox engine.


But then it wouldn't let old Amy on board in that episodes with the "two streams facility".
Doctor who seems to like contradicting itself.


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There's never much consistency in the logic of Doctor Who to be fair.

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I think Listen had a good initial premise but then introduced a time paradox and also completely destroyed its main concept by the end.


Doesn't the Tardis stop paradoxes? Hence she was used by the Master as a paradox engine.


But then it wouldn't let old Amy on board in that episodes with the "two streams facility".
Doctor who seems to like contradicting itself.

The Doctor lies.

Anyway, I've been very pleased at how Series 8 has panned out so far, with the exception of that Inner Space Dalek episode. I feel Capaldi is really growing into the role now.

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The latest episode certainly showed promise for Capaldi as The Doctor. I've not been enjoying much of this series as I felt they had been writing capaldi like Mat Smith too much. This episode felt different.

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The latest episode certainly showed promise for Capaldi as The Doctor. I've not been enjoying much of this series as I felt they had been writing capaldi like Mat Smith too much. This episode felt different.

Moffatt has spoken previously of this. He doesn't write for a particular actor, but writes for the Doctor. It's down to the actor to make the differences.

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