I saw that on the wiki page, and I don't know if it is common knowledge, but I didn't want to mention it in case it was a spoiler.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burn
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I saw that on the wiki page, and I don't know if it is common knowledge, but I didn't want to mention it in case it was a spoiler.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burn
I didn't know! Didn't want to know! :(
Clara dying just like that was pffft... :confused:
Good Clara is dead, never really liked her. I prefer Amy Pond she was way way better.
That was probably the most boring episode ever... I actually fast-forwarded some bits. 45 minutes of pretty much just him walking around talking to himself, which didn't need all that time for the payoff in the last 2 minutes. It made the latter 6th doctor stories masterpieces in comparison.
The 30 second preview for next week was more exciting... and some of that story should have been part of this episode - like after 25 minutes of monotonous rambling.
When Capaldi does voice over talking, he sounds just like Tom Baker (to me).
YAYYY Underwater Menace was released this week in Australia!
Walking and talking describes most of the current season. The occasional speech punctuates the climax of each episode and I appreciate how an older Capaldi adds much needed gravitas to the character but I miss the action. I miss the mania of Eccleston and alien chases.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Tedious. That's pretty much the word I'd use to sum up this rather lacklustre season of Doctor Who. :rolleyes: I find myself watching each new ep out of obligation rather than anticipation now.
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The finale was great. Watched it twice today, iview when I got up and on TV tonight. Few more things noticed on a second viewing. Happy with the conclusion although its a bit sad, like how it played with expectations a lot. Weekest part was not naming a certain character earlier on but that was something else not too bad on second viewing. Also backed up my thought a few weeks ago about not taking everything you see as conclusive when theres more eps to go! The rumour I most liked seemed not to be true after all but I can see how the season was building up to a certain conclusion. Wouldn't mind more stand alone eps next season.
Fast forwarding parts of last week's episode? Thought it was great to see the shjow do something different. Although it reminded me a bit of the game ICO in parts.
The finale was excellent. That gravitas I mentioned earlier was here in full force.
Was there a preview of the Christmas Special afterwards? I think I missed it.
Yes, after the credits. But there should be 2 repeats this week for u to just record the end.
I've been watching it on ABC's iView.
New Sonic!!!! Looks cool!
The featured guest in the Christmas Special should bring some fun back to the show, as this Doctor is a little too depressive/serious/mopey.
And possible spin-off/sideplot with two immortal humans and their time travelling diner.
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So does that mean Clara is like a Clone?
A "second" of her life was removed and put on a timeloop "between heartbeats", which allows the rest of her to die as normal without causing a contradiction (if she was completely removed, she wouldn't be killed in the trap street, and the Doctor wouldn't be on a quest for vengeance, or demand to have her removed before she dies).
The inclusion of Rassilon was short and almost unnecessary, and suddenly he was gone from the story. He's like the Primus of Transformers (without the insanity element), as he created the Timelords, and then he just walks off because he is told to by the Doctor. Whatever.
They just made Clara immortal and I don't know how the previews with River tie in. You're right, whatever. :)
Nope, I don't think it's cool. Touching the new sonic has to make a sound so that people think it does something. For me, it's more of a throwback of the original sonic screwdriver. Just pretending something has more technology in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by CHILENO20
At least the screwdriver was a tool and it extends and lights up with the sound. This does what? :)
Clara is a paradox waiting to happen hence the fears of fracturing time and probably why the protocols for the extraction room are so strict.
No, not like a clone. As they explained in the episode it is her taken out of her time stream at the last possible moment. She still has to go back because her death is a fixed point in time but she's in no hurry. There's at least another example of this in fiction that's nagging at my memory but I can't quite place an exact example.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
She's finished her story arc of becoming more and more like the doctor by stealing a Tardis and running off through space and time with a companion. It's a nice way to go out. I wondered if her new status quo provided a more straight forward way for her to become the Impossible Girl. She can travel through space and time and cross paths with the Doctor many times over. Oswin Oswald and Clara Oswin Oswald though both seem to be their own people so maybe not.
I'm also curious about the end of the universe. We've got Me hanging out in the ruins of Gallifrey. We've got Professor Yana helping to build a rocket to take surviving humans to Utopia. We've got some... thing... outside knocking on Orson Pink's door. Was that Me? I've always assumed the Doctor took the Master's body back to Prof Yana's planet to bury him at the end of season three, at the end of time, so the woman taking the ring? Who's never been explicitly identified? Was that Clara and/or Me? The Master had to come back in order for him to connect Clara and the Doctor. Were they maybe doing some predestination time loop stuff?
Rassilon didn't quite "just walk off". There was a military coup. A bloodless one, but for sure the military turned on their leadership. I just thought it a shame that since he had regenerated since his last appearance in Ten's last story, I didn't recognise it was meant to be Rassilon until he left.
What's the difference between Capn Jack and Clara? They're both fixed points in time. One is allowed to be immortal, the other results in the destruction of the universe :)
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Originally Posted by jazzcomp
Clara has to return back to gallerfray (I know I mispelled it I never payed attention to how you spell it), but she is in a state where she won't age so as long as she doesn't accidentally kill herself, she'll eventually have to return to face her doom, which would be her death. Captain Jack? Not too certain he's immortal and that's all I know
Don't forget the Face of Bo. ;)
Also, it's "Gallifrey."
I've quite enjoyed this season, I think one of the strengths of Dr Who is that you can have one episode that is a slower pace and full of mystery, the next is fast paced and explosive and the next is something else again, probably scary.
I have found Capaldi to be a refreshing change for the Doctor as well.
it's interesting that they have finally given Me a peer to travel through time with. I expect we'll be seeing more of them.
I'm always excited for the Christmas special but I really can't stand that British comedian that they seem to have picked to feature in this next one.
Would you be thinking of the Angels of New York, which was a bit of a confusing story about the mess of temporal contradictions. Or one of the many times the Doctor has pre-planted something, or himself (like in the underwater ghosts episode this season), to be in the right place when him or other people need it during the "present" time of the episode's plot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
I just think that for Clara, if she was completely removed from Trap Street, and the actress has left the series, it's a big loose end to just hope gets resolved some time down the track. (considering past companions return for guest spots, it's more than likely she will return in some future episodes... unless she's like Eccleston and refuses to ever go back to DW)
We'll see I guess.
She's only removed from Trap Street for a moment, the time between heartbeats. No matter what adventures Clara has, she goes back to Gallifrey and gets sent back to Trap Street to fall down dead, because we've seen that as a fixed point in time. It's a nice way to allow limitless comic stories and audio-dramas with Clara and Me adventures (where it doesn't matter how old the actresses playing the immortal unageing characters look).
As an aside, there's new 'missing' Ten and Donna adventures coming out in the audio-drama series with both David Tennant and Catherine Tate returning, that I'm very interested in checking out.
Looks like Capaldi's going to be calling it quits.
http://screenrant.com/doctor-who-sea...di-final-year/
Which is a shame, Capaldi was wasted by MoffattQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Christmas Special on boxing day. So exciting:)
The 'Finally' moment was good.
edit the rest was pretty good the kind of stuff you'd expect from Moffat when he was a writer.
http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/report-...nner-79586.htm
Moffat quits and there won't be any new episodes until 2017:(
So it turns out classic TF artist Andrew Wildman has worked on the Doctor Who TV series, including doing storyboards for Day Of The Doctor that have recently been making the news rounds because they depict Christopher Eccleston's Doctor taking part in the story.
For a bit of "new classic" Doctor Who, ABC2 (channel 22) is playing the Eccleston Doctor episodes from tonight at 7.30pm, and looks to be weeknights from then on.
I wonder if they'll go through the entire new series run, as that should take a few months to do now, with nine seasons of episodes to screen.
Yeah, saw it tonight. :) He's the first doctor I watched.
Huh... just realised that the High Gallifreyan language lacks the "soft ch" (tʃ) consonant (e.g. chin, church, witch etc.). They only have the "hard ch," which is more like /k/ (e.g. stomachache, choir, chemistry etc.). It'd be interesting to hear how a Time Lord's accent would sound like without the Tardis' Translation Matrix around. We know that Gallifreyans have different accents, as the Ninth Doctor implied that he speaks with a Northern Gallifreyan accent, which the Translation Matrix renders as a Northern English accent to English speakers like Rose Tyler etc. And presumably all the other accents that we hear in the Doctor's other incarnations must be approximations made by the Tardis to whatever their equivalent Gallifreyan accents would be. I guess the Twelfth Doctor must speak with something equivalent to a Scottish accent. :o <shrugs>
The new spin off Class premiered this week on ABC2.
I'd seen some reviewers say it "is aimed at a younger audience" but it seems to be a comment made by people who don't know what they are talking about and think Doctor Who is aimed at an older audience than they think.
Because based on those commentsI had assumed it would be somewhere closer to Sarah Jane Adventures a show that I quite enjoyed (although the introduction of Sky in the last season was a worry) but no it's no SJA!
Mild Spoilers follow It was actually surprisingly violent. Rated M on ABC2 there is much more blood than the average Doctor Who episode. I think - it's possible I just noticed it more as I expected this to be a "kids show", but in the two episodes they've shown so far one character has been splattered in the face with human blood several times, there's been limbs cut off of school kids, and humans skinned with gory remains to be seen. Pretty sure this sort of stuff is more implied in Doctor Who.
The first two episodes were alright and I'm going to stick with it. They knowingly reference that the premise is familiar (they are literally at a high school on a hellmouth by another name) but at least seem to be doing something different with it. Their Giles is the anti-Giles and so far the most entertaining character.
I came across the last few minutes of the second episode the other night while channel surfing, and I had no idea it was part of the Dr Who universe, but the film styling and special effects actually gave me a feel of a Dr Who episode... and the name of the school sounded really familiar (Coal Hill... which was the school featured a few times on Dr Who).Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
I might have to catch it in future, and I see that the Doctor makes a guest appearance.... and the cast of this show is likely to show up on Dr Who eventually like all the other spin-off shows.
Yep it's the same school although it's been "refurbished" since Clara taught there and become an "Academy" (which is apparently something happening to high schools in Britain).
It doesn't take too long in the first episode for the TARDIS to appear, it's key to the origin of some characters.
Just watched the 1st three episodes on iview.
It's okay, very YA feel to it
John Hurt, who among other roles also played the War Doctor, has passed away. :( Vale.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-2...ged-77/8219862