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Post by TX on Sept 6, 2014 21:31:21 GMT -5
Alright episode. It seemed a lot cheesier than usual tonight.
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Post by ahunter8056 on Sept 7, 2014 9:35:35 GMT -5
Finally. The first episode of Series 8 that I haven't been disappointed with in any way. Perhaps it's because I wasn't expecting much from this. It was a good episode. I'd score it 7/10. A solid episode. I was expecting it to be too silly for my liking, but fortunately not. Although the way the problem was resolved was weak and didn't make much sense. However with that aside, I found the bickering between The Doctor and Robin Hood to be funny.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2014 11:26:07 GMT -5
I enjoyed it as I have all episodes so far this season. I think each of them are building towards something which I am excited to see where it goes.
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Post by TX on Sept 7, 2014 14:04:30 GMT -5
I think each of them are building towards something which I am excited to see where it goes. The Promised Land/Heaven stuff they've been throwing in definitely has me intrigued.
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Post by Red Dragon on Sept 8, 2014 18:12:49 GMT -5
Disappointed with the last episode. Was very weak and very childlike. A small gold arrow being enough extra gold to launch the spaceship into space, really? Very disappointing, especially considering Mark Gatiss wrote it. The Dalek episode was good though, even if the insides of the dalek looked the same as the insides of the Tardis from the last season. With all the budget they have I'm sure they could have found somewhere different.
I dunno how much you Americans have heard of it but in the Robin Hood episode, they cut a scene because of the recent terrorist executions. Seems like an awful lot cut and would have helped to make sense of the story (still not enough to make it any good though).
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Post by punksnotdead on Sept 9, 2014 10:41:26 GMT -5
The Robin Hood episode was meh. I think that kind of thing would have worked way better for 11 honestly. I did like Clara being starry-eyed at Robin Hood, but it felt a bit too much like Vincent and the Doctor, only nowhere near as good. The archery contest was good with the banter, but I thought the end resolution was just damn ridiculous. I like Robin Hood and I like the Doctor, but I don't think that whole thing really worked, at least not for me. The metaphor at the end was good where Robin Hood kind of compared his own legacy to that of the Doctor, which sticks with the on-going theme of the season, but the silly nonsense really doesn't work for 12 now that we've established he's a darker Doctor. I honestly felt like that was an episode written for Matt that Capaldi had to try and make work, but maybe that is just me.
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Post by bad guy™ on Sept 12, 2014 14:14:39 GMT -5
So my ex is obsessed with Doctor Who so I decided to give it a watch for her on Netflix.
I am almost done with the first season in just a day. I might have an addiction to it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2014 15:20:05 GMT -5
So my ex is obsessed with Doctor Who so I decided to give it a watch for her on Netflix. I am almost done with the first season in just a day. I might have an addiction to it. You are in for quite the journey my friend.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2014 18:15:08 GMT -5
So my ex is obsessed with Doctor Who so I decided to give it a watch for her on Netflix. I am almost done with the first season in just a day. I might have an addiction to it. I which I could go back and watch it again without knowing everything just to experience it again.
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Post by bad guy™ on Sept 12, 2014 21:10:01 GMT -5
So my ex is obsessed with Doctor Who so I decided to give it a watch for her on Netflix. I am almost done with the first season in just a day. I might have an addiction to it. I which I could go back and watch it again without knowing everything just to experience it again. Well being frank I started doing it for her and I guess it's actually pretty good. Haha.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2014 21:51:40 GMT -5
I which I could go back and watch it again without knowing everything just to experience it again. Well being frank I started doing it for her and I guess it's actually pretty good. Haha. Ha I started watching because a girl talked me into it too. She's gone but my love for the show continues to grow.
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Post by TX on Sept 13, 2014 22:05:40 GMT -5
Great episode tonight! Possibly my favourite this season/series.
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Post by Red Dragon on Sept 14, 2014 5:33:41 GMT -5
Yes, much better episode. It's what I expected when Capaldi was announced. That was a proper Doctor Who subject to tackle, not "let's go mess around with Robin Hood".
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Post by ahunter8056 on Sept 14, 2014 11:46:23 GMT -5
It was good, but I still think I need another watch to make my mind up. It was confusing. If it was apparently all just The Doctor's imagination, then what was the thing under Rupert's bedsheets? What were the monster noises coming from behind the door at the end of the universe? Who opened the door? Just a lot of unanswered questions, which I'm getting sick of. I'm tired of ambiguity. I don't like ambiguity, if it's an important plot point. It wasn't needed in 'Deep Breath', and it certainly wasn't needed in 'Listen'.
There was the potential of having a great episode, but instead they obviously decided "lets do a really cheap episode", and didn't bother to show the monster. What's the point of having a monster if you're not going to bother showing it, or giving an explanation as to what it is?
To sum up it was good, but could have been a lot better if they bothered to spend some money and answer crucially important questions.
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Post by punksnotdead on Sept 14, 2014 13:32:56 GMT -5
I just took the bed monster as an extension of The Doctor's "imagination" or dream, if you want to call it that. Sort of a living, breathing, manifestation of his fear. I think the point of the episode is that kind of thing could be real, it might not be real, but we all face, experience and deal with fear. I thought it was a really good episode and the Clara and Rupert/Dan stuff was really interesting to me. I like when they play around with the time travel and create these timeline scenarios. So is the plastic soldier a Pink family heirloom, or does it stay with the Doctor, or does the Doctor eventually give it to Rupert upon returning to the timeline we saw at the start of the episode? Does Rupert become a soldier without that little plastic man, or does he become "Dan" at all if he never gets the toy? Lots of butterfly effect questions.
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Post by ahunter8056 on Sept 14, 2014 14:19:45 GMT -5
Well it was definitely there. The Doctor, Clara and Rupert were all aware of it's existence and could see it. So therefore it couldn't just have been The Doctor's imagination.
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Post by Hem-Ridge on Sept 14, 2014 16:09:03 GMT -5
It was good, but I still think I need another watch to make my mind up. It was confusing. If it was apparently all just The Doctor's imagination, then what was the thing under Rupert's bedsheets? What were the monster noises coming from behind the door at the end of the universe? Who opened the door? Just a lot of unanswered questions, which I'm getting sick of. I'm tired of ambiguity. I don't like ambiguity, if it's an important plot point. It wasn't needed in 'Deep Breath', and it certainly wasn't needed in 'Listen'. There was the potential of having a great episode, but instead they obviously decided "lets do a really cheap episode", and didn't bother to show the monster. What's the point of having a monster if you're not going to bother showing it, or giving an explanation as to what it is? To sum up it was good, but could have been a lot better if they bothered to spend some money and answer crucially important questions. God, yeah. It just left me more confused after the episode than going in. I felt the ending of the episode was a fairly cheap copout & sort of ruined what otherwise was a fairly good episode.
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Post by bad guy™ on Sept 15, 2014 0:33:03 GMT -5
And in one weekend I crushed out two and a half seasons of Who. At this rate I will be caught up in about a week and a half...lovely. Haha.
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Post by bad guy™ on Sept 18, 2014 16:38:05 GMT -5
"I don't want to go. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Oh...oh my. Legs? LEGS! I HAVE LEGS! And arms! And lots of fingers! Ears? Yep. Nose...ehh...I've had better. Chin? Good. Hair...long. Wait NO. I'M A GIRL?! Wait no, I'm not a girl but I'm still not ginger. I feel like...feel like there was something important...oh yes! That's right! I'm crashing! Oh dear, I'm crashing. Well...GERONIMO!"
Tennant...hate seeing you go, but watching you leave...hot damn Smith you got one hell of an entry. Hope it's worth it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2014 17:19:10 GMT -5
"I don't want to go. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Oh...oh my. Legs? LEGS! I HAVE LEGS! And arms! And lots of fingers! Ears? Yep. Nose...ehh...I've had better. Chin? Good. Hair...long. Wait NO. I'M A GIRL?! Wait no, I'm not a girl but I'm still not ginger. I feel like...feel like there was something important...oh yes! That's right! I'm crashing! Oh dear, I'm crashing. Well...GERONIMO!" Tennant...hate seeing you go, but watching you leave...hot damn Smith you got one hell of an entry. Hope it's worth it. Smith is amazing. If I had to rank the doctors just from NuWho, I honestly think Tennant would be last personally. Eclesston is my favorite Doctor, second would be Smith, and Tennant goes last. Don't get me wrong, I love Tennant, I just enjoy the other Doctors performances more. It's too early for me to rank Capaldi, but he's shaping up to me my new favorite Doctor.
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