Dr Who has really gone off, hasnt it?

[Snog]

Dr Who used to be genius...it`s gone really downhill now hasn't it?

[Snapespeare]

so pleased aitch is all timey-wimey & we get our payoff. :-)

at a river episode. really hope the missing regeneration(s) of melody pond is (are) explained...and the SPOILER...other river timeline thing (thats as obtuse as i can get without spoiler-ing to death) ...

[AitchTwoOhOneTwo]

so, geeks, is 'the name of the doctor' the last episode of this run or not? i never know all that stuff.

[Snapespeare]

Yep, we're done now until 50th anniversary show 23rd-ish November and then Xmas. There are new year show rumours and Matt smith regen at Xmas rumours as well.

[Plus3]

Well we all love Matt Smith in our house, and I didn't think they could replace David Tennant at all.

Not ready for 11 to regenerate

[KayHarker]

Right o, time for an opinion. I love MS as the Doctor. I want to love JLC, but find her a bit one note. But one thing I really, really think is how bloody irritated I am by the relentless need to make every episode a mini-motion picture and not just slow it down and tell a story. the Moff has written two of the greatest Nu-WHo two parters and that would sit very nicely to give some breathing space and place for Clara to actually show some character instead of being just another Moff-bot "Hey I'm plucky, me, and foxy too - all you have to do show I'm more than that is tell everyone I've had a software upgrade in the first episode, don't bother referencing it again".

And breathe...

[marjproops]

episodes getting better by the week. tonights was awesome!

and yay Jenny getting a good storyline.

Ada was breaking my heart, she was brilliant.

confusing but at the end tho with the kids finding out about time travelling.

well done Mark Gattis, back to your best.

[RhondaJean]

Is it just me or was mr sweet somewhat erm - phallic looking?

[marjproops]

rhonda you have a dirty mind! i thought that thing had a cute face!

I want more stories with the trio, dont you?

fill the gap left by the brilliant sarah-jane adventures.

[infamouspoo]

'I'm reminded of that line of River's back in the Stormcage, something along the lines of having multiple doctors on her birthday'

They have sex?
The doctor? Nooooooooooooooo

[Pixel]

I thought that was a dreadful episode, it did nothing for me at all. Cringy humour too with the TomTom stuff. So much of it made no sense. Why would a blind girl happen to have a straw-filled cell with manacles upstairs in her house?

Besides, all I could think about when they were dipping people in the vat was Carry on Screaming. Frying tonight?

[RustyBear]

But how did a prehistoric leech teach a Victorian rocket science....

[Pixel]

Tonights episode I mean, sorry.

[AitchTwoOhOneTwo]

i'd assumed that she wasn't a rocket scientist until she'd met him and the nature of their symbiotic relationship was that she provided nourishment and a body and he provided brainz etc. fair point re manacles, i guess, but i suppose gillyflower had experimented on others?

[Pixel]

Aitch, I think Rustybear's point was that it was prehistoric. It would know even less about - well anything really- than a victorian.

[RustyBear]

I meant, how did a prehistoric leech know about rocket science? It didn't seem from Vastra's description that they were anything other than a unintelligent parasite - or did I miss something?

[SaggyOldClothCatPuss]

I started this thread two weeks in! I'm so sick of the new style. It's shallow, hyperactive and boring. Matt Smith in real life seems lovely, as the doctor he leaves me cold! Christopher Ecclestone and David Tennant were so adult. Their story lines were gripping and exciting. Stolen Earth and the episodes with The Master were excellent. All we get now is child orientated tea time viewing pap! It's like the Sarah Jane Adventures!
I'm actually NOT looking forward to the 50th Anniversary episode. I don't think I can bear to watch David Tennant knowing that he's going away again and leaving us with Matt Smith.

[Snapespeare]

i really enjoyed that. got the 'carry on screaming' reference, i was really scared at a couple of bits, loved jenny velcro-ing off her day dress to kick-ass & the Drs screwdriver wilting as she did so. things are picking up. very much looking forwards to next weeks cybermen.

[AitchTwoOhOneTwo]

oh lol yes i see what you mean. haha, good point. although it might just have been silurian misinformation. ;D
i really liked that episode, i must say. whether it was just because of the utter garbage that had preceded it, i don't know, but i thought Dame Di was awesomely vicious. (wasn't wholly convinced by the blinding thing, though, surely injuries would have been to the skin surface rather than eyes?)

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Absolutely RB. leeches have never had a use for rockets in the entire history of leeches.

[AitchTwoOhOneTwo]

bit literal, though, that interpretation. is it more believable if we call it a space symbiot?

[SaggyOldClothCatPuss]

It looked like a tiny Slytheen. They could have come up with something. Big different!

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

But space symbiots don't build rockets either!

I did love the episode, just a bit of an issue with the rocket!

[AitchTwoOhOneTwo]

how do you know what space symbiots do, i just invented them!

[Pixel]

My previous issue with the rocket was that it went up without burning everyone to a crisp. Now I've got two issues .
Since we're being picky I'm pretty sure they were carrying that big bottle of reg gloop about in a plastic laundry basket.

Whoever said about Sarah Jane Adventures, now I know what the bit at the end with the annoying children reminded me of, so thanks .

[KayHarker]

GallifreyBase has a thread about the rights and wrongs of the kiss the Doctor gave Jenny and the ensuing slap. I didn't mind it, or the erection gag, but then I write fanfic so I wouldn't. but 'feminists' seem to think it highly inappropriate (I use '' because I am one) Am I way out of line?