ok we all hate,the new doctor,

[Nerf]

Gutted, we are all surprised at how much we hate Peter capaldi! Was so looking forward to this! Its pants!

LOVED IT

Yeah I hated the cogs, they only work in a mechanical storyline

It was brilliant from start to finish.
Really funny and PMSL at the outrage and 'PC gone maaaad' the lesbian inter-species marriage will cause.

LOVED IT

So - who's up for the next Assistant, anyone know?

I was actually more concerned that Vastra may be getting a bit EA towards Jenny -- she was effectively telling her to keep quiet and look decorative at several points, and why is Jenny doing all the domestic work?

Then I decided that maybe I am overthinking the dynamics of lesbian inter-species marriage in a popular science fantasy show.

Well I quite liked it, though DS(8) was under his blanket pretty much from when machine face man got his tweezers out to get a new eye. Like the moral ambivalence of the new doctor.

Eccleston is still my favourite though.

And people complaining their three year old disliked it! Really?

I don't think it's quite aimed at 3 yr olds is it?
I find they tend more towards the In the Night Garden type of televisual drama.

My 3yo liked the dinosaur at the beginning .

More importantly, my 6yo who "doesn't like Doctor Who" was gripped throughout... [bwahahahaha]

Its not a children programme,given time was on,and content

We all liked it here. DD who is a complete Dr Who geek wholeheartedly approves.

The Times said it was (presumably just hypothetically) rated 12.

Haha Tinkly my 8yo dd who had begged to be allowed watch it was also under the blanket from that part and was a bit 'can I sleep in your bed tonight mum?' after it had finished This is the first year I have let dd watch it - it is meant for older children/adults surely?

I wasn't that keen on the new Dr but decided that was because I don't fancy him and he is a bit old...

You let your 3 year olds watch?! My ds who's nearly 5 has an imagination like wildfire so don't dare let him watch as he'd get nightmares! am I PFB

I actually liked it. I love Tennant and always will. Smith - meh. But capaldi did good although doesn't warm my cockles like David did

Tortoise I agree.

Becoming the mask, maybe?

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BecomingTheMask

The more they pretend to be employer and servant, the easier it is to assume those roles without thinking about it.

Oh, you're all over here. Well, this is what I put on the thread in chat.

Saw it at the cinema, enjoyed it but it's going to take a bit of time for me to get used to a new doctor. I think the relationship with Clara is better, the uncertainty about whether he would rescue her or not...

DS1 loved it. He found Matt Smith too childlike and welcomed a slightly more serious Doctor. DS3 isn't so sure.

I found the Matt Smith cameo a bit out of place. When you're trying to get used to a new actor, why give you a reminder of the previous one?

Don't like the costume. It would be fine but the red lining is vile. He's not Jon Pertwee.

DS1 liked the vulnerability PC showed at the end, but I would prefer him to be more sure of himself.

I wanted to like it more. Hopefully he'll grow on me. I hated Tom Baker to start with!

It was given a 12A rating at our local cinema, so a 'possibly 12 but you know your own children so, you know, whatever'.

It is too a family programme (not a "children's programme", I'll agree). It finished before the watershed on a weekend evening when children in most of the UK (admittedly not Scotland) are still on holiday from school. And next week is 7.30-8.15.

I agree entirely that it's not aimed at three-year-olds (I wasn't expecting mine to watch it at all, but she likes dinosaurs so stuck around for that bit). But Ben Wheatley (who directed this episode) has explicitly said that one reason he did it was so that his 10yo son could watch one of his projects, so he's clearly not concerned about the content.

In terms of Who in general, current 6yo is very phlegmatic so I don't mind her watching them on first broadcast. Now-9yo is more sensitive and when he was 6 we prewatched any that looked more than ordinarily scary.

I really enjoyed it, but I've had a soft spot for Capaldi since the Angel Islington in Neverwhere. I noticed the over-egging of the 'he's old/grey/wrinkled' thing too, but the theory here is that it's aimed at all the younger Matt Smith fans who were up in arms when PC was announced as the Doctor, berating them for not giving him a chance and not seeing past the superficial. Also, I think there are lots of similarities between PC and Moffat himself - I honestly think he's writing HIS Doctor - as in, the Doctor he wanted to be as a child. Could be interesting. Or awful. But hopefully interesting!

Just back from seeing it at the cinema, and there it was rated 12A. So no, not really suitable for toddlers.

I thought PC excellent, script good in places, some great one-liners, but some of it didn't really hang together (never explained why they needed an inch of dinosaur optical nerve). I like the alien characters who are good but a bit scary.

A bit worried that the half-face man will give my DD nightmares.

I think the red lining is rather dashing

i like the new doctor
the CGI was crap though
hope Clara goes soon as imo she doesn't work with new Doc

I thought he was great!

Loved the broom analogy - Trigger's broom
Really liking PCso far, loved Christopher Eccleston and was gutted when he left even though I think DT is a fab actor - he grew on me as the doctor, though. Smith had good bits but not enough of them. And the whole story arc thing was too much - I like in jokes and occasional recurrent features but the Amy/Rory/melody thing was bleargh.

And have the TARDIS windows changed? They look crap - I thought there was going to be a that's-not-the-real TARDIS line when it landed on the river bank