Doctor Who

[Deborah54]

This will be my 12th Doctor. I’m a big Doctor Who fan. Happy memories of Sat with my dad watching cyber men and darleks.
But what the hell has happened? I’ve just finished, well I managed 25 mins, before I couldn’t take it anymore the 1st episode with the new Doctor and sidekick. Awful acting with a ludicrous plot (yes I know it’s fantasy) but it’s never been this stupid. Can’t help but think the BBC aren’t bothered and think they can put out anything and we’ll watch. Russell T Davies should have his pens taken off him and spare us anymore pain.

I can’t be the only Doctor Who fan who thinks like this. Absolutely Gutted 😞

It's 8pm on BBC4.

Ah I wanted to see it at the cinema but no way my kids would agree to me going without them, but also no chance they could stay awake that late 😅

Oo thank you!

I read it on here and did think about not going but figured it’d be good to see it in the big screen. Though I usually watch with subtitles!
im either expecting a full
cinema or just me.

Damn this thread! All that talk of past Doctors has me watching the 2005 revamp onwards.

I am 2 episodes into Christopher Ecclestone and it's making me mad how much more I am enjoying them.

I feel like 'the old folks' when I was growing up that used to harp on about programmes from their day.

Haha I’m properly old… Tom Baker was my first doctor in the Seventies! 😂

Ecclestone was wonderful and what a revelation Billie Piper was. We thought RTD was nuts for casting some ex-pop starlet. She was phenomenal.

Are Bad Wolf / Disney able to monetise all the millions of viewings this week of the Pyramids of Mars episodes?

I watched them last night (had forgotten what a compelling presence the Fourth Doctor was, and what a brilliant companion Sarah Jane Smith was) on iPlayer - so presumably no one profits beyond my TV licence fee? How do people access those episodes across the world?

Anyone else watching at 8?
the intro on TV guide sounds good.

Which doctor will it be? I might give it a go

Don't worry, it's not just the 'old' people who prefer the past doctor who

Ds and dd made me switch off an episode of the new series so they can rewatch from 2005 onwards.

They wandered off during the new series and said it was boring, but were still on the edge of their seats again for older episodes (order of preference seems to be Smith - Tennant - Ecclestone and Capaldi)

Watching!

I’m glad he’s just used the word ‘looting’. I was pretty cross yesterday at the start of Pyramids.

It’s Tom baker and Sarah Jane.

im loving it already

But is it just going to be a repetition of the Pyramids episodes, or will there be some 15 + Ruby chat later on?

I presume so.

Im liking the technical references.

It wasn’t too bad

Set the scene nicely.
The beast- but how did Ruby’s mum know that.
And he who waits

Not long now!

Counting down the hours until midnight …

I'm so tired, not sure how I'm going to stay awake at the cinema!

Just thinking i must have coffee

I’ve started reading The Way Through the Woods to pass the time. (For some reason I’d always assumed the Doctor Who novels were for children. Have found this one on a nibling’s bookshelf.)

"The beast" is another term for satan in some Christian writings - so I assumed she was referring to that. (Eg 666 as "the mark of the beast")

so anyone watching tonight at midnight?? Is there a watch along thread??

I’ll be posting here if I have anything non-spoilery to say …

I'm up for a live spoilery thread but don't want to start one if there already is one!!

Live thread here!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5102349-live-doctor-who-finale-watch-along-thread

Have stayed awake!