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SnK-Arcbound
United States4423 Posts
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Faust852
Luxembourg4004 Posts
On December 28 2014 11:53 SnK-Arcbound wrote: Companions are sticking around way too long. 1 per season is great. Donna should have stayed forever | ||
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom9699 Posts
On November 11 2014 11:23 killerdog wrote: To be honest, I felt like the last episode was basically a highlight real of everything that was wrong with a lot of this season. + Show Spoiler + A great big build up, into the doctor not doing anything at all and everything sort of fixing itself around him, without any real explanation as to how. There have been a few decent episodes, (the train one was ok, and flatline was amusing just for the tiny capaldi, but there have been so many episodes this season where they arrive, find some wierd stuff is going on, run around not accomplishing anything, then it turns out everything is ok after all, and would have played out identically if the doctor had never even arrived... I had great hopes after the first half of this finale, we had an enemy who we knew wouldn't turn out to be harmless, in interesting plot mechanic in the potential afterlife stuff, and the master back! But all we get is a random plane ride which accomplishes nothing but allowing for a funny army one liner from the doctor, and "true love" or something randomly overpowering cyberman circuitry to magically save the day. (We've already had an episode where that happens with matt smith, although at least that one was saved by not being 80% exposition...) I guess I just enjoy the moments where the doctor goes full tennant and suddenly saves the day, and having the solution to a problem actually be developed over the episode over the "I have no idea what i'm doing but I look concerned for 40 minutes, then stuff randomly resolves itself around me in the last 5 minutes of the episode" which capaldi seems to be written as half the time  /rant There has been some terrible writing, certainly. I've enjoyed bits of the series, its the first Dr Who series i have ever watched. I embraced the silliness of it, but the mysteries they are trying to solve are badly written. Often the only way for the Dr to interact with the mystery at all is to explain it, rather than neutralize it. Its JJ Abrams all over again. An exposition machine for interesting mysteries, instead of a vehicle for an all powerful time lord. There were still a couple of great episodes though. The bank heist in particular was a good one IMO. Also i get that they probably want to avoid helpless women in this day and age, but does the Doctor's companion have to be so bloody smart and capable??? I would prefer someone stupid and extremely immoral instead of the same old Clara. | ||
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Capped
United Kingdom7236 Posts
On December 28 2014 18:30 Jockmcplop wrote: Also i get that they probably want to avoid helpless women in this day and age, but does the Doctor's companion have to be so bloody smart and capable??? I would prefer someone stupid and extremely immoral instead of the same old Clara. It used to be that the doctor rarely even revealed himself to people, i always thought it would take an extremely strong person to even comprehend and accept what the doctor is and what he shows them. It made it plausable that the companions he chose would be extremely capable. Nowadays he just takes kids on school trips and rescues old biddys at christmas. Utter bullshit, bring back eccleston / tennant days. I dont think clara is TOO capable though, she was ready to lie down and die in the xmas special just because she had the illusion of happiness, she knew she was dying and didnt give a fuck. Shes out of her depth on quite a few occasions but if you travel time and space with an immortal time lord you do need a bit of a backbone lol. Also shes been with him for a quite a while now, usually when companions first join they're bumbling idiots for a while. Lol you masochist. | ||
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Dismay
United States1180 Posts
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Scarecrow
Korea (South)9172 Posts
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Chexx
Korea (South)11232 Posts
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Foblos
United States426 Posts
On December 30 2014 01:03 Chexx wrote: wasnt the doctor at the place where clara threw the keys in the volcano Yes, but he had put a dream patch on her after she tried to put it on him so they were both still in the tardis edit. think i misunderstood original question. May update later | ||
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TheTenthDoc
United States9561 Posts
that Clara being old Oh well. At least now we have another season to not find out how she + Show Spoiler + survived jumping into the Doctor's timeline. | ||
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
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Coppermantis
United States845 Posts
And the special was good. Sort of like a nonconsentual version of Inception. + Show Spoiler + Surprisingly non-cheesy way to include Santa Claus, and it actually made sense, too. For once. | ||
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
Also, loved the movie last year with all the doctors and changing gallifrey's fate and found out it was also loved/hated by fans. I may go back and watch it from season 1 since I've only seen season 7 and 8 so far, but I'm enjoying the new doctor too. He's vastly different from matt smith since he's more serious, rude and less quirky so I've often wondered how matt smith's doctor would have played it during these season 8 eps. | ||
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Janaan
United States381 Posts
I usually don't like it when shows pull a stunt like, say, a time dilation field that makes everything that happens in the episode ultimately pointless (Star Trek has done this a lot) but I think the ending to the special that I would have liked was that the Doctor and Clara both wake up and can't remember any of it. The others couldn't remember so why can those two? (I guess it makes a little more sense about the Doctor remembering cause he's a time lord and all but why does she?) It would have given fans the chance to have one more adventure with Clara but not have to ret-con everything that happened in the season finale. Even better would have been take the opportunity to introduce a new companion and not have Clara at all. | ||
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Leporello
United States2845 Posts
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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22208 Posts
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Nebuchad
Switzerland12269 Posts
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + "Daleks can't say mercy." EXCEPT THEY HAVE, S5E13, the Dalek shoots The Doctor, then River tells it to beg her for mercy before shooting it, and it does. I'm pretty sure they say it a couple more times too but I'll be fucked if I rewatch everything to find them. Continuity, people, it's not that hard... | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On September 28 2015 23:22 Requizen wrote: Really? I found the two parter pretty dull. Too much focus on Clara and Missy. They're both fairly boring imo. The Doctor's scenes were great (I loooove Capaldi) and the plot was ok (though probably didn't need to be dragged out over 2 episodes), but I honestly can't wait til Clara is gone. Well she announced she was leaving after this season, so that's a great thing. She basically started out as super annoying and became generic longtime companion more recently, which I found tolerable but boring. | ||
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
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