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News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 3:28 am

...it is Patrick Ness on writing duties though...

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 3:39 am

ZeroWolf wrote:Urgh. That. Can't they just revive the unit series from the mid nineties? Is thus really what they want to replace the Sarah Jane adventures?

Sigh, nevermind.

It will be aimed at the younger generation. And it had better have Ellis George reprising her Courtney Woods character.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 4:09 am

I was trying to remember which one Courtney was again :lol:

I just remembered a topic I wanted to bring up, thanks burn

In your opinion, what is the target audience for Doctor Who? I know what the official stance is (Family/Kids) hut I just wondered what everyone thought

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 4:19 am

ZeroWolf wrote:I was trying to remember which one Courtney was again

I just remembered a topic I wanted to bring up, thanks burn

In your opinion, what is the target audience for Doctor Who? I know what the official stance is (Family/Kids) hut I just wondered what everyone thought

That's not really a matter of opinion, less so when there's an official stance on the subject.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 5:45 am

ZeroWolf wrote:In your opinion, what is the target audience for Doctor Who? I know what the official stance is (Family/Kids) hut I just wondered what everyone thought

To me it's always been cross-generation. Scary enough to scare the kids but not scar them, and mature enough for the adults to connect with it.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 6:34 am

doctorwhonews.net posted a round up of press reactions to Under the Lake and one caught my eyes.

TV Fanatic feels frustrated by the two part nature of this season. Yeah, I'm a Netflix guy and rather than build anticipation for the second part, waiting a week (with other shows in-between) simply frustrates me. Can't you already tell the juicy stuff is coming in the second half?

Have we already got to that point as humans that we can no longer tolerate the time between cliff-hanger episodes?

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 7:19 am

We live in a world of almost instant gratification, apart from the very new shows. Though in some cases, you'd think people would be quite capable of waiting, I mean how long did we have to wait for new who anyway and the yes always the unavoidable year wait between seasons. We should be lucky that the seasons don't end on massive cliffhangers :lol:

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News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:51 am

Lego set officially announced, available for Christmas 2015!

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:44 am

Burn wrote:Lego set officially announced, available for Christmas 2015!

don't forget these too!

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 10:49 am

To be fair stu, the dalek and cyberman set won't be out till later as they are wave four - five.

Now if they make a lego tomb of the cybermen...

Finally watched the episode the other night. Loved it, felt like classic who. Now I've been trying to figure out how the doctor will get out of this

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 10:56 am

ZeroWolf wrote:To be fair stu, the dalek and cyberman set won't be out till later as they are wave four - five.

Now if they make a lego tomb of the cybermen...

Finally watched the episode the other night. Loved it, felt like classic who. Now I've been trying to figure out how the doctor will get out of this

Well the Daleks come with the set(I think?) that Burn was on about, & that's out sooner

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 11:29 am

But they need that little blue disk to work with the game...along with all the other sets. Lego really know how to get their money. Really if they wanted they could make a series of their mini-figures just Who related.

And how long till Dr Who few a dedicated game (which I would totally buy)

News Credits: 25 · by **SW's SilverHammer** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 1:49 pm

The two doctor who packs, the doctor and the cyberman/dalek packs come out November. Those two are for the lego Dimensions game, The Tardis is a special edition lego IDEAS set like the ghostbusters Ecto-1 or the Delorian from back to the future. The problem was those special sets in retrospect needed special parts, however due to the way they work, lego couldn't make new molds. The lego Dimensions lincense allowed them a legal loophole to make new molds and use them for the special edition IDEAS sets

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:51 am

Anyone watch last night's episode?

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:30 am

I meant to post thoughts on it last night but I got caught up playing mass effect again.

I enjoyed it, despite my wife calling the twist as soon as the doctor went into the church. The fisher king I felt was actually built up too much. Makes me wonder if we will be seeing that race again...

The intro did confuse me at first as I tried making sense of its relation to the episode but it took the doctor to explain the significance of it and was a good way of incorporating a time travel dilemma.

A question though, he brought up the problem with changing history but nothing has been mentioned again of the creatures that appeared from the first season of new who when Rose decided to change history. So have those creatures been conveniently forgotten about?

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:50 am

No idea? pal, sorry

But I did think the Fisher King looked decidedly scary

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:11 am

Don't worry about that

Just read some comments on a review of the episode and it appears to have polarised fans

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 12:44 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:I meant to post thoughts on it last night but I got caught up playing mass effect again.

I enjoyed it, despite my wife calling the twist as soon as the doctor went into the church. The fisher king I felt was actually built up too much. Makes me wonder if we will be seeing that race again...

The intro did confuse me at first as I tried making sense of its relation to the episode but it took the doctor to explain the significance of it and was a good way of incorporating a time travel dilemma.

A question though, he brought up the problem with changing history but nothing has been mentioned again of the creatures that appeared from the first season of new who when Rose decided to change history. So have those creatures been conveniently forgotten about?

Wait a minute! you have a wif? Is she also into Transformers?

News Credits: 23 · by **Madeus Prime** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 12:59 pm

Well, thoughts. Under the Lake/Before the Flood was pretty dang good in my opinion. Only spoiler was when the Doctor mentioned the bootstrap paradox. I do take my time travel seriously, so I knew instantly what he meant. It totally ruined the episode for me, but aside from that, I loved it! Plus the Fisher King was amazing looking.

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:45 pm

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:57 pm

Stuartmaximus wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:I meant to post thoughts on it last night but I got caught up playing mass effect again.

I enjoyed it, despite my wife calling the twist as soon as the doctor went into the church. The fisher king I felt was actually built up too much. Makes me wonder if we will be seeing that race again...

The intro did confuse me at first as I tried making sense of its relation to the episode but it took the doctor to explain the significance of it and was a good way of incorporating a time travel dilemma.

A question though, he brought up the problem with changing history but nothing has been mentioned again of the creatures that appeared from the first season of new who when Rose decided to change history. So have those creatures been conveniently forgotten about?

Wait a minute! you have a wif? Is she also into Transformers?

No, nor really but that's not really the point here is it?

Just read that Capaldi played the guitar for the revised intro and turns out he used to have his own band, I say keep the new into.

From looking online, it looks like I'm among a few who are looking forward to next weeks episode. Vikings vs aliens, what's not to love?

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:36 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:A question though, he brought up the problem with changing history but nothing has been mentioned again of the creatures that appeared from the first season of new who when Rose decided to change history. So have those creatures been conveniently forgotten about?

He didn't change history, he just participated in a stable time loop.

ZeroWolf wrote:Just read that Capaldi played the guitar for the revised intro and turns out he used to have his own band, I say keep the new into.

That was also him playing guitar on the tank in the season premier.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:30 pm

Compared the first part, I thought the second part was a let down.

And ffs ... those sunglasses have got to go. They're going to end up more over-used than the screwdriver.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:50 pm

I'll be surprised if they keep the glasses for next season but it's anyone's guess if Moffat stuck with them for the rest of this season.

News Credits: 2 · by **Insurgent** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:47 am

Loose the sunglasses. They were a nice little joke in episode 2, but they don't work as a screwdriver replacement. Or at the very least, give them some tech details so they don't just look like something he grabbed off the shelf.

I thoroughly enjoyed this 2 parter. The ghosts maintained consistent logic throughout. The scene with the axe dragging behind deaf girl was amazingly shot. Deaf girl (I'm sorry, I can't remember her name), I love the fact she was just there, no one draw any attention to her being deaf, nor did it factor into some kind of deus ex machina solution. She was there as just another character.

Also loved the look and voice of the Fisher King. Major kudos to the prop/costume/art department on that. Can this guy write more episodes please?