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News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:36 am

I've felt the same way about Matt Smith, but the last two episodes where the stories were more centred around him and a lot less Amy, he really shone through. The potential is there, he just needs the right (or no) assistant.

News Credits: 12 · by **robofreak** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:11 am

Burn wrote:I've felt the same way about Matt Smith, but the last two episodes where the stories were more centred around him and a lot less Amy, he really shone through. The potential is there, he just needs the right (or no) assistant.

I could dig a season of no assistant.

I was anti Matt Smith too, but unlike David Tennant, I feel that Matt Smith does a better job of showing the Doctor's age. There are moments when you can see the "old man" in the 11th Doctor's eyes. The 10th Doctor was usually running 100 miles a second and was with companions that would quell his darker nature.

However, the 10th Doctor will always be my favorite.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:42 am

I always thought William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton did much better "old" Doctors.

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:02 pm

Okay...

The Brigadier made the Doctor stop running. RIP, Alistair.

Also, River's grief would be equal oh for eff's sake I hope her death was agony. :-x

News Credits: 487 · by **Darth Bombshell** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:31 am

Reading the wiki entry for the episode, and seeing the comments posted here (especially Sriker's) have convinced me that seeing this episode isn't exatly essential. Would anyone else agree with that?

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:58 pm

Darth Bombshell wrote:Reading the wiki entry for the episode, and seeing the comments posted here (especially Sriker's) have convinced me that seeing this episode isn't exatly essential. Would anyone else agree with that?

It's... not that bad, At the very least, watch this scene. And have tissues ready. :-(

News Credits: 487 · by **Darth Bombshell** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:29 pm

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:At the very least, watch this scene. And have tissues ready.

If you ask me, that makes it even worse. I mean, yeah, Nicholas Courtney died, and it's sad and everything, but did they really have to acknowledge it in-universe? I mean, Jacqueline Hill's been dead for over a decade and a half, yet according to SJA, Barbara Wright is still alive and well. No reason to write the character out just cause the actor died.

Maybe I'm being cynical, I dunno. I still can't bring myself to watch it, out of fear of confirming my low expectations.

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:38 pm

Darth Bombshell wrote:
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:At the very least, watch this scene. And have tissues ready.

If you ask me, that makes it even worse. I mean, yeah, Nicholas Courtney died, and it's sad and everything, but did they really have to acknowledge it in-universe? I mean, Jacqueline Hill's been dead for over a decade and a half, yet according to SJA, Barbara Wright is still alive and well. No reason to write the character out just cause the actor died.

Maybe I'm being cynical, I dunno. I still can't bring myself to watch it, out of fear of confirming my low expectations.

Well, I doubt Barbara and Ian are ever gonna return, even for the fiftieth anniversary. The Brigadier...

Besides, there is no one better to make the man who never stops running stop running. No one else could've gotten that reaction from the Doc.

News Credits: 487 · by **Darth Bombshell** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:42 pm

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Besides, there is no one better to make the man who never stops running stop running. No one else could've gotten that reaction from the Doc.

True dat, true dat.

News Credits: 7 · by **waaaaghlord** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:25 am

The thing that strikes me is that 2 years running Moffet has pretty much just deferred the finale for a year. Also, now that we know the question I'm thinking that speculation from last year about where the 11th Doctor's story arc is going may have been spot on. My thought on the answer? Omega.

News Credits: 487 · by **Darth Bombshell** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:27 pm

waaaaghlord wrote:The thing that strikes me is that 2 years running Moffet has pretty much just deferred the finale for a year.

I suppose its a means of insuring buildup to the season premiere. Of course, since we don't know when that is...

News Credits: 7 · by **waaaaghlord** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:19 am

Are we even sure there's going to be a full season next year? Apparently Moffet was at least considering just doing a special for the half centinary.

News Credits: 487 · by **Darth Bombshell** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:28 am

waaaaghlord wrote:Are we even sure there's going to be a full season next year? Apparently Moffet was at least considering just doing a special for the half centinary.

They recently announced that there isn't going to be a series next year, and that they were going to wait for 2013 to do...something.

News Credits: 3 · by **MagnusPrimal** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:24 pm

I thought Moffat said in an interview that of course there was going to a new season next year, with the popularity of the show, especially internationally, as high as it currently is, it would be foolish to do otherwise. Of course, I have no idea where I read this, so I can't cite anything. Heck, I'm probably misremembering.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 12:39 pm

If anyone's at all interested, someone did a pretty cool anime-style Doctor Who using many of the Anime Tropes and Doctor Who tropes. Sadly it's not a full episode, but I wish it were:

News Credits: 25 · by **SW's SilverHammer** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:12 pm

Mkall wrote:

Also those should be the new designs if they bring the original cybermen back

News Credits: 104 · by **Cyber Bishop** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:55 am

Mkall wrote:If anyone's at all interested, someone did a pretty cool anime-style Doctor Who using many of the Anime Tropes and Doctor Who tropes. Sadly it's not a full episode, but I wish it were:

Uh... Uh... wow... just wow...

News Credits: 1 · by **Flakmaster** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:01 pm

I finally got my hands on Series Six, and boy, am I disappointed.
I can't quite place my finger on it, but it just doesn't feel like the 9th-10th Doctor episodes did.

I really hope that some of the Series 7 episodes will have less earth in them, too. Why can't the Doctor manage to get outside of the UK more than half of each season? (Of course, budget makes a big difference, but it makes for an annoying trend of UK-ness for someone who travels throughout all of time and space)

Still, there were some pretty good episodes, like Closing Time.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:56 pm

Flakmaster wrote:Why can't the Doctor manage to get outside of the UK more than half of each season?

Because it's a UK show primarily aimed at a UK audience ...

News Credits: 487 · by **Darth Bombshell** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:59 pm

Flakmaster wrote:I finally got my hands on Series Six, and boy, am I disappointed.
I can't quite place my finger on it, but it just doesn't feel like the 9th-10th Doctor episodes did.

Maybe because Series 1 through Four didn't have Moffat's Personal Mary Sue infesting the show for half the broadcast.

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:45 am

Okay, here's a question for all. Somehow the gods have placed YOU in charge for the 2013 series. The big one, the 5-0. You have unlimited control within the planes of this dimension. Want Eccleston back? Done! But you can't resurrect those who have passed on. You can recast if you'd like, though.

So, what do you do?

by **Godzillabot Primal** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:32 am

I only recently got into the series. I've only watched it to the end of David Tennant's period as the Doctor

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:33 pm

Looks like Hollywood's taken up Doctor Who and is making it into a feature length film.

Considering that many of the two-parters have been (IMO) pretty epic in their own way, I wonder how it'll turn out.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:51 pm

Doesn't matter how good the two-parters or four-parters or five-parters ... over even six-parters (well except Trial of a Time Lord) ... the tv series is irrelevant.