Doctor Who - Discussion Thread III (no untagged future spoilers)

I think thats interesting actually. I love reading all these theories I heard another one about her being a version of clara! I have to say that after watching the episode on iplayer just now I am starting to really dislike this episode. I think capaldi was great just the episode lacked something to make him the doctor. It was the speech all new doctors have stood in front of the enermy and given a speech and his was to clara which was disappointing. The lackluster in that was only then salvaged with matt and the phone call. I think capaldi is great just moffat needs to start improving his writing

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Its definitely interesting seeing the possibilities, as there are so many and so varied!

I really liked it personally, I may be slightly biased because I saw in the cinema (the doctor who world tour at BFI southbank) and then saw it again tonight, even a second time viewing... I enjoyed it a lot. Right amount of humour, intimidating enemies and serious stuff as well. I agree moffats writing is a bit wibbly wobbly timey wimey though

I liked the episode but I think it may have been trying too hard to be funny - especially with strax! Aside from that, I liked Capaldi's doctor and loved matt at the end; I was in tears seeing him again! Overall it was a nice episode but it didn't have that umph that matt or Davids first episode had in my opinion, both of them had a nice speech whilst I found his quite dull. Yet, I'm looking forward to the season and interested in Missy, she can't be River or she would have called him her husband not boyfriend, but I like the theory of her being the master...

I love, love, love Capaldi's Doctor...I hated everything else. It's like the show should be shifted to Cbeebies.

Really like Capaldi as an actor (he is perfect as the Cardinal in the new Musketeers series) but still not sold on him as Dr Who. Also a bit miffed that Moffat chose to partner Clara (in my opinion by far the best companion that any of the new Doctors have had) with a Doctor with whom there is absolutely 0% chance of any romance occuring. They have admittedly overdone romance with the last few companions but the whole dynamic between her and Smith was actually pretty cool and had the potential to develop really well and then...boom.

Tennant is still by far the best doctor in my opinion, but Capaldi is an amazing actor so maybe it will get better. He needs more serious storylines to work with though - really don't think that the plot for this episode came close to matching the opener for the 10th or 11th Doctors.

I'm really unsure how I feel about him at the moment, but at the same time I think it would be unfair to cast judgement upon him based on purely one episode. I guess I shall make my mind up as the season progresses.

That was really bad I did hope that the writers would give Capaldi a better first episode, but despite what he had to work with, he still gave a brilliant performance.

They need to get rid of Vastra, or at the very least change her persona, the overly-knowledgeable-holmes-like-agent is becoming a bore and makes no sense to keep in the show, as it only overshadows the Doctor's role. Instead we have to make do with a dwelling Doctor that doesn't quite function well, and a minor character explaining much of the story.

There's a reason why Tennant and Smith (series 5, not series 7) worked so well, as their stories relied much more on their own interpretation/explanation.

then again it has only been one episode ..written by Moffat, I just hope it improves so we can admire what Doctor Who should be like