Doctor Who - Series 8 - Printable Version

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Doctor Who - Series 8 - MariettaRC - 2012-10-06

Chameleonic Wrote:
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I wish Moffat would just get the "time can be rewritten" thread dealt with. I wonder how long he is going to keep mentioning that line.

Another thing is the whole "Silence will fall" and the Doctor "Who?" line that keeps popping up.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Question

Looks like the Doctor will be asked a question and he will have to answer truthfully, I assume it will be his name...how/why any of this is relevant and why it ties into the Doctor deleting any mention of him in the Universe only Moffat knows.

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Doctor Who - Series 8 - IllegallySane - 2012-10-06

MariaColette Wrote:
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The "Doctor Who?" line/joke is getting so incredibly old. I know it's the title of the show and all but when people use it as a punchline/joke, I just want to strangle something.

The line's been used a good 3-5 times at most throughout all 7 seasons. It just didn't get famous until the Season 6 ending.

And thanks for trying to sour my impression of the mid-season finale with the nitpicking. I'd like to make rebuttals to try to explain away the problems you guys have seen, but I got better things to do right now. Looks like I'll have to leave the thread alone until Christmas.

Doctor Who - Series 8 - xBTAx - 2012-10-07

y0y0y0y0shi0 Wrote:
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The "stare into the eyes of an angel and you become an angel" thing apparently didn't exist anymore.

And the whole "picture of an angel becomes itself an angel" thing apparently doesn't exist either. How many pictures of the angels must have been taken over the years? Seriously? What?

The Doctor was saying he could break the angel's wrist but it's been previously established that while they're quantum locked they're indestructible.

And what the pineapple was up with the baby angels in the cellar thing? Why are they there? They're just chilling there for no reason. What the pineapple is even their deal.

The whole statue of liberty thing....just none of that made any sense at all. None of it.

Rory just HAPPENS to encounter an angel in modern day New York? Nobody else encounters them? No disappearances? Nothing? ???

(The suicide scene was just kind of funny for me. While Amy attempts to grab Rory's hand to get lifted up, she just sort of grabs at his crotch area, which I thought was funny. When they first start jumping they fall horizontally, but then 2 seconds later they're both vertical hugging each other? What. And then Amy's face while they were falling...she looked like she was having an orgasm.)

They spent the episode building up to the suicide scene. The suicide scene was the climax. The paradox was the resolving action. The episode was *done* as far as any coherent and practical plot is concerned. The Ponds leaving randomly in the last 5 minutes of the episode just made *no sense.* If you're going to kill off 2 major characters of a show, at least build up to the point where they're killed off, not a point 5 minutes before.

Watch the last scene again. RORY JUST RANDOMLY DECIDES TO STOP GOING INTO THE TARDIS TO LOOK AT THE GRAVESTONE. He's in back of the gravestone the entire time. At no point in the episode was he staring at the front of the gravestone. He's just like "well I'm going to walk back a few feet and stare at this gravestone. Oh? It has the same name as me? what a crazy random happenstance it totally must not be connected to the angels or anything"

OKAY SERIOUSLY THE GRAVESTONE. IT'S JUST A pineappleING GRAVESTONE. THEY DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW THE BODIES ARE IN THERE. NOTHING IS STOPPING THEM FROM JUST GOING BACK IN TIME, RESCUING RORY AND AMY, AND BEING LIKE YO GUYS LET'S MAKE A FAKE GRAVESTONE WITH YOUR NAMES ON IT AND CALL IT A DAY.

AND HOW IS RIVER ALLOWED TO GO BACK IN TIME AND SEE THEM AND YET THE DOCTOR ISN'T? THEY DIDN'T ACTUALLY ESTABLISH WHY THE DOCTOR WASN'T ALLOWED TO GO BACK IN TIME AND JUST TAKE THEM AWAY.

...And more. Sorry this whole season has just irritated the pomegranate out of me.

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Doctor Who - Series 8 - IllegallySane - 2012-10-07

Okay I lied. I'm posting to help answer a non-current question for xBTAx.

xBTAx Wrote:
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Of course, why can't the Doctor just use one...? Probably something about the weird timeline stuff they attempted to explain in the end, I guess.

It's been mentioned previously. Like how the 10th Doctor kept disabling Jack's vortex manipulator every time he has one. Then go to the 11th Doctor who only used said manipulator for a very dire situation. Overall, he considers the device primitive as the 10th. As the 11th he sees it as "cheap and nasty time travel, very bad for you", and that how he's "trying to give it up". Overall, I'd call it matter of his tastes. He probably sees the manipulator akin to a drug (hence being cheap and nasty time travel, on top of trying to give it up). He probably doesn't want to become reliant on it, nor does he want to abandon "Sexy" in case he gets too attached to a more rule-free time travel device.

Doctor Who - Series 8 - ChaoticCJ - 2012-10-07

xBTAx Wrote:
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I agree with pretty much all of this, yeah. I liked the episode and kinda liked the ending but... yeah.

They did explain River's thing, although badly- she has the vortex manipulator (I think that's what it's called?) and can get back to/through the messed up time while the TARDIS can't.

Of course, why can't the Doctor just use one...? Probably something about the weird timeline stuff they attempted to explain in the end, I guess.

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y0y0y0y0shi0 Wrote:
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The "stare into the eyes of an angel and you become an angel" thing apparently didn't exist anymore.

And the whole "picture of an angel becomes itself an angel" thing apparently doesn't exist either. How many pictures of the angels must have been taken over the years? Seriously? What?

The Doctor was saying he could break the angel's wrist but it's been previously established that while they're quantum locked they're indestructible.

And what the pineapple was up with the baby angels in the cellar thing? Why are they there? They're just chilling there for no reason. What the pineapple is even their deal.

The whole statue of liberty thing....just none of that made any sense at all. None of it.

Rory just HAPPENS to encounter an angel in modern day New York? Nobody else encounters them? No disappearances? Nothing? ???

(The suicide scene was just kind of funny for me. While Amy attempts to grab Rory's hand to get lifted up, she just sort of grabs at his crotch area, which I thought was funny. When they first start jumping they fall horizontally, but then 2 seconds later they're both vertical hugging each other? What. And then Amy's face while they were falling...she looked like she was having an orgasm.)

They spent the episode building up to the suicide scene. The suicide scene was the climax. The paradox was the resolving action. The episode was *done* as far as any coherent and practical plot is concerned. The Ponds leaving randomly in the last 5 minutes of the episode just made *no sense.* If you're going to kill off 2 major characters of a show, at least build up to the point where they're killed off, not a point 5 minutes before.

Watch the last scene again. RORY JUST RANDOMLY DECIDES TO STOP GOING INTO THE TARDIS TO LOOK AT THE GRAVESTONE. He's in back of the gravestone the entire time. At no point in the episode was he staring at the front of the gravestone. He's just like "well I'm going to walk back a few feet and stare at this gravestone. Oh? It has the same name as me? what a crazy random happenstance it totally must not be connected to the angels or anything"

OKAY SERIOUSLY THE GRAVESTONE. IT'S JUST A pineappleING GRAVESTONE. THEY DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW THE BODIES ARE IN THERE. NOTHING IS STOPPING THEM FROM JUST GOING BACK IN TIME, RESCUING RORY AND AMY, AND BEING LIKE YO GUYS LET'S MAKE A FAKE GRAVESTONE WITH YOUR NAMES ON IT AND CALL IT A DAY.

AND HOW IS RIVER ALLOWED TO GO BACK IN TIME AND SEE THEM AND YET THE DOCTOR ISN'T? THEY DIDN'T ACTUALLY ESTABLISH WHY THE DOCTOR WASN'T ALLOWED TO GO BACK IN TIME AND JUST TAKE THEM AWAY.

...And more. Sorry this whole season has just irritated the pomegranate out of me.

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Doctor Who - Series 8 - xBTAx - 2012-10-07

ChaoticCJ Wrote:
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My only guess to your comment about angles is that their are different types of angles. Similar to different Daleks/Cybermen. As for the baby angels and statue of liberty who knows, like I said different types?

As to the Rory being the only person to disappear; we don't know if there were any disappearances in the time Rory was in. There could have been and they never said.

As for Amy and Rory being stuck in the past, I am not entirely sure about that. I am skeptical with taking anything in Doctor Who literally-they leave holes open for practically anything. Remember that River LET Amy go and "blink." River knows much more at this time about The Doctor, Amy, and Rory at this time. (This is the 3rd oldest she has been/we have seen her.) We can only speculate why River let Amy go. Some say that Amy could have had something to do with Melody growing up.

Personally I think we will see Rory and Amy again, or at least hear more about them. The way they left it, left that option open. I know we want to think that they lived happily ever after, but we don't REALLY know. River told Amy something like, don't let The Doctor see the pain. We will never really know if Amy's afterword was truthful or what The Doctor wanted to hear. We don't know if Amy really found Rory or was sent to the same time. I still believe that they were and that Amy was telling the truth, but I would not be surprised if we see another story like Rose's ending.

We do have that 50th anniversary special coming along, but who knows. Don't forget "... on the Fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, when no creature can speak falsely or fail to answer, a question will be asked a question that must never be answered." I can only imagine the Paradoxes and time distortions that will cause.

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Doctor Who - Series 8 - IllegallySane - 2012-10-12

You thought you were done having feelings from the mid-season finale? WELL GUESS AGAIN!

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and a bonus scene: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00zn6ff

[MENTION=2135]MariaColette[/MENTION]Tell me what you think of the video, Karen.

Doctor Who - Series 8 - MariettaRC - 2012-10-12

IllegallySane Wrote:You thought you were done having feelings from the mid-season finale? WELL GUESS AGAIN!

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and a bonus scene: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00zn6ff

[MENTION=2135]MariaColette[/MENTION]Tell me what you think of the video, Karen.

Welp.

That was emotional.

;_;

Doctor Who - Series 8 - KhainiWest - 2012-10-29

[video=youtube;xDj7gvc_dsA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDj7gvc_dsA&feature=plcp[/video]

Doctor Who - Series 8 - Razmos - 2012-11-19

Christmas Trailer released!
[video=youtube_share;L3KVpvEUTns]http://youtu.be/L3KVpvEUTns[/video]

Doctor Who - Series 8 - Jon - 2012-12-12

New teasertrailerthing!

[video=youtube;vEJNzJqMtjg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEJNzJqMtjg[/video]

Doctor Who - Series 8 - Zelkova - 2012-12-12

Saw this today. Dont know if relevant or not. I do not watch this show.

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http://www.teefury.com/

You can purchase a tshirt today and today only for like 10 bucks or something. (They used to be 7, pimentos)

Doctor Who - Series 8 - Razmos - 2012-12-25

Doctor Who - Series 8 - Jon - 2012-12-25

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Clara is PERFECT. I love her even more now. I agree, the plot of the episode was pretty trash but everything beside that was unspeakably INCREDIBLE. I actually giggled and guffaw'd several times.

also POND. Pond. POND. UGH.

Doctor Who - Series 8 - ChaoticCJ - 2012-12-26

The best part about the episode was the references.

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All the characters were amazing, but Clara... she was absolutely fantastic. I have to agree that the actual plot of the episode wasn't that good, but that may be because the plot was the weakest part of the episode. The transition to the second half of the series and characters were perfect. I'm excited to see what happens next.

Doctor Who - Series 8 - IllegallySane - 2012-12-26

I found the interactions between the Doctor, his allies, and Clara to be the best parts. The Snowman plot was alright, more sinister than last year's, that's for sure.

Doctor Who - Series 8 - Jedward - 2012-12-26

I'm gonna go ahead and say that I did not appreciate the official Doctor Who tumblr liveblogging spoilers from the episode, because I didn't get to watch for a few hours after. I've never been that frustrated at tumblr spoilers before.

As for the actual episode, it was great.

[SPOILER=Spoilers, then again it's been pretty spoiled here]The references were a nice touch, but I like how this plot is already unraveling. I didn't expect Clara to actually die and keep living a la River Song, where you know her beginning and her end and find everything in the middle. This time you can account for the possibility that, in the timeline, the Doctor would run into Clara after the events of Asylum of the Daleks.

The plot of the episode was kind of meh, and I was able to watch it while running errands on Maple. The denouement with the little boy didn't seem thought-out enough. But that's just me. And the episode was still very enjoyable.

I mean come on, "a whole family crying on Christmas eve" just got really cheesy.

Loved the Jenny/Vastra/Strax dynamic although the Jenny/Vastra shipping was a bit too fanservicey for me.

Doctor Who - Series 8 - CakesXD - 2012-12-26

Loved the interactions way more than the plot. hnngggggh cannot wait for the rest of the season.

Since SPACE is airing all of the Christmas specials, I'm just gonna set up camp in front of my TV. Not gonna last until 9 AM, though (it is currently 1:14 AM).

Doctor Who - Series 8 - Razmos - 2012-12-26

Jedward Wrote:
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Loved the Jenny/Vastra/Strax dynamic although the Jenny/Vastra shipping was a bit too fanservicey for me.

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I thought that the Doctor recognising the name Great Intelligence was some kind of hook, a bad wolf sort of thing, but it isn't. the Great Intelligence has shown up in previous doctor who stories apparently, and is actually connected to the Lovecraft Mythos. That would have been a fun christmas special, tentacled eldritch abominations. haha

Doctor Who - Series 8 - Chameleonic - 2012-12-26

Ugh season long(or longer) story arcs really really annoy me. I miss the days when a season was made up of a bunch of stand alone episodes....

*yeah I'm really old*

Clara is the prettiest looking sidekick in years, I'll wait and see a bit more before I decide if I like her character though.