Gonna be catching up...soonish? I guess it depends on my and my gf's schedule. Our MO has been to watch the season premiere, then wait until the season is nearly done to start watching again.
If you're a Whovian, [SPOILER - highlight to read]: David Tennant plays a huge role in Jessica Jones, and he brings the ruthlessness of his doctor mixed with just the biggest creep vibe ever. He's awesome.
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I really miss David Tennant. Peter Capaldi as The Doctor - "You better not hurt the people I love." Hurts them. " Oooh, you did it. Well, okay, but you better not do it again."
David Tennant as The Doctor - "I'm begging you, please, don't hurt the people I love." Hurts them. "Now meet the real Doctor - the Time Lord feared by the entire galaxy. And suffer for eternity as I casually toss you into the heart of a dark star or lock you into a mirror where you will never die and never escape."
Seems like this is more about the writing than the portrayal, yeah? I agree otherwise; the rage beneath the surface always made the character excellent.
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Aye, that's a fair observation. It's a bit unfair to blame Capaldi for a lack of depth when the writers don't give him much to work with. With Jenna Coleman being so cute and lovely I suppose the show couldn't help being influenced by her charms and adapting to it.
I just wish they would find a writer again that would tap into that alienness and potential for rage that the Doctor has. This is a character that should terrify any right-thinking being, given his history. In the very first episode when he kept on muttering something about puddingheads every time he got impatient with people I had really hoped the show had evolved a bit... Instead it's as if the character has become more dependant, more needy and clingy.
Let's hope it changes after what happened last episode. I've been a fan since I started watching with David Tennant but now there are so many other excellent shows with strong writing and characters to choose from I find myself pushing Doctor Who lower and lower down the list of shows to watch.
Ohhh, Moffat has played a blinder there with Heaven Sent. It felt very much like the sort of episode Neil Gaiman would write- except Gaiman did write two and they were nothing like this. Hmm. So, like the kind of episode I would have THOUGHT Gaiman would write.
Now, if the finale is good, we have the possibility here of the most exciting Who-ness for me since Paul McGann and Tom Baker turned up in 2013.
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I may pop back in once I've finished this season. I'll be lucky to be done before the Christmas special, though. My life is busy and my method of streaming to my TV (my 360) is broke. I could watch on my cpu, but it's usually something my gf and I try to watch together, which is harder at my desk. So the shows we watch together are starting to pile up a bit.
I'm only 4 eps. in, so I can't comment much. Things have been solid.
Not what I was expecting. Not bad though. They episode does play into alot of fan complaints that now seem to be intentional on the writers part. I wish is wasnt resolved so quick especially the beginning. Still it was decent but a bit of a disapointment given how great the previous episode was.
Watched a bunch while grading finals today. the morpheus episode had some nice hooks but ultimately very little of substance. If it'd been a moffat episode, we'd find out that everything since then has been a dream (or been robots acting out the dream of someone else). Instead, we'll probably get a 2nd chance at the monster of the week within the next few seasons, but without much tension on the part of the doctor
The Raven, though, that was an episode. I had to go on wiki to recall who Rigby was, and still didn't quite recall the killer-paintings episode until way later. Clara was so good in this one and really showed a lot of the characteristics that me and Ush had discussed briefly a month or 2 ago. Ashildur is a difficult character for me, though, because her memory resets. While the Doctor keeps building this list of grievances, she seems to reset every episode. It's a bit like what I thought was going on with Clara during the John Hurt reveal (where Clara is in every part of his time-stream or whatever).
The next one, the ouiblette, was stellar. Really enjoyed that.
The finale was gripping, but I did not understand why the matronly time ladies were so... quiet. The sisterhood of Carn didn't have much narrative lifting to do, and while I'm curious I just can't imagine that the exposition behind that group's relationship with Rassilon will make for good TV. [SPOILER - highlight to read]: and his mom doesn't even say hi!
Any thoughts on the black lady regeneration? I stood up at my desk and had to take a lap around the office before continuing the episode...
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