Doctor Who

I'm about to watch it for the 2nd time.It's already on my list of favorite Dr. Who episodes.

TheProgtologist wrote: I'm about to watch it for the 2nd time.It's already on my list of favorite Dr. Who episodes.

In that episode, did anyone else notice the quick plug for that rubbish old Kameleon robot from the Fifth Doctor era?!

There was a photo of him pinned on the wall next to the old Brigadier!

I watched The Day of the Doctor twice on TV yesterday (EDIT: or actually that was the day before), plus lots of other great Doctor Who stuff.  John Hurt was the star of it to my mind, and I am a big fan of his as well as Doctor Who, so great choice for me.  My main problem with it was that I think they should have done a two hour special (for me Doctor Who has generally worked best with a longer format). Was nice to see Tom Baker at the end (I did expect to see him as he is the most iconic of Doctors, but not exactly sure how that worked with him being the curator -- being much older-looking than when he regenerated, so is he the Doctor? I assume so). I actually like Matt Smith a lot.  I didn't like the Star Wars-like parts that much, and I think it would have been much cooler if we'd seen lots of Gallifreyans regenerating during the attack, and that energy release destroying some Daleks.  I knew that Gallifrey would not be destroyed since we knew  that it continued to exist from earlier series.  I liked much of the comedy, but I would have rather had more pathos and rather less bathos.  Still, despite having the excellent John Hurt, it was not my very favourite  of the Smith years ( that would be Day of the Moon/ The Impossible Astronaut).

Edited by Logan - November 25 2013 at 13:23

Dean wrote: Logan wrote: I watched The Day of the Doctor twice on TV yesterday (EDIT: or actually that was the day before), plus lots of other great Doctor Who stuff.  John Hurt was the star of it to my mind, and I am a big fan of his as well as Doctor Who, so great choice for me.  My main problem with it was that I think they should have done a two hour special (for me Doctor Who has generally worked best with a longer format). Was nice to see Tom Baker at the end (I did expect to see him as he is the most iconic of Doctors, but not exactly sure how that worked with him being the curator -- being much older-looking than when he regenerated, so is he the Doctor? I assume so). I actually like Matt Smith a lot.  I didn't like the Star Wars-like parts that much, and I think it would have been much cooler if we'd seen lots of Gallifreyans regenerating during the attack, and that energy release destroying some Daleks.  I knew that Gallifrey would not be destroyed since we knew  that it continued to exist from earlier series.  I liked much of the comedy, but I would have rather had more pathos and rather less bathos.  Still, despite having the excellent John Hurt, it was not my very favourite  of the Smith years ( that would be Day of the Moon/ The Impossible Astronaut). The Tom Baker scene shows why they couldn't have had any of the older Doctor-actors making guest appearances with the exception of Ecclescake (who I believe refused to play the Doctor again) and McGann (who appeared in the mini-episode that showed his regeneration into Hurt as the War Doctor). The Doctor Who writers are very good at darning plot holes and side-stepping paradoxes so I liked the ambiguity of the curator scene, and I liked how it was subtly played by both Smith and Baker.  On a side note, I'm not sure that all Gallifreyans could regenerate, not all Gallifreyans are Time Lords for example, Rassilon created the TARDIS tech and altered Time Lord cell structure, this does not imply he did it for all Gallifreyans.

Agreed.  I also liked the ambiguity of the Tom Baker scene.  I don't assume that all Gallifreyans can regenerate either, but seeing a bunch of them (Time Lord, and Time Lady to use that term, Gallifreyans) regenerating would have made for entertaining spectacle.  Perhaps the "Lady Time Lords" could have done a Romana in their regenerations  for comedic effect. ;)


Edited by Logan - November 25 2013 at 13:57

That was good.  I listened to it twice last week.  Although was Delia really that excitable by the simplest of things? Although I think it was nervous excitement in reality.

Although that radio play never mentioned that she lived with a guy from 1981 until her death.  It made her sound like she was a lonely lady with an alcohol issue.

I wasn't denying she had an alcohol issue.  Just the way they portrayed her as being on her own when she had her partner living with her.  She was still reclusive though of course.

Anyone seen the other stuff put out for the Anniversary? I really enjoyed the movie "An Adventure in Space and Time" and the short "The Five(ish) Doctor Reboot" - probably enjoyed both more than the Anniversary episode itself.

Kotro wrote: Great episode. Wasn't much convinced by the Elizabethan sub-plot, but the rest was magic.

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Despite a touching final scene, Smith's final episode was quite a mess. Far too many little details and unresolved storylines crammed into too short a running time.

And as for the banished Time Lords in the other dimension sending the Doctor essentially a `bonus' regeneration' through the crack....what a total cop-out!