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I've bought and read the first four, and found them to be cute. An ideal gift for the young Whovian in your family.
Yeah definitely think that's the direction they'll go in, another Tennant type (I bet they'd actually have him back if he wanted, he was that popular). I think they're worried about the ratings which is why they've given away so much of this series, to try and drum up a bit of hype. Why else would they ruin John Simm's return in the trailers?
(I'd also accept Joanna Lumley.)
Still really good though.
Oh yes, and I think the Cybermen are the most horrific monsters in the series. After all, the only thing Daleks do is exterminate you. Better than what the Cybermen will do to you if they get their mitts on you, right ?
It wasn't all bad, the first time the vintage Cyberman voice is heard, was a chilling moment (given how his first encounter with them cost him a life, I would have thought that the Doctor would have figured it out the moment he heard that voice). And Bill continues to be by far the best companion of the modern show.And even if I can't stand his take on the character, Simm with a goatee is a nice call back to the Delgado & Ainley Masters.
Actually, since Gomez has said she's leaving, can we expect to be seeing more of him? It's a nice thought but I think the next showrunner will want to cast their own version.
Ah so the bit in the trailer was just added after it was leaked then? Fair enough, my mistake.
Just read a very plausible sounding theory about the finale
After all apart from Olivia Coleman, Maxine Peake, Sheridan Smith, Gillian Anderson, Suranne Jones, Vicky McClure, Helen McCrory, Joanne Froggatt, Sarah Lancashire, Keeley Hawes, Jessie Wallace, Thandie Newton, Morven Christie, Ruth Wilson, Michelle Dockery, Lily James and a couple of dozen others there simply are no roles for British women on TV.
So why shouldn't one of the few good roles for men be given to a woman?
As they make a lot of money from selling this show I am sure the hard currency does keep the job a male one. They already nearly lost Top Gear because some rightwing papers never stopped trying to slaughter the BEEBS golden goose.
Just started a nuWho Bluray collection. Bought series 2 which introduces David Tenant. I will get them in a random order, depending on good deals I can pick up.
When I realised I spent a lot of time watching Dr Who on Sky Gold I realised I may as well buy them all and have the bonus stuff as well.
I had the same thought about The Sweeney and Minder...I watch them all the time so I thought 'sod it' and bought them.
The episode mentioned is indeed very very good,the idea to bring back the original cybermen is a masterstroke,seriously scary..and Capaldi seems to have just found his feet IMO and is leaving,such a shame.
And as for Billy,she is one of my all time favourite companions already !!
BTW,where do some of you chaps get the hint/feeling of a female doctor,i'm not picking that up ?
It's just like the black Bond or female Bond nonsense. It started from somewhere, and the internet has run with it. You can't see an article on who could follow Capaldi, without the obligatory actress(es) being suggested. Names like Olivia Colmen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge (who?), and i'm sure that I have seen Helen Mirrens name included at some point as well.
Also, the Master becoming Missy makes it a lot easier for who ever is the showrunner at the time to cast an actress. "Well, if the Master can change gender, so can the Doctor." Not to mention the discussion on the Doctors gender last Saturday. The Doctor wasn't sure if he was female when he first met the Master. It feels like the ground work is being laid ready for it to happen.
It's the biggest clue yet that we could have a future female Doctor. It would be a gamble though. I have loved |Michelle Gomez as Missy and would almost accept her in the role if she brought the same spark. But on the whole a female Dr would be there for no other reason than to shut the whining feminists up.
Toby Jones for Miss Marple I say!!
Daniel Radcliffe for Lara Croft!!
Make it happen.
Boy Power!!
And as you say,Missie being female,and the Master being a Time Lord,gives a reason and carte blanche on bringing in a female Doctor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Waller-Bridge
And I've seen Tilda Swinton's name too. Personnally, I wouldn't mind seeing a female Doctor, provided that they get the right actress for that, just like they managed to get Michele Gomez to play the Master (and an inspired casting that was ; IMHO, she's the best since Delgado).
For now, I'm really impatient to watch the last episode of the season. Pray Moffat doesn't screw it up. And pray that whatever I use to watch it (either iPlayer with a proxy / VPN or TV Catchup) doesn't fail.
I'm looking forward to the season finale. Moffat has set it up nicely with the strong penultimate episode, so no reason to think he will screw it up.
I think he can hold his head up, having written some great episodes over the years. His plotting may have been convoluted at times - but his legacy is sound overall.
I haven't seen anything on her CV. Colman is different, but still, no.
I though Gomez was wonderful in Green Wing. She was off the wall mental, but I preferred Sue Whites brand of lunacy to that of Missy.
I'm in the minority of possibly single figures that think Michelle Gomez should have been The Rani.
"Well we were gonna chuck you off the roof but we weren't really sure how many regenerations you had left. We'd be up and down the stairs all night".
Hit all the right beats for me. Funny, emotional, and Capaldi was the best he's been yet. It took me ages to warm to him but I'm really going to miss him now, I feel like he's just hit his stride and now he's going. I also liked how
This series has by far been the best since the first for me. And just like the first, I'm sad but sort of glad it ended when it did. You can have too much of a good thing and the show can be fairly inconsistent with quality so I'm happy that we got this one, great, semi self contained series which really didn't need any more time to tell that story.
On to the positive, I actually did like Simm this time. As someone who has a goatee, I am pleased to see the Master now rocking one again. It adds to his overall air of villainy. The way he was dressed was also more in line with the classic Masters like Delgado and Ainley, which I also approve of.
"See this face, this is the face of someone who didn't hear a word of what you just said *side steps The Doctor and walks away*"
I didn't quite get the ending with Bill, might need to watch that bit again. Hopefully Chibnall will bring her back, if it is just for one more series to help the new Doctor.
The ending with Bill...meh. I'd like a companion without a magic reset button. It would've been more interesting had she continued on as a Cyberman. Maybe the Doctor could've installed a perception filter that glitched at inopportune moments.
The Doctor rigged an explosion that blew an army of Cybermen apart but left him looking like he'd opened one of Jokey Smurf's surprise boxes.
I had always hoped they'd use David Bradley as the First Doctor in the anniversary special, so I'm elated they brought him in for the Christmas special. Looking forward to that.
That all said, this has been Capaldi's best season. Every episode a treat, except for the two multi-parters, which were kinda lame.
I don't think Missy turning good was anything to do with her gender, I think it was more to do with the time she'd spent locked up and the last couple of episodes where she worked with the Doctor having an effect on her, because she was still pretty evil before this series.
A little thing I liked was the short fight scene at the start of the episode. I know the point of the character is non violent but it does seem a bit silly how the doctor rarely just goes for the bad guy. I feel it added to the menace of the two masters too, the shots of them dancing intercut with that scene where the doctor ended up with a head wound. Refreshing actually seeing him bleed. This is the kind of darkness I wanted from series 8 instead of keeping the same tone but turning him into a callous dick who hates soldiers for no particular reason.
Bill's ending I didn't mind because it was at least foreshadowed early on. Having her just die as a cyberman would have been a great ballsy move but I think the BBC probably have rules in place about killing main cast members off because of it being a family show.
@MajorDSmythe I thought it was a little different to Tennant's because with that it was more the sense that his version of the character didn't want to change into someone else because he liked being him. With Capaldi I felt it was more he didn't want to change because he didn't feel like he could go on at all. I think that's why they had the shots of all the different cast members right back to Billie Piper, even though Capaldi never met most of them, because he wants to die in general so his whole life to that point was relevant.