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As all other Who threads seem to have dropped off the bottom of the board, I thought I'd take the initiative ...
I need hardly tell fellow fans that in about four days, seven hours and fifty-three minutes, Matt Smith will make his (proper) debut as the Doctor in a story called The Eleventh Hour. There are snippets and previews of the coming series on the Dr Who BBC site, and on the Radio Times site, the TARDIS's makeover has been revealed.
(I think it looks stunning!)
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I agree, it seems to link the style from the classic series with the current show. I'm really looking forward to it. My gut feeling is that he will be excellent in the role.
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But why did they have to clash it with our Easter Vigil? (Actually it's on before the Vigil, but we'll have to get to church during it!)
Obviously a reason to press for a dawn Vigil next year!
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O no! I was checking about a BBC3 repeat for you, Carys, and it turns out I've got it all wrong! I thought it was 7pm on Saturday, but it's 6.20pm Saturday on BBC1, repeated at 7pm Sunday on BBC3.
And the opening episode is 65 minutes long! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Originally posted by Adeodatus:
and on the Radio Times site, the TARDIS's makeover has been revealed.
Oh dear. The new Doctor's going to be travelling through time and space in some kind of intergalactic cocktail bar. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Originally posted by Adeodatus:
O no! I was checking about a BBC3 repeat for you, Carys, and it turns out I've got it all wrong! I thought it was 7pm on Saturday, but it's 6.20pm Saturday on BBC1, repeated at 7pm Sunday on BBC3.
And the opening episode is 65 minutes long!
Still clashes with my need to be in church by 7.15 on Holy Saturday to rehearse for the Vigil - will the vicar notice if one of his curates is 15 minutes late?
Looking forward to seeing how Matt and (the gorgeous) Amy take on the Tardis. Big sneakers to fill, Matt!
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Originally posted by Rev per Minute:
Still clashes with my need to be in church by 7.15 on Holy Saturday to rehearse for the Vigil - will the vicar notice if one of his curates is 15 minutes late?
Probably! Your vigil is later than ours. Despite the fact that it was still light last year we've stuck with the 7:30pm start time.
And the BBC 3 repeat is no use if I'm going to go to London that evening. But it'll be on I-player on the red button and my parents have Virgin+ so they'll record it. So maybe I will stay there on Saturday night and we can watch it after the Vigil and party!
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Originally posted by Ariel:
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Originally posted by Adeodatus:
and on the Radio Times site, the TARDIS's makeover has been revealed.
Oh dear. The new Doctor's going to be travelling through time and space in some kind of intergalactic cocktail bar.
I see what you mean, but it looks a bit too messy to be a cocktail bar. It looks a bit like the old one, with more glowing. I can't get any sense of scale from that either - it looks like everything's far too big, and the floor seems horribly uneven.
Maybe it'll look better in action.
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BBC iplayer is your friend!
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So is Sky+ HD!
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Originally posted by Adeodatus:
it's 6.20pm Saturday on BBC1, repeated at 7pm Sunday on BBC3.
Over here it doesn't appear until the 17th.
May we have a spoiler gap (or at least a warning in the title) at least until the new season gets started?
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Not sure about the colour scheme. Looks like a giant ladybird (maybe one of those South African ones who've been plaguing our lives in the UK recently?)
Is this new design permanent, I wonder? There was a Blue Peter competition to redesign the Tardis, but it implied the winning design would only be used in one episode. Maybe he plays about with various designs, like you do when you get a new computer.
I always feel that a new Doctor is a bit like a new vicar. Your first reaction is to harrumph because he isn't like the old one, and he isn't half as good. Then you start getting used to him and appreciating his own take on things.
Although 'my Doctor' will always be Tom Baker, I've found something to like about all of them (even Colin Baker, who's been allowed to develop the character properly in the audio stories).
I'm really looking forward to the new guy, and I suspect the youthful appearance will bring a very different dynamic. (Just imagine what would happen if he met a fully recovered Donna. 'Oi, Timeboy! You're grounded!'
Can't wait for Saturday night. Mr Smith, I need you...
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Very unsure about the new companion. I heard her interviewed and she came over as giggly and whiney, which is a big come down after the glory days of Martha Jones (surely the best new companion to date). On the other hand there is some interesting timey-wimey stuff coming up. The Radio Times season summary says of one episode: "It is now five years since Amy (new companion) first met the Doctor," which does sound intriguing.
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I hear the next doctor will be Bruce Forsyth?
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Originally posted by Robert Armin:
The Radio Times season summary says of one episode: "It is now five years since Amy (new companion) first met the Doctor," which does sound intriguing.
Have you seen the clips they're showing on the Freeview Red Button? I think they and a little extrapolation answer what's happening there. If I'm right we'll know within the first 5 mins of the episode.
I must admit I am quite excited about the new series. I hope I'm not falling prey to hype. I do thing Moffat was the most consistently good writer of the new-Whos (though as ever Paul Cornell gets my vote for Human Nature/Family of Blood as outright best) and Matt Smith seems intriguing in the clips I've seen.
After the disappointment that was the specials of last year I'm hoping for the best.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Unda Maris:
I hear the next doctor will be Bruce Forsyth?
Surely not.
(Could be fun though. "Ooh look, a new planet - nice to see it, to see it, nice!")
Best new companion so far - Wilf. He was brilliant.
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Originally posted by Robert Armin:
The Radio Times season summary says of one episode: "It is now five years since Amy (new companion) first met the Doctor," which does sound intriguing.
Have you seen the clips they're showing on the Freeview Red Button? I think they and a little extrapolation answer what's happening there. If I'm right we'll know within the first 5 mins of the episode.
Just realised that you said one episode rather than episode one - what I said probably doesn't apply then.
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Re: Amy and the Doctor. Steven Moffat has always been the most interesting writer when it comes to the timey-wimey stuff (Blink, Girl in the Fireplace) so I hope we're going to be getting lots more in the new series.
Moffat is a superb writer generally. His dialogue glitters. I just hope he's got enough of it in him now that he's Lord High Writer of Scripts, or whatever his title is. He recently enthused about the new Doctor being "mad", which sounds fun.
Shall we, for basso et al., try to pursue our previous custom of having
Spoiler alert
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"Sshh! Spoilers!"
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Originally posted by Robert Armin:
Very unsure about the new companion. I heard her interviewed and she came over as giggly and whiney (snip)
So did Catherine Tate on several programmes I've seen her on (Buzzcocks for a start). She came across as a complete airhead, which she obviously isn't, and neither was Donna.
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Blink
In all my years Doctor watching, that episode is the only one to give me nightmares. I will never look at statues the same way.
I'll have to wait for Netflix to catch up. I'm not adding $25 to my cable bill just to get BBC America. Even for the Doctor.
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Originally posted by Unda Maris:
I hear the next doctor will be Bruce Forsyth?
No, the doctors are getting younger at such a rate that the next one will be in utero.
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Originally posted by Esmeralda:
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Originally posted by Unda Maris:
I hear the next doctor will be Bruce Forsyth?
No, the doctors are getting younger at such a rate that the next one will be in utero.
That raises the question - where would he fit the Tardis? ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif) Or could he control it through the placenta and his mother? Pre-natal Time Lord behaviour: a Gallifreyan PhD thesis, perhaps that's how he came to be a Doctor?
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Originally posted by Esmeralda:
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Originally posted by Unda Maris:
I hear the next doctor will be Bruce Forsyth?
No, the doctors are getting younger at such a rate that the next one will be in utero.
[engage nerd mode]
There's been a gradual trend to getting younger, but it's not a linear trend. Ages at which the actor has first appeared on tv as the Doctor (for most, that means the regeneration scene from their predecessor) are:
55, 46, 50, 40, 29, 41, 44, 36, 41, 34, 27.
[disengage nerd mode]
I think some people imagine William Hartnell was a lot older than he actually was when he first took on the role. Folklore has it that there was a lot of disgruntled mumbling among some fans when "young" Tom Baker took over the role, and again when Peter Davison took over.
Regardless of their actual age, some of the actors have been able to communicate by their manner that the Doctor is centuries old - Tom Baker and, to a lesser extent, Sylvester McCoy spring to my mind. Who knows what Matt Smith will manage to do?
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Folklore has it that there was a lot of disgruntled mumbling among some fans when "young" Tom Baker took over the role, and again when Peter Davison took over.
I was certainly disgruntled when Tom Baker took over, but Peter Davison was delightful. Even if he did get lumbered with the appalling Peri and Adric and some dodgy plotlines.
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I'm really looking forward to seeing what Steven Moffat does with the show. I really enjoyed Russell T Davies' stint on the show, but I felt that it became a bit self-indulgent and repeated the same ideas to somewhat diminishing returns in the last couple of years.
I'm particularly excited by comments from Moffat and Matt Smith in interviews that the new series is intricately plotted, in a way that rewards careful attention and viewing. RTD's strength were big moments of drama and emotion, with plot and logic sometimes lagging a long way behind - his stories are exciting at the time, but sometimes fall apart on further scrutiny. Whereas Moffat's scripts are still dramatic, funny, scary and so on, but also with a lot more logic and cleverness to them.
I'm also intrigued by the notion that they're shifting the tone more in the direction of "dark fairytale". Doctor Who has always been quite fairytale, but I think it will make a nice change on the bright and brash, urban and contemporary style of the RTD years to play up the fairytale aspects of the show.
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Well... He's certainly different from Tennant.... Has potential. She seems not too bad, although I hope it doesn't go down the Rose route. Nice twist at the end.
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It's not often that I sit there feeling bored by an episode of Doctor Who but that was a silly, unimpressive start to the new series. An over-long episode that either limped or went at a frenetic pace. I hope it improves, because it's verging on the unwatchable.
Matt Smith was better than I expected, and may do justice to the role once he settles into it, but I found Amy/Amelia hard to like.
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Well I liked:
- the inserts of the old Doctors.
- the new interior of the TARDIS. Loved the typewriter!
- the dialogue (but see below)
I didn't like:
- the theme tune and titles. What happened to the oooo-eeeee-ooooo?
- Matt Smith. I kept thinking that DT would have delivered the lines much better. Particularly the comic ones. Some of the dialogue was great (e.g. the 'aunt' line) but Matt Smith didn't seem to have the comic timing to carry them off.
- There seemed rather too much innuendo (kissogram; chap looking at dodgy internet sites; Amy seeing the Doctor strip) for a children's show.
Overall, I hope it gets better!
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well I thoroughly enjoyed that and feel that Doctor who is safe hands with Stephen Moffat at the Helm.
First episodes are always tricky when the doctor has just regenerated but I loved the zooming camera giving an insight into the doctor's mind and the way he takes in and processes information. The telling off of the eye cops was also awesome, referencing past villains and incarnations.
Looking forward to where we'll be going over the next season!
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Well I loved it, I think Matt Smith is going to be brilliant as the Doctor. It took about two minutes for me to realise, yes, he IS the Doctor! Just perfect. He's got the same immediate confidence that David Tennant had.
Liked the opening - poor old Big Ben nearly gets it again!
Pretty alien spaceships, and I loved the ending - the Doctor more or less telling off the aliens like naughty kids.
Nice new interior for the Tardis.
Good to see Annette Crosbie as Amy's grandma. And Patrick Moore getting a cameo, great!
I did think though that the Doctor's first meeting with Amy and subsequent meetings, was a little bit similar to Girl in the Fireplace?
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I have been awaiting the 2010 series of Doctor Who with eagerness. It was one of my favourite programs as a child, and I very quickly became a fan of the revamped series. I have mixed feelings about Russell T Davies. It is wonderful that he put the Doctor back on the telly, and as a writer he was superb at developing character and emotion. I hope this is his legacy to the show. However, I found that his approach to science fiction sometimes grated with me. He seemed to have a love for the spectacular that did not always fit well with the show. For me, some of the appeal of Doctor Who lies in its quirkiness, and some of RTD's episodes were a bit too much like space opera for my taste. Don't get me wrong - I think Star Wars is great fun, but it doesn't fit well in a Doctor Who universe. (Having bashed RTD's writing, I should point out that one of his stories - "Midnight" - is one of my favourites of the new Doctor Who.)
One writer who seemed to grasp what made the old series tick was Steven Moffat. He was one of the most consistently good writers for the new series. His science fiction ideas seem refeshingly original. Also, to me he "explores a story" rather than trying to dazzle you. I appreciate that. So I was optimistic about the future of Doctor Who under his stewardship.
I have also been optimistic about the choice of Matt Smith for the role of the Doctor. I get the impression that Smith really understands the Doctor's character. According to Smith, the Doctor doesn't see himself as a swashbuckling adventurer. Rather he sees himself as a really clever bloke on his way to a museum or a concert, off to somewhere where he can show off. He just keeps on getting distracted by monsters. I think this nails the Doctor's character on the head.
But now the first episode has been aired, has my optimism been rewarded? I think, on the whole, yes. Moffat has written a solid first episode, that does an excellent job of starting the relationship between the new Doctor and the new companion. The eccentricity of the Doctor is wonderfully portrayed. I almost want to try fish fingers and custard now. But what I loved was the way Amy's character was developed. Imagine being given the chance, as an adult, to live in your childhood fantasies. Who wouldn't take it? I also enjoyed the way their relationship rogressed. Rather than use an easy human-meets-alien-danger, Doctor-defeats-alien then impressed-human-decides-to-travel-with-Doctor plot, Moffat tells a tale of promises not kept and resentment created. It was this tension that really drove the episode for me.
The villain/monster was fairly standard Doctor Who fare. There were shades of RTD with the world-in-peril plot (and boy, does the Doctor know how to hack his way into every corner of the internet). However, I found this no problem. This episode is really about introducing the Doctor and his new companion to each other. Anything other than a standard Doctor Who monster would probably have been a distraction from this. So the need for the first episode to set the key relationship up does mean that some orginality had to be sacrificed. Also, it does mean that the episode only works as a set-up for the new season.
How about the acting? Both Matt Smith and Karen Gillan did well, I thought. Smith brought charisma to the role, and was able to make the most of some of the Doctor's eccentricities. I look forward to seing how he develops the character.
All in all, I like this episode because it promises that this new season will be worth watching. Moffat has learned well from RTD. He has retained the exploration of emotions that RTD introduced. If he adds some of his science-fiction magic to the rest of the series, I will be one happy viewer. Moffat has said that he sees Doctor Who as a dark fairytale, and so far the results look promising. Moffat's tale of a bumbling wizard who inadvertantly broke a child's heart has made me want to hear more. I will tune in again next week.
Score: 7/10. By its very nature it's a humble tale, but Moffat does as well as anyone could with it. A solid start to the new season.
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I didn't like:
- the theme tune and titles. What happened to the oooo-eeeee-ooooo?
Yes, that was an integral part of it. IMO.
I dunno, the whole thing didn't really feel like Doctor Who, more like a sort of not particularly successful alternative version of it. Still, nice to see the stone angels will be back - I wonder if someone moved them!
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I really, really loved it! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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I thought it was very promising, and had no pangs of regret for the loss of DT. Matt Smith reminded me of the earliest Who incarnations, and makes a credible Doctor.
Amy seems a lively sort of girl, and I have no problems with her as the companion - as long as she doesn't start mooning over The Doctor.
I did wince a bit at the start, when I realised that Amelia was praying to Santa.
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Meh, I'm not *quite* sure about some things. It went a bit 'monster of the day' towards the end, with yet another batch of spaceships hovering over London or Cardiff and the Doctor playing God in a manner more suited to Gandalf than, Jon Pertwee.
Sidekick not bad and I liked seeing herself from Peep Show up to know good. Oh, yes, and hooray for Sir Patrick and Mrs Meldrew.
Do I like the Mr Smith? No, not immediately, I don't. But early days - let's see him bed in...
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I can't help thinking he looks a bit like Damian Thompson - it's a bit disturbing!
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I agree with Badger Lady and I don't like the new music. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif) Why they feel the need to mess about with the theme every season is beyond me.
However, the new Doctor seems fairly personable. He does look very young, but then 'my' Doctor was Patrick Troughton, so a lot of things are starting to look very young!!
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Well I enjoyed it, apart from the new theme tune. Clearly things are being set up for the finale already - the monster taunting the Doctor with not knowing what was causing the cracks was effective. And I can only presume that the references to "the Silence" means that the universe is in danger of being overrun by Cistercian monks.
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I liked pretty much everything except the actual story! And the new theme tune. For me there were too many references to other stories going on for it to be really engaging. The stand-off between the Doctor and Prisoner Zero in the hospital was too much like Smith and Jones, and the Doctor scaring the alien away just because he's the Doctor was (a) too much like Forest of the Dead and (b) a very bad idea anyway. I really, really hope we don't see it again.
However, Matt Smith was fantastic, and so was Karen Gillan. Some of the one-liners were very good indeed ("You're Scottish - fry something." "I'm the Doctor, I'm worse than everybody's aunt." "Who da man?! ... Hm. Not going to say that again.").
Nice to see it set in a charming Gloucestershire village (filmed in Llandaff, horribly mispronounced by the narrator on Confidential - more phlegm, dear, more phlegm) instead of London or Cardiff.
All in all, good fun. Doctors' first stories are rarely among my favourites (not since Spearhead from Space anyway!), and this was okay story-wise and a chance for the new cast, crew (and TARDIS) to glitter a bit before really getting down to business.
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I liked it very much apart from the new theme tune. I don't particularly find Amy a sympathetic character yet but with the plot one can understand why she's prickly. And as Mr D said, Donna was very unpleasant to begin with and I got to like her very much.
I really felt Matt Smith fitted the Doctor's shoes well and I think he will do me very nicely. (As a Doctor. For anything else my heart still belongs to DT!! ![[Biased]](wink.gif) )
All in all I thought it was most acceptable - and it had a definite Moffat-esqueness with the fearing what you see "from the corner of your eye".
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Wet Kipper
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Do I like the Mr Smith? No, not immediately, I don't. But early days - let's see him bed in...
for a minute there, I though you had put the last 2 words the other way round ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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"not filmed in Cardiff, filmed in Llandaff"?
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Last time I was there Llandaff was IN Cardiff.
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Jahlove
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Enjoyed it. Watching again right now. However, atm, Matt Smith is delivering the lines EXACTLY as David Tennant would - hope he develops his own style as it goes on.
The episode trailer for the new series looks GREAT!
At least the theme tune is still recognizably *Diddly-Dum, Diddly-Dum, Whoooooo-Whooooooo*
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I did enjoy it.
The thing was so beautifully done. I Love the way the garden was filmed at the very beginning of the episode: all those dark shades; it's little touches like this that make the revived series so watchable I find. The visual flashback from the point of view of the Dr. And Matt Smith was excellent in the part. I hope it will be a great success.
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Originally posted by Jahlove:
The episode trailer for the new series looks GREAT!
Except it had Daleks and Cybermen in it. They really need to give them a rest - Daleks for a year or two and Cybermen (along with the Master) for a lot longer than that. Lets have some new enemies for a change.
And the Awful Warnings ar e far too similar to the last few series. I hope they turn out to be empty threats, Macguffins at most, and the real plot turns out not to be about some Dark Magic from the Beginning of Time threatening the Existence of the Universe As We Know It. RTD did enough of those.
Though it was quite fun ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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The best episodes, like the stone angels and Midnight, tend to be outside the story arc.
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Dafyd
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You know what was missing? Nobody got killed that we know of. There were a couple of times when the monster snarled threateningly at people, but it didn't actually ever do anything except change shape. And if the Doctor is yelling 'don't go in the room, don't look straight at the monster', it's a bit of a let down if all the monster then does is hiss a bit and then let the human run back out of the room.
It may have killed the doctor (small 'd') when it came out of the air vent, but it would seem more likely that it just put her into a coma.
If the monster had tried to pull a sympathy ploy when confronted instead of going all evil villain and twirling its metaphorical moustache I think we'd have been persuaded. Putting people in comas is bad, but not compared to blowing up an entire planet.
Otherwise, as said, Doctor promising, assistant not quite a proper character just yet, theme tune thumbs down.
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I think the new doctor will be a success. While I didn't like his face, his acting was very Doctor-like. I loved the new companion. Think the story with her upcoming marriage might unfold nicely. Didn't notice the theme song changed. Enjoyed the fact the episode was long. It had some moments that could have been made really scary, but I guess they chose not to make it too dark. Did enjoy though the mystery around "Prisoner Zero" at the first half. The scenes from the upcoming episodes look interesting.
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I liked it a lot, although I'm with Ken on daleks, cybermen and Big Warnings (also, I think we've had the assistant-gets-whisked-away-from-wedding scenario a bit too recently for a revival).
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