Disco Stu 15,495 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 I think "Sleep No More" supplanted "Fear Her" as my pick for worst nu-Who episode actually. Truly terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Help! What happened in that one? Don't bother; I wiki'd it. Oh, dear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Haha, exactly my point! Utterly forgettable! And it aired less than a year ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 9 minutes ago, Richard said: Agreed. "Fear Her" stereotypes men in every one-sided, horrible way. Unforgivable. I expect more from DW. Didn't that story have Mrs. Figgis? Fear Her is one of the few things I've ever seen on TV that actually pissed me off. I found it personally insulting. Like whoever wrote it knocked on my door in the middle of the night, spilled my pint, told me he fucked my mum and then mooned me! Sleep No More is just utterly forgettable, I actually had to google it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 I was and am pissed off at how mediocre it is because it's the one blemish on Series 9, one of the great seasons of this show IMO. It was sandwiched between "The Zygon Inversion" and "Face the Raven," two episodes I adored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Series 9 was just ok, like series 8. We need a new showrunner, someone who can just tell a story without endless plot twists for the sake of plot twists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 There are only three episodes of Season 9 I would describe as anything other than great. The opening two parter and "Sleep No More." Magician's Apprentice/Witch's Familiar wasn't bad by any means, just short of greatness. If only the rest of the story was as good as the scenes with just the Doctor and Davros talking. Also, I want a spinoff mashup TV show where Davros and Davos Seaworth share an apartment in Davos, Switzerland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 I guess you have lower standards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Or you have bad taste! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Steef? Bad taste? Pish posh, and fiddle dee dee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Season 9 is finally available for free viewing on Amazon Prime. YES! I will head dive into it after I wrap up my currently binge show. I will finally be caught up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 (sighs, and shakes head, sadly) season 35. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Give up, Richard. You will never win this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 I'm begining to think you are right. As long as people watch the show... DOCTOR WHO: THE NEXT REGENERATION? NEW, NEW, NEW, NEW, NEW DOCTOR WHO? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 But where's the soundtrack release? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Now, that's a question. Reynold de Silva might know the answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 1 hour ago, Richard said: (sighs, and shakes head, sadly) season 35. Am I wrong in thinking that Who re-launch adopted the "season" name since it is not in a serial format like it used to be? Perhaps you can call it Season 9 Series 35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 All this "season" nonsense, is a recent americanism. You could say "they redecorated". Hmm. I don't like it. There's nowt wrong with "series". Until TTOATL, DW was not a serial. Yes, it has reccuring themes and characters, but it does not warrant the title of "serial". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,352 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 I'd agree Sleep No More was iffy Gatiss, but I'm afraid I pretty much like-to-love all his others. Good to see love for The Crimson Horror, it's absolutely brilliant . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 907 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 9 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said: But where's the soundtrack release? Nothing to report on that, but every now and then I Google "Murray Gold" and "Doctor Who" and explore the news items. I haven't come across any reference to a soundtrack for the latest series, but I sometimes come across interesting article. Here's an interview from July: http://observer.com/2016/07/murray-gold-doctor-whos-constant-companion/ Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 All that music for DW, and the best thing he's ever written is the main title for SHAMELESS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 8 hours ago, pete said: Nothing to report on that, but every now and then I Google "Murray Gold" and "Doctor Who" and explore the news items. I haven't come across any reference to a soundtrack for the latest series, but I sometimes come across interesting article. Here's an interview from July: http://observer.com/2016/07/murray-gold-doctor-whos-constant-companion/ Article looks really interesting, but that site refuses to let me read the whole thing. Instead, it keeps opening nonsense advert sites on my phone after about a minute or so. Very annoying! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Welcome to the 21st century, Pieter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 3 minutes ago, Richard said: Welcome to the 21st century, Pieter! Coming from someone who didnt have an avatar till 2 weeks ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Pish posh! I've had it for quite a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 12 hours ago, Richard said: Welcome to the 21st century, Pieter! I liked the 17th.... Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 13 hours ago, Stefancos said: Coming from someone who didnt have an avatar till 2 weeks ago! Refresh your browser. Richard has had an avatar for at least a year or so. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 13 hours ago, Pieter_Boelen said: Article looks really interesting, but that site refuses to let me read the whole thing. Instead, it keeps opening nonsense advert sites on my phone after about a minute or so. Very annoying! Anyway, using my computer now instead of my phone, I was able to read it fine. Thanks for posting it, @pete! Naïve Old Fart and pete 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 8 hours ago, WojinPA said: Refresh your browser. Richard has had an avatar for at least a year or so. Thank you, Woj. OK, so it wasn't me who set it up, but I do have one now, and a fine avatar, it is, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 I bought some Doctor Who coasters off of Etsy. They should be arriving this week. Never used the site before, so I'm hoping the quality doesn't suck, but the designs were cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 4 hours ago, nightscape94 said: I bought some Doctor Who coasters off of Etsy. They should be arriving this week. Never used the site before, so I'm hoping the quality doesn't suck, but the designs were cool. Pictures, when you get them, if you please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 Pictures when he gets them? Richard, he could just link to the Etsy listing right now instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 I prefer the personal touch. Besides, what coasters nightie buys, reveals what sort of a man he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 It was these. I think they're being delivered tomorrow. I will post with a fresh pic, complete with beverage, once they are in my possession. Naïve Old Fart and Pieter Boelen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Nice Now...go find the Pertwee comic-strip chocolate wrappers circa 1973. ...and DOCTOR WHO AND THE PESCATONS, while you're about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,352 Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Been watching Pertwee's The Curse Of Peladon recently ... excellent fight at the end of Episode 3, in a far more convincing 'pit' set than I was expecting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 CURSE... is better than MONSTER... but both have Alpha Centauri, who is brilliant! Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,352 Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 The bit where the Doctor explains to Jo that Alpha Centauri is hermaphrodite is quietly extraordinary, in a way ... it's something that I doubt you'd have found in a post-watershed drama in 1972, never mind a Saturday teatime family-viewing one. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 That's why DOCTOR WHO is one of the most progressive telly programmes, ever made...and the best SF show of all time! Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 Started up season (Richard, please be kind) 9, first episode. Aside from the weird guitar playing thing it was pretty solid. Admittedly I'm getting a bit tired of the Missy character, wish they wouldn't have used her again so soon after the finale from the previous year. Figured they would have left that a mystery for a while. Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,511 Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 Re: Missy: David Suchet is on his way, and if he is who I think he is, normality will be restored. Don't worry about "Season 9". Call it what you want. The important thing is that people are watching it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 Just finished episode 5, 'The Girl Who Died'. I'm no longer in the habit of consistently remarking on my progress in the series, but I have to say this was a strange one. For 90% of it, it was grade C level Doctor Who, and then the last 10 minutes felt suddenly much more important and weighty. As a side note, nice music cue at the end along with a cool 360 shot to close it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 It was an OK episode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 It was an OK episode that works well for the season arc. And I've become a fan of Maisie Williams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 'Face the Raven' Well, shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Okay, so season 9 wrap-up. It felt quick, but that's most likely a result of having so many two-parters. The whole thing just flew by. Aside from "Sleep No More" everything else either had a direct sequel or had direct connective tissue with the next episode, ending the whole affair with what is essentially a three-parter. I also watched it over two days, so that didn't help! The finale "Hell Bent" was everything I've come to expect from Moffat. It's a good episode, if a bit sloppy at times, and a tad incoherent with certain pieces of story, but I was certainly glad to see Clara come back and get a proper send-off (my second favorite companion). I'll miss her interacting with Capaldi's Doctor; they're perfect together and could have watched endless seasons with these two. Moffat has been building up the return of Gallifrey so long that it was odd to see him fumble with it at the end, spoiling this huge moment by simply having the Doctor use his home planet for their technology in order to steal Clara back from the brink of death and then run off again. However, it did seem that he and Clara had a very emotional bond, one I haven't seen between the Doctor and a companion since Rose/Ten. So I guess I can mostly buy his single-mindedness in his mission to save her while disregarding his kinship with, and hurrying his reintroduction to, Gallifrey. In a lot of ways, his relationship with Clara was one of the strongest and honest I've seen on the show, and his dedication to her was astonishing. The very last moments before his memory of her fades were hard to watch. Great acting all around. I have the Christmas special and then I'm all caught up. I may go back and watch some of the "Classic" Who. Pieter Boelen and Bofur01 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,352 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 I would have preferred Clara's death to have 'stuck' ,,, it had a simple, moving resonance in Face The Raven. But no, she's off bouncing round the universe with Arya Stark in a Tardis that looks like a diner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 18 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said: she's off bouncing round the universe with Arya Stark in a Tardis that looks like a diner. You say this like it's a negative, when that development had me grinning ear to ear! Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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