September 27th, 2014
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The terrifying Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity – but worse, and any second now, Danny Pink and the Doctor are going to meet.
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TS
September 28th, 2014 - 1:48pmI have to agree with you, and you said things more eloquently than I did.
Yes the jokes are becoming very lame and over used. Capaldi for me isn’t ‘the doctor’ and I also think its the worst ever (second worst is listen).
The old doctor who was REAL entertainment, I have gone off clara too, probably too much focus on her.
And yes – the plot holes are getting too numerous to keep track of now.
I am off to watch some early drwho!
lepter
September 28th, 2014 - 1:46pmThen moffat needs to quit. It isnt the clara show.
Inferno
September 28th, 2014 - 1:43pmI think Capaldi is great, but the stories just aren’t ‘Who’ to me. The more I see of modern Who (and this started about during Tennant’s tenure) the more I watch Classic Who on DVD – my small collection is steadily growing! I miss four- six- and even ten-episode stories with their cliffhangers, maybe Moffatt should look at his old DVD collection and see what turned him onto Who in the first place…
lepter
September 28th, 2014 - 1:31pmwas this a lost script for an episode of sarah jane adventures? Didnt feel like dr who. clara instead of sarah. not as bad as listen….(that was for me the worst episode EVER of dr who! Not kidding).
Capaldi has no warmth about him. Not coming accross as likable in any way. Is the doctor going senile? The PE teacher joke got old VERY quickly. Concidering this is supposed to be a guy who has the collective memory of 12 lifetimes….does ne REALLY have no idea about human interaction. Monster….LAME. Pointless. Why was it there? How did no one see a mechanical robot walking down the street? No police turning up at the school after all the explosions? What about the other teachers and parents? Why didnt they look to see what all the explosions were about? Plot holes. Hate em. Love dr who. Last weeks was good….into the dalek was great….this weeks….well…whats on next week. Looks better.
Watch ARK IN SPACE or ROBOTS OF DEATH. Thats dr who. Not this.
TS
September 28th, 2014 - 1:24pmWhat did we learn from this episode of the ‘once great but rapidly going down the drain’ doctor who series?
Well, first that peter capaldi is not right as the doctor, he just doesnt sit right and that accent is way over the top – another scottish time lord from gallifrey, but this time with an even stronger accent? hmmmm.
I have only just recovered from a doctor with a northern england accent, luckily though ‘rose tyler’ saved the day by upstaging him at every turn and helping to distract us from that.
But secondly though and perhaps most importantly, that its ok for a guy (mr pink) to act like total ass, be ignorant,arrogant, selfish,childish,and totally unreasonable, because the script writers will turn you into a super hero who manages to perform an acrobatic feat worthy of a top olympian athlete and then save the world, and get the pretty girl.
Clearly this ‘mr pink’ is a total creep, with a chip on his shoulder large enough to start his own take-away business and stock it for a year.Why they try to make him look like an all round good guy is beyond me, and why is ‘clara’ even remotely interested in him?
That for me, is the worst episode in the history of the program, and i have watched it from a child in 1963 (and yes that even incudes the Sylvester McCoy ones)
OK the special effects were quite good, but so they should be these days with the expert technicians and the vast resources of the BBC!
The ‘final nail in the coffin’ for me is the dreadful new opening credits and the way they have destroyed the once brilliant theme tune, after so many ‘improvements’ they finally got it as near perfect as is likely to be – then they trash it – why oh why did they do that?
I guess i could live with that if it was even one tenth as good as the old series were, sadly those days are long gone. What i really need is a time machine to go back to those days …. and STAY THERE.
The Doctor Wolf
September 28th, 2014 - 1:20pmPretty good ep!
Enjoyed the character development, and the monster was cool
However, we needed more monster screen time!
I don’t mind Clara leading so much anymore, since, although it’s wrong, Moffat has admitted she’s the lead this series, so I expect it
On another note, great flip from Danny! – WOW!
The Surgeon
September 28th, 2014 - 12:46pmMy God, I hate Clara!
I’m finding it difficult to like Capaldi because he gets less screen time than Clara! I loved Time Heist because Clara wasn’t a major part of the episode. I despised Listen and Robot of Sherwood for the exact opposite reason. She was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too central a character.
The purpose of the companion is to make the Doctor look clever and ask him the questions the audience would. Moffat doesn’t get that. He uses Clara as the clever one, the Doctor as the sidekick and Danny/Rory as the companion.
Gareth came unstuck at the same point he did in The Lodger and Closing Time. The monster was a side-effect of love. Craig + Sophie, Craig + Stormageddon, Clara + Danny. In The Lodger the Autopilot Avatar was pathetic, in Closing Time the Cybermen were insulted (although I loved the Cybermats) and in this… What was its name again?
Anonymous
September 28th, 2014 - 12:39pm1. Time Heist
2. Deep Breath
3. The Caretaker
4. Listen
5. Into the Dalek
6. Robot of Sherwood
the astronaut of death
September 28th, 2014 - 12:16pmI agree gavin
the astronaut of death
September 28th, 2014 - 12:15pmI thought it was amazing that canon shooting what amazing
Nigel M
September 28th, 2014 - 12:12pmTerrible episode, again. Why put so much effort into creating a new alien then only have it on screen for 5 minutes ? I wish they would stop the Clara-Danny relationship nonsense, if I wanted to watch that sort of thing I’d tune in to Eastenders. Oh and no more kids in the Tardis please, I had enough of that in Nightmare in Silver.
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
September 28th, 2014 - 11:56amDOCTOR WHO ONE Martha was great!
47
September 28th, 2014 - 11:27amI enjoyed the main plots of Listen and Time Heist, and Peter Capaldi, but not the romantic comedy stuff of Oswald/Pink which has been as bad as “The Ponds”, coupled with the awful “comedic” banter that has littered the series so far, it is just not my cup of tea – in any genre, so I really wasn’t looking forward to this episode. However, it was o’k, the scenes with Pink and the Doctor were fairly mature and fleshed out the characters some more, and moves them forward. I hope, now, the series can now move past all that and for more weight, gravity and authority to be allowed to come through in the next episodes and some drama to boot. Looking forward to next weeks show !!
Big D
September 28th, 2014 - 10:46amActually, I quite enjoyed this. Quite entertaining in parts, though, (and ive said this so often Ive become boring), it really does need to start making the Doctor the focus of attention.
Last night felt very rushed and that was largely due to the amount of time given over to Clara and Danny. Doctor Who has become a soap opera.
The episode needed more time spent on the threat of the Skovox Blitzer (sounds like something from Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy) and the Doctor overcoming it.
Peter Capaldi has so much potential its a shame he’s not being allowed to realise it.
When the episode did allow the Doctor to shine it picked up and showed great promise.
As so many others have done heres my list of favourites so far :
1. Time Heist
2. The Caretaker
3. Into The Dalek
4. Deep Breath / Listen
6. Crapbot of Sherwood
Ian
September 28th, 2014 - 9:26amI think what people expect from a Dr Who story is changing. The Doctor as the main star is fading into the past.
When humans prove to be as intelligent as the Doctor then something is wrong.
Lets wait and see what the rest of the season brings. Maybe the next episode will have a plot.
booboo
September 28th, 2014 - 9:22amI dont have to define anything, its right above you, you only have to look at the poll
Ian
September 28th, 2014 - 9:17amDefine vast majority.
This really was complete rubbish.
Another episode of Clara guest starring the Doctor.
booboo
September 28th, 2014 - 9:15amwhy would they do that for an episode the vast majority of people enjoyed
Ian
September 28th, 2014 - 9:06amAdric and Clara are both as annoying. And we know what happened to Adric 🙂
Lets hope the Cybermen can help out with this in the season finale….
Ian
September 28th, 2014 - 9:04amNo you’re not.
This episode was complete tosh. Can anyone wipe the master tape???
Ian
September 28th, 2014 - 9:00amIf Clara would just shut up maybe the Doctor could develop – but we all know that’s never gonna happen.
DOCTOR WHO ONE
September 28th, 2014 - 9:00amYou think Clara is irritating, you should see how annoying old companions Adric, Mel and Martha are.
Ian
September 28th, 2014 - 8:59amFunny comment.
Oh wait – you were serious….
Ian
September 28th, 2014 - 8:58amThe Clara plotline is better suited to Emmerdale or Coronation Street.
Get it out of Doctor Who, it’s dragging an otherwise brilliant season down very quickly.
Ian
September 28th, 2014 - 8:56amWorst villain since the Krotons.
Ian
September 28th, 2014 - 8:55amTerrible.
Another Clara led episode. The Doctor is constantly smothered by Clara and just once wish it was the other way around….. figuratively speaking. I think.
Just once it would be nice for the Doctor to be the main point of attention in his own programme.
My god Clara is irritating!
On another note, anyone else feel like the Doctor was out of character? It was almost like Peter Capaldi in a Matt Smith episode. It just wasn’t right.
Andrew
September 28th, 2014 - 8:35amNow that was more like it. Just entertaining. No complex subplots that require a degree in algebra and psychology to follow it.
Peter Calpaldi’s more aggressive and less friendly take on the Doctor was perfectly suited to this episode.
A little too much of Clara’s love life, but I think this is showing us the way her path of life will go in due course.
Perhaps the ‘disruptive influence’ kid, Courtney Woods, will return as an adult in the near future (similar to Amy Pond)
DOCTOR WHO ONE
September 28th, 2014 - 8:09amIs it just me, or has the Police Box exterior of the Tardis gone thinner ?.
Normally, since 2005 when Doctor Who returned, the Tardis looks wider and tougher looking, but in last nights episode, it looked as it she’d gone thinner in appearance on the outside.
Nate of the North
September 28th, 2014 - 3:31amDid anyone notice the similarities between this episode where they were explaining the doctor and the tardis to Danny and the first very first Dr Who episode “An Unearthly Child”? The Dr is the father (unearthly child the Dr was a grandfather) and the whole teacher discovering the tardis? If it was intentional, it was awesome!
Ed G.
September 28th, 2014 - 3:30amInteresting. If I’m to believe the visual effect shown in one scene, Mr. Pink, the math teacher, is not who he says he is.