April 27th, 2013
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What Did You Think of Journey / Centre of the Tardis?
Doctor Who Journey to the Centre of the Tardis
The Tardis is captured by a spaceship salvage team, sending its systems into meltdown.
As the Doctor introduces himself to the motley crew of galactic rag-and-bone men, he realises Clara is still trapped within his malfunctioning ship, so he persuades his new acquaintances to help find his companion, taking them deep into the heart of his beloved blue box.
But their hopes of a straightforward rescue are dashed when it turns out Clara is not the only one down there. Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman star, with Ashley Walters (Inside Men).
Now that the 5th episode of series 7b has aired in the UK what did you think?, was it the best episode ever or just average.
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RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
April 28th, 2013 - 2:55pmthinking about it more, clara almost built a large part of the story, as she brought in the monsters. You have to look at every story now was:
SM started Clara, so how many writers are going to use that, and for how much of their story?
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
April 28th, 2013 - 2:35pmit was the one i expected it exactly to be, although the TARDS limelight was stolen by Clara’s story.
outnumbered
April 28th, 2013 - 2:34pmI HATED THIS EP
it was bad and confusing out with the good and in with the bad should be dr who new catchphase
outnumbered
April 28th, 2013 - 2:33pmjames I AGREE WITH THIS
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
April 28th, 2013 - 1:15pmit was really good! the doc and clara were great, and i guessed halfway through those things were clara. i don’t know why he would collect dead companions but oh well. nice how they found out more about each other, along with the baalen brothers. a well written episode. it’s one of the only ones that i’ve liked by watching it once.
matfav
April 28th, 2013 - 11:33amAll in all an okay episode, however, no progression of clara’s mystery or personality. She is very plastic and look like she is only a pretty face, come on writers get with the program.
I hate how again it is saved and wrapped up in the last minute, I feel robbed of an intelligent ending. On intelligence, I feel the script was over cerebral, confusing and too easily treated the audience as morons, again writers, “we can think and work things out for ourselves.” Leave a little mystery and stop wrapping it up in a bow!
As for the Doctor, you would think he knew the Tardis better. All boils down to the writing and knowing the who universe.
Look the actors do a stellar job. The writing has to treat the audience as intelligent otherwise it fails.
TnTKid
April 28th, 2013 - 11:19ami wish we saw more of the swimmig pool and the libary but over all fantastic episode
Richard Cave
April 28th, 2013 - 11:01amUpdate:
If all the Time Lords were destroyed why bother writing a book on the Time War?
Who is left to read it?
cyberman2
April 28th, 2013 - 10:59amps clara will have died from being near the eye too long but the doctor and the brothers would have died if they did the same pose as the zombies. the zombie with its hand over its face is the doctor, if his hand touched his face time will catch up with him and he would have turned but he stopped himself but the brothers are the zombies that are melted together and they touched each over when saving one of them so time caught up with them. hope this helps
Richard Cave
April 28th, 2013 - 10:59amThis was a a very weak episode, I have a suspicion that this was a budget episode, where its based in three sets using a lot of stuff from previous episodes redesigned. Also the corridors around the tardis were not very well designed, have you seen Gallifrean headress. The whole timey wimey thing was annoying, the mechanical replication room was good visually. Clara is annoying, far too clever and her Mary Poppins nature is grating. The libary was done on the cheap from a back to back shoot. This episode was a let down. As for the three brothers hated them to bits, cruel and nasty characters hoping for a extremely painful demise to them. I was bored on this episode and there is a danger of Americanisation, the script was not very good.
Cold war was good, as was Bells of St john, and The Cold War was good. These back to back episodes done on the cheap let the show down. Upside is that the money saved on this episode hopefully gets used on another episode.
BBC not your best!
the eternal doctor
April 28th, 2013 - 10:58amyes my mum to my mum also finds her voice annoying
the astronaut of death
April 28th, 2013 - 10:34ammy mum used to not mind doctor who. but ever since Clara joined she hates the fact that it is all revolved around her
cyberman2
April 28th, 2013 - 10:29amone of the brothers were not killed by the eye of harmony but by a time zombie. if you’re touched too long by one of them (by the way they are as hot as the eye) then you turn into one of them
Doctor Stu
April 28th, 2013 - 9:36amI agree, my family and I all used to gather around the TV on Saturdays but now it’s a case of just recording it and watching it later. (I still haven’t seen all of hide) which is the longest I’ve gone without watching Doctor Who. I’m just not as exited for Doctor Who anymore. We need dark, thrilling adventurous episodes and not short, rushed, childish love stories.
Anonymous
April 28th, 2013 - 9:10amthe power of three and the snowmen were great but asylum of the daleks and the rings of akhaten were rubish
DOCTOR WHO ONE
April 28th, 2013 - 8:21amOk cool, thanks 😉
James
April 28th, 2013 - 7:51amStill waiting for this half season to FEEL like Dr Who.
The whole “why does Clara keep dying?” mystery leaves me cold…. I just don’t care. I hope they manage to pull a rabbit out of the hat with this story arc but so far I think Dr Who has jumped the shark. I have trouble staying awake to watch lately.
The writing has gone from clever, witty and intelligent in previous seasons to banal, asinine and (dare I say it?) Americanised. Have the writers ‘dumbed down’ the good Doctor for the masses?
Maybe it’s just that I’m not a big Matt Smith fan… Amy, Rory and River were all that saved him IMO They had all the clever lines while The Doctor was left looking a bit of a simpleton.
Matt Smithy
April 28th, 2013 - 7:49amhere is why they were on the TARDIS
SPOILERS FOR THE EPISODE:
The monsters were the doctor, Clara and the brothers from the future who had been killed by the eye of harmony, and had been leaked through time into the past. The Doctor was trying to make sure they could break the time line and stop it happening.
Trenzalore
April 28th, 2013 - 7:04amGood
Dalek The Supreme
April 28th, 2013 - 4:29amI’m still collecting my thoughts, I don’t really understand how the monsters came to be in the TARDIS, I think I missed the explanations because my siblings were being noisy. So far, I think it was better than Hide but worse than The Ringsof Akhaten and Cold War. I’d say on par with The Bells of St. John. We got to see quite a few rooms in the TARDIS, we had scary monsters, and some build up to the season finale. My only other complaints are the salvage brothers were unrealistically cruel, and some of the acting on their parts except for the youngest brother was off at times.
booboo
April 27th, 2013 - 10:24pmLuke will have to do that, i will expect he will do it sometime
DOCTOR WHO ONE
April 27th, 2013 - 10:23pmBooBoo – Are you going to update this sites page about the Tardis with photographs of the new rooms featured in tonights episode ?.
MasterKasterborous
April 27th, 2013 - 9:31pmThe Snowmen isn’t really part of series 7 but never mind…
(How could you view it so low though?)
Dr who
April 27th, 2013 - 9:31pmIt was k
DOCTOR WHO ONE
April 27th, 2013 - 9:24pmIf this story was a 4 parter or 6 parter like in the good old days, then the story could have allowed tons of rooms to be seen throughout, but modern Doctor Who stories tend to last 45 minutes per story [with the exception of 2 part stories and finales making a story last a bit longer], you can show everything of the Tardis within 45 minutes.
DOCTOR WHO ONE
April 27th, 2013 - 9:21pmBest Tardis based story since 2011’s ‘The Doctors Wife’.
I imagine there is probably A LOT of moaning from fan’s on sites like this and on the forums saying “Oh what a disappointment Journey to the centre of the Tardis was, we did not get to see so many rooms inside the ship !!”.
If that’s what most fan’s are probably saying, then stop moaning please, and just be grateful the Tardis has had another story devoted to her, cos it’s everyday she gets to be the centre of attention, she’s largely just a plot-piece that just sends the Doctor and companion into the adventures rather then being the centre of an adventure, and ok sure, we did not see so many rooms, but at least we got to see the Library, Swimming Pool, the heart of the Tardis which turned out to be the centre, and some room which had the Telescope from ‘Tooth and Claw’ shown.
drjakeyoung
April 27th, 2013 - 9:15pmWhen one of the brothers started smashing the Tardis console, a load of voices including tom bakers and eccleston where heard. (go see it on i player)
Benjee10
April 27th, 2013 - 8:24pmWell, that’s the best episode so far of 7b! Bit of dodgy acting from the salvage brothers but the rest made up for it.
My personal best to worst (all of 7 so far):
1. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
2. Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
3. The Rings of Akhaten
4. The Angels Take Manhatten
5. Hide
6. A Town Called Mercy
7. The Bells of Saint John
8. Asylum of the Daleks
9. Cold War
10. The Snowmen
11. The Power of Three
Scott the Vigil
April 27th, 2013 - 8:13pmSeries 7 best to worst:
Journey to the Center of the TARDIS
Asylum of the Daleks
The Angels Take Manhattan
The Rings of Akhaten
Cold War
A Town Called Mercy
The Bells of Saint John
The Power of Three
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
Hide
Yes, I strongly hated Hide.
Cal
April 27th, 2013 - 8:03pmI’m sorry but I’m a big doctor who fan and I dont understand who fans.
This episode was just a lot of confusing nonsense with bad characters (he pretends his brothers an android!) the rings of Akhaten, Cold War, Hide are all what dr who should be. Great aliens and great plots.
Please tell me what was good