May 4th, 2013
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What Did You Think of The Crimson Horror?
What Did You Think of The Crimson Horror?
There’s something very odd about Mrs Gillyflower’s Sweetville mill, with its perfectly clean streets and beautiful people.
There’s something even stranger about the bodies washing up in the river, all bright red and waxy. When the Doctor and Clara go missing, it’s up to Vastra, Jenny and Strax to rescue them before they too fall victim to the Crimson Horror!”
Now that the 6th 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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Captain Jack
May 8th, 2013 - 9:59amNO, NO, NOOOOO
Don’t bring kids into the TARDIS. This will kill the series. If I want to see that I’ll watch The Sara Janes Adventures.
Crimson Horror, a really good episode.
Odd series with every second episode being really good and then some really bad ones like “Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS” which must be one of the worst ones ever.
This series has brought us some of the best episodes ever as “The Snowmen”, “Hide” and “The Crimson Horror” but the next one ought to be awful with the kids getting on the journey.
And Clara… She must be the best companion ever. So clever and beautiful, I love her to bits(Sorry Rose). Outsmarts the Doctor (who needs a replacement soon, Please find an actor with David Tennants talent)
Dalek The Supreme
May 8th, 2013 - 4:11amI thought Victory of the Daleks was great. Also, there was an Optimus Prime in George’s bedroom in Night Terrors.
lepter
May 7th, 2013 - 10:45pmdonna was the best. depth of character, funny, good actress too.
lepter
May 7th, 2013 - 10:43pmnot really. It may be a photo from something they havent done yet. Time machine…remember.
FanOfDrWho11
May 7th, 2013 - 9:54pmG1 GALVATRON? What are you doing in Doctor Who?
I guess thats as close as it is ever going to get to my 8-year-old self’s dream of a Dr Who/Transformers crossover, but I’m satisfied by that cameo appearance of the Decepticon leader.
As always, Mark Gatiss has created a true masterpiece of a Dr Who episode (not sure if I’m counting VOTD in that)and another great addition to a great series (if I can forget about Rings of Akhaten!).
Can’t wait until the next episode! New Cybermen look so cool!
random user
May 7th, 2013 - 9:00pmafter watching this i think there should be a spin-off with strax, vastra, and jenny
thetardisisstronginthisone
May 7th, 2013 - 6:27pmomg when strax went no to vastra after she said hae u been eating those sweets and when he had to wait on the horse strax quote ‘im going to play with my grenades’ oml so funny
THE ERGON
May 7th, 2013 - 10:31amBest episode of the second half of this series, but easily mark gatiss’ best after the unquiet dead. I wish all the episodes had this sort of consistency. One question though- Does the doctor bitch about his former companions to current companions or did he really think that much of tegan he starts using his catchphrase ‘brave heart’ to clara. Can,t think much of tegan.
THE ERGON
May 7th, 2013 - 10:22amThe thing that put put me off the cbus industries cybermen was that hydraulic clumping noise everytime they moved.
MaxP
May 7th, 2013 - 1:11amIn their own spin off! Hell yeah!
MaxP
May 7th, 2013 - 1:09amClara is the best companion the show’s had in a long while. Best since Donna, or Martha even IMO. Better than Amelia and Rose, that’s for sure.
lepter
May 6th, 2013 - 11:50pmgood point….cybus were not alien like mondasian cybermen. They are not part of classic dr who, they are human new who monsters. They have little history, they are new.
JJ
May 6th, 2013 - 12:09pmGood apart from when the alien was on her, that was just so weird and wrong.
Team TARDIS
May 6th, 2013 - 11:02amOh yeah I guess that’s true, and fair enough to the Cybermen comment. We were just very frustrated as we felt it kind of killed our buzz after watching ‘The Crimson Horror’ and we’d been so looking forward to the Cybermens’ return but were afraid the attention might be taken away from the Cybermen!
Radburn
May 6th, 2013 - 10:40amChildren blackmail Clara for a spin in the Tardis?
Time to get out the Torchwood pills methinks!
TheDoctorGallifrey
May 6th, 2013 - 9:18amIf you think about it it was a bit weird how one of the crew was carrying a camera with them! And shouldn’t Clara be a cit more shocked when she saw her Victorian counterpart? Anyhow, it was a great episode, the characters were amazing, I felt so much sympathy for ada, and the plot was fantastic! I squirmed a bit when Ada smashed Mr. Sweet, I was surprised to see that the ‘monster’ was the Doctor, and I fell on the floor laughing when that man fainted the third time when the TARDIS dematerialised! I give it a 9/10
DOCTOR WHO ONE
May 6th, 2013 - 8:33amLike ‘Victory of the Daleks’, the 2006 design is giving way to a new modern take on the Cybermen for a 2nd time in the history of the new series, cos the 2006 one is now regarded as being no longer scary, and many of us are finding them to be boring with the stomping around and saying “Delete” all the time, which was fun at first back in 2006, but has become boring over time.
Plus the fact the Cybus logo got replaced on them in ‘The Wedding of River Song’ may have caused some confusion as to wither they are still the Cybus ones with a new seal on their chests or if they are our Mondasian Cybermen, which I’d rather regard that they are not as the parallel Cybermen are primitive compared to those of our universe.
MaxP
May 6th, 2013 - 6:18amI love the idea of Strax and Vastra, and I know this is episode was all supposed to be in a humourous spirit, but Strax was just so utterly painful to watch due to his stupid jokes, it was just cringe worthy. And I can’t help feeling embarrassed to be a fan with this sort of silliness. Ad
Big D
May 5th, 2013 - 10:08pmGet rid of the kids. Next thing we know it’ll be on the cbbc rather than bbc 1. I realise its a family show but that doesnt mean we have to pander to them. Doctor Who has never panded to kids, respected yes, but never panded. Also to have the kids blackmailing Clara means that they should be sacked off regardless. Ive said it before and I’ll say it again – I’m getting old!!
crumpetstick94
May 5th, 2013 - 7:07pmwhats going on with the cybermen in the next episode is somebody rescueing them because i like the cybus industry armour better…
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
May 5th, 2013 - 5:22pmi agree with bringing gatiss back, but that parasite? CUTE?! I couldn’t stand the thing.
TheDoctorGallifrey
May 5th, 2013 - 4:05pmIf you think about it it was a bit weird how one of the crew was carrying a camera with them! And shouldn’t Clara be a cit more shocked when she saw her Victorian counterpart? Anyhow, it was a great episode, the characters were amazing, I felt so much sympathy for ada, and the plot was fantastic! I squirmed a bit when Ada smashed Mr. Sweet, I was surprised to see that the ‘monster’ was the Doctor, and I fell on the floor laughing when that man fainted the third time when the TARDIS dematerialised! 9/10
TheDoctorGallifrey
May 5th, 2013 - 3:54pmThey should definitely get a spin off!
Anonymous
May 5th, 2013 - 3:16pmTegan was an Austrailian, not American.
And what does everyone have angainst the Cybus Cybermen, there still Cybermen, they’re exactly the same, just from a different universe.
whofan4ever
May 5th, 2013 - 2:53pmI enjoyed that, why are people hating? The whole idea of vastra and jenny just accepting that clara is alive, or being another her… also i heard about the teaser stuff that SFX released and i think that the kids realise that this “commander clara” is infact another clara and the kids realise when they ask her a personal question
fishfingers and custard
May 5th, 2013 - 2:15pmomg the kids found out about clara and the doctor i think clara shoiuld say (oops!!!)
dose any 1 else think kids in next weeks episode is a wee bit weird im not to sure about that 1
lepter
May 5th, 2013 - 2:09pmIs it me or is clara getting abit smug?
Liked it. Didnt get the point of the red dipping but will watch it again.
Kids next week. Oh no….looking forward to cybermen….now not so excited. The episode was supposed to have been called the LAST CYBERMAN. Was hoping for a tenth planet version so close to the 50th but Its not..its a cybus. Damn.
Liked the reference to tegan, winey american….. Brave heart clara.
Sorry but I really DONT like the silurian red hand gang.
Ruined 2 great dr who monsters. Watch SILURIANS, thats what they are supposed to look like. Not a sherlock holmes wanabee.
fishfingers and custard
May 5th, 2013 - 1:58pmaww i no he is to funny
(rotfl) lol lol lol
fishfingers and custard
May 5th, 2013 - 1:56pmomg lol
mad mental strax the sontaron running about with a gun shooting every-thing he can see
aww to funny lol lol
(rotfl):-)
dalek eternal
May 5th, 2013 - 1:48pmdeinately the best episode this serious the scenes with straxx are the best couldnt stop laughing