November 23rd, 2013
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What Did You Think of The Day of the Doctor?
What Did You Think of The Day of the Doctor?
The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure in this 50th anniversary special.
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London’s National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor’s own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.
Day of The Doctor DVD and Blu-rays
All of reality is at stake as the Doctor’s own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.
Day of the Doctor Starring Matt Smith, David Tennant, Jenna Coleman with Billie Piper and John Hurt.
The DVD is available to order from www.amazon.co.uk or www.bbcshop.com
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100000BC
November 26th, 2013 - 8:10pmYes but it was a better idea to have three at the foreground of the story and the rest in the background, but still there. Don’t forget McGann in the prequel, Capaldi in the TARDIS and Tom Baker at the end were all new material. Any more than three Doctors will get very crowded in the time that we had, especially with a Moffat storyline! If you think about it, The Five Doctors worked only because one Doctor was out of the way and the others were only seen together right at the end, and only short snippets of each Doctor were seen, for example I’m sure there might have been other encounters with monsters in the death zone.
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
November 26th, 2013 - 7:13pmtrue, it’s a personal thing and how you look at it. i just thought it was nice in a way, adding more depth.
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
November 26th, 2013 - 7:12pmtrue, but I suppose it would be nice to have some of the classic doctors at least, bringing together the new and classic.
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
November 26th, 2013 - 7:12pmthat’s what i thought! he was hardly in the series and he just rattled around in the tardis
Danny Brown
November 26th, 2013 - 2:35pmreally good episode! I did a review of it on my youtube channel!
Danny Brown
November 26th, 2013 - 11:48amThere’s 13 not 14.
1:William hartnell
2:Patrick Troughton
3:Jon pertwee
4:Tom baker
5:Peter Davidson
6:Colin baker
7:Sylvester McCoy
8:Paul McGann
9:John Hurt
10:Christopher eccleston
11:David Tennant
12:Matt Smith
13:Peter Capaldi
Danny Brown
November 26th, 2013 - 11:42amGreat episode! i did a review on my youtube channel!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPU8rm5mbrM
Obsie
November 26th, 2013 - 10:49amCan anyone give a reasonable answer as to how Kamelion appeared on one of the photographs pinned to the board of previous companions/ assistants, deep in The Tower of London?
MasterKasterborous
November 25th, 2013 - 11:09pmCode for Vortex manipulator: 1716231163
MasterKasterborous
November 25th, 2013 - 11:09pmWell the episode did have a fantastic plot a *huge* amount of Classic references:
The Opening Credits
Police officer by the gates of Totters Lane
Coalhill School
Chesterton as Chairman of Governors
Coburn as Headmaster
Clock reading 17:16
Tom Baker’s scarf
Osgood (‘scarf girl’) possible relation to Sergeant Osgood
Cromer reference
UNIT Dating Conundrum reference
Zygons
‘Reverse the polarity’
Spare-Time Telegraph
Roundels
‘You’ve redecorated I don’t like it’
‘wearing a bit thin’
Tom Baker returning
Plus all the Doctors (in some form or another)
There are probably quite a few more too!
MasterKasterborous
November 25th, 2013 - 10:59pmActually I think that adds to the Doctors suffering. He believes that he wiped out his whole race and is wallowing in the pits of suffering for what he has done when in reality he managed to save them. That is truly tragic.
MasterKasterborous
November 25th, 2013 - 10:56pmDid you know the shot of the TARDIS through the wall was a model shot? Looks great doesn’t it!
Scotty
November 25th, 2013 - 9:05pmCan anyone who was at the excel this weekend or anyone else who has already seen it tell me where I can get or what the name of the interactive iPhone camera app was that turns a picture of a dalek/cyberman into a moving character on the phone screen when you hover the camera over it….. I can’t find it anywhere
david newton
November 25th, 2013 - 8:48pmI ENJOYED THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR AND WAS DELIGHTED THE TIME LORDS DID EVENTUALLY SURVIVE MAYBE WE WILL GET A STORY WITH THEM IN THE NEW SERIES. ONE OF MY FAVOURITE BITS WAS THE TARDIS BREAKING OUT OF A WALL AND SMASHING UP THE DALEKS AND THE ZYGONS STORY TOO. I WAS SORRY PETER DAVIDSON WASNT IN THE EPISODE. THE SUN CLAIMED HE WAS GOING TO HAVE A BIG PART IN IT. MOFFAT IS A GENIUS AND I CANT WAIT FOR THE NEW SHERLOCK EPISODES. BUT PLEASE MR MOFFAT NO FEMALE DOCTOR YOU WOULD KILL THE CHARACTERS CREDIBILITY FOR ME.
100000BC
November 25th, 2013 - 8:38pmIf you cram it full with 11 Doctors and over 40 companions and 50 years’ worth of monsters and old allies and references then there’ll be no room for a story!!!
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
November 25th, 2013 - 8:34pmfair enough, and I was thinking the same thing. I did enjoy it, and it was good, but it didn’t feel a celebration because there wasn’t lots of classic content when there could’ve been. I hear you
Lea
November 25th, 2013 - 8:03pmTHINK HOW GOOD THAT EPISODE WOULD OF BEEN IF RUSSLE T DAVIES WRITTEN THAT!!!!!!!!!
Hellbelly
November 25th, 2013 - 7:20pmIt’s a future incarnation of the Doctor, as he says “revisiting an old favourite”, namely that of the 4th Doctor.
Itdalek
November 25th, 2013 - 6:53pmI thought the five doctors was better because to be an aniversary specail has to have all doctors in it properly and look alike for the ones which are dead and camos featuring the original actors, and plus the storyline seemed naff for the most of it, there were quite a lot of amazing things in there but it just did not do it for me, if they did all doctors and perhaps afew companions and monsters with a slightly better storyline I would have loved it, just didn’t do it for me
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
November 25th, 2013 - 6:26pmtrue, but every time we watch 9 say: My planets gone, we won’t think on it and just say: don’t worry, it survived! It was such a big part of the RTD era and now know one will take it as seriously.
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
November 25th, 2013 - 6:24pmI thought it was really bad at first, but I watched it again before final judgement. I take it you didn’t like it?
Jammy2305
November 25th, 2013 - 6:04pmHardly wiped it out… 8.5 (Or whatever you wanna call him)and 10 can’t remember, so to them, Gallifrey was destroyed and thus everything we’ve seen up to now stays the same, because they knew no different. Now 11 has learnt it survived, he can go looking for it.
Itdalek
November 25th, 2013 - 5:15pmCan someone please explain to me why everyone thinks it was really good as everyone i asked coud not gimme a reason why
dalek fan
November 25th, 2013 - 4:50pmyeah. but
the zygons
were really scary 1s!
joyce
November 25th, 2013 - 4:41pmI think Steven Moffat is genius. The episode was amazing.
100000BC
November 25th, 2013 - 3:59pmIf you cram the episode full of 50 years’ worth of references there won’t be room for story!!!
sammyboi101
November 25th, 2013 - 3:23pmIt Was Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!
Now lets give the 11th Doctor a good send off on Christmas Day!!!
Kristin S
November 25th, 2013 - 3:15pmMy 16 year old daughter wrote this poem after she watched Day of the Doctor:
Said the man who forgets
To the man who regrets
Let’s change the time
That’s the cause of our stress
So the man who forgets
And the man who regrets
Met the man from the past
They had tried to forget
The man who forgets
And the man who regrets
Along with the man
They met from the past
Prepared to do what was wrong
For the best
But Clara chimed in
And gave her two cents
Reminding the men
They could still change the past
These men were too kind
Too gentle
Too sweet
To hold so much pain in their hearts
At their feet
Just freeze it
She said
Like the paintings we saw
Then no one will have to suffer at all
What an idea
The three men agreed
So their regenerations
One through thirteen
Gave them all of the power they’d need
So the man who forgets
And the man who regrets
Had no more reason
Ever to fret
Their home was waiting
Suspended in time
And as you finish reading this rhyme
They’re on a journey
Through space and through time
With a reason to live
And a reason to fight
—-Allison S
who rules
November 25th, 2013 - 2:02pmagree about the end of time, and the last of the time lords as well, both season finales with the master, both some of russell t davies worst writing. i enjoy most of his stories, journey’s end is suberb but the two master stories are just awful. day of the doctor was brilliant…
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
November 25th, 2013 - 1:29pmI did enjoy it, and it was good, but I think it could’ve been better. SM has kind of wiped out the whole RTD thing now Gallifrey has survived. And at times the plot was erratic. I didn’t like how ‘Rose’ wasn’t Rose, and I think if you want Billie Piper in the show, she has to be Rose.
Also not enough Daleks, and Cybers would’ve been nice. If they wanted to go for Time War that should’ve been the whole ep, as the Zygons took over majority of the plot, and I don’t think they should’ve done. The whole Zygon bit could’ve been it’s own episode!
But I did enjoy it and the little classic references were good.