Dr Who - new series

[escapeUK]

Nice theory, but she's Scottish. Ostensibly both Amy and Rory grew up in a small rural town. They only moved to London when the Doctor gave them a house. The whole thing is mostly filmed in and around Cardiff..

I think you missed the point. Remember Jamie, who was from 18th Century scotland, or Leela who was a tribal warrior from another planet, Adric maths genius from the future. Now days we have people from the local area in the current time, it doesnt matter if they are from London, Scotland or wherever.

The recent story writing is how I would write as a 10 year old. Lots of build up, then we threw the polarity in the other direction and all went home for tea. The little box story being the perfect example of this.

[Gentile]

I'm not sure about those hipster specs Amy was wearing in last night's episode. She looked like the disturbing chimera that might have resulted had the three main Harry Potter characters stepped into that teleporter from The Fly:

[NotAllThere]

I think you missed the point. ...

No. When it comes to having people from other cultures, I think you're bang on. Just pointing out that you were wrong to say that the characters are people from London played by people from London. That just seemed to be a provincial anti-London knee jerk reaction. Whatever criticisms against Dr Who, the charge of it being London-centric doesn't stick.

This current season has had its moments, but it isn't up to the previous ones - more like the last days of Davies. Hopefully it'll pick up with the new assistant. It's still a laugh and not meant to be taken too seriously - at least Moffat has managed that.

[doodab]

Good twist I thought.

The Christmas episode is going to be interesting...

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I might even start watching it

[d000hg]

So he has a time machine that can take him anywhere, any when. Where are his companions from, modern day London.

Wouldnt it be nice to actually have companions out of time from somewhere interesting, you know someone that actually had to act rather than two people who live in modern day London.

You don't think they're good at acting as gormless middle-class people?


And you miss the point. This all happened in 1850.

[MarillionFan]

This current season has had its moments, but it isn't up to the previous ones - more like the last days of Davies. Hopefully it'll pick up with the new assistant. It's still a laugh and not meant to be taken too seriously - at least Moffat has managed that.

I disagree. This was a fantastic episode. The last episode with the boxes set this one up perfectly. The Doctor has a special place for Amy, you can see it building more and more. As the Ageless God he has to be kept in check of his madness, his psychotic behaviour, his anger by others. What this series has set up, is to show the Doctors anger, his loneliness. The present Doctor is on the border of genius & madness. When he read the chapters in the book you could see him lose control, unable to cope with his loss & subsequent anger. He was not bothered about Rory, but Amy mean't something, it meant a reminder of his own immortality.

When Rory was to sacrifice himself he was not bothered, but again for Amy he was distraught. The suicide scene was a fantastic piece of drama, of course you knew that they would come back, but a moment later, Rory was dead & then Amy decided to join him. Of course in the story they lived a full life, but you get that mix of loss. I admit I shed a tear (then again it was 2am in the morning & I'd drunk a bottle of wine).

I've watched Doctor Who since as long as I can remember. It was a thing I did with my dad when I was a really young before he died. My 6 year old daughter has really got into Dr Who. She loves Amy and it's now a special moment for us to get together, just the two of us, curtains closed, popcorn and watch it(I watch them first to make sure they're not to scary though). I've watched her get scared, hide her face, watch her laugh, even watch her cry when someone has died (only to come alive again). I'm not sure if I will let her watch this episode to be honest, I'm not sure if she is old enough. Even though no-one actually 'dies', there is a great sense of loss & the fact that the characters are gone, coupled with the Doctor & Rivers reactions I'm not 100% sure I want her to see this episode.

[NotAllThere]

Perpugilliam

[d000hg]

I'm not sure about this series overall - it's too short for one thing - but I think that was a decent episode. And I think the Angels are a brilliant idea, a true classic DH monster that is scary without actually doing anything.

There wasn't much story arc but it could set up a really interesting next story if he goes a bit mad and scary.

[vetran]

true classic DH monster

is that short for Doctor Ho? I now have a picture of Matt smith in a velvet suit and a big floppy fedora saying 'which o' my bitches you wan?'

[d000hg]

is that short for Doctor Ho? I now have a picture of Matt smith in a velvet suit and a big floppy fedora saying 'which o' my bitches you wan?'