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Gotta say, the regeneration was pretty crap.

Also, that whole Matt Smith being the last life thing was utterly pointless. Did Moffat think we'd all missed the 50th Anniversary episode?

Moffat should really be fired or demoted and somebody better put in charge. He relies on ridiculous conveniences that just don't make sense!
 
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Couldnt they just get Russell T Davies back to oversee scripts and story arc and give some direction to writers like Moffat?

Moffat seems to be a good writer looking at how he modernises Sherlock to fit our time, he just seems to think if you aim for kids its ok to do oversimplifications and insult their intelligence...

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The last regeneration was so much better although RTD was in charge of that. The whole scene had so much emotion and you felt sorry to see Tennant go when he said 'I don't want to go'. This was an emotionless mess and felt like it was a case of get rid of Matt Smith as quick as possible.
 
Did anyone else hear the little iPlayer joke. I guess you could say it was a little too representative of the real world and broke the fourth wall a bit but it was a rather amusing line, I thought.

Pigeon_Killer said:
The last regeneration was so much better although RTD was in charge of that. The whole scene had so much emotion and you felt sorry to see Tennant go when he said 'I don't want to go'. This was an emotionless mess and felt like it was a case of get rid of Matt Smith as quick as possible.
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I thought that Tennant chose to leave? So his last words were simply of regret of handing over the job rather than regret at having been forced out.

It feels more and more that Matt Smith was asked to leave because of a story arc that was a long time coming. Considering Matt's slightly off behaviour on the announcement of Capaldi and the sudden shock at his departure announcement. Couple those with how short and rushed the regeneration scene felt once Capaldi appeared makes it all feel rather rushed in terms of the new Doctor's appearance.

Hades said:
It was ok. Entertaining enough. But nothing spectacular. The regeneration was pretty poor.
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What did everyone think of the hallucinating? I thought that was pretty rubbish. I really didn't like how little time was given to Peter Capaldi's Doctor before the end of the episode.
 
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That was a whole hour to explain something which took about twenty seconds in the end, the regeneration reset thing. It was an average entertaining episode but somewhat overcomplicated. At least I didn't fall asleep during it which I've done during previous Doctor Who christmas episodes.

MarcLister said:
I really didn't like how little time was given to Peter Capaldi's Doctor before the end of the episode.
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That's normal when there's a regeneration, you get a few seconds of the new Doctor and then have to wait for the next series.

I don't like the way that the whole regeneration thing has become such a major event with the Doctor pontificating on about things and getting all teary-eyed in the lead up to the change. In old Who, something happened that would effectively kill him, he'd collapse and change. Now it's too showy, too in-yer-face, too emotional.
 
AlecR said:
The most stupid thing was how he regenerated and then regenerated again! I thought it was impossible to control the regeneration?!?!?
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In the "Night of the doctor" episode, the 8th Doctor drank a potion to make him regenerate into the War Doctor rather than it being random.

TBH I thought it was good to see the 11th doctor back as his younger self rather than looking like a very weathered Doc Brown so he could say good bye.

While it was nice to so Amy Pond one more time it kind of diminished Clara in the end.
 
Lucifurr said:
In the "Night of the doctor" episode, the 8th Doctor drank a potion to make him regenerate into the War Doctor rather than it being random.

TBH I thought it was good to see the 11th doctor back as his younger self rather than looking like a very weathered Doc Brown so he could say good bye.

While it was nice to so Amy Pond one more time it kind of diminished Clara in the end.
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Is Clara leaving? Was this announced, or will she have a season with the new doctor?
 
Actually thing the best thing about doctor who at the moment, is when the incidental music starts to sound, as the 'crescendo' approaches.
Every episode awaiting something great, than a tardy reveal ruins it.
 
OK:

1. Episode itself was pretty poor, but some highlights - liked the Silence, Dalek units; poor Weeping Angels - hoped for more from them.

2. Great to see Amy back, but agree above, diminished Clara - perhaps a goodbye to both sincerely.

3. Naked hologram thing was a bit confusing as was the turkey dinner crap that was going on - seemed they had to remind everyone it was a Christmas special!

4. Very little time to new Doctor.

5. No teasers at end for new series.

6. WTF was Capaldi going on about? His kidney's?! WHAAAT?

7. Buuuuuuuut, i thought it was a very fitting end to Matt Smith, he got a big build up and a great send off - very fitting and very emotional; my little lad shed a tear and my little girl was sniffling away too and don't forget this is targetted at the younger audience.

Was there any meaning to the Mum in laws (Benidorm woman) speech about seeing him on the pier? It got Clara crying and saying thanks to her (dad was telling her to talk about the pigeon story)
 
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