Doctor Who

Hades said:
Capaldi is fast becoming my favourite actor to play the Doctor.

My view on this episode:

The Doctor was transported inside his own confession dial by Me (who is indeed the hybrid). Bigger on the inside etc. The skulls were all the Doctor's skulls. He has not moved anywhere in space but has obviously lived several mission years. When the Doctor eventually escapes he is on Galifrey.

I'm not that clued up on Doctor Who history but in the episode where Galifrey was sent back to the time lock wasn't there something about a diamond being used to connect Galifrey to Earth? I suspect that the whole point of the Doctor being sent inside his confession dial was for him to break through the diamond and once again free Galifrey from the time lock. So it has been planned and engineered by the Time Lords.

But I have no idea what that circle with the arrows pointing to it was for.
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It was to remind him that you can write in the sand as he never noticed it after stepping out of the teleporter, he just realised that it was a very old building due to the "sand" being stone dust.
 
Capaldi is brilliant, there is no denying it, I just think the first series with him in it, he was being held back by subpar writing, or writing that is too focused on the companions.

My favourite so far of the refresh, is Tennant, he was fantastic IMO.
 
As I've said for months, drop the companion and focus on the doctor. He's a strong enough character with an immense back story, he doesn't need a sidekick. This straddled the child / adult show threshold superbly, an intriguing story for the grown ups to ponder with a faceless monster to generate fear in the younger viewers.

I've skipped pretty much most of this series due to the complete Meh of it, if they can hold this level and take it forward I'll be back to a regular viewer.
 
The companion is the audience. As said, they are necessary so that things can be explained. Everything is new to them. It can't be done with the characters he meets, as he wouldn't have cause to explain everything to them as they'd already know some of it.
 
It's also why the companions are regularly killed off, so it's always someone inexperienced. They did half a series without a companion and it was pony.

They also add that little voice in the back of the doctor's head that remind him to be that little bit more normal. The prevent him from ever getting complacent with whatever situations he gets himself into. Clara reminding him that he helps people because he is the doctor, for example, when he was otherwise ready to just shrug off the Viking village or Rigsby.

And they give the one thing the doctor didn't have on his own: something to fight for. Someone to protect.
 
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It was alright. Bit of a missed opportunity with Galifrey though. They've been building up to it for how many seasons now and all they did was prance around in a dark sewer for a bit which could have been literally anywhere in the universe. Also Rassilon was totally wasted unless you happened to know the lore behind him, something this series has relied on a lot. The episode itself dealt with the same sort of themes as Tennant's episode on Mars but not as well. Also seems a bit pointless since he's tried all this before. And they're using the whole waiting x amount of time for y person a lot. First Amy, then Rory, then Amy again, now the Doctor. How are they going to one up 4.5bn years I wonder?
 
ikillbears said:
right so, i have absolutely no idea what that or the last episode was about. some one want to explain it to an idiot ?
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Last week's episode I got... this one I have no clue what happened.

I still have no idea who the hybrid is, or if there is more than one. Clara is now wandering around with Me in their own TARDIS and the Time Lords are still where they were before but without Rassilon.
 
bit of a meh episode and wasted opportunity.

didn't like how they handled rassilon either - he basically created the time lords / tardises etc but everyone just turned on him pretty quickly.
 
aardvark said:
bit of a meh episode and wasted opportunity.

didn't like how they handled rassilon either - he basically created the time lords / tardises etc but everyone just turned on him pretty quickly.
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Pity they couldn't at least get Timothy Dalton to reprise the role from the end of time, could have link it a bit more with the series.

Wasn't a bad episode just ones of those ones were for every time they get something right they get something wrong.
 
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