Doctor Who- returns for series whatever it is 11/5/24 | The Grand Moff is back!

Lagamorph wrote:Just watching episode 2 and I had to stop to complain about how utterly strawberry floating stupid the laser shoes are.

Kinda funny how they went from the end of last series making a big deal about Graham being the better man and not killing ol' Toothface Tim, to having him dancing around shooting a bunch of Kasaavin with his laser shoes at the start of this series :slol:

NTNOT was a pretty standard episode overall i thought, was a bit worried at points that it was going to get as sycophantic as the shakespeare code but mercifully we were spared that.

Probably one of the strongest episodes in ages. Not brilliant or without a few niggles but good stuff all in all. I might even.... watch it again.

One thing though. If the Scorpian aliens can't invent or repair stuff then who the chuff reprogrammed the ball of knowledge to become a spypiece?

The Watching Artist wrote:Probably one of the strongest episodes in ages. Not brilliant or without a few niggles but good stuff all in all. I might even.... watch it again.

One thing though. If the Scorpian aliens can't invent or repair stuff then who the chuff reprogrammed the ball of knowledge to become a spypiece?

the blue chap from 11th dr's era?

(i remember the name i just dont fancy my odds of spelling it)

I thought it was OK, better than last week's episode which just gets worse the more I think about it :lol:

I liked Tesla, Edison was fun too, and the story seemed fine. I didn't feel like I was being quite so obviously beaten over the head with the moral of the story either. The Skithra were a bit overly clumsy though when chasing Yaz and Edison (I initially laughed at Yaz's attempt to block the way with a small bread stand, but TBF they probably tripped over it). I found them more menacing in their human disguises. It would've been cool if they'd had some kind of connection with the Racnoss (unless they did and I missed it?), as the queen of the Skithra seemed so similar to the queen of the Racnoss, but scorpions instead of spiders. I still feel like they don't know what to do with all these companions, they're mostly kind of just there, and the exposition gets tiring at times.

Not watched tonight's yet but finally got round to Orphan 55... :dread:

About as functional and internally consistent as an episode of The Mandolorian. Sooooo much just simply did not work in terms of story and logic.

Spent most of the episode wondering why the lady from Madrigal Electromotive was in it (and trying to work out if the actress really is actually Scottish!) :lol:

"The internal dimensions transcend the external" :wub:

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Just watched the last episode. It was gooseberry fool. Should have just gone historical without the alien pish! It was lazy alien pish!
"Shame you are a big fat liar!" Tesla proceeded to do all he proclaimed! Doctor states "he was the future" WTF? This is not good!

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The problem I've having with Chiball's run (I don't think it's fair to blame JW/13) is - there's always been crap episodes of Dr Who. It's a kid's show. Every season had pointless light entertainment Saturday night filler.
You knew DW was very variable but you tuned in because a minority (but a good sized minority) knocked it out the strawberry floating park. Usually "event" episodes (openers, season finale etc) or sometimes randomly in the middle (Girl in the Fireplace, Listen).
Chiballs run never seems to break beyond mediocre. But still has the clunkers so the average is so much lower.

Yeah that's a good point, every series has it's fair share of filler crap - sometimes the filler episodes can be surprisingly good, other times they are true dog shite, but even the weakest of series had at least one episode where you thought "fair play that was strawberry floating great!"

Slightly odd time to release a new trailer but hey ho. Spoiler obvs-

Its amazing how I just didn't care at all about Ryans line in that.

Hexx wrote:Chiballs run never seems to break beyond mediocre. But still has the clunkers so the average is so much lower.

I dunno I think a lot of the "filler" of the past has been stronger then this. Apart from the real clunkers but even the most average of stories got carried by the cast which seems impossible with the current crew.

Ord wrote:Just watched the last episode. It was gooseberry fool. Should have just gone historical without the alien pish! It was lazy alien pish!
"Shame you are a big fat liar!" Tesla proceeded to do all he proclaimed! Doctor states "he was the future" WTF? This is not good!

I think the liar line is meant to be because he is lying about having no idea about why he is being shot at. Which is presumably a lie because he just picked up glowing green ball. But gotta LOL at the Doc telling Ryan not to use the Silurian gun and then concludes the story by..... er shooting the alien ship with an even bigger gun? There are so many mixed messages in the Chibbers era that I'm starting to think its the theme of his work. Oh and its another story where the threat just goes off screen. (3 for 3 so far) What was really odd in this case was they talked about "taking out" the Queen. Teleporting the Queen somehow teleports all of them. Then zapping the ship makes them run off. It was a bit of a messy conclusion. Was almost like it had been written to have the ship explode with the Queen onboard and then the scorpions stop but that in production it got changed.

As for the aliens themselves. I thought having 3 "forms" was overkill but I liked that the hive idea mirrored Edisons factory with Tesla wanting to remain independent from both.

It was a better episode but was still pretty gooseberry fool. The aliens were dreadful.

If they wanted to do a Tesla/Edison episode then they’d have been better off basing it around Tesla’s death ray. Either persuading him that humanity shouldn’t have such a weapon, or tracking down somebody (Edison) that had stolen it from the lab.

Garth wrote:I initially laughed at Yaz's attempt to block the way with a small bread stand

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you're doing it mate!

It was an alright episode, better than last weeks. The guy who plays Tesla was brilliant and the monsters weren't too bad.

imbusydoctorwho wrote:The guy who plays Tesla was brilliant

Agreed, he was great.

and the monsters weren't too bad.

Disagree, they were terrible. That hissing "oh aren't we so evil" voice was appalling.

Aliens reminded me of the errr raknos from that episode with Tennant and the dickhead... I mean Donna.

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you're doing it mate!

McCoy at the end :lol:

hey first time i made the thread title, cool

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