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Dr Who Xmas Special

Final said:
Usually I'd love to have seen something early, but in this case I'm happy to let the excitement build.
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Yeah, it did feel a bit... odd... watching it before Christmas day. But on the plus side, it was nice to be surprised by odd moments in it that fucking idiot newspapers will undoubtedly spoil in the next day or so.
 
Final said:
Usually I'd love to have seen something early, but in this case I'm happy to let the excitement build.
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Agreed, it would lose it's shine even if on Christmas day I end up watching it through one eye then having to watch it again the day after (like last year)...I'd still prefer to wait.
 
That was rubbish. Even the seven year old in the room told us that, repeatedly.

We pacified him with a tie fighter model and some Star Wars sounds, but the damage was done.
 
I enjoyed it. Not up to previous Xmas specials but I enjoyed it nonetheless. That "Giant steampunk Cyberman" was cool. Steampunk...........liking that.
 
Interesting that no historical records of a mahoosive robot smashing seven shades of shit out of London in 1852 have survived :hmm:
 
Those infopod thingies came in handy didn't they? By which I mean, they conveniently helped propel every single part of the plot.
 
SpookyFrank said:
Interesting that no historical records of a mahoosive robot smashing seven shades of shit out of London in 1852 have survived :hmm:
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Just goes to show the nature of us sheeple, innit. Nothing to see here, move along, have the latest instalment of Mr Dickens latest...ooh Tiny Tim!!!!
 
I found it vaguely disappointing, but that's not to say it didn't have its good bits. Probably not up to the previous christmas specials.

And yes, cyberpunk cyberman FTW :cool:
 
Thumbs up for me, liked the steampunk feel, definitely better than last year's. A return to some good storytelling, really.
 
It was good. Way better than last years shoddy effort. Clearly whoever makes the effects has a 'transformers' plugin for their software package..
 
watched the first half.. couldn't really be bothered with the rest.. maybe it's just nostalgia but i think the old doctor who series were less predictable, more bonkers and shambolically endearing.. i think this one has too many commerical pressures breathing down its neck.. i get the sense that there is a mindless horde of beancounters that have to be assuaged before they are allowed to start filming.
 
First Dr Who I've watched since Ecclestsone and really enjoyed it. Liked the fact that everyone was thinking Morrissey was the new DR and it all turned out to be a big con!!:D
 
SpookyFrank said:
Interesting that no historical records of a mahoosive robot smashing seven shades of shit out of London in 1852 have survived :hmm:
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The Doctor goes, "Yeah, weird that..." at the end. I suspect it'll play into the next few episodes in some way. And that episode was vastly superior to the Titanic/Kylie one from last year. Best of the Christmas specials yet, I think.
 
Thought it was rubbish.


It's not transformers y'know. Why would they build a ship like that if there is a limited amount of resources and power availiable. It would take a few more than a handful of those children to build that massive, and might I add highly inefficiant thing.

Loved the classic russell t davies, "let's make a gun that blasts this giant transformer into.. well somewhere else, whith no explanation of what why or how".

As the other guy said (the other doctor) " I don't know how he did it, but he did it!".


Yeah.... nice one Russel. Great scripting there.

Worst eposiode ever.
 
editor said:
It wasn't bad. Not a classic, but good enough to keep all the faaaaamily entertained for an hour!
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Didn't work for this 'family' - both little uns looked bored, the older one calling for Star Wars instead.

I think you've got to have a certain affection for Dr Who to begin with and maybe that transmits to nippers, but on face value it didn't hold their attention. I suspect it's more for reminiscing adults.

I half wanted to like it, but the plot was too signposted and forced in my book. The script was poo. Like others here I've more of a fond recollection of chaotic doctors of the past - this one was a bit too brushed clean and anodyne.
 
They'd wrapped up that it wasn't the Doctor in the first fifteen minutes, which meant forty five minutes of stretching out a dull plot.

If they'd worked on the exposition better, and had the reveal at the end (with Morrissey's character being pew pew'd by a Cyberman saving The Doctor and with the question of his Timelordyness still being extant, died like a human) it would have been much better.

It's funny how Davies can go from Turn Left, which was ace - to The Next Doctor, which was just lacking. I thought that the scripting for Morrissey could have done with serious work, him and Tennant have shown some startlingly good screen chemistry in Blackpool.
 
1927 said:
Liked the fact that everyone was thinking Morrissey was the new DR and it all turned out to be a big con!!:D
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I had just finished explaining to my 75-year old mother-in-law that the two doctors were the same person and how regeneration and time travel allows this to be, when the bastards exposed it as a hoax. :mad: :o :D
 
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