Doctor Who Discussion Thread: Series 8: TONIGHT 7:50pm BBC1

[Firewire]

cbb time

[Pete.]

love the fresh theme giving me Colin baker teas

[arista]

they didn't they filmed in cardiff


yes good enough

[Marsh.]

So is Mary Poppins going to collect all of the Doctor's enemies over the series? :think:

[GypsyGoth]

I didn't think I'd like it with the new doctor, the only one I've ever watched is the matt smith one, but I loved it. I got used to him pretty fast, however what made the ep for me was having the others in it.

[Sticks]

Someone making sure the Doctor and companion stay together.

Donna teas.

Well according to the press that is not going to happen...

Jenna is leaving at Christmas

[Sticks]

I see they have redone the titles

I don't like it...

[Marsh.]

Well according to the press that is not going to happen...

Jenna is leaving at Christmas

Irrelevant to the story. She's here for the duration of series 8. Mirrors Donna/Doctor, she was only around 1 series.

[arista]

I see they have redone the titles

I don't like it...


But Sticks
it had to happen

[Sticks]

But Sticks
it had to happen

Someone missed the joke :joker:

[Scarlett.]

I thought that was a fantastic first episode, it was so nice not to have an episode based around the Doctor running from A to B knowing every single thing in existance. The writing for Clara seems to have improved too.

[Rob!]

Capaldi :clap1: :clap1: :clap1:

Don't normally like Clara (because her character development has been a ****ing mess since the start tbf) but she was great tonight.


Omg at daleks next week. :amazed:

[Marsh.]

I'll have to rewatch. Moffat episodes still lose me halfway through.

It'll probably click into place in 2017, I think I just about get series 5 now. :think:

[armand.kay]

I'll have to rewatch. Moffat episodes still lose me halfway through.

It'll probably click into place in 2017, I think I just about get series 5 now. :think:

This tbh I'm only now understanding the "a good man goes to war" dramaz.

[Rob!]

This tbh I'm only now understanding the "a good man goes to war" dramaz.

It'll take about as long as Matt smith's death in the Xmas special to work out the plot from halfway through series 6 onwards.


#nerdhumour

[armand.kay]

I think Moffat is the only person who gets what's going on.

[Marsh.]

I can't believe he's doing another two series.

My brain is tired at the thought.

[Marsh.]

Or has BB dumbed me down? D:

[armand.kay]

Not Bianca leaving us brain dead

[Joelle.]

I watched it tonight for the first time since David Tennant and really enjoyed it :love:

[Marsh.]

Not Bianca leaving us brain dead

:joker:

[Joelle.]

I agree about Steven Moffat though, Sherlock is the same sometimes it always loses me in the middle. Hes not as clever as he thinks he is tbh

[armand.kay]

I still can believe the Christmas episode actually made it on air. Can someone pls explain.

[Marsh.]

He went to a town called Christmas and then he was old. :umm2:

That's literally all I got but I was drunk and found it comical at the time.

[armand.kay]

It's not a show you can watch with the family anymore because every 2 seconds it's "what's going on"

[Marsh.]

The Runaway Bride. :love:

My favourite Christmas special

http://www.sliverofice.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/donna-noble.jpg

[armand.kay]

The first Christmas special is still my fave

[Shaun]

Moffat is basically everything that's wrong with TV writing. Campy, pretentious nonsense with too much existential bollocks thrown in. It's a ****ing kids show about aliens ffs.

I mean, I like Sherlock but mostly all of those episodes are guest-written and the acting's pretty much the only reason I enjoy it... all of the silly "mind palace" stuff and impossibly rapid dialogue that spans all Moffatisms can be done away with.

[Marsh.]

Pretentious. That's exactly the word.

Some of his simpler ideas are the best but he thinks complicated = brilliant.

[Shaun]

he's the British (I think? maybe irish? idk) equivalent of Aaron Bloody Sorkin :fist: 'The Newsroom' is the same premise: people talking impossibly fast and impossibly witty and snappy and corny and put-a-shotgun-to-their-heady

[Rob!]

The Xmas special was answering questions from like 2 series ago in throw away lines. I don't understand who blew up the tardis, what the hell the Daleks had to do with the silence or anything really.
Farting aliens were much easier to understand.

[Rob!]

he's the British (I think? maybe irish? idk) equivalent of Aaron Bloody Sorkin :fist: 'The Newsroom' is the same premise: people talking impossibly fast and impossibly witty and snappy and corny and put-a-shotgun-to-their-heady

Scottish :hehe:

[Marsh.]

I notice that Mary Poppins character was given the "talking very fast and knowingly" attribute he gave to River Song.

Then she said "girlfriend". :facepalm:

[Marsh.]

The first Christmas special is still my fave

"Harriet Jones. Former Prime Minister"

I hate running gags but that one was funny.

[armand.kay]

I notice that Mary Poppins character was given the "talking very fast and knowingly" attribute he gave to River Song.

Then she said "girlfriend". :facepalm:

This made me cringe I thought with an older doctor we were finally rid of of him having love interests. :bored:

[Scarlett.]

I doubt that woman is the Doctor's 'girlfriend' seems a lot more likely to be a villain.

[Liam-]

I'm not here for Capaldi, i want Matt Smith back, IT'll take me a while to get used to the doctor being older

[LukeB]

it was good! i aint seen doctor who since the david T Days!
was not keen on matt bloody smith :yuk:

[Crimson Dynamo]

I switched over after about 15 mins, what a load of crapola. That lizard lesbo and the doc in his nighty and the plot about as clear as a King james BIble.

rubbish

[Jay.]

I wasn't keen on that episode at all. I don't mind Capaldi, but you can tell the writing is still bad, I liked Matt Smith but the writing was dire, never understood much, because the story lines were so crossed etc :/ I still have no idea who the lizard lady and her lesbian wife are? Although I've seen them in it loads. :umm2:

[Marsh.]

I don't even know who Clara is, they have yet to give her a personality.

[armand.kay]

I only just realised the lez lizard and white girl are together lmao.

[Marsh.]

I don't get why they're with a Sontaran?

[armand.kay]

Would be nice to see the lez lizard and her crew travel with the doctor one thing I love about the classic series is that the doctor traveled with a group.

[Scarlett.]

I don't get why they're with a Sontaran?

They brought him back to Victorian London with them after A Good Man Goes to War, Vastra and Jenny are old friends of the Doctor (even though they only introduced them in S6)

[Crimson Dynamo]

That lizard lady will be quite the catch what with her long forked tongue

[Marsh.]

That lizard lady will be quite the catch what with her long forked tongue

:creep:

[LukeB]

I don't even know who Clara is, they have yet to give her a personality.

she is fab :idc:

[Liam-]

I don't even know who Clara is, they have yet to give her a personality.

Donna Noble > Clara in every single way, i wish they would find some way to bring her back :inamood:

[Marsh.]

Donna. :love:

[armand.kay]

I think the problem with Clara is that she doesn't really have a story behind her and she has no motive at all. They have taken no time out to develop her character.

Rose: she was a girl who lived in South East London who was fed up of her mundane life which explained why she ended up traveling with the doctor. Her character continued to develop throughout her adventures with the doctor.

Martha: She couldn't handle all the demands of her life from her over baring mum, her sagar daddy dad, his gold digging gf and from her training as a nurse. She met the doctor and he took her on an adventure and she ended up developing feeling for him.

Donna: she originally rejected his offer to travel with the doctor and regretted it since she then spent ages looking for him and she found him she was already packed and ready to go :laugh:

Amy: since being a little girl she's waited for this raggedy man in a blue box to take her on an adventure she grew up to be a crazy bitch who stanned for someone everyone thought was in her imagination except he ended up being real and he took her away.

Clara: she was a babysitter having internet problems and she called the wrong number.....

There was more character development for the companions in the classic series and that's in like the 60s

[Marsh.]

Clara: she was a babysitter having internet problems and she called the wrong number.....

:joker:

[armand.kay]

I also hate how much stuff happens off screen :(

[armand.kay]

I sound so moany lmao

[Tom4784]

I think the problem with Clara is that she doesn't really have a story behind her and she has no motive at all. They have taken no time out to develop her character.

Rose: she was a girl who lived in South East London who was fed up of her mundane life which explained why she ended up traveling with the doctor. Her character continued to develop throughout her adventures with the doctor.

Martha: She couldn't handle all the demands of her life from her over baring mum, her sagar daddy dad, his gold digging gf and from her training as a nurse. She met the doctor and he took her on an adventure and she ended up developing feeling for him.

Donna: she originally rejected his offer to travel with the doctor and regretted it since she then spent ages looking for him and she found him she was already packed and ready to go :laugh:

Amy: since being a little girl she's waited for this raggedy man in a blue box to take her on an adventure she grew up to be a crazy bitch who stanned for someone everyone thought was in her imagination except he ended up being real and he took her away.

Clara: she was a babysitter having internet problems and she called the wrong number.....

There was more character development for the companions in the classic series and that's in like the 60s

The whole point of Clara originally is that her existence was a mystery to the doctor which is why she didn't really get a whole lot of character development until the Christmas Special and why she got a lot more of a rounded personality in Deep Breath.

[Sticks]

Too late now, Jenna is leaving the show at Christmas

[Tom4784]

It's just a rumour until it's confirmed and even if that's the case it doesn't mean she can't be developed further, Martha and Donna were only around for one season and they were fully fleshed out characters.

[Jamesy]

Clara's story came to an end in series seven for me. The whole interest of her was just the mystery of who (or what) she was. Now that we know that there's not a whole lot more to develop. We kinda learnt her whole life in a few episodes. All we can really gather from Clara now is that she struggled through the loss of her mother, with a plain life and nothing going for her. The Doctor came along and saved her from that. Although now with a job as a teacher she still wants a 'normal' life but some adventures with the Doctor too, to have some excitement in life. I'd assume the new character Danny Pink will no doubt become a love interest and that will leave her with a good happy way to leave the show. I doubt after killing Amy and Rory they will kill off Clara. I think we'll see a happier ending, maybe a bit like Martha's exit. Although you never know with Moffat, he seems to like to use death a lot.

I still like Clara, although she doesn't hit my top list of modern companions. Amy still hits the spot on that one.

Regarding the comments a few pages back, Doctor Who is just BBC/BBC Wales at the moment. Although there were talks at one point of the show moving over to BBC Worldwide. Not sure how that would affect the show but it's interesting nonetheless. I'd rather see it stay on BBC Wales personally. Doctor Who is the kind of show I like for having crap CGI, dodgy editing and cheesy moments. It's what made the classic series so loved and what makes the modern series just as loved. Even though the show has matured since 2005 it still has its moments.

[Jarrod]

Doctor Who has become the main central point for BBC Wales. It's put Wales on the map for many people, alongside Torchwood and SJA for example. I don't think BBC Wales would be anything without the DW franchise now.

[Liam-]

Doctor Who has become the main central point for BBC Wales. It's put Wales on the map for many people, alongside Torchwood and SJA for example. I don't think BBC Wales would be anything without the DW franchise now.

Agreed, i got a DM on twitter the other day from an American and they were like 'You're in Cardiff, that's where Torchwood is!' i don't many people in America or other places in the world would know where Wales was if it wasn't for Doctor Who and the likes.

[JTM45]

I think Capaldi is much better than Matt Smith!
I personally thought Matt Smith was awful as the Doctor...........far too young and a terrible actor!

It's probably been mentioned in this thread somewhere that the first 5 episodes of the new series were leaked online before last week's premier aired.
They're workprints though so they're in Black & White and they have "Property of BBC......" text on the top of the screen and a time clock etc..
I'd rather wait for the proper versions to air but i know a lot of the Who fanatics just can't resist the temptation!

[Glenn.]

I think Capaldi is much better than Matt Smith!
I personally thought Matt Smith was awful as the Doctor...........far too young and a terrible actor!

It's probably been mentioned in this thread somewhere that the first 5 episodes of the new series were leaked online before last week's premier aired.
They're workprints though so they're in Black & White and they have "Property of BBC......" text on the top of the screen and a time clock etc..
I'd rather wait for the proper versions to air but i know a lot of the Who fanatics just can't resist the temptation!

wat

[JTM45]

wat

Anyone younger than say....David Tennant, as far as i'm concerned, just doesn't suit the part of the Doctor! To play The Doctor well an actor needs a certain gravitas which Matt Smith clearly didn't possess!
I know theoretically The Doctor could appear to be any age but Matt Smith just came across as a buffoon with a disproportionately large chin and a disproportionately small talent for acting.

The best actor to ever play the Doctor was, in my opinion, Tom Baker! :shrug:

[armand.kay]

I liked matt smith tbh

[armand.kay]

when i first saw him I hated him... but that's probably because tennant had just left and I was pressed

[Marsh.]

I also hate how much stuff happens off screen :(

:clap1:

I too am fed up of this. The majority of the stories take place off camera/between episodes or series and we have to put up with it being spewed out as exposition between characters.

Show don't tell. :laugh:

[Jarrod]

Tonight's episode looks great.

[Marsh.]

Doctor Who has become the main central point for BBC Wales. It's put Wales on the map for many people, alongside Torchwood and SJA for example. I don't think BBC Wales would be anything without the DW franchise now.

Yeah, haven't they only just built within the last two years a whole new compound for the show in Cardiff? Fancy new studios/sets.

[Marsh.]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2737867/Doctor-Who-criticised-scene-characters-tear-hair-complaints-sufferers-rare-disorder.html

Let's just close down television and everyone stay at home. You can't breathe without offending.

I suppose showing a clip of someone flicking a light switch or cleaning up will offend people with OCD too.

[Sticks]

I thought that was going to be about the 6 people who complained to Offcom about that lesbian kiss scene between Madam Vastra and Jenny :shocked:

[Jarrod]

Yeah, haven't they only just built within the last two years a whole new compound for the show in Cardiff? Fancy new studios/sets.

Yeah. Roath Lock has been built especially for BBC Wales and the majority of the studios are dedicated to Doctor Who, and the permanent sets like the TARDIS. Not to mention they've recently built a huge complex for the Doctor Who Experience just opposite.

[Marsh.]

I thought that was going to be about the 6 people who complained to Offcom about that lesbian kiss scene between Madam Vastra and Jenny :shocked:

It's absolute madness. :laugh:

[Jarrod]

The website has been given a slight overhaul!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006q2x0

[Jarrod]

Also, here's just an update of the OP which still displays stuff for Series Seven.

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/raw/p025lz94.png

Doctor Who returns to BBC One with a complete 12 episode run staring Peter Capaldi as The Doctor and Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald.

Series Eight Episode Guide
1. Deep Breath
2. Into The Dalek
3. Robots Of Sherwood
4. Listen
5. Time Heist
6. The Caretaker
7. Kill The Moon
8. Mummy On The Orient Express
9. Flatline
10. Into The Forest Of The Night
11. Dark Water
12. Death In Heaven

Next on TV: Saturday 6th September

Episode Ratings:
Deep Breath - 6.79 Million [Overnight]
Into The Dalek - TBA

[Jamesy]

Lmao at that Daily Fail article. I'd sympathise more if they did actually show hair being ripped out on Doctor Who, like someone ripping their full head of hair out. But literally it was just two strands of hair being pulled out. :laugh:

Tonights episode looks great. There have been far too many Dalek episodes these past two years but tonights one looks like it will be pretty good.

[Jarrod]

Lmao at that Daily Fail article. I'd sympathise more if they did actually show hair being ripped out on Doctor Who, like someone ripping their full head of hair out. But literally it was just two strands of hair being pulled out. :laugh:

Tonights episode looks great. There have been far too many Dalek episodes these past two years but tonights one looks like it will be pretty good.

:suspect: Far too many Dalek episodes? We had Asylum of the Daleks back in September 2012 as the opening episode for Series 7 Part 1, then the Daleks didn't appear at all in Series 7 part 2.

They appeared in The Day of The Doctor in November 2013 as the whole story was about the time war, and then had a slight role in The Time of The Doctor at Christmas alongside some other enemies.... so really the Daleks haven't had a proper stand alone episode for a while.

[arista]

Why does no one Edit the Title as its
at 7:30PM tonight on BBC1HD?

[Jarrod]

Why does no one Edit the Title as its
at 7:30PM tonight on BBC1HD?

We can't, it's Glenn's thread.

[arista]

We can't, it's Glenn's thread.



You can Ask a Mod to help you
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Glenn - sleeping

[Marsh.]

We should've had a new thread for Series 8. :hehe:

[Jarrod]

We should've had a new thread for Series 8. :hehe:

I would make one but I'm sure I'd get hate from it :suspect:

[Marsh.]

You wouldn't. I'd say make one and ask Josy to split this thread from the point that the series 8 discussion starts. If that's not too much trouble of course, I don't know how it works. :laugh:

[Marsh.]

Ok, what's happening? I keep trying to edit my post and TiBB won't let me.

[Jarrod]

Ok, what's happening? I keep trying to edit my post and TiBB won't let me.

Same here. I've asked Josy if I would be allowed to make a separate thread for Series 8. Hope I can because it would be ideal, a new OP and everything.

[Jarrod]

SERIES EIGHT DISCUSSION THREAD:
http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7227178#post7227178

I got permission :hehe:

[Braden]

I'd be so done if I was The Doctor and had to have another encounter with the Daleks.

[Marsh.]

I'd be so done if I was The Doctor and had to have another encounter with the Daleks.

:laugh:

[JTM45]

The Space/Other Worlds/Planets episodes have always been my favorite ones but then i'm mad for anything Space associated and the undoubtable existence of life on other Planets!

My least favorite ones are the Victorian era and ghost ones! Ghosts are crap!!!!

[Marsh.]

I enjoyed some of the 'ghost' ones like The Unquiet Dead.

Moffat does seem to be visiting the Victorian era a bit too often though.