I'm guessing the Timeless Child thing might be an arc? Unless it was just BS to distract the Doctor. Maybe Susan is returning :D

Grace to be the arc villain?

Just realised what the titles/music remind me of.

A Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005 feel for some reason. :think:

Leave Hopeless Helen Hopewell alone!

Was she the one who threw herself down the stairs? I remember her!!

LOVED that episode.

The titles. :love:
The TARDIS. :love:
The Doctor, again. :love:


I have mixed feelings about next week- it could be brilliant but could also be handled terribly. The fact that it's Malorie Blackman writing it gives me some hope- I just feel like forcing an alien threat in there could feel tasteless. I would love a pure hitorical episode.

Racist aliens trying to drag Rosa off the bus?

But it's the first episode of the new era written by someone other than Chibnall so it shall be interesting to witness.

I think it was good but not amazing. I don't know if it was the directing but it dragged on a bit, it felt like there wasn't enough story to fill the runtime. But I liked it.

Bit of a weird episode this week, enjoyed it still... but there didn't seem to be much to it

Marsh your sig tho :lovedup:

:love: It's gorgeous.

I can't even see it, is it imgur? Imgur doesn't work on my internet, for some reason

Yeah imgur is always blocked when I'm with my dad. Idk why.

I wonder if the TARDIS will be added into the titles next week?

Is your dad's internet from Vodafone too? Maybe it's a weird network thing?

it was a nice episode, also nice seeing Art Malik again, he looks completely different than in True Lies :eek:

bit weird this ep, but then again i expect that in a syfy series like doctor who :laugh:

Unfortunately yes.

7.11m for last night - Our Jodie staying strong :clap1:

that's quite good ratings :love:

Is Nicky watching Doctor Who because a rich blonde girl is playing the lead?

More episode titles:

episode 3

He hops on stuff just for the sake of commenting.
I don't think he watches half of what he comments on.

Why are you spoilering Rosa Parks - there were two next time trailers telling us she was in the next episode.

He doesn't watch. :)

Nawt Punjab!

:facepalm: no more because i was excited for this season with the first female doctor

and also Bradley Walsh in this, he was already lovely on Corrie :hee:

and i had seen doctor who before though, Paul McGann is one of my fave doctors :flutter:

i was being careful ok, i didn't know if it could be with or without spoilers

i do watch, i had seen those next time trailers but still i didn't know if everyone who watches it on here has actually seen it or had to catch up later on :hmph:

Not Paul McGann who was in one episode :skull:

Almost 11 Million for the first episode officially is absolutely fantastic.

It was the pilot episode to a potential new series, so yes it was.

Thanks for that 👍🏻

I like that in this new series, the Doctor isn't some massive legend across all the universe like they were in Moffat's era, if this weeks episode was in Moffat's era, there'd have been some civilisation that worshiped the TARDIS and the Doctor.

These two episodes have, imo, been surprisingly better than Capaldis whole run :skull: I mean who actually thought Matt Lucas would make a good recurring companion :skull:

Just saw an interesting post on reddit, since the opening 'The World and Enough Time' last year, the Doctor's current adventure has been ongoing with no breaks.

I was looking at an article earlier and saw that the series 11 premiere episode was the highest rated episode since the premiere of the revival of Doctor Who, mainly due to the BARB including ratings from people watching on other platforms (computer, mobile, tablet, etc).

Rose - 10.8m viewers
The Woman Who Fell To Earth - 10.9m viewers

That episode was one case where that might actually have worked, with the Tardis at least - most of the episode was filler crap, so binning most of that and replacing it with the Doctor trying to convince the natives of the planet that the Tardis is her ship rather than a Thing From God might have been interesting. Keep it as a race across the planet with the Tardis being the finish line, but the Tardis crashed through time and space, landing on the planet and becoming a legend. The Doctor's teleport got the right place, but not the right time.

"I've never even heard of moomanbeans!"

Didn't pick up on this on first viewing. :joker:

Art Malik's character was a bit easily convinced to allow a joint win.

But then again with the link to the stenza I wonder if we might see him again. Wasted on two scenes.