I think Danny will end up being some sort of undercover UNIT agent.

I hate how with Matt Smith's final episode ALL unanswered questions were answered, even questions that the majority of viewers probably forgot about.

I hate how Moffat has to answer everything. I kinda like a mystery or two, or unanswered questions that can leave the viewer to come to their own conclusions about. It's a sc-fi show at the end of the day, we don't need to know everything or things from 4 years ago, and it's good to leave viewers to come to their own conclusions now and again.

I'm not holding up much hope for next week's episode. It looks like they've taken the remaining sets and costumes from Merlin (Which was also a BBC Wales production) and just smashed them all into a story about Robin Hood :idc:

Yeah, it has a feeling of being one of "those episodes"

The titles are tricky. I don't like the clockwork thing at the start, but I like the vortex/space part. As for the theme tune... they've butchered it within an inch of its life and I have no idea why. It has no bass, no... oomph. It's really boring.

Last night's felt a bit rushed too, like there was no story behind it really... enjoyed how we saw the inside of the Dalek though!

Last night's episode was watched by 5.2m (24.7%) at 7:30pm.

To let you know, I'll be keeping a record of the episode ratings throughout the run, and updating it when the official ratings for the episode are released.

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I didn't mind not having a proper backstory to last nights episodes, it was just Daleks doing their thing. Though I suppose that hasn't been a common thing in the new series, since the majority of those episodes hinged on having one survivor with Asylum and Into the Dalek being the exceptions.

I LOVED Asylum :love: It's up there with one of my favourite episodes ever. I just didn't like last nights as much as I'd hoped.

Titles and theme music remaining flawless http://i.imgur.com/4CD0G80.gif

I quite like the theme tune, at least the start of it, with all the bell chimes and stuff, the visuals are great too.

I'm mad that the doctor didn't take the black girl with him, I really liked her and was hopping he would collect a couple of people on his adventures so he ends up with a small group traveling with him. I've always preferred it when the doctor travels with a group.

Pls they're fugly.

Good idea, Capaldi is already echoing a lot of Pertwee's era.

45 minutes :amazed:

Peter C was asked to add a flavour of William Hartnell in him because of the new regeneration timeline (well that's what a friend told me)

Messy Clara

I loved tonights episode, it was so silly, but that's what made it so great for me, generally in Moffat's era, episodes that should be fun tended to fall flat, but this episode revelled in how silly it was, rather than trying to be serious at the same time.

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I think the new guy is a much better Doctor than that little boy with the giant chin that they had playing him last but so far (with tonight's episode being a Prime example!) the writing and storylines have been absolutely HORRENDOUS!!!!!!
As a child i spent my week days getting excited for Saturday evening's Doctor Who episode with the greatest ever Doctor (Tom Baker!) in them and that era of Doctor Who was just immense in every way!!! Davros was the scariest nemesis of the Doctor's ever. Used to scare the crap out of me.

I quite enjoyed tonight - was good fun. I'm liking Capaldi more and more. :) actually finding myself liking Clara more too - at last.
Next week looks creepy as ****. I'm really hoping for a old school Moffat story. The type we used to look forward to in the RTD era. He hasn't written a stand alone story since Beast Below.

I liked the Dalek episode a lot, haven't watched the current episode yet tbh

The episodes are a lot better now that they are not taking over by a massive story arc like series 6 was and parts of series 7, it does feel like it's back to what it was like before Matt Smith, I like the missy mystery since it only takes up like 6 seconds just like the Bad wolf story arc did :flutter:

I agree, it's so nice not having some convoluted plot every single episode, I mean, its been a really long time since we had a story as simple as Robots of Sherwood, hell, even Into the Dalek and Deep Breath were simple enough. Another thing that really helps this series is, its a consistent run of episodes, the last time we got a series that played out in full was 2010 with series 5.

Don't forget, I'm adding the episode ratings in the OP.

This is scurry :worry:

great episode, until the last 10 minutes

tired of Moffat's eye for a good visual and atmosphere being undone at the last minute by his desperate attempts to be deep

Yeah the end was annoying.

So..

Yeah basically

Clara ruined the episode for me yet again by being non-human levels of quirky and being far more important than she should be. Great concept, brilliant pacing and settings, Capaldi played a blinder yet again, but man, if Clara doesn't always put a damper on things for me.

Interesting theory bouncing around that

I actually loved the ending, perhaps because I thought they were just reusing the barn set, didn't expect it to actually be the same place, lol. Also, it's a lot better than revealing the monster at the end, it leaves the question, was there a monster, or was it just the Doctor's overactive imaginination.

It was an amazing episode, incredibly creepy.

I do think the creature in Rupert's room might have some significance at some point down the line since it was the only thing that couldn't be explained as simply being the Doctor's imagination. There's more to Danny and I think the creature will tie into his story somehow beyond this episode.

See I thought I was confused by that as well and then I read on Wiki it was revealed it was a friend of his playing a prank :laugh: I was like 'uh...where?'

I don't think anything has been said for definite. It definitely didn't look human when the blanket slid off.

That was really something special. Strange thing was, it wasn't really anything to do with the Doctor or Clara (Aside from establishing that he's afraid of the dark and that Clara and Danny are now an item) but just a kind of monologue from the mind of Moffat.

Interesting thing though... What is the Army of the Time Lords?

Yeah, I didn't think Gallifrey would have an army, seeing as they were more insular before the Time War. Then again, having an army on stand by is probably a good idea.

The creature in Rupert's bedroom was interesting, it could kinda be wrote off as just representing what they thought was behind them, rather than it being an actual creature. Interesting that we didn't get a Promised Land mention in this episode.

This series has been so much better than 5/6/7 so far, it really feels like what the show used to be before it became The Pond's show.

Clara is so much better this series I'm beginning to like her.

Tonight's episode was the best one of this Series so far.....by a long way (in my opinion!).

4.81m (23.5%) watched last night's episode of Doctor Who.