I love how next week's is looking to be a bit of a prequel of sorts.

Doctor Who isn't that cheesy these days. Just go back to 2005/2006 and you'll realize how far more adult it has become recently.

Next weeks looks good... I liked tonights episode but it ran a bit flat in parts and felt like the writers did a bit of stretching to cover the airtime. It was enjoyable though, felt more like proper Doctor Who (not that I hated the opener story).

I don't mind the sonic sunglasses for now, it's alright for a novelty and a little joke at wearable technology catching on in our culture. I can see a screwdriver returning at some point this series though, probably a newly designed one since the Matt Smith one looked a bit ridiculous and large (looked almost like a joke toy tbh), not very fitting for Capaldi who is generally a darker and more serious doctor compared to Smith's incarnation.

Also did anyone else think Clara was going to die at the end of the episode? :laugh: I was expecting her to die from a ghost or die in the flood, and there be a running death theme with her this season (Rory Williams teas).

No but it always has and always will have the cheese element.

Missy is pure cheese. The Doctor's sonic sunglasses. The one liners. :laugh: Cheesy in a good way though.

I'm really enjoying them, it's so nice not having everything solved by the screwdriver at last, and the glasses are actually working in a way that makes sense, rather than a screwdriver that can do everything from unlocking doors to hacking a Dalek.

Really liking having two parters back, single episodes are good sometimes, but they can get a little frantic.

If you'd have said that during S5,6 or 7 it would have made a lot more sense, with the fez, bowtie, custard ect.

I think Moffat is just aiming the show towards proper fanatics rather than general fans of the show.

I'd say the opposite, in S8-9 it feels like he's trying to mesh the show back with the original series more and more. S5-7 felt like he was trying to hard to appeal to fanatics IMO.

I thought that was a great episode tbh. The ghosts were really creepy. I kind of saw the cliffhanger coming but it didn't make it any less effective. I'm guessing it'll be The Doctor inside that chamber thing.

To those who complain about Moffat taking it too far with sonic shades...

http://i.imgur.com/JPd7kYR.jpg

I thought it was okay but I still think the show needs a shakeup. It's getting kind of boring now.

Getting rid of Moffat would help at this point, he's taken it as far as he can go and it's time for a new showrunner and a new direction.

The poor ratings mean that they are going to axe Doctor Who

See here

Not many people watch dramas when they air anymore. Look at the soaps, they're lucky if they break 7 million on a regular basis because a lot of people will opt to watch them in their own time.

Judging a show's worth or popularity by it's overnights is silly when a majority of people will watch things on demand. Pretty much the only thing I'll watch live is films on Sky Movies if I happen to catch one I want to watch. I'll TiVo everything else or watch it on demand.

The viewership is still there, it's just the way that people watch shows has changed. The fact that Doctor Who has a stupidly large international fanbase will likely ensure Doctor Who's future by itself if the UK viewership wasn't there.

Load of media bull****.

Remember RTD?

Can they stop trying to make capaldi into the default kooky and quirky doctor matt smith was...

Worst opening ever?

yep

who was he talking all that **** to idgi

this show is so futuristic

i mean they are face timing!!!!1

Kass :love:

this ep is boring me

well this is just crap

Worst ending ever?

I enjoyed parts of that but on the whole I didn't really like this two parter, watchable but not great

I liked it tbh, it was better as a two parter, but there were parts which I loathed