Summary"I'm the Doctor, run for your life!" The Ninth Doctor came and conquered and died saving the universe and his companions from the cursed Daleks. Regenerating for the ninth time, the Tenth Doctor is here to show you more of the secrets and dark sides of this universe. Past, Present, Future and beyond! Saturday 19th March 2005, saw a Who ...
Summary"I'm the Doctor, run for your life!" The Ninth Doctor came and conquered and died saving the universe and his companions from the cursed Daleks. Regenerating for the ninth time, the Tenth Doctor is here to show you more of the secrets and dark sides of this universe. Past, Present, Future and beyond! Saturday 19th March 2005, saw a Who ...
For a program known for its harum-scarum pace and keep-up-or-shut-up iconography, the Season 8 Saturday premiere of BBC America's Doctor Who opens slowly--even with the T. rex--and radiates a newly modern self-consciousness, albeit dressed in Victorian garb.
I honestly didn't realize how spectacular Peter Capaldi was as the Doctor until too late. Going back and rewatching his seasons there are so many layers and intricacies, so many subtle and clever touches. Both Capaldi and Moffat are lifelong fans of the Doctor and it shows. I'm sad it landed on deaf ears at the time, but here's hoping people go back and see how amazing their tenure was.
There is a welcome weighty quality to this week's adventure tale, but its sense of substance comes from embracing the rich potential of the character's depth, not from overstuffing the hour with an excess of "clever" meta-commentary.
Coleman's rich performance matches Capaldi's as Clara struggles with the regeneration of her Doctor.... The Doctor may be different, but he's as entertaining as ever.
Capaldi's Doctor is not just older but looks to be drier in his humor, more reticent, more coldblooded and dangerous. From a critic’s point of view, that’s interesting and potentially an improvement.... In other ways, the season premiere is a bit of a space holder, a middling story that’s concerned mainly with introducing Mr. Capaldi and establishing the relationship between the new Doctor and his sidekick, Clara.
not bad the series was okay the doctor was brilliant Clara's character was executed poorly she was done decently being a mystery in this season it was like they couldn't bother with character development on her and he acting like a moaning 6 year old to the newly regenerated doctor.
Note: this review is being written after the season finale. I voted 06 because is Doctor Who, and yes we have great episodes here, but talking about Doctor Who, the minimum score acceptable is 8.5/9.0, so we had a bad season this year...
Peter Capaldi work well, he has a different point of view and it's good for the evolution of the Doctor. But some bad episodes (too bad, by the way!!), bad performance of Pink, less links with other seasons screwed up everything on the whole season.
In season 07 we see more than "friendship" in the relation of Clara and the last Doctor, to fix it (because of the age of the actors, i thing) they make a fast, empty and boring relation with Clara and Pink, Samuel Anderson work pretty bad in the whole season, maybe fault of the script/character writing. Is not why is Doctor Who we don't need to have sense in some things and explanations...
Stay with Capaldi, he's really good, more serious and experienced, put more "history" on the next season and a better companion, make a good point and a good work writing something good and with good explanations to get to the season finale! And please, not screw up something to fix another!
Imagine replacing the best Dr Who with one of the least convincing. The rest of the cast, crew and writers are brilliant as usual. How about a Dr Who revisited series with the best and most convincing Dr Who, Matt Smith.
After watching this series for the past 9 years, I no longer have an interest in this show as it's literally the same thing season after season. The only interesting episodes are the last few episodes when there's a minor plot twist, or something actually happens to the Doctor. As he is literally invincible pretty much throughout every episode except the last few at the end of a season.
Whilst I do like Capaldri as the new Doctor, and Clara as the assistant, it's just really obvious as to how the episodes will pan out now. The Doctor and his assistant go to a dangerous place, they will either end up separated or end up close to being killed, but they will always end up back at the Tardis in some way for the next episode.
It's just really boring now, and I think it's about time they pull the plug as there's really no where else they can go with the show. It will literally be the same thing over and over, much like other shows on the BBC such as Eastenders, because people keep watching it, and will have no end in sight, and will keep on repeating itself endlessly until it ends again (much like it did before)
Rarely do any of the episodes relate or go back to one another, so they're pretty much non-existent adventures most of the time too.
There's only so much you can do with a TV series, before it turns stale, and uninteresting. Which is why you have shows like Breaking Bad that still to this day keep getting awards because it wasn't dragged on for financial gain and/or hype and was ended when it should have ended.
I wish Doctor Who would just make a final series that would actually have more meaning and excitement, and to actually see something really different and interesting happen, and end itself and to end itself on a high note rather than just see it dragged on for years to come, doing the same thing over and over again.
Oh, and this series ending was majorly disappointing. I expected the reveal of the mysterious character to actually be interesting. But it wasn't at all, because it has been done before.