May 3, 20178 yr Author A v good episode! What do y'all think was ootseed?? Good question!! I don't think it's anything we've seen before, just one remaining creature at the end of the universe that's causing havoc or something perhaps.
May 4, 20178 yr Time Heist, The Bells of St John, Boom Town, Deep Breath are all great. Not seen Listen in a while but I think i enjoyed it
May 4, 20178 yr http://i.imgur.com/DQhkypA.jpg 60 Boom Town Series 1, Episode 11 Doctor: Ninth Companion: Rose Tyler, Captain Jack Harkness Also starring: Mickey Smith Your wish is my command Chez :kink: Boom Town saw the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack make a pit-stop in Cardiff, with Rose calling Mickey so he could bring her passport. The tone of the episode is pretty light-hearted until the Doctor spots a familiar face in the newspaper - not only is she alive, but Margaret Blaine is the Mayor of Cardiff. After managing to corner her, they plan to take her back to Raxacoricofallapatorious, despite the fact she'd be executed for her crimes. She introduces them to the Blaidd Drwg ("bad wolf") project, where the Doctor and Jack find an extrapolator, or a "pan-dimensional surfboard", which Margaret was going to ride into space after blowing up the planet. Margaret requests one final dinner, so she goes to eat with the Doctor, trying to kill him a few times but being outsmarted each and every time. Meanwhile, Rose and Mickey go for a walk, and when Rose discovers Mickey has a new girlfriend, she's less than impressed, not having considered the impact her travels with the Doctor will have had on Mickey. After Jack's meddling with the extrapolator causes the rift to open, Margaret reveals that was her plan B all along, and, holding Rose hostage, she plans to leave on the extrapolator still. However, the heart of the TARDIS is pulled open, and it regresses her back to being an egg. I actually considered this one of my least favourite episodes for a while. Understandable I guess, it's not the most monster-heavy episode and as a kid, I certainly cared more for those moments than the character moments. However, with many rewatches, and the fact I'm reading the script right now, it's really pretty excellent for what is just a filler low-budget episode before the huge finale. The TARDIS team enjoying a quiet moment near the beginning is really fun to watch, while Annette Badland is a joy as Margaret. The plot isn't the best ever but nonetheless, it's a way more enjoyable episode than I used to think and it does a really solid job. It's Aunt Babe as a Slitheen. I thought Annette Badland had been in Doctor Who.
May 4, 20178 yr This countdon has made me want to revisit this show *.* I saw its on netflix but some episodes appear to be missing :snif:
May 4, 20178 yr I watched Listen last night on Netflix! Absolute classic and should be higher hur. Itbis missing the two parter where the second worst modern doctor regens
May 4, 20178 yr omg it really is a mess on Netflix. The 2009 specials and Series 7B aren't there and then 'The Day of the Doctor' and 'The Time of the Doctor' is placed on the end of Series 8?? God help anyone who has never seen the show before and is watching it for the first time on there.
May 4, 20178 yr omg it really is a mess on Netflix. The 2009 specials and Series 7B aren't there and then 'The Day of the Doctor' and 'The Time of the Doctor' is placed on the end of Series 8?? God help anyone who has never seen the show before and is watching it for the first time on there. WTF :lol: mess.
May 4, 20178 yr Author http://www.space.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/beimage5.jpg 56 The Lodger Series 5, Episode 11 Doctor: Eleventh Companion: Amy Pond Also starring: Craig Owens The Doctor is left stranded on Earth after the TARDIS refuses to land, and with the help of Amy who's stuck on board, they track the disturbance to the first floor of a flat. The Doctor becomes Craig Owens' lodger in the flat below, trying to act normal and fit in without whatever's above catching a whiff of his Time Lord presence. He learns that Craig is stuck in the friend zone with Sophie, the woman he loves. He joins the football team with Craig, who slowly becomes irritated at the Doctor being better than him. Meanwhile, people are being lured off the street to the flat above and being killed. After Sophie is lured upstairs, the Doctor forces Craig to admit his love for her, as she is being tested as a pilot for a TARDIS-like ship upstairs due to her desire to escape (and move abroad). They kiss and the ship implodes, leaving Craig's flat as a one-storey building like it always was. This is very much a filler episode really but considering the whole concept, with James Corden starring, I really expected a lot worse! Craig is very likeable and the concept doesn't feel forced or OTT at any point. The alien threat isn't particularly great but it's not a total afterthought, not enough to put me off the episode anyway. Much like Boom Town, it's a nice fun episode before things get serious in the finale.
May 4, 20178 yr Author http://cdn1.sciencefiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Doctor-WhoThe-Power-of-Three-Poster.png 55 The Power of Three Series 7, Episode 4 Doctor: Eleventh Companion: Amy Pond, Rory Williams Also starring: Kate Stewart, Brian Williams This is the final story in the bottom half of the results! The Power of Three sees Amy and Rory contemplating over how they have two lives - normal life and Doctor life, and that ultimately, they need to choose. They are disturbed by the Doctor's arrival when loads of black boxes appear over the Earth, seemingly harmless. UNIT arrive at Amy and Rory's house, with the Brigadier's daughter Kate introducing herself. They all keep watch over the boxes for days and nothing happens. After he gets bored, the Doctor decides to depart, leaving Rory's dad Brian in charge of watching the cubes. Over the following year, the Doctor continues to visit Amy and Rory, and the cubes are barely noticed by anyone, until one year after they arrived, they begin to activate. Each cube provides a different function, but all are collecting information or acting in self-defence. Rory and Brian help out at the hospital while Amy and the Doctor head to UNIT Headquarters in the Tower of London. All of the cubes begin a countdown, and when thy reach zero, one-third of the human population seems to suffer cardiac arrests, including one of the Doctor's hearts. At the hospital, they see that Brian has been captured by two figures with distorted faces. The Doctor, Amy and Rory follow them on board a ship, and are met by a hologram of a Shakri, who intends to use the cubes to wipe out humanity. The Doctor reverses the impulse that caused the cardiac arrests, before the feedback causes the ship to explode. Amy and Rory then make a choice - they decide to travel with the Doctor as opposed to normal life. This is one of the most FRUSTRATING episodes for me. It builds up excellently. The cubes are really cool threats and I love the idea of a "slow invasion", and it's fun seeing the Doctor trying and failing to adapt to a slower pace of life. Brian feels like a much more natural inclusion in this episode too. However, the reveal of the Shakri and the solution are awful, and ultimately ruin what could be a big favourite of mine. I genuinely missed the conclusion when watching the first time as I got distracted for a minute :') So ultimately it's got a great concept with superb ideas but the conclusion really lets it down.
May 4, 20178 yr I agree that the Power of 3 was a great concept that was entirely ruined by the ending being rushed and too much of a boring solution. I remember at the time debating with Mr D* about whether people would really just accept things like they do in the episode and I found it really rather believable - I remember citing the uprise of wind turbines all of the country as an example of how people just accept things once they get used to them. Fully expecting wind turbines to give us all cardiac arrests one day.
May 4, 20178 yr Deep Breath was slightly too long, especially considering its the longest single episode of NuWho and longer than the 50th special!!! Once it gets going though, its really great. I loved that they brought back the Clockwork Droids unexpectedly and added a really tense twist with them! I agree very much with those comments for The Power of Three! Brilliant set up but the ending was waaaaay too rushed to the point where I can't even remember it. That's a good discussion Dandy, I do think that, because they showed no threat, people would get used to it over time.
May 4, 20178 yr Planet of the Dead! That's the one where one guy decides just to jump back through the hole and ends up as a skeleton right?
May 4, 20178 yr Author SEE! :o :D! I totally agree with you also D*, after a while people would totally just accept something as initially weird as the cubes, life goes on and they weren't causing harm! Planet of the Dead! That's the one where one guy decides just to jump back through the hole and ends up as a skeleton right? Yeah that's the one!
May 4, 20178 yr Author http://i.imgur.com/IOkjNyK.png 54 The Time of the Doctor 2013 Christmas Special Doctor: Eleventh Companion: Clara Oswald Also starring: Amy Pond Thousands of aliens are orbiting one planet, after a message was sent across time and space which nobody could translate. The Doctor picks up Clara, who's preparing Christmas dinner, and they head to the Papal Mainframe, a space church headed by the Doctor's old friend Tasha Lem. She put a forcefield over the planet, and allows the Doctor and Clara to explore further. They find themselves surrounded by Weeping Angels in the snow, and the Doctor summons the TARDIS. They head to a village called Christmas, which is located in a truth field so nobody can lie. They find a crack in time where the message is coming from, and Handles translates the message as "Doctor who?". The crack in time leads to Gallifrey in a pocket universe, and the Doctor realises that their reappearance could start another Time War with the aliens orbiting, so he opts to stay and guard the town as the translation spreads. He tricks Clara into returning home with the TARDIS after finding out the planet is called Trenzalore, but clings onto the TARDIS as it dematerialises and the TARDIS takes 300 years to return back. The Doctor tells her that he has no regenerations left and is willing to spend the rest of his life guarding the town. They are summoned back to the Papal Mainframe, now known as the Church of the Silence, and discover that Tasha is now a Dalek puppet. After the Doctor helps her rediscover her humanity, she helps them escape from the Daleks, back down to Trenzalore. He tricks Clara once again and returns her home, before she is picked up by Tasha. The Daleks are preparing to attack the town and kill the Doctor. Clara whispers to the Time Lords through the crack, pleading with them to help out. As the Daleks launch their attack, the Doctor is given a new regeneration cycle, and defeats the Daleks. He heads back to the TARDIS, his ageing body regressing back to its younger state. He sees a vision of Amy before he regenerates. This one doesn't seem to be hugely popular on the internet, and I can understand why. It's a total mess and the pacing is all over the place, and I was really disappointed with it on first watch. Clara's scenes with the family aren't great for the most part and it's probably a bit too long. However, with rewatches, I've grown to appreciate the majority of the episode, particularly the scenes of the Doctor guarding Trenzalore. Handles is a surprisingly great little addition to the episode too, and the regeneration scene is beautifully done - "I'll always remember when the Doctor was me" was delivered perfectly by Matt Smith. A chaotic end to a chaotic era but with plenty of great moments if you sift through it on a couple of rewatches.
May 4, 20178 yr The Lodger is the last poor episode that was left so I'm glad to see that out of the way, although I'd rank it as one of the most forgettable so #56 is too high.
May 5, 20178 yr Author 53 The Husbands of River Song 2015 Christmas Special Doctor: Twelfth Companion: River Song Also starring: Nardole After a case of mistaken identity, the Doctor is expected to perform major surgery on King Hydroflax, to remove a valuable diamond, the Halassi Androvar, from his head. Hydroflax is married to River Song, who doesn't recognise the Doctor in his twelfth incarnation as she had previously only met up to number eleven. River reveals in private that she wants his entire head, not just the diamond, but Hydroflax overhears. As he is part-cyborg, he removes his head, and River steals it before teleporting with the Doctor. Meanwhile, Hydroflax beheads Nardole for information on River Song. The Doctor and River head to the TARDIS, but cannot take off with part of Hydroflax inside and part of him outside, so they have to let the cyborg part in. They arrive at a starship restaurant called Harmony and Redemption, with the TARDIS and Hydroflax's body deadlock sealed. River meets with an alien who wants to buy the diamond, but isn't aware that it's still lodged inside Hydroflax's head. When Hydroflax catches up with River, she finally recognises the Doctor, and they escape from the ship as it crashes onto Darillium. After being knocked unconscious, the Doctor awakens before River and plans a date watching the singing towers of Darillium for one night, which is 24 years long. What gives this episode the edge over the other Moffat Christmas specials is the rewatchability factor. It's incredibly rewatchable and a lot of fun, with an interesting plot to boot. River Song is always a joy and I think her chemistry with Capaldi's Doctor was even better than with Tennant or Smith's. If it's the last we see of River, it's a fitting end to her story and I'm glad we got one final outing with her after The Name of the Doctor. Hydroflax isn't the best or most inventive villain but it makes for enjoyable viewing, and the scene of the Doctor walking into the TARDIS pretending he's seeing it for the first time was superb. Doesn't quite compare to Who classics but it was certainly my favourite Christmas special for a while!
May 5, 20178 yr Author http://i.imgur.com/7TyIlRr.png 52 The God Complex Series 6, Episode 11 Doctor: Eleventh Companion: Amy Pond, Rory Williams The TARDIS becomes sidetracked and lands in an old-fashioned hotel in this episode. The Doctor recognises it as an alien structure that looks like a hotel, and they meet a group of people - Rita, Howie and Gibbis, plus Joe who has been turned mad by the mind games of the hotel and has been tied up for his protection. They explain that inside the hotel, there is a beast that will consume every guest after luring them into a room which contains their worst nightmare. This brainwashes them and they begin to praise the beast, willingly giving themselves up to their death. Joe is soon killed by the creature, and Howie becomes possessed after entering his room. They use Howie to lure the Minotaur creature into the salon. This allows the Doctor to realise that the hotel is a prison for the Minotaur too, and the fears in each room are harmless illusions. Howie is killed and Rita is too, after beginning to praise the creature. The Doctor regroups with Amy, Rory and Gibbis, and theorises that the three that were killed all believed in something, as part of their faith. The hotel rooms were designed to challenge their faith, and Gibbis and Rory are safe because they don't possess any kind of faith. However, Amy's faith in the Doctor brought them to the hotel, and she becomes possessed. The Doctor breaks her trust by telling him he is just a mad man with a box and not a hero, and the Minotaur collapses. The hotel is then revealed to be a simulation, and the TARDIS is located nearby. I think this is a pretty excellent episode, it's not one I revisit much hence why it's not as high as it could be but the concept is great and the plot is at the centre of the episode throughout. The supporting cast are all great individually and the Minotaur is pretty interesting. However, the conclusion is a little bit forgettable, I had to look up how it ended despite having rewatched this episode quite a bit. Nevertheless it's enjoyable and one of the eeriest episodes of the Moffat era for sure.
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