The Doctor looks and seems human. He's handsome, witty, and could be mistaken for just another man in the street. But the Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living - more of a hobby actually, and he's very, very good at it. He's saved us from alien menaces and evil from before time began - but just who is he?
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The Devil's Chord
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M'kay, just re-watch everything of the 2005 show and it is official, The Twlevth Doctor's debut "Breath Deep" Is absolutely, without a doubt, the single worst episode of Doctor who there is. Quite possibly the worst of all time, because the fact that it is stupid and bad is pretty much the least of its problems.
That said, series 7 is much better in retrospect, all the hype and wanting it to be something it could never have been and all gone -- pretty solid really. Series 8 is still not possible to re-watch for me...pretty crap right now, but I'm still pretty miffed so we'll see.
Doctor Who literally cannot have a single canon tho, so I'ma taking it is as my personal canon that episode 8x1 simply does not exist. Because it shouldn't, it makes no sense, it violates every single character outright. Just, no . . . man. Just no.
It would be nice if the specials had summary's so I knew which ones are part of the series story and which ones are stand alone :/
@Artifex yeah, it was definitely solid, but this week's was better I think, best in two seasons I think.
Season 8's episode 8 is the first good episode this entire season. The most logically sound episode and therefore the most fun to watch. The others didn't make sense. I know Doctor Who isn't supposed to be 100% logical, but the plot needs to make sense, otherwise it's just bad writing. Filling every plothole with Deus Ex Machina's doesn't help.
8x7 was good, 'til that bit at the end, but hey. this season is shaping up to be pretty average on the balance, with that one truly atrocious episode buried.
Honestly, I think this would be a lot better if I just went back to only watching shows every few seasons, that way I can watch two or more in a binge and the flaws of individual episodes are less. . .painful. Because, individually, a lot of Doctor Who (most of it really) isn't great, but it blends together well.
We'll see how this one is after we have the whole thing, but I'm fairly sure that, again, on balance, it's better than last season.
@Jos it's not, both are guilty of setting weird, uneven tones, artificially 'enhancing' pace (often in the wrong areas) and ultimately emphasizing an effect that ruins the excitement curve. In 80 minutes (as this special/premier was) you can, and pretty much should, stick pretty close to the traditional curve ( almost perfectly exemplified in Star Wars, but of course elsewhere) -- especially useful for introducing new character (a new doctor). That episode had a curve much more like one of a particular guard encounter in a sneaking game, if you immediately got caught and tried to run teh whole level from there without hiding. Worse still, assume the narrative tried to continue during all this, even if it were a slow and contemplative narrative, amidst a hail of bullet, shouts, alarms, and flashing lights (which the episode all but had really).
The excitement curve is all kinds of wrong, and the camera work, lighting, and -everything- went in towards making that a reality. As an individual element the lighting was -fine-, but it was used wrong, which made it bad.
That said, I've never really studied film or anything, maybe my experience is objectively wrong by our standards, my subjective view remains the same -- this was my experience, and these are the best words I have to describe that experience.
@emonquente I'm with you on a lot of the story stuff, but please don't say it's been getting lighting and camera wrong. That's just really really crazy.
Another solid episode, a 3.5, and the preview for next time has actually got me a bit excited. I'm loving the next Doctor. Reminds me a bit of the 7th, I'm getting the feeling he's going to settle in to this and next season might be a proper badass.
I'm over being angry about the premier. Almost. . .. it -was- really, really bad after all.
First Dalek episode of the 2005 show -- "You would be a good Dalek" -- Only truly works once . .. per show. . . .
This episode was . . . solid. And I do like the the new Doctor, for all the reasons I thought. Again, this Dalek episode than I expected, just like last time, but a little better than last time actually. Except. . .the end.
SPOILERS:
There's just only so many times I can watch the Daleks almost be saved, and then...poof, can't do that because we need them for later, forever, because .. . screw continuity and all that (The 7th wiped them out, I don't care how they play it, the 7th ended this crap, end of story.)
Side note, I read several reviews after that last line to see if anyone could pinpoint anything I wanted to touch on for why exactly this episode is just, fine. Because really bad and really good are easily explained but middling is hard -- seems either the internet is devoid of critics and only has summarists (given my experience in uni, I bet on the latter), or else, this episode was rather middling for everyone and they just summarized instead (equally possible). Which makes me wonder at all the 4 and 5 stars. It's a solid 3 -- worth watching, but nothing special at all about it. And it needed to be spectacular to make up for that abysmal start. Tho . . .it might've actually felt better if hadn't come after such...ugh. The first episode of Who I ever truly -hated- .
Also. . . 50/50 on whether the Heaven thing will pan out. I got an idea where they'll go based on what they've done in the past -- much as I did going into this episode, when there was, in fact, a brief moment so convincing I actually thought they'd cast off the same damn plot they've done 30 times and do it anew . .. only for them not to. So, I figure I'm probably in the ball-park here, which is. .. disappointing in a way, but I'm not so sure I'd want them to take it further.
Know what would be cool tho? Bringing back the Guardians for this. The good ole days.
peace out i give up on hoping this show will ever have a decent episode let me know when moffat quits, because peter and jenna are great
fyi -- this is how you do banter, odd .. Doctor Talk. . . and insane stories.
Also camera-work, lighting, editing, and essentially everything this show has been getting wrong since the Ponds have gone (and a bit before then)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStWeeEVQAc
Also, see part 2 for how to do flirting right, as well as characterization thru. . well, everything. Every word, pace, movement, expression, breath and flit of the eye dammit. AND added bonus, flirting with oneself, 500 ingenuity points for...whoever wrote this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXy-dMJ-gkw
Wait just a moment. . . who wrote these . .. No bleeding. . .Moffat wrote these? WTF!?!?
Dear God man, what. . .what HAPPENED to you!?
I'm liking the face, voice, demeanor, possible personality (minus the bad representations of it) and dress of the 12th Doctor so far.
Here's hoping that this series can make up for the last one (one and a half? 7 is basically 7 and 8 so I get confused because it ran for over a year and then had over a year without a new series)
And a hell. . .ALL THAT! AND yet another friggin' Dalek episode comes next!
Lookit, maybe I take this show too seriously, I admit that -- but I have spent sooo soo sooo much time watching all these seasons that . . .if it were jsut mediocre maybe I could forgive that, but this is patently, unredeemably just. . .bad. It has none of the charm of other bad episodes in the serieses, old or new, and is the most manic of them all. It is trying so, so hard to awkward, mad, funny, and important, all at once, offering nothing tangible of any of those things because it doesn't know who to do one at a freaking time!
Moffat doesn't just need to leave. He needs to be sacked.
The second to last scene (before the minute or so wrap-up) was the sole well-paced, well shot, well edited, well scripted, and well acted moment of the entire episode. Executed as well as it could have done, and gave us a reminder that Clara and the Doctor are, essentially, people after-all. And hints at what kind of person the Doctor is. Not (only) this Doctor, but the Doctor himself.
Why the hell is the Doctor 2000 now anyway. I knew Christmas was long, and from when he was 1200 in Town Called Mercy was prolly a while, but how the hell did the Doctor go from 1st - died like 300? 2nd - Must've been nearing 700 3rd - died between 750 and 800 4-6th died before 900 7th- died before 1000 given the probably significance of the diary 8th - haven't read the book 9th - 900 again.... 10th- died like 907 11th- apparantly died at "over 2000" .. . .
Life expectancy went a bit nanners here. Particularly since the 1st Doctor regenerated due to Old age...and was the one that got to start out as a child. Also, rmeember what the 10th Doctor looke dlike 900 years into his regeneration due to the Master's ...thing? Friggin Golum!!
I periodically decide this inconsistency bothers me >.> Bad episodes make it worse.
They give plenty of forshadowing we are FINALLY getting a Doctor that understands he, essentially has a responsibility to kill -- and then no satisfaction.
We get a stand-off with the baddy that draws parralels and has brief moments of what, in other than Moffats completely inept hands might've been brilliance, that (like another scene early on) decides to have the inspirational and unbelieveably important bits happen off-screen for...hell knows why.
We get a friggin runtime nearing 90 minutes, which is MORE than enough to cover everything this episode needed to (starting by cutting that dinosaur that adds nothing, nothing at all the baddy couldn't have served to offer, and takes up way too much time)
Sonuva..... I'm gonna have to re-watch all the 11th Doctor's stuff again to really get a handle on where I feel this kick to the new series falls...so, so flat. . .
I think it mostly comes down to character. A good bit of the run-time was sacrificed on the alter of character . . . and all fell flat.
Lizard lady and her wife. . . What the hell happened there? These were very good characters, in very small doses, but for this extended view of them they took out literally everything human, emotional, sensible, or believable. They refer to their marriage ironically, there's no emotion in the acting, most scenes are just flat-out missing half the dialogue that ought have been there, the attempts at comedy are bad, the audio cues make it worse by calling attention to it being meant to be comedy and not sheer awkwardness. Stryx or whatever the spelling, is usually funny, they went overboard here by a lot, and the repetition made it worse, not better. And Clara. . .Clara has been in far, far too fast-paced episodes (that, yet, dragged because all lingering seems to be in the wrong places) to have a real character other than "Clever, flirty, quirky for the sake of quirky, egotistical" -- all these came out here, in the msot stereotyped and annoying ways possible.
The dinner scene. . .if it were a bit slower . . . was the only thing that came close to working.
The dinosaur was irrelevant. The people's (non)reaction pitiful, the forshadowing tired, the -constant- reminder they were just ripping off the Madame Pompadour episode (which was the same basic plot, done better), when, if the episode handled better, it could have been the self-reference joke they were going for.
The sonic. SCRAP THE F*%!@#((%* SONIC!!! NEW DOCTOR YOU COULD HAVE DONE IT!!! I put up with it for 3 doctors. It was -appropriate- for the 10th ("'oesn't maim doesn't kill, et cetera') it was perfect . .. for this new doctor, it will be silly and a maguffin - mark my words.
and. .. .continued
@emonquente (sorry for not replying sooner i forgot about this) honestly it's very simple: the convoluted mess, the blatant cheats, the poor choices in events that I often find myself finding better alternatives for, the terrible pacing and most of all the ridiculous and pointless lines and scenes. a solid 60% of the christmas special and 50th anniversary were entirely unnecessary, another 30% was done poorly, and maybe 10% was enjoyable (only the regeneration in the case of the christmas episode). it comes down to be groaning at virtually every minute of an episode, and becoming irritated at what happens because its stupid or makes no sense. Smith is fantastic but the plot and tone of the episodes are just bland and painful to watch
not watching until moffat leaves
Tried to watch this show. Couldn't go further after 4 eps. It just sucks overall and is way too childish.