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Strax cracks me up. Great character.
Are all of the Sontarians and Silurians meant to be "good guys" now, or just those two?
Quote: Nil Putters @ May 19 2013, 1:16 PM BSTStrax cracks me up. Great character.
I still love it when he gets everyone's gender wrong. They even did it in the supposedly sad scene when thingy died, which I thought was very funny.
Quiet boy
All I knew is that you don't have to travel time to work out who John Hurt is or what role they may have given him. So really no need to put it up on the screen before the end credits.
Quote: youngian @ May 19 2013, 2:46 PM BSTAll I knew is that you don't have to travel time to work out who John Hurt is or what role they may have given him. So really no need to put it up on the screen before the end credits.
Is that really all you know? How do you get through each day? Do people look after you..?
Did someone help write that post for you?
Quote: Nil Putters @ May 19 2013, 1:16 PM BSTStrax cracks me up. Great character.
Yep, I like him very much as well.
I didn't have much respect for you lot before but I've got none at all now. I think you'd watch and enjoy literally anything.
This episode was a disaster. There was no tension whatsoever. Moffat creates a secret and then dribbles it out bit by bit across the course of the episode. There's no narrative drive, no clash of character, no twists of plot, no muscle, no grit, no conflict. It just gets revealed very slowly whilst characters make embarrassing jokes. It's not drama in any sense, it's spectacle.
'The Impossible Girl?' I thought it was the 'Impossible Astronaut'? 'The Soufflé Girl' - isn't it 'The Girl Who Waited'? (Amy) - or was the boy who waited (Rory) or the last centurian?
An essential quality of storytelling is PERMANENCE. An exam is passed, a car crashes, someone dies. In Moffat it's just some swirly soup that we go in and out of. A character dies and then lives. The universe is destroyed then restored, forgotten, remembered.
This is garbage. A Sontaran butler, some Sarah Walters lesbian victoriana and a f**king Silurian in mourning. If you think this is good you've lost your minds. A 'conference call' that takes place in a dream, more Riversong, more 'spoilers' more calling the Doctor 'Doctor Who', more reckless myth-making about the Doctor's past - who gave Moffat the right to create all this garbage about secrets? The last of the timelords and the timewar was bad enough but now we have a f**king Galifreyan soap.
Unbelievable.
Utter shit.
It has all got a bit tongue in cheek. I also didn't really find myself caring what the Doctor's real name is. I don't think it matters if he's called Steve, Jeff or whatever.
oi Godot stop generalising I didn't like it.
I thought it looked nice, villains were an interesting design and the look of the Old Gallifrey TARDIS garrage.
Also Strax is an inherently funny character. a;though I think he'd be better suited to Coronation Street.
The rest though was an empty mess signifying well nothing. No tension no answer to even the most basic questions like, how is Clara actually supposed to save the Dr?
And Riversong OFFS. Riversong was a way of introducing Dr Bernice Summerfield from the books when Virgin wouldn't play ball.
And now she's a toxically boring and over manipulated character.
I don't think we'll actually find out the Doctor's name. It was just Moffat trying to whip up excitement for this episode.
Nope there's a line where he said (roughly the music is so flipping loud)
"..we choose our own names who we want to be, how we want to be remembered."
and then some rhubarb about how he wanted to heal the world.