Sea Devils And Die: GeroniMoffat's Doctor Who In The 2010s

the japes we get up to in this house let me tell you

That's awesome!!

Inside doctor looks like he's doing Amy Pond-dancing or kung fu moves.
Outside doctor looks v sad

He's on the outside looking in. :(

Hmm.

Why was a regular spaceship causing time dilation?
Where did The Doctor's earpiece come from?
Why did it look pre-credits like it was all an accident, then look like it was planned, then like it was an accident again?
Why was there a single storey building at the end of a terrace (a hint about how they're going to explain Amy's childhood home having one more floor inside than outside)?
Also lol football and James Corden just before England's first game of the World Cup, which the BBC didn't get, which is followed by a James Corden show. Coincidence, much?

On the plus side, loved the giant Pertwee gadget.

> Why was a regular spaceship causing time dilation?

It was a proto-TARDIS, was it not? Bigger on the inside, similar console layout? Maybe Ace was experimenting…

I quite liked that even though I'm not entirely sure why the power of WUV was enough to shortcircuit the whatever-it-was.

Huey Lewis had it all figured out.

That was pretty good! The Doctor's air-kissing was hilarious.

Was there something significant abt that weird portrait in the hall?

Wasn't it Charlie Caroli?

It looked like a Nick Cave /William Shakespeare mashup

Xpost: otm Aldo! I think you're right.

Loved it! Wanted to know more about the proto-TARDIS, though: whose was it?

"Ah, Mr Jourgenson, will you hold, please? I need to eat a biscuit."

The headbutt mindmeld was hysterical

they really have put more references to previous doctors in this series than the entire rest of the run since 2005, love it though!

Definitely a good thing

yeah i wanna say w/all the hilarious parts (headbutt mindmeld, air kissing, eating a biscuit, being completely oblivious to awkward social interactions, it's modern art society is terrible) this was yet another fantastic non-plot focusing showcase for Smith as the Doctor, i'm pretty much sold on this guy as being his own great incarnation at this point

Otm. This was the ep where it really hit me how well Smith inhabits this Doctor.

Oh and can I go a little silly over Doctor in a towel? Cor blimey.

Tumblr is your friend.

:D

Yeah, Matt Smith is killing as the Doctor, he just needs a new companion.

The Doctor needs to shower?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3xwamBynt1qa10u7o1_500.png

Clearly, the SAD is shaped to resemble the crack.

No, it's the other way up.

This was fucking ace, maybe even slightly better than The Eleventh Hour. Two milliseconds of awful Rustyisms (power of wuv, obv, & it's not enough for the building to explode and kill some people - no the entire SOLAR SYSTEM must be in peril... for two seconds of cheap drama. but even the power of wuv was actually set up to make story sense!), loved everything else.

Hope they explain why the ship was all TARDISy later, and Smith is in my top three Doctors of all time. Loved his sting before the credits here, as in Amy's Choice.

Oh, what did he say pre-credits after the bit about this not being some moon? "I think I see a..." mumble mumble Britishes speak up pls.

when we saw the crack at the end it glowed, does that mean it's going to erase the happy couple like rory? embarrassingly i'm invested enough in their relationship to be concerned.

the crack always glows

Yeah, but now it's started to open up because Amy has seen the ring.

Liked this a lot: 'is he a dealer?'

Next week fun times:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi9CBxPj_-U

Oh, and now we know the fanwanky tossed in reference to an old alium that's there just for the spotters - Drahvins mentined in the Next Time clip.

Strangely enough I was fine with Corden but couldn't get over Daisy Haggard as every time I saw her was reminded of The Persuasionists.

I really liked Daisy Haggard (and think it would be hilarious to get her to darken her hair to play a satirical Sam Cameron).

srsly who the hell was building a TARDIS, and how and why? the Doctor didn't seem too bothered about these questions at the end (as with the silence in Venice or indeed the TARDIS fragment).

Sontaran ship in the next week trailer? hmm

I liked how the Doctor was all weird and alien in this one.

when he pulled the shower curtain back with wet hair he never looked more like chris morris.

i just had a dream about a 12th Doctor - looked a lot like the guy in Star Stories who isn't Kevin Bishop. the man in the picture kept popping up too, except each time with bushier eyebrows than before.

the man in the picture kept popping up too, except each time with bushier eyebrows than before.

You got a season arc right there.

http://imgur.com/U12BG.png

the last three have been, tho enjoyable, quite frustrating. so glad Moffat's back next week.

Oh, what did he say pre-credits after the bit about this not being some moon? "I think I see a..." mumble mumble Britishes speak up pls.

"Ryman's". It's a chain of stationery shops you get across England.

the man in the picture kept popping up too, except each time with bushier eyebrows than before.

are you referring to the super weird painting in the hallway behind craig and whatever-her-name-was?

yes

nick cave meets max wall (max wall? cracks-in-wall?)

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/3999/thelodgerface.png

I really enjoyed that one - genuine lols throughout, Matt Smith was terrific and Corden is more bearable when he's not doing his lairy lad schtick. Even more so when he's been repeatedly headbutted.

Doctor playing football was fun and will really annoy the ming-mongs probably more than any of the kissing.

I bet the fake Tardis comes back at some point. Next week's looks fantastic in an overblown fantasy epic way.

You know it looked like a Jagaroth spaceship to me, and the time loop stuff was extremely like what happened to Dr. Kerensky's chicken.

ugh seriously fuck the heterosexual agenda

there's no hetero agenda, just no alternative agenda

As a football-indifferent nerd I was pleased enough with "football, that's the one with the sticks, right?" etc not to mind the Dr as greatest footballer who ever lived section, though if it had lasted any longer I might have started to roll my eyes

(end mingmong communiqué)

the Doctor being good at football didn't really work for me but maybe good that the 'dorky science guy is crap at sports' cliche tho. he should've made up a footballer name for himself, or even just said John Smith.

Doctor playing football was fucking rubbish. Amy's entire input to the show was rubbish too. And not knowing how an actual screwdriver worked.
Lack of social awareness/awkwardness was good.
I mostly think Smith is a very good actor carrying a poorly written series.

Who ever heard of 8 a side Sunday league played with 5 a side goals?

Never mind drahvins, Gareth finally got to sneak in a canon reference to his pet Chelonians

Yeah, noticed that too.

If the finale turns out to be ripped off from Alien Bodies, which superficially it is by about 80% thus far from what we know about the main (non-Amy/River) plot, Lawrence Miles will spontaneously explode.