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

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?

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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.

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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?)

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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.

did the Doctor mention a 'localised' time loop? does that mean the whole planet (if not solar system) was skipping now and then or just the Colchester region?

crackpot theory is that inside the Pandorica is the Anti-Doctor ie evil twin, as it seems that it is not actually empty or necessarily awaiting an inhabitant. can't just be a classic enemy, River or whatever.

Okay. I really didn't like this episode.

Oddly enough the one thing I did like was James Cordon. (I don't mind him when he's acting, I suppose, only when he's doing his LARGER THAN LIFE BIG PERSONALITY shctick)

There was a postcard for the Vincent Van Gogh exhibition on the fridge (Corden made the point he'd never been to Paris), but it had vanished towards the end after the perception filter had been lifted. Not quite sure what it means.

Why doesn't the doctor know how humans interact, having spent quality time with the Tyler clan, Mickey, Donna, Wilf, Martha + family, Sarah-Jane + family etc etc etc?

I reckon what's inside the Pandorica is related somehow to previous incarnations, reffing them's been definitely a thing this series.

Maybe yr woman packed the Van Gogh flier to show to the monkeys.

Maybe the postcard belonged to the ex-flatmate?

Maybe the writers have been watching too much LOST and feel they should be dropping inter episode references wherever possible.

This had the stench of Fear Her about it. It didn't quite reach the level of the Doctor carrying the Olympic torch, though it threatened to come close with the bit of football in World Cup week business. But it turned out to be just a really shit scene.

So tremendously unfunny throughout too.

so was this the episode that was hastily knocked out to replace Gaiman's postponed one? does seem like it (i thought this was Nye's but that seemed better thought out on the whole).

Why doesn't the doctor know how humans interact, having spent quality time with the Tyler clan, Mickey, Donna, Wilf, Martha + family, Sarah-Jane + family etc etc etc?

Why was Colin Baker a snotty prick when Peter Davison had been so warm and friendly?

Yeah yeah, OK, but this one's hung around with Amy + Rory and various other humans, so all this air-kissy nonsense was just shit.

Someone's posted the original Lodger comic from Doctor Who mag, which I hadn't seen before. Comic Ten gives me the heebie-jeebies tbh.