Taskmaster star Frank Skinner!!!! Flapper outfits suck They’re like paper bags. This is a fun episode. The jelly babies in the cigarette case are classic. I like Frank Skinner telling off the Doctor with sarcasm. Stop teasing me Clara and making me think that you’re leaving the show. Just go, we don’t want you.
Let her have a date. I love a good heist film. This isn’t a good heist film. Poor Capaldi, lifetime Doctor Who fan, finally gets to be the Doctor, and his episodes are terrible. At least he’s great.
The Doctor’s been traveling alone for way too long. I really don’t get this Clara/late-Amy trend of the Doctor traveling alone and popping into his companions’ lives every once in a while. Mr. Pink seems great, but it’s creepy that Clara met him as a child. Also, don’t fucking lie to a potential love interest. We’ve already been to the end of the universe. Oh his name is Orson? I thought he said “awesome.” That was bad. We go through that whole episode and nothing… nothing.
I do enjoy that Peter Capaldi is really annoyed at Clara for wanting to meet Robin Hood. See, Capaldi is great. “Do people punch you in the face when you say that?” The Doctor doing Venetian Judo is a nice throwback to a Doctor whose costume is very Pertwee. The pouring of molten metal is very poorly done CG. The Doctor cheating at archery is great. It’s better when Worf smashes Geordi’s lute.
Oh it’s Zawe Ashton from Fresh Meat. Capaldi is a good authoritative Doctor. Mr. Pink is hot. Clara should totally get some! I forgot about the whole “am I a good man” theme during the entirety of Capaldi’s era. It’s really obvious that the Doctor is not a good man. I wish I was watching Innerspace instead. Now I just want more Martin Short. How does Dennis Quaid get top billing?
Apparently Courtney is not special, but Rose Tyler is? 2049? We’re back on the moon? Nice! Clara should be fired for letting Courtney ever enter the TARDIS. And if the Headmaster knows about the dangers of the TARDIS, then he should have a stern talking to the Doctor. The spiders are from Mars, not the moon. Why is Clara still travelling with the Doctor? He’s an outright asshole to her.
You need to tell your boyfriend, Clara. David Tennant got to be a teacher, Peter Capaldi fortunately gets to do the more important job, custodian. I think this is the episode that made me love Capaldi as the Doctor. Robots! So if Ian Chesterton is the headmaster in Coal Hill, why haven’t they had him come and find the TARDIS? Aww, she loves Danny. Capaldi is great. Courtney, aka Disruptive Influence, would have been the best companion for the Doctor.
I remember watching this in theatres, and being bored with it already. Though Strax is great. Okay, but I really enjoy Peter Capaldi. I hate the new opening. It looks like a cartoon. Why does Clara not understand regeneration? Is Capaldi going to spend most of his first episode in bed? Why do I like aliens not understanding humans so much? There’s not enough Strax in this episode, because everything else is not that interesting. The whole story about Clara not liking regenerated Doctor is bullshit, and horrible. Why would she care when this is after the interaction between Clara and all the other 10 Doctors. I really think Matt… Read More »Doctor Who Story 242 – Deep Breath
Narration! Handles is a bad idea. Having a new character come in just causes too much muddling when it should be about Matt Smith. But the phone call with Clara is fun, but it might have been easier if she was just there with him right from the beginning. I like naked Doctors. How does her very obvious bra work? Their naked butts are touching. The crack being Gallifrey does not make sense with what we saw of it before. God, stop the narration. They expect me to feel sad for Handles’ death. Old man Doctor should be acting more like William Hartnell. So the Doctor can hold back the… Read More »Doctor Who Story 241 – The Time of the Doctor
“The Day of the Doctor” is the 50th anniversary special, but it was preceded and succeeded by many many other pieces that were airing throughout that year. This post will cover them all. I’m going to add to this, that this 50th anniversary was what inspired me to watch every episode of Doctor Who. It took a long time to get this point. Almost 10 years. I’m proud of myself, good job Adam! The Doctors Revisited: The First Doctor “As a kid I found the Doctor terrifying,” said Neil Gaiman. Yeah, he was a complete asshole. Oh nice, they got Ian to be interviewed. The ladies are so overcome by… Read More »Doctor Who Story 240 – The Day of the Doctor