Tomorrow is the Power of the Doctor special!

It will probably be a long time until I get to watch it, but hopefully for all of you caught-up people it turns out to be entertaining.

@dentarthurdent I didn’t see Night of the Doctor, but if there was anything shown in the Day of the Doctor then I probably forgot it over the years.  I have seen brief clips of McGann from that scene, in other things.  I would say at least the 8th Doctor got more exposure than the War Doctor.

@janetteb Since the Doctor made the whole Cyber King v…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I’ve seen brief clips of McGann’s scene where he becomes the War Doctor, but not this entire short apparently.  If any of it was shown in the Day of the Doctor then I really don’t remember.  It will be a while until I get to rewatch that one.  I guess the 8th Doctor still got more exploration than the War Doctor.

@janetteb My gu…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I caught Time Crash and, since you reminded me, I just watched the Music of the Spheres.

I guess no matter what some shorts and related content is going to slip by me.  At least I will catch all of the episodes.

I thought Jackson and Rosita made a good team, and you could buy into the idea early on that they were the Doctor and…[Read more]

I recall the first time I watched this one, I didn’t know if Ten had run into a new iteration of the Doctor or not.  But I thought David Morrisey could have made a great Doctor.  I read once, the writers intended for Jackson Lake to be a version of the Doctor that could never exist.  Within the first few minutes of the episode he’s trying to la…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I guess my initial comprehension was that the Doctor always meets her in the opposite order that she meets him.  So like the second time he meets River is her penultimate time where she meets him.

But I think it isn’t that literal and they meet in any old wibbly-wobbly order.  Since they always use the book as a checklist of t…[Read more]

So in my last post on this thread I think I said it pretty well.  These episodes were the conclusion for his companions, and wrapped up the RTD storyline up to that point.  This episode literally had everything you could ask for from a finale.  I know in some of the other threads I’ve said “there is a lot to unpack here”, but that goes tenfold fo…[Read more]

Oh.  And it was funny seeing that America was suffering many deaths due to everyone turning into Adipose lol.

I think this may very well be the weakest series 4 episode.  It was basically like It’s a Wonderful Life, except Donna had never met the Doctor and the world was impacted by several different alien events.

What bothered me most about the episode was all of the yelling.  Catherine Tate playing off of David Tennant is one thing, but Catherine T…[Read more]

So apparently the Doctor will regenerate in a different way and a different place than usual during the Power of the Doctor.

Doctor Who showrunner promises “very different” regeneration scene | Radio Times

I never really gave it much thought, but the Doctor has regenerated in the TARDIS with every AG Doctor.  (Well, I haven’t seen the 12th…[Read more]

This was basically a “Donna-lite” episode, and followed the Doctor as he went on a sort of bus trip across the planet Midnight.

I had zero memory of Midnight, so this is an episode I had completely forgotten about over the years.

The plot reminded me of something like 12 Angry Men, but with the passengers getting hysterical and siding against…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I always used to assume the Doctor and River met in reverse orders, but I’m wondering if it’s not completely in any specific order.  I mean if it was, she should have been given the sonic screwdriver like the next time they met.

I guess my memory of Eleven’s run is still from too long ago,  and I never really saw all of T…[Read more]

There is a lot to unpack with Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead.  I finally reached these milestones on my rewatch, and now I will attempt to give my thoughts on them.

So in the future there is this world that is literally one big library, filled with physical books but also containing them in digital form, downloaded to a massive…[Read more]

I think it’s kind of funny that this episode and its second part get two separate threads.  As a matter of fact I think I’ll just put my thoughts on the second part.

@janetteb I remember reading that VotD had some pretty high ratings when it aired.  The UK must have been itching for more Doctor Who that Christmas lol.  But I kind of get it, the episode had a couple of big names, had the Titanic, and came along in an abrupt ending from the episode before.

It felt like Lynda with a Y was there to show that n…[Read more]

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I’m assuming you guys are talking about Chibnall discarding a lot of things in DW.  I know he rewrote a lot of big things.  At least The Power of the Doctor will include the Daleks, Cybermen and the Master.

I think Jenny could still be in play if they have a good way to bring her back.  Unlikely yes, but impossible no…[Read more]

I watched The Unicorn and the Wasp.

So apparently the story is true and Agatha Christie did go missing one night in 1926.  In this episode the Doctor and Donna are guests at a dinner party along with Christie, and a large wasp is attacking and killing the guests.  The wasp is the monster in this story, and is known as a Vespiform.  Christie an…[Read more]

I watched through The Doctor’s Daughter.

Clearly most of this episode was some message about the pointlessness of war.  It follows a group of humans and Hath that have been fighting each other for a grand total of 7 days, but it has seemed like the war has been going on much longer to the clones whose generations go by quicker.

The Doctor is…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I think Clive Swift appearing in the episode (and surviving all the way through it!) was something that hit the nostalgia button for me since my parents used to watch Keeping Up Appearances when they would show it on the PBS.  I read on Wikipedia that he apparently gave a very grumpy interview about being in the episode to DW…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent Streaming works much better in modern times.   Broadband, it should work just fine.  I use a wireless wi-fi connection for all of my Internet-connected devices.  Sometimes I watch the occasional episode on my phone.

From what I can tell the DVDs are much more reasonable in price nowadays than they were back when I bought them, at…[Read more]