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I think it was the grand moff’s poor poor very poor version of “The talons of weng chiang”, i think i even saw chang as one of the robots in one of the corners. No giant rats though (dinosaur!!!). The silurian sherlock holmes was very bad. liked jenny though (very sexy, not much else though, the  mockney was bad (dick van dyke!!!). Clara is the impossible jenna actress, not bad and she looks nice, no real character though (like all good companions). The opening credits were the invasion of time’s presedential office decoration (animated of course). The robots were badly realised (face too big on the main guy one, like arnie in T2 20 odd years ago).

The story meandered like a meandering thing that goes nowhere and gets nowhere slowly. capdoc is no good, just a filtered down version of the past doctors and turned into the grand moff avatar that he is and will be.

Time to put me i charge of doctor who i think.

 

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Theme tune is an 80’s throwback. Do they have to change it every five minutes. It seems like every series it has to be “renewed’ unlike the doctor himself. I mean the classic Tom baker lasted for years without every musician at the bbc wanting to alter it. (i’m sure they did but it was fine). The tardis interior has changed so many times too lately, spend the money on some new writers. remember the grand moff said himself “we want narnia not the cupboard”.

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Oh dear!!. what a load of rubbish. the plot was crap. the grand moff moffatt has lost it i think. didnt like the setting or the boring return of the forgettable jenny, vastra and sontaran.  The dinosaur stuff was derivative and boring (a redundant plotline that  went nowhere). The whole thing was a sorry excuse in getting us to accept the new ‘old” doctor, by guilting us into accepting him with the whole Vastra clara chat about the removal of the vale. really clever stuff grand moff moffatt you almost convinced me (not). It was so padded too and deathly dull in places. Whoever paid money to watch that at the cinema must be kicking themselves now. What about Capaldi himself, well he’s a good actor and its a descent Pertwee/Hartnell impression (even the clothing is a cross between the two, maybe emphasising the Pertwee look made modern. I didnt like the scottish accent, it’s not the doctor ( i know all planets have a north, but really, i mean really !!!!, why didnt he have a dalek accent or a bloody dinosaur accent !!). He’s the doctor and really he’s an englishman eccentric abroad is suppose. Modern audiences need the dashing young man (its what they want, even matt smith had trouble after tennant). Tennant being the epitomy of the dashing young man (with a timelords mind). The audience wants young and vibrant doctors and they wont be guilted into accepting the old man (what does regeneration mean literally?).

The story itself didnt help with the retread of the madame pompadour story which was crap in tennants time. Did the doctor throw the android off the escape pod. (no, the droid commited suicide, another writerly way of throwing suspicion on the “character” of the new doctor and making him appear dark, when of course he is not).

Clara was ok and the way the capdoc (capaldis new doctor) interacted with her was ok. i liked the surprise phonecall at the end. but all this really did was highlight what we have lost and what we have now got. via direct comparison (with old and young). The capdoc has got a lot of work to do to convince the masses. i’m not convinced and feel that the grand moff is past his prime (not that he really was that great anyway, badly serving matt smith in his tenure in my opinion).

 

New ideas and new stories are needed and badly or its over for new who. oh and its time for a propper regeneration. The capdoc dosnt fit. sorry its not going to work. I can see already where the grand moff is going with this. On the surface this old doc appears darker, but of course he will be the softest of them all and try to be good to all the races he has wronged in the past and put right what he feels are the wrongs of his past selves.

We like heroes, we dont like priest like zealots preaching and boring us to death with inadventure and cultural awareness (we have other channels for that).

Were the opening credits an homage to the invasion of time?.

 

 

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