So the first episodes of Class are out. Episode one is pretty damn good. Great cast, likeable actors, sharp script, nice performances. Would recommend.
So the first episodes of Class are out. Episode one is pretty damn good. Great cast, likeable actors, sharp script, nice performances. Would recommend.
Too bad America has to wait until next year.
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So the first episodes of Class are out. Episode one is pretty damn good. Great cast, likeable actors, sharp script, nice performances. Would recommend.
Does Peter Capaldi make regular appearances/cameos or is it just a few episodes?
So the first episodes of Class are out. Episode one is pretty damn good. Great cast, likeable actors, sharp script, nice performances. Would recommend.
Too bad America has to wait until next year.
Really? Canada doesn't. I have the first 2 episodes waiting for me on my PVR.
So the first episodes of Class are out. Episode one is pretty damn good. Great cast, likeable actors, sharp script, nice performances. Would recommend.
Does Peter Capaldi make regular appearances/cameos or is it just a few episodes?
Dunno. Only two episodes in so far.
He makes an important but short appearance in the first episode, helping set up the premise, and then exits stage left.
Third episode was kind of rubbish, with one of those hey let's stop running so I can give you my backstory moments that land with all the grace of an anvil.
So the first episodes of Class are out. Episode one is pretty damn good. Great cast, likeable actors, sharp script, nice performances. Would recommend.
Does Peter Capaldi make regular appearances/cameos or is it just a few episodes?
Dunno. Only two episodes in so far.
He makes an important but short appearance in the first episode, helping set up the premise, and then exits stage left.
Ah, see I only really watched the SJA eps that had the Doctor in, I'm thinking that 'Class' will go the same way for me.
I liked bits of the first episode though.
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edited December 2016
Ok, so we lost BBC America awhile ago and I basically missed everything after the first Capaldi season. Which is why it was nice of then to air a marathon leading up to the Christmas episode this year (we just got it back a month or two ago). So um, how did I only miss one season? Did they really not have a season in 2016?
Also I hate Aria Stark and she is a jerk who should stay in Game of Thrones :P I did like that they finally acknowledged Capaldi had played a character on the show before tho
Also this year's Christmas special was much better than it looked from the previews
Edit: Ah, going back through the thread... Now I see why there was no 2016 season... Still weird for Moffat to agree to do the next season after taking basically a year off
Ok, so we lost BBC America awhile ago and I basically missed everything after the first Capaldi season. Which is why it was nice of then to air a marathon leading up to the Christmas episode this year (we just got it back a month or two ago). So um, how did I only miss one season? Did they really not have a season in 2016?
Yeah, the only on-screen Doctor Who this year was the Christmas special and the spin-off Class.
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Also best part of this year's Christmas episode:
"Wow this place is pretty empty for the middle of the day."
"Yeah, I released a bunch of Pokemon in the lobby."
Class was fantastic, I definitely need a season 2.
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I enjoyed Matt Lucas a lot, but Moffat's dialogue has reached a new level of self-congratulatory wankiness, and I say this as someone who considers Matt Smith's first season some of the best Dr Who I've watched.
I enjoyed Matt Lucas a lot, but Moffat's dialogue has reached a new level of self-congratulatory wankiness, and I say this as someone who considers Matt Smith's first season some of the best Dr Who I've watched.
Moffatt's been on a downward spiral he never recovered from since season 6. The Class show runner should be getting a shot at taking over once he leaves, not the Torchwood guy.
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I've honestly never liked Moffat that much anyways (he was occasionally pretty good but also had a lot of bad episodes). We'll see how this new guy does I guess.
Same with this new companion. I will reserve judgment but previews make me a little nervous. That said, bald guy seems to also be back in at least a few episodes and he was pretty great in the last two Christmas specials
Last season of Who was terrific and contained the best episode of New Who yet made. Moffat offers plenty of grounds for criticism, but it's not like every season has been worse than the one before.
Last season of Who was terrific and contained the best episode of New Who yet made. Moffat offers plenty of grounds for criticism, but it's not like every season has been worse than the one before.
The quality has gone up and down, and never regained its peak from season 5.
Finally got to see the episode. I like it! I was very sceptical about a superhero based episode, but it worked and it was funny.
"I was gone for a while, but I'm back now."
So THAT'S what happened to 2016!
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Honestly I hated season 5. It made me want to hate Matt Smith at first until they started doing good episodes and I realized, no, Smith is great, it's the writing that was bad.
The impression I got from season 5 was "We are in HD now so OMG WE NEED ALL THE COLORS AND SET PIECES TO SHOW OFF THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY!!!" The first episode is like looking at Oz when that movie turns to color and everything is in the boldest, most saturated colors possible. It's so jarring and weird. Add to this all the new cast and show direction and it's just this huge left field turn. Then you also had dumb episodes about space whales and fish vampires and such. It finally got better near the end at least. ("The Lodger" is still one of my favorites)
Season 6 was great tho (mostly, could have done without the dumb space minotaur)
I like when humans find alien tech and dont become disfigured pig mutants or slates of concrete so this episode started at 5 for me already.
The superhero stuff was cute.
I really felt for the kid because he knew deep down yeah his powers would ultimately cause problems for the real world and then finally snapping after 24 years of trying to be good and nothing going his way
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His powers didn't create any problems, they just solved them. It's going to be one of those timey wimey things when he never shows up again. And pretty sure he was super heroing before now; enough time for rumors to spread. Though only rumors when he does TV interviews on the spot suggests it is fairly recent, I guess.
Good silly fun. What we want from a Christmas episode. Though the Doctor seemed very impressed by a plan that was a pretty much a cut/paste with raised stakes from the Slitheen all the way back when nu-Who began.
I won't say I'm filled with excitement for Bill and George Daws but I have faith.
Last series bought us 'Heaven Sent' which was utterly fabulous so I'm always a happy camper.
I kind of wish it was more science fiction like Old Who.
But, maybe I am looking at it through rose colored glasses.
I guess it'd depend on the era. Early '80s tried to go towards harder SF, though it didn't quite hit the mark. But then late '70s sometimes felt kind of 'Lasers and aliens make this SF enough, right?'
Semi-separately, though, I really miss the pure historicals of the '60s. Or even just stories like The Enemy of the World and The Leisure Hive where it's more the Doctor & co getting caught up in events already in motion and there isn't necessarily a 'monster of the week' threat (The Leisure Hive even having a nice bit of an inversion of that).
Series 9 was doing some less bog standard monster of the week stuff. I hope it continues in series 10 and beyond.
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Too bad America has to wait until next year.
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Really? Canada doesn't. I have the first 2 episodes waiting for me on my PVR.
Yay for still having the Queen on our money!
Dunno. Only two episodes in so far.
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I liked bits of the first episode though.
And hes going to be a regular companion alongside Bill.
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Also I hate Aria Stark and she is a jerk who should stay in Game of Thrones :P I did like that they finally acknowledged Capaldi had played a character on the show before tho
Also this year's Christmas special was much better than it looked from the previews
Edit: Ah, going back through the thread... Now I see why there was no 2016 season... Still weird for Moffat to agree to do the next season after taking basically a year off
Yeah, the only on-screen Doctor Who this year was the Christmas special and the spin-off Class.
"Yeah, I released a bunch of Pokemon in the lobby."
Moffatt's been on a downward spiral he never recovered from since season 6. The Class show runner should be getting a shot at taking over once he leaves, not the Torchwood guy.
Same with this new companion. I will reserve judgment but previews make me a little nervous. That said, bald guy seems to also be back in at least a few episodes and he was pretty great in the last two Christmas specials
Class was mediocre.
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The quality has gone up and down, and never regained its peak from season 5.
Nah.
So THAT'S what happened to 2016!
The impression I got from season 5 was "We are in HD now so OMG WE NEED ALL THE COLORS AND SET PIECES TO SHOW OFF THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY!!!" The first episode is like looking at Oz when that movie turns to color and everything is in the boldest, most saturated colors possible. It's so jarring and weird. Add to this all the new cast and show direction and it's just this huge left field turn. Then you also had dumb episodes about space whales and fish vampires and such. It finally got better near the end at least. ("The Lodger" is still one of my favorites)
Season 6 was great tho (mostly, could have done without the dumb space minotaur)
Was she the Muslim doctor? Didn't she die? (I think almost everyone did...)
I guess because it came from Impossible Girl it made it more powerful.
Yeah, but this is Doctor Who.
Yeah, where bringing back dead people always seems to backfire horribly :P Also she honestly didn't seem that great to me, but *shrug*
oh geeze
why do you know that? why would anyone know that?
Wikipedia'd the episode to look up the companion dude's name, clicked the hero's actor's name and lo and behold.
this is true.
I even enjoyed watching it a little.
There, I said it.
awww yess
My favourite bit was
"Are you ok?"
"I'm always ok."
The superhero stuff was cute.
I won't say I'm filled with excitement for Bill and George Daws but I have faith.
Last series bought us 'Heaven Sent' which was utterly fabulous so I'm always a happy camper.
But, maybe I am looking at it through rose colored glasses.
I guess it'd depend on the era. Early '80s tried to go towards harder SF, though it didn't quite hit the mark. But then late '70s sometimes felt kind of 'Lasers and aliens make this SF enough, right?'
Semi-separately, though, I really miss the pure historicals of the '60s. Or even just stories like The Enemy of the World and The Leisure Hive where it's more the Doctor & co getting caught up in events already in motion and there isn't necessarily a 'monster of the week' threat (The Leisure Hive even having a nice bit of an inversion of that).
Series 9 was doing some less bog standard monster of the week stuff. I hope it continues in series 10 and beyond.