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Post by Rassilon on Mar 18, 2013 15:49:38 GMT
What did you think?
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Post by Eryx on Mar 30, 2013 19:24:07 GMT
Odd story but enjoyable. Still a little too silly in parts though.
Not sure what to make of Clara though. Seemed too blunt and rude compared to her prior appearences/incarnations.
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Post by Craig Oxbrow on Mar 30, 2013 20:03:17 GMT
Well, I was good and avoided spoilers, so I got to go "whoa..." quite genuinely more than once.
Notably when we saw who The Client was.
And how the Doctor dealt with a very Eagle Eye hacking-can't-really-do-that threat in such a totally Doctor-y way.
The Doctor borrowing a robot Doctor again, it's getting to be a habit. Hopefully next time he does something like that he'll acknowledge it.
And hang on, that book was by...
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Post by Rel Fexive on Mar 30, 2013 22:14:00 GMT
Did you see the thing with the ages?
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Post by hobbitfan on Mar 31, 2013 1:46:53 GMT
I liked it. My only real complaints are that ir felt a little lack in the originality department. I really felt like I had gotten most of the story beats from Moffat before. And, there wasn't really any sense of menace in the episode. If I had to put a number to it: 7/10. Well above average but it didn't wow me.
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Post by da professor on Mar 31, 2013 7:23:08 GMT
So, who WAS the woman in the shop who gave Clara the Doctor's number?
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Post by jay042 on Mar 31, 2013 13:06:57 GMT
So, who WAS the woman in the shop who gave Clara the Doctor's number? My two guesses are River setting up the situation, or maybe Sally Sparrow.
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Post by imajica on Apr 1, 2013 7:47:18 GMT
Didn't get anything particularly amazing from this episode, really. In terms of "let's introduce the new companion" episodes, it was alright, and it had it's moments. The title was a good one, though, hadn't made the connection until the bells of St John started to ring!
It's in a tricky spot in the series. Ecclestone's ep 6 was "Dalek" (Broken. Broken. Broken. Hairdryer!); Tennant had "Age of Steel", "The Lazarus Experiment" and "The Doctor's Daughter" - none of them particularly outstanding episodes, really; Smith has had "Vampires of Venice" and "The Almost People". So, apart from Dalek and maybe The Doctor's Daughter, this is a bit of a low point in the series, the calm before the build-up to the end of the series...
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Post by knasser on Apr 1, 2013 8:39:28 GMT
So, who WAS the woman in the shop who gave Clara the Doctor's number? My two guesses are River setting up the situation, or maybe Sally Sparrow. Oh you fools. It's obvious that there is only one person that can be the woman in the shop. It's the Rani.
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Post by knasser on Apr 1, 2013 8:43:11 GMT
Thought the episode was great. Hugely enjoyable. Marked down from perfect because of a really hokey opening and re-use of too many elements from previous Moffat stories.
Also, a bad "It's a woman!" joke. Yes, Moffat. We get it! Women are alien creatures that terrify men. Hilarious.
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Post by Rel Fexive on Apr 1, 2013 10:40:29 GMT
Plus he was talking to a 13th century monk which is the main reason for the response he got, really.
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Post by da professor on Apr 3, 2013 7:10:38 GMT
Just worked out the thing with Clara's age in the front of the book, how the numbers 16 and 23 were missing. Okay, everyone's got the 23 (show started November 23, 1963) but I've not read a theory on the 16. Here's mine: If Clara is 24 now, she was 16 in 2005, which is when Doctor Who returned as a series - after a hiatus of 16 years.
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