Dan Posted September 14, 2014 Report Share Posted September 14, 2014 Big Finish has cast Jemma Powell, the actress who played Jacqueline Hill in An Adventure in Space and Time, to play Barbara Wright in a series of Early Adventures stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 I thought Capaldi was outstanding the first time I watched this week's, but watching it again, I was really impressed by Jenna Coleman. I'm still not a fan of the ending, but man, up until then it's my favorite Moffat story since Series 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donomark Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 Jenna Coleman's been consistently knocking it out of the park each episode this season. She did well with Matt Smith last year, but I guess the plot of her dealing with this new Doctor simply gives her more to do as an actor. She feels much more of a lead character than she did last season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 She feels much more of a lead character than she did last season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 She's got Arthur Darvill level comedy skills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 So, I'm in the "Silence of the Library/Forest of the Dead" two parter. River Song is the worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 I really liked the first half and really disliked the second half I will second that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Rose gets her own Doctor and parallel universe. Donna saves the multiverse and loses all of her memories and character development. ...Fuck. That. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Well, really Rose gets an inferior clone of the Doctor and is still in the end forced to live in an alternate universe separated from her own world. It's not like she has a wonderful ending.But yeah, Donna essentially died in a certain sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Inferior, how? He's human, he'll age along side her and (I'm assuming) be able to give her children. Plus, she gets her long dead father back, and lives on a world where she's a hero. Sure, it's not cruising in the TARDIS for eternity, but it's still a pretty fan-fictiony ending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Man with a Box Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Next week's episode looks fun. Has Doctor Who ever done a heist episode before (like during the classic series)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Not that I can recall. He's stolen a metric shitton, to be sure, but nothing like an organized heist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 I would love to see a list of every item, big and small, The Doctor has ever stolen. Obviously, it would start with the TARDIS. And if we include people, Barbara and Ian would be there. Possibly Susan too, since he was whisking her away from Gallifrey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Inferior, how? He's human, he'll age along side her and (I'm assuming) be able to give her children.He's literally not the same guy she fell in love with. He might have a lot of the same memories, but we already see in the episode that he's willing to make different choices than the Doctor would. The Doctor basically said, "well, hey, you can't have me, but here's my brother. You can date him instead. Good? Good. Cool. Bye."I always wanted that alternate Doctor to show up again later during Eleven's era and turn out to be evil (or at least morally-gray), if only to see David Tennant play an amoral (but still charming) Tenth Doctor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Considering where he falls into The Doctor's regeneration cycle, the Meta-Crisis Doctor could eventually turn into The Valeyard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Sort of possibly a spoiler because I can't remember when stuff happens so Preston might not be there yet. Rose got a fairy tale that will inevitably turn sour (she'll get bored of the black and white low-grade reprint). Donna got a tragedy that in the end gave her happiness (marriage, lottery win, forgetting the horrors she's seen, etc). I tend to think that Rose was too idealised to end in a bad way, but Donna was a proper character who earned that big heartbreaking moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Considering where he falls into The Doctor's regeneration cycle, the Meta-Crisis Doctor could eventually turn into The Valeyard. It'd be amazing to see in 10 years if a meta-crisis Doctor who is mortal but still lived hundreds of eyes past Rose (but aged enough to look like Tennant at that point) came back with a more permanent agenda. Perhaps he's bitter about why the doctor does, putting out fires but not preventing them. Ascribe it to his more immediate time limit, he needs to help whilst he's still there. Heck, he's already shown he'll go further than the normal doctor. He could show up, wipe out a noted species eg go back and prevent the Cybers existing (ala Genesis of the Daleks). This is the doctor who would make that choice. Clash of ideologies and we get a great series of episodes with his actions being the thing tying that series together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 I'm with Preston, what happened to Donna was a waste of a great character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 ^ Yup. I want to see her come back at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Considering the Meta-Crisis Doctor would probably be the Valeyard, you think maybe the Doctor dropped him off in the other universe to keep him from becoming a pain in his neck? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 I'm with Preston, what happened to Donna was a waste of a great character. Absolutely seconded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donomark Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 I figure it's one of those things where one asks if the pathos and drama of the tragedy justify the loss itself. Thinking about it now, I guess not. She saved the universe but the story cruelly kills her developed self almost out of spite. IDK, I never thought it was a bad thing to do writing wise, but it is incredibly dickish to the Doctor, Donna, and us all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pan-dub Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 I'm with Preston, what happened to Donna was a waste of a great character. Tragic: yes. Waste: I don't think so. Catherine Tate was only ever a one season deal and seeing as how Donna had grown into such a fulfilled and enriched person taking her back to square one was a good way to explain why she wouldn't be back. ...until she was brought back for 'End of Time'. That was a waste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 On a related note, I went to see a production of Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' (My favourite Shakespeare play) with Tennant as Benedict and Tate as Beatrice. Needless to say, they were both brilliant. And much to my surprise, showed me that Tate can act. And really damn well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Moffat has...admitted that Clara wasn't really a character in Series 7? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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