Dr Who

[lexin]

So, what did I think of the new Dr Who?

I rather enjoyed it. I think Peter Capaldi is going to be a great Doctor, once the scripts settle down. The script was good in parts - in others it rather sagged. But I always enjoy seeing the lizard lady (whose name I can never remember) and her wife so that was a plus. And the Sontaran who had a witty line about acid.

Yes, gets a plus from me, and I'll be watching the series.

Comments

[kalypso]

Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint and Strax, collectively the Paternoster Gang.

[lexin]

I know I should know this kind of stuff, since I watch the show, but I don't. Thanks.

[kalypso]

Well, I do have Bill Mudron's Japanese-style print of Vastra and Jenny fighting (classic) Cybermen over my bed.

[sollers]

Peter Capaldi rescued it for me

[lexin]

He did for me, too. Really not the best script and as gloria1 says, I felt sorry for the dinosaur.

[gloria1]

Peter Capaldi was great, he'll be a fantastic Doctor. The script seemed to consist of 85% filler around 15% great verbal/visual punchlines, rather than be a coherent story or adventure. Upset about the dinosaur too.

[lexin]

Agree with you about the script, really not the best, was it? Total waste of a dinosaur, too.

[epistrophia]

That was exactly my reaction too. But the first New Who episode with a new Doctor has always been fairly flat (IMO, obviously, and also as far as I can remember which isn't that far, really).

I'm not sure how I feel about Clara - I missed too many of the last series to really have an opinion - though I have a feeling she might have been a bit badly served in the episode?

Also not at all sure that the phone call was necessary...

[lexin]

"Castrovalva" (first ep. with Peter Davidson) I enjoyed but that was because of Davidson fainting by numbers all over the place, but in general, yes the first ep with a new Doctor has sucked.

I'm not sure how I feel about Clara. She's never lit my fire, but I don't feel the annoyance I feel about, for example, that River Song woman. She's always got up my nose.

[redstarrobot]

I haven't seen any of the new ones yet, but, while I do love the Silurian and her wife and her Sontaran butler... I have yet to see them actually do anything. They're like extremely stylish filler characters. But they are fun.