http://borntosavethedoctor.tumblr.com/post/125029936183/its-like-im-trying-to-tell-myself-something

Interesting theory. Basically, 12ths face is his original?

 

Okay Moffat. Time for you to leave.

I cannot fathom why they felt the need to bring her back.

 

Eh. I like River as a character, so if she's just cropping up for a random adventure I'm ok with that. If she's coming back as a plot important character though, then bugger that.

 

I just can't deal with the story-breaking timeline limitations she puts on the narrative with every flipping appearance.

 

Sigh. So much for hopes of Doctor Who improving, although after seeing Moffat butcher Sherlock I'm not surprised.

 

Moffat should probably have bowed out with Smith.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV1tfG7uDtI

Magician's Apprentice trailer.

It's interesting how few leaks there were this season. All I know going in to the first episode is that there are Daleks involved. Last year, we had all first 5 episodes fully leaked.

 

Looks fairly decent - Season 8 was entirely hit or miss. Hopefully the writers have found their stride with Capaldi this round.

 

I just... I just can't bring myself to care about Doctor Who anymore. I haven't even watched the trailer.

I feel like it's fallen so far, especially with how much I loved season 6. There used to be some decent episodes mixed with absolute awesome. Season 8 seemed to be decent episodes mixed with absolute shit.

 

They brought in a fair amount of fresh blood in terms of writers and directors, as well as a few veterans who did some really great work in the earlier Matt Smith seasons, so hopefully we won't have to look forward to more of the same. On the other hand, they also brought back Peter Harness, who was responsible for the horrific pile of shit that was Kill the Moon.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0326qkd

Series Prologue.

 

So that's where he woke up.

 

I'm honestly still salty about the stupid retcon of the end of the Time War, but I guess it's two seasons too late to whine about that now, and I should probably just accept the fact that Gallifrey will be back sooner or later.

I guess if it has to come back, I hope the Doctor goes on a sufficiently epic quest to find it beforehand.

 

Well, that was an interesting start to the season. The first half of the episode caught my interest well enough, but the second half ran into the problem of [REDACTED] being too quiet to hear clearly for me. I'm kinda looking forward to this season, though the last one was fairly mediocre so it's a cautious optimism.

 

An episode of two halves. On the one hand, so, so many fantastic ideas and scenes.

Spoiler

The axe battle! The hand-mines! And quite apart from the chills, that whole scene was just fantastic, in terms of direction, imagination, acting and writing. Missy is better than ever, and the idea of planes being frozen as a calling card is just perfect. Great to see Davros back, and while I absolutely hated his minion, that was because he was made of snakes. Scariest monster since the Weeping Angels.

On the other hand...I know a lot of people have accused Moffat of relying too much on cool ideas and scenes rather than coherent, logical plotting, and I'm normally more inclined to cut him some slack in that regard, but with this episode I spent the final ten minutes or so thinking 'nah' rather than engrossed in the action.

Spoiler

The Daleks blew up the TARDIS! OMG! Wait...last time that happened it wiped out reality. Clara and Missy are dead! Yeah. Right. I give it to just after the opening credits of episode 2, tops. Skaro's back! Oh...didn't we pay a visit there in Asylum of the Daleks? The Doctor had a meeting with someone who turned out to be a Dalek agent. They were standing in a gigantic statue of a Dalek.

 

There were a whole lot of continuity contradictions, which annoyed the fuck out of me, but it was overall an okay episode.

 

No you won't.