(replying to anyrose)
Does “our” Clara remember being Oswin the Souffle’ girl though?
I doubt she remembers consciously
No. Eleven asks her about it in “Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS”, when they’re standing on the cliff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27AFcENDNyg
That’s because she hadn’t splintered yet. Once she splintered in “Name of the Doctor” and was then rescued, she conceivably retained a subconscious memory of Soufflé Girl, Victorian Clara, and every other splinter.
As soon as I saw it happening, I assumed the Doctor knew what he was doing. It was far too stupid for him to do otherwise.
Ditto. And
I wanted to hate the tank and the shredding, but it was so over the top and hammy that I found it funny.
HA!
I initially thought he was roller-skating, because he seemed to be leaning as one does when skating. That kind of un-did the seriousness of Snakeguy.
Are they really ditching his sonic screwdriver?
I support it if they do. The glasses are just fine.
LIKES:
Peter Capaldi’s new take on the Doctor. He’s frankly much more fun than the unpleasant character he played last season.
Missy. It would have taken a lot to top John Simm’s manic turn as the Master, and this lady got the chops.
Again, we infiltrate the city of the Daleks by climbing into a Dalek shell! Loved that.
Again, we put Clara into a Dalek shell! Nice callback.
Part of me thinks we may be using the Daleks too much, part of me thinks it’s nice to see Dalek psychology and physiology fleshed out.
Dalek sewers are indeed revolting.
DISLIKES:
This is the first interpretation of the Master who seems to be rather unfocused. She’s just doin’ it For The Evulz, as opposed to having some sort of master plan, if you’ll pardon the pun.
Why’d the Doctor send out the disc in the first place? He seemed to think he was gonna die. Hell, he’s almost died every time he’s tangled with the Daleks. Why now send out the disc?
Clara seemed to be holding the stupid ball the whole episode. She’s been tough and smart in the past, but at the climax, she’s whimpering and panicking and jabbering. THIS is the girl who splintered throughout time and saved the Doctor’s bacon?
Man, just go back to “TARDIS is in a state of temporal grace,” as opposed to “It’ll reassemble itself.” It feels too much like a deus ex machina. Hell, it IS a deus ex machina.
In “Revelation of the Daleks,” the Doctor tricks Davros into blowing up Skaro. In this episode, Davros handwaves the whole thing with, “Oh, the Daleks put it back together.” Hah?
Dalek sewers are indeed revolting.
I hope the new Master(Missy) stays around for many seasons to come. Lord knows they can do this. Just look at River Song. She is going to outlive/outlast everyone else on the show.
Although now that I think about it, it was fascinating to see someone playing Davros who was actually given an opportunity to ACT.
Takes TALENT to convince an audience that Davros has any human emotions other than those he gave the Daleks. Hell, I don’t think DAVROS has that much acting talent… but the actor was GOOD!
TY for this. It’s causing immense hilarity in my FB feed.
My sick friends are now imagining Dalek voice-overs for all kinds of things. Including pr0n. “DO ME NOW! NOW! IM-MED-I-ATE-LY! HAR-DER!”
erm…/hijack
Also pleased with the ep but as always, don’t think about it too hard.
How did “mercy” get in there? Through Dalek’s getting it from their father because The Doctor planted it there in his childhood? Okay that could explain why that Dalek in a past season could see beauty and mercy once his emotional dampers were damaged, but the Dalek inside the shell was killed before Clara went in. The shell is not the Dalek.
But better to just enjoy it!
Hmm, the shell is imprinted with Davros’s emotional control program though, which now happen to include a buried command for Mercy since 12 went back for boy-Davros?
They have mentioned mercy before.
That seen has always amused me. Here’s this killing machine, with no filter as to who to kill, and it’s aiming at this person facing it, ready to disintegrate her; and when it finds it has no fire power or defensive mechanism, begs her for mercy.
This is not the only baddie to have done this. House, in the Doctor’s Wife, behaved similarly
Especially under eight pounds of prosthetics. Yeah, he was damn good. Also I just love that the Doctor pried him out of his chair, dumped him on the floor, and went joyriding around.
I can live without the glasses - they’re trying a bit too hard - and I suspect they’ll be dropped quietly after a while, or at least stepped on; they don’t offer the same opportunities for stage business that the screwdriver does, apart from anything. And {draws self up to full fanboy height} ob-viously the Doctor must have been using the sonic screwdriver in River Song’s penultimate meeting with him, in order to give it to her and prepare her for the events of Silence in the Library {slouches on computer chair}.
In classic Who the screwdriver was destroyed during Peter Davison’s time as the doctor, and it wasn’t brought back until the 2005 reboot of the show. Hopefully this time the screwdriver won’t be gone too long.
Question. Isn’t the Doctor at the end of his regenerations? How did he have any regenerative energy left?
Damn straight. We need more of THAT Doctor.
Even mercy has its limits.
Nah, he explicitly got a new set on the Smith -> Capaldi change over, but it wasn’t a hard limit anyway.