Doctor Who season 6 episode 1

[antennapedia]

When iTMS decided to give me the new Who: overnight.
My assessment of that time delay: acceptable.
My review of the episode: OMGWTFBBQ.
My opinion of Moffat: rising.
Number of times Mr Pedia has watched it already: at least 2.

Comments

[frenchani]

What you have to do is change the meaning of the incident. And there's a space suit sitting in a packing crate in that warehouse. The Doctor put the helmet on and flipped up the visor, just to underline it.

*nods*

[antennapedia]

I'm really curious about how they're doing to do that! That's quite a final death scene for a Timelord, there.

[frenchani]

I think that there's going to be time paradox and killing the futur!doctor for good is the only way to fix things. The Doctor will save himself by killing himself. It's a sort of non-suicide?

Now there's the problem of killing future!Doctor without killing the future of the show.

I guess the only solution is to have two possible futures for our Doctor, and therefore another future!Doctor whose face won't be revealed because he won't necessarily look like Matt Smith.

[antennapedia]

My husband rewatched it immediately afterward to figure some things out. I'm planning on a rewatch right before seeing part 2. Yeah, it was confusing in places.

[meaghann]

Overall I quite liked the episode, though some bits that aren't important bugged me. I'm loving the way that the Doctor and River interact although it does seem strange to me every time they emphasize that she knows more about the Tardis than him. That does bother me, but not a huge detail.

I'm looking forward to seeing how they end this one, the writing was great and the story moved along nicely.

[antennapedia]

I think that's a bit of an old school Who joke: Romana also drove the TARDIS better than the Fourth Doctor. She'd read the manual.

[meaghann]

ah that makes more sense then. I'm still working my way through old Who :)

[nutterbudgie]

code-names were hilarious. mrs.robinson! was that why the slap? i do love dr.song, dr+dr=angsty glee. i'm on rewatch 3, havn't sussed it yet.

[antennapedia]

Five seconds before River slapped him, I shouted at the screen for Amy to slap him. I was a-okay with River doing it, though.

Mrs Robinson is all wrong anyway. He's older than she is. SMACK.

[meegat]

Agreed - especially about 11. I just totally adore 11. And to think, I had major reservations about Matt Smith taking over. The dude had my heart within 5 minutes of "Eleventh Hour". And he has just got better and better.

Without doubt, the best NewWho Doctor. And secondly only to Tom in my ratings. Interestingly, Dr Who producer, Marcus Wilson had this to say:

“Matt Smith’s role as The Doctor could go on and on,” he said. “He makes the show a great environment to work in. He turns up with a lot of energy, welcomes the guest cast and is ready to work. Matt and co-star Karen Gillan have a sweet brother-sister relationship. You cut the camera and immediately they’re dancing to some tune that they’re singing. They both love it. Matt especially is very keen to continue in the role.”

The last sentence is love. LOL. I can't wait to see how the Grand Moff pulls all this together though.