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Post by mrperson on Oct 26, 2015 14:23:16 GMT
I give this one a "meh." Nothing really grated on me while watching it, but nothing particularly stood out either.
There was barely a plot. Williams' acting was simply flat. Traveling with Romana ok, traveling with potentially immortal human not ok (??). Watching 20,000+ humans hack each other to bits at Agincourt doesn't make her care; watching a enough people to fill a small village get scared makes her care (??).
Finally, I really have had more than my fill of all the angst, and this time it wasn't packaged into a single monologue by the Doctor. It was the episode. Now, there were quite obviously reasons for having this episode focus on it. But I really wish they could move on, especially from the Doctor as full of angst and self-loathing all the time. That's one aspect of reboot Who I could really do with out, especially now that he has un-exterminated Gallifrey and can remember it...
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Post by Shalott on Oct 26, 2015 19:59:42 GMT
I think I would have enjoyed this episode more if it had come later in the series and not right after The Girl Who Died. Running them back to back took a lot of the mystery and anticipation out of it for me.
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Post by Tony Jones on Oct 26, 2015 20:09:53 GMT
I think I would have enjoyed this episode more if it had come later in the series and not right after The Girl Who Died. Running them back to back took a lot of the mystery and anticipation out of it for me. Completely agree. I wonder if it is because {Spoiler}she comes back in a later episode
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Post by aemiliapaula on Oct 27, 2015 0:10:49 GMT
There was barely a plot. Williams' acting was simply flat. Traveling with Romana ok, traveling with potentially immortal human not ok (??). Watching 20,000+ humans hack each other to bits at Agincourt doesn't make her care; watching a enough people to fill a small village get scared makes her care (??). That bothered me about Romana too. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Time Lords are used to.living for hundreds of years?
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Post by icecreamdf on Oct 27, 2015 1:47:10 GMT
I assume Romana was okay because the White Guardian assigned her to him and then he got used to her. If circumstances forced him to travel with Ashildr for a while, I doubt he would kick her out at the first opportunity.
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Post by barnabaslives on Nov 1, 2015 2:58:15 GMT
Just watched these off the recorder last night, really enjoyed them. Great pair of episodes, caught two sig-line worthy quotes just in the first 5 minutes, and also appreciated the nods to Who history. I thought the reference to Captain Jack was perfectly what would come up in the context that it did. It's always nice to feel like the show is respecting its own history rather than just dropping names. I think Capaldi is really owning it this season, and I guess I have to really hand it to him and the writers for making something awesome out of something I would have thought was plain silly like "speaking baby".
Dunno why, I got the distinct feeling watching the second episode that Ashildur is the next companion and that Clara is going to be teaching in the Class spin-off. I guess maybe it was the part at the end where it seems like Ashildur is literally the Companion-in-Waiting?
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