• Doctor Who V7
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CHRISTMAS EPISODES OF SHOWS ARE PRACTICALLY GUARANTEED TO BE SHITTY! DEAL WITH IT! Besides, there have been worse ones than this. The Next Doctor and The End of Time certainly come to mind.
[QUOTE=Stockers678;33894187]CHRISTMAS EPISODES OF SHOWS ARE PRACTICALLY GUARANTEED TO BE SHITTY! DEAL WITH IT! Besides, there have been worse ones than this. The Next Doctor and The End of Time certainly come to mind.[/QUOTE] Last years Christmas episode wasn't shitty :colbert:
Dreadful worst Episode since RTD was writing.
Why is it that an OK episode suddenly people say `Fuck, everything is terrible, Moffat has ruined Christmas!` Chill.
I didn't enjoy it, wish Bill Bailey was in it for longer. Although, the ending kinda made up for the rest of the episode.
The episode could have been better.
HURR, DOKTUR CRYZ. Seriously though, could they get any more cheesy if they wanted to?
awful, just awful
Bill Baileys bits were well done, but I couldn't shake the Narnia Vibe
[QUOTE=Zenpod;33897184]Bill Baileys bits were well done, but I couldn't shake the Narnia Vibe[/QUOTE] That was sort of the point, chief.
I thought it was alright.
It was an okay episode. Bill Bailey and the ending were the best parts. TARDIS blue door.
Can we get the titled changed to "Humany Woomany" or something? This current title is oooooold
I missed the episode damnit.
I don't like typing "Humany Wumany" because the last word looks like "Woman-y" and it makes it sound like he's calling all humans feminine. Which sounds weird. But anyway, I thought the episode definitely could have been better, but I really, really liked the ending. I just thought it was the first genuine Christmas-y moment since the first Christmas special. I admire what they tried to do, but a few details meant that it fell short of what could've been a great episode. Mostly a couple of stupid writing decisions and an enemy that wasn't really an enemy at all and the bad guy in the whole thing was some rain. And the trees had souls that went into one of the main character which sounded like it would be a bad thing but actually it wasn't. I think it would've been better if the enemy had been more clearly defined, if the Tree people had been, I dunno, guardians of the forest or whatever, who were actually out to hurt the main characters rather than use them as a vessel to put tree souls in. I was sort of hoping the TARDIS would materialise inside the Dad's aeroplane, and the Doctor would evacuate them into the TARDIS, rather than what happened with the whole aeroplane-in-the-vortex thing. The "trap" wasn't really a trap after all, since the word "trap" generally means something bad is gonna happen, but in reality nothing really happened at all... Oh, and I definitely agree that Bill Bailey could've been in it a lot longer. Meh. It was too convoluted really, which was my biggest gripe with the previous Christmas special. They need to just try and make a normal, standalone episode, padding out the extra time with acting and dialogue rather than just throwing more plot elements in. We don't really get many moments where actors in DW can have a decent go at showing real emotion, or deliver some properly memorable dialogue, but I feel sure that with the little extra time in each episode, using it to add emotion and dialogue that will stick with people would be a better use of time than just stuffing more and more plot elements into the episode. It was kind of worth it for the ending bit with the Doctor and Amy though... I probably would've just been happy with that, to be honest. HEY GUYS LETS WRITE OUR OWN SERIES DURING THE GAP BETWEEN NOW AND THE NEW SERIES SO WE HAVE SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT IN THE INTERIM [editline]26th December 2011[/editline] oh god so much text
I must say that genuinely brought a smile to my face and a tear to my eye. Yes, it could have been better, but overall an enjoyable episode, if a bit silly. There is one thing bothering me, though: why would Amy dislike Carolers?!
Isn't seeing the Time Vortex what drove the Master mad?
Wow this was bad. The characters never questioned anything and seemed to just pop out plot devices right out of their pockets, and yet it still didn't work because nothing made sense. The wife is a ditz, the kids are annoying, the plot is boring, and the whole episode is just a mess. The ending however, was the best thing. If there was any good out of the episode, it was definitely the ending.
It was okay, but half the time I had no idea what the hell was going on.
It was generally a goofy episode. Tons of plot-holes left unanswered. I thought it was alright though. Those space-soldier folks were really silly and incompetent for people in charge of destroying planets.
What plot holes, exactly?
I tend to have no idea what I'm talking about so it's probably best not to ask.
The woman who played the mother ( forgot her name ) i just found her incredibly annoying throughout so it kinda ruined the ep for me, also the kids were annoying in parts i kind of hate it when doctor who has kid episodes.
So now when I go into the forest I have to worry about the vashta nerada and trees that grow balls? Though I wonder if Moffat intentionally made something that could defeat vashta nerada. Also who noticed the doctor's gold band he had on?
I was lead into thinking that the trees were evil, the gold band was going to fry her brain, or she was going to become an omnipotent evil overlord ala The Next Doctor style, or that there was going to be an ice witch, or that the woodmen were going to strangle them. But noooooo, we get a fancy wancy 'mother' ship pun and Bill Bailey.
[QUOTE=fear me;33899072]Isn't seeing the Time Vortex what drove the Master mad?[/QUOTE] Well, technically it was the Time Lords who generated a four-point drumbeat metronome into the Master's head which drove him to madness. But in general it works differently for different people.
[QUOTE=ironman17;33902712]Well, technically it was the Time Lords who generated a four-point drumbeat metronome into the Master's head which drove him to madness. But in general it works differently for different people.[/QUOTE] No, it wasn't that. The drumness helped with the madness, but the Doctor said it turns some people mad anyway, some people deal with it like a boss, and some people run away.
I don't get the hate. I loved the ep. Could of been just the fact that the rest of my Christmas was shit, but I liked it, a lot.
I saw the episode today. I thought the cornyness was what British people like about Christmas specials. Also, What if the kid didn't open the present and they enter a world covered in acid? Oops.
It was a fun episode I guess. In my opinion the best part was when The Doctor went to Amy and Rory's house. I can change the thread title but I'm not too sure about Humany Wumany. How about "Amy and Rory's last season" Anyone else got any suggestions?
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