Into The Dalek

[poliphilo]

Matt Smith was your fun-loving best (platonic) male friend. Capaldi is almost unforgivably icy. It's quite a shock to the system. But great. And almost certainly what the show needed.

The historic Doctor Capaldi most resembles is Colin Baker. But Baker didn't have the skill or the charisma to pull it off- and came across as boorish. It's one of the strengths of the revived show that they can now afford the best.

God only knows why Clara has to have a boyfriend? Does anyone watch the show for it's romantic sub-plots?

Daleks want to destroy everything. A "good" dalek only wants to destroy other daleks.  Hmmmm.

I like Missy- whoever she is. Clearly the Doctor's dead (whom she is carefully warehousing) are going to come back to haunt him.

Comments

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

Capaldi could almost tempt me back into watching Who. He's ace in whatever he's in. That's the type of Who I remember from seeing it as a kid.

Romantic sub plots? Oh, no. I think I had enough of the sub-Eastenders stuff with the Tyler family about five or six seasons ago.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I didn't mind the Tylers. This was a reimagining of the show and why shouldn't companions have families? And I liked it that Donna had a grandad because it gave us Bernard Cribbens as an occasional companion. But it's getting tired. I wasn't fond of the bloody Ponds and now enough is enough.

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

Bernard Cribbens. Not sure if you've seen Fawlty Towers, but the episode where Basil thinks he's a hotel inspector (and reveals his own snobbery and crawliness) is priceless.

Donna was my favourite companion of the reboots. Mainly because she never tried to snog the Doctor.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I love Fawlty Towers.

RTD wrote better parts for women than Moffat does. Moffat's women are all interchangeably sexy and sassy.

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

I could have done without Donna being turned into a gibbering idiot at the end of that season, though. I do remember someone else on LJ pointing out once that the female characters in the RTD era all came to a pretty horrible fate.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I really hated what he did with Rose- palming her off with a Doctor clone. I thought that was sick-makingly creepy.

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

It was foul. And didn't do anything to stop the accusations that RTD was a mysogynist.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They need to get some women writing for the show.

I think RTD is a fine writer but he does sometimes get things terribly wrong. I thought the way he had Tennant's Doctor wallowing in self-pity as regeneration loomed was very tiresome. The Doctor knew he wasn't really going to die and so did we so it was hard to know what all the griping was about.

[amritarosa.livejournal.com]

Our guess is that Missy ("Mistress") will tiun out to be a reworking of the Master. We think it's be pretty cool if she were :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes. The Master went missing for the whole of the Smith era. It would be good to have him/her back.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I like this. It's a deliciously Master-y project, so very intricate, delving deeply into his activities, although to quite what end, we shall have to wait.

Moff did mention the Master wouldn't be coming back - it's not difficult to imagine him noting the careful phrasing. This would be doubly pleasing, both to see another female Time Lord at long last, but also to hear the howls of protest from those who yelped at the vaguest prospect of this incarnation possibly being female. (Ah, if only Judi Dench were more Capaldi's age still..)