Doctor Who - Spoilers!

[JonWes]

The BBC should send out Cosplayers and a fake camera man to a different location to throw everyone off some time.

 

[ProgMatinee]

I was hoping they weren't putting 11 back into that old outfit.

 

[JonWes]

I enjoyed "Cold War" to pieces! After having a hard time liking the last two episodes, I was relieved to have one that I could really get into. The Ice Warrior was brilliantly done, I thought. I loved that there was something small and slithery lurking inside the bulky suit! So cool. And the setting was brilliantly done. Clara was great. David Warner was fantastic in a smaller role. And that ship... so cool looking! I hope we get to see more Ice Warriors soon. And an Ice Lord!

 

[pixletwin]

Yes I would almost say this may be one of the best since 2005. Definite classic.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

Fun seeing an Ice Warrior again, but the plots so far in the last 3 episodes have been paper thin. Still, it did have a bit of that old base under siege Troughton era feel, and I enjoyed it. The best so far of 7B.

The preview for next week looked interesting.

 

[N2k-swb]

I shall admit that for once I thoroughly enjoyed a Mark Gatiss episode! It was great episode, I really enjoyed the pacing and how it had a twinge of the film Alien to it.

The submarine looked like model work rather than CGI, that's a rarity if true and a very neat hark back to old days of Who.

Next week's episode looks to be a cracker, a good haunting ghost story.

 

[Desamo]

Cold War was 10/10 episode loved it.

 

[ProgMatinee]

lol. I thought it was a good episode overall. Great sets and costumes and some fairly known actors...but I thought Clara and the Doctor were actually sort of poorly acted compared to how great the actors were in the other episodes.

 

[JGouse0498]

lol. I thought it was a good episode overall. Great sets and costumes and some fairly known actors...but I thought Clara and the Doctor were actually sort of poorly acted compared to how great the actors were in the other episodes.

Agreed. It's also getting a bit tired and thin that every episode has a moment when Clara is suddenly an integral part of saving the day from out of nowhere--integral to the point where the Doctor would fail without her. It wasn't as pronounced in COLD WAR, but the whole sending her in to negotiate felt unnecessary.

Still, I am enjoying the diversity in these plots!

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[pixletwin]

I just read a possibly major spoiler about the 50th anniversary special.

Spoiler:

Apparently the ninth Doctor is actually the Tenth, the tenth is actually the eleventh, and the eleventh is actually the Twelth because John Hurt will be revealed as the ninth Doctor (and presumably the "Time War" Doctor that destroyed Gallifrey).

What do you all think of that?

 

[Kabukiman]

What do you all think of that?

That would make me sad.

Spoiler:

9's personality was shaped by the Time War. To take that away diminishes the character, imo.

 

[pixletwin]

I don't see how that would be affected at all though.

 

[Kabukiman]

I don't see how that would be affected at all though.

Because he was on the front lines. His anger and passion when he talks about it is like he was there personally. I mean, I guess he was either way, but like 10 said, it would just be "another man" then. I dunno... it just doesn't sit well with me.

On the other hand... there is that scene

Spoiler:

in "Rose" where 9 looks in the mirror (seemingly for the first time since regeneration) and mentions something about his ears

So it could work either way, I guess.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

Spoiler:

Yeah, I always took that scene in Rose to mean he was newly regenerated. I just assumed it was McGann in the Time War.

 

[pixletwin]

Spoiler:

Yeah, I always took that scene in Rose to mean he was newly regenerated. I just assumed it was McGann in the Time War.

Me too.

Here is an interesting take on the rumor from IMForeman at GB:

Spoiler:

What if the Hurt Doctor (sounds like The Hurt Locker) is the Time War Doctor... Like, the 8th Doctor had his adventures pre-Time War, then he regenerated at the start of it into John Hurt... Aging as the War raged on forever, then when the Time War ended and was sealed away in the Time Lock, that incarnation became sealed away with it. Now, if you go back through the Doctor's Time Line, you won't find him, just the 11 we know. He's the Missing Doctor... Zeno's Doctor, if you will, existing between 8 and 9, but never reaching one or the other.

 

[ProgMatinee]

I don't know what that last sentence means.

Spoiler:

The biggest issue is really what the heck fans would need to do with their references to the # order. Its iconic to refer to 10 as 10, especially. Other than that its a pretty interesting take. Couldn't they accomplish the same storyline by bringing in McCann and letting him be the Time War Doctor? McCann is very similar to John Hurt, IMO. Maybe Hurt plays an older version of McCann?

 

[pixletwin]

Another bit of potential spoiler:

Spoiler:

My source is feeling generous apparently

Rather than ruin the whole special I have some cryptic clues that are at the heart of the 50th

- 'Doctor Who?'

- what event would be so traumatic for the Doctor to want to forget a previous incarnation;

- why did the 1st Doctor run way and steal a Tardis originally? And finally

- Who was he running from?

 

[N2k-swb]

Another bit of potential spoiler:

Spoiler:

I don't like where this is going, if this is how it is going.

It feels just a bit too much, i dont believe the general public would latch on to the idea at all and run with it, especially as some are complaning its gotten too complicated already.

 

[pixletwin]

It could be just false info to flush out some moles. Wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Kabukiman]

Some on set photos of the anniversary special (linked because of ZOMGS SPOILERS!!!!11!!1!!): https://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/04/18/doctor-who-50th-anniversary-tennant-smith-and-john-hurt-filming-a/

Spoiler:

Looking at the hat and top portion of the costume in the last photo, that's rather 1st Doctor-ish if you ask me.