Is anyone else getting a bit sick of this school featuring every week ?
Yes.
Can't we have some Ice Men , Silurians or preferably Davros to liven things up ?
Or anything really. In fairness, though, the beginning of the latest episode was more traditional Who, it just went off the rails with the philosophical babble and the Big Decision. Not very interesting for me, and it went on far too long considering episodes are only 44 minutes long.
And cut out all this rubbish with Clara's love life too!
I'm not sure yet whether it's Capaldi or the plots that are failing :cry:
Tonight's episode was the pits !!!
I'm starting to conclude that it's Capaldi and the plots. I think the latest show was better than the one last week, which I've already tried to erase form my mind. Now, that WAS the pits!
Agree - though it's not the school. I don't want philosophical debate - I want Daleks, Cybermen and as yet undiscovered terrors.
And I don't like Dr Capaldi.
Hmm, I think I agree now. I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt earlier in the series. Now I'm starting to hate the character.
They're not going to revisit that, it was just a lighthearted start to an episode to show that they have other adventures that we don't see.
I'd prefer to go back to the days when the adventures flowed. I don't see anything positive about Clara having two 'lives'.
Now we're half way through the series, it seems to me that this season is taking a very different direction from previously: To a much greater extent than before, the episodes are primarily about the personal relationships between the Doctor and the various companions, with the fact that they are fighting various aliens becoming the secondary feature. Last night was a great example of that - it looked to me like the real story wasn't the strange things happening to the moon, it was the idea that the Doctor had to leave a decision up to humanity to make, so that humanity could progress.
Personally I really like the new emphasis. Obviously that's not going to be to everyone's tastes though.
I also like the way a lot of both humour and tension is being added by the idea that this Doctor doesn't understand the nuances of human personal relationships - and so keeps saying things in ways that he doesn't realize will upset people. And then he doesn't understand why people are upset.
I don't like either, to be honest. The idea that the doctor doesn't understand humans after as many regenerations as he has had, and the experiences he has had with humans seems a bit weird to me.
This series seems to have been infected by the Sherlock disease. In the latter case, I found that the last series tried to be too clever, and ended up shooting itself in the foot. Doctor Who seems to be going the same way, and I would like to see someone else taking over the creative reins.
