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I have to admit I got a bit choked up during the episode - especially the part with [spoiler]Bill leaving with "Puddle Girl." And I didn't expect The Master and Missy killing one another (with Missy being permanent - if you can actually believe that, considering the history of The Master returning). And I knew David Bradley would be playing the first Doctor, but I was expecting that in the Xmas episode, not this one![/spoiler]
Nope. Like the Daleks, you can always tell when the Cybermen are involved.
Since Peter Capaldi is supposed to play The Doctor in the xmas episode, I'm guessing The Doctor will regenerate then - the wintery scene we saw at the beginning of the episode being from it. Meaning, we're going to have to wait ALMOST SIX LONG MONTHS to find out what happens!
It's too bad we already knew that it was the Cybermen from the previews, but I really enjoyed it otherwise! I never suspected that [spoiler] the one character was actually The Master! And I should've known because of his penchant for disguises! (boy do I feel stupid)[/spoiler]
Probably never occured to them. Certainly never occured to me. But then, I haven't read Doctor Who Magazine in a long time so Frobisher is out of sight, out of mind.
For those interested, DC has released one of the unaired episodes, the one with the late Adam West [url]http://nerdist.com/dc-releases-unaired-episode-of-powerless-with-adam-wests-last-guest-performance/[/url]
Quite possibly. Hard to say if Missy's been playing the Doctor or not.
My prediction for next week and [spoiler]Missy and The Master being in the same episode: The Master won't be too happy with Missy's newfound repentance and it'll end badly for one-or-both of them. If Missy kills The Master, she won't exist. If The Master kills Missy, he'll know (and she'll know) that he did so. Also, as The Master is male, and Missy is female, will there be any "Master"-bation between them? ;)[/spoiler]
I posted about the episode and began with, it was better than last week's episode, but that isn't a giant hoop to jump through. On the other hand, it could've been better than last week's but still bad on its own merit. It wasn't. I thought it at least had something to offer, certainly in dialogue, and the way the creature killed. Nardole continues to be fun to watch. BTW, did the way Nardole was dressed happen to make you think of Arthur Dent? It did me.
Does it mean from the original series, or from the reboot on?
In an online search I just did, one result that came up was a damn intriguingly titled article from the Radio Times about the Christmas episode - which is very tempting to read, but it contains spoilers. It has to do with how the return of a previous companion could solve the first-ever plot hole! I wanna know, but I don't!
I haven't heard any update on who will play the next Doctor. Last I heard was Kris Marshall was a possibility, as was as Brian Blessed. I hope Chibnall is at least considering Mangan.
There's next week's episode, The Eaters of Light (ep. 10), then World Enough and Time, with the Cybermen (though it sounds like James Bond should be in there somewhere), and then episode 12 The Doctor Falls ([i]da da DAAAAH![/i] dramatic musical sting). And then the Xmas special, of course, will air at Xmas time.
I saw some episodes of the new version and enjoyed it.
I'm an Anglofile from way back. The first British show I saw, I think, was "My Partner, The Ghost" - which was called "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" in Great Britian. Or maybe my first British show was "Vision On," a children's program I haven't thought about in years, let alone fully realized was British until now. In any case, I was a youngster.
I think one of the characteristics for a Whovian - beyond liking the show, of course, and not holding on too tightly to certain aspects where the current never measures up to an imagined "golden-age" past - is to have a curiousity about history, science, and the world, and to not take things too seriously.
And I'm fascinated by Nikola Tesla.
Same here. Person of reason, a skeptic and an atheist. Used to be interested in new age-y type things when I was younger, but now I can't buy into any of that. I still find interest in the occult and supernatural - though mostly as a subject to write about. Hard to say where I would've stood had I lived in the 19th century - closer to Houdini or Doyle? Probably would've read Darwin and Twain (with his skeptical eye toward religion) and Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories on one hand, [i]and[/i] Doyle's more fantastic fantasy/sci-fi novels, along with Madam Blatsky, Verne, H. Rider Haggard, etc, on the other
And Houdini, though a skeptic, wanted to see his deceased mother. But of course all the mediums turned out to be phonies. If I recall correctly, there was something about Doyle's second wife fancying herself a medium too with "news from beyond" for Houdini from his mother - which turned out to be fake as well, enraging Houdini.