Gatiss updates and fine tunes Ice Warrior lore, with their exterior being a cybernetic suit. It’d never been clear before how much of what we saw of them was armour or skin.
It’s a bit ‘Hmmm’ though when we finally see their real face. They look better in the helmets. #DoctorWho
The concept of the jars of liquid that are really burbling, whispering Gallifreyan “books” is very Harry Potter.
Not keen on Clara just randomly reading the Doctor’s real name in the book about the Time War though. #DoctorWho
Strax also gets some of the best lines:”I’m going outside to play with my grenades!”
Was Moffat planning some kind of Paternoster gang spin-off? As this seems almost like a back door pilot for the first half. #DoctorWho
The Whispermen are another great creation that could’ve potentially returned. I like the jumpscare when one of them bursts through the phantom of River.
Another creepy nursery rhyme though. The whole universe seems to have been constantly singing about Eleven’s fate. #DoctorWho
I enjoy the buildup to Clara’s leap into the Doctor’s timeline, but the implication of it, how she’s then saved him in every previous adventure, is a bit much.
It’s the start of Moffat trying to make us see her as the most important person in the entire history of #DoctorWho…🙄
Day Of The Doctor: right, here we go. The big one. 🙂
Ten years on, this still holds up as a fantastic achievement by Moffat. Season 7 was a bit iffy, so there was some slight trepidation heading into the 50th, but fair play, he pulled it off spectacularly. #DoctorWho
God, John Hurt was brilliant, wasn’t he? At both the comedy of taking the piss out of the others and the melancholy, world-weary material.
I’m a sucker for stories of redemption arcs, historical wrongs being righted etc. so the War Doctor’s story is right up my alley. #DoctorWho
More than once this reminds me of Back To The Future (which gets a namecheck) as that script is famously tightly-plotted with every part, every line, linking to or setting something up for later.
Kate’s plan to nuke London to save the Earth of course mirrors the War Doctor’s use of The Moment, and scanning the door with the sonic sets up the resolution of the whole story. #DoctorWho
This final shot could probably be done better today, (maybe with actual moving footage of the faces superimposed instead of photos?) but what the hell, well done Moff. 👏
Right Russell, get someone to hold your beer… 😀 #DoctorWho
There’s some obvious padding to fill this out to movie length, noticeably Strax’s medical exam of Clara, albeit still very funny.
And the battle at the end between the Paternoster gang and the clockwork droids seems to go on a bit too long. #DoctorWho
Into The Dalek: the harsher edges of the Twelfth Doctor start to get more defined now, with his utterly callous disregard for the people who die along the way.
I don’t know why anyone ever thinks this is a good idea. It didn’t work with Colin and it doesn’t work here. #DoctorWho
You can sort of imagine how Matt Smith would have played some of these lines. The “Get it right!” to Journey Blue would’ve been softer, more encouraging.
Instead she practically gets Malcolm Tucker yelling “GET IT FUCKING RIGHT!” at her. 😕 #DoctorWho
I hope the Coal Hill School Secretary in 1963 acted the same as the one we see here:
“I’m looking for the address of one of my pupils, Susan Foreman.”
“Ooh, I bet you are!”
I don’t know why Clara is not sure whether he’s “a good man” after everything they’ve been through together.
And where has this hatred of soldiers come from all of a sudden? Poor old Brigadier. #DoctorWho
And this episode shows exactly how to have a grumpy, irritable Doctor without alienating the viewers - just have someone else give as good as they get. The oneupmanship between him and Robin, especially in the dungeons, give us some of the funniest scenes in ages.
Too often the Twelfth Doctor, and the Sixth before him, just acts like a dick without any consequences or comeback. #DoctorWho
There’s a big logical flaw at the heart of this episode: we’re told the bank can only be broken into on one day in its history, when the solar storm disrupts the systems. But the storm will also interfere with the TARDIS, so they can’t use that to materialise inside…
So why not just time travel to ANY OTHER DAY IN THE BANK’S EXISTENCE, and use the TARDIS to get inside then??
I guess the Doctor just enjoyed the idea of doing a heist, even if people’s lives are put at risk. 🤷🏻♂️ #DoctorWho
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