I liked yesterday's episode, 'Listen'. It again felt more measured and less manic, more thoughtful and less scatterbrained. With one or two moments excepted, I think this series is seeing the 'rebirth' of Doctor Who for me
Best episode thus far! The Doctor continues to develop along with his chemistry with Clara. There's some wonderful witty humor too.
Same here. Best episode so far. Didn't go where I thought it would go.
Not one of my favourite episodes, but I liked the central plot idea and Capaldi is just superb...again....fast becoming "my" Doctor...
I do like Mr Capaldi in the part, but he has a habit of walking around someone he's talking to when he's trying, presumably, to size them up. It looks a bit "mannered" to me and it's the one part of his performance that might start getting a bit annoying.
I love how brutally honest he is with Clara. Some of the best humor. Things like saying she has "man hips" and she had to much colors or paint on her face. I forget the exact quote.
I have a problem with that kind of naivety being written into The Doctor's character (be it new or old Who).
He's an old, well-travelled space and time traveller with a known fondness for humans and Earth, and even after a regeneration a pretty good memory too. I'm pretty sure he'd be very familiar with the different types of personality and the way people are, yet he expresses surprise that a woman wears high heels and doesn't realize she's dressed up for a romantic reason. Go figure.
This isnt new though. The 11th Doctor was completely clueless with regards to social norms and customs on Earth. And I believe Tom Baker's was mystified about many tings regarding women.
In the latest news as part of our now weekly “frivolous complaints about Doctor Who” series here at DWW, the BBC have received complaints over The Guardian newspaper being “given an unfair amount of promotion” in Doctor Who, The Guardian itself reports.
Two whole viewers have complained to Ofcom (the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for broadcasting) after Jenna Coleman’s Clara Oswald was seen clutching a Saturday edition of the newspaper during scenes with Danny Pink during last week’s Listen.
The complaints suggested that the newspaper amounted to product placement which is of limits to the BBC.
BBC Worldwide will only be including the cut version of Robot of Sherwood as part of the Series 8 DVD/BluRay Box Set later this year.
Cut to remove a beheading scene in light of recent actions by Islamic State (IS), the BBC originally removed the scene toward the episode’s climax “out of respect” for American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.
There had been some hope the episode would be restored for home media release, yet inquiries to the BBC reveal the Beeb “will be releasing the broadcast version” this November.
Many fans were hopeful that First Doctor companion Ian Chesterton (William Russell) would turn up in The Caretaker given the Coal Hill setting and the character’s appointment to Chairman of the Governors. As we now know, sadly it didn’t happen.
Writer Gareth Roberts has explained the omission saying he felt it would be too much of distraction and something deserving of its own episode.
Speaking to CultBox, Roberts said: “I just thought [including Ian in 'The Caretaker'] would be too much of a distraction. I think that’s an episode all of its own. I thought, particularly after the 50th, where there were lots of references to past Doctor Who, sometimes you need to just put your foot on the accelerator and keep going forward.”
However the writer doesn’t rule it out in future: “I’d love to see William Russell back in the show! That’s so rich and so fertile for someone to do. You’d have to explain it enough so that everyone would get it.”
He added: “There’s a tiny reference to that first year of Doctor Who in ‘The Caretaker’ which is the Coal Hill motto, on the wall of the parent’s evening: “a great spirit of adventure”, which is what the Doctor says about Ian and Barbara in ‘The Sensorites’. I thought that was a nice nod in the background.”
