tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8800091210753201638.post2218087466674240088..comments2023-06-04T17:53:06.332+01:00Comments on Neil Is The Best Dalek: The Doesn't Care-takerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8800091210753201638.post-30106847044747978292014-10-04T16:45:20.113+01:002014-10-04T16:45:20.113+01:00Let's all run crying back to Matt Smith! Or a...Let's all run crying back to Matt Smith! Or at least stop telling me about this guy who's pretending to be the Doctor now. I haven't forgiven Troughton yet so it'll be a while before I accept Capaldi.<br /><br />Also that bow tie is rubbish. It looks like it came off the end of a Christmas cracker.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494007896945358812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8800091210753201638.post-40508905682729185442014-10-04T05:15:17.967+01:002014-10-04T05:15:17.967+01:00We miss Matt too. It's so very very disappoint...We miss Matt too. It's so very very disappointing. <br /><br />The only thing that dragged us back from the brink was getting an email from someone who thanked us for saying what we had as she was going slowly insane wondering if she was the only person in the universe disliking it. So we felt there was a point to keeping going, but we can't say we're bubbling with anticipation. We hope you keep trudging too. You know what they say about misery. The Androzani Teamhttp://www.androzani.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8800091210753201638.post-47365270864144054052014-10-04T00:03:11.059+01:002014-10-04T00:03:11.059+01:00Hi guys.
I find the whole Matt/boyfriend thing cr...Hi guys.<br /><br />I find the whole Matt/boyfriend thing creepy. It just doesn't sit well with me. I don't think there was ever anything "going on" there, in either direction, despite the occasional (I felt) insubstantial fancying ref. It feels wrongish to me. Then again, I don't mind the degree-of-separation thing with Capaldi. (Maybe it's a nervous reaction to love triangles, as you said in your review? I think that alarm bell rang in my subconscious...)<br /><br />I get a bit upset me when they remind me about Matt. I joke in the review, but god, I do actually miss him. Clara's better with Peter, but still.<br /><br />I felt like you here - on the brink. I don't think it's terrible, but I'm struggling with CapalDoc - not the actor, obviously - and the show is him. Worrying. And they're making big motions about Danny and soldiers and I think they're bending the Doctor out of shape to do it. And there's an arc, but I'm conditioned just to ignore them now.<br /><br />Glad neither of us has quit yet, but it's making me frown a bit too often.<br /><br />I am exaggerating my Roberts love for nice effect. I don't like The Shakespeare Code, and Planet Of The Dead is shite. Still, he can make me laugh when he's on form...Neil Is The Best Dalekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12049901367710121384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8800091210753201638.post-55205334326464125952014-10-03T12:44:43.190+01:002014-10-03T12:44:43.190+01:00You certainly like Gareth Roberts more than we do,...You certainly like Gareth Roberts more than we do, but that's a very perceptive summation of his strengths.<br /><br /><i>What do you mean, "unspeakably creepy"?</i><br /><br />Of all the things we had problems with in this episode, this, amazingly, wasn't one of them. We see his relationship to the previous Doctor as kind of distantly avuncular, therefore nothing much to do with him. And of course he's also accidentally right, because Clara did fancy the Matt Doctor. <br /><br />You've articulated a lot of things here which we agree with completely, yet didn't dwell on in our own review because there were things we liked even less. For us, this episode is The One That Nearly Put Us Out Of Business. We're so sick of being negative this season, especially when so many people seem to like the new direction. Some of it's about what you say here, some of it's other things. We were so depressed about it we were seriously questioning whether we should throw the towel in and leave it to people who actually like it as it is. <br />The Androzani Teamhttp://www.androzani.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8800091210753201638.post-69394401177355524802014-10-01T01:19:28.499+01:002014-10-01T01:19:28.499+01:00The best lines in the episode were when the Doctor...The best lines in the episode were when the Doctor asked Courtney what people called her, she answered “Disruptive influence,” and he happily exclaimed “Nice to meet you” and shook her hand. The 12th Doctor is a Disruptive Influence. (One of my dearest friends is also a man hated by almost everyone else at my work and among my friends, so there really is such a thing as a crusty curmudgeon with a toffee centre.) I also personally understand the Doctor’s antipathy toward soldiers (as well as his easy forgetting of that in the company of the aristocratic officers), however I safely live in a country where soldiering is a very rare thing.Talliferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08541684895097153972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8800091210753201638.post-72594250353691915012014-09-30T16:21:23.925+01:002014-09-30T16:21:23.925+01:00Well, six eps to go, it's probably on the card...Well, six eps to go, it's probably on the cards. Fingers crossed!<br /><br />As for Danny making Clara promise not to let the Doctor push her too far - I *think* that may be going somewhere, but it's difficult to be certain... ;)Neil Is The Best Dalekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12049901367710121384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8800091210753201638.post-18699082887761100662014-09-30T15:18:46.231+01:002014-09-30T15:18:46.231+01:00i do get exactly where you're coming from. Alt...i do get exactly where you're coming from. Although i enjoyed the ep i *was* expecting far more of the Dr/Dany 'conforntation' than the sniping and unresolvedness we did get. I'm HOPING we get more meaty confrontations between them soon...DMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509237519387726926noreply@blogger.com