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Monique

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Huh. Nice little bottle episode.
Overall not a lot to complain about. Everything was nicely done. At first I was critical of them killing the love interest but no it tied back into the story quickly.
Maybe the end could have used a little tweaking? I mean on one hand its Dr Who at its core, a dads love overpowering soulless murder math but it just felt like an unsatisfying way to solve the problem.

Still interesting little concept. Surprised that the Marines didn't recognize the Doctor by name but I guess this could be way before or way after Demons Run and the whole War on Christmas thing. Whoever thought of the ambulance using the body for the casket was absolutely wicked. Oh right this was a Moffet episode, that tracks.
 
Shadewing

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Eh, I dunno about this episode. I just wasn't feeling it. Everything just felt really forced. Like they were just really trying very very hard to hammer in the themes and ideas to the most oblivious audience and ironically had no faith in anyone understanding unless it was bluntly spelt out as heavily handed as possible. It also doesn't help, least my autistic brain, that I know its going to have a happy ending since there's no way they're killing off the Doctor, Ruby, and a random kid; so all the drama felt incredibly hollow. So you have an overly preachy anti-war anti-consumer message attached to very hollow drama about the Doctor being a bomb, that gets resolved in the most almost literall dues ex machina ending possible. Its just a boring episode and for me one of Moffat's weakest ones
 

Echowarrior

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So, I'm a little late, but I finally sat down today and watched the first episode of the new series.

I liked it. It felt like RTD was actively attempting to channel Steven Moffat. Yes, the plot is kinda juvenile, and it's silly as all get-out...but dang it, this was fun!

I just hope it doesn't take me forever to get caught up with the next few episodes.
 
ZacWilliam1

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Boom was incredibly tense IMO. Very well done. So far the new season's been strong:

One of a really few times I've ever really felt like the Doctor was hanging on by a hair to not losing everything.

-ZacWilliam, also really like the poem he kept repeating.
 

Shadhausen

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Man, I was really enjoying this weeks episode until that ending. Besides being tropetastic, it just felt off. We didn't even get an explanation for one of the eps big mysteries why did everyone who talked to Old Ruby lose their minds?.
 
Shadewing

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Personally I just really didn't like this episode. It was just boring to me and nothing ever felt explained. Stuff just happened, and kept happening until somehow its all resolved.
 
Dekafox

Dekafox

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Supposedly this episode has a direct bearing on the season finale on some fashion, so it's essentially a setup for that, as unsatisfying as it is to have a Who episode that -doesn't- try to explain why things happened.
 

Monique

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Maybe in retrospect this episode will be great, but as it stands its pretty much just a series of whys? with no answers. I kept expecting a payoff that never happened.
 

wentwood

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Doctor Who XVII
Shada Parts 1 - 6

Novel

This adapts the story with minor changes

1992 Version

Linking Narration by Tom Baker

2003

4th Doctor replaced with 8th Doctor and a new story created as an audio episode by Big Finish

The restoration of Shada was a 2 phase process.

1. 2017

Some footage was animated to finish what wasn't filmed.

2. 2021

The Serial format to restore Shada as a 6 part story was done so we can now see all 6 parts as single episodes each.
 
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wentwood

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Shada thoughts

I had watched Shada uncut last week over 3 days as a single story. I got it in my 2 disk animation collection.

As for Shada proper

I felt that this story was the actual year 17 finale of Doctor Who.

I actually liked it.

I wonder if Shada would have set the stage for the 5th Doctor.

An electrician strike had haulted filming.
 

Echowarrior

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The logic escapes me. Both posts were about Shada. Yes, one was specifically about the reconstruction, but if it was me, I'd have just made one post.
 

wentwood

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No because the first is to explain what Shada went through.

Doctor Who LX Theme

Did anybody else notice that it was a tweak of the 11th Doctor's theme?

I caught this during Space Babies.
 
Shadewing

Shadewing

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Dot and Bubble

This makes the second episode of the season I actually liked. Overall this was a much better Doctor-Lite episode, that feels a bit like some of better episodes of both RTD and Moffat's run with the Doctor being a literal outsider to everything that is going on. Main character of the episode, will likely not be remembered unlike someone like Sally Sparrow. After /that/ moment in the episode, I am really really not surprised at the ending. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be racial or not, as either way she already shown herself to be a horrible, horrible person.

Though this episode does continue the trend of the Doctor actually being the hero, though this is the first one where he's actually "failed". So far most episodes has had someone else defeat the antagonist of the episode. He's just not getting any real hero moments to make him stand out.
 
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