Concur.

"Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" at least had gonzo-romp going for it.

"A Town Called Mercy" was awful.

I finally got to see Mercy yesterday. Wasn't great, wasn't awful, just another solid episode. The twists and the way the Doctors contrasted each other was interesting, as was seeing 11 in hot anger (As opposed to the cold anger in Dinosaurs).

I liked it. Try as he might, our Doctor will never be able to get away from having spent millennia doing very horrible things, even if they were for a good reason.

Power iof Three was better, even if this entire 'season' has foreshadowed the demise of the Ponds in a very heavy handed fashion, and that the narration in this episode made it sound like an advert for a razor.

Hopefully then it will be the weeping angels offing the two worst companions i've ever known, and we can get rid of the insufferable Amy Pond and her ass of a husband. Sad to see Mark Williams wasted as his dad and I'm not looking forward to Matt Smith's chin as he acts his way throuygh the inevitable aftermath. Ugh.

Quote from: Ladybird;584513I finally got to see Mercy yesterday. Wasn't great, wasn't awful, just another solid episode. The twists and the way the Doctors contrasted each other was interesting, as was seeing 11 in hot anger (As opposed to the cold anger in Dinosaurs).

I liked it. Try as he might, our Doctor will never be able to get away from having spent millennia doing very horrible things, even if they were for a good reason.

Just managed to catch this one last night. The cyborg bore an uncanny resemblance to Kryton from Red Dwarf.

I thought 'Power of Three' had some interesting stuff in it...but not much.  A lot of build-up for...well, nothing, really.

I remain unimpressed by this "Fall season".

I don't dislike all of new Who ( I can no longer watch #10) but the more of it I see, the more I appreciate the old show. A reduction in  both romantic angst and season long arcs combined with an increase in optimism would do the show a world of good.
In my opinion the new show has  to date failed to produce a truly classic episode such as say, The Dialeks, Tomb of The Cybermen, Planet of the Dialkes The Invasion, Arc in Space, and a couple dozen others.

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;584700Just managed to catch this one last night. The cyborg bore an uncanny resemblance to Kryton from Red Dwarf.

Adorable Girlfriend thought the preview looked like Westworld, so we watched that; still a great film. It struck me just how similar the overall plot is to Jurassic Park, but I think Westworld is the far more watchable movie.

Anyway, Who, I really like the "11 is on Earth for a bit and bored out of his mind" episodes. I can forgive the silly monster sideplots because, well, they're not important; the focus in those episodes is on the Doctor and the Companions just being people for a while, and the monsters are almost just there out of contractual obligation.

Regarding next week, I like the Ponds, but I'd happily never see the Angels again. They've suffered from Villain Decay worse than the Daleks ever did, and they've only been in a handful of episodes.

I agree about the angels.

Personally I think the Time War was a mistake.

I'd like to have the Timelords within the modern canon (properly of course).

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;584806I agree about the angels.

If I was in charge of Who, and ever wanted to re-use the Angels, it would be as random background props, maybe having one do the off-camera movement trick - but sparingly, once a series at most.

And certainly never, ever, having them move on-camera, because more than anything, that killed their creepiness; before that, the viewer was an active participant in the story, and the Angels worked in the same way as in the show. Having them move on-camera... well, now they're just another gribbly horror monster.

But if I was writing Who, it would be a non-linear mess, so that'll never happen. Also, Cyberman companion. Srsli.

QuotePersonally I think the Time War was a mistake.

I'd like to have the Timelords within the modern canon (properly of course).

I'm not sure the new series would have the time to do them justice, to be honest. Although I'd love to see some of the other people the Doctor has inspired; it's a big universe, time travel tech isn't too uncommon, someone else has to be walking the timelines, right? Have him bump into one of their stories, or vice-versa.

So, Many. Plotholes.

Awful, awful, awful.  Didn't care for the Angels ep at all.

Angel over-use?  Check.  River Song present?  Check?

That's two strikes against for me before you even get into the not-making-any-sense bits.

That said, there was some cleverness at the beginning and the end - I liked the idea of the book, and I thought the last scene in the graveyard was pretty cool.

I thought it was great. But river song never bothered me much and felt like an appropriate episode for the angels to me. Also i really enjoyed the noir feal and agree the book concept was pretty cool.

Quote from: VectorSigma;587626Awful, awful, awful.

It's always a bad sign when an episode feels like bad fan fiction.

Quote from: VectorSigma;587626Awful, awful, awful.  Didn't care for the Angels ep at all.

It broke an Angel rule during the intro - the two in the corridor would have been able to see each other (A rule which was the entire resolution of Blink, so pretty fundamental to the concept).

The episode was okay, and very definitive in that they are gone and never coming back. It's a shame there wasn't a spare Raggedy Man appearance for the Doctor to see Amelia one last time, but eh.

The book said River's wrist was broken. That didn't mean that her wrist had to be broken. All it meant was that someone had to lie when the book was written.

People observed written words, so only the written words should have been fixed in time.