New Doctor? *possible spoilers*

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Anyone see the Dr Who special last night, the adventure of space and time?, I really enjoyed it and thought it was very well acted, shot, produced and cast

Matt Smith and David Tennant will be on the Graham Norton show at 10.35 tonight, if you haven't seen the show before I recommend I, its really good...
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Lucky, here in america I have to wait another 12 hours to see it while everyone else has seen it already. :ouch:
 
What did people think of the 50th special?

I thought it was pretty good, but overhyped way too much.
 
They went as far as hiding TARDIS Easter eggs in a handful of BBC shows. You'd have to be the most haw-keyed bugger to spot most of them. :lol:

The episode was fine though. I would like to see more War Doctor at some point in the series, but that's unlikely. And the cameo towards the end was a nice touch, even if it was just to add another playful wink to the audience. Overall, it didn't disappoint.
 
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I thought it was quite good although I am a bit disappointed we probably won't see much of the war doctor again. It did answer some questions from "the end of time" which was quite clever. The end was a bit much though for my taste.
 
Somehow, I don't think so. I find that after 50 years of The Doctor helping other people out, someone finally gets around to helping him and his main tribulation during the time war. I have stated earlier that when they continued the show back in 2005, the Ninth doctor just mysteriously appears with little explanation to his past, nor how the eighth got to the ninth in the first place. So that is at least one loose end that I am glad to see tied up.
 
I enjoyed it last night but I thought the story was a little underwhelming and I enjoyed the shows and documentaries that the BBC put on in the week...
 
And then he got resurrected during the Time War...

It would be a bit of a cop-out if someone just came along and resurrected the Doctor. Interested to see how Moffat gets him out of this one.
 
My thought was that after watching Night of the Doctor, the Elixir of Life had the added side effect of increasing the number of regenerations. But whatever happens at Christmas will probably lead to a different reason.
 
The feels were strong in this one.
 
Enjoyed it last night, Goodbye Matt and all the best on your Hollywood journey

I think Capaldi has some big shoes to fill..
 
Half expected him to say "Do you happen to know how to fly this 🤬 thing?!" :lol:

Restarting the cycle from the beginning and granting him 12 more lives instead of one, additional 13th incarnation seemed like the obvious thing to do when keeping the future of the series in mind. Plus Moffat gained a few troll points for delaying that regeneration.

Now we'll have to wait until next September at the very earliest before we see Capaldi again.
 
It was pretty much foreshadowed. Remember what happened to The Master? He got new regens from the time lord council after helping The Doctor in some problem.
 
It was sad to see Matt Smith regenerate, though I have to give Capaldi credit for making me laugh. I did not have high expectations of Smith to begin with, as he was a relatively unknown actor. However, it turned out that Moffat chose well, as Matt knocked the role out of the park (still not as good as Tennant though). I hope I can say the same about Capaldi. :scared: Guess we have to wait till Fall 2014 until we find out if Moffat has chosen well once again.
 
Speaking from some experience(Moffat also runs Sherlock), Moffat can make very good casting decisions. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman were relatively unknown before that show, and because of its popularity, both of them have had some big roles. Cumberbatch as Kahn in the recent Star Trek film and Freeman as Bilbo in The Hobbit.

I predict a big future for Matt Smith in Hollywood and great success as number 12 for Capaldi.
 
I'm not a Doctor Who fan (well... not now; I was up until it was canned the first time round), so I've seen nearly nothing of Ecclestone (I got a few episodes into Ecclestone before it became missable), Tennant and Smith, until my eldest watched The Time of the Doctor yesterday and I was in the room at the time.

Seriously? That pile of absolute regurgitated horse tripe is what passes for a Doctor Who "special" episode now? It seemed to have been written by someone (or a team) who'd never heard of continuity, dialogue or storyboarding - possibly also scriptwriting - and directed by someone with no concept of pacing. There was an overripe stench of cramming as many of the "new" monsters into one episode as possible (what purpose did the Weeping Angels serve?) and another one of Moffat's hideously tiresome one-season reference hooks (such as the Bad Wolf crap that made Ecclestone's outing missable) in the shape of "cracks in the universe".

I know it's a bit tricky to screw together continuity with a central character who travels time and space freely - except when the writers choose to limit it for this week's stupid reason - but good gravy you could do a better job by hurling Scrabble tiles into the air and writing down the results.

Watching this utter dren made me glad I've cancelled my TV Licence, so that no more of my money can be funnelled into this runaway arse-belch of self-indulgence.
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Speaking from some experience(Moffat also runs Sherlock), Moffat can make very good casting decisions. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman were relatively unknown before that show, and because of its popularity, both of them have had some big roles. Cumberbatch as Kahn in the recent Star Trek film and Freeman as Bilbo in The Hobbit.

I predict a big future for Matt Smith in Hollywood and great success as number 12 for Capaldi.
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Cumberbatch has been a TV star for a decade (alongside his theatre work) and appearing on film as Stephen Hawking in "Hawking", in the Oscar-winning Atonement, as British PM Pitt the Younger in the slave-trade epic Amazing Grace (second billed after Ioan Gruffudd) and he filmed War Horse before he was cast in Sherlock.

Martin Freeman's career is even longer - appearing on TV in The Office and a bunch of Britcoms like This Life and Black Books and in films like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Love Actually and the lead in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 2005.

Sherlock wasn't the making of either of them.
 
Pretty sure US audiences got to see Atonement, War Horse, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead and the Hitchhiker's Guide.

And The Office, before it was cloned into a Steve Carell vehicle, come to think of it.
 

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