Doctor Who season 9

[Tenzhi]

I liked the start, but the end of this opening two-parter was pretty bad.  And I absolutely hate sonic sunglasses.

[doc7924]

I have been a fan of the show since the 70's.
I like Capaldi a lot, but I wasn't overly thrilled with the newest story.

I liked the show a lot when RTD was in charge but since Moffat took over, its been going downhill for me.

Davros was great as always but I really cant stand this female Master.

And the glasses are just dumb.

[Kaos Arcanna]

I thought the first episode started out strongly, but the second had a weak ending.

[Tenzhi]

Davros was great as always but I really cant stand this female Master.

And the glasses are just dumb.

I was particularly amused when Davros stole the Darth Vader line.

And I've not much liked any of the incarnations of the Master in new Who, unless I count the old human he was introduced as.  He's been far too zany for my taste.  I could have happily accepted this female version if she was a more straight-laced cold crazy evil.  I think I'm in the minority with my dislike here, though.

I really don't get the sunglasses.  They just look like regular sunglasses.  Who thought that was a good idea?  Did the sonic screwdriver prop guy quit or something?

[Brutey]

I liked the Daleks (I usually do), Davros, the explanation behind the Master's escape last season, and the exploring the Dalek armor scene.

I disliked the Dalek sewers, Davros' force field still being in the control room (?), and the Tardis re-assembling (?? I think I missed the line where he 'explained' what happened to it).  So I guess in short most of the ending.  Except the true ending - it was obvious that the Doctor was going to go back and save Davros from the hand grenades (sigh), but the reason why I liked.

I like the new Masters.  She's a lot of fun.  I wouldn't mind if she wasn't the Master, however - if she'd been a new character, like a time lord who had been driven insane by being in a stasis box too long - but I understand the desire to tie her more intimately to the Doctor so fans don't wonder why she wasn't a one and done monster of the week.

I do think that her over the top act is just that - an act that she's putting on around the Doctor.

[Tenzhi]

Hand mines.  If they were ever referred to as grenades I thankfully missed it.  I would've begun to wonder if Skaro had ever been called Xanth.

[hurple]

I liked the Daleks (I usually do), Davros, the explanation behind the Master's escape last season, and the exploring the Dalek armor scene.

I disliked the Dalek sewers, Davros' force field still being in the control room (?), and the Tardis re-assembling (?? I think I missed the line where he 'explained' what happened to it).  So I guess in short most of the ending.  Except the true ending - it was obvious that the Doctor was going to go back and save Davros from the hand grenades (sigh), but the reason why I liked.

I like the new Masters.  She's a lot of fun.  I wouldn't mind if she wasn't the Master, however - if she'd been a new character, like a time lord who had been driven insane by being in a stasis box too long - but I understand the desire to tie her more intimately to the Doctor so fans don't wonder why she wasn't a one and done monster of the week.

I do think that her over the top act is just that - an act that she's putting on around the Doctor.

She should have been The Rani.

And the guy from last season's medieval episode should have been the Master.  Sorry, I forgot the actor and the character he played.  LOL.

[Mandu]

Missy is a great character but she's not The Master... yet.  I see her as having recently regenerated (relatively) and not yet fully focused.  They can keep the playful evilness so long as they eliminate the silly bits like dancing around the Dalek as it was blasting away.

[Brutey]

Hand mines.  If they were ever referred to as grenades I thankfully missed it.  I would've begun to wonder if Skaro had ever been called Xanth.

Argh. Hand mines is not an improvement.

[Mental Maden]

Sorry, but I love Missy. I'd watch a show just of her going around space and time being a dickish anti-hero/villain.

Thought the two parter was good.

The sunglasses though, have to go. But I think they will soon enough.

[Tenzhi]

I could like Missy if she wasn't supposed to be the Master.  She's amusingly insane.  Although she does come off a bit like an Evil River.

[hurple]

I could like Missy if she wasn't supposed to be the Master.  She's amusingly insane.  Although she does come off a bit like an Evil River.

She could have, should have been the Rani.

Still could be, I suppose, if somebody wanted to write that, someday...

[Aggelakis]

I like Missy. I enjoyed the last episode. I am not picky.

[Tenzhi]

It's going to bug me if there's no meaningful reason for the burned out eye sockets.

[eabrace]

It's going to bug me if there's no meaningful reason for the burned out eye sockets.

[Tenzhi]

Well, that got obvious real quick.  Liked the rock intro to the theme.

[Brutey]

I've enjoyed the 'Doctor asides', where he scribbles on the blackboard or talks to the audience (in story to himself, or to another character we can't see), when they've been used.  Sort of a Twilight Zone feel to them. I wouldn't mind seeing more of them.

The sunglasses are not growing on me.  I've thought the entire sonic 'screwdriver' evolution in the modern era to be over the top - putting a Star Trek TNG tricorder to shame - but seeing the glasses plugged into a computer by their arms is in a league of it's own.

[Tenzhi]

I saw an interview with the guy in charge (is it Moffat these days?) where he basically said they did the sonic sunglasses to piss people off just because they could.

[Clave Dark 5]

Hm, sounds like some of these comments are being written by grumpy Daleks or something! 

I've really been enjoying this season... at least, right up to the end of the past episode when nothing much got explained and the entire mythological backstory of the Fisher King lore got ignored.  But that writer's been known to turn in some flat bits, so that's our luck of the draw.  Go back and look at any age of Doctor Who and you'll find there's always a dud somewhere, even season 13 and 14 had'em.

[hurple]

Hm, sounds like some of these comments are being written by grumpy Daleks or something! 

I've really been enjoying this season... at least, right up to the end of the past episode when nothing much got explained and the entire mythological backstory of the Fisher King lore got ignored.  But that writer's been known to turn in some flat bits, so that's our luck of the draw.  Go back and look at any age of Doctor Who and you'll find there's always a dud somewhere, even season 13 and 14 had'em.

And speaking of old school Doctor Who... The monster in this two-parter should looked like one of the old, wobbly, made of bubble-wrap monsters...