Wibbly wobbly timey wimey... DOCTOR WHO Fan Club

Well, I've been thinking on my own about RYCBAR, and putting it together with the last anagram we had, YANA, and if you combine them, "Run you clever boy and remember, you are not alone." And with the results of the 50th... pretty snazzy eh?

I felt really indifferent about it. I hated what they are doing with Vashtra and Jenny. I mean, really? Yes, woohoo, interspecies lesbian couple ftw! But do you need to shove it down our throats? Yes, we get it. How many times do they have to mention they're married? Less is more, Moffat.

I liked Matt Smith showing up though, and the phone call and everything at the end. That was nice, show us a bit of normality after a strange new face and all.

We shall see.

acknowledging stuff all the way from the early RTD era. Even though I hated that the Girl In The Fireplace was put in S2, it was cool to see them reuse the ideas here. (It should really have been in S3 instead)

Amy still means enough to him for him to remember her. It's a bit weird how they allude to him having seen his own face before though, but I suppose it's all part of Moffat's master plan with Capaldi's characters. I love when stuff come together from long time ago so I'll probably like it :3

had me crying. I actually liked how the Doctor finally admitted (sort of elusively but) that he had made the "mistake" of thinking of himself as Clara's boyfriend. And the phone call was sweet but still came nowhere close to the S2 ending :) RTD knew how to do believable emotions. Or maybe it was Tennant and Piper <3 ;)

The episode had a few lines that made me chuckle. I liked Strax's "we will *not* melt him with acid" lol Also, 12th's mentioning of Amy.

I enjoyed the phone at the end of the episode. It was touching and everything I like about the 11th

Don't really have an opinion either way of 12th yet. He was kinda all over the place and not yet himself

The jokes were clumsy, Strax were funny but used badly, Jenny and Vastra's relationship was mentioned too much to be interesting and the Doctor really mostly... spouted exposition throughout the episode, didn't he? I just think it the whole adventure could have been much better if it was written to be deep for real and not dramatically funny. Compare this to the Christmas Invasion where the Doctor really got to show off his new personality and reunite with Rose, or with the Eleventh Hour which was an overall beautiful and touching episode. Not too big and apocalyptic, despite the fate of the Earth hanging on what went down in Leadworth that day.

-I dunno why, but when doctor who loses me, it loses me. I can follow the general plot thread, I understand the references and in-jokes, the humor is there but I'm not. I don't have this happen to me at all with other long running shows, and it bothers me. I can go along for the ride, but then I will have to watch it again to really get it. Anyone else has this happen to them?
-There was some serious ******** for storytelling happening in this episode, much worse then anything NuWho has done. Yes clara, run down half a flight of stairs to have a dramatic walk up them only 2 seconds later! Yes, have your damn lesbian kiss to save your wife cause of the stored oxygen, don't bother to do the same with everyone else. Cut shot, after cut shot, AFTER CUT SHOT. Maybe if you weren't jumping around so much I could follow the damn plot, I dunno. And what, her clothes needed cleaning and that's why she went victorian Ms Fanservice on us?
-I didn't mind the slapstick, but those noises. Otherwise, yeah. Love the newspaper toss, love the falling entrance, and you can just tell Strax wants to get in her pants. -Doctor Who? No, more like Doctor PHWOAR! The interactions with the robot were awkward, but the entire scene from the whiskey line to the choice bit, and then the impalement on big ben with the doctor giving you a questionable look was amazing. Some might think it felt forced, but it was an excellent use of exposition to tell us this doctor is a bit of a loose gun. And Capaldi in general was amazing. The hobo bit(I need a giant scarf, no wait 4 did that and he looked silly, the amy line, everything about him was great. That ending where he's telling Clara to get a grip on reality, explaining bluntly how that was him talking, how he didn't need to eavesdrop was the greatest way to establish there connection. Clara is going to need to get used to the doctor, and the doctor's gonna need to get used to her again. The I was your boyfriend bit was weird, and I need some explanation, but otherwise I'm fine.
-The overall tone of how this is an old doctor was great. Everyone dissing the meta-plot probably didn't understand that this episode in general was about acceptance,probably 3 or maybe 4 ways round. The doctor had to accept that he chose this face, for whatever reason he did. Clara has to accept that a pretty face isn't who he is, but the 2000 year old time lord, much like the fandom has to get used to that fact as well. And then the robots have to accept the fact that they're doomed, or that they've changed too much to be considered robots anymore.
-Yeah, Missy is going to be the master, book it. She's probably going to create a rogue gallery of all the series' villains, and use it against the doctor.