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tao1kiku
11-23-2013, 06:42 AM
Will anyone else be glued to the TV or at their local theatre seeing this too?
Tara Emory
11-23-2013, 09:01 AM
I suggest watching the simulcast, just because it's commercial free, and who knows if the version they will play in the evening is cut the same way. But knowing BBCAmerica, they tend to trim little bits of DW so that they can accomodate commercials...
Ecstatic
11-24-2013, 07:23 AM
Neat for everyone everywhere (at least on this planet in this temporal moment) to get to see DW at the same time. The little touches, as usual, were the best: the hook back to the 10th Doctor's offhand remark about marrying Bess, the fez, bad wolf, the curator....
martin48
11-24-2013, 12:56 PM
It was great. For serious fans, lots of questions left. Really, I want a Billy Piper interface - please
kirahann
11-24-2013, 07:17 PM
It was Awesome! With the original show intro, the return of Zygons, all 13 doctors and the Tom Baker cameo.
trish
11-24-2013, 08:41 PM
Loved how the contract between the humans and the zygons was imposed under idealized John Rawlsian conditions. Also great to see Tom Baker again. No Martin, you can't have a Billy Piper interface. You'll put the universe out with that thing!
Ecstatic
11-25-2013, 08:01 PM
So many nice subtle touches...Clara teaching at Coal Hill School with Headmaster Ian Chesterton, Bad Wolf, "Who ... nose", and so much more!
GroobySteven
11-25-2013, 08:09 PM
Am I the only one who thought it was more than just a tiny bit crap.
Very disappointed.
smoothboi
11-26-2013, 03:48 AM
I didn't think it was crap, but I didn't really like it as a 50th anniversary special. I don't like inserting a new Doctor in like that.
gummi baer
11-26-2013, 04:45 AM
I find that if you'd want a story to meet your own expectations you ought to write it yourself.
robertlouis
11-26-2013, 05:50 AM
Am I the only one who thought it was more than just a tiny bit crap.
Very disappointed.

Not crap, as such, just a bit, mehh.

Went straight from watching DW to the new series of Borgen on BBC4. Now THAT's great television. Please dear lord, don't let some US network fuck it up with another shite remake.
Prospero
11-26-2013, 11:15 AM
Dr who. Self indulgent, deliberately incomprehensible tosh
GroobySteven
11-26-2013, 11:27 AM
I find that if you'd want a story to meet your own expectations you ought to write it yourself.

Er, yeah. :yayo:
Ananke
11-26-2013, 12:32 PM
Dr Who:
I just don't get it!
Is it only me who fails to see the attraction?
BBaggins06
11-26-2013, 08:15 PM
Dr Who:
I just don't get it!
Is it only me who fails to see the attraction?

Yes, you're the only one
mrtrebus
11-26-2013, 09:53 PM
Dr who. Self indulgent, deliberately incomprehensible tosh
WRONG! :loser:
Gillian
11-26-2013, 09:58 PM
Most of the reviews over here refer to its contrived first hour but agree that it was needed (for the nerdy fans ... :D) to properly prepare for the final fifteen minutes which everyone seems to think was brilliant.

At the screening at the BFI (British Film Institute), at which I wasn't present I should add, the theatre apparently broke into applause the moment Tom Baker's voice could be heard off-screen.

I've PVR'd it but have only had time to watch the first twenty minutes or so and yes, it's been a bit slow so far ...