Doctor Who s8e4: "Listen"; best ep of the year so far!

Morrus · Sep 13, 2014

Absolutely loved it! It left stuff unanswered - we never did find out who was under the sheet or who opened the airlock - but it was creepy and clever.

Is Time Lord as a qualification new? I always thought it was a race. Maybe I'm forgetting stuff.

Capaldi's best performance yet. He's starting to settle in.

Why was Clara so secretive abut Danny? He was clearly relevant to the mystery, but she pretended she didn't know of him, even to the Doctor. Why?

Doctor and chalk/blackboard again. This is a thing with him.

MarkB · Sep 13, 2014

Morrus said:
Is Time Lord as a qualification new? I always thought it was a race. Maybe I'm forgetting stuff.

I think it does come up in the Fourth Doctor story The Invasion of Time that there are Gallifreyans who are not Time Lords.

delericho · Sep 13, 2014

Yep, thoroughly enjoyed tonight's episode.

Crothian · Sep 14, 2014

It was atmospheric and creepy and that was great. The idea of the creature was also neat.

Morrus · Sep 14, 2014

One thought. Gallifrey is currently inaccessible, even to a TARDIS. That barn therefore was not on Gallifrey, since Clara flew the TARDIS there.

I assumed the barn was on Gallifrey in the 50th anniversary episode. But clearly it's not. But that raises a other fact: the Doctor did not grow up on Gallifrey.

That's new. And interesting.

Raunalyn · Sep 14, 2014

Extremely well done episode, which is welcome after the lackluster first 3 episodes.

Raunalyn · Sep 14, 2014

Morrus said:
One thought. Gallifrey is currently inaccessible, even to a TARDIS. That barn therefore was not on Gallifrey, since Clara flew the TARDIS there.

I assumed the barn was on Gallifrey in the 50th anniversary episode. But clearly it's not. But that raises a other fact: the Doctor did not grow up on Gallifrey.

That's new. And interesting.

I caught that, too. I was wondering how she was able to get the TARDIS to Gallifrey if it was inaccessible. Your explanation makes perfect sense.

Morrus · Sep 14, 2014

Yikes. Ratings are dropping. Just 4.8 million on the overnights. That's getting dangerously low. Makes me worry for the future of the show.

Raunalyn · Sep 14, 2014

Morrus said:
Yikes. Ratings are dropping. Just 4.8 million on the overnights. That's getting dangerously low. Makes me worry for the future of the show.

Worries me too. Not surprising with the weak first 3 episodes, but if the next episodes are as good as last night's, I think the ratings will pick pack up.

trappedslider · Sep 14, 2014

Morrus said:
Yikes. Ratings are dropping. Just 4.8 million on the overnights. That's getting dangerously low. Makes me worry for the future of the show.

Is that just the UK numbers or world wide?

EDIT: Also the whole not supposed to go to the end of the universe seems to be more of a guide line than an actual rule.....The Tardis has gone twice based on just Nu-Who episodes