3 weeks till new Who!

[Morrus]

I almost wish that the Doctor was down and out for the count to have made this a full Doctor-less episode. There would have been a lot of interesting drama and dialogue between the Victorian Three and Clara, and it would have given these other characters a little more focus and screentime.

It was clearly a backdoor pilot for a series. But leaving the Doctor out completely would have made that a bit too obvious - and I imagine folks would complain that a whole episode out of the mere 8 this year was being wasted.

 

[lin_fusan]

I thought "The Snowmen" was the backdoor pilot for the Victorian Three?

 

[MarkB]

I thought "The Snowmen" was the backdoor pilot for the Victorian Three?

Backdoor co-pilot, then?

 

[Aeolius]

Have you seen

Spoiler

John Hurt

's teaser/rumor about his role in the 50th? BLASTR Link

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(edit: name/photo hidden. Sorry Morrus)

 

[Morrus]

Spoilers, dude. Sheesh. I hadn't seen that, deliberately so.

 

[RangerWickett]

Spoilers, dude. Sheesh. I hadn't seen that, deliberately so.

Ban him!

 

[Aeolius]

To be fair, any rumors at this juncture are still simply rumors. The above-mentioned actor's participation has been in the news for weeks, so I took it as common knowledge.

As far as spoilers go: [video]http://teamcoco.com/video/conan-highlight-star-trek-spoilers[/video]

 

[JediSoth]

Remember: The Moffat lies...and has been known to deliberately troll fans.

 

[Tonguez]

Ban him!

I say we let him sleep with the fishes

 

[Morrus]

I enjoyed today's episode. A Gaiman take on Cybermen. It did drum home just how similar Cybermen and Borg are in concept, though (I think it was a deliberate but friendly jab at the Star Trek writers by using some of its TNG imagery to portray elements of Cybermen from 45 years ago - the similarity was brought up recently in the Cyberman/Borg Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover comic, too). Who did assimilation first, and now it borrowed "upgrading" (adapting) from ST, making them both essentially the same.

I love it when they refer to hundreds of galaxies. Very few sci-fi properties go beyond the one. Star Trek and Star Wars are both one galaxy. Who is the entire universe - The Doctor is just in a different scale to everyone else - all of time, and all of space. And Wickett the Ewok is Emperor of a hundred galaxies! Seriously, Warwick Davis is everywhere right now.

Last ep next week. I bet 100% we won't find out the name of The Doctor. There's no name that would be interesting, let alone impressive. Jeff? Gooblebloop? xgHdjd? 173.42? Bob? Julius Caesar? Rassilon? Nothing can be anything other than anticlimactic. So we won't hear it.