DOCTOR WHO: "Deep Breath" (SPOILERS)

[Morrus]

I don't blame him - I'm sure it's to his personal taste, and he probably never expected it to be more than just a fan-work. It's Moffatt and the production team who thought it was a good idea to put it on TV.

They're right. It's excellent.

 

[MarkB]

They're right. It's excellent.

Maybe it'll grow on me, but I really doubt it.

 

[Morrus]

Re. Missy -- I think she's the Master. After all that "is it time for a female Doctor?" discussion last year, changing the Master's gender would be a bit of an acknowledgement of that.

 

[Warunsun]

Liked the new doctor but was generally unimpressed with the episode. Probably holding expectations too high on my part. Looking forward to more however.

 

[trappedslider]

Looks like the Doctor broke a couple of records http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/doctor-season-8-highest-rated-season-premiere.html hopefully it can keep those numbers

 

[Crothian]

Is the title some meta reference for the fans to calm down with the new doctor? I know it kind of fits since they held their breathe to fool the clockwork creations but I wonder if there is not some double meaning there. The episode did seem to lecture the fans that this change is an okay one.

 

[Morrus]

Looks like the Doctor broke a couple of records http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/doctor-season-8-highest-rated-season-premiere.html hopefully it can keep those numbers

Dunno why that website thinks that, but it got only 6.8 million. Fairly low. Much less than Smith's opening episode.

http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/5707035

 

[trappedslider]

Dunno why that website thinks that, but it got only 6.8 million. Fairly low. Much less than Smith's opening episode.

http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/5707035

I'm guessing that huffington's article was dealing with the UK numbers only since it says

viewing figures in the UK were down for Peter Capaldi's debut in 'Doctor Who'.

and

However, these figures do not take into account the other fans heading to cinemas across the globe to watch their favourite show on the big screen.

As for GFR, they cited BBC America,which i'm guessing means here in the US it broke those records.

 

[Umbran]

I am not sure about the UK, but in the US there's also gong to be statistics for how many people recorded on a DVR, and there'll be the 3-day total viewing to consider - GFR may have been including those estimates.

 

[Morrus]

Yeah, in the UK those will be the overnights. A week later you get the time shifted and iPlayer figures added, which tends to be a 1-2 million boost.

Cinema stuff is cool, but it's pretty small fry, viewer-wise.