The official 2015 Doctor Who (with spoilers for aired episodes only) thread

[MarkB]

What did ya'll think of Before the Flood?

The villain was vague and poorly defined, the situation felt overly artificial, and the solution likewise. And I still didn't find any of the secondary characters sufficiently fleshed-out to make me actually care about them.

The stuff about paradoxes and where ideas originate in a closed time loop was interesting, but it only serves to raise the question of why one kind of paradox is 'allowed' and another is not.

 

[Morrus]

Yeah, not my favourite episode.

 

[delericho]

I've actually enjoyed each episode of this season so far more than the previous one.

 

[Morrus]

I like the look of next week.

[video=youtube;MZz0__eJuhE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZz0__eJuhE[/video]

 

[Tonguez]

do eels count as deus ex machina?

strange comedic episode that told a complete story and not just a build up to the second parter.
The Fires of Pompeii reference was intriguing as was the closing scene

and as a closing thought is it canon that the Doctors Mother was human?

 

[Morrus]

and as a closing thought is it canon that the Doctors Mother was human?

No. There's a throwaway line in that rubbish TV movie where he says he's half human, but the producers have waved it away with that old "Rule 1: the Doctor lies" trick. He's 100% Time Lord.

 

[MarkB]

And it seems that AryaAshildr is set to become a recurring character.

Her name caught me off guard at first - when she first said it, I thought it was some form of Viking rank, as in "I am a Shielder". Took a couple more mentions for it to settle in.

 

[Morrus]

And it seems that AryaAshildr is set to become a recurring character.

I doubt it. She's pretty busy. Just this two-parter, I expect.

Interesting that immortality is casually available via a small device.

 

[trappedslider]

The Fires of Pompeii reference was intriguing as was the closing scene

Well, Moffett had stated that there was a plan to explain why The Doctor looks like Caecilius from that episode. (something I mentioned a number of times in the past and was dismissed with a shrug)

 

[MarkB]

I doubt it. She's pretty busy. Just this two-parter, I expect.

Yeah, I was thinking the BBC would have trouble affording her.

Interesting that immortality is casually available via a small device.

Odd that it's all-or-nothing - the Doctor couldn't have told it to just pop back out once it was done? And does that mean that those aliens were functionally immortal too?