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

[Staffan]

My main beef with this episode: EFFING HORNED HELMETS.

 

[Morrus]

My main beef with this episode: EFFING HORNED HELMETS.

Yeah, I totally said that when I saw them.

 

[Staffan]

Yeah, I totally said that when I saw them.

To be honest, when I first saw them, I thought "These have to be fake vikings somehow, and the horned helmets are a clue." But nooo...

 

[Guest 85555]

To be honest, when I first saw them, I thought "These have to be fake vikings somehow, and the horned helmets are a clue." But nooo...

I think you have to leave that sort of expectation at the door with Doctor Who, it is more cinematic in how it depicts history. I almost thought the horns were meant as a needle to the eye of sticklers for historical realism (they had to know, and those horns were pretty huge).

 

[MarkB]

As I recall, the term "vikings" itself isn't even accurate - a viking was the Norse term for a raiding expedition.

Vikings are an established part of Doctor Who canon, having appeared in The Time Meddler way back in the First Doctor's era. I don't recall whether the ones in that story had horned helmets, though.

 

[Ryujin]

My main beef with this episode: EFFING HORNED HELMETS.

My immediate connection was to a recent video by Lindybeige.

[video=youtube;RHHLFFy6CWs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHHLFFy6CWs[/video]

 

[Tonguez]

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)

yeah but that explanation seems a bit too easy, there must be something more to it.

Indeed as another link to the 10th Doctor I'm wondering if Ashildr is The Woman

As I recall, the term "vikings" itself isn't even accurate - a viking was the Norse term for a raiding expedition..

yeah I thought that too, my comment was "they're not real vikings, did Noresmen even go around saying "We are Vikings?""

My main beef with this episode: EFFING HORNED HELMETS.

but the wings on alien Odins helmet were worse, the whole presentation was very camp and I actually thought the horned vikings were aliens too

oh and I also first heard A Sheilder as if it was short for Sheildmaiden or something
edit: I wonder if that was deliberate? does anyone speak viking? and does ass hildr mean something like Battle God?

 

[delericho]

To be honest, when I first saw them, I thought "These have to be fake vikings somehow, and the horned helmets are a clue." But nooo...

Yep, that was my thought exactly - especially with all that stuff about him not being Odin and the yo-yo not being Odin's sign, and then another fake Odin showed up...

I thought this episode was okay. But it was also the first one this year I haven't enjoyed more than its predecessor.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

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

Interesting that immortality is casually available via a small device.

The Doctor said accidents could still happen, though, so it's probably not the Jack Harkness Type immortality that lets you come back from everything.

 

[Staffan]

but the wings on alien Odins helmet were worse, the whole presentation was very camp and I actually thought the horned vikings were aliens too

Yeah, but "Odin" was supposed to be fake.

edit: I wonder if that was deliberate? does anyone speak viking? and does ass hildr mean something like Battle God?

Ashildr basically means "god of battle", yes. As as in the Aesir, and Hildr is a version of Hilda, which means battle. It should probably be pronounced As-hildr rather than Ash-ildr, though.

The "As" in Ashildr is basically the same as the "Os" in many English names. Like... Oswald (though "wald" means "ruler" - the same root as "wield").