I don't know, it's not horrible, but it's not very exciting either.
Christmas Special News (Spoilers)
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I'm leaning more toward "uninspired".
I'm leaning more toward backdoor pilot.
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And I don't mean something like Captain Jack Harkness. Not that kind of backdoor pilot.
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And I don't mean something like Captain Jack Harkness. Not that kind of backdoor pilot.
The first 30 seconds or so are very Tom Bakeresque IMO. Capaldi's body language, in particular.
As for the rest, I'm thinking this is a bit like the Santa or Jackson Lake thing, the superhero is not what he seems to be (Note the Doctor's skeptical glance). It also seems to send up Bond a bit (Nothing new for WHO really), although Bond villains are fairly comicbookish sometimes anyway.
As for the rest, I'm thinking this is a bit like the Santa or Jackson Lake thing, the superhero is not what he seems to be (Note the Doctor's skeptical glance). It also seems to send up Bond a bit (Nothing new for WHO really), although Bond villains are fairly comicbookish sometimes anyway.
The bigger question is, what is Nadole doing on present day Earth alive with his head attached to his shoulders?
The Captain Jack thing might be more interesting, but they'd probably dumb it down for kids.
I'm predicting a two-second throw-away line about cloning him a new body.
That would be fun and long, long overdo for a return in both cases.
The Land of Fiction has returned a couple of times in the Big Finish audios, if nothing else.
This is (at least) the second time we have seen a superhero: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Karkus
It's already been confirmed that Nardole is the Doctor's companion starting with this episode, and continuing for the first few episodes of the new season. As for why he has a body again, come on, dead people come back to life all the time in Moffat scripts, so of course a guy who lost his body but is still alive will be able to get a new one.
Yeah, you can't really expect him to change at this point.
The Land of Fiction also figured in a few novels as well. My particular favorite is "Head Games", which featured two 'false' Doctors (Dr.Who, basically a false Seventh Doctor, and a Sixth Doctor based on the Seventh's fears), and served as a kind of Stolen Earth/Journey's End for the novels, uniting all the Seventh's companions TV and novel wise (With an interesting perspective from Mel on what happened to the Doctor and Ace).
Because I was at a convention that weekend, I didn't have the opportunity to watch the clip, then I forgot it even existed until one of my coworkers embedded it in an article on the company's website. So, I've just watched it.
I lean toward "plain awful."
There's no hook here. The direction is flat. The performances range from disinterested (Capaldi) to terrible (The Ghost, the apparent villain).
If this clip was meant to get me excited, it didn't.
I lean toward "plain awful."
There's no hook here. The direction is flat. The performances range from disinterested (Capaldi) to terrible (The Ghost, the apparent villain).
If this clip was meant to get me excited, it didn't.
When I was at the theatre to see Power of the Daleks, a theatre employee who was telling us about other special screenings the theatre will be having in holiday season mentioned that this Christmas special will have a theatrical screening on Boxing Day.
Meh. I'm barely interested in seeing this special at all, so I certainly have no interest in seeing it at the cinema.
Although, honestly, I would only be interested in seeing "A Christmas Carol" and maybe "Last Christmas" at the cinema.
Although, honestly, I would only be interested in seeing "A Christmas Carol" and maybe "Last Christmas" at the cinema.
I wonder how far Moffat is going to take the Superman pastiche. We have an invulnerable, flying super-hero with a shield on his chest. We have an intrepid female reporter for one of the metropolis' papers. Is it going to turn out that the hero, in his civilian life, is the bumbling coworker of the intrepid reporter? Is there a gruff editor who shouts things like, "Great galloping Gallifrey!"? Is there a best friend with a signal watch? Is there a Castle of Loneliness?
I wish Moffat hadn't said that he really loved Superman, because now I know I'm going to watch this and compare it mentally to, say, Lois & Clark. And if I do that, based on the released clip, I'm going to be disappointed; there was more energy, more style, and more verve in an episode of Lois & Clark than there was in that clip. And Lois & Clark was twenty-plus years ago!
I wish Moffat hadn't said that he really loved Superman, because now I know I'm going to watch this and compare it mentally to, say, Lois & Clark. And if I do that, based on the released clip, I'm going to be disappointed; there was more energy, more style, and more verve in an episode of Lois & Clark than there was in that clip. And Lois & Clark was twenty-plus years ago!
