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6.5X012 Closing Time (Grading/Discussion) (SPOILERS!)

Your rating for the episode "Closing Time"

  • Timeless!

    Votes: 33 26.8%

  • Time after time

    Votes: 58 47.2%

  • Tme stand still

    Votes: 18 14.6%

  • Time is running out

    Votes: 5 4.1%

  • DELETE

    Votes: 9 7.3%
  • Total voters
    123
I think that whilst the whole "defeating the Cybermen with love" thing fitted the story, it is still a cop out, and may have been more forgiveable if it was another less well known villian, the new series really has never made the Cybermen work.

That said the episode was good, slow in parts, but that isnt too surprising when you consider what the parts of the episode was, and also I suspect this episode may just have been a toy advert for the Cybermats.

Anyways the ending, it all felt very easy, but I guess the episode needed it.
 
this ep was ok. i dunno, i guess i was expecting a Cybermen heavy ep and they weren't really involved except for the ending. still, it was a fun episode. kind of a buddy comedy ep for the Doctor.
 
I would have voted "Time is running out" because of the overall lameness of the Cybermen plot and its resolution, but Matt Smith's acting and some of the character moments raised it to "Time stand still" for me. The bolted-on coda nearly dragged it down again.
 
EyalM said:
So is the Doctor in this story 200 years older then in "The God Complex"?
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Yes. Said Gareth Roberts in an interview on the BBC website:
It's 200 years after The God Complex - for the Doctor, anyway. All the stuff you saw at the very beginning of The Impossible Astronaut, with him waving to Amy through all time and space, he's been doing that.

But time is closing in on him and he can't put off going to Lake Silencio and his doom. But before he does, he thinks he'll make one last social call - and he ends up working in a shop and fighting the Cybermen.
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If you're asking, I guess they didn't make that explicit in the episode.

That does raise the interesting possibility that the Doctor does, in fact, die, and then the Christmas special onward is set in between "The God Complex" and "Closing Time." :)
 
I think I agree with most here in that it was a fun episode with a bit of a lame/silly/cloying/etc. resolution. It wasn't really a very serious episode so the transgression isn't quite so stinging. Though for a second I thought they were going to go really dark there.

I don't know if it's the writing, Matt Smith, or both but the Doctor seems to have been extra Doctory in the last couple of episodes and I've liked that. I am really curious about this next episode because I think how that is handled will flavor my opinion a lot about this arc overall.
 
Tremble before the might of the Cybermen whose conquering forces can be halted by nothing...

...except a crying baby.
 
Mr. Adventure said:
I don't know if it's the writing, Matt Smith, or both but the Doctor seems to have been extra Doctory in the last couple of episodes and I've liked that.
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It's something I noticed last season. Matt Smith's Doctor has a different, more distinctive voice when Steven Moffat isn't writing him. In Moffat's scripts, Matt Smith still sounds like he's saying David Tennant's lines. And the last couple of episodes have been non-Moffat scripts.
 
Ugh. RTD sloppy seconds.

What might have been an interesting story got shoved into the background for some namby-pamby domestic BS.
 
captain crow said:
Ugh. RTD sloppy seconds.
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Wonderful! He's been gone for a couple of years now and people are still trying to blame him for crap episodes when Moffat has demonstrated many times now he's able of Producing and producing crap all on his own.
 
You know you've been watching classic Who recently when you think if the Cybes are going to conquer the world with six men they should go get Nessie.
 
I was wondering near the end, who were those kids?
I'm sure we've seen older versions of at least one of them in previous episodes, I just can't think who...
 
Really good episode. Although if I was the Dr the one person I'd want around when facing the cybermen is Rory. It was interesting to have the baby along strange choice by Cordens character but a different dynamic.
I never hear the 10th Dr with Moffat lines.
Glad the cybermen didnt have the "Delte!" catchphrase.
 
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