Given they were going for the Ocean's movies vibe, it would have been nice to see some of The Rat Pack in the list of criminals.
8X05 "Time Heist" Grading/Discussion)(SPOILERS!
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Given they were going for the Ocean's movies vibe, it would have been nice to see some of The Rat Pack in the list of criminals.
I don't remember oceans 12. The first one was the one that came to mind.
Another idea
Just seconds after the eleventh doctor leaves the "Curator" he regenerates
We follow a new doctor who's a couple of regenerations after the 12th doctor
Let's the 19th doctor
I liked it a lot, definitely nice to see Capaldi really hitting his stride... I gave it an "amazing" only because I have a standing objection to anything involving characters crawling through maintenance/ventilation shafts to get into secure facilities 
, so it earns an automatic markdown. Other than that I thought it was a lot of fun.
Kind of like my "No movie with John Saxon in it can be good [except for Enter the Dragon]" principle.
, so it earns an automatic markdown. Other than that I thought it was a lot of fun.Kind of like my "No movie with John Saxon in it can be good [except for Enter the Dragon]" principle.
Sorry, meant as a joke (11,12,haha), maybe I needed to add a smiley...
I quoted the calorie exchange earlier, but I really liked the whole scene. I wish we had more inside the Tardis as it flies through space scenes. It's usually land on the ground, do your thing, than leave, kind of like Star Trek. We need more Tardis stories, like how the Doctors wife deals with the Doctor's change.
Technically shouldn't it be Ocean's Thirteen?
Found it fairly enjoyable overall, and I liked some of the clever scifi twists on the standard heist flick (using a "dimensional shift bomb" to go from floor to floor, the revelation that it was a time travel bank heist, etc). And having the characters' memories wiped at the start was a great way to create a mystery on top of everything else.
But it did feel like they maybe crammed a few TOO many ideas into this one. Memory wipes, mind-reading Teller creatures, solar storms, time paradoxes, clones, an augmented human and shapeshifter, imprisoned aliens....
Even if it does all (mostly) fit together and make sense at the end, that doesn't stop the story from feeling overly busy and cluttered while you're watching it. It would have been nice if they had simplified things a bit more, and allowed the story to breathe a little.
But it did feel like they maybe crammed a few TOO many ideas into this one. Memory wipes, mind-reading Teller creatures, solar storms, time paradoxes, clones, an augmented human and shapeshifter, imprisoned aliens....
Even if it does all (mostly) fit together and make sense at the end, that doesn't stop the story from feeling overly busy and cluttered while you're watching it. It would have been nice if they had simplified things a bit more, and allowed the story to breathe a little.
Fun, flawed, entertaining.
Curious to who the girl from the shop will be. New character, someone we know? The Doctor is definatly getting his character down, still being quite harsh when need be, but going through all this, simply to save two lifeforms.... it's the right thing to do.
Curious to who the girl from the shop will be. New character, someone we know? The Doctor is definatly getting his character down, still being quite harsh when need be, but going through all this, simply to save two lifeforms.... it's the right thing to do.
That was a fun little episode. I was hoping the shapeshifter girl would touch the Doctor and we'd have two Capaldis onscreen. Or, just to melt heads across the net, she touches him but adopts the shape of Smith or Tennant, to her and his confusion.
Is it just me or in the preview to next week's episode, did the guy sitting beside Clara in school have a bit of a Matt Smith vibe? Floppy hair, bow tie? He's probably just a young trendy thing and it's not intentional but I can't help but wonder if it'll earn a reference.
Is it just me or in the preview to next week's episode, did the guy sitting beside Clara in school have a bit of a Matt Smith vibe? Floppy hair, bow tie? He's probably just a young trendy thing and it's not intentional but I can't help but wonder if it'll earn a reference.
Also, props for a very effective, scary alien. The brain eating scene was seriously creepy.
Not bad. If they run that route, they shouldn't have him do it till he regenerates. His last act as it where.
A theory.
He's working on the equation to freeze galifrey and he hasn't gone into the time war(day of the doctor) event in his timeline yet.
For some reason, I got the impression he was working out the equations to bring Gallifrey home.
Nope. Remember the millennium long war on Trenzalore? All 11 had to do was say the word and Gallifrey would be back, no equation was required.
A rather middle of the road episode, for mine. I don't know if watching part of it this morning and the rest this afternoon had anything to do with anything but it was just sort of there - not awful, but not stellar either. I did like the two "accomplices" (for lack of a better term) and there were one or two amusing lines of dialogue, but otherwise it was back to form after last week's well above average outing.
For some reason the Teller / almost extinct alien reminded me of something out of Farscape (but the dots won't quite join up as to why). Any reminder of the magnificence that is Farscape, however vague, is fine by me.
For some reason the Teller / almost extinct alien reminded me of something out of Farscape (but the dots won't quite join up as to why). Any reminder of the magnificence that is Farscape, however vague, is fine by me.
I thought it was very entertaining, clever, and once again I'm frankly baffled that there are still story ideas which have never been used in Doctor Who, in this case a bank heist. Seems to happen quite a lot this season, which feels like a breath of fresh air.
Simply her own regrets. She had a chance to make up for something she did, and she took it while she could.
Which I think is what the arc part of this episode was. I thought there had been no arc material in this ep - not counting the red herring of the phone call at the beginning - but in truth while there was no plot arc material (unless it's hiding in plain sight, which is my favourite kind), but there was certainly character arc material.
In one of the trailers before the entire season started, there was a clip of the Doctor saying to Clara, "I'm over 2000 years old. I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. It's time I started making up for them."
And that's what the Doctor gets from this episode. He sees what Karabraxos did, and decides he wants to do that too - use his time travel ability to change some things he regrets.
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The Teller and it's mate reminded me of another Neil Gorton creation, the Creons from Space Precinct.
For me, its Dalek > Robots of Sherwood > Deep Breath > listen > Time Heist. Not that any of them are bad, they're all good episodes.