Latest SFX magazine previews all 12 episodes of series 8. SPOILERS

[Candlelight]

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Spoiler: Series 8 overview

1. Clara trying to cope with her best friend being someone else. A terrifying monster.

2. Gritty Dalek episode that goes into the last place in the universe the Doctor should be.

3. Very funny Robin Hood story all about being a hero and whether the Doctor is a good man.

4. The story of a date and the Doctor having what appears to be a mild nervous breakdown. Tiny guest cast, no CGI. A bit of Coupling. Quite scary.

5. A Doctor Who heist movie with a cracking monster, one of Neill Gorton’s best.

6. What effect would slipping away with the Doctor have on your life? A hoot with some serious bits. Bit like ‘The Lodger’.

7. Proper drama with monsters and all the Doctor Who stuff that you could want. Also features a callback to a past episode (sort of).

8. Moffat playing the long game with a callback to something from Matt’s first series. A brilliant idea of a monster. Foxes singing.

9. A horror story that starts off with a very cute idea and becomes really quite frightening by the end. One of the best ever sight gags in it.

10. Boldly beautiful, lyrical and poetic. A fairytale, but not Moffat fairytale. Quite different with a clever main visual idea

11/12. High octane action, with Cybermen and some proper UNIT stuff. Strong emotional story about Clara and the Doctor and the fact that the way they interact might not be healthy for everyone around them.

Read if you dare...

 

[The Nth Doctor]

https://plus.google.com/117071068228531883043/posts/MT3MGvLKx9V

Spoiler: Series 8 overview

4. The story of a date and the Doctor having what appears to be a mild nervous breakdown. Tiny guest cast, no CGI. A bit of Coupling. Quite scary.

Spoiler: Reaction to episode 4

A bit of Coupling? Interesting, although I expect it's nothing overt and merely an opinionated observation on the reviewer's part.

 

[Candlelight]

https://plus.google.com/117071068228531883043/posts/MT3MGvLKx9V

Spoiler: Series 8 overview

4. The story of a date and the Doctor having what appears to be a mild nervous breakdown. Tiny guest cast, no CGI. A bit of Coupling. Quite scary.

Spoiler: Reaction to episode 4

A bit of Coupling? Interesting, although I expect it's nothing overt and merely an opinionated observation on the reviewer's part.

Spoiler: I've read the script and

It's crap. Complete waste of 45 minutes. Sorry, that meant to read 'Moffat gold'.

 

[Green Lantern]

I hope there's more classic monsters and villains besides the Daleks and Cybermen. Here's hoping the Master is in episode 7!

 

[Doctorwhovian]

Doctor Who does not always need recurring monsters to be 'good'. The Tom Baker years did fine without falling back on the Daleks/Cybermen/Master every season, and didn't feature Ice Warriors, Silurians and Autons at all.

Sure, some of the new series monsters have been forgettable or silly (Slitheen, Absormbaloff, Adipose etc.) but there's plenty of good ones-with a lot of the good ones-Weeping Angels, Silence, Gas Mask zombies, clockwork robots-created by Moffat.

In fact, the constant callbacks to the past hurt the classic series in the 80s. In Colin Baker's first full season (22), only Vengeance on Varos and Timelash really came out with an original villain-and of course "Timelash" was just crap.Trial Of A Time Lord had to rely on the Time Lords and the Master, and the plans for the original season 23 would be more of the same type, with the Celestial Toymaker, Autons, Ice Warriors, The Master and the Rani....

 

[Candlelight]

Doctor Who does not always need recurring monsters to be 'good'. The Tom Baker years did fine without falling back on the Daleks/Cybermen/Master every season, and didn't feature Ice Warriors, Silurians and Autons at all.

Sure, some of the new series monsters have been forgettable or silly (Slitheen, Absormbaloff, Adipose etc.) but there's plenty of good ones-with a lot of the good ones-Weeping Angels, Silence, Gas Mask zombies, clockwork robots-created by Moffat.

In fact, the constant callbacks to the past hurt the classic series in the 80s. In Colin Baker's first full season (22), only Vengeance on Varos and Timelash really came out with an original villain-and of course "Timelash" was just crap.Trial Of A Time Lord had to rely on the Time Lords and the Master, and the plans for the original season 23 would be more of the same type, with the Celestial Toymaker, Autons, Ice Warriors, The Master and the Rani....

It entirely depends on how you view what makes Dr Who good in this day and age. Most of Moffat's monsters are dull, especially robots. Also, monsters are only good if they have a decent story behind them. Just having monsters in an episode doesn't make it a good episode. The Silence are a prime example. Their "story arc" (and I use that term very loosely) was convoluted and had a cop-out ending. Based on how the series is churning out forgettable creatures it's natural for fans to turn to the classic series of simple monsters and base-under-siege storylines.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

Now that I think about it, 7 might involve

Spoiler: Season 8 episode 7...maybe

Tegan, as Janet Felding was seen with Capaldi.

 

[The Wormhole]

^^I'm more leaning towards it being the one that explains why the Doctor now resembles Capaldi's previous roles in Doctor Who and Torchwood.