Doctor Who

That was fun. I knew the Architect was a time lord. It was when the Doctor said why he hated him that I went: "Oh like you. Wait. It's the Doctor isn't he?" So glad Sai and the other one (I forgot the name) didn't die. I can already see the shippers exploding after that ending. Not that I mind.

Time Heist Review

I'm trying not to read it yet, but. It's up.

So next week, we see the Doctor Who version of a Turian! I'm excited.

Also, tonight's episode was pretty fun. I liked it.

I swear, I was gonna be so mad when it looked like Saibra died. Along with that bank customer dude. Like, please, do not kill the only two black people in the entire episode, ugh. So glad that wasn't actually what happened.

EDIT: dang, really surprised at the lack of discussion in the thread.

edited 20th Sep '14 6:08:00 PM by higherbrainpattern

Damn. Shit like Robots of Sherwood pops up, people come from far and wide to talk about why it's horrible, but nothing about this ep?

Anyway I actually considered that the Architect was the Doctor as a joke, but once he figured it out, I did too. That only left the why. This one was nice, and I hope we see those two again truthfully. They were cool.

Saibra seemed to be a combination of Rogue and Mystique. I found that odd.

Next week, if Danny doesn't join then, he will soon.

Clara just doesn't seem as interested in going on adventures now that the Doctor isn't young and handsome anymore. Now she seems more interested in dating someone who is young and handsome.

Yeah the reception to this ep is a bit muted. Not much to talk about, I guess? I remember liking it when I read the script but something was lost on the transition from page to screen, can't really put my finger on the problem. Oh well, not every Doctor Who episode has to be something like last week's.

That was a really fun episode. Nothing to write home about, I guess, but I still liked it a lot.

The two supporting characters were really nice, and damn did the Teller look really good. Seems they've stepped up the CGI and prosthetics a lot.

/glances back and forth

Sure is dead in here.

But- uh. This episode was decent. A few clunky bits here and there- Delphox told her mooks to kill the Doctor and Clara and then left the room, instead of using the Teller like she did on everyone else for no clear reason. But overrall decent.

Time Heist review.

I'm just kinda wondering how much of the social commentary inherent in "black woman has to disguise self as old white guy to enter bank for rich people, inadvertently gets a black man accused of her crimes and convicted without trial" was intentional.

Time Heist review.

I like. Was good.

I once listened to a writing podcast about how there's two kinds of heist story: the kind where the audience doesn't know the plan and it goes off without a hitch, and the kind where the audience knows the plan and there are complications. I like that this episode presented a new kind: the kind where there are complications and no one knows the plan, not even the characters.

Oh, another thing: "the Teller." I love that; that's such a fantastic pun.

...Huh.

@Wack'd, Mukora: I think the idea was that that guy was planning a crime entirely separate from what The Doctor was doing.

So, I mean, we do have a black man being convicted without a trial, but the disguised black woman's presence was completely coincidental and he was actually planning to commit a crime.

edited 20th Sep '14 7:36:37 PM by Gilphon

@Mullon Uh, no? In Deep Breath she made it as clear as possible that it wasn't the "not a Pretty Boy" bit she hated but the "being a crazy asshole to her".

Was he?

I thought the implication was he was completely innocent, and the Teller was actually looking for the Doctor and Co.

That.

All we really know about the guy is that he was feeling guilty.

Not what he was feeling guilty about.

Everyone's guilty about something.

edited 20th Sep '14 7:43:07 PM by unnoun

The scene leaves it ambiguous.

The script only describes him as "suited customer", and neither Saibra's race nor that of her disguise is given (though the disguise form is specified as "older man"), so if that angle of the commentary is intentional, it's not on Stephan Thompson's part.

edited 20th Sep '14 7:51:27 PM by Wackd

Yay casting directors!

edited 20th Sep '14 7:51:07 PM by unnoun

You know , I hold sports in great contempt. I can even call it an anti-love. Yes, not just hate, but love in a negative quantity. Truly the purest of all the hatreds. So when some tub if lard that never leaves the TV lounge or his room and watches nothing but American football, keeping me from my weekly Doctor Who, the one time I ever ask of this dorm to occupy the television, my loathing... Deepens.

I bet Time Heist was great. I'll never know.

Bit sad that there's both little enough behind-the-scenes material for this episode that we can take time out to list every female villain ever, and few enough female villains that this takes under a minute.

edited 20th Sep '14 8:00:03 PM by Wackd

Ouch. That was mean.