Doctor Who

Didn't they also have blackface sketches?

I wouldn't be surprised. I can't recall any, but British media is just rotten with black face.

Mondas!

...

Squeeeeeee!

Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondas...

edited 6th Mar '17 10:37:07 AM by sgamer82

Wow that's amazing! It's certainly a design which has never needed to be changed. And they've got the season finale to themselves! Moffat's proven already that he writes a really freaking good cyberman story. I am hyped.

Two series finales in three seasons? Cybermen might actually be major successful villains for the first time since the sixties.

Actrually, it was confirmed that Missy is back as well

Not just that, but apparently from set reports so far, it's going to be A multi-Cybermen crossover with the Mondassians, Pete's World, 70s era, and the Nightmare In Silver Cybermen all crossing over

edited 6th Mar '17 2:53:04 PM by Zarius

Sweet.

That's a lot of Cybermen.

With Moffat in tow, that's a blessing, but if this were nearly any Cybermen story before Moffat, that would be a curse. Think one set of Cybermen in a crappy Cybermen story is enough? Try three sets of them on for size! Three times the Cybermen, three times the pain. And for all we know, with Moffat on his way out, this may be one of the last good Cybermen stories we'll ever see.

edited 6th Mar '17 3:05:20 PM by kkhohoho

Didn't we already see Mondasian Cybermen using the new Who designs?

The intention is that everything Pandorica opens and onwards is meant to be our universe's cybermen.

If Moffat manages to make his brief saving of the cybermen stick, then I'll be dang happy.

I didn't realize Missy was in the finale too, the wording in the article simply implied to e that she was in series 10.

I always feel like cybermen don't work as a villain, they're much better as a consequence of another villain's actions.

If Missy is in the finale that suggests we won't get her as much in Capaldi's final Christmas episode.

Which is disappointing to me. As I imagine Missy will be recast for the next doctor and I just want to see Missy steal Christmas.

"And in Gallifrey they say, that Missy's heart shrank three more sizes that day."

edited 6th Mar '17 6:09:02 PM by kkhohoho

Honestly I'm baffled we didn't get "How Missy stole Christmas" for last year's special.

If they recast Missy I'm going to think very strongly about learning how to filet Chibnall with a blunt dessert spoon. I've watched almost all the Masters over the years, and Michelle Gomez has to be the best in the role I've seen.

They're going to have to recast her at some point. Even if by some miracle Gomez continues to play Missy for the rest of the days, she'd still kick the bucket eventually. Sooner or later, they're going to have no choice but to recast her, and that's assuming Gomez even wants to keep doing it indefinitely. It may be unseemly, but it is an inevitably.

Well, that's kind of obvious. I think he recasting being referred to here is an immediate one, which would be unnecessary.

Yeah, that's what I meant. If the role goes to another actor in a few years time, fair enough, but not immediately. That would be wrong as far as I'm concerned, and yeah, I'd probably do exactly what I detailed above.

I wonder what Capaldi's final story is going to be like. It'll be Moffat's farewell as well, so it'd make sense to go out with a bang...but on the other hand, part of me kind of wants a more quiet farewell this time...

Thoughts?

It probebly won't happen, but I want moffat's last episode to be one of those bottle episodes that always work so well. Failing that, something with a lot of moffat-brand psychological horror. Give me something else mundane to find scary.

x2

Clara needs to show up for the farewell or no matter what it's not going to be as good as it would be with her there. Aside from that, yeah a quiet farewell would be nice.

Clara can die in a trillion fires.

I mean, she already did. Except it wasn't a fire, just a raven.

Anyway, I like how the Cybermen have their cloth faces again! It's great and creepy.

I don't know, I think they look kind of silly. I think that the ones from, say, "Tomb of the Cybermen" look creepier.

But hey, maybe it's a matter of seeing them in motion.

She also literally could have

There were enoughs of her

But she would have died in a zillion fires to save everyone ever

what a great person

Yeah. If Rose and Amy get to come back for 10 and 11's finales, then Clara should return for 12's.

It's only fair really.