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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Girl Who Died"/"The Woman Who Lived" (SPOILERS)

"The Girl Who Died"

1)"Clara?"  "Yeah?" "We're going with the Vikings."

 

2)I like the design of the Mire.

 

3)"What's the one thing that gods never do? Gods never actually show up!"

 

4)The 2000 Year Diary?

 

5)"Fly like a bird, run like a nose."

 

6)"Do babie

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Under the Lake"/"Before the Flood" (SPOILERS)

"Under the Lake"

1)"He's a g-ghost."  That's a Scooby-Doo line.

 

2)I picked right up that the deaf woman was going to be key to understanding what the ghosts were saying.

 

3)"You're from UNIT."  So, UNIT still exists in 2119.

 

4)I like the cards.

 

5)I als

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Magician's Apprentice"/"The Witch's Familiar" (SPOILERS)

"The Magician's Apprentice"

1)The realization of the Thal/Kaled battlefield was well-done, I think.  The hand mines were creepy and goofy at the same time.  It was pretty clear that what they're doing is re-visiting the old "Could you kill Baby Hitler

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Last Christmas" (SPOILERS)

Got to see this last night, a few preliminary thoughts and reactions:

 

1)"Nobody likes the tangerines." Is that a traditional Christmas gift in the UK? Like a stocking-stuffer, or something?  Mine usuallly comes with various toiletries in it. Honestly

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Dark Water"/"Death in Heaven" (SPOILERS)

"Dark Water"

1)Clara's reaction to Danny dying threw me off a bit at first, then I realized she was suppressing her emotional reaction.  Not sure what good she thought destroying the TARDIS keys would do - can't he just snap his fingers to open the do

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Doctor Who Reactions: "In the Forest of the Night" (SPOILERS)

1)"Everyone seems to know everything about everything apart from me."  That's the story of my life.

 

2)"You have reached your destination."  When did the TARDIS get a GPS system?

 

3)"Even my incredibly long life is to short for Les Misérables."

 

4)"Ther

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Flatline" (SPOILERS)

1)"Sorry, stopped listening a while ago."  I have moments like that.

 

2)"If the TARDIS were to land with its true weight, it would fracture the surface of the Earth." I always assumed that the bulk of the TARDIS' mass was in another dimension, and onl

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Mummy on the Orient Express" (SPOILERS)

1)Well, the whole "Orient Express in space" bit goes back to a line at the end of "The Big Bang", where there is mention made of an Egyptian goddess loose on the train.  Love a good space-train story, going back at least as far as Galaxy Express 999.

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Kill the Moon" (SPOILERS)

1)I'd never heard of Hermione Norris, but my cousin's husband, who isn't a big Who fan but happened to watch part of this episode with me, recognized her instantly. I don't know if that means putting her in an episode constitutes "stunt casting" in t

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Caretaker" (SPOILERS)

1)"Of course we won't starve. The sand-piranhas will get us long before that."

 

2)"I'm the new caretaker. John Smith." 

 

3)"It's Assembly - you better get going. Go and worship something."

 

4)The gag with the teacher who vaguely resembled Matt Smith was

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Time Heist" (SPOILERS)

Well, this was an interesting one - I'm not really 100% sure how I feel about it.

 

On the one hand, the idea of the Doctor being  coerced into robbing a space bank is an interesting one. The "Ocean's 11" feel they were goign for was something new to t

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Listen" (SPOILERS)

1)"Once upon a time - the end. Dad skills."

 

2)"Dan the Soldier Man".

 

3)"Sontarans perverting the course of human history." _ A callback to "Robot", which makes it seem like the events of "The TIme Warrior" have haunted the Doctor for thousands of yea

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Robot of Sherwood" (SPOILERS)

1)"Earth - England - Sherwood Forest - 11190 A.D."

 

2)"Robin Hood laughs in the face of all!" "And do people ever punch you in the face when you do that?"

 

3)"I am the Doctor, and this is my spoon!"

 

4)A miniscope!" A callback to "Carnival of Monsters".

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Into the Dalek" (SPOILERS)

1)"Fantastic idea for a movie, terrible idea for a proctologist." Don't know tha I 'm wild about proctology humor in Doctor Who.

 

2)I gather Danny Pink is going to be a new continuing character, a potential love interest for Clara. So far, he seems in

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Deep Breath" (SPOILERS)

1)Barry Letts' ghost must smile at how much better the show does dinosaurs these days.

 

2)"You know that I speak dinosaur."

 

3)The dinosaur coughing up the TARDIS was amusing.

 

4)"Everyone - take five." 

 

5)"Well then - here we go again."  a callback to

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Doctor Who Reactions: "An Adventure in Space and Time" (SPOILERS)

Got ahold of a copy of this, and re-watched it last night.  I’ve got a few thoughts on it below:

 

1)David Bradley does fairly well as Hartnell.  He doesn’t quite capture him for me, but I’m willing to forgive a bit, since Hartnell was such a one-off t

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Doctor Whominology

Briefly, among other things, this is going to be my thread where I try to get caught up with the modern Doctor Who universe before the incoming Doctor's run officially starts, figuring that this would be an excellent -- ulp:-) -- "jumping (back) on"

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Time of the Doctor" (SPOILERS)

1)"Handles"?  OK, carrying a severed head around with you is a bizarre idea. Kudos to them all for managing to make Handles' death somehow poignant.

 

2)"Tereleptils" -  a callback to "The Visitation".

 

3)"I'm OCD. What's their excuse?"

 

4)"How those Cyb

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Day of the Doctor" (SPOILERS)

The Last Day:

This is a mini-episode by our Steven that is shown from the POV of a Gallifreyan soldier in Arcadia right as it falls. The link will take you to it, if you haven't seen it yet.

 

In essence, the story is about how the soldier is told how i

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Doctor Who Reactions: “The Beginning”

This is another 50th anniversary audio adventure, this one detailing the Doctor and Susan’s flight from Gallifrey. This material has been covered before (in comics and novels), but this one is designed to dovetail with the scene of the first Doctor s

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