Doctor Who Series 11 Discussion

[M.I.K.]

I won't pretend to know who half of the guest stars listed at the end were but the Beeb obviously think they are worth shouting about. But Alan Cumming! Yay!

As King James VI / I, apparently. That means high likelihood of witchy goings on.

[Andy Lambert]

I won't pretend to know who half of the guest stars listed at the end were but the Beeb obviously think they are worth shouting about. But Alan Cumming! Yay!

As King James VI / I, apparently. That means high likelihood of witchy goings on.

I'm sure I read somewhere that this series would see Doctor Who do a Halloween episode for the first time. Perhaps this is it?

[Funt Solo]

BBC: How the dyspraxic assistant became my hero

[Tiplodocus]

If you don't know who the guest cast are, this may help if you're so inclined to find out...
http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/cult/feature/g25501/doctor-who-season-11-cast-guest-stars/?

Blimey, actually I have seen most of them before after all.

[von Boom]

I won't pretend to know who half of the guest stars listed at the end were but the Beeb obviously think they are worth shouting about. But Alan Cumming! Yay!

As King James VI / I, apparently. That means high likelihood of witchy goings on.

I'm sure I read somewhere that this series would see Doctor Who do a Halloween episode for the first time. Perhaps this is it?

Does that mean there's going to be a Thanksgiving episode was well?

[M.I.K.]

If you're implying that Hallowe'en is an American tradition, I'm going to have to ask you to leave before I'm forced to post a massive crapload of evidence to the contrary.

[Andy Lambert]

Why would I imply that? Halloween may be commercialised by America, but I'm aware it's roots are Celtic.

[M.I.K.]

I wasn't inferring that you were implying. I was referring to von Boom's implying about the Thanksgiving...

Does that mean there's going to be a Thanksgiving episode was well?

[von Boom]

I wasn't inferring that you were implying. I was referring to von Boom's implying about the Thanksgiving...

Does that mean there's going to be a Thanksgiving episode was well?

Ask a silly question...

[Andy Lambert]

Ah, sorry - my bad.

[Funt Solo]

Actually, Doctor Who was invented by the Americans in 1881 and later stolen by the British. Evidence:

[Trout]

A Thanksgiving episode? This was the Thanksgiving episode! Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, everybody!

I really enjoyed this show. I watched it with my wife and children and we all had a good time. The villain with the teeth creeped me out a lot (I hate images of teeth) so it was probably the most afraid I've been of Who since the Weeping Angels.

The new Doctor was great. Her gender was relevant but not overplayed and she came across as really likeable but with an edge. The joke about a sonic screwdriver with Sheffield steel made me grin.

Also I liked "of" instead of "have" because it's nicely informal and accessible. I'm a grammar pedant too, but I relax when something is trying to represent spoken speech, which evolves all the time and can't be controlled.

[Richard]

It can be controlled, if we rip out the offenders' tongues with pliers.

[Proudhuff]

I enjoyed the whole thing, but the disregard for human life left a bad taste in the mouth: the train driver and granddad security guard could have been left unconscious, but they were dispatched and forgotten about with no fuss or second thought while another character, rightly, got eulogised.
The story did feel a bit like a salute to Terminator though...

A pedant would note that cranes aren't allowed that close to each other either, but that would be petty 

[Richard]

Just because it's not allowed doesn't mean it doesn't happen!

Dr Who has always had people being killed off by the baddy. He wouldn't seem quite as threatening if he was only knocking them out.