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Welp, I finally broke down and started watching Doctor Who this week.. ITS AMAZING!!! :p. I just finished the first season, and I loved how they *spoiler* did the Doctor switch!
 
ahyperdude said:
Welp, I finally broke down and started watching Doctor Who this week.. ITS AMAZING!!! :p. I just finished the first season, and I loved how they *spoiler* did the Doctor switch!
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The first season of the new series? Do you mean regeneration?;)

Isn't it wonderful?

Wait till you get further in.

It just gets better.

And better.

And then, then it gets
DOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
 
ahyperdude said:
Welp, I finally broke down and started watching Doctor Who this week.. ITS AMAZING!!! :p. I just finished the first season, and I loved how they *spoiler* did the Doctor switch!
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Welcome to the dark side... Well, it was dark before we restored the timeline but so it isn't dark now. Well, ok, it is dark but we will restore the timeline which by the way, we already restored but we still haven't gotten to it. Time travel, you can't keep things straight.:)
 
Mozart the Meerkitten said:
The first season of the new series? Do you mean regeneration?;)

Isn't it wonderful?

Wait till you get further in.

It just gets better.

And better.

And then, then it gets
DOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Yes. It is amazing! I can already tell that it gets better as it progresses; the 2nd season is a lot better than the 1st

BarbarianKing said:
Welcome to the dark side... Well, it was dark before we restored the timeline but so it isn't dark now. Well, ok, it is dark but we will restore the timeline which by the way, we already restored but we still haven't gotten to it. Time travel, you can't keep things straight.:)
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Lol, that's how it makes me feel sometimes :p
 
Mrs Gil-Galad Took said:
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I didn't really like the Christmas special. I thought it was a bit too rush rush rush. I did like the last 15 minutes and Capaldi his appearance was fantastic :D
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And if you blinked, you missed the regeneration. This was the fastest regeneration I have ever seen. I think from 4 to 5 was the longest, lol.
 
I really enjoyed the Christmas special.

The rest of this post contains SPOILERS:

I really liked how the Doctor stayed put in Christmas for so long. It has always been a part of his character that he never stays anywhere too long; he's always running. He's the madman who stole a box and ran away. I loved that, for once, he found a place that could be his home for what he thought would be the rest of his life. Instead of travelling everywhere, seeing everything, and saving everyone, he just lived in one little village for hundreds of years, helping them and protecting them.

I also liked that the episode tied up so many loose ends, though it did seem a bit packed to fit it all in the time allotted. In particular, it was interesting that the Silence were some sort of version of the seal of the confessional! (though wouldn't it make more sense to have the Silence be the ones that forgot everything, if they were the ones hearing the sins??) Another thing I started wondering, though, was if Tasha Lem was somehow supposed to be River. The way she was able to fly the TARDIS (saying that that had always been easy) and the fact that the Doctor said she had always been fighting the psychopath inside her made me think she would be revealed as River before the end of the episode, but she wasn't. Did anyone else notice that?

Anyway, on the whole, I really enjoyed the episode, and I can't wait to see more of Capaldi!
 
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I watched it on the laptop but couldn't hear very well due to a few reasons, and expect it would confuse me a bit, anyway. :D What a fast regeneration! The 'Thick Of It' new Doctor looks very well suited for the role.
 
I really enjoyed the Christmas special. There were things I did not like about it, but overall, it is really good. :D I bawled at the end... It was so hard to see my Doctor go, and yet the way that they did it was perfect. It was a wonderfully moving and meaningful scene.

Shockingly, my sister confessed to tearing up when she watched the episode. xD She hasn't teared up in anything since she first watched "The Return of the King" in tenth grade. :p
 
Patrick! I am so glad you are a Whovian now! :)

OK, thanks to Tivo and the BBC marathon, I was able to watch The Time of the Doctor and the Day of the Doctor both over the holiday. I loved them both!

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The 50th anniversary special was wonderful. I loved that they saved Gallifrey and saved the Doctor with no number, and that at the climax even the 13th showed up to make the salvation of Gallifrey happen! That was all so lovely. Very nicely done.

The Christmas special I didn't like as well as the 50th Anniversary special, but I liked it very much, and I felt sort of the same way about the Doctor's extended stay in Christmas, that he finally found some place he could stay, and would stay. But I felt bad that contrary to his vow at the end of the anniversary special, he couldn't find his true home -- Gallifrey had to stay on the other side of the rift. Right?

I thought the regeneration went way too fast, and that we didn't get to see enough of Capaldi. The special ended too soon. But it leaves me looking forward to more! :)
 
Although I haven't watched the program for a long time, I do like the idea of the destruction of Gallifrey being undone. If the rotten evil Daleks are allowed to keep on bouncing back again and again, it wasn't a lot to ask that the Time Lord race should be restored to life.
 
I agree CF! :p
Gallifrey Falls No More!

Here is a Christmas gift I received from my husband! Sorry the photo is so big, I never can figure out sizing. It is a bracelet with the Tardis on a Starry Night!
 

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Lovely bracelet, Inky!

Look what my brother gave me for belated Christmas! (Even though I'm not a serious Whovian, I think it will be a lot of fun rolling the dice out of a Tardis!)
 

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Laurel said:
I really liked how the Doctor stayed put in Christmas for so long. It has always been a part of his character that he never stays anywhere too long; he's always running. He's the madman who stole a box and ran away. I loved that, for once, he found a place that could be his home for what he thought would be the rest of his life. Instead of travelling everywhere, seeing everything, and saving everyone, he just lived in one little village for hundreds of years, helping them and protecting them.
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It crossed my mind many times, back in the old-show era, that it would be EASY for some episode to depict the Doctor stepping away from his companions for only a minute, but announcing upon his return that he had actually been away from them for a century, doing other things.

When Leela (old show) married the Gallifreyan man Andred, I figured that this was also a way that Leela could be more than a fleeting moment in his life. Andred could be with Leela continuously for, say, one year; then leave her side for what would be only an hour TO HER, but himself be experiencing a century of activity (preferably with some way to verify that he wasn't cheating on Leela). Then he would rejoin Leela, and stay with her long enough to sire a child on her, and stay during that child's childhood -- except for one more century-in-an-hour break. In this way, Leela would not be deprived of Andred's company, and yet HE would get to "spread out" Leela's shorter lifespan in sections across his much longer life.

Now that Gallifrey has been restored to existence, I prefer to think that Andred is doing exactly that.
 
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