Doctor Who The Eleventh Doctor - spoilers

[bevs_plaything]

I am afraid that tonight's Doctor Who left me with a feeling that someone had left me a present under the Christmas tree and the box was empty!  A big 'thumbs down' from me!  I wonder if I am losing interest in a show that I have watched for 40 years!   :-\

[Rico]

Just finished watching the Christmas Special and loved it!  Just a great time, the Doctor was perfect, sweet story and an awesome ending!  One of my favorite Christmas gifts this year!

[Meds]

Agreed Rico. Also the Christmas stories always (& rightly so) take a different tilt to standard series stories. This one was the best out of all the Christmas episodes and I would go so far to say it was one of Matts best episodes as well.

[ori-STUDFARM]

Didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. Bill Bailey was wasted. I was really looking forward to seeing him in a Who story and he wasn't really in it. Anybody could have played those parts. The beginning just took me out of the story as I thought to myself [spoiler] He'd suffocate.....and freeze....and die from the fall....What!! He changed clothes as he fell!!![/spoiler] Kinda put me on a downer from the start.

I didn't like that they were able to [spoiler] save the childrens father. Had they left his fate unknown and not stated that he'd died, I think I'd have preferred it when he turned up at the end[/spoiler]

And it would have been nice for the Doctor to [spoiler] turn up at somebody other than Amy and Rory's house. I don't know what it is about those two, but he seems to be constantly running to them when they have settled and are getting on with their lives[/spoiler]

Thats the negatives. I did say I didn't enjoy it "as much" as I thought I would. I loved the [spoiler] Doctor/Caretaker's introduction to the children. Some of his "alterations" to the house were a stretch of reality, but it was all in fun. And besides, if anyone can create Lemonade on tap in the 1940's, he can! I loved the child actors (even though Lily was played by a 19 year old...) and the part played by the Mum. I loved the story with the box under the tree acting as a portal to a Narnia-esque type land. And the Mother being stronger than the Doctor...[/spoiler]loved all of that.

A very hit and miss episode for me...

Incidently, Red Dwarf connection. Young Lily was played by the 19 year old Holly Earl. Who appeared as the child Kochanski in Series VIII's Back In The Red :)

[Rico]

Thought this pic was cool.

[X]

I really liked this, but I was kind of intoxicated during the viewing and might have a different impression when I am sober. I think it was a bit outlandish, but not the first time someone on the show [spoiler] floated in space unharmed[/spoiler]. I also could see why[spoiler] he went to Amy and Rory's house. He's supposed to be dead and the family of his woman and his friends are the only family he has left[/spoiler]. I know some people don't want to admit it, but all of this makes perfect sense if [spoiler]he went to spend time with his family for Christmas and the Ponds are his in-laws and friends. If home is where the heart is, he went home and it was brilliant[/spoiler]

[Geekyfanboy]

Just finished the Christmas episode and LOVED every minute of it!!! Got me pumped for more Who next fall.

[Rico]

One little thing I've been thinking about....

[spoiler]Why didn't the Doctor know exactly how long it had been since he had seen Amy & Rory?  Can't he decide when to show up again?[/spoiler]

[X]

One little thing I've been thinking about....

[spoiler]Why didn't the Doctor know exactly how long it had been since he had seen Amy & Rory?  Can't he decide when to show up again?[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I took that to mean that he's still having issues hitting exact dates with the Tardis. He went to Amy and Rory but it was the Tardis that decided when. Also, when you are gone for a few hundred years, asking that question might be necessary to put you in the right frame of mind. [/spoiler]

[Rico]

That kind of makes sense and works I guess.  I loved the ending of the special too.  I clicked back and watched just that part a few times.

[Dangelus]

I must be the only one getting bored of this Doctor and Moffat's direction. Lol

I hope things are totally different next season.

[ori-STUDFARM]

I must admit. I'm tiring of Moffat's fast cuts and breathless pace a little. Every now and then, it would be nice to have a slower pace with more depth and more time to soak in the story...

...I watched this one with my Mum's fella who hasn't watched Doctor Who since Pertwee...and he was totally lost as Matt walked through the different rooms of the house. In fact, he was struggling before the credits!

[Dangelus]

Yeah I'd like it to slow down, get a little deeper and more scientific to be honest. Probably not what sells these days but that's just me. And no more love conquers all metaphors and I'd like to get from A to B, conclusions.

I get very frustrated that answers just lead to more questions. I bet by the end if his run we learn nothing. We learned nothing do far as everything seems to stem from paradoxical plot points.

[bevs_plaything]

I must be the only one getting bored of this Doctor and Moffat's direction. Lol

I hope things are totally different next season.

You're not the only one!  Not wishing to seem like a 'moaning minnie,' but for me the show has lost that 'must see quality' that it had under Eccleston and Tennant.  Watching Baker's 'The Leisure Hive' as I write this...  :)

Gosh, I seem like a right 'humbug!'  I wonder if tonight I will be visited by 3 ghosts of showing me the virtuals of Doctor Who, past, present...and future!

[Geekyfanboy]

It's funny.. it seems to be only the Brits on the forums who are not liking the recent era of Who.

I know in the U.S. Matt Smith's Who has been the most popular so far.