"Really, Doctor, a motorbike? It hardly seems like you." "Well, you've only known me for five minutes. You probably still think I'm human. And in my thirties."
@@xynthar4432 Then you're clearly not British either. Sandwiches don't come in wrappers like that in England. They come in cardboard generally. Everything about this screams proper British chips. I guess you if you're not British you just don't get it
When 2074 comes along, someone needs to write the story 'Doctor Who and the Anti-Grav Olympics'. They could even bring in the Tractators from the Peter Davison story, 'Frontios'. Perhaps not.
TimeyWimeyRoman Oh, of course! Sorry, the inner fan in me is embarrassed, apologises, it is the Tractators. I've just read back my comment and thought, 'How would tractors make this story interesting?' Many thanks for correcting, I'll edit the comment.
I wish the Clara in The Snowmen didn't die. Can you imagine Victorian Clara, who has never seen a computer, in this episode? I'd really like a companion who isn't a 21st century British girl. It would also make the whole not knowing how to connect to the internet thing a lot more believable.
Well no not really coz they want to keep the main companion modern which is why the first Doctor's human companions were not from the past or future but from 1963 when the show first started coz they want to connect to the fans honestly can you relate to the modern people of the Victorian era really?
I don't know about alot of you but I REALLY enjoyed this episode. I thought it was bizarre and creative and had some really amazing "Doctor moments". Plus the chemistry between Smith and Coleman really works here.
With all those computers, they should have tried hacking UNIT and Torchwood's files on the Doctor. It wouldn't have helped, but at least they would have had an idea of what they were dealing with. I like how Matt Smith's Doctor can be acting energetic and crazy in one scene and then be cold ruthless in the next. He was a fun Doctor who grew on us.
Didn't Clara erase the Doctor from knowledge on her first appearance? At first I thought it was just the Daleks, but there are some serious emplications of it have being universal later on
Thiago Freitas Clara just erased that knowledge from the Daleks, then when River steps The Doctor again she says "someon is erasing himself from every databank."
Thiago Freitas That was Oswin not Clara. The Daleks regained their knowledge of the Doctor after harvesting the info from Tasha Lem's cadaver in Time of The Doctor.
*Andrew Chapman:* Especially the way the words are drawn out, the way they switch between her and her avatar on the street, and the music in the background. It's both dramatic and funny at the same time. Also ironic since he is a (Time) Lord...
From a filmmaking perspective, can I just point out how beautifully they switch from Matt Smith to his stunt double when the camera swings around behind the other guy's back at 0:17? The cut between two different takes is nearly seamless.
This episode actually has a lot of neat directing. There's a very well stitched together "one take" of Clara entering the TARDIS in London and then exiting it on the plane too
I really love Matt Smith's acting in this episode. On rewatching it you actually notice all the subtle details in his performance that indicate he might not actually be the real Doctor.
At 2:45 , notice how Matt moves all jerky, like his motions are being controlled by someone using a touchpad mouse. (Which the actual Doctor was using, with a keyboard, to control the Spoonhead) Say what you will about Terminator: Genesys, but you can't fault Matt Smith being cast as Skynet. He's good at riding down the uncanny valley.
I’ve always wondered what happened to them after this Did they all just get retrieved by unit? That sounds like the most likely explanation but a rogue one would probably make an interesting enemy
The Doctor! At least you're not in Brazil, mate. Here you would've been mugged, while awake, and surrounded by people who were not being hacked into unawareness. If you werent in one of the places where women are told to make angry faces to prevent muggings and leave small bags of trinkets for potential thieves to take from their cars to avoid bigger losses that is
didn't you hear the word anti-grav? it seems more like Gravity redirection then anti gravity but oh well it still works the reason I say gravity redirection is cause he's stuck to the side of the building anti gravity implie's weightless and the first bump should have knocked him away from the side of the building
@@jazzling well think about it anti gravity would mean the first bumps and he floats off the side of the building and goes off into the middle of the air but he looks like he's sticking to the side the the building like the side of the building is got gravity pulling him down cause no building is perfectly flat on the sides you will have alight bumps from seals between windows panes that if it was anti gravity would send him floating off the building cause anti gravity means he's weightless that shows that the show writers screwed up on anti gravity it's gravity redirection tech
Don't worry, the tech will be here by 2074, we just need someone to arrange one. Then, when the doctor shows up, and comes in last with a motorcycle, everyone will know who is the doctor ^.^
My favorite episode of Series 7. Perhaps even Matt Smith's entire run. It just had a quality to it that hasn't been seen in Doctor Who for a long while.
This is one of those moments that proves just how ruthless the doctor is if you mess with him there's not much that can stop him almost nothing you can do to save your self and if you mess with the people he loves and caresfor there is no escape and there is no mercy he will make you regret ever even thinking about crossing him make you regret meeting him he will make you suffer if he has to if you push him to far he will make your life hell
We interrupt this program to bring you...Courage the Cowardly Dog Show, starring Courage, the Cowardly Dog! Abandoned as a pup, he was found by Muriel, who lives in the middle of nowhere with her husband, Eustace Bagge. But creepy stuff happens in Nowhere. It's up to Courage to save his new home!
Easily the best moment of the episode. It's always fun to see the Doctor get angry, and here he shows no mercy in downloading Miss Kizlet into the living hell she downloaded so many others into, and violates a man's will to save everyone. It's moments like this where Matt Smith proves he's not just good at being a fun, silly Doctor, but also at showing the dark, serious Doctor beneath the childish facade.
I wish Matt Smith had stuck around for Season 8. Either that or he regenerated into John Hurt and Peter Capaldi did Day of the Doctor instead. Both Smith and Hurt could have pulled off the "Am I a good man" story arc better than Capaldi did because he just came across as an outright sociopath. Even at his darkest, the Doctor was only outright sociopathic in the earliest stages of William Hartnell and when the Valeyard and Dream Lord, who weren't true incarnations, showed up. Capaldi's only excuse for going back to that, aside from not being as good an actor as people hype him up to be, is that he let his fanboy boner for Hartnell dictate his performance instead of showing that the Doctor left his sociopathic stage behind him centuries ago.
To this day I am still confused about why they are more surprised about the doctor being able to go up the side of a building when he has a flying, time traveling police box with the inside being bigger than the outside
Later on at the Cafe The Doctor and Clara are drinking Coffee while Clara is on her Laptop. Clara: Doctor I think you might have made a mistake Downloading the entire Cloud. The Doctor: Whys' that? Clara: Well a bunch of Celebrities' Nude Photos have made there way on the Net. The Doctor: Oops, still it won't effect the Universe in a big way. Clara turns her Laptop to face The Doctor. Clara: Is this you? The Doctor: (O_O)
7 years ago. I remember watching this scene, as soon as the horns of the doctors theme started playing and he was zooming up the building. Little 11 year old me watching closely head filling feeling like it was expanding from how much chills I was getting from this scene. Zooming up the building and I was just sitting there almost not able to hear with how much chills were going on in my head, I miss getting that with doctor who....
I like how she just collapsed and sat down when the doctor's head started turning, instead of leaving the room. It was so slow, there was ample opportunity and nothing to lose by trying.
That would be hard to keep from becoming to religious. Yes, Jesus did live, but how do you make a video around that without getting either Christians or atheist upset?
BBC would be in massive trouble from the Vatican. By suggesting that Jesus is a liar. It may even end up like Charlie Hebdo if some fundamental radical christian goes crazy.
ok, this is what happens when scriptwriters gets overloaded with IT gargon.. in this case data cloud, i wonder what would happen if they get hit by a "clustered scaleble, redundant framework with concurrency features" will the doctor create a Thread that would notifyAll() other threads to stop() waiting and release() them as well?? (ok, the last bit makes more sense if you come from java's multi-threaded api's, but still)
Hey, trying to go Sci-fi on the technology of the day has been a regular trope on Dr.Who since it's start. It's fine, even if it will be dated 30 years from now like some of the old series.
"The anger of a good man is nothing to fear, good men have too many rules" "Good men don't need rules, today is not the day to find out why I have so many"
3:27 That big blue band of haze that goes across the screen behind the planet cuts out suddenly along with most of the starts right next to the earth. Did the visual effects people mess up slightly? :O
