In one word it was heartwarming and I'm not particularly a fan of Van Gogh.

It was a terrific episode El Loro! Get in the Sinking Ship Bar... we're rewriting Don McLean's 'Starry, starry night'!  

The Sinking Ship Bar 

It was so sad. Very good episode.

It was brilliant..I loved it! The humour, the sadness, the pathos was just magical! 
For me, it was the best episode yet.  I love Matt Smith...he never gets it wrong, His comic timing, and his heartfelt seriousness, is wonderful. I love Amie too. They suit each other so well. I`m going to watch it again on catchup.

Xochi, I thought it looked more like a turkey rather than a chicken

It was James who suggested it was a chicken  I actually thought that was one of the weaker aspects of that episode... invisible monsters and a little bit of CGI doesn't set them up too well for being a species we might want to see in the future! 

I haven't liked this series as much as past ones................and why mess around with THAT theme tume  its just one of those tunes! However I will watch on Catch Up and make my own mind up

I watched it on catch-up and thought it was a really moving episode.
I agree with Scotty's views on Matt Smith, he's doing a brilliant job as The Doctor.

I loved this too - and I think Matt Smith is fantastic as the Doctor (and to think I was so worried with David Tennant left!)  Amy is great too... my only problem with this series is the 'monsters' - I want more Daleks and Cybermen and less mutant fish, lizards and poultry.

The new Doctor Who computer game is now avaiable for download <here> It's currently for the PC but a Mac version will be available from the 15th.

For PC users you need Java installed. For your convenience this is a <link to the Java website>. Mac users have Java built in.

When you get to the download page, it is advisable to run the system check first as the Download with system check option is initially disabled. My pc is 3 years old and failed the processot test, but it still works fine. If you wish to bypass the system check, click on View all download options and proceed.

This episode is called City of the Daleks. I don't know what type of game this is yet but it's done by the same man who did the Broken Sword series of point and click adventure games.

I luuuurve Matt Smith's Doctor. 

IMO there have been a few aspects that haven't quite jelled. But on the whole I am enjoying Matt Smith's Doctor and the series in general.

I agree I haven't liked the baddies at all this season, and sat in front of the telly while it was on last night, but read the paper instead.

Now I feel compelled to watch it on catch-up ...

I loved him first....and you know it

It's worth it, Rexi... tbh, the 'baddie' is kinda superfluous  - just a mechanism to get them to meet Vincent really.

I cannot take to Matt Smith (... and I have tried ) and Amy Pond annoys me!

Last night's episode was excellent though - I was in tears..... it was a cut above!  So I will continue to persevere with trying to like the new Doctor

I often cry when watching Dr Who!! Some of the storylines are sooooo sad.....my family always laugh at me for it but I don't care!!

I'd like to take him.......

A love that grows is longer lasting than lust love at first sight.

An update on the new Doctor Who computer game.
It seems that this is the first of 4 episodes, and this one features lots and lots of Daleks (so far they are all red). It has the feel of the real thing and is helped that the key parts are played by Matt Smith snf Karen Gillan.
As I suspected, it is a point and click adventure game, mouse/keyboard controlled. Instructions on contol automatically appear when you approach an object. Some of these you can only examine, some are objects to use elsewhere, some are collectables (these are cards with notes which at present seem to tie in with the series episodes).
Although you start of as the Doctor with Amy just following, I think during the game you will need to control Amy. The Doctor can talk with Amy and with other characters they meet.
As with the Broken Sword series, there are some tactical action scenes - the first being to avoid the Daleks' rays.

My first impression is that this is a reasonable stab at a Doctor Who computer game. Being orientated at the family, it seems to be quite easy to solve the puzzles and is quite intuitive to play. I hope though the helping instructions don't keep on appearing throughout the game as that will become an irritant. I've only played the first scene so don't know how long the game is.

I surprised myself by liking Matt Smith, didn't think I would.  But yesterday I found myself missing David Tennant, its his cheeky humour I miss.

The tutorials are "On" by default. You can turn them off in the game settings.

Thanks for letting us know

NP. My laptop's processor is actually below the minimum official spec for the DW game, so the first thing I did on downloading was go through the settings trying to tone-down things like graphics to try and make it playable.

As it turned out, it hasn't been too bad. There's a noticable mismatch between the audio and video during the "set-piece" sequences, and it's really noticable on the title sequence.
However the gameplay itself has been OK so far.

I did enjoy the episode, but one thing is bugging me... does everyone get a go in the Tardis now?

I am liking Matt Smith as the Doctor, didn't think I would at first, but he's doing well

I wasn't initially keen - how many more historical earth characters are we going to bump into? I want other planets!
But the bit that got me was when they took him to the present day, to see his paintings in the Musee D'Orsay, and show him how much they mean to people today.
I really wish that could have happened and the real Vincent could have somehow known that it wasn't all hopeless.

Thus has been one of the big complaints about DW ever since the "reboot" - it's just too earth-bound. even when they do visit outer space, it tends to be earth spaceships or earth colonies. One of the reasons I liked the "Crash of the Byzantium" story, with its shades of "Aliens"...

The problem is that you can't have the Cybermen or the Daleks every week. One of the obsevations of the "old" series was that whenever the producers felt the series was in difficulty, they brought back the Daleks. There's only so many times the Daleks can return for "one last, climactic battle", and besides: not everyone has been happy about the "remodelling" of the Daleks (IMO, it had more to do with commercial motives than anything).


Personally, the most recent monster reminded me of Gilliam's Jabberwocky. As for mutant lizards: I assume you're talking about the Silurians. In fact, they are an old monster that first appeared when Jon Pertwee was the Doctor. The newer lot just have better make-up...

Well, taking the very real risk of you shouting at me again , I have to say I agree with every word

Yeah, I understand that... doesn't stop me being disappointed though.   I was very disappointed in the new 'sports model' Daleks.. and my friend (whose little boy is my Dr Who buddy) only commented.. 'Great!  Now I have to buy six more model figures in different colours...'

For me - Daleks are red... apart from the gaffer who's black.

Exactly my concern. When they introduced the new Daleks, I felt that the only things missing were a price tag and a sign reading "Available in time for Christmas!".

If you go back to the very first series of the original Doctor Who with William Hartnell (whose photo has popped up a couple of times this series) the stories alternated between aliens and visiting past historical events.During that series we met Marco Polo, the Aztecs and Robespierre in different stories. In the second series we met Nero and Richard the Lionheart. So this is in keeping with the original series

Absolutely!     I actually enjoy the historical ones - ok, sometimes the contrived 'gags' are a bit cringeworthy, but mostly I like them.

So? I want aliens! And not that giant chicken from last Saturday, either.

I'm not much of a Dr Who fan, but I have just watched it on catch up, and i loved that episode....I could never take to Christopher Eccleston or David Tennant, but I do like this new fella

I think the above postings show that Doctor Who caters for a variety of people - some prefer the historical ones - some the aliens.

And in due course what is the cause of the crack in the fabric of time will become clear, and it may turn out to involve both historical characters and aliens, and it may involve something else (I have a suspicion but I'm not going to say what).

Ooooh - go on!

That crack keeps turning up (bit like when Bad Wolf kept cropping up) and there's something about a 'silence'

..and a bit of scrap Tardis at the other side.